Beste Managing Life podcaster (2024)

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70 | From Mom Rage to Peace and Calm with Rachel Fernandez 38:16

4h ago38:16

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Rachel Fernandez is an anxiety management coach and the host of the Ditch Mom Anxiety podcast where she helps Christian working moms regulate their emotions by calming their nervous systems. After struggling with debilitating anxiety through miscarriage, pregnancy, and eventual motherhood, Rachel learned the importance of supporting her nervous sys…

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69 | Why You Keep Doing the Things You Promised Yourself You Wouldn’t 16:41

2d ago16:41

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How often have you tried to do things differently, either promising yourself that you wouldn’t do this thing or you would do that thing? And the day goes by and you find yourself doing exactly what you promised yourself you wouldn’t or not doing what you promised yourself you would. As a working mom, it is so easy to find yourself feeling stressed …

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68 | Exhausted? Wiped Out? Running on Fumes? Why Stressed Out Working Moms Feel So Tired 18:17

16d ago18:17

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As a professional and a mom, this working mom life can leave you feeling like you are literally just getting through the day, desperate for the next time you can lay your head on the pillow. I have felt like that and when we are so exhausted that we feel like we are running on fumes, it is hard to find joy and be present in this season that we keep…

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67.1 | The Resilience Experience - Be Calm and Present This Christmas 6:58

20d ago6:58

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It is so easy to get caught up in the chaos of the end of the year. The drive to get it all done, to get it all done right and to give everyone a Christmas they will remember means that you end up running around like a headless chicken, not enjoying it and not able to remember any of it yourself. In The Resilience Experience, you will have an oppor…

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67 | Good Mom Syndrome. It's Causing You So Much Stress 25:34

23d ago25:34

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Being the good mom is exhausting. Carrying the mental, emotional and physical load that comes with trying to do it all and be it all is causing you huge stress and anxiety. Good mom syndrome is prevalent all over the world so you are not alone. But it is actually getting you the opposite results to what you want. The stress of trying to be the good…

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66 | The Best Way to Get People to Listen for Working Moms 22:16

1M ago22:16

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As a working mom with a career you love and a home that you want to give your best to, you carry so much of the mental and emotional load of life at both places. And sometimes all you want is for someone to do what you ask of them. But when you do finally ask someone to help you, nobody listens! ‘Are their ears painted on?’ is something I often wan…

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65 | Why We Lose Our Spark and How to Get it Back With Leigh Rose 28:51

1M ago28:51

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Can you remember when you had spark in your life? A time when you weren’t feeling the mom guilt you feel when you are trying to do everything, are stressed and overwhelmed but still seem to be failing? Maybe you still do have that spark but its just a bit dimmer? Or maybe it is shining bright! Wherever you are, listen in to this episode! Leigh Rose…

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64 | Your Attention Is a Gift. Give It Where It Matters Most 30:15

1M ago30:15

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Your attention is a most wonderful gift you can give to those around you and to yourself. It has a huge impact on your relationships and on your performance but it is also incredibly fragile. We are so easily distracted and our attention can be broken by the quickest glance at something else! In this episode, we look at the three systems of attenti…

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63 | 5 Reasons Confident People Have More Energy 22:34

2M ago22:34

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Have you ever noticed how confident people appear to have so much energy? And how lacking confidence can mean that generally, or after a specific event or situation, you are left feeling exhausted? This episode digs a little deeper into how being confident and certain allows us to do the things that give us energy and also to not do the things that…

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62 | LIVE COACHING: How Values Can Guide the Way You Work and Parent 36:03

2M ago36:03

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In this vulnerable, honest coaching session, Amy wanted to find out how she could set boundaries without feeling guilty. What it came down to was that she was trying to meet two different sets of values, one that belonged to her and one that belonged to the world. By figuring out what her values are and what it means to live by these values, she co…

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61 | Sick of Trying to Lose Weight? One Reason It’s Not Happening That Nobody Talks About 14:17

2M ago14:17

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When you are a mum, losing weight becomes harder than ever before. So much changes and it just seems to become more and more of an effort. If you have found yourself trying everything under the sun when it comes to your weight loss as a working mom, listen to this episode where I talk about the thing that gets ignored when it comes to how we go abo…

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60 | You Have Time Even When You Think You Don’t With Lissa Figgins 37:13

2M ago37:13

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Do you wish you had more time? Does it feel like the to do list is never ending and you don’t have time to finish all the things that need to get done let alone have some time to do the things you love? In this interview with Lissa Figgins, time stewardship coach, we talk about how you DO have time and how asking yourself one question can change yo…

