Rebecca Slaughter tries to be in bed by 8 p.m. One can hardly blame her for prioritizing sleep these days, considering she's a mom of four young kids with a demanding job as one of five commissioners heading the Federal Trade Commission, the country's largest consumer protection and antitrust enforcement agency.

"The answer to how I'm juggling it all is—poorly," Slaughter joked to Berkeley Law's Irene Liu at a webinar hosted by its executive education program. "Everything is a little bit chaotic all the time. My house is a mess. But my children are fed and healthy and happy—and mostly clean, even if their rooms are not."