The Busy Vibrant Mom - Strategic Time Management, Home Organization, Productivity, Christian Mom, Christian Parenting, Declutter

Are you struggling to get a healthy meal on the table each night? Does meal planning, prepping, shopping, and cooking seem to take over your life? Are you spending endless hours you don't have looking for the best recipes on Pinterest? STOP making yourself crazy!!! Let me help you my friend. Truth be told cooking is not my thing, but I have three very important meal tricks that have helped me get...

Do you feel like Cinderella most days instead of mom? Do you find yourself constantly picking up after your husband and your kids? Does it make you feel less like a parent and more like a maid? I hear you! I struggle with the balance between parent and maid every day! In this episode I share my three tricks to keeping my house clean, enlisting others to help, and not loosing my sanity.  Definitely...

Do you find yourself struggling with consistency?  Maybe you are creating a new habit or routine?  Maybe you are feeling discouraged that you started something new and have already dropped it like yesterday's laundry? For some people being consistent seems to come so easy, but the truth is that we all need to work at being consistent.  If you need some help I have three tips to help you stay more...

It's already Christmas time! Do you cry at the thought of decorating for Christmas? Does it feel overwhelming? Do you feel mom guilty if you don't decorate?  It can be especially hard to decorate for Christmas because we are already doing so many more things during this season - from presents to parties and everything else.  It just seems like one more to do item!  Listen in as I share my tips and...

Today we have a special guest, Polly Payne, the CEO and founder of Horacio Printing.  Polly has created beautiful, clean, Biblical planners with lots of room to journal and reflect.  These beautiful planners have become my favorite planner!  In this podcast episode we talk about how and why Polly designed her planners the way she did, how to find balance in your week, and how to give yourself grac...

This is a very special episode!  As a busy mom with three kids I had a very difficult time transitioning when my kids started school.  Suddenly hours of my day were freed up, my community changed, my kids were gone at school, and I had no idea what to do.  God lead me to Stefanie Gass, and put it on my heart to start a podcast to help other working Christian moms! Listen in to our conversation abo...

Are you wrestling trying to find balance between work and home life?  It can seem impossible to balance out what you have to do for work and what you need to do for home.  Are you feeling guilty when you are spending time with your family because you are thinking about work?  And vice versa?  Are you finding it hard to put down your phone?  No need to stress!  In this episode I share some easy tip...

Do you have big projects that need several hours to complete?  When do you have a block of time to get them done in your busy day?  Do you end up moving projects around the house, shoving stuff under the bed or in a closet? How do we get these projects done if we only have 15mins chunks of time?  In this episode I reveal the secret to getting big projects done, even when you have limited time! Gra...

Do you want to know how to save time in your day? The secret to getting so much done and being productive. How to stop wasting time and have more time to do the things you want?  This is the episode for you! In this episode I share my top four time management tools to get stuff done in the shortest time possible. These are my favorite tools to apply to almost any task I need to manage or problem s...

Does Christmas shopping stress you out? Every year Christmas seems to come faster and faster right? Christmas should be a time when we are focused on spending time with our family, the special yearly traditions, and the anticipation of our Savior's birth.  If you are like me and want to have a stress free Christmas listen in for some tips on how to take the stress out of Christmas.  Grab that note...

Do you work from home? Did your office get relocated due to covid? Do you enjoy the space you work in? How do you create the right environment for you to be productive, creative, and distraction free? In this episode I share three steps to creating the perfect work space that will help you be more productive, creative, and organized.  It is my goal to help you build the right work space for you wh...

Do you get distracted during your work block? Do you find your time  disappears and you don't know why?  This happens to me all the time, so I created four tips to overcome distraction while I am in my work block.  These four tips have helped me save time, be more productive, and be more mentally organized.  Listen up, because in this episode I share these four tips and other tidbits to help keep...

