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Career Conversations: Balancing Your Career and Multigenerational Caregiving

Name: Career Conversations: Balancing Your Career and Multigenerational Caregiving
Start: 2021-04-21T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-04-21T17:00:00.000Z

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Webinar

292 attending

WEBINAR

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Event details

Join us for the next installment of our "Career Conversations" series, convened by Accenture, where we will discuss how to take care of yourself while taking care of aging parents or relatives. This webinar will explore the ways in which the pandemic has disproportionately impacted women in the Sandwich Generation, and provide tangible takeaways for managing stress and finding balance for Gen Xers and Millennials who are feeling ‘the squeeze’. Panelists will discuss how the company is helping its employees find healthy ways to manage stress during the COVID-19 pandemic while providing opportunities for them to advance their careers.

Attendees will learn:

How the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women in the Sandwich Generation
Strategies for managing stress, balancing responsibilities, and taking care of yourself
How companies can support employees through this crisis
How to help you take the next step in your career if you’re at a career crossroads

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Meet the speakers

Mimi Bishop + Jackie Ghedine

Co-founders of The Resting Mind

Mimi Bishop + Jackie Ghedine

Co-founders of The Resting Mind

Mimi Bishop is a coach, podcast host, and co-founder of The Resting Mind. Mimi, is a certified life coach and trained at iPEC and is certified in using energy leadership. Prior to becoming a coach, Mimi was Vice President of Marketing Services at a division of News Corporation, where she was responsible for strategy, content creation, and leading a team. // Jackie Ghedine is a coach, podcast host, and co-founder of The Resting Mind. She is a certified life coach and trained at the Goal Imagery Institute specializing in neuroscience and ...

Yi-Hsian Godfrey

CEO & Co-founder of Apiari

Yi-Hsian Godfrey

CEO & Co-founder of Apiari

Yi-Hsian Godfrey is CEO & Co-Founder of Apiari, a platform specializing in curated part-time/short-term in-home childcare. As a former corporate executive turned entrepreneur, she breaks down all the facades of “what life should be.” She shares the everyday challenges of the “Messy Middle”: caring for young children and elderly parents; being in middle management; living in middle class with humor that her audiences find engaging, relatable and reassuring.

Lisa Rabasca Roepe

Freelance Journalist

Lisa Rabasca Roepe

Freelance Journalist

Lisa Rabasca Roepe is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance journalist who writes gender equity, diversity and inclusion, human resource management, and entrepreneurship. Her work has appeared in Fast Company, Insider, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Marketplace, Ms. Magazine, OZY, Family Circle, Quartz, The Muse, The Week, HR Magazine, Men’s Journal and Eater.

Jaclyn Fitch

West MU Workplace Lead & North America Parents Network Lead

Jaclyn Fitch

West MU Workplace Lead & North America Parents Network Lead

People are my passion, and the driving force behind my mission to improve the workforce, one employee at a time. By day I am responsible for innovating how our Workplace teams and facilities can better serve our client-facing business. In my passion role I am the Chief EmPOWERment Officer of our North America Parents (POWER) Network enabling over 2500+ Accenture parents to bring their best selves to work.

Guadalupe Hirt, 47

Co-Founder & CCO of SecondActWomen

Guadalupe Hirt, 47

Co-Founder & CCO of SecondActWomen

Barbara Brooks, 54

Founder & CEO of SecondActWomen

Barbara Brooks, 54

Founder & CEO of SecondActWomen

Mimi Bishop + Jackie Ghedine

Co-founders of The Resting Mind

Yi-Hsian Godfrey

CEO & Co-founder of Apiari

Lisa Rabasca Roepe

Freelance Journalist

Jaclyn Fitch

West MU Workplace Lead & North America Parents Network Lead

Guadalupe Hirt, 47

Co-Founder & CCO of SecondActWomen

Guadalupe Hirt, is a GenX Boomer advocate, speaker and thought leader working to rescript the ageist narrative waged against women over 40 in society and corporate America. She is the co-founder of SecondActWomen, a social entrepreneurship company that delivers high-level IRL, virtual and digital media programs for women 40 & 50+. A triple minority based on gender, ethnicity and age, Hirt offers a unique lens regarding the social, workplace and internal challenges middlescent women navigate daily. Hirt and her partner Barbara Brooks have been featured in media like Forbes, MarketWatch, Next Avenue, Daily Blast, Denver Post and Lioness. Prior to SecondActWomen, she was a public relations specialist turned four-time entrepreneur, cultural author and documentary associate producer.

Barbara Brooks, 54

Founder & CEO of SecondActWomen

Barbara Brooks, is the founder of SecondActWomen, a social entrepreneurship company that delivers high-level IRL, virtual and digital media programs for women 40 & 50+. Aged out of the corporate club after an award-winning marketing career, she accidentally stepped into entrepreneurship, launching three businesses, and becoming an active board member and volunteer for several women’s and children’s non-profits. Today, she is a sought after GenX Boomer speaker, thought leader and female champion that’s helping this community design the businesses, careers and lives they desire in middlescence. Brooks and her partner Guadalupe Hirt have been featured in media like Forbes, MarketWatch, and Next Avenue and presented at organizations like Denver Startup Week, General Assembly, Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Microsoft.