FAITH-DRIVEN BUSINESS PODCAST Welcome to Off-Balance, the podcast for entrepreneurs who are building businesses, raising families, and growing in faith, all without losing sight of what matters most. I’m Dr. Brooks Demming, business coach, author, and creator of the R.I.S.E. Coaching Framework, where I teach entrepreneurs how to build resilience, set healthy boundaries, and lead with confidence. I believe resilience isn’t built in the calm, it’s built in the chaos (usually while reheating ye ...
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Alyssa Wolff Work/Life Balance Coach For Business Moms Podcasts
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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Alyssa Wolff - Work/Life Balance Coach for Business Moms
How does getting 20 hours back a week sound? Mom life is easy for me. And by the way, I’m working from home (plus homeschooling!) with 5 kids. Ready to give yourself permission to quit? The way I do scheduling allows you to grow through the hard phases of building a business alongside a family, leveling up your CEO self alongside your capacity to hold. What you end up with is a way closer relationship with your husband - your kids - even your clients! - because you’ve built the daily lifesty ...
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Perpetually serving (‘cause you’re the mom and CEO), or letting yourself take time off?
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4:31Are you the mom who serves each and every one of her kids by doing their chores, cleaning their rooms, making them hot meals, cleaning up the kitchen, and grumbling about it the whole time? That’s the idea some of us have when we hear “moms should serve their families.” But would YOU want to be on the receiving end of that “service”? Let’s try a di…
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This is what “I don’t do the housework” looks like as a CEO mom.
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6:42Are you so far into the weeds of mom life that you can’t even imagine this glorious, mythical place of doing less around the house for your family? Like you don’t even know how outsourcing would WORK for your current setup of finances and small kids and “always shrinking your favorite top” laundry helpers? Then it’s time to get some super easy dele…
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72 | From Loss to Legacy with | Debbie Simmons
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44:20What if the question that keeps you stuck is the very thing you need to surrender? This conversation with Debbie Simmons travels from the heartbreak of losing quadruplets to the hard-won hope of adopting nine children, welcoming 15 grandkids, and building a nonprofit that strengthens families at scale. Along the way, we explore identity beyond perf…
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Ditching Willpower + Getting Support as a Working Parent with Amy Briggs
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21:30Today we have a bonus episode for you all about ditching willpower and getting support as a working parent. We’re bringing on a guest, Amy Briggs, to talk about the invisible load in modern parenting (and what we can do about it!). You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Her links: Check out the …
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What happens when you scale your business - but without the mom overload.
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4:15You’re already making good money but it’s all held together by the seat of your pants…. Which means what you ACTUALLY need most of all is time. Because the one thing you know for sure is that the money's nice, but you can’t keep going like you are right now - not if you want a $250k-a-year business. ‘Cause to do that, you’ll need more VAs. More cli…
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Does this count as “being too selfish” when you’re a business mom? (Nope.)
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5:21Where in the world did we get this idea?? The one that says, “moms aren’t allowed to like their lives, ‘cause if they do, they’re not being unselfish and that’s not allowed”? Look – “It is not selfish to set up your life in a way that suits you.” (Allie Casazza.) Are you having trouble with that? Is it too radical for you? I know you’re practically…
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71 | Inside a Foster Mom’s Fight with | Khristina
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37:06Start with a neighbor’s knock and a teenage girl who says yes to helping, then fast‑forward to a woman who has turned that yes into a life shaped by care. We sit down with Khristina, a certified clinical medical assistant and devoted foster mom, to trace her path from bedside empathy to courtroom endurance, and why she chose “fostering to keep” eve…
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Do you want to love your business 5 years from now? (No matter what your family season is!) Do THIS.
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7:44You’re still holding onto a lot of the client onboarding support, repeatable operations tasks, DM templates whenever you’re social selling, and keeping the discussion moving during all the team meetings. (When really, you ought to train your OBM to do that for you.) So what’s going to happen 9 months from now? 3 years from now? What’s your resentme…
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Introverts, businesses, alone time, plus 5 kids in the mix?!
