BEYOND: The Podcast for Moms Called to Business

Are you afraid of what the success of your business could mean for your life? We talk a lot about the fear of failure, but for ambitious moms who want to be present and actively involved in the lives of their kids and family, fear of success can create the most significant doubts and hold us back when it comes to committing and taking action toward our entrepreneurial goals.   When we feel called...

As open and transparent as the world of online business-building may seem, there's more to it than you might think. In my journey as an entrepreneur, I've seen the real "behind the scenes" of numerous businesses, both big and small, and I've learned some shocking truths about entrepreneurship that nobody really talks about.   Today I'm sharing four truths that you need to know if you want to build...

#1 Reason Moms Building Businesses Online Burn Out and Want to Quit   What separates the businesses built by moms that thrive and grow, and those that end because of burnout and a lack of sustainability? After years of working with moms called to build businesses as creative entrepreneurs, content creators and coaches, I've noticed a pattern. It's become clear what leads some entrepreneurs to burn...

How do you know when is the right time to invest in a mentor or coach for your business? Should you wait and keep trying to figure it out on your own? Is there a certain milestone you should hit before investing in help?    Our desire to take action and create CHANGE comes when we've reached a tipping point – when the discomfort of staying where we are is greater than the discomfort of doing somet...

There's a fear many moms in business live with, and if we're honest, it looks like this: my life is slipping away. It's terrifying to think that you're missing out on the life happening right in front of you. The stress, overwhelm and guilt, and just trying to make it through the day isn't the life you envisioned. But here you are.    When we're aware of this disconnect – the difference between ou...

It's something I've found makes such a difference between my clients who are able to feel better, create momentum to move forward and create the kinds of lives and businesses they really want and the ones who continue to stay stuck much longer than they'd like. This difference in the ability to create change, show up in their lives differently and DO the things that once held them back is tied to...

In lives that can feel stressful, rushed and overwhelming, our focus as moms and business owners is often on what needs our attention RIGHT NOW. Our days can feel like marathon fire-fighting mixed with an endless game of whack-a-mole, an exhausting attempt to try to stay ahead of what's coming next.    When our mission is just to make it through the day, when it feels like we're living on autopilo...

Are you holding yourself back in motherhood and business without even realizing it? So many of us are setting ourselves up to fail before we even get started. There are blind spots getting in our way; and we can't see what we can't see. In this episode, we're identifying four essential ways that you can set yourself up to win and make more meaningful progress when it comes to your relationships, p...

Procrastination gets in the way of best utilizing our most valuable resource as a mom in business: our time. We put off and delay important tasks and priorities and opt to use that time in other ways.   Intellectually, we know this isn't helpful. We see the cost: stress, overwhelm and feeling even more behind that we already feel. So why do we procrastinate? Sometimes it's because we feel  overwhe...

How is your year going? Summertime can generate all the feels... maybe it's a pause - a time to reflect and recalibrate. Maybe it's a celebration for the progress you've made in recent months. Or for you, maybe you're in a season of doubt or frustration, wondering "What next?" in this time in your life or business.    We're halfway into 2022, and many of us are needing some encouragement, wherever...

It's one thing to be an employee of your business. Becoming a successful CEO? It involves a whole set of skills that don't always come naturally to creatives. Fortunately, it includes a group of skills that can be practiced and learned. On this episode of Beyond Happy we're talking about HOW you can cultivate a CEO mindset as a creative entrepreneur and small business owner. Specifically, I'm shar...

We struggle with simplicity. When something in life or business seems too easy, too effortless, or even just manageable -- our brain freaks out -- and makes it complicated. We're used to life feeling hard - so much so that it becomes our normal. We expect difficulty, so when we find ourselves experiencing something other than what feels challenging, our brain sees it as a problem. There's no doubt...

