Interview 21409 – Caption Index: 520
Can I take my shoes off before I have to address all y’alls issues?… Read More
Can I take my shoes off before I have to address all y’alls issues?… Read More
And I’d walk into the mud room, and it’d be, “Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom.” And we’re not talking about one little mouth. We’re talking about seven little mouths, six little mouths, five little mouths, yak, yak, yak. And mom, I need this, mom, I need that, mom,… Read More
You’re gonna not have time. There’s gonna be no “you.” So you’re gonna have to give up “you” for the amount of time it takes to raise your kids, because there’s gonna be no me time. You’re not gonna have me time. It’s not gonna happen. And if you’re a… Read More
That’s all right. So I can get these kids on the road and get them moving up to teenage years when they can actually drive, and then maybe I can get some me time. But you really kind of lose that. ‘Cause there’s no time. When you get around to… Read More
That’s when you finally get to talk to him. Read More
‘Cause you’ve done homework with seven kids, right?… Read More
And so you’ve got that done, and then you’re gonna have, so you got work, you got the husband, you got the kids, right?… Read More
But the key thing, I think, about that is that, so you can schedule, and you can organize, and you can organize to the best of your ability, and most of the time you can make the juggle work, right?… Read More
But the key thing I think women have to understand, especially women, not discounting men, but women have to understand, is for that time period that you’re gonna have the full-time job, you’re gonna have the husband who you finally get to talk to about nine o’clock at night after… Read More
And then in my daytimer, the good old fashioned daytimers we used to have, before we had these darn phones, right?… Read More
The daytimer, I had color coded the family activities and the work activities. And I was blessed with a wonderful administrative assistant, Teri Delias, who was aunt to all my kids. And we would sit down every Monday morning and go through the week. Here’s what’s happening this week. And… Read More
If you’ve gotta be somewhere, it’s family first. Except, I couldn’t do anything for the union staff, ironically. I would’ve, but I couldn’t. But for the staff that were not unionized then they were, if they had a dentist appointment for the kids or whatever, they could go. Whatever we’re… Read More
How did you do that?… Read More
How did you go, how did you have seven children, a full-time job, an intense full-time job, seven days a week, and are always on call, all hours of the night and day, and then also have a husband of 39 years, hallelujah, put up with me that long, who… Read More
We both work full-time jobs. And so I think the way you do that is that, you can do that. You can make that happen. You just have to take this time to be organized. Every Sunday we had a board on the kitchen, on the fridge, and the kids… Read More
Well, I’m a type AAAA personality, so I’m always up to something. But I’ve been very blessed. We have a birth daughter named Catherine Casey, and we then, along the way, adopted six children into our family. They joined our family through adoption, older child adoption. We basically adopted two… Read More
It really was. I often give lectures to women in looking at president, CEO roles and wanting to have a balanced life. And they wanna know how you do that. Read More
My husband ran the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. As a matter of fact, he’s the one that got the designation for the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. That was his vision, that was his idea, and I’m very proud of that. So the national Aviary in Pittsburgh, he was the executive… Read More
How were you able to balance these two entities?… Read More
If you’re privatizing the zoo, I’d spend eight hours a day downtown with the city and nobody would say anything about, well, what’s the best thing for the zoo?… Read More