Moms Working Overtime

We've all been bombarded with ads, social media marketing, and emails for the past week that are ALL about big sales and discounts. On today's episode, we discuss the things we allow to be discounted in our own lives and the impact that has on us as moms. I have 5 areas of your life that I want to remind you are NOT worth discounting.  In a world driven by marketing and (let's be ho...

The chaos of this season is only beginning and will continue until the end of the year. Therefore, it's so important that we all reconsider our priorities. Because if you try to make everything the most important thing at once, you will drown from now until at least December 26th.  On today's episode, we reassess what you say your top priorities are vs. the way you spend your time. Does...

Some days it takes all we've got in us to simply check the necessities off of our to do list. It can seem impossible to make time to take care of ourselves as moms. Today's episode is ALL about letting go of our unrealistic expectations and finding small ways to show up as our best selves along this journey. And I have an incredible guest joining me for the conversation!  Bre Gachne is a...

Why do we, as moms, feel like we need permission to chase dreams outside of our motherhood roles? Mama, you can do ANYTHING you set your mind to. Cheesy? Maybe. But true.  The reason we often think our dreams aren't possible is because they take longer to come to life than we expect.  So we settle. And try to convince ourselves that we should just be happy with what we have, where we are.  Ev...

Brenda Batista, SLP @tiny.talkers.speech In another incredible interview on the Moms Working Overtime Podcast, I have the opportunity to bring you speech therapist and homeschooling mom of four, Brenda Batista.  Brenda shares tons of great tips for recognizing developmental delays in speech and language, how to use strategies in your day-to-day activities with your children to improve their langua...

In memory of Megan Pridemore 1992 - 2023 There's one guarantee in this life that's for certain - we all are going to reach the end of it at some point. Eventually, we all run out of time.   How many of us live each and every day with the understanding that they actually aren't guaranteed?  As moms, we each fight battles that others may know nothing about. But the greatest gift given...

Ashley showed up for her 20 week anatomy scan ultrasound just like any other mom - excited to see her sweet baby on the screen and to walk away with some photos to show off to family and friends. But her excitement was quickly disrupted with an in utero diagnosis.  Ashley's daughter presented with a heart defect formally known as Tetraology of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia. This led to many m...

The holiday season is officially upon us with Halloween being this week!  As much as some of us might love this season and know we should find the joy and excitement in it, there are also lots of reasons moms dread this season - finances, split families, loss of a loved one, over scheduled calendars, and battling with family members to figure out how to make it all work...all at once.  We almost n...

In today's episode, I have the opportunity to interview my dear friend, Ashley, a mom of three, about all things homeschooling. Ashley has such a great perspective to share because she taught in the public school system for years prior to making a career change, eventually deciding to stay home with her children full-time to homeschool them.  This is a decision we know lots of mothers battle...

It's pretty incredible how powerful daily gratitude can be when you're in the trenches of it all. This episode is for my mamas who have been having some hard days, maybe some hard weeks, shoot, maybe a hard year. As moms, we juggle so many things in each 24 hour period. It can feel so daunting, overwhelming, exhausting, even frustrating. It's easy to slip into a negative mindset and...

I was lucky enough to sit down with Kasey Baiter, the STL Doula, to discuss all things pregnancy, delivery, holistic health, and creating more positive experiences for all mamas.  In this episode, we dive into holistic approaches to women's health specific to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum. Kasey bridges the gap for mamas through her doula practice, collaborating with midwives and/or tra...

How in the world are we ever going to feel self-fulfilled if our expectation of self care is a full spa day, a girls trip, or a long and uninturrupted bubble bath? Society and media have set us up to believe these are the only ways we can and should recharge.  Tackling daily self care can feel overwhelming if this is your expectation. Which leaves you feeling discouraged, exhausted, and burnt out....

All of us go into motherhood with our own expectations of what our pregnancy, delivery, and parenting experience will be like. Often, life has other plans. This episode of the Moms Working Overtime Podcast speaks to the challenges we encounter as moms that derail our expectations and show us just how strong we truly are.  My guest today, Bailee Bracken, bravely offered to join me to share her stor...

This pep talk is for the mamas that feel over scheduled, exhausted, and burnt out from the war they're losing with their calendar.  I mean think about it, as an adult, how exhausting does it feel to be over scheduled? We feel this way ourselves, and we even have the capacity (for the most part) to manage and execute on all of it. Just think about how over scheduled children are these days...d...

Motherhood is hard enough to navigate before food even comes into the picture. But so many of us as moms feel pressure and stress around meal times and providing food for our children...even when it comes to providing food for ourselves! Today's guest is Cierra Crowley, a Board Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with a diverse background in pediatric wellness, nutrition, exercise, and sup...

Society can, intentionally or unintentionally, send us a message in motherhood that "it should be that hard." It can make us want to hide our exhaustion, burn out, lack of balance, or faults because we're embarrassed or because it feels like everyone else is doing so much better.  This message sets a mom up for failure.  Because the reality is that you can feel exhausted, burnt out,...

The "mom space" can be so tough sometimes...a bit judgmental...often leaving us feeling less than good enough.  Mom content, even if made with good intentions or with a true message behind it, can leave us feeling so overwhelmed.  But you're NEVER going to know it all or do everything perfect, mama. Each new chapter of motherhood, each child, each age will bring new challenges and t...

When I work with moms one-on-one, what I find most often is that the problem isn't usually that they're not putting in the work to better themselves. The real monster we're battling is the immense amount of pressure they put on themselves to be exceptional in every single area, sometimes mixed with unrealistic expectations.  I'm here to break the news to you - you can't be...

In today's world, our experiences as moms can be put on blast for everyone to see in a split second. This opens us up for judgment.. opinions.. criticism.. unsolicited advice.. and worst of all, to be the topic of gossip.   It brings back those middle school girl clique vibes where friendships are created because two people "hate" the same person. They say misery loves company, righ...

Two things that fail us big time in the United States when it comes to motherhood are social media and our healthcare system.  They both set us up for failure through unrealistic expectations, lack of support, and just leave us feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and alone. I see this time and time again with the moms I help 1-on-1. While I can't take all of these stressors from them, what I'...

As a mom, it's completely normal to crave and need breaks from our children so we can rest, reset, and fill our own cups. But it's also not unusual for us to miss them the instant we leave the house. Feeling these things doesn't mean we shouldn't take the breaks.  I personally really struggle to be away from my motherhood role. I allow it to consume me completely and am definit...

How often do you sit down at the end of the day as a mom and wonder "Did I do enough?"  We're ALL guilty of this at one point in time or another. The anxiety of "Could I have done more?" is enough to keep us up at night, every night. Why do we spiral into these thoughts?  Tonight I'm diving into these intrusive thoughts and how we can combat them.  The first thing we...

It's so easy as moms to get sucked into the negativity in our world today, live in fear, or fall into a dark hole of worry thinking about the life our children may have as they grow.  We wish we could just protect them from the bad things that exist. And it's so easy to worry about things that are out of our control.  These are challenges that our generation of mothers has to handle at s...

Motherhood is no easy feat. In fact, it's probably the furthest thing from easy. As moms, sometimes we just need someone to validate the way that we're feeling. We don't expect them to fix the problem, and sometimes there's not even a clear solution anyways. But what we do need is for someone to be there for us simply by saying, "It IS hard, mama." As humans, when we...

You know what’s worse than going through something awful or humiliating as a mom? Going through it feeling like you’re the only person to ever experience it...or going through it thinking you’re being drowned in judgment. We've all been there. And in today's episode, we're going to talk about how to handle it without wrecking our entire day. The sooner we accept that motherhood is t...