Redefining failure and consistency for mums

Join me in Episode 14 of The Inspiring Mums Podcast where I talk about redefining failure and consistency for mums. After just over a year long hiatus, I’m happy to be back with a new podcast episode for you!

In this episode, I talked about:

* how I stopped podcasting for a year, because I was just trying to do too much all at once

* how I was able to return to the podcast from a place of self-compassion instead of self-criticism

* how we can worry so much about what people might think of us if we stop and start something

* how we can redefine what failure means to us - after all, making mistakes is how we learn and grow

* how consistency is affected by our menstrual cycles and seasonal energy too, so we need to work with whatever energy we have on any given day

* whether consistency is even realistic for mums

* how we can come from a mindset of - whatever I manage to achieve in the time I’ve got available to me, it's enough

* how we can flip consistency on it’s head - how would it feel if you said to yourself, I’m really proud of just starting that in the first place

* how failure and consistency come up a lot when we are trying to make changes in our lives - and how we need to be bring flexibility and compassion into the mix to help us make those changes

* how my Reflect, Dream and Plan workbook can support you in making changes in 2025

I hope you enjoy this episode and it helps bring you a different, more compassionate perspective when it comes to failure and consistency.

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Quotes from this episode:

* “People are going to think I’m flaky, not capable, that I don’t care…the list goes on.” - Jenna Folarin

* “I was so hard on myself. It was completely unnecessary but also totally normal to me too.” - - Jenna Folarin

* “The podcast is a body of work that I’m proud of and that’s such a different feeling to beating myself up for not doing a podcast episode for a year.” - Jenna Folarin

* “Are you beating yourself up for starting something and stopping it and then worrying what people will think of you?” - Jenna Folarin

* “Are you trying to make a change in your life but it’s not going how you thought it would, so you just think ‘well I’ve failed, so I’m going to stop’.” - Jenna Folarin

* “We can redefine what failure means to us and actually isn’t that how we learn and grow, by making mistakes?”- Jenna Folarin

* “Even if we start something and don’t come back to it - we should still be proud of something that we’ve started.”- Jenna Folarin

* “Consistency is something I’ve always struggled with.”- Jenna Folarin

* “The seasonal energy right now in winter is all about slowing down, resting and hibernating - it’s no wonder we don’t have any energy right now.”- Jenna Folarin

* “We can beat ourselves up about not being consistent as mums, but is consistency actually realistic for us?”- Jenna Folarin

*"How different would it feel if you congratulated yourself every time you managed to do something? That's flipping consistency on its head." - Jenna Folarin

* “What if we had a mindset of - whatever I manage to achieve in the time I’ve got available to me, is enough.”- Jenna Folarin

* “See how it would feel for you to give yourself that self-compassion and say to yourself, “I’m really proud that I managed to achieve that in the first place.”- Jenna Folarin

* “Failure and consistency comes up a lot when we are trying to