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Redefining Balance for Working Mom Podcast by Your Life Rocks

As working moms, it can be hard to balance it all. Hard but not impossible. We believe that balance is possible, you might have to redefine what it means to you. However you define it, you can get there when you put God first, live in community, and follow systems that create balance. This show will teach you those systems and feature guests to help you grow in your faith, parenting, marriage, home, health, finances, career, and friends/fun. Subscribe so you don't miss any upcoming shows!
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Jun 2, 2020

Have you ever found yourself in the comparison trap?  It sure does steal our joy!  Today we are joined by Shannon Popkin as we discuss how to explore God's word and find refuge from comparing ourselves to other moms.

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May 26, 2020

This is our 3rd year supporting you to create an awesome summer for you and your family!  In this episode, I'm going to walk you through the free tools and resources that we have for you inside the Your Life Rocks app including how to plan some awesome little moments before and after work to make the most of the moments you have with your family this summer. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast for more content designed for working Christian Moms!

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May 19, 2020

Has the COVID 19 pandemic changed your priorities?  It might have you re-evaluating how you spend your time, how you take care of your health, or even how you budget your money.  A lot of us had our finances impacted by the stay at home orders, job changes, loss of the stock market, and more.  So what do we do?

We turn toward experts like financial coach Health Langford Oynes for direction in prioritizing our finances to get back on track and prepare with what we have learned in case anything like this happens again.

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May 12, 2020

Summer is just around the corner, so bring on the sun!  Oh, wait...we are supposed to avoid the sun right?  But what about vitamin D?  That's good for your immune system, right?  As always, the world of being healthy can be confusing.  That is why I am so grateful for the wisdom of our guest, Lindsay Young.  Lindsay is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach (among many other certifications) and a top contributor on this podcast, in our LifeStyle Guide and inside the Life Balance Membership.  Today she is guiding us through the ways we can protect our skin this summer and maintain overall good health as a working mom.

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May 5, 2020

Over the last serval weeks, we have all been faced with change and stress on so many different levels.  Today we are talking with Enneagram expert and mom coach, Erin Slutsky from Mom Sense Coaching.  She is helping us working moms look at how we have reacted and handled the changes caused by Covid-19 so we can learn more about ourselves and how to show up as the best version of ourselves in uncertain situations.  Because Erin is so awesome, she is gifting you a free 30-minute coaching session! https://calendly.com/talkwitherin 

You can also read more wisdom and tips from Erin in our Lifestyle Guide found in the Your Life Rocks app.

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May 2, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 30, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 28, 2020

What if instead of going back to normal, you used this opportunity to hit the reset button on different areas of your life and create a new normal? Well, that is what we are talking about today.  I'm going to walk you through some self-coaching questions to help you create your new normal.  It's time to lean on God and let him be the constant when everything else around us is changing.

Once you have done the self-coaching questions, let me help you take action on what you find!  Take the free 90-Day goal setting workshop: https://yourliferocks.com/Next90Days

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Apr 25, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 23, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 21, 2020

Ok, being in quarantine with our loved ones can be a blessing.  But given the stress we are under with COVID-19 and limitations on activities, it can create tension in any relationship.  Especially as a working mom that is trying to work from home, manage distance learning, and more.  In the second part of this series with Dr. Mariam Coaster, we are looking at stress and relationships and what you can do to ensure that your relationships stay strong.

Last week, we experienced part one: Dealing with the Stress In Us.  I highly encourage you to listen to it if you have not already.  

Dr. Mariam Coaster is amazing. She is a wife to a wonderful husband, and mother to two beautiful children, a two-year-old boy, and a 3-month-old girl. Professionally, she has a doctorate in neuroscience and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She primarily works with couples and women at her private practice in Franklin, TN. She is passionate about helping people grow towards healing and restoration in their closest relationships. She is also the co-founder of InRelationship, and a marriage workshop called 7 Conversations to Enrich your Marriage. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, cooking up a new-found recipe, and being actively involved in her church.

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Apr 18, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 16, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 14, 2020

Are you feeling stressed?  A, ya.  I bet you are.  In light of everything going on in our world, I thought it would be best to revisit my conversation with a fellow working mom, Dr. Mariam Coaster. In this episode, we are talking all about our internal relationship with stress and how our relationship with God plays into it. Join us, as Mariam shares practical tips on how we can self-assess our stress and give you strategies to show up as your best self when we find ourselves at our worst. This is part one of a two-part series. Join us next week as we move the conversation to discuss stress and our relationships.

Do you have the Your Life Rocks app for working Christian moms?  It is full of tips and inspiration to help you be your best.  This includes our special Covid-19 Lifestyle Guide with tips for everything from your faith, marriage, parenting, home, finances. health, career, and friends and fun.  Download the free app today!

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Apr 11, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 9, 2020

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Apr 7, 2020

Does this whole pandemic situation have you looking for a new opportunity?  Finding work that is rewarding and contributes to having balance in your life is amazing...what if it was possible?  Today I am joined by Kathryn Sollmann, speaker, author, and career coach.  She shares why she believes women should be in the workforce and how to find flexible work that helps you be the best you can be in all that God has called you to.

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Get more tips and inspiration to make the most of our current situation with Covid 19 in every area of life inside the April Lifestyle Guide that is live inside the Your Life Rocks app.

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Mar 31, 2020

As we are kicking off the beginning of our career series, I think we need to acknowledge the fact that a lot of us are facing a new reality when it comes to our careers.  And with that, we might have either seen a side of our company, boss, or just what we do for a living that makes us consider a career change or realized how blessed we are and want to stay and bloom where we are planted.  Either way, the lessons and recommended actions shared by our guest are great for helping us listen to God and trust in his guidance with everything.

