In this in this week's episode I’m focusing on what it takes to be present. A balanced life is a present life. You want to be present for all the milestones that your kids will meet. You want to be present for the successes that you experience in your job. You want to experience all of the joy that comes from the life that you're creating. Oftentimes ambitious working moms struggle with being so present because we are doers and we go go go, so in this episode I want to breakdown exactly what being present means, the two most common things that take us away from being present and then give you 5 very practical strategies for becoming a present working mom.

A balanced life is a life of WANT-to. It’s a life that feels purposeful, motivating, fun and even easy. An unbalanced life is a life of HAVE-to. It’s a life that feels hard, forceful, and exhausting. Two women might have a very similar life with similar responsibilities but one will feel balanced because everything in their life feels like a choice – like a WANT-to and the other will feel imbalanced because they feel like they have no choice and they HAVE-to do the things they are doing. In this episode we are going to talk about the difference between a want-to and a have-to life and then explore the process of moving from have-to to want-to.

How would life be different if you were willing to fail and disappoint others? If you simply stopped avoiding it? Would you work less? Try to perfect less? Would you be more decisive? A balanced and successful life includes failures and disappointments. Our goal is not to avoid failure and disappointment, but it’s to build up a tolerance so we no longer avoid them. In this episode, we are going to talk all about failure & disappointment. What they mean, what our brains want us to think they mean, and ultimately learn how to build up a tolerance to feel them.

In this podcast today I’m going to talk about a word we all use that is often the source of imbalance: SHOULD. Working moms have a bad habit of shoulding. This is when you say “I really should…” or “I should have …” Shoulding is a habit that only makes us feel bad about ourselves and thus has to end in order to truly create a life of balance.

In this episode, I am going to talk about creating a work-to-home transition. This is the moment of the day that is the most crucial to creating work-life balance…

In this episode, I am going to talk about why you don’t need more time to be successful. That actually, success has nothing to do with time…

In today’s episode I'm going to be addressing one of the most important topics to creating balance in your life: your value…

In this episode, we are going to be talking about the missing link to creating a balanced life: commitment. Most people have some sense of what they need to do in order to create balance, they’re simply not doing it. That is why commitment is so important. When you are committed, you follow-thru, no matter what. In this episode I am going to break down commitment into 4 actionable parts and explain exactly what you need to be doing to achieve the ambitious and balanced life you desire.