In this episode of Season 3 of the Demystifying Diversity Podcast, host Daralyse Lyons explores the challenges and opportunities that arise for working parents. Daralyse interviews entrepreneurs and employees about their personal experiences raising children while building their careers, as well as experts who share research, trends, and best practices.

In this episode, you will learn about:

* The disparity in expectations between men and women, as it relates to child-rearing responsibilities and parental leave.

* The impact of personal priorities upon the ways in which parents raise their children.

* The very real choice that all parents, but primarily women, make between parenthood and an engaging, fulfilling career.

* How different children within the same family receive different upbringings based on the ever-changing circumstances and experiences of their parents' careers.

* How, in the United States, not having federally-mandated paid parental leave makes a lot of first-time parents susceptible to unnecessary financial and logistical burdens.

Our guest experts this episode include:

Jeff Mayner - Jeff is a financial services professional and full-time entrepreneur who prior to his transition to entrepreneurship, worked in IT and telecommunications, and prior to that, he served eight and a half years in the United States Navy.

Rocki Mayner - Rocki is a licensed financial coach, speaker, and workshop facilitator, who previously worked as a human resources executive.

Jacqui Lipton - a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, an attorney, a literary agent at the Tobias Literary Agency, and the author of numerous academic texts. Jacqui also wrote Law and Authors, A Legal Handbook for Writers, which is a must-read book for authors looking to know their rights, increase their self-advocacy skills, and understand the intricacies of the publishing industry.

Shanna Hocking - Shanna is a thought leader, keynote speaker, and writer with 20 years experience working in leadership development. She's the author of One Bold Move a Day and the host of The One Bold Move a Day Podcast.

Natalie Pederson - Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, Vice President of the Employment Law Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Academy of Legal Studies in Business.

Sabrina Volpone - Sabrina is an associate professor in the Organizational Leadership Division at the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business, and a diversity researcher who uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how organizations manage their diverse workforces and how diverse individuals flourish through management of their identities at work.

Laurie Wu - Laurie is an associate professor at Temple University's School of Sport Tourism and Hospitality Management, whose research focuses on service, experience, design and marketing and technology innovation, and digital marketing with special emphasis on diversity and inclusion issues and gender equity in the workplace. As a working mother, Laurie's personal experiences have motivated her professional interests in working towards better parental leave policies and parental support initiatives for others.

Sunny Taylor - a decades-long entrepreneur with an at-home accounting practice with a few hundred active clients who raised two daughters, including yours truly, and is the Content Editor and Creative Collaborator for this podcast. Sunny is also host Daralyse Lyons' mom.

Stew Kraintz - Stew is a mindset, success and relationship coach who works with people individually and in groups to empower them into ownership of their lives. Before stepping into coaching, Stew had a successful career in sales and marketing within professional baseball, having the opportunity to work for the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves, as well as several affiliated minor league clubs. Stew is also the Production and Development Assistant for the Demystifying Diversity Podcast.

Christina Glickman - Christina is the founder of The Extra Love Army, is a TEDx speaker, podcaster, and author of the bestselling book Extra, the Art of Being.

Joyce Jelks - JJ is the head of people and culture at Wieden and Kennedy, New York, an Army Major, the chief founding member, relationship engagement manager for Sean Johnson and founder of Ottawa Park HR Advisory.

Liz Brown - Liz is an Associate Professor, Law and Taxation at Bentley University. She earned her BA from Harvard College and her JD from Harvard Law School and represented Fortune 100 companies for 13 years prior to joining Bentley's faculty.

Deborah, ‘Deb' Atella - Deb is the author of the international bestselling book Is This Job My Jam? The Guide for Grownups Who Still Don't Know What They Want to Be. Deb is a certified life coach, reiki master and meditation guide, and the host of Atella Like It Is podcast. She encourages those she works with to find things that light them up and ignite their personal passions.

Sharrona Pearl - Sharrona an Associate Professor of Bioethics and History at Drexel University is a historian theorist of the face and body. She's authored numerous books, scholarly essays, and freelance articles, and she believes that it's important to show others that it's possible to be fully realized across multiple dimensions.

Leora Eisenstadt - Leora is a mother of three who is working to normalize parenting in her professional life, while also modeling work satisfaction to her children. Leora is an associate professor in the Department of Legal Studies at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, a Murray Schusterman Research Fellow, the director of the Center for Ethics, Diversity and Workplace Culture, CEDWC, and an Assistant Producer and Consultant for this, the Demystifying Diversity Podcast.

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