50 women who have made a positive difference to me - Eileen Turoff
2022 - On the?50th?anniversary of Title IX, I have been and will continue to shine?a?light on?50?women who have been amazing teachers, thereby affecting my?sports?career as well as the careers of other?women and men in sport.?
Eileen Turoff:??Home-based businesses need great neighbors?
In 1990 I was simultaneously a nascent small home-business owner and mother.??I juggled my time in my home between interviewing candidates on a portable phone for sports jobs and entertaining a fussy baby.?The mute button was handy when my son started to cry.
My next-door neighbor Eileen Turoff had raised three children and was running an English Language School.?She’s since been an English teacher at Ursuline College and John Carroll University.???Eileen?has an amazing sense of humor and practicality.????
One day I was changing my son's diaper when he wriggled off the bed and hit the carpet with a thud. It sounded like I dropped a bowling ball.????He started to wail!? I scooped him up.??Finding?no bump or blood, I?raced out the door to Eileen’s house and?barged in with this screaming baby in my arms.? Eileen, undisturbed, was calmly knitting in her living room.??She peered over her half-glasses.?
“I dropped him on the floor!”??I screamed.??“Is he broken?”?Eileen stood up calmly, checked him over, and smiled, “If he’s screaming, he’s fine.”?Then she went back to her knitting.
Whew!?Thank heavens I had a great neighbor to help me juggle my dual responsibilities.
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