Do you ever quit before you start? Do you kill an idea or goal or dream before it even has a chance to get off the ground? Self-sabotage is a key problem for ambitious moms, creatives and entrepreneurs who are called to make change and do new things in their personal lives and businesses.    Believing self-defeating thoughts about ourselves leads us sabotage our goals, dreams and plans. It steals...

Does summertime feel like a choice between fun with family and growing your business? Does having both seem logistically impossible? Many business-building moms feel this tension, and it seems like they have to choose between the two: travel, vacations and family fun at the expense of revenue and business growth, OR building the business at the cost of what matters most: time, family and sanity.  ...

We tend to associate grief with the death of a loved one - the experience and sorrow of that painful goodbye. There is grief connected to this kind of loss, and yet grief shows up in other ways in our lives when our present reality looks different than we expected. We may feel stuck or lost or disconnected, not realizing that these feelings are connected to grief and the kind of loss we experience...

The truth: we all believe lies. They impact every area of our lives: from our relationship with ourselves to our marriage relationships and friendships, parenting, business, faith, dreams and goals. The problem is that these lies are hard to see for ourselves. This is true especially if we've been believing them for a long time. And if we can't see them, we have little hope of getting rid of them....

Right now, you have thoughts that are taking up your time, energy and attention, and they are garbage. They are keeping you stuck, holding you back and making you feel terrible. In order to clean up our thinking, we have to get rid of the garbage. Garbage thoughts are very low quality -- they're not true, not useful and not helpful.    In this episode, you'll learn:   • Why your brain prefers what...

It's easy to think you just need more time - to believe that "if only there were more hours", I'd get so much more done. The reality isn't that you need more hours in the day - you just need to create more quality time by stewarding it differently. Reclaiming your time (and significant amounts of it) can be more simple than you might think. There are five things that you can stop doing right now t...

Want to leverage your time, energy and attention to get more done in less time as a business-building mom? Today I'm sharing my solution for this: I call them power hours and I'm teaching you my method for implementing them in 3 easy steps.   When you start using these power hours to your advantage, you'll be surprised by a few things. How much better it feels to focus on getting your most importa...

Want to reclaim your time as a busy mom and creative entrepreneur or coach?   On this episode, I'm sharing what that looks like - what it looks like to get your time back and build a sustainable life and business as a mom.    If you're like the women and moms I work with, you're committed to the growth of your business, but not at the cost of your family, your time or your sanity.    And if you're...

We try to feel better by doing so many things. Sometimes it looks like buying ourselves a treat or having a drink at the end of a rough day. We might try to make ourselves feel better by planning a vacation, buying stuff we don't need at Target or zoning out on our phones. We might escape by overworking, working out out or cleaning. We all have our ways - and it's not that any of these activities...

Pastor John Ortberg shares, "We are so used to spiritually mediocre days, days lived in irritation and fear and self-preoccupation and frenzy - that we throw our lives away in a hurry." Change is desperately needed when it comes to the hurried, overbusy lives we live day in and day out, but here's the thing. We can't do anything about it unless we truly acknowledge that it is a problem. Hurry is i...

There are so many parallels between the roles of motherhood and business and the kind of growth that each of those is the catalyst for in our lives. On one of the very long flights we had over spring break recently, I put pen to paper and got really clear about what this looks like - how do the skill sets we develop as mothers translate to shaping us into even stronger business owners, and vice ve...

You sit down at your desk to work and start to dive into a project only to stop. You've just remembered the phone call you forgot to make, the appointment you need to schedule and the socks you forgot to order on Amazon. One by one, your brain reminds you of these items and you don't want to forget them - AGAIN - so you stop what you're doing and take care of each one. Sound familiar? Are days lik...

Our minds can become so cluttered... kind of like our closets: overrun with items that are old and no longer useful, thoughts that no longer "fit" where we are and who we've become, beliefs that don't serve us in any valuable way and create a lot of clutter that can lead to feelings of overwhelm, stress and distraction. The truth is, we're so in our heads and busy, living our lives, that we don't...