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It's been said that three is a crowd, but four is a party.  

This week's episode of the Disaster Tough Podcast lives up to that moniker as four Emergency "Momagers" get together to discuss balancing the demands of motherhood and successful Emergency Management careers.  

Whether it's raising young children, young adults, or even the single-motherhood perspective, Ashley Lauria-Golden, Vanessa Flores, Cori Smith, and Michelle Chechowski bring varying life experiences to this insightful and entertaining discussion on the connections between motherhood and Emergency Management.

Ashley Lauria-Golden brings more than a decade's experience to the field of Emergency Management and response working mainly in Georgia.  As she has transitioned to the role of mother to a young toddler, she has been able to continue to work more on the subject matter expert side of Emergency Management both for Doberman Emergency Management and recently for the Lafayette Group.  

Vanessa Flores has a 9-year-old daughter and currently serves as the Deputy Director of Emergency Management at UC Irvine in California.  Before that, Vanessa spent more than a decade as an Emergency Management professional in the US Air Force.  

Cori Smith also spent time in Emergency Management with the Air Force before eventually landing in her current role as the Executive Director of Enterprise Resiliency for Wells Fargo.  She is also the mother of children of varying ages.

Michelle Chechowski serves as the Director of Emergency Preparedness for the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, the Executive Director and Symposium Lead for the Florida HazMat Symposium, and works as an Instructor of upper-level classes at the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM).  Her children are in their teens and are either in college or their last years of high school.  

Does work-life balance exist?  Does working in Emergency Management make you a better mother, or is it the other way around?  How do you stay present for your child(ren) in this increasingly connected world?  

All of these questions and more are answered in this special Mother's Day edition of the Disaster Tough Podcast.  

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