Our guest Monica Packer is a normal mom and recovering perfectionist who uncovered the truest model to lasting growth: it's progress made practical. As a podcaster on the show About Progress and coach, she guides women to find sustainable growth by adopting progress over perfection.

Today we discuss…

• Where women go wrong when it comes to habits
• The difference between what you can do on a great day vs. a hard day
• Building in flexibility when it comes to habits
• How to set a habit baseline and why this is so important
• Redefining your definition of consistency
• Hacking your brain to make “blah” habits fun
• The ideal versus a small and simple version of your habit
• Allowing perfectionism to get in your way when it comes to habits
• Changing they way you see yourself as you build you personal habits

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As a working mom with a full-time career, business, 4 children, and a slew of activities, I was definitely looking forward today’s conversation with my guest, Ann McKitrick.

Ann is the founder of Nurtured Noggins, a comprehensive resource for parents and host of Parenting in the First 3 Years Podcast. A frequent conference speaker, she's a parenting coach and early childhood specialist with 30 years of experience in higher education. Ann also provides online professional development for thousands of childcare professionals each year through her online business, Texas Child Care Training.

Today we dig into maintaining connection with your children even if you are a working parent.

Today we discuss…

• Childcare choices and how childcare can help increase your connection with your child
• Managing meltdowns at pick-up or the end of the day
• The importance of transitions for parents so they can show up the way they want for their children
• Common challenges that working parents face
• What can we do to maintain balance even as a working parent
• The importance of taking care of yourself and how that impacts your connections
• Knowing and planning for what you need

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/192.

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Andrea Liebross, big thinking expert for high-achieving women entrepreneurs, joins us today to talk about thinking big. She shares her TRUST acronym to help you get from your ambitious present to your ambitious future in a completely aligned way.

Andrea is the author of best seller She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and Into the Extraordinary, and host of the Time to Level Up podcast.

Today we discuss…

• What it means to think big
• Asking some key questions to “future you”
• Challenging yourself against the things you think you “have to do”
• Giving yourself some thought options
• Determining the real problem and the emotions that go along with it
• The anticipation of a negative feeling is sometimes worse than the actual feeling
• Embracing unknowns and uncertainly when thinking big
• Securing support from family, friends, team members vs. outside support for your home or business
• How lack of support can keep you from thinking big
• Creating a plan for getting from your present to your future
• Getting out of all-action, all the time and using the strategic pause

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/191.

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