Today we are joined by Dayna Bickham, author, speaker, and founder of The Constant Creative.  

Mar 24, 2020

I want to invite you to a free workshop to help you set goals for the second quarter in all areas of life.  Sign up and enter to win a free 90-day Life Balance Membership

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Before we can plan the next 90 days, we need to look back at the previous 90 days and what we accomplished (or didn't) in every area of life.  This will be a self-coaching episode, so get your notebook and get ready!

Mar 17, 2020

Do you wish parenting was more peaceful?  What if it can be? To end out our series about helping you be the mom you want to be, let’s revisit our conversation with Jessica Kastner.

She is going to give you all the best tips along the way. Jessica is an award-winning journalist, community leader, and a full-time working mom. She’s really entertaining and has so much wisdom, so I know you are going to get so much out of what she has to share.

Life balance starts first with the Word of God! Today’s Scripture is from both Jeremiah 3:15 and Matthew 9:37.

“And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.” Jer 3:15

“Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;” Matt 9:37

My hope in this interview is that you will learn and have a greater understanding of who you are and what Christ has called us to do in our lives as working parents. Jessica’s wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of the struggles of parenting more than qualifies her to speak into peaceful parenting. She’s been just about every kind of mom you can be since she started out as a single mom, lived the stay-at-home life, and is now working full time. Out of these experiences of challenge, struggle, love, laughter, Jessica wrote her book, Hiding From My Kids In My Prayer Closet. Jessica says her book was written so that other moms could laugh and share in their struggles together. So often in Christian circles, there seems to be an unwritten expectation of perfection. Jessica is reminding you today that it is just a lie you tell yourself. Jesus is perfect for us, and all he asks is faith!

Are you ready to bring some peace back to your parenting? Jessica’s tips might be just what you need!

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Mar 10, 2020

What to do when your kids just want to hang out in their rooms or on their electronic devices instead of you?  Well, that is what we are talking about today...bonding with your older kids.  In this episode, I am going to walk you through some steps to help you find ways to not only spend time and make memories but to actually enrich your relationships with your kids as they go through pre-teen and teen years.  In addition, there is a mindset shift away from being upset your babies are getting older to newfound freedom for yourself and for them.  I am by no means a parenting expert but I am sharing tips that I have applied through the advice of parenting experts and letting you know what actually worked for me.

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Mar 3, 2020

Have you ever been angry as a mom?  Um, I'm sure you have.  Anger is part of overwhelm and it's a natural emotion.  In this episode, we are talking about how we can work through negative emotions as a mom.  I am joined by fellow working Christian mom, Natalie Hixon.  She is also a life coach, speaker, and author specializing in helping moms that deal with anger, and overwhelm to live their best lives and be the best mom they can be.

Listen in and get some strategies to get a handle on your emotions and lead your kids in a healthy way.

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Natalie would love to offer you access to her Trigger Tracker as a first step to overcome destructive anger so you can be the fun, present and joyful wife and mom you want to be. The Trigger Tracker will help you identify your triggers, create awareness around you, and support you in changing your mindset around the triggers.

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Feb 25, 2020

What type of mom are you?  As moms, we all experience fear, anger, and shame or guilt but did you know that some enneagram types experience one of these three more than the other two?  It influences the type of mom we naturally are.  And when you know the type of mom you naturally are, you can lean into your strengths and be the best mom (and actually enjoy the journey!).

For this episode, I am joined by Erin Slutsky from Mom Sense Coaching. She is a nurse, an accredited Enneagram practitioner, and MOPS International mentor and coach with 20 years of experience. She understands child development and family dynamics.  Through MomSense Coaching, she highlights your strengths and shares specific ways you can use your natural tendencies to become a more comfortable and confident mom.

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Feb 18, 2020

Ok working moms, I think we can agree that parenting can be exhausting.  And when you consider that it's the most important job that we have but have so many other things on our plates, it can be a challenge to try to give it our best all of the time.  But what if it didn't have to be that way?

In this episode, I am talking with parenting expert Rachel Bailey and she shares 3 tips on how to make parenting less exhausting while giving your kids exactly what they need.

Rachel Bailey is a Parenting Specialist who has been serving families for over a decade. Besides being a mother of two, she also has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, a certification in Positive Discipline, and has provided services as an ADHD Coach, in-home mentor, and therapist. Currently, Rachel teaches parents practical, longterm tools for raising responsible, resilient, confident children... while reducing the stress and guilt in parents' lives.

Her tips:

  • Tip 1: Shift your mindset about kids' behavior to save energy AND foster more responsible, respectful behavior 
  • Tip 2: Stop in-the-moment parenting; taking a few specific proactive steps will save time and increase kids' resilience and self-esteem
  • Tip 3: Focus on "self-treatment" instead of "self-care." Self-treatment takes less time and has more impact on both you and your kids. 
Feb 11, 2020

Today, we are talking about how to set up the right structures to help you be successful to reach your goals, implement systems for balance, and really keeping you moving toward where you want to go as a working mom.

We are specifically going to be talking about this as it pertains to one of my favorite systems, weekly prep.

Weekly prep is one of the key systems that we talk about in helping you achieve balance.  I so totally believe in this system, that I teach you how to do it totally for free in our Weekly Success Planning course that you can find inside the Your Life Rocks app or by going to Weekly success Planning.com

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