49: How to audit your work calendar to stop giving yourself away for free

Back-to-school isn’t just for the kids… it’s your new year too. And if your work calendar still looks like it belongs to the version of you who volunteered for everything and said yes before thinking, it’s time for a reset. 💥

Inside this third and final episode of our back-to-school prep series, I’m walking you through how to audit your work calendar so it reflects your actual priorities and performance metrics, not just what’s always been there or what your guilt has agreed to. This isn’t about optimizing every minute... it’s about eliminating what doesn’t matter and reclaiming your time (and sanity).

🎧 Inside this episode, you’ll learn:

• The critical question to ask yourself before any meeting lands on your calendar 📅

• The unrecognized habit that’s draining working moms at work and how to stop it

• When to triple-check your work and when to move the heck on 🕓

• Why you’re giving yourself away for free (and how to stop)

• The key difference between supporting your team and over-functioning for them

• Sneaky ways you're wasting time that isn't in your job description

• How to spot unpromotable work, invisible labor, and calendar bloat

• Why saying “no” to extra credit doesn’t make you lazy, it makes you strategic 💼

• Real stories from my corporate life, including the moment I learned my job wasn’t as “safe” as I thought 😮

🔗 Resources & Links:

📘 The Top 10 Time Wasters Guide

📗 Related Episodes:

🎙 Episode 48: Auditing your personal calendar

🎙 Episode 47: Resetting calendars, chores & family systems for school

🎙 Episode 28: The secret to having it all

📲 Follow along on IG: @workingmomsmovement

📩 Need support implementing this? Email me: [e-mail]

💡 Whether your kids are headed off to school or you’re just ready to stop drowning in meetings, this episode is your tactical push to protect your time and your energy.

🔁 Don’t forget to listen to all three episodes in the back-to-school series so you can fully reset your personal calendar, family systems, and now… your work time too.

Until next time, friends, keep managing your life instead of letting it manage you.

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