Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms

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...

Sara is following her dream! After being out of veterinarian school for just one year, she will be opening her own clinic. But this dream may never have happened, had it not been for coaching. Over the course of 6 months Sara learned to trust herself and end the constant internal questioning. She stopped thinking she needed the perfect plan to execute her dreams and instead learned to lean on her...

What do you do when you realize you are doing the very thing you don’t want to do? For example, you are distracted on your phone when with your kids, unable to shut down your work brain, saying yes to too many things, yelling at your kids or logging back on at night. How do you get yourself back on track? In this episode I am sharing 8 tools that take 2 minutes or less to help you reset so you can...

Today on the podcast, I interview Stacy Mayer, an executive coach and promotion strategist, on what it takes to advance your career as a working mom. During the interview we discuss the challenges that working moms face, some of the mindsets that hold them back and ultimately what it takes to take full control of your career trajectory. Topics in this episode: How opportunities have shifted for wo...

The motherhood identity crisis is the internal questioning that happens after you start having kids. “Who am I?” and “What do I want?” are fundamental questions that need to be answered in order for you to continue operating as an ambitious woman. In today’s podcast I am sharing with you two reasons why women experience an identity crisis after becoming a mom and what they can do to help themselve...

Hyper-doing is the overwhelming need to get one more thing done. Hyper-doing is one of the three most common overworking behaviors that cause working moms to prioritize work over rest because it has you focusing on doing more instead of being present and having fun. In today’s podcast, I will be sharing with you three practical ways to rewire your hyper-doing brain so that rest, adventures, deligh...

Perfectionism is at the root of many time-sucking imbalanced behaviors like indecision, overpreparing, and seeking validation. And it would be hard for you to experience the full joy of life and feel true balance without addressing your perfectionist tendencies. On today’s podcast I share with you the truth about perfectionism, what it is, exactly why you need to be working on it and I’ll give you...

People pleasing is a behavior that prevents women from experiencing work-life balance. It causes them to say yes to too many things, to not delegate, to work late and always be available. People pleasers don’t want anyone else to feel disappointed and so they avoid conflict at all costs. But people pleasing isn’t really what you think. In today’s podcast, I’m sharing the truth about people pleasin...