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59 | The REAL Key to Finding Balance 14:10

3M ago14:10

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As working moms, we are all after more balance. But when you think about balance, what does it mean to you? Is it two sides of a scale? Or is it balancing on a beam? While we spend a lot of time desperately trying to find balance, I believe that there is only one way to truly create balance in your life and I talk about it in this episode today. If…

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58 | Why You Struggle to Be Consistent 35:18

3M ago35:18

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How often have you ‘decided’ that today/this month/this year you are going to do something and you are going to stick to it? And by lunch time or within a week or a month, you realise that you are doing exactly what you said you weren’t going to do or you are not doing what you said you were going to do? You are not alone! Being consistent is hard …

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57 | Leading Yourself So You Can Lead Others as a Working Mom With Guest Angela Buckley 43:05

3M ago43:05

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In this hugely insightful interview with Angela Buckley, we talk about her journey of working motherhood and how she has had a very successful career while also spending real quality time with and instilling in her son the values of leadership, including the importance of community. It was truly an honour to share this time with someone who is so c…

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56 | It’s Not Your to Do List Stealing Your Presence 48:20

3M ago48:20

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Every working mom I have ever talked to or worked with has told me that she struggles with being present. She finds it hard to be with her children without thinking about all she has to do and she finds it difficult to focus on her work without being distracted by the endless list running through her mind. Today, I am here to tell you that it is NO…

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55 | Longing for a Life of Calm and Ease? You Can Have It! 32:51

4M ago32:51

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My mission is to help working moms build the mental muscles of resilience so that they can enjoy this busy season of life and can do so calmly and with peace and confidence. The truth is that you CAN be successful at work while being present with your family and building deep relationships with them without feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by it a…

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54 | The Road to Resilient - A Place of Calm, Confidence and Peace as a Working Mom 22:09

4M ago22:09

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Life as a working mom is stressful. You have so much to do. You feel guilty for doing or not doing things. There are so many expectations on you and needs that you are trying to meet. I have been there and have found myself in the spin that comes with feeling stressed and anxious all the time. This episode tells the story of how I moved from this p…

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53 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stay Present in the Moment With My Children? 35:20

4M ago35:20

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In this live coaching session, Amanda wanted some help figuring out how she could lose her temper less and could be more present with her children, giving them the attention they need and crave so that their cups can be filled. I loved the intentionality of this session where she was vulnerable enough to get to know what blockages she had that were…

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52 | Failing at Home and at Work? Success Is 3 Steps Away! 14:27

4M ago14:27

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When there are so many balls in the air, it is easy to feel like we are dropping some or not juggling them very well at all. As working moms, this can leave us feeling defeated and exhausted. But there are things we can do so that we can feel like we are succeeding and so that we can enjoy this season with more calm, feeling confident in the way we…

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51 | How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty 36:49

5M ago36:49

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Oooh, the discomfort of mom guilt! What a thing! It can rule our lives so much that we would rather give up our own boundaries and our needs in order to avoid it. This episode was a live that I did in my Facebook group which I would love to invite you to be a part of. You can join here: bit.ly/managingmumcommunity It gives you a new perspective on …

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50 | Hangry Children? Hangry Mum? Stop Making These Mistakes With Guest Adi St George 42:03

5M ago42:03

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'Hanger' is a term well known in our household. As a working mum, it can be hard to remember to feed myself the right foods let alone the children! When we don't feed our bodies properly, we experience a physiological shift that means that we cannot think clearly and thus, we do not behave the way that we want to. This conversation with nutritionis…

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49 | 3 Ways to Bust School Holiday Anxiety 17:31

5M ago17:31

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I know that the mid year school holidays can cause huge stress and anxiety. I have felt it myself and I have heard numerous mums talking about it in various places. So if you have felt a bit of dread about this period, you are not alone! I believe that there are ways that we can feel different about this time, however. Ways that, rather than leavin…

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48.1 | Find More Time Friday - How Being Resilient Can Give You More Time 14:57

5M ago14:57

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This final episode of this season of Find More Time Fridays talks about resilience and how building our resilience can allow us to show up in the best way possible while also giving us the capacity to make rational, logical decisions that lead us to having more time. If you want to dig into this more, you still have time to register for the Take Ba…

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48 | 3 Things Keeping You From Work Life Balance 24:01

5M ago24:01

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Achieving work life balance is something that I think many of us are trying to do all the time. I am interested by what causes us to be out of balance and also in what we can do to get back there. Here are three things we can stop doing so that we are able to achieve a closer state of balance. By giving these three things up, we will find that ther…

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47.1 | Find More Time Friday - The Relationship Between Time and Values 13:07

