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Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career Paperback – January 29, 2019

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We worry putting our family first means we'll be forced to abandon our careers. We're afraid if we pause our careers, we'll be forever off-track. This thinking is outdatedforget what you've heard about how pauses are career limiting, about how those who pause lack ambition, or that if you do pause you won't be able to re-enter the paid workforce. That's a flawed reality, one that doesn't reflect the truth of the careers of some of the most successful women in this country.

Author Lisen Stromberg knows this success firsthand. After the birth of her second child, she did something she never imagined she would do: she opted out to focus on her family. But her career didn't end there. Lisen paused then pivoted to become first a social entrepreneur and then an award-winning journalist writing about women, work, and life in Silicon Valley. Along the way, she learned she wasn't alone. Lisen met many highly successful women who told her they never "opted out" but who had, in fact, temporarily downshifted or paused their careers. Their hidden journeys revealed alternative nonlinear paths to the top that enabled them to achieve their personal and professional goals.

In Work PAUSE Thrive, Lisen shares their stories. Deeply rooted in social science research, cutting-edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews, this book reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm. What worked for them can work for you.

In this book, you'll learn:
Who pauses, how they do it, and why
How pausing can enrich both your career and your life
How to innovate your own nonlinear career path
What we canand needto do as a society to make it possible for more people to achieve their personal and professional goals

Work PAUSE Thrive also reveals new and exciting trends in the workplace and offers targeted solutions for companies to help ensure they have cultures that will enable you to lead the life you want, a life in which you can build both a career and a family, and ultimately your own version of a life well lived.

Editorial Reviews

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"The most comprehensive modern survey of work-life integration, assessing how many women pause their careers to accommodate caregiving responsibilities, whether these pauses 'kill' women's careers, and the true extent of workplace 'motherhood bias.'"
—Los Angeles Review of Books

“Stuffed with realistic but inspiring stories and concrete advice, this is a healthy reminder that those who pause to place the personal before the professional are not failures.” Publishers Weekly

"Ask yourself two questions: Do you want women to make as much impact as they can on society? Do you want men to fully engage as fathers? If your answer is yes to either or both questions, then read this book. And buy a copy for your daughters and your sons."
Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of Canva and former chief evangelist of Apple

"With illuminating original survey data, the compelling stories of hundreds of women, and research-backed practical advice, Work PAUSE Thrive is essential reading for all people, not just women, who want full lives at work and at home, and for the policymakers and business leaders who have the power to make that happen."
Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time, and director of The Better Life Lab at New America

"Take heart, somewhere in these pages is a brave example that will work for YOUas well as a call to arms to change employment policies that will strengthen the American economy by helping all kinds of American families."
Lisa Stone, start-up advisor and cofounder of BlogHer

"For millions of women looking to pause their careers without sacrificing long-term professional success, Work PAUSE Thrive is essential. Combining a powerful personal story, new research, and a journalistic commitment to accuracy, Lisen Stromberg captures the great challenges and offers pragmatic steps forward. She also understands that today's fathers are and must be a critical part of the solution as we all work together to build worklife structures that allow a level playing field."
Josh Levs, author of All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and BusinessesAnd How We Can Fix It Together

"Filled with insights and ideas built on rock-solid data and inspiring examples from women from a wide spectrum of the working world, this is the book I'm putting on my daughter's shelfand wish I'd had myself. Stromberg reaches out generously and thoughtfully to empower every woman torn by seemingly impossible choices, and in turn, challenges the newly enlightened reader to pay it forward. Count me in."
Nancy Vonk, cofounder of Swim and author of Darling You Can't Do Both (And Other Noise to Ignore on Your Way Up)

"Work PAUSE Thrive represents! It details how inflexible workplace structures, public policy failures, and cultural stigmas against parents in the workplace hold women AND men back from living lives of authenticity and meaning. This is a must-read!"
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, founder and CEO of The Representation Project

"Forget climbing some corporate ladder, you want a career with twists and turns and adventure, but how? In Work PAUSE Thrive, author Lisen Stromberg shows how trailblazing women have crafted a big life on their terms and how you can too."
Ann Shoket, author of The Big Life and former editor-in-chief of Seventeen