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3:25You’re thinking: I’ve got an entire van-ful of kids - I won’t get peace and quiet again for another twelve years! Me as mom of 5: Are you the grown-up, or are they?? I mean, I get that they’re loud. I get that that many kids make a LOT of messes. But who said they get to run all over you? Disobey whenever you ask them to bring their dishes to the s…
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70 | Design Your Life, On Purpose with | Morgan Gutierrez
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35:01Ever feel like you’re checking every box and still missing the point? We sit down with performance and mindset engineer Morgan Gutierrez to rebuild success from the inside out, starting with the thoughts that quietly script your days. Instead of running your life on default settings, Morgan shows how to design a blueprint that aligns with what you …
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Uplevel Back to Your Favorite Self with Katie Dragos
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14:52Today we have a bonus episode for you all about upleveling back to your favorite self. We’re bringing on a guest, Katie Dragos, to talk about what it means to look at your whole self as a working mother - and bring every part of you back online. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as an entrepreneur mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ K…
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Why me time after your kids get home from school isn’t working for you (when you’re also running a business).
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5:04You’ve got the hobby time reminder on the calendar every single day, for goodness’ sake – yet somehow, it never seems to happen…. While the productivity experts tell you you’ve done everything you need to and it’s not their fault why hobby time isn’t happening for you. Rewind time…. Yes, it IS somebody’s fault that you aren’t getting to knit that c…
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CEO leadership - applied to your family & chore list. (Working mom hacks!)
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4:33If leading is serving, but serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing? Remember, you’re the mom AND the CEO. The manager of your family. You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything. And I don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 50% of it!) You’ve got this! Alyssa Love …
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69 | Time Freedom for Busy Moms with | Alyssa Wolff
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30:50Drowning in the relentless demands of working from home while raising a family? Time management coach Alyssa Wolff shatters conventional productivity myths and offers a revolutionary approach to creating balance for overwhelmed mothers. As a homeschooling mother of five running a thriving coaching business, Alyssa speaks from experience when she ch…
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Balancing Both Ep. 9: The REAL truth about scolding yourself for not checking enough boxes yesterday in your WFH business….
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5:14Have you ever created this amazing schedule for yourself to follow, started your day, and then realized that you lazed around during two of your key periods and didn’t get everything done? This is the exact problem a client came to me with at the end of our work together, and here’s what I told her. Because I don’t think you’re actually skipping ou…
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68 | Reclaiming Purpose after the Fire with | Natalie Newgent
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49:27A single accident stole her shield but revealed her purpose. Former firefighter and peer support advocate Natalie Nugent sits down with us to unpack the hidden cost of serving on the front lines, and the surprising, practical steps that helped her rebuild after PTSD, depression, and identity loss. From a heartbreaking moment with her daughter to a …
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Balancing Both Ep. 8: The ONE truth about schedules that business coaches won't tell you… but I will!
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6:46As much as I talk about schedules, here’s the real truth that all the efficiency gurus out there won’t tell you. You can’t fix a too-full calendar by simply scheduling better. It’s a house of cards about to fall down. Every time you say, “What, again?! I don’t have time for this!” . ...That’s what I’m telling you. You can’t construct your schedule …
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67 | Mastering Your Mind: Breaking Free from Judgmental Chatter with | Richard Waldman
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32:04Ever feel trapped by that relentless, judgmental voice in your head? In this transformative conversation, Richard Waldman, retired Army veteran, author, and clinical pastor, unveils his revolutionary "Order to Life Circle" framework that's changing how people manage their inner critics and reclaim their mental freedom. Richard's journey from accoun…
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Balancing Both Ep. 7: What happens when you make “to do list zero” your top priority as a biz mom? (It’s not pretty!)
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5:082 more things just hopped onto your to-do list – which means your lunch break today is now 12 minutes shorter. But wait - that “to-do list elasticity” is actually the gremlin of all your “ease and flow” work hours. So stop putting up with “never done till 9pm” homework, and start doing THIS instead ‘Cause you’ll never change if you never try someth…
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66 | From Paychecks to Purpose with | AJ Bishop Andrews on True Wealth
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41:36Success that sparkles on paper can feel empty in real life, and that tension is exactly where our conversation with AJ Bishop Andrews begins. AJ is an internationally recognized speaker and wealth strategist who spent 20 years at major financial institutions, then chose legacy over ladder. She brings a candid origin story, a practical playbook for …
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Balancing Both Ep. 6: Behind the scenes of my quarterly planning process as a work-from-home mom & CEO!
