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Lisen Stromberg is the author of Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career, and the book reflects on almost 200 parents who have worked to balance childrearing and career. Stromberg begins with her own experience, noting how much she struggled to take time out of her career for motherhood, and how much she feared the consequences of doing so. Yet, Stromberg exceeded her fears and expectations, and she began viewing her time out of the workplace in a positive light. Drawing on interviews with several parents who have gone through similar experiences, Stromberg comments on workplace policies, the “mommy wars,” worker bias, and childcare.
As the author noted in an online Grown and Flown interview, “If I had known that it would be possible to pause my career and then relaunch in a way that met my personal and professional goals, I wouldn’t have spent so much time agonizing over my decision to down-shift my career.” She added: “I would have had more confidence in my choices and my path. In my research, I was reminded again and again that the women who truly believed they had value and did not doubt they would be able to successfully relaunch were the ones who were able to truly enjoy their professional pauses. I wish I had had that confidence. I didn’t then, but thanks to the many inspiring stories I heard, I do now.”
Praising Stromberg’s insights in the Washington Times Online, Tracee M. Herbaugh explained: “For the book, she conducted first-person interviews with 186 women and surveyed almost 1,500 others to get their experiences balancing work and family. Most of the women who responded to Stromberg’s survey said they never expected to take a career break, but ultimately did once children came into the picture. Those who stayed out of the workforce less than five years found re-entry easier than their counterparts who stayed out longer.” Herbaugh went on to conclude: “Though readers may be familiar with some of the factual pillars supporting the book’s structure, they’ll likely be encouraged by the central theme: it’s OK to pause for parenting.” A Publishers Weekly contributor was also impressed, noting that the book is “stuffed with realistic but inspiring stories and concrete advice.” According to an online Styl’d Grace columnist, “whether you’re a Momma or a millennial starting your career–this book is great for anyone in any career field to read! If you like hearing other people’s stories & gaining wisdom from other people- this book is one I highly recommend!”
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Booklist, January 1, 2017, Joyce McIntosh, review of Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career.
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Lisen Stromberg Website, https://lisenstromberg.com (October 23, 2017).
Styl’d Grace, http://www.styldgrace.com/ (February 25, 2017), review of Work Pause Thrive.
Washington Times Online, http://www.washingtontimes.com (February 6, 2017), Tracee M. Herbaugh, review of Work Pause Thrive.
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Lisen Stromberg is an author, culture innovation consultant, and widely regarded speaker who empowers people and companies to reimagine the future of work through work/life success. As CEO and Founder of PrismWork, she and her team partner with companies, leaders, and advocates, to ensure women and Millennials thrive in the workplace. She is currently serving as the acting COO of the 3% Movement, committed to changing the ratio of women in leadership in the advertising industry.
Stromberg is also an award-winning independent journalist whose work can be found in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, and other high profile media outlets. Her book, Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career, reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm to achieve their personal and professional goals and how forward-thinking companies are capitalizing on their talents.
An in-demand speaker, Stromberg has been on stage at numerous high profile conferences including SXSW, TEDx, and others. She speaks regularly at, and conducts workshops for, companies ranging from global Fortune 500s to tech start-ups
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WORK, PAUSE, THRIVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH LISEN STROMBERG
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There is a point in life when it seems so clear where your career is headed. You are young, maybe single and having a family is still ahead of you. But then, for so many women, life happens. Responsibilities for kids or parents create new demands. Work changes and you or your spouse are required to relocate. The straight path that once seemed so clear, so simple is now anything but. Yet, if we are lucky, life offers us second, and third and even fourth chances and, although the journey may be anything but what we once imagined, our careers once again thrive.
Lisen Stromberg writes about ways we can combine parenthood with careers. Lisen Stromberg knows this story. She knows it because she lived it as a high-flying marketing executive turned stay-at-home mother turned journalist and author. She also knows it because in writing Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career, she has surveyed and interviewed thousands of women gathering their stories of what works and what doesn’t.
Work, Pause, Thrive is the book Stromberg wishes she had had when she began her circuitous journey to melding family and career in such a way that they both worked. While a great number of women felt trapped in the pull between family and career through the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s, many believed that, in time, this push and pull would be solved. Yet Stromberg reports,
Not long ago, my daughter asked me how I had planned my career so that I could be the mother I am. I told her I hadn’t. I told her I have spent much of my time on the defense, zigging and zagging in response to the things life put in my way. I told her I had regrets and ongoing self-doubt that still nags me to this day. I told her of the financial challenges and the compromises and the “woulda, coulda, shouldas” that are the reality of having pulled back and paused my career. And then I told her what the women I interviewed told me: I don’t regret a thing.
The deeper truth is that I had limited options. With one premature baby and a second who required I spend months on bed rest, my family had to come first—not forever, but for a while. When I became a new mother, there was no clear path for those of us who wanted to be deeply engaged with our families and still have rewarding careers. The workplace was unforgiving and unyielding to women like me. Sadly, I’ve learned my experience is still the norm.
