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Benecia Ponder joins podcast host Deborah Carney to discuss being a work at home mom. Benecia was previously interviewed on our BookGoodies podcast about her role as an author. Join us in listening to another fascinating discussion with a talented work at home mom.

Benecia’s coaching, speaking and training focus on sustainable results that can be replicated over a lifetime. She empowers and equips her clients to align their lives with their core vision, develop strategies for attaining greater levels of success, while providing the practical resources and tools they need to stay motivated. In addition to operating at peak performance, her clients gain the emotional intelligence and spiritual fortitude they need to enjoy their success.

Additionally, if you would rather read than listen, we have a transcript of Benecia’s interview.

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WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Tammy Woods.

Four years ago at the age of 45, I was at a crossroads. The real estate broker license I had earned after my divorce was looking like a big mistake. I liked the flexibility of real estate because it did allow me to work from home more. But, the market bottomed out. The question was, how to make a living and still homeschool my daughter? My daughter was 9 at this point. The answer came one day via my daughter. She was eating one of my special recipe cereal bars and said, “Mom, these things totally rock. This is what you need to do. People would love these and you could keep working from home.”

I have always loved to cook and came up with this cereal bar recipe as a healthy alternative to rice crispy treats. They satisfied her taste buds and my health conscious mind. So her comment planted the seed and before long it grew into a business. Today, Do More Bars are sold in over 100 stores and on-line at www.DoMoreBars.com My daughter is 13 now and we still homeschool. The business is growing and more demanding but this is also good for my daughter. She has had to step up and become more independent with her schedule and schooling. She also sees what it takes to make a business run and at times has to help.

Although we stick to schedules, we have the flexibility to alter as needed. I love the times we spend just getting to run errands together; talking and laughing. With all the influences in this world that do not promote values, it is nice to be able to spend time with my daughter knowing that a good portion of the influence is positive. The downside to working from home is I tend to work all the time. When you work from home, you are always at work. And with homeschool, I sometimes wander about what she is missing. And although there are drawbacks, the benefits far out weigh them.

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WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Michelle Lewis.

I am a mother of an almost 12-year-old daughter, and I recently remarried in February. My daughter’s dad lives nearby, and we share custody. I am the director of communications at MycroBurst, an online crowdsourcing platform for graphic design, and I also freelance write and edit. I left an office-based job I enjoyed in April because I really wanted to work from home, for better work-life balance. I enjoy working hard and being challenged, but I also want to be there for my daughter. I love working from home, as I love the autonomy and flexibility.

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http://onthecloud.mycroburst.com/
https://www.facebook.com/#!/mycroburst

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WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Shelly Phillips.

Shelly Birger Phillips is passionate about being absolutely the best mom she can be and supporting other parents to do the same. With an extensive knowledge of child development and parenting theory as well as tons of hands-on experience as a preschool teacher, nanny and now as a mother herself, she offers Skype video parent coaching to parents all over the world using a connection-based conscious parenting approach. Shelly also has a free weekly blog about conscious parenting at http://www.awakeparent.com/blog a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/AwakeParent She’s on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awakeshelly and she loves Pinterest (maybe a little bit too much) at http://pinterest.com/awakeshelly/

I’ve been working from home for the past six years. I’m a life, dating, relationship, and parenting coach. My daughter is about to turn two years old! I purposely set up my life to be sure I could make a living by working from home before I had a child. I definitely didn’t want to be forced to put my daughter into full time daycare partly because I would rather be with her myself and partly because it’s so expensive! We are incredibly fortunate that my parents and my husbands parents all moved here to be closer to us and to spend time with our daughter. It really does take a village to raise a child!

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WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest Daniel M. Clark.

Listen in for a frank discussion about working from home from a dad that has been doing just that for several years. Daniel M. Clark is a podcast production consultant and the founder of QAQN, a collection of informative and entertaining podcasts. A resident of the internet since 1992, he either is or has been: a t-shirt designer, an art reviewer, a system administrator, a video game designer and programmer, a blogger, an affiliate marketer, a podcaster, a writer, a space cowboy, and a gangster of love. He has, in fact, gotten his lovin’ on the run. Mostly what Daniel is right now is a work-at-home dad, raising two kids, ages 7 and 3 with his wife, Angela.

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WAHMoms/WAHDads host Deborah Carney is joined by guest work at home mom Jennifer Fromke. Below is an excerpt from the transcript of our interview:

Jennifer:
My name is Jennifer Fromke. I am a wife to a wonderful man and a mother to three incredible kids. I am a new author. I have been writing for three to four years now. My first book was just published this spring. It’s been a really fun ride figuring how to actually have a full-time job when I really didn’t think I was working.

Deborah:
Yes, you have to cross that line from being the “Yes, I’m just writing for fun” to the “No, this is a job and you need to give me some personal space to be able to write.” How did that work out? Your kids would have been relatively young, right? What are the ages of your kids?

Jennifer:
My kids are 12, 14, and 15 now. I guess that’s it’s been about three or four years that I started to write. Really, I did start on a very part-time basis. I was writing whenever I had a couple of spare moments. My family has been incredibly supportive. The kids have been so great. If I tell them that I need to write, they really get that. They have been just excited as me with this whole thing coming out. Seeing an actual book in print on the countertop has been really fun. They have been really helpful which has eased the whole process but at first it was a challenge.

Deborah:
They were used to Mom just being there for them all day.

Jennifer:
Right. Once it got to the point where they were in school all day, there was time for me. There was time to kill so I did get to start working. It was not until I actually got my book contract that I said, “Oh, now I have deadlines.” I really needed to make those deadlines. I needed to have a plan as far as how much I could write by the deadline. That was the big challenge and it really worked out fantastically, I have to say. I’ve learned to write at many places and at many times.

Deborah:
Let’s walk through a typical day. You get up and you get the kids up and off to school.

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Welcome to the first episode of Work at Home Moms and Work at Home Dads podcast! I’m your host, Deborah Carney and I was a work at home mom for a whole lotta years. Now my daughter is a work at home mom that homeschools my 12 year old grandson. We have a great lineup of guests, but if you would like to join me on a podcast please fill out the form here.

I’m very pleased that my first guest is a work at home Mom that I watched for years, I’m a “closet” crafter and dabbled in making jewelry and her name was everywhere it seemed, Annie Howes. She has managed to balance working from home with being a Mom for a number of years, and she is a great interviewee (is that a word?) My podcasts are all discussion style, they are informal and that suited Annie to a tee.
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