If your internal dialogue about yourself and your work is primarily negative, meaning your thoughts tend to skew toward: I’m not good enough, I should be doing more, they’re going to find me out, I’m not very good… then you will likely always over prioritize work and not feel balanced. Today’s episode is part 2 of a 4-part series on the thoughts that you have about yourself, where we are covering four different areas of life and the impact your thoughts in those areas have. Today, I am covering the thoughts you have about yourself at work, how your thoughts drive your balanced (or imbalanced) actions and exactly what those thoughts sound like, so you can avoid them.

Today we are starting a 4-part series focused on the thoughts you have about yourself. Your thoughts play an important role in creating the ambitious and balanced working mom life you want. Your thoughts either make you feel satisfied and successful or they make you feel inadequate and unhappy. Over the next 4 weeks we will cover your thoughts on 4 key areas of life starting, today, with the most intimate area…your marriage. Having a relationship you WANT to be in is an important part of creating a balanced life. Today we will talk about why your thoughts have probably drifted away from your marriage, the types of thoughts that are not useful to you when it comes to having a loving relationship and I’ll share with you a few personal practices that will help you reconnect to your relationship.

How do you define success and how do you measure it? If success is based on your achievements, then it will always have you striving to do more. If it is based on feeling happy, then it will have you trying to control everyone and everything. In today’s episode I share why it’s important to define success FOR YOU and determine a simple metric to ensure you stay on track.

As a working mom your brain is likely always "on". You are constantly thinking about the things that need to get accomplished and the decisions that need to be made. For my client Cathy, these constant to-do’s, the second-guessing of herself, the need to make sure she bought the right products and was always prepared…this constant chatter in her head was preventing her from being happy and present in the way that she wanted. In coaching, Cathy learned several tools to help manage all of the thoughts in her head and the overwhelm that came with it and on today’s podcast she is sharing her top 4.

What you believe about yourself, your confidence, effects everything that you do. Your level of confidence effects how you feel about your work, how you feel about yourself as a mom and your ability to make decisions. My client, Ana, experienced a high level of self-doubt when she came to me for coaching, and it was effecting both her happiness and her potential to get a new job. But over the past 4 months, Ana has completely changed her relationship with herself, and she knows who she is (and likes who she is) on a level she has never experienced before. On today’s podcast I’m interviewing Ana and how she was able to make such a dramatic shift in such a short time and how it contributed to her recently getting a new job at a fortune 500 company.

A life without regret means that every day you are living with intention and presence. It means you know what you want in your life and are you going after it. But when you become a mom, many women find themselves stuck in, “what is really important in life?” or “what do I really want?” or “Is what I’m doing worth it?”. Answering these questions is a vital part of a have-it-all kind of life and in today’s podcast I am sharing 4 steps to living a life without regret, and a lot of my own journey through figuring out what that meant to me and how to go about having it.

Do you ever wish you could be a stay-at-home mom? Or maybe you don’t wish to be home with your kids ALL the time, but you just wish you could work less hours and be home with them more? I call this stay-at-home mom envy. In today’s podcast, I share about my own experience of stay-at-home mom envy and share with you the truth about where it comes from and why it pops up.

Scheduling in (and keeping) time for just you and you priorities is difficult. There never feels like enough time, you don’t want anyone to be disappointed or to feel like you don’t support them and so you either never schedule time for yourself and your priorities or you do but you’re constantly moving that time block around. However, if you want to stay a high achiever and learn to be more productive and focused in your time, holding to your own time blocks is a necessary skill. In today’s podcast I share with you 4 steps to scheduling and keeping time for just you.