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Breaking Up With Busy: Interview with Leah Remillet
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Busy isn’t a badge of honor—it’s a leak in your joy. We invited Leah Remillét, international speaker, host of Balancing Busy, and systems strategist for time-starved entrepreneurs, to help us trade obligation-driven chaos for simple structures that protect what matters most. Leah doesn’t prescribe rigid routines or complicated dashboards; she shows how to remove friction, rewrite unhelpful stories, and design tiny systems that actually stick.
We start by separating priorities from obligations, using Leah’s “dread test” to expose where guilt and shoulds creep in. From there, she walks us through a family dinner reboot that swaps pan-sauce perfectionism for consistent connection: weekly menus, grocery delivery, kid-led meal kits, partner help (even if it’s takeout), and a guilt-free “fend for yourself” night. The same approach applies to every recurring hotspot—mornings, lunches, exercise, bedtime, and backpacks—where one simple checklist or prepped step can turn daily friction into flow.
As the holidays approach, Leah’s calm-first strategy shines: map meaningful traditions on a big, visible family calendar, start gifting lists early, and front-load tasks like cards so December stays present and peaceful. People pleasers get a lifeline too: stop saying yes on the spot, use gentle holding lines to buy time, and learn kind noes that protect your bandwidth without drama. We also dig into batching—at home and in business—to slash context switching and reclaim mental space. And for a daily confidence boost, Leah shares her morning ritual and why getting dressed changes how you show up.
If you’re craving more time, less noise, and holidays that feel like the movies without the meltdown, this conversation is your blueprint. Follow Balancing Busy, grab Leah’s time-saving favorites at time.balancingbusy.com, and then tell us: what’s the one “busy” thing you’ll drop or batch this week? If this helped, tap follow, share with a friend, and leave a quick review to help more moms and makers find their calm.
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You're listening to Confidently Beautiful with Ciera, a podcast to help you stay confidently beautiful because we all have confidence inside us. We just need to bring it out, and I'm here to show you how. Body image, dreams, parenting style, personality, and more. Here we cover it all. Get ready to stay confidently beautiful. Well, thank you for tuning in to the podcast. I'm your host, Ciera. I'm so happy to be here with you today talking. We are going to be talking to Leah Remele. She is with Balancing Busy, and she is an international speaker, a podcast host, and a system strategist for time-starved entrepreneurs. Leah has helped thousands of small business owners ditch the overwhelm and start scaling without sacrificing their home life, their health, or their happiness. I have been a listener of Leah's for many years and I have loved all of the stuff that she has to share. It's not just applicable for entrepreneurs like me, but also just for women who are moms and have lives and want to find that balance in their life. So we are going today, we're going to be talking about breaking up with busy, which I think is something we all want to do. Why it's so important, especially right now with the holidays approaching, is we're going to want to be present in our lives. So if you're already feeling the pressure of, oh my goodness, the holiday season is creeping in and I don't know what to do. I don't, I'm I'm already overwhelmed. This conversation is going to help you to protect your peace and reclaim your joy. Um, it's also going to be applicable if you're listening to this in the future and maybe the holidays aren't right now. All of everything that we're going to be talking about right now is going to be applicable for any time in life. So, Leah, thank you so much for joining. I am so happy you are here. Do you want to just tell a little about yourself really quickly?
Leah Remilett:Sure. I mean, that was an amazing introduction. Thank you for having me. So, yes, I am Leah, I am the balance bestie. I have my podcast, um, as Sierra said, called Balancing Busy. I have been teaching women specifically around having more time in our lives. For about 12 years, I've been uh an entrepreneur for about 17. And so I did it all wrong at the beginning. Okay. I want everybody to know that. I didn't know how to put the systems in place, how to automate. I mean, at the beginning, I was just like, it would be awesome if I had a client. I wasn't even thinking about what to do when I had tons of them. And whether you're an entrepreneur, you're a working mom, or you're a mom, we all understand what it feels like to be too busy. And that's really where I show up and I help is let's get women out of that feeling of too busy, chaos, frantic, overwhelmed, those feelings and instead into a place where we get to feel really good. And I believe that balance is a feeling, and we all know when we feel it, and we know when we don't. And so that's where I come in. And I help women in their home life, in their businesses, really in all areas, so that we can show up as the best, best version of ourselves.
Ciera Lancaster:That's so so helpful for people to sometimes you need the outside perspective just to help help to know. So, how do you help moms or business owners, people that you coach, how do you help them identify what their real priorities are? Um, especially when there are so many, well, I should be doing this, or I feel like I want to be doing this, or so-and-so wants me to do this. How do you help them find those priorities?
