The Unbusy Mom: For Entrepreneur Moms Tired of Waking Up to the Same Tuesday

You know what I hate MOST about our stubborn tradition of New Year’s resolutions? The shaming, should-ing, “why can’t you be better already” vibe of “total overhaul required” and “you better be all in” (or you’re a failure by February 1st). Not on my watch. In MY world, YOU get to pick the habit - attitude - CEO outlook that you’d like to add next to your life because it’d make you feel HAPPIER, n...

There’s only ONE thing I’m trying to do this year in my business - and it’s not a strategy. No, it’s called “follow your gut” for every decision, no matter how small.  (Think, which client project should I work on today? Whose podcast pitch should I take? Which program or mentor should I invest in next? Does this content task REALLY belong on this week’s to-do list, or would it better match the en...

Here’s the problem with most productivity advice: it assumes you have infinite time as a grown-up (read: throw overtime at your problems) - or don’t have any kids hanging off you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into the “just do podcast interviews or record your reels or hop on video while your kids are at preschool” advice…  Which is totally spot on, and works amazingly well - IF you ha...

Because if your kids are different than anybody else’s, and so is the way you run your family (not to mention your business)....  Shouldn’t you get a little customized attention, rather than being thrown a copy of The 5am Club? I mean, you can’t cover special needs, homeschooling, night nursing, care and feeding of teenagers, or middle school grump sessions all under the same set of “do this at th...

You know how the washer always beeps RIGHT when you’re getting into a good flow on today’s client deliverable? (It’s that sneaky “work from home” distraction thing grabbing you again.) Listen.  Whatever you do, DON’T break up a perfectly good flow state for an arbitrary timer. (Because your to-do list cross-off rate’s gonna show it.) Instead, here’s what I do.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your...

If you don’t have anything to look forward to, you won’t get up for work. And that includes your from-home business, too. See, you can’t just say “I love my clients” and call it good…. Or you’re going to burn out on the entrepreneur side of life. Because we don’t truly love our task lists. We love the way that working in our zone of genius makes us FEEL. So it’s time for a quick gut check….  You’v...

Resentment is actually the best spotlight you could ask for. It’s going to show you right where to look for your overgiving, overscheduling, and flat out overworking… if you’re willing to let yourself feel those uncomfortable emotions. Because it’s not a matter of maturity here.  It’s that you can’t keep functioning as a wife, mom, business owner, special needs caretaker, homeschool educator, taxi...

You’re not supposed to force yourself to get up and do one more thing. What you’re supposed to do is stop BEFORE it gets to be too much as a mom. (Or homeschooler or business owner.) Not make yourself get up and go through the motions again on empty.  Here’s the reason you feel like you’re always playing catchup…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusyl...

Resting first is the most backward productivity hack ever. But what changes about your schedule?  All kinds of things, right?  All of a sudden you’re deleting “answer my DMs” from your Wednesday morning at 10am calendar so you can drop by that local coffee shop and enjoy a rare morning out with your laptop instead (because you ALWAYS get the best content ideas when you’re outside the home without...

"Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today." ~ Greg McKeown Wait - you mean watching Netflix with my husband at night ISN’T the only “recovering” I need to do?? Nope. Not by a long shot. Because you want something a heck of a lot better than waiting 17 years till your kids are out of the house so you can enjoy all the peace and quiet again! Here’s how to marry your...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about reclaiming energy and meaning at work as women.  We’re bringing on a guest, Rebecca Visser, to talk about healing the overachiever mom.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Rebecca's freebie: learn.crescentcoaching.ca/career-alignment-starter-guide   If you're curious about that stran...

Listen - you can't keep doing ALL the chores AND building your business as a work-from-home mom. Chores + business + 0 kids? Fine. Chores + business + 1+ kids? Too much. So why are you pretending you can be a full-time stay-at-home mom AND a crazy ambitious CEO AND keep up everything around the house, plus do your workouts, plus have oodles of time to spend with your husband….. When we both k...

