The Irish Mummy Podcast | Work Life Balance

We want to talk about the word idleness because we’ve been thinking about the things that cause friction or hurt your marriage and looking over everything, idleness seems to be the main cause. We’ve discovered that the best times to have certain conversations are when you both aren’t busy and you’ve set aside time to talk. This way you both know what to expect and aren’t interrupted when one perso...

Today’s episode is all about the busy-ness of being a working mum with a family. Just being a mother can take a lot of time on its own making sure all the children are taken care of, but when you throw work and a career in the mix, things can get a little hectic, which is why today we wanted to talk about some of the things Rosie does to deal with being so busy. Having your house in order will mak...

Caley earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education and her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Florida. For the past 11 years, she has worked in a variety of roles to serve families including: preschool teacher, early interventionist, behavior therapist, and now as a private consultant. Her most recent professional development includes: Conscious Discipline™, T...

Finally, after years of saying she would release one, Rosie has released her Journal to Joy and is for sale for anyone that wants one. Rosie knew what she wanted inside the journal, but she wanted something fancy and luxurious as well, so she started working on Journal to Joy and this one is now exactly what she envisioned. We’ve discovered that writing your goals gives you hope, which everyone ne...

Today we have a very special guest with Cindy, the baby dietitian and she talks to us about all things nutrition for the first year of life. She believes in not following a diet, but that moderation and portion control are key and that having a diet full of variety is the best way to nourish your body. Cindy believes in only providing her readers with credible and research based information. In a...

In this episode we’re talking about all the big stuff you need to know in preparing your home for the baby, and then we’ll be looking at the next couple of installments of this like the baby bag and such. There are a number of things you’re going to need to purchase if you’re having your first baby, such as a cot for them to sleep in, and a car if you’ve been getting around on something like a sco...

Today we have the privilege of speaking with Claire Falconer who is a PT, Yoga, Functional Medicine and Nutrition coach, helping mothers stay healthy through pregnancy. Men’s bodies don’t change much over short periods of time, so they don’t have to worry about what they should be doing health wise at a given time of the month, whereas women’s bodies are changing constantly according to their horm...

when you’re apart, you’re still both creating momentum toward the same goals, whereas when you’re out of sync, you’re often working on separate goals that don’t complement each other. You want to pay attention to the immediate things that need to be done today to reach your overall, bigger picture goals, and this can often be a solution to when you’re feeling out of sync with your spouse. You don’...

Adam went to park somewhere and saw that everyone else was parked badly, so he was going to park the same way, but then Rosie told him that just because everyone is parked terribly doesn’t make it right for you to do the same. Adam was in a mood where he wanted the drama that the situation would cause, but Rosie wasn’t reacting dramatically and was just calmly advising him better, which caused Ada...

In this episode we have Janet Corrington, who is a counselor, neurofeedback brain trainer, step parent, foster parent, and adoptive parent and we’re going to be talking about the difference between fostering and adopting. She tells us about foster parenting and how the government is often quite involved while you’re taking care of kids. They have a say in how you parent these children in a certain...

Most everyone is guilty of procrastination, including ourselves, so we wanted to share some ideas on how we’ve been able to get ahead and take action so that we don’t get behind. It’s so easy to fall out of routine or habit when you decide one day to put it off or just not do it, but you get the energy to do something by doing that thing. It’s so much better/easier to maintain a habit/routine by p...

We both loved reading growing up and have many books that really gained our attention and interest, but there were also many books with which we struggled getting through just a couple of pages. Something we’ve discovered and learned with our own children is that they will pay so much more attention and read so much more if we just give them books on subjects they actually enjoy as opposed to subj...

Today we talk about how kids often will have favourites when it comes to which parent they prefer to be with and how we are able to handle not being wanted by them as much as the other parent. Adam has often felt sort of useless as a parent at times as the kids have just wanted to be with Rosie, but then as we’ve had more children, Rosie has to focus more attention on the newer ones, which helps t...

In this episode Rosie tells about her experience in trying to get to her lowest weight before becoming pregnant so that she can start from square one, but the second that she becomes pregnant she begins gaining weight, which often is concentrated in her breasts. You do want to eat more when you’re pregnant, but there will be a lot of temptations to eat the wrong things, so getting a nutritionist i...

Kel, otherwise known as Mrs. Smart Money, is a mindful money mentor and author of the sellout book ‘Mindful Money, More Money, More Freedom, More Happiness’ from Orpen Press. She helps people who are fed up with being on the back foot with money and life. She has developed a system to get your income working for you so that you can take the stress out of money and buy back your freedom and choice,...

In this episode we’re talking about the funny things, like sentences and phrases, our kids will say because we say them. Adam always says the phrase “Give me a second” or the word “Literally” and our kids will repeat them often. What we say and even how we act or treat our children has a direct impact on who they become and how they will behave. Over the years we’ve discovered that as we say and d...

We feel the importance of this topic because of how much it has benefited our lives as parents and we haven’t thought of it as a podcast until this week, which now it is very relevant. Rosie had a conversation with another lady about prayer and angels, which was brought up because of a concerning dream she had about one of our kids drowning. She learned you can call upon angels directly for guidan...

We went to check our body fat percentage and when we got our results, we decided to start a competition, or accountability program between us so that we could make progress toward positive health goals. Rosie has discovered that using a Fitbit and measuring her fitness has really motivated her to get a lot of housework done in order to hit her step goals. Adam was just about to start paying for a...

Adam struggles with and hates change that he doesn’t know about or can’t control and we wanted to discuss this issue and how we handle it. Moving houses multiple times has been somewhat of a struggle, but when you feel the pull of big change and it feels like the right thing to do, that knowledge that you’re doing the right thing will be greater than your fear of change and will be able to propel...

Natasha is a personal stylist , life coach, and an accredited cognitive behavioral therapist. She is all about helping women feel confident, boost their self esteem, and develop unstoppable confidence through the power of personal style. As Natasha started putting together her own style and wardrobe, she began to realize that style and fashion can have a direct impact on your mental state/self ima...

In this episode we talk to Jennifer and Niall O’Callaghan about their life journey. They started out like any married couple in the beginning, planning to have kids and follow the typical path of life, but found that having children was proving more difficult than they thought, so after many years of trying they realized they needed to move on to adoption in order to have children. Going through t...

On today’s episode we’re going to be giving 3 tips to growing your business and adding more value as a mom or dadpreneur. Our first tip is getting yourself to think bigger, which often is not what we typically do. Your subconscious mind is going to automatically start trying to think of solutions for that problem or goal, so the bigger you make it, the better off you’ll be. You have to think about...

Today we are talking about simple and inexpensive ways to decorate your home while your children are young. Kids touch everything in the house, so one solution we’ve come up with is just having less things so it becomes so much easier to maintain what we have and keep it clean. If you wanna go clean and fresh, things like white towels, curtains, and blankets are great to keep things looking clean....

What are the sacrifices that we do either consciously or subconsciously where if we didn’t have children, we wouldn’t do them? There are various different sacrifices a mom has to make at different stages of raising children, such as carrying the baby in her womb, giving birth, feeding the baby, and raising the child, and then there are things like day to day sacrifices and giving up your own time...

Today Rosie wants to discuss what loyalty and commitment looks like between husband and wife and she wants to focus more on Adam, who is a little shy about this, but we still make it fun. Rosie’s mom was very ill around when we had our first child and Adam suggested that Rosie move to Ireland and spend time with her while things were hard, and then he stayed back running things in Australia for a...