Leslie Morgan Steiner wrote Mommy Wars, a best-selling and controversial book filled with essays by stay-at-home and working moms, talking about their lives, choices, and struggles. Leslie now writes a great blog for the Washington Post called On Balance. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and three young children. Leslie has done a lot of research into the issues - personal, societal, professional - facing moms today and she highlights a few of her findings in this interview. She also offers great perpectives, supported by her research, for moms looking to get back into their careers after taking time off to take care of their kids.

Dawn Perry is a District Sales Representative for Amgen Inc., a pharmaceutical company. She lives in New York City and has two young children, a six month-old and a three year-old. Dawn shares some great and specific ideas about what helps her successfully get through her day, talks frankly about how her relationship with her colleagues changed after she became a mom, and how she deals with the ever-present feeling of guilt.