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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Justine Carino joins us today to talk all about how to manage stress and anxiety. As busy moms, these strategies are critical to maintaining energy and feeling great.

Justine is a licensed mental health counselor, anxiety treatment specialist and host of “Thoughts from the Couch” podcast.

Today we discuss…

• Why trying to find the best way and be the most efficient might be making you more stressed
• Why slowing down is uncomfortable
• How dopamine might get in your way
• An easy way to practice mindfulness
• Using the ‘name it to tame it’ technique
• Challenging your thoughts and the truth of what you are thinking
• Personifying your stress or anxiety to separate it from who you are
• Creating life anchors to prevent stress and anxiety before it takes over
• Why boundaries are so important in this space

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/190.

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Do you have a shutdown routine, or do you just barrel straight out of work and into family life? Successful women use a few key processes to stay focused, happy, and out of overwhelm. Today, Shawna shares some of the secrets she shares with her professional clients including her 3-step shutdown routine to allow you to leave work both physically and mentally.

Shawna Samuel is an executive leadership & productivity coach for women, and the host of The Mental Offload podcast.

Today we discuss…

• How work-life balance is actually possible even if you are a high-achieving, career-driven women
• The four things you need to manage in order to succeed
• Managing your bandwidth
• A broad definition of team and why your entire team is so important
• The importance of systems in saving time, focus and energy
• A shutdown routine and the massive impact
• The challenging shift from “work time” to “home time”
• Some strategies for shutting off your brain after work is “over”
• A 3-step shutdown routine to let you leave work physically and mentally

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/189.

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The Supermom Summit is officially HERE! The Third Annual Supermom Summit is the only virtual summit of its kind where you can discover the secrets of high-performing moms who get more done in less time WITHOUT stress, overwhelm, or burnout.

If you want…

• More time to do the things you really love...not more time to clean the house
• Simple tools and routines you can start today to make each day easier and better...not a super complicated system
• To get rid of that spinning feeling and know exactly what to do next
• To know how to get back on track when things go haywire...because they sometimes will

…then I invite you to join us for FREE. 5 days, over 25 speakers (in fact today’s guest will be there too!), and a whole lot of magic! Head to www.thesupermomsummit.com for your free ticket!

Deb Lee joins us to share her take on a year of yes…with a twist.

Deb is a Digital Productivity Coach, Certified Professional Organizer®, speaker, productivity consultant, Evernote Expert, Trainual Certified Consultant, and self-described appaholic.

She loves helping solopreneurs and entrepreneurs level up their workflows and leverage technology so that they can focus on the right things at the right time and get more accomplished every day.

Today we discuss…

• What it means to take a “year of yes”
• The parameters Deb has set around her personal yeses
• The feelings that might come up when you decide your year of yes
• Facing a major life change that helps you find clarify
• Why today can always be the perfect time to start
• The mental and emotional commitment required to make hard choices
• The hard parts of a year of yes

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/188.

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The Supermom Summit is officially HERE! The Third Annual Supermom Summit is the only virtual summit of its kind where you can discover the secrets of high-performing moms who get more done in less time WITHOUT stress, overwhelm, or burnout.

If you want…

• More time to do the things you really love...not more time to clean the house
• Simple tools and routines you can start today to make each day easier and better...not a super complicated system
• To get rid of that spinning feeling and know exactly what to do next
• To know how to get back on track when things go haywire...because they sometimes will

…then I invite you to join us for FREE. 5 days, over 25 speakers (in fact today’s guest will be there too!), and a whole lot of magic! Head to www.thesupermomsummit.com for your free ticket!

Megan Sumrell joins us today to share her brilliance in planning your week…without stress.

As a former corporate executive turned business owner, and a mom and wife, she knows exactly how hard it is to juggle #allthethings while still maintaining your own sense of self and purpose. As the CEO and Founder of The Pink Bee, she took her 20+ year career in systems and processes and applied it to all things time management, organization and productivity. She is the creator of the TOP Program and TOP Planner, a program and planner that teaches her proprietary planning and time management system.

Today we discuss…

• Why it is important that women have tools that will work for them when it comes to productivity and time management
• Why planning and productivity are not the same
• Megan’s definition of productivity that will change your life
• How to create plans that support constant change
• How to think about time in terms of money
• Strategic processes to reduce chaos
• Organizational systems to have in place to make planning easier
• The biggest challenges with starting a new planning process

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/187.

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The Supermom Summit is officially HERE! The Third Annual Supermom Summit is the only virtual summit of its kind where you can discover the secrets of high-performing moms who get more done in less time WITHOUT stress, overwhelm, or burnout.

If you want…

• More time to do the things you really love...not more time to clean the house
• Simple tools and routines you can start today to make each day easier and better...not a super complicated system
• To get rid of that spinning feeling and know exactly what to do next
• To know how to get back on track when things go haywire...because they sometimes will

…then I invite you to join us for FREE. 5 days, over 25 speakers (in fact today’s guest will be there too!), and a whole lot of magic! Head to www.thesupermomsummit.com for your free ticket!

Do you wish you knew how to get out of the habit of procrastination?

Risa Williams, book author, licensed therapist, mom, psychology professor, and speaker joins us as our guest today to talk all about procrastination. She's the author of the self-help books:The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit, The Ultimate Self-Esteem Toolkit, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit (JKP Books) and her latest book which comes out this November, The Procrastination Playbook. She's also the host of The Motivation Mindset Podcast, which features productivity tools.

Today we discuss…

• Why we procrastinate as busy moms
• The guilt and shame that are activated when we procrastinate
• The connection between increased stress and the inability to get started, make decisions, and other important frontal cortex activities
• Self-talk and the impact on our internal guilt and shame
• Finding the fun in the task
• Using accountability as “magic” to get things done
• Giving your brain so many commands that it has no idea what you want
• Time parameters to allow narrowed focus
• Mental preparation vs. building up dread
• Finding your own signs of procrastination
• How to get out of the habit of procrastination
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For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/186.

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