When Joan Goldner became a mom, she joined the ranks of mothers everywhere who struggle to keep up with demands of work and family life. She had been using a hand-written column format of tracking and coordinating her time-sensitive business projects, and when she first had to leave childcare instructions for her husband and then the babysitter, she just added another column, named for her son Jake. And thus the award-winning - and now bestselling - BusyBodyBook Weekly GRID format was conceived.

Joan is philosophical about why families are so busy today. "We have so many options today," she says of the migration of more and more moms into the workplace over the last three decades, "and now we have SO much to do and much TOO little time. But our priority is our family and we need better tools to find the time to spend quality with them while we manage everything else."

The fact that busy moms are forever multi-tasking and having to re-prioritize their time convinced Joan that her column format could help other moms gain control of their schedules and hopefully find a bit of time for themselves and more time to spend with their families.

Originally from New York City, Joan now resides with her family in South Orange, New Jersey, where she brings her love of people, business and organization to the BusyBodyBook line of products.