I’ve just finished reading an interview about Abigail Sharon, a Microsoft executive in London.

There isn’t anything new about Women in Business but she talks about how she struggled with balancing home and work in the beginning:

An achiever by nature, she’d assumed that having worked as a consultant at Microsoft for so long, she would hit the ground running as an employee. It didn’t turn out to be the case. Setting herself unrealistic deadlines, she started drowning in her workload. “I put myself under pressure, working incredibly long hours, traveling a lot, and working on the weekends. I was exhausted and it was putting a strain on my relationship at home.”

so, instead of whining, she took control:

After nearly six months, she woke up one day and realized how ridiculous it had become. “I thought, if you carry on like this, you won’t have a career, your health or your relationship. So I made changes, setting new boundaries, not working at the weekends, establishing realistic goals, and it was so liberating.”

It’s a great interview.

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Corrine mentions the inspiring site in our interview. If you haven’t listened yet I encourage you to head over to the audio podcast with Corinne Edwards.

I’m thrilled and honored to have Corinne Edwards with me on Conscious Destiny. Corinne is a renowned TV interviewer and pretty great person.

Corinne talks about her experience interviewing Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and prostitutes! It’s quite a listen.

From the about page on her blog: (heavily edited)

I’m the author of three books, Low Pain Threshold, Love Waits on Welcome . . . and other miracles and Reflections from a Woman Alone.

In my business incarnation, I was one of the first women in the country to be invited into Rotary International (Do you remember when the Supreme Court said they could not keep women out?)

Then after a stint as one of the first women to be a chairperson of a Chamber of Commerce in the United States, I was asked to be president of a chapter of The American Cancer Society. I was in charge of a couple of their smoke-outs - and I smoke. They ignored it. As long as I did the work.

Then for five years I volunteered to run a program to rehabilitate prostitutes, in conjunction with Genesis House and the Cook County Court system in Chicago.

I was the host of a weekly cable TV program starting from 1991 on Chicago Access and then produced and hosted over 400 shows for Wisdom Television, now Lime TV. I was disappointed the new owners did not continue my series but someone made me feel better when they said, “You were on longer than Seinfeld!”

Corinne talks about all this and more on our interview.

Please listen and then leave your comments below.

 Corinne Edwards Personal Growth Interview [51:09m]: Download