The Irish Mummy Podcast | Work Life Balance

In today’s episode we are going to be giving you 3 tips for an empowered pregnancy and labor, with nurse and midwife, Raquel Chaves. The first tip we go over is information, which means being informed of what your preferences are during pregnancy, knowing what can happen, what kinds of labor, and what can go wrong. The second tip is you need to find a provider you feel comfortable with and Raquel...

In this episode we’re talking about something really important and exciting things, such as the journal, an amazing course that’s coming up, and partnerships she’s focusing on. We tell about our Journal to Joy, which is a special journal you can get which is designed for you and future generations. We discuss the Social Mummy Experiment, an online course created for mums and the many awesome guest...

Today we talk about how we celebrate Christmas, given that Adam is Australian and Rosie is Irish. We start by hearing Adam’s family traditions, who spent them differently with his mom or dad and having to deal with big bush fires because Christmas takes place during the Summer in Australia. He would go get slushies and his grandma would get him delicious chocolates, and then his dad would play San...

In this episode, we tell about what happened with our architect and our plans for our new house. Rosie gave Elaine, our architect, a ton of ideas of what she wanted, but Rosie had no idea how it would all be put together or if she’d even be able to do it. The amount of stuff we gave her and the space she had to work with was seemingly overwhelming, but what she came up with was absolutely amazing....

When living in Portugal, things were simple because we had a gym membership, which is where we got our exercise. Since moving home, we have come up with ways to maintain our health. We have invested in some adjustable dumb bells and a treadmill to be able to work out at home, along with some other things like a sauna. We discuss how we have made our workout routine become simple to avoid problems...

Today we help and give you tips on how you can find clothes that will look nice and work for you when you have to breastfeed. Rosie has noticed for the first two weeks after giving birth and her milk comes in, her breasts become engorged and it’s hard to find something to wear that will look good on her. If you’re not careful, clothing that is too restrictive can cause blockages to occur, making b...

In this episode we have with us Arvigo Therapist and Health Coach, Tara Ghosh, who is going to help us understand women's cycles and how they can reduce period problems, and also help us know that it is normal to feel different at various times during the month. She tells us her story of when she didn’t have a period for 2 years and finally got into Arvigo massage, which caused her menstrual cycle...

In today’s episode we are talking about speaking in such a way that we don’t slander the names of the people about whom we talk. We’ve been working with each other and our kids to keep our conversations free of speaking ill of others and we have found it especially hard to do with people we don’t know personally. If we’re just stating facts about somebody, that’s not putting their name down, but w...

In this episode we have with us Fiona Carroll, a mother who has experienced the birth of 2 healthy children and the loss of 3. She tells the story of her first child she lost, which pregnancy went really well and seemed completely normal until her last two weeks when she experienced something very strange and later in the day realized her baby had passed away, and then her family all came to visit...

In this episode we talk about how we teach our kids about God, and how teaching this to them can help them to better face life. We read the scriptures with our children every day and they learn quite a bit because of the many good, principle filled stories contained therein. We also pray with them as a family, teaching them both how to pray with everyone and how to pray on their own, and then in t...

We continue this episode with Erica speaking about sleep and how to improve it, and she goes over her seven steps to better sleep. She starts off telling us about how babies mature and what stages they may change their sleep consistency. Stress levels can keep babies from being able to sleep, as well as too heavy a dependency on the soother or methods the parent is using. They can also have too mu...

Today We have with us a child sleep consultant, Erica Hargaden from Babogue Sleep Solutions. She has developed a great online sleep program called The Sleep Series which has helped people across 17 different countries. She tells us where her journey started when she had her son who struggled with various health issues, keeping both himself and her awake at night. Eventually, she was able to get cr...

In this episode we discuss what we do in order to keep things alive in our marriage and not let the fire die out. Rosie talks about how she had to tell Adam to keep pursuing her, or to keep date nights coming and that he needs to plan them without being reminded. We have realized that men need to be told what to do to make the woman happy, so that he will know how to make her happy. Otherwise it’s...

Sometimes we lose sight of what is bringing us joy in motherhood and today we discuss what happens to your joy. You don’t lose your love for your children, but the joy of it begins to go away. We hold a key to bringing back the joy in motherhood, but that requires us to put more into it than we have been. It requires us to sacrifice more, such as our time, attention, and creativity. Another thing...

In this episode Rosie with Adam tells what her dream home would look like. Our house in Portugal was great for the kids, but it didn’t function well for the adults and we discuss what kind of home we would have instead. Something we’ve learned is that it’s good to live in both places that you have enjoyed as well as places that you haven’t liked, in order to understand exactly what you will and wo...

Today we talk about how Rosie has had to reinvent how she approaches motherhood and being a wife. Adam has taken on the role of washing the laundry and has become very good at it. You have to pose certain questions to yourself when you’re trying to reinvent, such as what am I doing? Am I happy about what I’m doing? Is there a better way? Sometimes we get stuck in our own routines, but as we pose t...

In this episode we discuss the difficulties and ways you can generate more money as a mum. Everyone arrives at motherhood at different stages in their lives, whether they have money or just spent it all on a wedding, they’ll be needing an income. Rosie’s business started out as just a hobby, but once it started making some money, she got more serious about it and Adam shifted to help and support h...

In today’s episode Rosie tells a slightly concerning, unusual story. It was a Sunday and the family was on the way to church, but Rosie decided to take the lift, or elevator, in their hotel to get downstairs faster. She had a strong feeling she shouldn’t get on the lift, but did anyway. As the lift began to descend, it suddenly stopped and Rosie found herself stuck in this elevator with Ezra, our...

Today we give our take on how we’ve been able to minimize or remove fear in our lives and business. The news was on one day and there were a lot of negative things being reported and Patty happened to be paying attention, so Rosie quickly turned it off. He complained when she turned it off because it was something interesting, yet it was negative and therefore unnecessary to keep it on. Because th...

We’ve dealt with a lot as we left Portugal and came back to Ireland and in this episode we talk about the various issues we have faced. Stuff has become such a toxic thing, so in order to combat having too much, we have thrown a lot away and decluttered our lives. “The more you have, the less joy you can get out of it, but the more you give away, the more joy you can get from what you keep.” 6:21...

Today we talk about the topic of having more children and how we have approached this in our lives. We discuss the first child, and it often is the hardest because you’re so new and you don’t have anything for babies yet, so it’s going to cost the most. Money can be hard to come by, especially in the beginning, but as you go you’ll start finding things to supplement your income and be able to meet...

In this episode we go into what has made us successful and how we choose with whom we work. We bring up the subject of belief and the role that plays in your own success, such as believing in yourself and your ability to achieve your business goals. The person who doesn’t believe is always bringing up the problem, but the person who does believe is always looking for the solution. We have been abl...

On today’s episode we are speaking to Brooke Romney, writer, speaker, educator, and mom of 4 boys. We discuss a powerful letter that she wrote to her kids and how she drew inspiration for it. Each new school year, Brooke writes a letter to her boys in order to help encourage them, helping them to push their learning, creativity, and take advantage of improving their minds. We talk about the pandem...

We start off talking about when we are looking to get something or do something new in life, we first need the demand for it in order to feel the need, which will push us to do more. An example is if you have 4 children you may feel inclined to only be so organized with your schedule and around the house, whereas if you have 8 children there will be a much greater need to be organized in order to...

In this episode we discuss what we have learned in our journey, moving from Ireland to Portugal. We wanted to be able to spend more time together as a family, so a big lesson we have picked up on is attachment to things and possessions and we’ve had to learn how to let go and have less. We’ve also learned the process and extra time you have to take to get set up in a new area and get all your new...