You’re ready to walk out of your office and then…a last-minute
request comes in. What do you? Do you leave anyway and risk letting people down or do you stay and compromise on your priorities. In today’s episode I share the truth about this moment and why it is so difficult to follow through with your boundaries and I offer a 4-step process to handling the emotions that come up with last minute requests.
You don’t need to lower your standards in order to create work-life balance and you don’t need to settle for B+ work. Instead you need to reprioritize; to trade off being available to your coworkers to being available to your family. To trade off feeling 100% prepared for every meeting and presentation to being 75% prepared and trusting yourself for the rest. In today’s podcast I will share with you why reprioritizing is not lowering your standard and walk you through 10 examples of what needs to be reprioritized in order to feel balanced.
Achievement, success, and recognition are all values that many women don’t like to admit are important to them. But the problem is not that these values are bad or wrong, it’s that they’re not balanced with rest, leisure and fun. In today’s podcast, I share why each of these values are important to your success as a working mom and what it will take to find balance while striving for them.
Hope is a requirement if you’re going to reach your goals as a working mom. When you feel fueled with hope you are able to problem solve, troubleshoot and remain on track toward your goals but when you feel hopeless, you spin in disbelief, impossibility and feel immobilized by challenges. In today’s episode I am sharing two very specific examples of what it looks like to go after your goals when you’re fueled with hope or when you’re not.
Letting your body experience good emotions like joy, success and pleasure does not come naturally, in fact, it takes practice. In today’s episode, sex coach Danielle Savory shares about why it is hard for women to receive pleasure and some simple ways to do it. In this interview, we discuss creating a safe place to experience good feelings, the impact it will have when you let those good feelings in and why learning to have better sex is the easiest way to do it.
There are 3 common reasons women don’t ask for help, even when they know it would relieve pressure, lessen the overwhelm and bring balance. In today’s episode, I am going to share what is hidden underneath each of these reasons and the first step you need to take if you want to become someone that delegates or asks for help more.
It’s OK for your kids to be unhappy. It’s OK for them to cry uncontrollably when you leave them. Your kids are allowed to feel whatever they want to feel because it doesn’t mean that you’re a bad parent. When you try to make sure your kids are always happy, it leaves you feeling exhausted and out of balance because you are trying to control something (or someone) that is ultimately uncontrollable. In today’s episode I want to offer you another perspective to your kid’s emotions that will allow you to feel more connected and calm in the midst of their big feelings.
Erin is on the executive leadership team at a marketing firm and through coaching went from feeling burnt out and overwhelmed as a working mom to feeling calm and balanced. In this interview Erin speaks of how her identity, before her daughter was born, was found in her career and what it took for her to separate herself from her job so she could make the necessary changes to leave work at work, to shut off her brain after a long work-day, to control her schedule and energy and ultimately feel calm and in control of her working mom life.