Yet, Stomberg’s wonderful new book is full of ways parents, both fathers and mothers, can re-frame their careers and have what they want in life. She suggests that pauses in careers can be just that, not ends, not steps down, but a shifting in priorities to match the circumstances of our lives. And pausing, she offers, will likely become a more common event in the careers of our children.
Work, Pause, Thrive is full of stories of women who moved through these three stages with the blueprints others can use in their lives. It is incredibly well-written, thoroughly researched, inspiring and a guide to the life you can have if you are 25 or 55.
We were lucky enough to get a chance to chat with Lisen Stromberg and ask her a few questions:
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G&F: What do you say to our daughters, the young women we are sending off to college, when they wonder how they will manage to combine work and family life in a way that maybe their mothers could not?
LS: First, I would tell them that the good news is the workplace is finally changing. There is increased recognition that women AND men need workplaces that support them as parents. Smart companies are adding all manner of family friendly policies. When they are looking for jobs, they should be looking beyond pay and promotion opportunity to how the company treats work/life integration. Does the leadership put family as a priority? Is flexibility truly baked into the company’s DNA or are they simply paying lip service to the notion of balance. And, I would remind them that they are likely to have a number of jobs before they are ready to have children so their first job or two may not be where they end up.
However, that doesn’t mean that young women AND young men shouldn’t be giving thought to their dreams and goals around their roles as parents and professionals. In our 24/7 work-first culture, it can be hard to have a family and a career. And yet, we women do it all of the time. But, we do it best when we have partners who are equally committed to being engaged parents.
G&F: What is the message to our teen and young adult sons about having the careers, marriages and families they too might want? How is it different than what they might have seen from their fathers?
LS: For years, men have been robbed of the chance to be deeply engaged fathers because we still have a stigma against men as caregivers. We bias mothers as the “better” parent, but that only harms women and men. The more we keep men locked into the straight-jacket of primary provider, the more we keep women locked into the role of primary parent. By breaking beyond these gendered norms, men and women win and so do their children.
G&F: Is there a point at which you have just been away from the job market for too long? Did you hear stories of women who had been home with their families for 10, 12, 15 years and reignited their careers?
LS: I interviewed 186 women and surveyed nearly 1,500 more and learned that the longer you pause, the harder it is to relaunch. 63% of women who had paused for less than two years reported they found relaunching “easy.” Meanwhile, 68% of women who had paused for 11 or more years found relaunching “difficult.” If you are don’t want to kill your career, pausing for a shorter period of time is the smart strategy. That said, I interviewed many women who had paused for extended periods of time and still managed to relaunch to great success.
G&F: You had traveled the road you were researching yourself, pausing and then thriving. What surprised you from your studies of others’ lives? Was there a finding about which you thought…if only I had known this when I was 25, 30, 35?
LS: Great question! I wish I had understood how hard it is to be a mother and a professional in this country. Unlike that vast majority of developed countries, our public policies and our workplace cultures do not value families. As a result, women bear the weight of being primary caregivers whether they are in the paid workforce or not.
Also, if I had known that it would be possible to pause my career and then relaunch in a way that met my personal and professional goals, I wouldn’t have spent so much time agonizing over my decision to down-shift my career. I would have had more confidence in my choices and my path. In my research, I was reminded again and again that the women who truly believed they had value and did not doubt they would be able to successfully relaunch were the ones who were able to truly enjoy their professional pauses. I wish I had had that confidence. I didn’t then, but thanks to the many inspiring stories I heard, I do now.
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Lisen Stromberg writes about how we can combine parenthood and careers.Lisen Stromberg is an author, culture innovation consultant, and widely regarded speaker who empowers people and companies to reimagine the future of work through work/life success. As CEO and Founder of PrismWork, she and her team partner with companies, leaders, and advocates, to ensure women and Millennials thrive in the workplace. She is currently serving as the acting COO of the 3% Movement, committed to changing the ratio of women in leadership in the advertising industry.
Stromberg is also an award-winning independent journalist whose work can be found in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, and other high-profile media outlets. Her book, Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Careerreveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm to achieve their personal and professional goals and how forward-thinking companies are capitalizing on their talents.
An in-demand speaker, Stromberg has been on stage at numerous high-profile conferences including SXSW, TEDx, and others. She speaks regularly at, and conducts workshops for, companies ranging from global Fortune 500s to tech start-ups. @lisenstromberg
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This book is a must-read for every woman who values her career, wants to be available to raise children, and is ready to
take on the world--by taking a pause. Those who read Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
(2013) or Anne-Marie Slaughter's popular 2012 Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All," will find this to
be a welcome middle ground. With this breakthrough book, Stromberg demonstrates that she's a strong, detail-oriented
journalist who weaves an engaging story. Readers will be hooked by the second page of the intro. In addition to sharing
her personal experience, Stromberg shares the results of numerous interviews and close to 1,500 survey responses that
focus on parents who re-enter a career after taking a pause, not just plowing through or opting out. She also provides
useful strategies and examples for making the pause count, e.g., "Strategy #1: Don't Skimp on Your Maternity Leave."
