Jennifer Hill speaks with author and speaker, Kathryn Sollmann, about her latest book “Ambition Redefined.” Kathryn suggests that women redefine ambition and look for ways to consistently work throughout their lives. Kathryn offers six options for women to work while raising a family and taking care of aging parents. Kathryn also offers suggestions of different websites that provide flexible job opportunities.

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As an author, speaker and coach, my mission is to keep women working toward financial security in a flexible way—alongside child and aging parent caregiving roles.

In my book, Ambition Redefined, and in discussions with women nationwide, I encourage no-apologies independence from the “lean in”, “break the glass ceiling” mantra: my message is to find your own brand of ambition and success, take full advantage of today’s more flexible workplace, chart alternate career paths that accommodate and fund life and tuck all generations of your family into a future that is financially secure and safe.

A mother of two daughters (ages 18 and 27), I’ve worked non-stop since the age of 16 in many flexible ways. and fund life...

As my family needs ebbed and flowed, I negotiated flexible full-time and part-time schedules with demanding employers, launched a variety of entrepreneurial ventures solo and with partners, established independent marketing communications and career coaching practices, worked in a home office as a telecommuter and generated a wide range of freelance projects—while managing a household, carpooling, attending school plays, tending to sudden health issues of aging parents and in-laws, taking dogs to the vet and making yet another dinner.