Jobshare Revolution: Flexible Work for Work-Life Balance

A proactive approach to safeguard your job to prevent a layoff, switch careers, or even navigate a tough job market more easily while finding flexibility for real work-life balance. This episode is Part II of a two-part series inspired by concerns about return-to-work mandates, low morale, looming layoff rumors, or worse, actual layoffs by my Ladies of Brilliance tribe, our Work Muse community, an...

Whether you're facing a return-to-work mandate, a looming layoff, or other difficulties in your work life, this is my advice on how to handle it. Too often, we keep these struggles inside or worse, get bad advice when facing difficulties at work, and how to reach for and achieve our big goals, whether a raise, a promotion, or work flexibility, like job sharing during times that feel less than...

I'll show you how you not only can afford to job share, you might not be able to afford not to job share. Job Share Academy's doors are closing TODAY >>> Enroll here. We've shifted the program to include group coaching for even more hands on support. Don't wait until 2025 to create your job share when the price will go up. In episode 18, the finale in our 4-part Job Sh...

"You can be ambitious AND you can spend a lot of time with your family AND you can be successful, you just have to figure out HOW you want to do it and WHO you want to do it with. Job Share Academy opened my eyes to the fact that it can look a lot of ways. If you're willing to put in the work, you can make something cool happen."   - Elizabeth McQueen STUDENT ELIZABETH MCQUEEN SHARE...

The best way to gain approval for a job share is to present a well-thought-out business case as a confident, competent professional. Limited-Time FREE Masterclass Signup:  3 Insider Secrets to Share Your Job and Lose the Guilt of Putting Work First or Family First—Forever   If you've been considering creating a job share arrangement, you've likely thought, "Will my boss approve a jo...

Finding a job share partner is easier than you think. It's more like spotting a VW bug than finding a needle in a haystack—once you know what to look for.  The first thing people ask me after discovering job sharing is often "How do I find a job share partner?" After all, there's a lot to consider. You're sharing your job, your income, and even, your personal lives. It see...

Proof that job sharing can work in almost any job, including yours. I’ve discovered there are five reasons people are weary about creating, selling, and getting approval for their job share. So what are the five reasons? I can tell you what they are because they come up time and time again. They are that they don’t have enough time, the right job, boss, or a partner to do it with, or that they can...

Still on the fence about creating a job share arrangement? Here are all of the reasons why it might be the best decision you could make for your career and life. GRAB YOUR SPOT FOR JUST $27!! Doors are Open for Jobshare Jumpstart: A LIVE Job Share Creation Bootcamp   Just picture this: powering down every Wednesday (your new FriYAY! ) and never again logging on into the wee hours, saying goodbye t...

When a pause and real self-care are called for. If I know one thing for sure, it's this: There will always be challenging seasons to navigate when life moves fast and work is intense. End-of-school craziness paired with lax summer schedules can feel harder for parents of younger kids, trying to piece together childcare during working hours via relatives, friends, camps, or most likely, a comb...

Finance leader Liz Stapleton Zerella's moxie landed her a rare senior job share arrangement at Clorox with partner Michelle Shalauta. What the duo did next is remarkable. If you're wondering if job sharing will negatively impact your career progression, not only does research prove the opposite—According to The Job Share Project, over 70% of job share teams who apply are promoted togethe...

A pep talk and my 4-step process to help you get unstuck and get into action to make your big moves and achieve your goals. Inspired by the advice my dad gave me early on when I was pursuing an acting career and the dual sandwich caregiving challenges I've faced over the past several years, this episode's pep talk with practical advice is intended to inspire you to move through your fear...

Go behind the scenes of Job Share Academy with program alumna Elizabeth McQueen.   "You can be ambitious AND you can spend a lot of time with your family AND you can be successful, you just have to figure out HOW you want to do it and WHO you want to do it with. Job Share Academy opened my eyes to the fact that it can look a lot of ways. If you're willing to put in the work, you can make...

Working in a cross-generational job share propelled Mary Kaye Stuart and Sommer Hruska's success at work. Their job share proved a solid succession planning strategy for their employer, while giving both better mental and physical health. When you think of job sharing, you might not have considered sharing a job with a partner whose background is very different from yours. It was a pleasure t...

Debunking these 7 job share myths is key before proposing a job share to your employer. Don't let other people's misconceptions stand in your way of job sharing.  These commonly held beliefs hold a majority of people who've heard of and thought about job sharing, from ever following through to create their job shares. Similarly, the same misinformed beliefs are why most employers tu...

This powerful visualization exercise will help you envision what it's like to work in a job share in under 15 minutes. There are several barriers to job sharing that those interested in sharing roles need to overcome, but the hardest barrier to overcome might be you. It takes people a while to wrap their heads around job sharing. After all, there are two people, meaning two personalities brin...

Best of the Best: A 10+ year job share superteam dish their best advice for women interested in job sharing. They thought about it for years—corporate turned entrepreneurial job share team Gabriela Mercado and Gabriela Proctor open up about how they persisted for their job share's approval and what they'd do differently today, so you don't have to.  You might be surprised to learn h...

To beat imposter syndrome and manifest your job share, you have to believe you can job share. Once a skeptic, I've become a believer after leaning into manifestation during my most challenging season of life. You might be thinking, "Easy for you to say, Melissa. You're one of the lucky few who've job shared."  I know it may be easier said than done, but I also know there a...

Your Job Share 101 and my story—the good, the bad, and the ugly. What is job sharing? To start with, job sharing is the flexible work practice that transformed my work-life balance and career trajectory for nearly a decade in the 24/7 fast-paced radio industry. At Work Muse, we define job sharing as a partnership between two professionals to share the responsibilities of one full-time position. Te...

A simple strategy to decrease your overwhelm, stress, and burnout by applying job share principles to your daily life. What if I told you women were more stressed now than they were at the height of the pandemic? Would it surprise you to learn that the main factor is burnout? I'm going to let you in on a little secret today in this Mindset Minisode : job sharing is the antidote to "quiet...

One mom's mic drop moment when pushed to the brink:   Karen Browning reads her pandemic resignation letter and opens up about being forced to choose between career and caregiving at the height of the pandemic. In the summer of 2021, Karen summoned up the courage to vulnerably and transparently spell out what she had needed from her employer and what they could have done to keep her in her let...

Welcome to Jobshare Revolution, a podcast about job sharing the flexible work practice for true work-life balance, hosted by former corporate job sharer turned founder of Work Muse the first U.S. job share company Melissa Nicholson. With nearly a decade of job sharing experience in the radio industry behind her, Nicholson is working to educate and empower employers and employees to embrace the ben...