Balancing Work and Home with Claire Holmes

NFCC's Guide Through the Seasons of Mental Wellness

According to Gallup, the workforce has lost 2 million female employees over the course of the pandemic. While all people who work and take care of dependent family members at home, could use added support in the workplace, based on recent polls, working moms seem to be taking the brunt of the load during this shift.

This has caused many women to leave their jobs to devote more time to their roles as caretakers. Research also shows that mother’s in are valuable because they bring skills in leadership and office dynamics that better the work environment. As the trend of caretakers, most notably, mothers, leaving the workforce has been noticed, many are stepping up to help employers develop skills to improve working conditions to keep these valuable employees.

In our last episode, we explored employer and employee relationships and realized that this topic is so big it needed two parts! If you haven’t listened to episode 8 with NFCC’s Executive Director, Mary Elizabeth Hand, be sure to listen to that one too, as we’ll build upon that conversation and discuss more ways to improve interoffice dynamics and better support our most stretched employees with today’s guest, Claire Holmes.

About our guest

Claire Holmes is the founder of Mama Collaborative, which helps working moms learn how to set themselves up for success through digital courses, resources, tools and an encouraging online community. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Claire spent over a decade as a marketing consultant, project manager and training developer in the consulting, legal, retail and non-profit industries. Leveraging that and her personal experience as a full-time working mom of three, Claire's goal is to help moms move away from stress, overwhelm and anxiety to find satisfaction and purpose in life.

Resources

How Companies Can Support Working Parents- Forbes Article

Companies that are doing it right article

Article on the Value of Working Mothers as Leaders

HR Best practices for working parents

A special thanks to our team

Tracy Lehman, Host & Executive Producer

Jacel Dickson, Producer and Editor

Theme music written and performed by Jim Roman

Audio engineering courtesy of our podmasters at 3 Wire Creative

Administrators: Mary Elizabeth Hand and Heather Timmis