Last week I challenged my client, Lindsay, to do something luxurious. Something that felt a little excessive (maybe even a little irresponsible). As a high achiever, her brain was stuck in trying to make the most of her time and I wanted her to focus less on productivity and more on doing things that simply felt good. She accepted my challenge and in today’s episode I am offering the same challenge to you. You deserve to live a life of luxury, a life of great comfort! I will give you several ideas that Lindsay and I came up with and share more about what this challenge is and how irresponsibility, guilt and a lack of worthiness are getting in the way, and then what to do about them.

There are 4 things you need to believe about yourself and your future if you want to meet your goals as an ambitious working mom. Your goals, the things you want in life, are not going to just happen by chance…it is the belief in them happening and how they will happen that makes achieving them inevitable. Today is part 4 of a 4-part series on the thoughts that you have about yourself and in this episode I am focusing on the thoughts that you have about your future and how important those thoughts are to you achieving all of the goals and dreams that you have for your life.

Believing “I am doing it right” and “I’m giving them enough” are two essential beliefs for ambitious and balanced working moms. You need to be feeling like you are making right choices for your family, and you need to feel like you’re spending enough time with your kids. It’s about rightness and enoughness. This is part 3 of a 4-part series on the thoughts that you have about yourself and today we’re focusing on the 2 essential thoughts you need to have about yourself as a mom.

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.