"Our lives are not straight lines, so not surprisingly neither are our careers. Yet when they inevitably take an unexpected turn we worry that we have fallen off the career track. Lisen Stromberg, in Work PAUSE Thrive, is here to tell you that there is no track,' there is just the path you and your family create for your own fulfilling lives."
Lisa Heffernan, New York Times bestselling author of Goldman Sachs and the Culture of Success and cofounder of the "Grown and Flown" blog

"Work PAUSE Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career doesn't just offer tactical solutions for integrating kids with careers, it also is a call to action so individual companies and our country as a whole will finally focus on providing meaningful solutions for all parents."
Joan Blades, cofounder of MoveOn.org and MomsRising.Org

"Former advertising exec and veteran journalist Lisen Stromberg offers stats, anecdotes, and advice in her deep analysis on how to navigate the career journey that includes a pause.' Learn from her wise and thoughtful approach to managing the nontraditional career path."
Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO of iRelaunch

"Lisen Stromberg explodes the false dichotomy faced by generations of career-minded womeneither be an engaged mother or stay on track in a career. Work PAUSE Thrive delivers a fresh alternative that millennial women (and men) are craving in their quest to thrive as parents with careers; for many women, the zig-zagging career path is the perfect fit!"
W. Brad Johnson, PhD and David Smith, PhD, authors of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

"A refreshing new take on the worklife conversation! Work PAUSE Thrive disrupts' the all-in model of career success and maps innovative paths to professional and personal fulfillment. A must-read for next generation employees and the companies that hire them!"
Samantha Walravens, editor of TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood and coauthor of Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

"Lisen Stromberg isn't just an authorshe's a whistleblower. The alarm she's sounding is music to my ears: that the obstacle course of working motherhood is doable. With stats and stories, Stromberg reveals an alternate path for working parents . . . all while urging society to step up to better meet the needs of American families."
Kat Gordon, CEO and founder of The 3% Movement

About the Author

After a successful career in marketing and advertising, Lisen Stromberg, left the business world frustrated by the lack of support for mothers in the workplace. She pivoted to become an award-winning journalist whose work can be found in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, Salon, and other high profile media outlets.

Now Lisen is back to her business roots as CEO and Founder of PrismWork, a culture innovation consultancy. She and her team partner with companies, leaders, and advocates, to innovate the workplace so the next generation isn't forced to choose between work and family.

A sought after speaker and moderator, Lisen has inspired thousands with her talks on work+life integration, corporate talent innovation, disrupting the traditional career paradigm, and empowering women in the workplace. She has been seen on stage at SXSW, TEDx, The 3% Conference, and more.

Lisen and her family live in San Francisco.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books; Reprint edition (January 29, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1946885797
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946885791
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.02 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #316,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #495 in Women & Business (Books)
- #514 in Parenting Girls
- #846 in Job Hunting & Career Guides

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After a successful career in marketing and advertising, Lisen Stromberg, left the business world frustrated by the lack of support for mothers in the workplace. She pivoted to become an award-winning journalist whose work can be found in the New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, Salon, and other high profile media outlets.

Now Lisen is back to her business roots as CEO and Founder of PrismWork, a culture innovation consultancy. She and her team partner with companies, leaders, and advocates, to innovate the workplace so the next generation isn’t forced to choose between work and family.

A sought after speaker and moderator, Lisen has inspired thousands with her talks on work + life integration, corporate talent innovation, disrupting the traditional career paradigm, and empowering women in the workplace. She has been seen on stage at SXSW, TEDx, The 3% Conference, and more.

Her book, Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career is deeply reported with extensive social science research, cutting edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews. In it, she reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm to achieve their personal and professional goals and provides readers with a blueprint for how they, too, can integrate kids with their career.

Lisen lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Vanessa M.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017

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Great read for working moms!

I recently received a free copy of Work PAUSE Thrive in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

In this book, Lisen Stromberg provides a number of facts, and results from a survey she conducted of over a thousand women. She also explains how many women in the workforce have paused their careers to dedicate more time to family and how after doing so have being able to thrive whether by rejoining the workforce or creating their own career path.

I am a big advocate for women who join the workforce and want to succeed. I don’t necessarily believe that the only way to success is by joining a big company and moving up the ladder. Actually, most of the women I look up to and I’m inspired by have left their jobs (either by choice or not) to follow their own paths and build on their dreams.