5M ago13:07

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I had a great session with a colleague once that highlighted so much to me about my relationship with time and also with money. I bring the exercise she did with me to this episode today so that you can benefit from the lesson I learnt about the relationship between our values and time, including how much time we have. In this third Find More Time …

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47 | 5 Questions to Shift Your Mindset as a Working Mom 29:26

5M ago29:26

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This episode is inspired by 5 questions I got from Marie Forleo, the author of a book called ‘Everything is Figureoutable’. I loved these questions and thought that as working mums, they can be so useful to help us be curious about where we are unsatisfied or stuck and where we want to make changes. When we know what is causing us discomfort in the…

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46.1 | Find More Time Friday - A Formula for More Time 8:22

6M ago8:22

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More time is something that we, as working moms, long for. And more specifically more me-time, time to slow down, breathe and perhaps do something for ourselves. I believe that this time comes from doing something in the moments when we feel like we have no time. And this formula offers a reminder for what you can do in the moment to help you have …

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46 | Build Boundaries Between Work and Home: Be More Organised With This Simple Tool 26:37

6M ago26:37

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Are you a fly by the seat of your pants kind of person? Do you wish you could be more organized but can't seem to figure out how (or perhaps even why?!) There is a fluster and chaos that comes with not having a plan in place and even though planning might feel uncomfortable to you, it makes such a difference to how productive you are. Today I outli…

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45.1 | Find More Time Friday - What Happens When You Think You Have No Time 10:23

6M ago10:23

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In preparation for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July, every Friday for the month of June will be Find More Time Friday where I will be bringing you a short bonus episode with some concept or thought or experience I have of how you can have more time as a working mom. To register for the Take Back Your Time Workshop on 2 July 2024, click he…

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45 | Never Have Enough Time? Stop Making These 3 Excuses 14:24

6M ago14:24

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Time is a finite thing and it can feel like it is slipping through our fingers. Have you ever found that there are times when you can get so much done that you suddenly have a bit of time to spare? If so, what was different about that situation? I would imagine that you possibly were enjoying the things you were doing and so there were no other dis…

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44 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stop Snapping and Be More Patient? 38:36

6M ago38:36

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Sarah had been struggling to keep her patience with her toddler and her husband and found herself snapping at them. Since becoming a mom and working on her business at the same time, she had lost sight of what she did to bring her joy and find her peace and she was looking for help in finding a way to be more patient and to remember what she loved …

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43 | The One Thing Working Moms Can Do to Slow Down and Be Calmer 24:43

6M ago24:43

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Calm is something I used to envy in other working mums, or even SAHM mums, that seemed to have it all together. I might have looked calm on the outside but underneath it all, I was paddling furiously to keep myself afloat, I was exhausted and behind the scenes was chaos. But I have learnt how to slow down, how to be calmer and more patient and I am…

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42 | Set Boundaries So That You Can Be More Productive With Mahnaz Sharif 39:41

7M ago39:41

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This episode is a fabulous conversation with Mahnaz Sharif all about boundaries and how setting boundaries can support our productivity and our wellbeing! Mahnaz empowers Mums whose business dreams are buried under family needs. Most mums know the feeling of being sandwiched between what their family needs from them and the business they want to cr…

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41 | My Journey From Hating Exercise to Completing a Half Ironman 15:48

7M ago15:48

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As a young girl, the thought of exercise made me feel exhausted, heavy and lethargic. I would do everything I could not to exercise. Little did I know that a few years later, I would be a rower, would be running half marathons and would be completing a half ironman. My story is one that I think that we could possibly all relate to in some area of o…

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40 | Feeling Stuck? 5 Ways to Move From Striving to Flow 22:29

7M ago22:29

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Are you feeling stuck in some area of your life? In your role as a working mom or in your role at work? In your health or in your relationships? Do you feel like you just can’t see way out of the situation and the way that things are going but you know that you want things to be different? Today's episode offers five steps to getting unstuck that I…

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39.1 | BONUS EPISODE 2 - The Impact of Stress on How Much Time You Have as a Working Mom 31:23

7M ago31:23

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You are stressed and overwhelmed and just wish you had a moment for yourself. The to do list goes on and on and you aren't sure when you are going to get it all done. You snap at the children, want to cry and feel like you are going to break at any moment. This episode looks at how this state of stress can lead to the fact that we have even less ti…

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39 | How to Close Your Laptop When You Still Have Things to Do 22:55

7M ago22:55

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At the end of the day, do you find it really hard to close your laptop and stop thinking about the to do list and all the things that you didn’t get done? Do you feel drawn back to it and find yourself working after hours or unable to be present with your family or even yourself? The overstimulation of all that is required of us during the day can …