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after a pre-term labor scare during the second of her three pregnancies, her priorities changed, and she quit to be with
her children. When ready to reenter the workforce, she rebranded herself as a journalist and consultant, deciding she'd
paused her career rather than halting it. This book presents Stromberg's personal view of how to navigate a work-overfamily
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similar experiences. Using a sensitive yet no-nonsense approach, she discusses the trajectories of non-linear careers, the
"mommy wars," the politics of childcare, and the increasingly engaged role of men in their children's lives. She also
addresses ideal worker bias (a preference for the worker who is available at all hours) and motherhood bias (assuming
that non-mothers are more committed to their jobs) in the workplace. Stuffed with realistic but inspiring stories and
concrete advice, this is a healthy reminder that those who pause to place the personal before the professional are not
failures. Agent: Brandi Bowles, Foundry Literary + Media. (Jan.)
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It’s no secret that working parents have a difficult time with the elusive work-life balance. For starters, there is the 40-hour workweek, which often spills beyond 8-hour days. Then there is the ever-present flow of emails, meetings and occasional work trips that must be juggled with quotidian chores: making dinner, cleaning up and helping with homework, just to name a few.
This balancing act is the subject of “Work Pause Thrive,” a new book by Lisen Stromberg. It’s the latest book that extrapolates on how women, and men to a lesser degree, can get ahead in their careers while in the thick of parenting. Stromberg argues that mothers can “pause” their careers and focus on caregiving duties without harming their professional paths, as some tend to believe.
In fact, many moms at the top of their industries have taken breaks, Stromberg points out, including television journalist Meredith Vieira and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The classic career ladder paradigm, climbing one rung after another until the top is reached, “doesn’t work for those of us with caregiving responsibilities,” Stromberg writes.
A former advertising executive, Stromberg faced a tipping point in her career. The book opens with a scene where she’s on a business trip and the plane hits turbulent air. At the time, Stromberg is 33 years old and 24 weeks pregnant with her second child, and she goes into pre-term labor on the flight.
Stromberg’s frustration in dealing with a high-flying career in advertising and parenting two young children - and eventually a third - segues into her research on the subject.
For the book, she conducted first-person interviews with 186 women and surveyed almost 1,500 others to get their experiences balancing work and family. Most of the women who responded to Stromberg’s survey said they never expected to take a career break, but ultimately did once children came into the picture. Those who stayed out of the workforce less than five years found re-entry easier than their counterparts who stayed out longer.
Though readers may be familiar with some of the factual pillars supporting the book’s structure, they’ll likely be encouraged by the central theme: it’s OK to pause for parenting.
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Tracee M. Herbaugh is a writer who lives in the Boston Metro area. She can be reached on Twitter at @T_Marie.
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FEBRUARY 25, 2017
Book Review: Work, Pause, Thrive by Lisen Stromberg
I received a free copy of Work PAUSE Thrive in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
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Whether you’re a Momma or a millennial starting your career- this book is great for anyone in any career field to read! If you like hearing other people’s stories & gaining wisdom from other people- this book is one I highly recommend! Lisen Stromberg is an award-winning journalist, sought-after speaker, and CEO and founder of PrismWork, a culture innovation consultancy. Work Pause Thrive takes any reader on a journey through not only the author’ life, but also 186 other women as they talk about the challenges and strategies they used to accomplish the perfect work & life balance.
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Organization:
First & foremost- let me say how much I appreciate an organized book! Lisen Stromberg’s organization of this book not only made it an easy read, but also made it easy for the reader to back and re-read their favorite parts! Separated into parts as well as chapters, the Index is great for quick references. Another thing I really LOVED about this book was the “Women on the Rise” survey in the appendix. Due to the fact that I love numbers and spreadsheets- I found this data so interesting and very unexpected! Lisen’s in-dept research on the topic of women in the workforce was so well organized and can be perceived as very beneficial to anyone!
Content:
Lisen used her personal experiences to make this read very transparent, allowing the reader to get a glimpse of some of her personal obstacles and how she overcame them in terms of returning back to the workforce. Wanting a better work/life balance, Lisen helps readers to understand that not only is everyone’s ideal of success different, but also that every perception of success can be accomplished. She discusses public policies that create challenges, cultures that don’t working women, as well as trailblazers that continue to break the glass ceiling, regardless of how high they have to climb. This book explains how taking a break from work is not detrimental to careers, but instead can be beneficial to home life experiences such as reaching personal goals.
“Many of the women in my extended network & many of the women I interviewed for my work as a freelance journalist had pulled back from their professional lives and, eventually, managed to power forward to great success.”- Lisen Stromberg
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This book is so good that I have decided to participate in a giveaway! All entrants will be entered to win 1 of 15 copies of Lisen Strombergs’ book. This giveaway will run February 21, 2017 – March 11, 2017 & readers may enter the giveaway via the widget below. All winners must be 18+ years of age U.S. residents & only 1 winner per household is allowed. Winners will be randomly selected and notified by CLEVER by March 14, 2017. Happy Winning!
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Until Next Time!
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I was selected for this opportunity as a member of CLEVER and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
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