All Figured Out with Andrea Barr: Figuring Out Work, Life and Parenting

This episode was inspired by and Instagram story I shared about skipping a dinner party I really wanted to go to and how I KNEW before the photos came out, that I’d made the right call. So many of you reached out wanting more about this topic that I had to record an episode as fast as I could. We're talking about FOMO: what it actually is, why it gets so much heavier and more layered once you...

A note on this episode → weight loss is a topic that can be triggering, and that's not lost on us. If today's episode isn't for you right now, it’s more than okay to skip this one. If you're in a season where food, body image, or weight feels like more than you can carry alone, visit nedic.ca for a free national helpline, and a directory of local providers. Weight loss has become a taboo topic, so...

There's a phase of working motherhood that is underrepresented, everyone talks about the birth announcement, the first day back, but no one talks about all the messy stuff in between. We're talking about finding out you're pregnant three months into a new job. Being diagnosed with HELLP syndrome at 38 weeks and having your baby under general anesthesia in the span of 12 hours. Going of...

Okay, genuinely one of my favourite recordings. Lauren Naderi is one of my oldest friends — we’ve known each other since grade five, all-girls school in Ontario, class of 35. This is her first time on the show, and we are officially launching what I’m calling the “yap” format: no agenda, no lesson plan, just two millennial moms talking about the stuff that’s actually on our minds. Lauren is a desi...

🥞🥂JOIN THE BREAKFAST CLUB MEMBERSHIP: https://luma.com/allfiguredout   Andrea takes you behind the scenes of her birthday Breakfast Club event in West Vancouver — 22 women, a DJ, mimosas, and a surprisingly powerful exercise. She walks you through the timeline + vision board activity she's been using with 1:1 coaching clients for years, and now finally brought to a group setting. It’s a way...

The day before her 36th birthday, Andrea hits record alone and gets honest about the year that quietly changed everything. She made less money in coaching than she has in years — and has never felt more sure of herself. In this episode, she reflects on the four questions she was unknowingly working through all year, what happened in a somatic therapy session the day before turning 36, and why she&...

1:1 STRATEGY SESSIONS ARE NOW OPEN.  Book yours → ⁠ https://calendly.com/andreabarrcoaching/strategy-session ⁠ The life you’ve already lived is the most valuable thing you’ll bring to it. Kristin Constable is a business strategist, certified leadership coach, and founder of Soulful CEO®. She has been in Andrea's corner for over a decade, and was the one who opened the door to coaching, entrepr...

🚨 1:1 STRATEGY SESSIONS ARE NOW OPEN.  Book yours! Jenn Wint built her PR business 13 years before working from home was cool, and when she had her son, she had no access to mat leave, no childcare plan, and a newborn who needed open heart surgery. In this episode, Jenn shares her experience of entrepreneurship through pregnancy, a NICU stay, postpartum anxiety, and the slow, surprising arrival o...

🚨 1:1 STRATEGY SESSIONS ARE NOW OPEN.  Book yours → https://calendly.com/andreabarrcoaching/strategy-session   Libby Ward has been known as "The Honest Mom" since 2020, when she joined TikTok on a whim and started sharing about the realities of motherhood thinking no one would find her. To her surprise, over two million women were waiting for exactly that. Now she's a writer, speake...

Alexandra Perel-Winkler is very proud of her MD title, she went to Columbia and worked hard for it, but she still decided to walk away from her prestigious research career to become a soul-centered coach and medicine woman. She’s the founder of The Mystic Medicine, where she explores what it looks like to bridge the gap between science and spirit. In this episode, Alexandra shares about her journe...

What happens when the woman who triggers you becomes your person? Christine Coughlin and Emily Shimwell get radically honest about jealousy, competition, and the late-night voice note that not only started a friendship, but changed how both of them think about collaboration. In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro (00:01:13) “The Women Who Trigger Us” and who inspired it (00:03:10) Collaboration...

