Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms

Balance is a feeling. It is not found in a perfect set of circumstances, it is found inside your body. This is an important distinction to make because the process to creating balance isn’t found in changing your job or working less hours, it’s found in you. You are in control of creating a balanced life and it is only possible when you are feeling confident in yourself and your work. This is part...

Coaching is a process of not just finding balance right now, it’s about figuring out how to create it from here on out. On today’s podcast I am interviewing a past client, Ali Gorsuch, who stopped coaching with me over a year and half ago, but the impact of coaching has had a lasting effect. In this interview Ali speaks about how the coaching we did back in 2019 helped her to get a recent promotio...

To become a confident decision maker, you have to start making decisions in a different way. There are 4 distinctions that separate confident decision makers that ensure they don’t procrastinate, people please or perfect (the enemies of all decisions). In today’s podcast I will cover each of the distinctions and why they are so important. Topics in this episode: Confident decision making does not...

Career happiness is an important part of creating work-life balance. And for many working moms, this leads them to consider making a change in their career. But change feels scary and they got lost in the options and the “what-ifs”. The reason for this, is because they are going about the career change in the wrong way. As a coach for working moms I have a specific method I use to help my clients...

Emotions are not meant to be avoided…they’re meant to be felt. When you give yourself space to feel your emotions, they don’t linger as long, you feel more in control of them and you don’t allow them to build up to an explosion. In today’s episode I am sharing 7 truths about emotions and how to give yourself space to feel them. Topics in this episode: My journey out of being a feeling avoider Why...

As a working mom your brain is likely always "on". You are constantly thinking about the things that need to get accomplished and the decisions that need to be made. For my client Cathy, these constant to-do’s, the second-guessing of herself, the need to make sure she bought the right products and was always prepared…this constant chatter in her head was preventing her from being happy and present...

There is a secret to feeling confident. To prioritizing your own needs. To feeling in control of your time and turning off your work brain at the time that you want. There is a secret to getting out of procrastination and learning how to make more decisive decisions. You ready for it? The secret is learning how to self-validate. In other words, to stop needing someone else to tell you that you’re...

Today I’m sharing a transformative belief: I’m exactly where I should be. Imagine believing that in the midst of failure, you’re exactly where you should be or at the end of a work-day when you checked nothing off your list, you’re exactly where you should be. Even when you are wishing you were further along in your career, you’re still exactly where you should be. This thought is available to you...

The most important relationship in your life is the one that you have with yourself. The way you treat yourself, either makes you feel really good or it makes you feel inadequate and like an imposter. In today’s episode, I’ll share what a healthy (and unhealthy) relationship with yourself looks like and discuss challenges that women face when they try to let go of self-doubt and negative self-talk...

We all want big things in our life. We want jobs that are fulfilling, careers that are meaningful and lives that feel balanced. But when it comes to making decisions to go after those big things, that’s where women get stuck. In today’s podcast, I’m talking about why women get stuck in indecision. I’ll share about why it took me so long to make the big decision to become a coach and how I was able...

Your brain craves certainty when making decisions. It wants to know you’re getting it “right”. But often times that feeling of certainty can feel illusive, almost magical, and certainly not anything you can control. But certainty is just a feeling, and like any other feeling, it comes from the way you think. In today’s podcast I’m sharing with you how to cultivate certainty when making decisions,...

Many ambitious career driven women experience guilt because they love what they do and sometimes they like it more than being with their kids. Our culture says that our maternal instincts should be stronger than anything else, but for some that isn’t the case (hence the guilt). On today’s episode, I talk about why it’s OK to love what you do and why it makes sense that it’s more interesting than y...

Women want to feel fulfilled in their job, especially if they are going to leave their baby to go do it. For many women, motherhood is a transition where the question “What is my purpose?” resurfaces as they manage the push and pull of work and motherhood. But there are a lot of misconceptions about defining your purpose. When you truly understand what your purpose is and what it is not, it become...

Let’s talk about overwhelm. Overwhelm doesn’t just happen to us. It’s an emotion our brain uses to communicate important questions. When we see overwhelm as a sign to stop and talk to our brains about what is causing the overwhelm, we can learn how to leverage it, instead of feeling bogged down by it. In this episode I will walk you through the 3 steps to leveraging overwhelm so you can feel more...

What big goals do you have for yourself? Do you want to make a certain amount of money? Do you want to reach a certain level in your career? Maybe you want to be a stay at home mom. Getting in tune with what it is you really want and then declaring that to yourself is an important part of having a regret free working mom life. In today’s episode I will be talking about declaring your dreams. I wil...

In today’s podcast I am interviewing Amy Beacom, author of the book The Parental Leave Playbook, which helps expecting parents take control of their transition into parenthood. Amy and her co-author break down the 3 phases and 10 stages every new parent goes through when taking parental leave and exactly how to navigate the transition with confidence and ease. In this interview we touch on the int...

If you were to write a resume for yourself as a mom, what would be on it? What would be your strengths, what would be your successes, how would you describe yourself as a worker? In today's episode we’re talking about you as a mom, specifically your beliefs about yourself as a mom. When you take the time to name who you are as a mom and what makes you good, work and mom life stop feeling so at odd...

At work, high achieving women are amazing at meeting goals, but when it comes to their personal life, they get stuck. Goals like balance, happiness and health feel almost unattainable. I've identified three reasons why high achieving women struggle to attain personal goals and in this episode I will speak about each of them and then offer a different way to approach personal goals so that you can...

There are three beliefs that are at the foundation of work-life balance. I am enough. I am doing enough. I am good enough. These three beliefs make up the Enough Triad. When you believe you have done enough, you stop working late. When you feel like you are good enough, you stop needing to please everyone. And when you believe you are enough, you stop trying to prove yourself. At the core of all i...

Today is a rebroadcast of an early episode that focuses on understanding your true value. Your value is not found in your career, it’s not found in being a mom, it’s not found in your successes or accomplishments….it’s not found in anything you do, but instead in who you are. Separating your accomplished value from your human value is essential in a balanced life because it ends the script that is...

There are many different perspectives you can have of your year. Some of them will leave you feeling dissatisfied and disappointed, and others will leave you feeling inspired and proud. Which perspective you choose is up to you. Perspective is a choice and as you look back on 2021 I want you to feel good about what you achieved and who you were. In this episode I will help you actively cultivate a...

Even if you love your job, you still want to have a life outside of work. In order to do that, you will need to learn how to shut down you work brain with your computer at the exact time you plan. In today’s episode I walk you through the 4 steps to leaving work ON-TIME. There is only one thing that gets in the way of you leaving work at the time you planned and when you learn how to deal with it…...

The holidays are chaotic times, but they can also be times of great joy and balance. It doesn't matter how many things you have to do during the holidays, it's how you feel in the midst of doing them. In today’s episode I want to focus on 3 strategies for cultivating balance in the midst of a busy holiday schedule. Using my own experience over the Thanksgiving week, I will walk you through how I w...

Everyone has opinions about the holidays and trying to manage everyone’s expectations creates a very exhausting and overwhelming holiday season. To feel present and balanced during the holidays you must be do things you want to do. You have two options when it comes to managing other’s expectations this holiday season and in this episode I will break down each of them. Own your holiday experience...

During the holidays there are often dozens of additional tasks that need to get done. And even though we want things to run smoothly, what we really desire is to be present. The holidays are a time of laughter, cozy conversations, good food and a warm house but often that need to get it “just right” takes away from our ability to be present. In this two part series I will breakdown the 3 most comm...