Work-Life Balance: An Expert’s Guide for Employers and Caregivers

Are you struggling to balance work and caring for your family? In this episode, Dr. Mitzi Krockover chats with Leslie Forde, CEO and founder of Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs, who shares her experiences and challenges as a working mother and caregiver and offers her ‘Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs’ model to help prioritize self-care. In part II of her discussion with Ms. Forde, this episode offers insights for working parents and caregivers and employers and employees. Drawing on her years of research and consulting with employers, she emphasizes the employer’s role in providing psychological safety, flexibility, mental health support, and affordable child care in the workplace to support mothers and other caregivers and how employees can effectively advocate for themselves. She also highlights governmental policies she feels are important in further supporting caregivers.  If you’re a working parent or caregiver, or if you know someone who is, this episode is packed with advice you can use right now. Check out the podcast notes for an exclusive discount and further resources on Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs.