# 373 Moms and the Juggling Act

# 373 Moms and the Juggling Act

From Power Your Parenting: Moms With Teens by Colleen O'Grady LPC, LMFT, author, speaker & C-Suite Radio

May 18, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 373

About this episode

Colleen O'Grady and Sarah Armstrong discuss the challenges of modern motherhood and share strategies for balancing work, parenting, and self-care.

Do you ever feel like you’re carrying the entire mental load of your family while trying to hold together your work, your home, your relationships, and yourself? In this episode of Power Your Parenting Moms with Teens, Colleen O’Grady talks with Sarah Armstrong about the reality of modern motherhood, the invisible pressure moms carry, and how to move from merely surviving to actually thriving. Sarah shares practical and deeply relatable wisdom for working moms trying to balance careers, parenting, emotional labor, and self-care without losing themselves in the process. Together, Colleen and Sarah discuss the importance of boundaries, routines, mindset, support systems, and why moms must stop treating themselves like they come last on their own to-do list. Sarah Armstrong is the author of The Art of the Juggling Act: Bite Size Guide for Working Parents and The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce. She is also Vice President of Global Marketing Operations at Google and the proud mom of Grace, now a young adult successfully launched into the world. Sarah has spent decades mentoring working parents and helping families navigate the realities of parenting, career pressures, and life…

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Host: Colleen O'Grady

Guest: Sarah Armstrong

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Organizations: Google

Books & works: The Art of the Juggling Act: Bite Size Guide for Working Parents, The Mom’s Guide to a Good Divorce

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