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  <title>12: Mindful Return: Smoothly Re-entering the Workforce After Parental Leave with Lori Mihalich-Levin</title>
  <description>Today, our guest is a&amp;amp;nbsp;multi-talented&amp;amp;nbsp;author and attorney, Lori Mihalich-Levin. Lori also has a very active blog and website platform, called Mindful Return, for parents who are returning to the workforce after having children. If you are returning back to work after maternity/paternity leave, Lori created a four-week program to help. Now, employers are also using this program to help! About Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD: Lori believes in empowering new working parents.&amp;amp;nbsp; She is the founder&amp;amp;nbsp;of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave,&amp;amp;nbsp;and&amp;amp;nbsp;creator of the Mindful Return Maternity Leave E-Course.&amp;amp;nbsp; She is&amp;amp;nbsp;mama to two beautiful red-headed boys (ages 5 and 7), is a contributing&amp;amp;nbsp;author at Well Rounded NY&amp;amp;nbsp;and Fairygodboss, is&amp;amp;nbsp;the Maternity Leave Expert at Motherly,&amp;amp;nbsp;and is a partner in the health care practice at Dentons US LLP. &amp;amp;nbsp; Show Highlights:  Three major hats Lori wears: Being a partner at a law firm, being a mom &amp;amp;amp; running her program How Mindful Return was born Creating that supportive parent community at your workplace is a universal challenge Tools and community for helping return to work after maternity/paternity leave The four-week course to guide parents Alumni group joining the Facebook group for support Retreats coming soon Employers are now offering this program as a retention tool&amp;amp;nbsp; Relating to one another, and how universal these problems really are Growing trends on dads taking paternity leave Lori’s own parenting story of going back to work Transitioning back to work is not a one-day thing; it is ongoing Books Lori recommends for this transition besides her own book Technology that helps going back to work  Resources: Mindful Return Website Mindful Return Facebook Mindful Return Twitter Book “Back to work after Baby”  Available on Amazon </description>
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