Have you felt guilty that you are a woking mom? Have you questioned what you are doing? Is it worth the time and energy?  Is it worth taking time away from your kids during these precious younger years before college?  Recently, I attended a seminar that covered all these questions and more.  It encouraged me to follow the work God has set before me.  In this episode I want to encourage you to, as...

It's fall my friend! Halloween is coming up and you know what that means, lots of candy! Who hasn't stolen Halloween candy from your kids.  In this fun episode I share my three tips to help you stop eating your kids Halloween candy.  The goal is mindset, to think about your actions and choices and enjoy what you eat (instead of hiding in the pantry...haha).  Join me for a fun episode and maybe som...

Monday can be hard, right? Diving back into work after a busy weekend can be difficult.  It is especially hard to be productive on Monday and motivated to get everything done.  In this episode I share five must do things over the weekend to set you up for success on Monday morning.  These five things will help you jump right into your work block on Monday morning, and have a productive work week....

Learning by experience can be painful! Have you ever been embarrassed by your child? Have you felt judged by other adults around you for something your child did or said or how they reacted? It can be soul crushing! Right? In this episode I share a recent event when one of my kids acted out and how I reacted in that stressful situation.  It was hard! I'm not going to lie, but through this experien...

It's fall ya'll! The arrival of fall means beautiful new leaves, seasons changing, cooler weather, cozy boots and scarfs, warm drinks, and yummy teats.  It also marks the arrival of the holidays, and the speed that the holidays come each year seems faster and faster.  In this episode I share my top three tips for planning for the holiday season, so that you can save time, money, and stress.  If yo...

Do you find it hard to fit in time with God every day? You would love to sit down and do a devotional, but it just doesn't happen, right?  I remember many days of trying to fit in time for a daily devotional, and the feeling of guilt day after day.  Wondering if it was worth it.  Feeling more like my daily devotion time was a constant to do item I was never doing, instead of a purposeful time of r...

It is hard to prioritize when you get work done during the day, when you manage your home, when you spend time with the kids, and all the things.  With tons of daily tasks it is hard to fit them in, so often times they get skipped or never done until you are so annoyed and frustrated that you have to make time for them.  In this episode we discuss three questions that you can ask yourself to prior...

Do you find yourself exhausted? Having trouble sleeping?  It can be so frustrating.  I know when I feel tired I snap at my kids and my poor husband, I feel depressed, and unproductive.  I feel overwhelmed because I don't have enough time in the day to get everything done.  As moms we wear our exhaustion and fatigue on our sleeve like a badge of pride.  But, what if I told you that I have 3 secrets...

Do you have trouble fitting in everything in your day? The house work, laundry, errands, to-do's, a part time job, managing the house etc? In this episode we talk about batching.  Batching is one of my go to tools for saving time, being more productive, and managing all the things.  You can use batching or all kinds of chores and save time.  In this episode we apply batching to ten chores you do e...

How many times has your routine or day been blown off schedule by small things? You find yourself slowing drifting off course, and by the end of the day you are far from where you want to be.  As moms we often need to drop what we are doing and take care of emergency issues or sudden problems throughout our day, but how do we minimize these distractions and stay on top of our day? In this episode...

How many times have you needed a system to manage your time, get things done, or be more productive, but that system doesn't seem to be working? It seems like a great system.  Other people recommend using this shinny new system, but you have tried it and it just isn't work for you and your family.  It can be discouraging and hopeless, trying to make a system work for you.  In this episode I map ou...

Are you tired of diets that don't work? Do you want to lose the weight, but don't know how?  In part two of this episode I talk with Ashley Carlotta about her company Better Health by Accountability, that she started to help moms!  If you missed episode one jump back and listen to that episode first.  Ashley Carlotta is originally from San Jose, California, but now resides in Mckinney, Texas with...

Have you been away for the weekend with your spouse or gone on a girls weekend, but been so stressed by leaving your kids at home that you did not enjoy it? In this episode we walk through six easy steps to being able to go away, leave your kids at home with grandparents or friends, and feel worry free.  It's important as moms to get away from our kids every so often, but it can seem overwhelming....