08: Setting Your Priorities for Your Family, While Excelling at Work with Will Mount

Parents At Work

You believe in your vocation or career that your time and energy is important, but you also believe in your responsibilities as a parent. How can you find a balance between the two? Can you follow your career or civic passions while still showing up as a parent? There are also more expectations put on parents than ever before. Between career and that social pressure, it can feel like you are burning the candle at both ends.

This is exactly why I am so excited to have my friend Will Mount on the show today. He gets the pressure. He feels the burden of wanting to care for his son well, while also pursuing a job as an attorney for Juvenile Defense. Social justice is important to both Will and his wife, but they also feel the weight of these unmet expectations. In this episode, Will will share what has worked for his family, how he has created his priorities to serve his family, and which challenges were particularly difficult for him.

You are not alone! Let Will’s story be an example of how to make it work as a working parent.

More in this episode:

• Why would someone want to work with Will or his law partner Judith?
• What it is like to be a parent with a high-stress job.
• Will and his wife both have work they believe in, but balancing that with parental responsibility is important.
• Battling expectations of our society and the impact on our parenting.
• Each age has their own challenges.
• Take time out to take care of yourself and your spouse/significant other.
• How having Liam has affected Will’s work life.
• Find opportunities to bond with your child.
• The surprising benefits of raising a child.
• Why having good people around you makes all the difference.

Links:

http://dzmlegal.com/

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