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How Reworking My Schedule Is Helping Me Rewrite the Working Supermom Myth

The ideal we are working toward in the ad industry simply isn't real

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The pandemic has further destabilized the already delicate balancing act of being a full-time working mother.Alonzo Design
By Alexandra Brown

November 14, 2021

My personal pandemic parenting low point came when my toddler ate a fistful of deconstructed granite from our work-in-progress patio.

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This story first appeared in the Nov. 15, 2021, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.

Alexandra Brown

Alexandra Brown, group strategy director at The Many.

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