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The Blend

How to Successfully Manage a Career and a Family

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The Blend

By: Tobi Asare
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Take control of your career and smash the glass ceiling with a baby on the way or little ones in tow.

Whether you are a new mother, just thinking about it, or already trying to combine a career and children, working motherhood can sometimes seem like an impossible balancing act. That's why Tobi Asare, founder of My Bump Pay, doesn't doesn't talk about 'the juggle' or finding 'balance', but instead about The Blend.

In this audiobook, Tobi shares her hard-won wisdom and advice on how to make working work for you, covering everything from the financial to the emotional aspects of working motherhood, and from preparing for maternity leave to returning with confidence. This is not just about surviving or staying sane, this is about how to thrive while successfully blending work and family life. The Blend will help you set yourself up for success before the baby comes along, during the pregnancy and beyond.

With chapters focusing on navigating work while pregnant, freelancers, childcare, future babies and mum guilt, each section also has advice and career tips from successful women who are already making the best of the blend.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Tobi Asare (P)2023 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Motherhood Parenting & Families Personal Development Personal Success Relationships Inspiring Pregnancy Career
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Overall it was quite useful. I just felt like some things were repetitive. Personally I felt like it spoke to a certain type of women - the corporate high achieving boss. So I couldn’t relate as much as I would have hoped. I also felt that perhaps the author could have been more vulnerable with us when discussing elements of her story. But overall it was good! Xx

Good book x

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A fantastic book, the author is clearly passionate about topic and offers a lot of insight and practical advice in helping to achieve goals.

A very good book

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This book does so well at capturing the genuine reality of working mums, and whilst it’s clear that the author truly cares about the topic it’s just another book perpetuating the issue, encouraging women to do everything but, the reality is never that simple.

It would be refreshing to talk about some of the real issues, like the fact we work 9-5 because of Henry Ford, the working week was never designed for women or mums/primary carers. And that it’s okay for the return to work to feel uncomfortable, unnatural and scary.

We need to work on the real feminist issues rather than perpetuate the cycle. Women deserve economic independence whilst raising their children as a SAHM or a working mum. They shouldn’t have to return because their jobs are only kept for 12 months, or they get 90% of their pay for 6 weeks then SMP.

There’s so much, and it’s a minefield but it should be discussed and challenged.

A valid but conflicting book

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