A Secret to Success as a Working Mom: Use Dresses to Stay Cool and Stylish in Hot Weather

Greetings from Chaton's World in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! My days often start with laundry, early-morning emails, and making my kids a hot breakfast. They often end with late-night homework checks, making Instagram reels, and appearing on Celebrity Court of Public Opinion. Somewhere in between, I’m navigating boardrooms, working towards deadlines, and immersed in the good, bad, and ugly chaos of motherhood and household management. As a working mom of three and a professional carving out space in corporate environments, I share my journey of balancing leadership with loving my family, and I sprinkle it with self-care tips. Here, you’ll find honest reflections, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for creating an authentic life that you enjoy. If you’re trying to do it all without losing yourself in the process, you have found your sister in the struggle!  Continue reading to discover some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world.

How Working Moms Can Tackle the Laundry Monster!

Thinking it would be great if Alexa did laundry.
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful..." -
--old Pantene Commercial

When I was a kid, Pantene had a commercial with the above tag line. It doesn't really apply to me, but I have been longing to include it in a post! Mine would be more like, "don't hate me because I appear to have it all together".  People tell me they think I have it all together and I laugh because they should know that they should have learned long ago that everything that glitters isn't gold. Also, everything that I have or appear to have is the result of hard work, very hard work.

Below is one secret to my success...


How I Tackle the Laundry Monster!



One of the most common questions I get online and in person is "how do you manage all of the laundry"?! I have three kids under eight. So, it's a very legitimate question.  It is unlike the illegitimate, insulting, very annoying questions that all go something like, "how can you possibly leave your kids and go to work every day?!" question. Anyway, I digress, I'll write about that some other time. 

As it relates to tackling the laundry monster, I have learned some things. First, laundry is like the definition of a mandatory yet mundane task. It has to get done, but it can be absolutely soul sucking. If you want to learn how to do your laundry and protect your soul, click below!



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