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In betweeen 1997-2002, the following media sources featured The Entrepreneurial Parent (site or book), Lisa Roberts, and/or her book How to Raise A Family & A Career Under One Roof. Interviews with Lisa are once again welcome by contacting her via email.

 
Magazines
 

In August 1999 en-parent.com was selected by
Parenting Magazine as one of the
Top 3 Work-at-Home Sites on the Internet!

"One of the best features of the Entrepreneurial Parent site is the roster of experts on such topics as record-keeping, home-office design, and building your own low-cost website. You can submit text and photos for a personal profile -- it's a nifty way to promote your business on the Internet."

 

-- Julie Lawlor, Parenting Magazine

 
Magazine: Family PC
Issue: Feb. 1999
Article: "Home Office Harmony" by Anne Fischer Lent (a Cover Story!)
Magazine: Kiplingers
Issue: May 1997
Article: "Home Alone" by Ronaleen R. Roha
Magazine: Baby Magazine
Issue: Oct./Nov. 1997
Book Review
Magazine: Forbes
Issue: May 18, 1998
Article: "Entrepreneur Moms" by Luisa Kroll
Magazine: Home Office Computing
Issue: August 1997
Article: "Kids Talk Balk" by Carol Dannhauser
 
 
Magazine: Business Start-Ups
Issue: Sept. 1997
Article: "Juggling Act: How to Balance Your Business and Family" by Carolyn Campbell
 

TV/Radio

 
Show: How to Succeed in Business
Broadcast: 1/15/97
Segment: Live Q&A format

 

Show: Computer Chronicles
Broadcast: 1/26/99
Segment: Parenting
Show: Fox on Psychology
Broadcast: 3/21/97
Segment: On the psychology of working at home
Show: Call for Help!
Broadcast: 2/10/99
Segment: Creating a Family-Friendly Home Office
Show: Metro Money
Broadcast: Fall/1998
Segment: Home Business
Show: Your Money
Broadcast: 1996
Segment: Work-at-Home Parents
Show: Metro Money
Broadcast: Fall/1998
Segment: Home Business
 
Featured Radio:
  • CBS Radio Network: How to Raise et. al. was the featured "Small Business Minute," aired on affiliate stations nationwide, 3/19/97
  • Wall Street Journal's "Work and Family" show hosted by Sue Schellenbarger, early 1998
  • Paul & Sarah Edwards' Working From Home Show, 1/26/97
Partial List of Radio Interviews:
  • WYLO-FM, 4/3/97
  • WCMX, 4/9/97
  • WUFY-FM, 4/28/97
  • KCMX-AM, 4/9/97
  • WAYM-FM, 4/16/97
  • WBNR-AM, 3/31/97
  • WWDM-FM, 3/4/97
  • SBZT-AM, 3/6/97
  • WTTM-AM, 3/6/97
  • BNN, 3/6/97
  • WBZT, 3/9/97
  • WWJ, 1/29/97
  • WPHM, 1/23/97
  • KWLN, 2/5/97
  • KCEO-AM, 1/28/97

 

 
Newspapers
 
Los Angeles Times
Issue: 11/4/98
Article: "For 'Mamapreneurs,' Industry Begins at Home"
Author: Marla Dickerson
Christian Science Monitor
Issue: 4/13/98
Article: "Mom's New Ballgame: Career at Home" Author: Shelley Donald Coolidge
Newsday
Issue: 3/22/98
Feature Article: "A Rough Ride: Families seek to cope with work/life pressures"
Author: Patricia Kitchen
CT Post
Issue: 4/27/97
Feature Womanwise Article: "Taking care of business -- and the kids"
Author: Alix Boyle

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Issue: 6/28/98
Feature Article: "Doing Their Home Work: It's a juggling act to combine job, child rearing under one roof"
Author: Bill Lohmann

The Augusta Chronicle

Issue: 6/15/97
Article: "Business in the house: Juggling key to work at home"
Author: Donna W. Rogers
 
Web sites
 
SCORE Workshops:
Web Hot Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
Business Week: Connections for Working Parents
Reader's Digest: Bringing Work Home
MSN's Women's Central:
Work at Home
ABC's of Parenting:
Work at Home
Info to Go:
Women Working at home web sites
Mining Co., Telecommuting:
Net Links/Family
iVillage, Work From Home: Web Site Reviews
Business Week Online: What Work-at-Home Parents Can Snag on the Net
Money Magazine Online
Date: 4/24/97
Event: Online Seminar on Compuserve
Oxygen Media
Position: Lisa Roberts was the "Homeward Bound" columnist & expert for ka-ching.com, and the "Home Office Politics" columnist for Moms Online, for 1.5 years
Claris Small Business Council of 1997
Position: Home Business Expert
 
Additional Mentions, Features & Reviews
 

General, Business & Parenting

The New York Times, Gannett Newspapers, The Houston Chronicle, The Plain Dealer, The Oregonian, The Charlotte Observer, The Indiana Sun, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Institute (Personal Technology), Wealth Builder, Income Opportunities, Nation's Business, Washington Family, Kid Connection, Boise Family Magazine, Pittsburgh Child, Tulsa Kids, Staten Island Parent, Little Rock Family Magazine, Georgia Parenting Magazine, Connecticut Parent, Bay Area Parent, Long Island Parenting News, The Mother is Me, County Kids

Special Interest

Female Forum, La Leche League, Publisher's Weekly, Family Christian Bookclub, Christian Home School, MyBusiness, Maryland Women, Accounting Today, Business@Home, Home Business News, The Connector, At Home, Fairfield Minuteman, Backhome Magazine, Simple Living News, Metro Home Parent, Working Families Magazine, Working Moms & Dads, Full-Time Dads, Self-Employed America, at Home at Work, Missouri Woman, Laughing Bear Newsletter

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