Banishing Mom Burnout

Moms, the holidays are coming ... ready or not! Now is the time to block off space on your calendar for yourself. I'm calling these blocks of time "Important Meetings" or "Important Appointments" and I'm advising you to schedule them ASAP!

In this episode, I talk about signs I've experienced that burnout is on its way. This is a high risk time of year for Mom Burnout. Be on alert. Be warned. And take advanced precautions by schedu...

Money is power and until women have equal control and awareness of their money, they are forfeiting power. In this episode, I shine a light on what I have experienced and what I'm seeing regarding women being disengaged with their money and the reasons why.

My husband was in charge of all of the "money stuff," it was his "department."

I was like an ostrich with my head in the sand when it came to our money matters. And I knew it....

After realizing the impact of internalized patriarchy (IP) on mom burnout, I have come up with a strategy to deal with it. Join me today as I share this burnout "hack" with you.

Here's what I know about internalized patriarchy:

• It's internal, we cause it
• Men, in general, don't suffer from it.

(Disclaimer: I'm not sure how gender identification plays into this so I am referring to men and women to keep this concept simp...

Kelly Hollingsworth is a brilliant and masterful coach for coaches.

She has opened my eyes to so many things including internalized patriarchy, the need for equality in the home and how to engage powerfully with others. I have Kelly's guidance to thank for creating this podcast!

In this episode Kelly and I talk about how she is teaching mostly women how to engage powerfully with others and how this helps women make money.

We tal...

Step 4 of Banishing Mom Burnout is stop overmomming and use that time and energy to build your life outside of motherhood. One great way to do this is to read. Read... a lot. Reading is a fantastic way to escape/take a break without going anywhere. You can do it while semi-supervising your kids. You can do it while you wait for your kids at activities. Thanks to one of my favorite things, Audible, you can listen to books while mom ...

This summer wasn't the restful break I thought it would be, but I learned many valuable lessons that I'd like to share. These are lessons that will help you with parenting and mom burnout.

I sent my kids away this summer and was looking forward to some quality time-off from "momming." What I experienced was a shift from in-person to long-distance momming, as I dealt with two of my kids struggling while away from home.

Coincidenta...

Summer is upon us and it's time to take the ultimate mom break. How? By sending your kids to camp. Preferably sleep away camp. I can't think of a better way to push the escape button on momming. We're talking up to 7 weeks without kids!!!

In this episode I discuss my personal experience deciding to send my kids to sleep away camp. I address the mom guilt that many feel and recommend a book that helped me a lot: Homesick and Happy ...

As moms, our time and energy is undervalued. We give it away without question. We give our families carte blanche over our schedules, our time, our energy. I know that’s how it was in my house in the past. The kids needed something, they’d ask and I’d drop everything to deliver. Whether they wanted to do an activity, get a ride somewhere, go out to dinner ... they asked and I made it happen. But this approach wasn't sustainable and...

In this episode I talk to my personal Beach Body coach, Hod Rubenstein, about the role that exercise has played in helping her manage her mom burnout and how others can do the same.

Hod Rubenstein knows the way out of Mom Burnout. She introduced me to the power of exercise to manage stress which was my turning point out of burnout.

Join Hod and me for an intimate discussion about how and why exercise has been the key to keeping h...

A mother should be a force to be reckoned with. Think … mama bear, think lioness, think queen bee… they are the fiercest and most powerful of all animals. Yet, we have taken a step backward. Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the alpha piece of us, the part where we are powerful alpha leaders.

Somewhere along the way we have become servants to our families, our children. Our homes are run like a hotel where the mom is staff, and t...

Modern Motherhood Misunderstanding #2:
"It’s my job to make my kids comfortable and happy."
Moms, this is false!

The scope of modern motherhood has gone off the rails. Many of us focus on our kid's comfort and happiness at the expense of helping them become independent. A mom’s job is to raise the next generation of independent and capable human adults. That’s the job description.

The role of the modern mom has mutated to an impo...

Modern Motherhood Misunderstanding #1:
"In order to be a good mom, you must put yourself last."

My message to the moms out there spending their precious energy on everyone but themselves … you don't have to put yourself last to be a good mom. In fact, everyone will do better once you start prioritizing yourself.

It’s time to start the personal revolution of stopping the madness and starting to take care of yourself really, really...

Motherhood is a marathon not a sprint and the quality of your motherhood will depend on how well you’re taking care of yourself.

We give our bodies, homes, money and our lives to motherhood. It’s a lot.

What we’re doing in this podcast is building a toolbox for you to use to survive and thrive through motherhood. We have gone over exercise, lifting weights, delegating tasks, claiming financial equality, stopping overmomming and i...

I discovered the hard way that losing myself to motherhood doesn’t pan out well. I use to think of my role as a mom as defining me. This made me overbearing. I was never doing enough and I focused on my kids with microscopic precision. I blew everything that happened to them up like it was a huge deal. I made kids problems into adult problems. I put a lot of pressure on myself and on them. In the process, I lost myself.

Without ba...

Closing the gap of inequality in household finances is an important factor in decreasing the flames of mom burnout. I can attest to this personally, because in the past there was a very large gap of financial inequality in the way money was managed and used in my house. When I was living with financial inequality, I felt like I was being taken advantage of. I gave and gave and gave, rarely replenishing my cup. This led to unhappine...

A significant barrier to exercise and pretty much everything you want to be doing… one of the main causes of burnout is your household.

Having an amazing family, home, all the right circumstances in your life, it isn’t enough. You must be managing it all in a way that doesn’t consume you. In order to enjoy motherhood, and to be empowered by it, you must find a way to do it in a way that doesn’t deplete and exhaust you.

It’s easy ...

Here you are in the thick of it all. Maybe it feels like your toddler is running the household and all you want is for mealtime to go smoothly. Maybe your struggles are with an older child about screen time, and you would do anything for them to unplug. Or maybe you have a teenager who is impossible to be around, grumpy all the time.

Here is something I know for sure - whatever motherhood throws at you, you’re going to be better ab...

Motherhood in the 2020s, or what I have termed “modern motherhood” is a very big job. This is the version of motherhood that you and I are in right now. It’s the motherhood with extremely challenging issues like social media, ADD, anxiety, depression, food allergies oh and most recently Covid.

The sparks of many issues are out there. And without the right skills, flames ignite. If you don’t know how to manage all of this, motherhoo...

Motherhood, in theory, should be wonderful. It’s the most natural thing in the world. Every living thing on this planet has a mother! But if you’re listening to this podcast, you are likely experiencing a special flavor of motherhood, the one I've been in. Let’s call this version “modern motherhood.” This is the motherhood with postpartum depression, sleep training, social media, gluten, ADD, anxiety, food allergies and most recent...