Everyone has opinions about the holidays and trying to manage everyone’s expectations creates a very exhausting and overwhelming holiday season. To feel present and balanced during the holidays you must be do things you want to do. You have two options when it comes to managing other’s expectations this holiday season and in this episode I will break down each of them. Own your holiday experience and let other’s own theirs. This is part 2 of the 3-part series on balance during the holidays.
During the holidays there are often dozens of additional tasks that need to get done. And even though we want things to run smoothly, what we really desire is to be present. The holidays are a time of laughter, cozy conversations, good food and a warm house but often that need to get it “just right” takes away from our ability to be present. In this two part series I will breakdown the 3 most common things that create imbalance during the holidays and teach you how to overcome each of them with ease.
Nicole felt like an imposter in her job. Even though she had been at her company for over a decade, her brain continued to tell her that she wasn’t good enough. She was convinced the only way to manage life as a working mom was to pull back in her career. But in coaching, she learned how to step back from the imposter voice and shift it into something positive. She started naming and believing what made her exceptional as an employee, mom and human and her confidence increased. In this episode, Nicole shares several tools that helped her manage her imposter thoughts and create a balanced and fulfilling working mom life.
After becoming a mom, I wrestled with the idea of quitting my job but felt trapped in golden handcuffs. I needed to feel sure that quitting was the right move, but I never felt 100% certain. It took a year of soul searching to feel the inner peace to finally quit and in today's podcast I’m sharing how I got there.
We spend over a third of our awake life at work. So, having a job that you want to go to every day is important, but is it necessary for creating work-life balance? If it is true, then you might just be chasing a perfect set of circumstances that will never exist. In this podcast I will share why a fulfilling job is NOT in fact required when creating a life that feels balanced and talk you through what is necessary instead.
Erika is a past client who recently implemented the belief that achieving more does not mean working more. As a recovering “hyper-doer”, Erika always tried to fit one more thing in and check one more thing off her list which caused her to always feel exhausted and overworked. Today, Erika has learned how to contain her work so that she (and her brain) stop working at whatever time she chooses. In the last year she has replaced her corporate salary with entrepreneurship, working far less than ever before. In this interview, she shares exactly how she got out of the thought pattern “I should be doing more” so that she could actually enjoy the life and success she created.
Family is your #1 priority, but are you actually prioritizing them? Is your work getting your best self while your family gets the leftovers? In this episode I’m spilling the truth about what a boundary is and what it takes to create (and stick to) them between work and home. There are 3 things that are keeping you from holding to your boundaries, people pleasing, perfectionism and hyper-doing and I will explain what it takes to overcome each of them.
When someone is moving from an imbalanced life to a balanced life, they go through 5 stages. In today's episode I'm going to walk you through each of those five stages so that you can see the whole process, be able to self-identify which stage you are in and understand what it takes to move from one stage to the next.
