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#1258 - TBT: Lawyer Creates Course for New Parents Returning to Work

2020-06-11

In this week’s “Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?” segment, we hear from a Washington, DC attorney with a course to help new parents return to the workforce. A lot has happened since we first featured her! 

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on whose story has evolved quite a bit since we first feature them. We ve had all kinds of interesting segments this year last week was the Craigslist photographer the guy, who starts a business or starts a photography site gig by posting on Craigslist, really interesting evolution ever him, an australian woman who draws houses all kinds of things, as I said what's a day an hour later speech, Europe will hear from lorry Michalek Levin an attorney in Washington DC, who has created a course called mindful return and for sure a lot and with her since we first featured her back in episode. Two hundred and fifty five, some really fun updates here. So, let's hear directly from lorry and I'll come back at the end to rap up no matter where you're selling Amazon Etsy your own website ship station. He's all your orders into one simple interface, making them easy to manage from any device. Even your cell phone, they ve, been supporting side of school
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I'm honored. Fifty per cent schedule now down from sixty percent whenever we last spoke. Mindful return is a programme that hopes employers to retain their top parent talent and it helps new parents to return to work after having a baby. Oh, what has happened with mindful turn. Since I was last featured on the show. Initially, mindful return was a program just for moms and employers started requesting a side of the business for dance so that they could benefit as well from this transition resource, and I partnered with a wonderful guy from a Bank of America to create the dad version of mindful return
about a year later, we also launched a version of the quest for parents and children who have special needs so back before. Mindful return was just one horse. One programme now it's three courses, one from arms, one for dads and one for parents and special needs children back when we recorded a couple of years ago- and there were about four hundred moms who had taken the mindful return squares and now over a thousand new parents have taken the programme. We ran some data back in January of twenty twenty on the thousands of people who have been through mindful return, and we found that eighty five percent of those people were still with the employer tat. They were wife whenever they took the program and ninety three percent are still in the workforce. So I like to think that my report is actually very effective retention. Fool
Fires in terms of pricing, press was poking fund a little better, be ninety nine dollar price speck them about, of course, prices now, one hundred and ninety nine dollars. So we increase the price to show more about You have also started doing more alive and remote trainings for employers are very recently. We ve been doing weapon hours and group coaching sessions for companies whose parents are really struggling with this whole working from home with kids during cuban thing. There's a lot of work going on there as well. The reason that there actually is of special needs. Current version of mine for return is the site hustle school podcast. There is a wonderful woman near to re, write the listen to sign hustle swamp said: oh my gosh. This is totally a resource that all parents need and apparent to have special needs. Babies and others, and children actually have different needs from parents of typically developing children, and
You sent me an email and said I have no idea if you'll respond to me, but I heard you inside puzzle school and I would love to talk to you about the idea of creating a course for parents have special needs. Children as well, and I funding to her email and we launched into a wonderful partnership before corona virus. I'd say that mine, for he turns the biggest challenge, is really going through the layers of authorization. It sometimes takes four accompanied us to decide to offer the programme, even if its employees are the aspect and even if everyone on board a law firm sign up at the end of twenty nineteen. The head honestly been planning. Offer it and working towards offering it. For two years, I'd say: you're accuracy internally within companies is probably one of the biggest challenges I think that's really the same during this cover nineteen era. I'm authorizing spending is a challenge at companies, especially where everyone's by Interpol, Carson and not sure what the economy will bring
but I'd say that parents are really really is suffering right. Now what schools and bakers being closed, and so I say that helping them is exactly the type of thing that would save employers money right now. My number one piece of advice is to help people in the space that you know best. I personally have had the most traction with mine for return: what law, firms and professional services organisations, because I'm a lawyer and big law, I get the velvet our. I know how to operate within their though, if you find it, you and your company areas. I have always working to grasp that leave. I'd, say the target year fix up space that you are most familiar and where you have the most personal horizons, you're so much lorry really exciting here updates by the way she also has a book out called back to work after baby had a plan,
gave a mindful return from maternity leave and she mentioned to us that a lot of the employers who are paying for a course of repaying to support their employees are also purchasing the buck and she appreciates there the ports and on a personal note, I am always happy to hear how listeners in case studies, people it we featured throughout the years, have found each other. Just like your heard here, I'm. I got a lot of emails about this. It's one of my favorite things about making the show. So in this case it's just wonderful to know that there is now a course for parents of kids with special needs, and probably that came about because listeners were out there taking action right. That's what I always say. Inspiration is good, but actions better, and that was never followed up with Lori. She followed up with them. Now this course is out in the world. Dimension in some other notes with us that she has since increase the price, of course, from ninety nine dollars to hundred and ninety nine dollars so effectively. She has doubled their well done worry Yes, it is a challenging time out there, of course, but ass. She points out this project or this course is going to help with employee retention.
Of an employer out. There isn't going to invest two hundred dollars in keeping on a valuable employ after they have a child and take maternity leave or paternity leave. Maybe it's time for those valuable employs, look elsewhere too, and it always does not seem like a high price to pay, especially if you want to help your employees be more productive. More effective. Also have better over our well being so. I'm grateful to lorry for helping us out with the segment keep up the good work of their. We will be doing these new segments throughout twenty twenty. Let me know what you think and who you like to see featured from our archives of more than one thousand stories actually allows states more than twelve stories. Now it's travellers episodes are doing a lot more question this year, but still well over a thousand stories. Twenty twenty is our Europe interaction. If you have a question, if you liked up it, is about your hustle or tell us about your mindful return, just come to Titusville School dot, com, questions and today show notes: are it's out of school com, twelve thousand five hundred and eighty one at two hundred and fifty eight. Thank you so much listeners to be sure to do something today
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