Juggling Work, Family & Life with Sarah Armstrong
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What are the biggest challenges of balancing work and family?
No topics off limits on our show. We power women on the road to success with expert and celebrity interviews and information you need. I'm Shelley and Kathy's on assignment. For many women, one of life's greatest challenges is trying to balance a successful career, a fulfilling personal life, and the demands of family without losing themselves in the process. That's difficult to do today. Our guest has spent more than two decades navigating that balancing act while building an extraordinary career, raising a daughter, mentoring future leaders, and helping other parents find practical ways to thrive amid the chaos of everyday life. Sarah Armstrong is the author of The Art of the Juggling Act, a bite-sized guide for working parents.
It's a thoughtful and practical roadmap for managing the competing demands of work, family, health, friendships, and personal fulfillment. She draws on her own experiences as a working parent. She tackles everything from guilt and burnout to setting boundaries, finding reliable childcare, co-parenting, and creating a life that reflects your own definition of success. What makes Sarah's perspective especially compelling is she's lived the challenges she writes about while leading at the highest levels of global business, including leadership roles at Coca-Cola, McKinsey & Company, and today is Vice President of Global Marketing Operations at Google. Sarah started her career at Leo Burnett in Chicago in media.
Her work has been recognized around the world. She was named one of Ad Agency's Women to Watch and included in Ad Agency's Book of Tens, the top ten who made their mark. So whether you're a parent, caregiver, entrepreneur, executive, or simply somebody trying to juggle the many responsibilities life throws your way, Sarah's insights offer practical wisdom and encouragement for creating a life that works for you. We're excited to have Sarah Armstrong on our show. Welcome, Sarah. Shelley, thanks so much. Great to be with you. Oh, this is going to be an awesome discussion. And I want to say, you really have been a renaissance woman in all that you've done. Oh, my goodness. You've led by example, and you've definitely had to juggle a lot of stuff.
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.
And your perspectives are so valuable. How did you come up with this workable formula? I was wondering, maybe you could tell us a little bit about yourself and your life's journey. Sure, I'm happy to.
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:32
2
What are the biggest challenges of balancing work and family?
0:32–4:21
3
How can parents redefine success on their own terms?
4:21–7:44
4
What strategies help in managing guilt as a working parent?
7:44–11:24
5
Why is it important to set boundaries in personal and professional life?
11:24–15:05
6
How can saying 'no' improve work-life balance?
15:05–18:40
7
What role does a support network play in achieving balance?
18:40–22:00
8
How can parents create meaningful family traditions?
22:00–52:49