Your Utmost Life

Get your free Identity Starter Kit here: yourutmost.com/starter Think about the last day you really felt like yourself. Maybe it was a slow Saturday with coffee on the porch, and by evening you caught yourself thinking, today felt like me. Then Monday came, and by Wednesday that version of you was gone again. If you’ve ever felt like you only get to be yourself on the rare good days, this episode...

  Get your free Identity Starter Kit here : yourutmost.com/starter   Pull up your calendar for tomorrow and look for your name, not next to a task, but on a block of time that belongs to you. If you can’t find it, you’ve probably been telling yourself the same thing for a while: My day is just full. That’s this season of life. And some seasons are very real. A parent’s surgery. A daughter’s weddin...

Get your free Identity Starter Kit   You've set boundaries before. You meant them. You were proud of them.  Then someone you love had a real need, the line quietly disappeared, and you let it happen without ever deciding to. If you've started to wonder whether you're simply not the kind of woman who gets to have boundaries, this episode is for you. In this episode, Misty unpacks why...

You’d already decided. You told yourself this year would be different. And then the phone rang. If you’ve ever heard yourself say yes before you’d even decided, then spent the rest of the day replaying what you should have said, this episode is for you. This week we’re talking about the belief that keeps so many women stuck: next time, I’ll make the right call in the moment. It sounds like resolve...

Get Your Free Kit:  yourutmost.com/starter  You already know which one will lose tonight. The walk. The class. The hour that was supposed to be yours. It's on your calendar, and somewhere between four and six o'clock, it's going to quietly disappear. Not because anyone forced you to give it up. Because you handed it over before anyone even asked. If you've stood at that counter...

You're the one everybody counts on, the one who keeps the whole thing running, and you're proud of that. But somewhere in all the loving, providing, and showing up, you stopped including yourself. If you feel invisible in your own full life, this episode is for you. Every one of us has a rush season. For many of us, it's the holidays, but yours might be the start of a school year, a...

Something cancels, and suddenly you have three open hours in the middle of your day. By dinner they're gone, spent on laundry, texts, errands, and a longer scroll than you'd admit to anyone. You couldn't name one thing you did that was actually for you. And the thought that follows is so familiar it barely registers anymore: if I just had more time, I'd finally get to me. If yo...

🔗 Get your free Identity Starter Kit: yourutmost.com/starter You can run a meeting, lead a team, manage a household with more moving parts than most operations charts — and still not follow through on one small thing that was only for you. If that’s your Tuesday, this episode is for you. In this episode, Misty unpacks the question ambitious mothers keep asking themselves — what’s wrong with me? —...

You can rehearse the perfect boundary 100 times and still lose it in the exact moment you need it most. When someone pushes back, looks hurt, or asks “why is this such a big deal?”, the script that sounded so strong in your car suddenly feels flimsy in real life. We get into why that happens, and why chasing better wording keeps you trapped in a loop of apologizing, over-explaining, and replaying...

Have you ever poured yourself a cup of coffee, and before you could get it to your lips, someone had already added three things to your day? You love your family deeply. You show up. You give everything. And somehow, somewhere between everyone's needs and expectations, you stopped making it onto your own list. That's not a scheduling problem. It's not a willpower problem. And it&apo...

You know that weird, sinking moment when you're handling dinner, schedules, forms, and everyone's needs and then realize you forgot yourself again? That isn't forgetfulness. It's what happens when one person becomes the household's brain and the whole family runs on her memory. If you're the one who remembers every appointment, tracks the pantry, knows which form is d...

If someone asked you right now who you are, underneath wife, mother, daughter, the one everyone counts on, could you answer? Most women can't. Not because they're lost. Because nobody ever asked them to look. In this episode, I'm giving you an actual answer. Not just an idea to sit with, a real framework for finding the woman you've been missing, and staying connected to her, s...

There's a voice that's been running your life quietly for years. She sounds completely reasonable. She reminds you about the dishes before you take a walk. She talks you out of twenty minutes for yourself before you even ask for them. She's not loud. She's just always there, and she's why you keep ending up last, even on your own list. In this episode, she finally gets a n...

There's a fear most ambitious mothers never say out loud, not even to themselves: what if I actually find her again, and she doesn't fit the life I've built? What if being more of myself costs me the people I love most?  We walk through why this fear is not irrational. When a family has built expectations around the version of you who adapts, overfunctions, and rarely takes up space...

"I don't have time for this right now" sounds like a neutral fact, but for so many ambitious mothers it's a mask. We've all watched ourselves rearrange an entire day for someone else's appointment, crisis, or request, then swear we can't find 15 minutes for a walk, a book, a class, or even basic health. That gap isn't a time management failure. It's a s...

Feeling numb in a life that looks “fine” on paper can be one of the loneliest experiences, especially when you’re the one holding everyone else together.  Invisible in rooms filled with people you love? Or like you’re going through the motions of your life instead of actually living it? You’ve tried everything you’re “supposed” to do to feel like yourself again, journaling, taking a night off, reo...

The scariest part of "losing yourself" isn't the chaos. It's how normal everything looks while you quietly disappear inside your own life. If you're the capable, ambitious mother who keeps the family running, manages the calendar like a project plan, and can sense what everyone needs before they say it, this conversation puts words to the moment you go blank when someone a...

If you've tried before, the early mornings, the habit trackers, the "I just need more discipline", and watched it all fall apart, you've probably filed that away as proof about yourself. It isn't. It's proof about where you started. In this episode, we name the real reason past attempts didn't hold: they started at behavior instead of identity. And we walk throug...

There is a voice in your head that has been talking you out of your own life for a long time. And what makes it so dangerous is not that it sounds harsh or cruel, it sounds like wisdom, responsibility and the realistic version of you. But it is lying to you. In this episode, I am giving you the exact words to say back. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE: We are taking on three lies, the ones th...

Have you ever looked up from a life that looks full, good marriage, kids you love, work that matters, and felt completely hollow? Like you're doing all the things but missing yourself somewhere inside all of it? That is what we are talking about today. She was a researcher who spent a decade studying wholehearted living and realized one day she was not living a single thing on her own list. W...

If you start strong on Monday and by Thursday you don't recognize what happened to the week, this episode is for you. Not because something is wrong with you. Because nobody ever helped you build a week that was actually designed around your life, your identity, and your season. In this episode, you will learn why momentum is not a feeling; it is a structure. You will discover the two tools t...

You have been managing everything for everyone. And somewhere in the process, your one thing, the goal that's just yours, has been sitting at the bottom of a list that never comes. One clear decision can pull you out of the fog faster than another year of trying to do everything. When you stop and choose one bold goal with a real timeline, something shifts inside you first: you stop waking up...

 You've been telling yourself it's the circumstances. The kids still need you. Your husband leans on you. Your parents are aging into needing you too. The money is real. The exhaustion is real. The calendar is genuinely full. You are not wrong about any of that. But here is the thing nobody has said to you clearly enough yet: the circumstances are the facts. The story you're telling...

If you've been feeling hollow, flat, or like you're going through the motions of a life you chose but can't fully inhabit, or if you've caught yourself saying "I'm fine" automatically, before you've even checked if it's true, this episode will help you understand why. And what it's actually costing you. Today, we're exploring the two words tha...

When was the last time you did something, anything, purely because you needed it? Not because it made you a better mom. Not because you could justify it for someone else's benefit. Just because you are a human being with needs that matter. If that question made you uncomfortable, this episode is for you. There is a belief that has been quietly running the lives of so many women who love deepl...