Women want to feel fulfilled in their job, especially if they are going to leave their baby to go do it. For many women, motherhood is a transition where the question “What is my purpose?” resurfaces as they manage the push and pull of work and motherhood. But there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to understanding your purpose. When you truly understand what your purpose is and what it is not, it becomes a tool that motivates you in what you already do and also becomes a guide to new opportunities.

Let’s talk about overwhelm. Overwhelm doesn’t just happen to us. It’s an emotion our brain uses to communicate important questions. When we see overwhelm as a sign to stop and talk to our brains about what is causing the overwhelm, we can learn how to leverage it, instead of feeling bogged down by it. In this episode I will walk you through the 3 steps to leveraging overwhelm so you can feel more free, confident, and energized (ya, know…sort of the opposite of overwhelmed).

What big goals do you have for yourself? Do you want to make a certain amount of money? Do you want to reach a certain level in your career? Maybe you want to be a stay at home mom. Getting in tune with what it is you really want and then declaring that to yourself is an important part of having a regret free working mom life. In today’s episode I will be talking about declaring your dreams. I will talk about why your brain puts up so much resistance to dreaming and then share three magical things that happen when you allow yourself to say what it is you really want.

In today’s podcast I am interviewing Dr. Amy Beacom, co-author of the book The Parental Leave Playbook, which helps expecting parents take control of their transition into parenthood. In the book, Amy and her co-author break down the 3 phases and 10 stages every new parent goes through when taking parental leave and exactly how to navigate the transition with confidence and ease. In this interview we touch on the internal journey a woman goes through when they become a mom and the importance of creating a plan for the internal transition (as well as the external). We discuss how successful planning starts the moment you decide to expand your family and some practical tips for creating boundaries and feeling confident once you return to work.

If you were to write a resume for yourself as a mom, what would be on it? What would be your strengths, what would be your successes, how would you describe yourself as a worker? In today's episode we’re talking about you as a mom, specifically your beliefs about yourself as a mom. When you take the time to name who you are as a mom and what makes you good, work and mom life stop feeling so at odds with one another. Today, I am going to teach you a framework for thinking about yourself as a mom, called your mom-concept, that focuses on your innate strengths and will help your brain rebuild confidence in yourself as a mom.

At work, high achieving women are amazing at meeting goals, but when it comes to their personal life, they get stuck. Goals like balance, happiness and health feel almost unattainable. I've identified three reasons why high achieving women struggle to attain personal goals and in this episode I will speak about each of them and then offer a different way to approach personal goals so that you can create an action plan that actually works.

There are three beliefs that are at the foundation of work-life balance. I am enough. I am doing enough. I am good enough. These three beliefs make up the Enough Triad. When you believe you have done enough, you stop working late. When you feel like you are good enough, you stop needing to please everyone. And when you believe you are enough, you stop trying to prove yourself. At the core of all imbalanced behaviors is one of these three beliefs and in this episode, I'm going to talk about the inverse of each of them and how they create the foundation of an imbalanced life. In this rebroadcasted episode, I invite you to consider making “enoughness” your new year’s resolution.

Today is a rebroadcast of an early episode that focuses on understanding your true value. Your value is not found in your career, it’s not found in being a mom, it’s not found in your successes or accomplishments….it’s not found in anything you do, but instead in who you are. Separating your accomplished value from your human value is essential in a balanced life because it ends the script that is constantly nagging at you to do more and be more. In this episode I break down both your accomplished and human value and give you some tools to begin to separate the two.