What’s it going to take to get promoted and advance your career in 2024? I asked this question to executive coach and promotion strategist, Stacy Mayer, who explained that the first step to getting promoted is ownership. We need to decide, as women, what we want out of our career and what we are willing to do (and not do) to get it. In today’s episode, Stacy shares with us what it takes to own your advancing career, how to get exposure to your boss’s boss through strategic ally meetings and the #1 thing you can do, right now, to lay a foundation for a promotion by the end of the year.

I’ve been selecting a word of the year for the past 20 years, so I know a thing or two about not just how to select a word but how to make it an effective practice. In today’s episode, I’m sharing why the word-of-the-year practice is important if you want to create an ambitious and balanced life this year, I’ll give you my quick 3-step process on how to select a word, and most importantly I will share exactly what you need to do in order to keep it top of mind, so it can fuel you all year long.

The #1 mindset to help you get unstuck and meet all your goals this year is: I can figure it out. This one thought, as you learn to cultivate it, will help you to move towards your goals and create the both/and life you want. There’s no settling this year working moms, this is the year that you stop over working, you get yourself into a job that you love and you make yourself a priority. In this episode, I’ll be sharing why this “I can figure it out” mindset is important for 2024 and how it will help you get unstuck as well as 5 things to expect when you start cultivating it.

The motherhood identity crisis is the internal questioning that happens after you start having kids. “Who am I?” and “What do I want?” are fundamental questions that need to be answered in order for you to continue operating as an ambitious woman. In today’s podcast I am sharing with you two reasons why women experience an identity crisis after becoming a mom and what they can do to help themselves through it.

The fastest way to get to the balanced and fulfilling working mom life you desire is to love your current working mom life. When you need something to change, you feel dependent on it for happiness. When you feel satisfied and happy with the life you already have, you feel more confident in yourself and your ability to navigate through any changes you desire. In today’s episode, I am explaining why the fastest way to make a change is to love your life without it changing.

As the year ends, your brain is seeking closure for the things that have taken place and is ready to reset for the year ahead. In today’s podcast I want to teach you the #1 end-of-year practice that will make this reflection time effective and energizing. It will help your mind focus on all of the good that happened this year, show you exactly how to grow and improve and give specific next steps to move forward into the new year. I’m teaching this entire process right here on this episode and giving six tips to ensure that the practice is 100% effective.

Coaching or therapy? This is a question that comes up for women that are trying to decide what kind of help they need. When should you hire a coach instead of a therapist? How does coaching and therapy differ? What should you expect in coaching? By the end of today’s episode, you will have clarity on which path to take to help you meet your goals.

There are 6 common mistakes that create stress and overwhelm for working moms during the holiday season. During this mini-series I will cover each mistake and teach you how to correct it. In today’s episode I dive into mistake #6: not scheduling times for rest and fun. Without time set aside to rest, your “free time” during the holidays will be snatched up with doing more and checking one more thing off your list. The best way to ensure you have the rest and fun you want this season is to calendar it in. In today’s episode I will offer 2 types of rest you should put in your calendar as well as some ideas for what to do with that time.