Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms

For many working moms “having it all” feels like an impossible promise where a meaningful career and life as a mom somehow feel balanced. The problem is, most women don’t have an accurate understanding of what “having it all” means and so they are chasing a life that doesn’t exist which ultimately leads to burn out. Today, I am setting the record straight. I am sharing exactly what “having it all”...

You’re ready to walk out of your office and then…a last-minute request comes in. What do you? Do you leave anyway and risk letting people down or do you stay and compromise on your priorities. In today’s episode I share the truth about this moment and why it is so difficult to follow through with your boundaries and I offer a 4-step process to handling the emotions that come up with last minute re...

You don’t need to lower your standards in order to create work-life balance and you don’t need to settle for B+ work. Instead you need to reprioritize; to trade off being available to your coworkers to being available to your family. To trade off feeling 100% prepared for every meeting and presentation to being 75% prepared and trusting yourself for the rest. In today’s podcast I will share with y...

Achievement, success, and recognition are all values that many women don’t like to admit are important to them. But the problem is not that these values are bad or wrong, it’s that they’re not balanced with rest, leisure and fun. In today’s podcast, I share why each of these values are important to your success as a working mom and what it will take to find balance while striving for them. Topics...

Hope is a requirement if you’re going to reach your goals as a working mom. When you feel fueled with hope you are able to problem solve, troubleshoot and remain on track toward your goals but when you feel hopeless, you spin in disbelief, impossibility and feel immobilized by challenges. In today’s episode I am sharing two very specific examples of what it looks like to go after your goals when y...

Letting your body experience good emotions like joy, success and pleasure does not come naturally, in fact, it takes practice. In today’s episode, sex coach Danielle Savory shares about why it is hard for women to receive pleasure and some simple ways to do it. In this interview, we discuss creating a safe place to experience good feelings, the impact it will have when you let those good feelings...

Letting your body experience good emotions like joy, success and pleasure does not come naturally, in fact, it takes practice. In today’s episode, sex coach Danielle Savory shares about why it is hard for women to receive pleasure and some simple ways to do it. In this interview, we discuss creating a safe place to experience good feelings, the impact it will have when you let those good feelings...

It’s OK for your kids to be unhappy. It’s OK for them to cry uncontrollably when you leave them. Your kids are allowed to feel whatever they want to feel because it doesn’t mean that you’re a bad parent. When you try to make sure your kids are always happy, it leaves you feeling exhausted and out of balance because you are trying to control something (or someone) that is ultimately uncontrollable....

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...

Advocating for yourself is a skill. It is something that you can learn and practice. Advocating for yourself creates confidence, motivation and helps you have effective conversations with your boss. In today’s episode, I am sharing 4 tips to effectively advocate for yourself and I will share the most common reasons women find it challenging. Topics in this episode: Advocating is something that can...

Why is celebrating so hard for ambitious women? In today’s episode, I discuss my personal challenges with celebrating but why it is so important to do anyway. I will share the latest research on celebrating and how it helps create natural motivation and good feels toward yourself and your job and give you some very practical ways to make celebrations easy and fun…oh and…did I mention we will celeb...

Have you ever caught yourself scrolling when you should be laser focused on a project? Or checking email while also playing a game with your kids? Or doing 1 last task when trying to get out the door? How do you correct course when you catch yourself doing the thing you are not supposed to be doing - in other words, living in default mode. In today’s episode, I share a tool to help you move out of...

Self-care can often feel like a little break from the daily grind. But effective self-care that has you feeling rested and filled up for long periods of time is not found in getting your nails done or finding regular “me-time”. Instead, effective self-care is about caring for your emotional and mental health. In today’s episode, I will share 7 ways to practice effective self-care, that will create...

Most of us use the filter “can I afford it?” when making money decisions which leaves us feeling powerless when it comes to buying the life we want. But how much we make and how we spend our money is entirely in our control. In today’s podcast I interview money coach Nicole Stork-Hestad, who shares her mindset around money and money decisions. We talk about how to leverage debt, the discomfort of...

On today’s episode I am sharing 5 must-have mindsets if you want to create a life that feels balanced because a life a life that feels balanced starts in your mind. We like to think that if we just control how much we work or when we check email, that magically we will feel more present and content, but in reality, our mindset is the first thing that needs to change. These 5 simple mindsets are wh...

A balanced life is a life of WANT-to. It’s a life that feels purposeful, motivating, fun and even easy. An unbalanced life is a life of HAVE-to. It’s a life that feels hard, forceful, and exhausting. Two women might have a very similar life with similar responsibilities but one will feel balanced because everything in their life feels like a choice – like a WANT to and the other will feel imbalanc...

The most common time to set goals is at the beginning of a new year. But yet, almost 25% will quit on their goals before the end of January. I don’t want this for you! I want you to achieve everything you want this year and in your life, so today in the podcast, I am sharing with you exactly you need to do in order to expedite your results and almost guarantee them (ok, it’s only 95% guaranteed, b...

No one would argue that 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. But it’s not like we don’t know what we need to do in order to prioritize ourselves, it’s that we aren’t doing it. In this episode I want to share with you the secret to unlocking how to prioritize yourself and give you the tr...

Today on the podcast I’m sharing exactly what you need to do in the first 15 minutes of your workday to be the most productive and effective with your time. I call it a home-to-work transition. This is time you set aside to prepare your head and heart for the workday ahead so that as soon as you start, you feel focused, present and ready to hit the ground running. There are two parts in a good hom...

There is a purging tool I use that helps me let go of negative thoughts and emotions. It helps bring perspective and makes me feel lighter when life feels heavy, hard, overwhelming or confusing. I call it: a thought download. This tool has been life-changing for me and today I will breakdown exactly when and how to use this tool so that all those negative thoughts and emotions don’t follow you aro...

Amanda wanted to make more confident decisions. She is a working mom of 2 and was passionate about her job but she had an overactive brain that constantly told her she wasn’t doing enough or she was doing it wrong. She came to coaching to end the second guessing. She wanted to learn how to trust herself and her priorities. In this interview we discuss exactly what it took for Amanda to become a co...

If you feel held back or stuck in your career because you are a mom and you are not in a family friendly company, you have 3 options: stay, fight or leave. The problem is all these options feel hard. In today’s podcast I breakdown exactly what to do if you find yourself in a company that is not family friendly. I walk you through your options and help you determine exactly which one is right for y...

The fastest way to get to the balanced and fulfilling working mom life you desire is to love your current working mom life. When you need something to change, you feel dependent on it for happiness. When you feel satisfied and happy with the life you already have, you feel more confident in yourself and your ability to navigate through any changes you desire. In today’s episode, I am explaining wh...

At some point in your journey to having a fulfilling and balanced working mom life, you are going to feel stuck. You are going to know what you need to do but have a hard time doing it because it feels hard or uncomfortable. That is obstinance. Obstinance is the strong desire for something without a willingness to do the hard thing to make it happen. Today on the podcast, I will talk about the dif...

Most working moms think time-management is the key to work-life balance. If you could just learn how to achieve more in less time, then you won’t feel so stressed and overwhelmed, right? In today’s episode, I will share with you why work-life balance is not a time management problem and instead, offer 3 alternatives to the problem with a first step solution for each. Topics in this episode: 3 alte...