I’m on the West Coast this week, meeting with members and media folks to talk about Angie’s List and to promote our national Lead Safety Tour, which kicks off this weekend in San Francisco and Indianapolis. It’s a great opportunity for service companies, do-it-yourselfers and parents to address an issue that we take very seriously here at Angie’s List: lead poisoning.

We’re offering the lead safety tour because we did a survey this summer to see how service professionals were dealing with lead issues. We found a third of the contractors we called were giving dangerous information. So we’re trying to raise awareness of the issue and offering training to help everyone deal with this serious issue in as safe a manner as possible.

I’m going to be away from home for a week; I’m traveling with my family (3 kids, my husband and my mom). It’s a bit hectic, but it’s been great.  Juggling my work with the travel and fun with the family reminds me that I wanted to mention a new group I’m hoping to talk with soon – the ManicMommies.

Manic Mommies was founded by Erin Kane and Kristin Brandt, two working moms who wanted to help other working mothers find great information and deal with the stress of juggling families, careers and personal lives. They’re planning a retreat, which they’re calling the Escape on November 9-11 in Newport, Rhode Island. They asked me to speak to one of their sessions, but I haven’t been able to work it into my schedule.

We’re working to get me on their podcast, though, so I’ll keep you up to date on that.

While I won’t be at the Escape in person, we’re sending some fun Angie’s List stuff and I hope to be with Erin and Kristin – one way another – very soon.