Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms

Nicole felt like an imposter in her job. Even though she had been at her company for over a decade, her brain continued to tell her that she wasn’t good enough. She was convinced the only way to manage life as a working mom was to pull back in her career. But in coaching, she learned how to step back from the imposter voice and shift it into something positive. She started naming and believing wha...

After becoming a mom, I wrestled with the idea of quitting my job but felt trapped in golden handcuffs. I needed to feel sure that quitting was the right move, but I never felt 100% certain. It took a year of soul searching to feel the inner peace to finally quit and in today's podcast I’m sharing how I got there. Topics in this episode: What it takes to feel “certain” about your decisions Why mak...

We spend over a third of our awake life working. So, having a job that you want to go to every day is important, but is it necessary for creating work-life balance? If it is true , then you might just be chasing a perfect set of circumstances that will never exist. In this podcast I will share why a fulfilling job is NOT in fact required when creating a life that feels balanced and talk you throug...

Erika is a past client who recently implemented the belief that achieving more does not mean working more. As a recovering “hyper-doer”, Erika always tried to fit one more thing in and check one more thing off her list which caused her to always feel exhausted and overworked. Today, Erika has learned how to contain her work so that she (and her brain) stop working at whatever time she chooses. In...

Family is your #1 priority, but are you actually prioritizing them? Is your work getting your best self while your family gets the leftovers? In this episode I’m spilling the truth about what a boundary is and what it takes to create them between work and home. There are 3 things that are keeping you from holding to your boundaries, people pleasing, perfectionism and hyper-doing and I will explain...

When someone is moving from an imbalanced life to a balanced life, they go through 5 stages. In today's episode I'm going to walk you through each of those five stages so that you can see the whole process, be able to self-identify which stage you are in and understand what it takes to move from one stage to the next. Topics in this episode: What are the 5 stages of balance? Why do we move through...

In this interview with Marriage coach Maggie Reyes, we discuss what to do when it feels like you are handling all the household responsibilities. We discuss how to talk to your spouse about sharing the family load, why it all seems to fall to you in the first place, and debunk the patriarchal idea that women are better equipped to manage the house. Topics in this episode: How to deal with the cult...

Building off of last week’s episode on growing your confidence, in today’s podcast I am giving you access to the first day of a 4-day training I offered called 3 Confidence Building Strategies for Working Moms. In day 1 of the training I give an overview of why so many working moms feel a dip in confidence after they become moms and give you the do’s and don’ts of trying to regain it. Topics in th...

In today’s episode I am breaking down the #1 strategy to growing confident: increasing your self-belief. At a foundational level, confidence is simply believing in yourself and in this podcast, I want to show you two things you can do to build up that confidence: take control of negative thinking & learn to think intentionally good thoughts about yourself. Get your pen handy, because I give yo...

Erin is on the executive leadership team at a marketing firm and through coaching went from feeling burnt out and overwhelmed as a working mom to feeling calm and balanced. In this interview Erin speaks of how her identity, before her daughter was born, was found in her career and what it took for her to separate herself from her job so she could make the necessary changes to leave work at work, t...

You are a better mom because you work, your kids are better because you work and your work is getting a better employee because you're a mom. These three core beliefs are at the heart of achieving an ambitious and balanced life. In today’s podcast I will breakdown how each of these three beliefs are true and give detailed evidence for why and how to start believing them. Topics in this episode: Wh...

Laura graduated from coaching a year ago and took everything she learned to finally leave a job that she no longer enjoyed to follow her dream. She shares about how pivotal naming her purpose was in the journey, how overcoming perfectionism was essential and what it took for her to invest in her future happiness. Laura highlights several coaching tools that were essential in her journey and names...

Your purpose in life and your job are not one in the same, but they are deeply connected. Your career must feel purposeful if you are going to create a balanced life. In this podcast I will talk about the journey to discover my life’s purpose and how it informed my career decisions. I will breakdown 5 truths about your purpose and discuss what you need to do if your career has lost its motivation....

Tune in this week to discover the importance of self-compassion. Instead of beating yourself up and stuffing your emotions away when you fail, feel inadequate or face hardship, I will teach you how to treat yourself with kindness. There are two cycles women get stuck in when they feel inadequate, and I will explain how to identify and ultimately get yourself out of them so that you can keep moving...

Self-care is an important part of staying sane as working moms and yet for many women it is extremely hard to do. We just simply aren’t the priority. In this episode I will share the secret to unlocking how to prioritize yourself. There is just one thing that separates women who are able to prioritize themselves and women who are not. Topics in this episode: • The truth about what it takes to prio...

Experiencing a dip in confidence after motherhood is normal. Learning to care for an infant is a brand-new experience for most women that leaves them questioning – will I be any good at this? In this episode I will breakdown why confidence wanes after motherhood and give 3 specific ways to increase it. Topics in this episode: • The truth about confidence • What most people think confidence is, whe...

Learning to unplug and turn off your work brain at the end of a workday or on a weekend is an important skill when creating a balanced life. Our brains crave rest and unplugging from email and notifications is one of the easiest ways to achieve that. But, of course, it is much harder said than done. Unplugging from work is not easy for many ambitious women and so in this episode I will dive into w...

Disappointment is not what you think it is. It's not something you want to avoid, it's not something that says you're doing something wrong, it's not something that indicates you're not good enough or you're not capable. Disappointment is actually in an emotion that ambitious women experience when they go after big things. It's an emotion that we actually want to have around because it tells us we...

Before kids our ambitions were focused on our career. But after kids, our goals seem to change. Success is no longer just about our career, it's about being a great mom as well. And those two things can often feel like complete opposites. In this podcast I will to talk about the shifts that are required when we set a new ambitious goal of having both a successful career AND a happy home life. I wi...

This week on the podcast we are addressing the #1 thing working moms need freedom from: guilt. Guilt is the emotion that shows up when you feel you aren’t a good enough mom. Most working moms never question guilt. They assume that they don’t have any control over it. So today we are going to take a stand against guilt. I will address what guilt actually is, where it comes from, how to create your...

The length of your to-do list is often a source of anxiety. When the to-do list is short you feel productive and good about yourself, but when the to-do list is long you feel inadequate and overwhelmed. But the length of your to-do list doesn't actually determine how you feel. It doesn't determine how accomplished you are. Your to-do list is neutral. When you create a balanced life, you have to fe...

Work and rest are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. The single best productivity tool you have is REST. In today's episode I'm going to be making the connection between rest and productivity, explaining exactly what needs to happen for you to become more productive and then ultimately give you 2 ways to get your brain on board with rest so you can use it as a tool for getting more done. Do les...

In today’s interview with time hacking expert Vikki Louise, we call B.S. on the thought, “I don’t have enough time”. We talk all about how “more time” never creates faster or better results, the #1 thing that gets in the way of optimizing our time and she leaves us with 3 hacks to help us not just be more productive but change our experience of time so that we feel more present and enjoy the time...

In today's episode we're going to talk about enoughness. This is the belief that you are enough and that you're doing enough. A balanced life is a life where you don't constantly feel like you should be doing more. A balanced life is a life that doesn't feel like you're lacking anything. A balanced life is a life of enough. So today I'm going to focus on three “not enough” thoughts that are causin...

In this in this week's episode I’m focusing on what it takes to be present. A balanced life is a present life. You want to be present for all the milestones that your kids will meet. You want to be present for the successes that you experience in your job. You want to experience all of the joy that comes from the life that you're creating. Oftentimes ambitious working moms struggle with being so p...