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

One of my superpowers is making tweaks to your schedule - getting you that alone time - helping you hit those business priorities - make the daily progress on your goals - and freeing up a surprising number of hours for your business. I’m great at noticing the parts of your day where you can, with a little creativity, make massive amounts of time to scale your new business. At not only helping you...

I see inside a lot of businesses as a productivity coach - and today it's time to distill some of these behind the scenes insights for you so you can get the benefit! Today's topic: the 3 mistakes I see driven, productive moms making in their daily lives when they’re busy scaling their work-at-home business. Because I want you to take the fast track to success. I want you to take the (to...

If your CEO day is going off the rails, here’s a little pep talk for you: Don’t let your entire day be shot just because one 2-hour segment of it got out of whack. Seriously. That’s 2 hours, out of 24.  You have all the rest of your day to play with. (Well, not play, but you know what I mean.) You weren’t fooling around. You just got derailed in your day. BUT - it doesn’t have to be the norm for y...

Have you ever considered reiki as selfcare?? Today’s guest, Amanda Fortin, talks about how she learned to support and take care of herself through the process of becoming a reiki practitioner.  (She helps women learn and implement what nurturing yourself means to them - which is very close to my own mission of un-frazzling everyone’s life!) Pop in your earbuds & listen.... Amanda's Site +...

These days, you have to do a whole lot of spadework before you’re allowed to start something. ​I mean, before you can make a change to your workout habits, you’re supposed to research everything ad nauseum, buy just the right gear, set up your schedule, fill the latest and greatest water bottle – whatever happened to “just trying it” with a little jog-around-the-block habit for 30 days? ​Why all t...

Let’s play myth busters again with a common concern of growing and scaling business owners: when do I know it’s time to delegate? When am I allowed to outsource? Here we go. Myth or truth: You can only outsource after you’ve learned to do everything in your business yourself. You’re allowed to delegate, but only after you’ve had your first successful launch. You need to hit your first six-figure y...

Ever wondered how to run your sales process effectively without it taking over your life as a busy mom and business owner?? Today we have a bonus episode for you all about Efficient Sales Conversations for Mom CEOs, with guest Gwen Tinsley. And I’m sure as business owners we can all agree that we LOVE her mission to help female entrepreneurs turn sales conversations into clients happy to pay our p...

What happens when your kids get home from school?  What does that do to your work hours? What do you WANT that to do to your work hours? This is what one of my clients came to me with recently. She was looking forward to the start of the summer break season, but also practically evaluating her schedule and cutting down on client hours so she could spend more time with her kids. Here’s how she did...

Because you can't possibly NOT record more episodes faster, find 9 other things to delegate to your VA, throw your freed-up time at the top 2 revenue generating activities for your business, and clarify your CEO schedule (so you have both the white space and the energetic times you need) after getting an efficiency overhaul. 'Cause with more time for clients, content creation, launch pla...

This client came to me with what seemed like an overwhelmed schedule issue, that really turned out to be a boundaries problem - so if you think this might be you, listen in. She was a very successful business owner, but she couldn’t seem to make her family life work the way she wanted it to.  Her son wouldn’t obey her chore requests, constantly interrupted client meetings (to the point that she wa...

If you’ve been feeling in the weeds of ordinary, mundane mom life lately - if you need a wake-up call to get back in your purpose and back on track to your God-given goals for your humming-along-nicely business - then here’s a quote for you today. “Are you more committed to keeping the people around you comfortable, or are you more committed to your own” purpose? That’s from Cait Scudder. And you...

(First, we’re cheating: your business and your home life get separate task lists.) ‘Cause I’m sorry, writing launch emails is a totally different head space than prepping the Instapot. But only doing 3 things is going to force you to prioritize your day.  Because if you limit your to-do’s, you’ll finish them every single time. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mo...

