By Christine Kane

Do a quick Google search and you’ll likely find a million tips and tricks for turning one of your extra bedrooms into the perfect home office or prioritizing and maximizing on your time when you work from home. But what about when you and your significant other both work from home? Having two people vying for at home work space is a little more trying then one of you working from home and the other traipsing off to the office each morning.

1.      Create Separate Work Spaces

As tempting as it may be to office share with your spouse, it’s likely going to end up being more distracting than productive. Carve out your own personal niches to get work done, even if it is as simple as putting up a space divider in an extra bedroom. By having your own personal space you’ll be more focused on getting work done. (more…)

Many people know Hybrid Her as Hybrid Mom, why the change in branding?

In November 2011, we decided it was time to broaden our mission. The name change to Hybrid Her, tells our existing customers, and future customers, that the content and services we offer are in support of and inclusive to all women—not just parents. Our goal is to provide opportunities for women that will lead to economic empowerment through support, networking and revenue opportunities. We know that when women help women, big things happen! (more…)

By Golda Smith

Being a work at home mom is amazing. Let’s face it; you have the best of both worlds… a 30 second commute to your office and the pleasure of spending as much time with your children as you want. Sadly, the biggest mistake that many mompreneur’s make is that they try to take their life and fit it into someone else calendar.

We’ve read and even heard many successful business owners talk about the importance of having a calendar and making a list and while those things are important many are still struggling. What makes perfect sense and works effortlessly for me and my kids, would be a complete nightmare for another family. (more…)

By Barbara Seifert, Ph. D., CPC

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.   Thomas Watson

The New Year is a great time to reevaluate and reassess where you are in your professional life.  Whether you work for someone or you own your business, you may have found that you are not “feeling it” – you might have been overworked, felt underappreciated, or lost your passion for the work you do.  If this sounds like you, then a self-assessment sounds like the recipe you need to find your focus and reignite your passion.  When we doing the work we are meant to do, we have excitement – the passion – and are more motivated to produce results and to show up.  We work better as team members, work harder for our clients, and have more balance in our lives. (more…)

By Alicia Pike

If you are a mom who wakes up in the morning to get the kids ready and then leave the house in order to go to work, staying at home to work may seem pretty inviting. The fact is, it takes excellent time management skills in order to be a work at home mom.

Sure, you are able to start the day in your pajamas, with your hair in curlers and no makeup on, but learning how to work every part of your schedule into each day is not as easy as one may think.

Below are some of the best time management tips I have used, based on my own work at home experiences. (more…)