Why in the world would I choose to run a family of seven - AND operate a successful online business (not a side hustle) - plus homeschool - am I crazy?! No, and I’m not actually as busy as that sounds. Because I’m not actually doing all the housework and ALL the cleaning and teaching every single subject to every one of my kids on top of handling all of my marketing and lead gen and client serving...

Are you the mom who serves each and every one of her kids by doing their chores, cleaning their rooms, making them hot meals, cleaning up the kitchen, and grumbling about it the whole time?  That’s the idea some of us have when we hear “moms should serve their families.”  But would YOU want to be on the receiving end of that “service”? Let’s try a different scenario…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free...

Are you so far into the weeds of mom life that you can’t even imagine this glorious, mythical place of doing less around the house for your family? Like you don’t even know how outsourcing would WORK for your current setup of finances and small kids and “always shrinking your favorite top” laundry helpers? Then it’s time to get some super easy delegation hacks going - but first, we have to dig int...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about ditching willpower and getting support as a working parent.  We’re bringing on a guest, Amy Briggs, to talk about the invisible load in modern parenting (and what we can do about it!).  You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/   Her links: Check out the Aviva website Download Aviva on the App Store...

You’re already making good money but it’s all held together by the seat of your pants…. Which means what you ACTUALLY need most of all is time.  Because the one thing you know for sure is that the money's nice, but you can’t keep going like you are right now - not if you want a $250k-a-year business. ‘Cause to do that, you’ll need more VAs.  More clients.  More $20k months.  And all those hav...

Where in the world did we get this idea??  The one that says, “moms aren’t allowed to like their lives, ‘cause if they do, they’re not being unselfish and that’s not allowed”? Look – “It is not selfish to set up your life in a way that suits you.” (Allie Casazza.) Are you having trouble with that? Is it too radical for you? I know you’re practically a martyr to your idea of what a family should be...

You’re still holding onto a lot of the client onboarding support, repeatable operations tasks, DM templates whenever you’re social selling, and keeping the discussion moving during all the team meetings.  (When really, you ought to train your OBM to do that for you.) So what’s going to happen 9 months from now? 3 years from now? What’s your resentment level going to be like THEN? You’ve got this!...

You’re thinking: I’ve got an entire van-ful of kids - I won’t get peace and quiet again for another twelve years! Me as mom of 5: Are you the grown-up, or are they?? I mean, I get that they’re loud. I get that that many kids make a LOT of messes.  But who said they get to run all over you?  Disobey whenever you ask them to bring their dishes to the sink?  “Forget” to hang up the towel on the floor...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about upleveling back to your favorite self.  We’re bringing on a guest, Katie Dragos, to talk about what it means to look at your whole self as a working mother - and bring every part of you back online.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as an entrepreneur mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/   Katie's links: Website - https://katiedrag...

You’ve got the hobby time reminder on the calendar every single day, for goodness’ sake – yet somehow, it never seems to happen…. While the productivity experts tell you you’ve done everything you need to and it’s not their fault why hobby time isn’t happening for you. Rewind time…. Yes, it IS somebody’s fault that you aren’t getting to knit that cute winter beanie – because there was one more ste...

If leading is serving, but serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing? Remember, you’re the mom AND the CEO. The manager of your family.  You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything. And I don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 50% of it!) You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yo...

Have you ever created this amazing schedule for yourself to follow, started your day, and then realized that you lazed around during two of your key periods and didn’t get everything done? This is the exact problem a client came to me with at the end of our work together, and here’s what I told her. Because I don’t think you’re actually skipping out on work. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily...

As much as I talk about schedules, here’s the real truth that all the efficiency gurus out there won’t tell you. You can’t fix a too-full calendar by simply scheduling better. It’s a house of cards about to fall down. Every time you say, “What, again?! I don’t have time for this!” . ...That’s what I’m telling you.  You can’t construct your schedule to only work in the “everything’s going perfectly...