Work PAUSE Thrive is a testament to ALL women that says that it is alright to pause and take the time to evaluate what is important to you and your family, and how you want to move forward in life after having family.

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Shana & Jeff Bull

Experience matters.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021

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I bought this book a few years ago, and read it because the topic of pausing and pivoting your business because of motherhood was something I was dealing with a few years ago because my son was born with a genetic disease called cystic fibrosis. Which meant a lot of days away from school, and unexpected trips to the ER.

I recently re-read it and was reminded that experience matters.

This book is fantastic for any parent who has had to change their career, especially over the past year. It provides real-life examples and is a reminder that pausing, or pivoting your business doesn’t mean that you’re starting from scratch.

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Christopher C Bowley

Well worth the read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2017

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Stromberg addresses an issue that gets rarely talked about, in part because, as she shows, women themselves have been taught to obscure the fact of their pausing, when they do it. Without judgement against women who have 'paused' or have not 'paused,' she posits a revolutionary idea: the 'pause' as STRATEGY, rather than as assumed professional liability. The book is beautifully conceived and laid out, written so accessibly, and yet doggedly researched. This is so much better than an anecdotal 'self-help' book. While Stromberg does draw from her own experience and those of many others she personally knows, these personal stories are all the more effective because they are seamlessly interwoven into a broader discussion of women and gender in the workplace. It is both an enjoyable and informative read, and her highlighting of both the millennial and Gen X experience in a range of professional sectors appeals to a broad readership.

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Nursing is not a low paying profession

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023

Just finished the book, very interesting read. I guess depend on which career you choose.

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Lee Caraher

The Book I Wish I Had in my 20s

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017

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Millennials – men and women – I implore you to read this book to to help you explore all the different options of integrating (NOT BALANCING) a great career into a great life. (Not that this book promises you a great life or a great career – but it will help you define success for yourself.) Success in life and in career. And with your definition in hand, and the strategies clearly laid out in the book, you will feel better equipped to maneuver the challenging decisions ahead.

Easy to read, well researched and chocked full with personal stories of careers that take unexpected turns, everyone who works will find something here that they can apply to their own situations. The biggest takeaway? We each define our own success - we are not alone, and don't have to figure it out by ourselves. .

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Jean W. Gleason

much more than an important self-help book

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2017

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The target audience for this book is the group that, economically and otherwise, can even consider pausing, and the book is very effective at making it seem not only feasible (through specific guidance), but desirable. That makes it a useful self-help book. What makes it a valuable book for all, however, are the chapters devoted to facts and discussion of workplace laws and policies that make it difficult for ANY woman to have children and work at a paying job. Although the target audience will be most likely to read the book, they are the very group that, armed with the information presented here, can help lead policy change for all women and families. The last chapter, United We Stand, effectively takes the book beyond the self-help genre to persuasive policy arguments for change for everyone.

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neb150

Powerful manifesto for a working mom

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017

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Well researched and thoughtfully presented, Lisen Stromberg offers a powerful manifesto in support of women who want that rewarding professional career but also a meaningful personal life. She acknowledges that both require commitment and stamina. Her prescription - that you can have it all, if perhaps not all at once - is an exhale for the working mom who tries so hard to make it all work (that would be me). Her suggestions are practical and based on real life solutions provided by the many women she interviewed. I particularly enjoyed her narrator's voice and personal stories of how she sought work/life balance - occasionally setting aside her professional ambition when she opted to prioritize family. Wow! Apparently it is okay to pause. You will survive, and in her summary conclusions, thrive. Who knew?

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Chris F

Inspiring read for anyone facing a career pause

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017

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Lisen tells a very compelling story of how one can successfully pause their career and resume with little disruption. She uses data (almost 1500 surveys and 180 interviews) to substantiate her findings. As someone who has returned to an engaging full-time career myself, I appreciate her inspiring stories and compelling facts. She makes the argument that flexible workplaces are the key to meeting the growing demands from women AND men for that ethereal promise of work/life balance. Lisen features men throughout the book who have chosen various paths to support their wives' careers---something I found incredibly inspiring. This is a must-read for any women considering reentering the workforce, for progressive men contemplating new paths, as well as for millennials facing a possible work pause.

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