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6:49Want to see how I pick my own set of biz priorities for myself? (When I'm sitting down to do the weekly content planning, podcast batching, or just backend launch task collecting.) Here’s how I plan my business priorities week to week, and all the nitty gritty tasks that go with them - because I built my workflows around guaranteeing that everythin…
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65 | Wealth Without Toil: A Christian Approach to Financial Independence with | Sebastian Uzcategui
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37:07Sebastian Uzcategui's journey from immigrant poverty to financial freedom wasn't just about building wealth; it was about discovering purpose. Growing up watching his parents work grueling 12-hour shifts with little to show for it, Sebastian realized early that traditional paths weren't designed to create true prosperity. "The house was nicer, but …
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Balancing Both Ep. 5: The best way to fit all your business owner hats in (plus the mom one) - WITHOUT maxing out your calendar?
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4:53What happens when you’re STILL not at your planned-for client load, but you’ve penciled in your daily work time blocks and you’ve hit calendar capacity? Facts are facts; the calendar doesn’t lie. You DON’T have enough time for everything you need to do. Here’s what I told my client when she complained to me that she couldn’t fit in her social media…
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64 | Breaking the Silence on Mental Health with | Charlotte Jones-Morgan
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48:12Mental health deserves the same routine care we give our teeth and heart, and today’s conversation shows how to make that real. We sit down with Charlotte, a clinical therapist who serves at one of Alabama’s largest psychiatric hospitals and leads community initiatives to bring mental health education into the church. She breaks down the biggest my…
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Balancing Both Ep. 4: Do THIS, and you’ll always know what belongs on next week’s to-do list! (Both the mom side and the biz side.)
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5:34Here’s how to triage your to-do list - because all a priority task list really is, is that you first brain dump out every single thing you’re working on, think you should be working on, or are planning to work on. (All of it. I don’t care if it takes up 20 pages of your Google doc; just get it all down!) And then this is what you do with every sing…
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63 | Raising Kind Kids: How Parenting with Compassion Can Prevent School Violence with | Teresa Ramirez
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29:26What if raising kind, compassionate children could actually help combat the violence we're seeing in schools and communities? Teresa Ramirez, dubbed the "Kindness Guru to Watch in 2025," believes it can, and she's on a mission to show parents exactly how to do it. When Teresa talks about parents becoming the "CEO of their family," she's not suggest…
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Is This It? When Purpose Feels Foggy with Joyce Awuro-Tani
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16:07Today we have a bonus episode for you when you’re wondering, is this it? When purpose feels foggy. We’re bringing on a guest, Joyce Awuro-Tani, to talk about purpose and mission as entrepreneurs. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Joyce's links: Get your copy of BLOOM: https://www.amazon.…
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Answering the Call of Purpose as Moms and Business Owners with Audrey Rindlisbacher
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36:14Today we have a bonus episode for you all about answering the call of purpose as moms and business owners. We’re bringing on a guest, Audrey Rindlisbacher, to talk about your overarching mission as an entrepreneur. You’ve got this! Alyssa Audrey's free audiobook: The Mission Driven Life Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusy…
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Balancing Both Ep. 3: Your priorities problem right now is actually a mom brain overload problem….
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4:46When you can’t handle another decision on your plate - it feels like you’ve got way too many things going on to even pick your top 2 or 3 priorities this quarter (let alone semester) - you actually don’t have a decision-making problem at all. It’s really a “my brain is too overloaded to process any more information” one. Because if you’d committed …
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Balancing Both Ep. 2: The ONE trick to declutter your to-do list as a working mom (plus a peek at mine!)
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7:02You’ve already put the need-to-get-done items ON that CEO to-do list..... Why don’t you live by the triage method and be the boss of your to-do list? It’s time to think critically about what’s ON your to-do list, not just show up to cross it off. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Subscri…
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62 | Fitness Without Limits: Jess Silver | on Reframing Ability
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Balancing Both Ep. 1: I need to homeschool AND run my business, but there aren’t enough hours in the week to do both! (Here’s my fix as a homeschooling WAHM.)
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5:10This case study comes from one of my clients, who’d scheduled her homeschooling block right before her work time block, but then found that her homeschooling time wasn’t necessarily always ending right when it needed to and thus she was getting shorted on her work hours to fulfill client projects. (Not a good thing, let me tell you!) Because you kn…
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61 | * Special Episode* Beyond the Diagnosis: Laura Reutter's | Journey of Strength
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KonMari and running an online business have THIS in common….