TRIGGER WARNING: Eating disorders mentioned in the episode.  Picture this: dinner time and you’re already dreading sitting at the dinner table, because you know you’re going to be stressed about your kid not eating enough protein, or being picky about what they want, even though they probably ate that chicken nugget 2 days ago, and loved it, but today is another struggle. Today, I’m sitting down w...

We just got back from two and a half weeks in Florida, and I'm recording this while it's still fresh — cold from the plane and all. This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at what actually made this family vacation feel like rest: the prep hacks that kept Scotty and me from arriving at the airport annoyed at each other, the Instacart move that meant zero store runs for 10 days, and the al...

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Some episodes age like fine wine and this is one of them. Jessica Moorhouse (Accredited Financial Counsellor, bestselling author of Everything But Money, and host of the More Money Podcast) joined Andrea for one of the most honest, warm, and genuinely useful conversations this show has ever had about money. Jessica shares about the feelings, the stories, and even the stuff we inherited without rea...

Shannon Pruitt built not one but two businesses from scratch — the first while teaching full-time, the second with a six-month-old in her lap. After nearly selling her wedding planning business for six figures, she found herself at a kitchen table with her husband, a newborn, and a blank slate. And that was how Sunday Muse was born, a brand strategy and design studio that fits her lifestyle, and t...

I’m not afraid to say that I have a complicated relationship with time, from when I was working in corporate, to mat leave, to running my own business. Time is something that I’m always finding new ways to make the most of. In this episode, I’m sharing the calendar reset I’m committing to taking a long overdue family vacation. This doesn’t mean that I’ll have a rigid system, or a perfect solution,...

Have you ever wondered what it would take to go from burned-out corporate climber to grounded, present mom — not because life got easier, but because you finally learned to regulate yourself through the hard stuff? In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Hooey, life coach and author of The Goldie Effect , who shares how her signature 15-Minute Rewrite method was born in the most unlikely place:...

In this episode with Julia Bitter, a registered nurse and holistic nurse coach, talks about career resilience, how she used every setback to build a career she actually loves, and why your body might be trying to tell you something. If you’re a parent dealing with something chronic (pain, migraines, autoimmune, fatigue, etc.) and you feel like you’re at the mercy of your body or the healthcare sys...

Is it possible to survive trauma, burnout, and relentless transitions, and emerge more grounded, more powerful, and more truly yourself?  Internal leadership coach and nervous system strategist Erika Latta offers her own life as proof.  Her story is a non-linear path: from growing up in a Texas trailer with a father who was a Vietnam veteran and a heroin addict, to enlisting in the Air Force at 17...

What if the "wrong" turns, the detours, and the jobs that made zero sense were actually building something extraordinary all along? Tasneem Damji — educator, career coach for students, and mother of two — unpacks a nonlinear career path that spans continents, cultures, and decades. All of us at some point have looked at our lives and thought how does any of this connect?, this conversati...

Digital strategist and soon-to-be author, Tianna Mamalick built her business in the wake of unimaginable grief.  In this episode, Andrea and Tianna share about motherhood, entrepreneurship, loss, and what it actually looks like to go all in on yourself when life forces your hand. Tianna opens up about leaving the corporate world after having her son, finding confidence through freelancing, navigat...

GET JENNICA DAY’S BOOK → You Need a (Better) Vacation https://amzn.to/3ZMe6cG   How many times have you caught yourself saying "I need a vacation from my vacation"? That's probably because you're vacationing wrong, and Jennica Day is here to debunk some vacationing myths that genuinely blew my mind.  Jennica is a vacation expert, author, former international teacher, and mom of t...

Nikki Holekamp is a testament to resilience, creativity and advocacy. She is a trained pediatric occupational therapist, who had to use her skills, her voice and her written words to advocate for her son, Asher. In this conversation with Nikki, she shares about her life parenting a child with medical needs, how she’s advocating for him and teaching other kids, as well as her own daughter, that lif...

The REST Revolution thesis is that rest is not an activity, it's an approach to life that's rooted in worthiness. So rest isn't about doing less, it's about believing you're worthy regardless of what you accomplish. Coach and author Heather Boersma shares her journey from burnt out motivational speaker to discovering that rest is a foundational agreement with your own worthines...