THE RESILIENT WORKING MUM, Workplace Burnout, Employee Performance, Women in Leadership, Stress Management, Resilience, Productivity, Boundaries, Working Mothers

In this vulnerable, honest coaching session, Amy wanted to find out how she could set boundaries without feeling guilty.  What it came down to was that she was trying to meet two different sets of values, one that belonged to her and one that belonged to the world.  By figuring out what her values are and what it means to live by these values, she could choose how she finds the space and time she...

When you are a mum, losing weight becomes harder than ever before. So much changes and it just seems to become more and more of an effort.   If you have found yourself trying everything under the sun when it comes to your weight loss as a working mom, listen to this episode where I talk about the thing that gets ignored when it comes to how we go about this process.    When you look at losing weig...

Do you wish you had more time? Does it feel like the to do list is never ending and you don’t have time to finish all the things that need to get done let alone have some time to do the things you love? In this interview with Lissa Figgins, time stewardship coach, we talk about how you DO have time and how asking yourself one question can change your perception around time and around how much time...

As working moms, we are all after more balance. But when you think about balance, what does it mean to you? Is it two sides of a scale? Or is it balancing on a beam? While we spend a lot of time desperately trying to find balance, I believe that there is only one way to truly create balance in your life and I talk about it in this episode today. If you would like to connect with me, follow the lin...

How often have you ‘decided’ that today/this month/this year you are going to do something and you are going to stick to it? And by lunch time or within a week or a month, you realise that you are doing exactly what you said you weren’t going to do or you are not doing what you said you were going to do?  You are not alone! Being consistent is hard for all of us and especially for us as working mo...

In this hugely insightful interview with Angela Buckley, we talk about her journey of working motherhood and how she has had a very successful career while also spending real quality time with and instilling in her son the values of leadership, including the importance of community. It was truly an honour to share this time with someone who is so clearly capable and strong and able to be vulnerabl...

Every working mom I have ever talked to or worked with has told me that she struggles with being present. She finds it hard to be with her children without thinking about all she has to do and she finds it difficult to focus on her work without being distracted by the endless list running through her mind.  Today, I am here to tell you that it is NOT your to do list that is keeping you from being...

My mission is to help working moms build the mental muscles of resilience so that they can enjoy this busy season of life and can do so calmly and with peace and confidence.  The truth is that you CAN be successful at work while being present with your family and building deep relationships with them without feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by it all. In this episode I tell you how you can do thi...

Life as a working mom is stressful. You have so much to do. You feel guilty for doing or not doing things. There are so many expectations on you and needs that you are trying to meet.  I have been there and have found myself in the spin that comes with feeling stressed and anxious all the time. This episode tells the story of how I moved from this place of overwhelm and exhaustion, feeling frustra...

In this live coaching session, Amanda wanted some help figuring out how she could lose her temper less and could be more present with her children, giving them the attention they need and crave so that their cups can be filled. I loved the intentionality of this session where she was vulnerable enough to get to know what blockages she had that were causing her to snap at her children or struggle t...

When there are so many balls in the air, it is easy to feel like we are dropping some or not juggling them very well at all. As working moms, this can leave us feeling defeated and exhausted.  But there are things we can do so that we can feel like we are succeeding and so that we can enjoy this season with more calm, feeling confident in the way we are parenting and working and finding it all so...

Oooh, the discomfort of mom guilt! What a thing! It can rule our lives so much that we would rather give up our own boundaries and our needs in order to avoid it.   This episode was a live that I did in my Facebook group which I would love to invite you to be a part of.  You can join here: bit.ly/managingmumcommunity   It gives you a new perspective on setting boundaries and saying no that I think...

'Hanger' is a term well known in our household.  As a working mum, it can be hard to remember to feed myself the right foods let alone the children!  When we don't feed our bodies properly, we experience a physiological shift that means that we cannot think clearly and thus, we do not behave the way that we want to.  This conversation with nutritionist and biokinesiologist Adi St George outlines 3...

I know that the mid year school holidays can cause huge stress and anxiety. I have felt it myself and I have heard numerous mums talking about it in various places. So if you have felt a bit of dread about this period, you are not alone!   I believe that there are ways that we can feel different about this time, however. Ways that, rather than leaving us depleted, irritable and snappy, can give us...

This final episode of this season of Find More Time Fridays talks about resilience and how building our resilience can allow us to show up in the best way possible while also giving us the capacity to make rational, logical decisions that lead us to having more time.  If you want to dig into this more, you still have time to register for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July 2024 at 7pm SAST....

Achieving work life balance is something that I think many of us are trying to do all the time. I am interested by what causes us to be out of balance and also in what we can do to get back there. Here are three things we can stop doing so that we are able to achieve a closer state of balance. By giving these three things up, we will find that there is more time, we are able to focus better and we...

I had a great session with a colleague once that highlighted so much to me about my relationship with time and also with money.  I bring the exercise she did with me to this episode today so that you can benefit from the lesson I learnt about the relationship between our values and time, including how much time we have.    In this third Find More Time Friday, grab a notebook and pen and really dig...

This episode is inspired by 5 questions I got from Marie Forleo, the author of a book called ‘Everything is Figureoutable’. I loved these questions and thought that as working mums, they can be so useful to help us be curious about where we are unsatisfied or stuck and where we want to make changes.  When we know what is causing us discomfort in the way that we are operating, we can find a way to...

More time is something that we, as working moms, long for. And more specifically more me-time, time to slow down, breathe and perhaps do something for ourselves.  I believe that this time comes from doing something in the moments when we feel like we have no time.  And this formula offers a reminder for what you can do in the moment to help you have more time.    To register for the Take Back Your...

Are you a fly by the seat of your pants kind of person? Do you wish you could be more organized but can't seem to figure out how (or perhaps even why?!) There is a fluster and chaos that comes with not having a plan in place and even though planning might feel uncomfortable to you, it makes such a difference to how productive you are. Today I outline the method I use to help me plan, to create str...

In preparation for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July, every Friday for the month of June will be Find More Time Friday where I will be bringing you a short bonus episode with some concept or thought or experience I have of how you can have more time as a working mom.     To register for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July 2024, click here: bit.ly/takebacktimeworkshop If you would l...

Time is a finite thing and it can feel like it is slipping through our fingers. Have you ever found that there are times when you can get so much done that you suddenly have a bit of time to spare? If so, what was different about that situation? I would imagine that you possibly were enjoying the things you were doing and so there were no other distracting thoughts running through your head. This...

Sarah had been struggling to keep her patience with her toddler and her husband and found herself snapping at them.  Since becoming a mom and working on her business at the same time, she had lost sight of what she did to bring her joy and find her peace and she was looking for help in finding a way to be more patient and to remember what she loved to do. In this live coaching session, we worked t...

Calm is something I used to envy in other working mums, or even SAHM mums, that seemed to have it all together.  I might have looked calm on the outside but underneath it all, I was paddling furiously to keep myself afloat, I was exhausted and behind the scenes was chaos. But I have learnt how to slow down, how to be calmer and more patient and I am sharing one great way I have done this with you...

This episode is a fabulous conversation with Mahnaz Sharif all about boundaries and how setting boundaries can support our productivity and our wellbeing!  Mahnaz empowers Mums whose business dreams are buried under family needs. Most mums know the feeling of being sandwiched between what their family needs from them and the business they want to create. With a degree in mathematics and 20 years o...