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5:32It’s all a matter of essentialism – of business decluttering – to get you as streamlined as you can possibly be – which means as reliable as possible about checking off those “have to happen by end of day” to-do lists. You see.... I wasn’t always an essentialist. I didn’t always have this ability to hone in on the most important thing in my to-do l…
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60 | Your Choice of Words Will Change Your Life with | Rodrika Jones
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Overcoming Anxiety: Effective Strategies for Managing and Overcoming the Stresses of Everyday Entrepreneurial Life with Elisha Lee
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19:11Today we have a bonus episode for you all about overcoming anxiety - effective strategies for managing and overcoming the stresses of everyday entrepreneurial life. We’re bringing on a guest, Elisha Lee, to talk about tactics and trends she’s seen as a therapist around anxiety, specifically for women in business. Hit play to find out what an actual…
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Scaling a business is like starting a master’s degree.
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7:34Newsflash: you’re already in a master’s level business program. When you’re scaling your business, or bringing on multiple team members for the first time, it’s kind of like you’re starting a new degree. It’s a finite time period, with noticeable workload, that produces a specific result. And everyone in your family knows to work around that (i.e.,…
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This is how I fix the “interrupting toddler” problem as a mom who also owns a company….
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4:03Listen - you’re allowed to hold boundaries with your toddler and reserve naptime for yourself & your business. You’re NOT being a bad mom for sending her back to her room at nap. Because part of working from home is having the confidence that everything your business needs today got checked off - and that directly crosses over into your mindset. Yo…
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59 | The Power of Female Conversations: Building Authentic Connections | Marissa Jones
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Stop freaking out at the next wave of clients as an entrepreneur mom… just hit the recharge button!
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6:34Every time you sign a few more clients (yay, money!), you get overwhelmed. Then you overwork to keep up, overcompensate, and inevitably, burn out. It’s become a pattern. So here’s my anti-brain-fog suggestion that lets you hit the reset switch and hit the ground running (AFTER you do this one thing!) to efficience-ize your schedule You’ve got this!…
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When your family needs you more than your business, but you still want to work….
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4:21How do you readjust your week’s workflow when you know you’re going to catch the family bug sooner or later… but you’ve got clients and students and deliverable projects to keep in the air?? (And inside you’re resenting your kids for ruining your nice, was-going-to-be-productive week and swapping it out for taking care of sickies!) The one thing I …
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58 | Faith Through Fire: Finding Strength in Life’s Hardest Seasons with | Dr. Kayla Bullard
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What happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?
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4:57You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to take time for, too. And the reason you haven’t done anything about it yet is that you’re on contract with eac…
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Best time to start your kids on chores (so you can have more CEO time)? Last month.
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4:58If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going. Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores…. ….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them. Because the first and primary way you’re going to have less on your plate to do around the house - i.e., permanently do less housework - is with …
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57 | Rediscovering Identity: Healing, Wholeness, and the Power of Your Story with | Erica Tatum
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Anti-self development hack: how to AVOID working on your patterns.
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5:20You’re battling the same sneaky story that your brain likes to tell you - that it’s your fault for not being gracious enough and understanding enough and reframing your frustration with your team…. Newsflash: you aren’t supposed to be resenting anything in your ideal everyday life! That’s a red flag that something’s wrong. So why are you sitting th…
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Which is better: morning selfcare or getting a head start on your business to-do list?
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4:35You’re already sold on morning routines, but which is better - knocking out 5 chores before the kids get up, or using your precious quiet hours to pour into yourself? Because you know you need to schedule in your personal recharge time on the daily, and morning’s one of the easiest times to actually guarantee it…. (Aka, win-win for your scheduling …
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56 | Faith Without Borders: Stéphane Akoki’s | Journey from Poverty to Purpose
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Smarter Not Harder Ep. 8: Your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.
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4:31Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours. If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue. Listen - your task list does not have the ability to burden you. (From Allie Casazza.) It’s how you think about it that’s affecting you. You’ve got …
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Smarter Not Harder Ep. 7: Do NOT listen to this kind of time management advice - unless you want to stay stuck as a mom growing her online business!
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3:59You know WHY the "fit everything in" hacks you’ve been trying haven’t worked for you yet? Because they’re not the full picture. They’re just the strategy part. Those gurus are forgetting that you have kids, and you can’t just wake up at 5am every day to bang out 4 hours of work like nothing else exists. You have luteal cycles. You have motivation …
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