Sarah Armstrong

Yes.

You know what?

It's been fun, but it is a challenge to juggle in life.

And I just, I feel fortunate to have been able to have the experience I've had both raising Grace over the years, but also having my career and also trying to live the fullest life possible.

So it's been fun to try to figure out, figure out how to manage the juggling act for sure.

So I think I actually started young in life.

I was a student athlete.

And I think that that actually probably were the early days of me figuring out how to juggle a lot of things in my life and figure out how to do work or how to do school and my schoolwork and go to practice and also have friends and all those things.

Really, probably age 12.

i was managing that aspect of my life and trying to figure out how to do all those things and i think it translated then into my adult life in terms of i was a scholar athlete at georgetown as well played volleyball there on scholarship so it just kind of continued on and then in the working world though and once you introduce

children into that equation, it takes it to a whole nother level.

So and it's interesting, Shelley, because I reflected as I prior to writing this book, The Art of the Juggling Act, that we go to school and we learn about a lot in school, but we don't ever learn about parenting in school.

And then we also don't learn about how to manage our career in school.

We study something to do in our careers, but actually how to manage your career.

And then we actually don't learn how to manage both of those aspects of our life in school.

And they're two of the most important things that you're going to do.

And how to figure out how to do them and be healthy and happy and enjoy life.

you know, that journey of being a working parent.

So that was really, as I reflected on all that I've learned over the years, my goal is to kind of pay it forward for the next generation of working parents who are trying to figure out, you know, this juggling act each day and do what I can to share some thoughts.

Because I do see a lot of, excuse me, a lot of young parents who are surviving and maybe not thriving as working parents.