Newsflash: You do not have to “earn” your way to relaxation and time off. Because ease is not being lazy. Here’s what I’m talking about: “You have to learn to get comfortable with ease.” That’s a quote from Allie Casazza. But is this a struggle for you? I’m guessing it is, because I’m a self-driven, high-achieving girl with a family and a business – and I found this a hard concept to wrap my head...

How many of those "need to schedule the next dentist appointment" or "buy my 4-year-old's next season wardrobe" or "plan the family birthday party meal for 10 people" mom to-do's do you have on your mental to-do list? Just sitting there, waiting for you to be able to get around to them? And is it a struggle to find time to complete these extra personal tasks...

Don't do what I did. Yes, this is me, the productivity expert, talking. When I was 6 weeks into starting my online business, I got a case study opportunity and used that to pressure myself to overdeliver. You see, I didn't have a website up - at least, I had a domain name, and some badly written pages, and a bunch of horrible graphics (graphic design from scratch is one of my weak points...

What's going to happen to your business if you're a work-at-home mom who's only got 10 hours a week to devote to business needle-moving activities? And is this going to be a death knell to your business ambitions, or can you wriggle any way around this hard hours line? The inspiration for this came from one of my clients, who's got 4 kids at home, 1 still an infant and thus nap...

All right, time to get real with you: here's why working through the weekend is the most inefficient use of your time as a mom biz owner. 'Cause you've got a whole bunch of mom things to do on the weekend, NOT enough time to be frantically writing those launch emails or creating all the graphics for your next carousel post.  You're supposed to be taking a day for all that food...

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about Turning Layoffs Into Launches. We’re bringing on a guest, Megan Tobler, to talk about how she got kicked out of the corporate world into the business one - literally! - and had to make her own way - and in the process, discovered a life that was far more than she could have dreamed of.  You’ve got this! Alyssa Megan's links: Website: www.selfsta...

Unless you have ironclad off time boundaries, you’re going to naturally view the weekend as the “catch all” for whatever chores and tasks you didn’t have time to get to over the work week - pretty natural to have that view. And then, you spend all of Saturday cramming in your food prep and your house cleaning and your “run the kids to something fun” on top of the 5 different things you didn’t get...

Guess what - I wasn’t one of those kids who ran lemonade stands and always knew she wanted to start a company. In fact, I was determined that I would never be an entrepreneur. They were “those people.”  They took risks. They thought outside the box. They were creative. And that wasn’t me, or so I told myself. So I kept right on trucking in my daily life, down the path that I had set.  Until I came...

Are you feeling stuck, confined, overscheduled at the thought of building your own “best life” or “mom productivity routine” or all that stuff? Does creating your best weekly calendar sound like just another hoop to jump through, another rigid schedule to keep, that you don’t really want to do? This is where one of my busy clients was when she came to me, and here’s how I turned her reluctance on...

If it were all about to-do lists, I could just send you home with “the 7 essential hacks to crush your to-do list” and you’d be done and good forever. But it doesn’t work that way. What you put on your to-do list, when you make time for it, how much time you choose for it, when you’re taking breaks between it – all that’s to do with your mindset. And unless those pieces are in place, you won’t act...

(Re-shared with permission from Tiffani's podcast.) Struggling to say no? Feeling overwhelmed with all the demands on your time? In this episode, Tiffani sits down with Alyssa, a productivity coach and mother of five, to talk about the power of setting boundaries. We dive into why women—especially moms—struggle to say no, and how you can take back control of your time without guilt. Alyssa sh...

The best work/life balance rhythms aren't static; the best work-from-home family routines aren't set in stone. Babies grow, which means their sleep and food needs change to match. (You have lots of experience with this already!) Well, your business grows, too.  Your client load increases You're in a launch, and you need someone else to make lunch for the family each day of open cart...

Because those are two different things. And I don’t think most mompreneurs realize the difference. See, being “interested” in change is usually thought to be enough. You’re doing all the things, researching, talking about it, talking up what you’re going to do, what the best options are, etc. But you’re not actually out there, making that calendar availability change. Outsourcing something differe...