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38.1 | BONUS EPISODE - 3 Ways You Can Take Back Your Time 12:17

7M ago12:17

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We all long for more time. Time to do the have tos and time to do the want tos! But it feels like there is never enough of this precious resource and we are running around trying to fit everything in while feeling flustered and exhausted. Today, I offer three practical ways that you can take back your time so that you can get more done in the day a…

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38 | Struggling to Stay Focused? Stop doing These 3 Things 15:12

8M ago15:12

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When the to do list is as long as our arms, it is so easy to jump from task to task, suddenly remembering that something needs to be done or reacting to a request for something from one of the many people who have needs or expectations of us. We are distracted, there isn't enough time to fit everything in and we end up feeling guilty for not workin…

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37 | Lesson’s Learnt About Living From My Daughter’s Open-Heart Surgery 25:12

8M ago25:12

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On 9 June 2022, my two-year-old daughter was wheeled into theatre to undergo open heart surgery. As I watched her prepare for the surgery and in the days following this ordeal, I was in awe of how she managed the whole process and it got me thinking about why she was able to do so with such calm and ease and peace. It made me think about how we cou…

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36 | Money vs Time. The Debate Between Working Full Time and Being With Your Children 18:46

8M ago18:46

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Do you feel like you are constantly chasing your tail, trying to balance the time you spend at work and the time you spend at home? Do you wish you had more time for your children and yourself and that you could give up some of your work time but you need the money? Does the work life balance seem impossible to find and you wish you could feel less…

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35 | 3 Ways Back to Me Time and What Brings You Joy and Balance 19:17

8M ago19:17

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Do you find that you never have a chance to do the things that you love? Or you actually can’t even remember what it was that you used to do that brought you joy? One of the biggest problems I have come across for working moms is finding ‘me-time’ or taking any time for ourselves if the time does come up or is offered to us. We end up out of balanc…

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34 | How Her Beliefs Caused Her Anxiety and How That Changed With Shan Wright 50:10

8M ago50:10

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Today, I had the great privilege of spending time with Shan Wright who lives in Indiana USA, a working mom of 4 and a registered nurse and wellness coach so we have a little bit in common! Shan’s passion for holistic healing and wellness grew after her experience with postpartum anxiety. She now shares the solutions she uses for intentional and pea…

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33 | LIVE COACHING: How Do I Stay Focused so I Can Get Everything Done? 27:03

9M ago27:03

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In this coaching call, Diane was looking for some help with time management. She came to me looking for strategies to shut out the noise and focus on what matters in every time block and each area of her life. We worked through what isn’t working for her. She was distracted and found that she wasn't productive when she had the time to be. She devel…

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32 | A Bit More About My Journey of Working Motherhood 🥳WITH A BIRTHDAY GIFT INSIDE🎁 17:53

9M ago17:53

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Today is my birthday and so I am excited to share a little bit more about where I have come from and where I am today. We look at the tools that I have used to make changes in my life and to transform it from one of striving and fluster and not doing anything properly to one of focus and feeing in control of my future, able to keep that work life b…

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31 | The Secret Weapon to Living a Slower, Calmer Life With Balance 26:49

9M ago26:49

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Sometimes we lie in bed and wonder how we could make a change to the relentless rush and hamster wheel of life. Or at least, I have done that many nights of my life! And I have found that there is one thing that I can do that can allow me the space and the freedom to slow down and to respond life the way that I want to, living it more intentionally…

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30 | Find the Focus You Need to Get Things Done as a Working Mum 10:25

9M ago10:25

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Once the children are settled at school and the year is in full swing, we still have to get back into the swing of work if we have been out of it over the holidays. I found that my work took a bit of a backseat while I was getting everyone ready and into the new school year and now I am back at my desk and need to hit the ground running! This can s…

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29 | VALENTINE'S SPECIAL: How to Connect With Your Husband and Feel ‘In Love’ Again 14:50

10M ago14:50

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Connecting with someone is the foundation of any relationship. If you do not connect with someone, it is hard to keep that relationship going. In the busy-ness of working and mothering life, there is little time to think about how we connect. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t and if we don’t, we don’t often take time to think about why not. Th…

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28 | Manage the Back to School/New School Exhaustion 15:08

10M ago15:08

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This is a busy season for working moms. After the holidays, we are flung into back-to-school activities with everything new whether it is a new class or a new school altogether, or just a new year after the festivities of the Christmas holidays! It can be exhausting and this exhaustion can cause us to be impatient, irritable and generally not the w…

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