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Working Mums at Willy Lit Fest – Williamstown Literary Festival

Compiled by two Australian mums, Danielle Ross Walls and Louise Correcha, to help support other parents, Working Mums: Stories by real women on how they manage children, work and life is a collection of empowering stories from Australian mothers. The book’s primary aim is to help working mums feel less alone in their challenges to juggle work, children and daily life. Readers might also be inspired to try new careers!

Danielle Ross Walls on Willy Lit Fest, “This year’s theme of From Little Thin
The Parents Website •

Working mums tell their stories

One of the themes to emerge is the great challenges that working mums are facing. As a society, do you think we are failing to appreciate the kind of personal struggles that are being played out daily?

Although it is not the intention of the book to analyse those personal struggles that are being played out daily, the stories do shed light on many of them. A friend recently reflected, for example, on how she was comforted by the stories not trying to offer ‘solutions’ but rather reassuring her
TasWriters •

Working Mums - Q&A with Danielle Ross Walls and Louise Correcha.

We asked authors Danielle Ross Walls and Louise Correcha to talk about their wonderful new book Working Mums, full of inspirational stories that will lift women up and give them renewed courage on managing the balance between work and family life.

Do you remember the moment you decided to write this book? The moment of inspiration?

After having children, I experienced discrimination in the workplace and that was a pivotal turning point for me. This experience, teamed with my desire to gain add
The Age •

Melbourne's first career expo for working mothers

Danielle Ross Walls could not concentrate on Les Miserables, a musical she was watching as a birthday treat with her mother. As the drama of post-revolutionary France unfolded on stage, the former advertising and marketing manager was too busy thinking about revolutionising the lives of Australian mothers. Danielle Ross Walls, with her two sons Liam and Fraser, is organising Career Ideas For Mums Expo. After the show she told her mother about an idea to organise a careers expo just for mothers w
ABC Radio •

Babytalk: ABC Podcast

Some of us have careers, some of us are much happier at home. Some of us have great businesses, some of us battle internal demons. We are many and diverse and we are navigating the experience of being a mother, for the first or sixth time. It's tough and apart from the actual babies, we don't always have a lot in common.

So when two exhausted new mothers met in a coffee shop they didn't know their friendship would us a book about real working mums.

'Working Mums' is a collection of mother's st

Working Mums - Stories by real women on how they manage children, work and life (Finch Sydney, 2018.) It is a collection of empowering stories that will make working mums everywhere laugh in sympathy and nod in recognition.

The stories are from Australian mums doing a range of work in addition to raising their children, including working full-time, part-time or freelance, studying, or running their own businesses. The stories are different yet in many ways universal – not unlike the journey of parenting itself.
The book’s primary aim is to help working mums feel less alone in their challenges. In fact, as the stories show, sometimes it is those very challenges that lead to unexpectedly amazing opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Contributors include:
• Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter, musician, actor and activist
• Alisa Camplin, former world champion aerial skier and Olympic gold medallist
• George McEncroe, founder of Australia’s first all-female rideshare service Shebah
• Annie Nolan (Uncanny Annie), equality activist and social commentator
• Chloe Chant, early childhood educator whose letter to a senator went viral
• Kristy Vallely, founder of The Imperfect Mum online community
• Simone McLaughlin, founder of Jobs Shared
• Carly Naughton & Alee Fogarty, marriage equality advocates, blogger and tattoo artist
and many more, from fields including health, academia, beauty, politics and small business.

Additional media coverage

Also seen on:

Weekend Breakfast TV national - ABC Television, 

ABC radio - (individual interviews - Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Perth) 

TasWeekend - The Mercury

Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph

Kidspot

Kinderling radio

Independent Schools Victoria 

The Big Issue

WarCry Magazine

(Published by Finch Publishing Sydney 2018, Vivid Publishing 2020)

Purchase paperback or E-book here.