Stay-at-Home Moms lose $1 Million

The author of Cost of being a stay-at-home mom: $1 million, and I have something in common, we both couldn't imagine in college that we would work our tails off to achieve success just to hang it all up and stay home with the kids once we started a family.

And now here I am so many years later after taking some time off to do exactly that. Stay home with my son. Who would have ever imagined?

As Mary Snyder, co-author of You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids, told the author, “It's a total priority shift. Women don't want the Supermom Syndrome. It looked great from the outside, but once you were in it, you were miserable and you couldn't excel at anything.”

Exactly Mary! It did look great from the outside when I was setting up my multimillion dollar company with 30 employees, 50 contractors, a dozen large corporate partners and having the First Lady Hillary Clinton there for my launch.

Then the hard part of actually running it kicked in and took its toll on my mind, body and spirit and my world turned upside down. All of a sudden that life-long dream of being a CEO wasn't as important as my health and well-being.

Plop in some fertility issues, which I found is very common with overworked women, and everything started running amok. I wrote this segment; The Path to Success, after my first year as a CEO for the book:
Inside the Minds:
Leading Women
What it Takes for Women to Succeed and Have it All in the 21st Century

It covers some of the topics many women will face who think they can do it all. Here are a few samples you may enjoy:
What are some good ways to relieve stress that often arises when women try to do too much?
Is there any way to have children and still be on an "executive track?"
How do you go about doing this?
What advice do you have for women who are our striving to succeed and have it all?