Love Your Mom Life

On top of everything we moms have to do, buy, cook, wash, bandage, snuggle and mend, is it any wonder that romance and date nights can often take a backseat when it comes to sorting out our priorities?    In this episode, we get real about why prioritizing your relationship with your spouse or significant other is so important for your mom life, and why that relationship (and not your relationship...

As a mom, you know all too well that there are literally hundreds of things that need to be done in your life each week.  But did you also know that those things don't all have to be done by you?  In this episode, we discuss why it's so important to let other people help us.  Tune in to hear the top 5 ways I get help in my daily life so I can take back my time and get more done--and how...

Spunky money maven, Yvonne Jimerson of Redefining Posh , gives Nikki some tough love about having the right money mindset in this episode of the Love Your Mom Life podcast.  As moms, we often don't think twice when it comes to spending money on our families or our kids.  But when it's time to invest in ourselves or dish out dough to make our own lives easier?  Most of us tend to cringe a...

In this episode, Nikki chats openly with Beth Hoff, a mom with a masters in clinical counseling and founder of Favorite Families and the Family Culture podcast, about the lies we tell ourselves as mothers.  At the top of the list?  "The quality of your connection with your kids is measured by the amount of time you spend with them."  Total lie!  Tune in to hear this and other lies busted...

You know that whole, "it's not the destination, it's the journey" thing?  Well that's like, totally true.  But as moms, we often forget that truth.  And who can blame us, with the day-to-day challenges of juggling all the balls that come with raising children,  running a household and pursuing our own goals and dreams to consume us?  In today's episode, we dive in to...

You know that old expression, "You are what you eat?"  Well, here at Your Ideal Mom Life, we subscribe to the saying, "You are the average of the five people you hang around the most."   In Episode 8, we dive into the powerful truth about how the five people you spend the most time with are shaping your life . . . and the changes you might need to make with your entourage if yo...

Have you ever been dumped or fired and refused to let go?  Or been unwilling to forgive yourself for something that you wish you had handled differently?  Even now, might you be holding on to how things were before the pandemic, or how they “would have been” if none of this had happened? In Episode 7, we're getting real about why wishing for what could have been is the ultimate waste of time,...

If you are friends with a stepmom, your kiddos have a stepmom, or you are a stepmom, you won't want to miss this authentic conversation with Cameron Normand of This Custom Life . Cameron is a Certified Stepparent Coach who provides stepmoms with tools and advice to help them embrace their blended families.  Tune in to hear all about the stepmom perspective, including an insider's take on...

Are you awesome at making to-do lists? As a hustling mom of two, I live off of to-do lists, and would say I’m pretty darn good at making effective ones. (In fact, creating an effective to-do list for your mom life is something I cover in detail in The Mom Life Challenge !).  But as more and more activities have gone virtual or been cancelled this year, I must admit I've been enjoying how much...

Career coach, Corporate America veteran and working mom of two, Yamiek Anthony, joins Nikki in this episode of Love Your Mom Life to chat about supporting working moms in harmonizing their professional goals with their most important job title: "Mother."   Since becoming a mom and leaving her career in Corporate America, Yamiek now uses her past experience as a frustrated, working mother...

Have you ever wanted to start something new?  Maybe you've been eyeing a home-based business opportunity.  Maybe you want to write a book, start a podcast or launch a course.  Maybe you want to take on a new sport.  There's just one problem:  you're terrified.  (This fear might also show up in the form of, "I won't be any good at it," or "I don't have time,&...

Life as a mother, a wife and, let's be real, an adult woman in general is full of turbulence.  And is the turbulence ever more exaggerated than in the morning when you’re trying to get more than one human out the door looking civilized and smelling clean? In Episode 3, we dive into why starting your day off powerfully is so important to loving your mom life, and I share tried-and-true tips on...

At one point or another, all mothers have experienced that dreaded "mom fail" feeling.  Being a mom is messy, beautiful, difficult and rewarding all at once.  And no mom is perfect!  Every single one of us has (and will again) fallen on our face.   And while we shouldn't berate ourselves for "woulda, coulda, shouldas," we can get better at avoiding these so-called mom fail...

In this introduction episode, we talk about "mom ruts" and loving your mom life again, and give you an idea of what this podcast is all about!  Support the show Follow Nikki on Instagram and Facebook !  Wanna be on the show or sponsor an episode?  Email your pitch to nikki@youridealmomlife.com.