What are everyday women (and men) discussing and struggling with regarding work life balance? And why has this remained a seemingly uniquely female problem? Join Maura Carlin and Christie Derrico as their guests share stories on how they tackle the hows, whys and what ifs of balancing work, life, family and self. On The Balance Dilemma we speak to parents and non-parents alike! While there may not be one answer, the guests on The Balance Dilemma will share insights to help listeners carve their own path. Episodes through August 2023 originally aired on WVOX Radio. All rights reserved.
The Balance Dilemma
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What are everyday women (and men) discussing and struggling with regarding work life balance? And why has this remained a seemingly uniquely female problem? Join Maura Carlin and Christie Derrico as their guests share stories on how they tackle the hows, whys and what ifs of balancing work, life, family and self. On The Balance Dilemma we speak to parents and non-parents alike! While there may not be one answer, the guests on The Balance Dilemma will share insights to help listeners carve their own path. Episodes through August 2023 originally aired on WVOX Radio. All rights reserved.
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Recent Episodes
July 6, 2026
Episode 104 From Madison Avenue to the Kitchen: Reinvention, Chopped Champion, and Building a Life on Your Own Terms with Silvia Baldini
<p><strong>Silvia Baldini</strong> built a successful career as an award-winning art director and creative director on Madison Avenue — then walked away to start over in a kitchen. The result? A Le Cordon Bleu education, training at the Ritz in London, a Chopped championship, two cookbooks, and Strawberry and Sage, a culinary venture built around food, sustainability, and community — with other women at the table alongside her.</p><p>In this episode, Maura and Christie talk with Silvia about what it actually takes to reinvent yourself mid-career, how advertising trained her for the kitchen (and vice versa), navigating male-dominated workplaces in two industries, the Italian philosophy of food that America has largely lost, and why — even with all of it — she doesn't believe you can have it all at the same time.</p><p>Topics covered include<strong>:</strong> career reinvention, identity and ambition, work-life balance, food and sustainability, Refettorio NYC, the Dames d'Escoffier, entrepreneurship, motherhood, and the real cost of starting over.</p><p>Find Silvia at silviabaldini.com and on Instagram @silviabaldinistrawberryandsage</p><p><br></p><p>Episode recorded on June 3, 2026 at the LMC Media Studio in Mamaroneck, New York. Show notes available at <a href="thebalancedilemma.com/episode-104" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">thebalancedilemma.com </a></p>
June 7, 2026
Episode 103 From Night Sweats to Oprah with Katya Eckert, Founder of A DOMANI®
<p>Postpartum. Cancer treatment. Perimenopause. Menopause. Night sweats don't care why you have them — and for too long, nothing on the market did either. Katya Eckert decided to fix that, and A DOMANI® was born.</p><p>She came to the US from Russia at age seven. Her family arrived with a hundred dollars, a box of books, and a guitar. She spent 15 years on a Wall Street derivatives desk. And then one very long, very sweaty postpartum night changed everything. With zero fashion experience and a beginner's instinct, she built the luxury sleepwear brand that Oprah noticed — three times.</p><p>What followed was not a straight line. While launching her brand, her mother was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Her mother wore A DOMANI® through treatment and into hospice. Eight weeks after she died, Katya had a baby. The business kept going.</p><p>In this conversation, Katya talks with Maura and Christie about building a product from 650 fabric samples, what thermoregulating actually means (and why your moisture-wicking leggings are lying to you), and what it looks like when both parents are building startups while raising kids ages 2 and 6. She doesn't believe in balance. She believes in triage.</p><p>Recorded May 27, 2026, at the LMC Media Podcast Studio in Mamaroneck, NY. Show notes available at thebalancedilemma.com/episode-103</p>
May 3, 2026
Episode 102 Reading Belle Burden’s Strangers with a Divorce Attorney: The Legal Wake-Up Call Belle Burden Needed with Lisa Zeiderman, Esq., CFL, CFDA
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Memoir-Marriage-Belle-Burden/dp/0593733312" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Belle Burden's memoir Strangers</a> — which began as a viral New York Times Modern Love essay and is already being adapted for film starring Gwyneth Paltrow — is the story every married (unmarried) woman needs to read. It's the account of a woman whose husband of 20 years walked out during COVID with no warning, leaving her exposed because of financial and legal decisions she'd made throughout her marriage without fully considering the risk. But what would a top divorce attorney have told Belle before any of it happened?</p><p>Lisa Zeiderman, managing partner at Miller Zeiderman LLP, certified divorce financial analyst, and certified financial litigator, read Strangers and had a lot to say. In this episode, she walks us through the pivotal moments where Belle's financial and legal decisions put her at serious risk — the prenuptial agreement changed six days before the wedding, the inherited trust money placed into jointly-owned property, the career she gave up without negotiating any protection in return — and what Belle, or any of us, could have done differently.</p><p>Lisa also explains when a postnuptial agreement makes sense (hint: it's not just for troubled marriages), what women who've handed financial control to a spouse need to do right now, and how to turn major life transitions — having children, receiving an inheritance, buying property — into smart negotiating moments. She covers how to protect assets in a high-net-worth divorce, what stay-at-home spouses need to know about marital property law, and why financial independence is the most important divorce strategy of all.</p><p>This isn't a story about the ultra-wealthy. It's about the quiet financial decisions every woman in a marriage makes — or doesn't make — and what's actually at stake when love and money collide.</p><p>Recorded April 23, 2026. Show notes available at <a href="thebalancedilemma.com/episode-102" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">thebalancedilemma.com</a></p>
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