Entrepreneur and Cruise Planners are hosting a free webinar on how entrepreneurship can help working mothers balance career and family, moderated by Terry Rice with guests Summer Bowers and Tammy Overcash. The two women co-own the same Cruise Planners franchise but arrived there through different careers: Bowers left teaching after military relocations disrupted her career and grew a travel-focused social media following into a business, while Overcash's path was separately built around her own career and family circumstances.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-22
At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, three CEOs who are also mothers discussed the systemic barriers working mothers face in the workplace. They highlighted the lack of affordable childcare and paid maternity leave as major obstacles that persist despite women's growing presence in the workforce and leadership positions.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
In a Fast Company discussion featuring Chief CEO Alison Moore, Moms First's Reshma Saujani, and Mama Glow's Latham Thomas, panelists described how leadership roles and parenting demands have both intensified, pushing accomplished working mothers toward burnout. The conversation, moderated by Shalene Gupta, questioned whether corporate structures were ever built to let women hold both senior positions and caregiving responsibilities without sacrifice.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-17
Companies are increasingly allowing professionals, particularly mothers, to work in fractional roles—splitting time across multiple part-time positions rather than committing to one full-time job. Nina Sodhi, cited as an example, used this arrangement to take extended time off, including a 55-day trip with her son, while still maintaining her career.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-10
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