Leah Remilett:Yes. Okay, so the truth is most moms are living not in their priorities. They are living in obligation. We need to start by getting very clear on what actually matters to me most. What are my priorities? What we get swept up in is a lot of shoulds, right? Like, oh, I should volunteer, I should bake, I should host, I should say yes, I should. It just doesn't stop, right? And so we get caught up in a lot of obligations, and those obligations can turn into overwhelm pretty quickly. A really good way to know if you're an obligation is you are dreading it. You don't want to do it. Like, this is not something that you want to be doing the second you say yes, you're like, I should not have done that. Oh my gosh, I'm already overwhelmed. Now, that's not always the case because there are times where I'm saying yes to something that let's be honest, it's not super fun, right? Like I they need someone to go set up the chairs or to go clean the area, and someone's got to do it. I'm not pumped to go do that, but I also understand that I should, I need to, and I want to contribute. So there, like, I don't want to put everything too blanket because there are times when we should and we just should and we don't want to. But I think generally, especially as women, we tend to not be living in priorities. We're living in obligation. And so when we can get clear on what our priorities are, what matters most, then it's gonna get a lot easier to start living in that best version of our life.
Ciera Lancaster:I feel like once you figure out your priorities, and tell me if this is your experience with coaching women, once you figure out your priorities, then what is the next easiest step? Is it to put systems in place? Um, what what would you recommend doing after you've defined your priorities?
Leah Remilett:Okay, so you start figuring out here's what really matters most. Here's what my priorities are. I think the next step is to ask yourself, what am I doing to get in my own way? Like that, that's the next step. Where where are you getting stuck? Where are you getting in your own way? I'll give a really simple example. A priority for me is family dinner. Okay. I absolutely believe in family dinner. I want us at the table together, eating dinner and talking and you know, getting to hear about each other's day. I was having a really hard time actually accomplishing that goal for several years. And when I got clear about what is the priority, the priority is family dinner. And then I said, why am I getting stuck? It became very obvious that it was because I was overcomplicating the crud at a family dinner. Okay. I felt like I needed to make it all, it all needed to be from scratch. There should be a pan sauce and garnish to go along with it. And I'm not even exaggerating, like I really did feel that way. Like that's that's how I felt. Like I do love to cook. So it was like I wanted to be making some fancy new thing, but you can't do that every night of the week. That is ridiculous, right? And I and I wouldn't be able to. I mean, that's the truth. I couldn't, I couldn't sustain that. So what would happen? Night after night, I would be like, oh my gosh, what am I doing for dinner? I wasn't meal planning effectively. There was a lot of times where I was like, I forgot to go grocery shopping. Oh my gosh, right? Like there were just so many things where I was getting in my own way. So there's there's the problem. Okay. So what was the next step? The next step is how how am I getting stuck? Like, how am I getting in my own way? I'm clearly overcomplicating these. Then I'm like, well, what can I do differently? And it became a lot of different mini systems and very multifaceted. But ultimately, the first thing I had to do is I had to undo the story that I was saying that like I'm a good mom when I've made the whole thing from scratch and I present it on beautiful platters. I still totally plate everything. I have not gotten past that one, but right, like, I mean, it's just like I was over the top. Okay. So I had to bring that back. I had to undo the story. I had to realize what I actually care about is us talking and being together, not the food on the plate as much. So once I understood that, there were several things I could do. The first thing was I should probably get a plan of what I'm cooking every single night. And then I'm like, wait, I don't have to go to the grocery store. I can do grocery delivery. And I had to, even that, again, there was a story. Oh, but that's frivolous. That's expensive. I had to get over it and be like, you know what? It is better to spend a few extra dollars and to have food in the fridge than for us to keep waiting for me to get to it, which was really hard because I was in these years. So this time frame that I'm talking about, I want to just set also, I was our sole provider. I am a full-time mom and I'm running a full-time company, but trying to somehow be full-time at everything. And it was just unpossible. My it was impossible. My husband was in graduate school at the time. So like he is, he's coming in right at dinner, you know, just barely squeaking in. And and so it was it was a time in our life where it was a it was very crazy. There was a lot going on, right? And there's me still trying to have pan sauces fully plated with garnish, right? Like this is ridiculous. So, okay, so I start thinking I've got a meal plan, I've got to do grocery delivery. I then realized I need to do some delegation. So I had, I still have three kids. Two of them are out of the house now. So I have three kids, and I was like, hey, I'm doing those meal boxes, right? Like those meal prep boxes where it comes to you. So each of the kids got to pick the dinner that they were gonna make, and three dinners would come in the box. You know, it's all prepped and everything. There's a little card with instructions. In the early years, I was their sous chef because you know they weren't quite there to be able to do it their own. Uh, but as time went on, they did it completely. And then my husband was in charge of dinner one night a week. That was one where again I had to undo a story because to me, I felt like, well, I have to cook, you should have to cook. Like, I don't like that. Like when it's my night, I have to cook and you're just bringing in takeout. And then I realized, wait, it's still a night, I don't have to cook. He's helping in his way. I can't judge him and get upset because it's not the way I think he should be doing it. So now there's four nights a week that I maybe am helping cooking in the early years, or you know, and as it goes on, I'm not cooking at all. And then we also had a night that was called Fen for Yourself night. So that's like leftover night. They the kids can eat cereal if they want, whatever. But all of a sudden, I've taken this thing that had been causing really so much pain because I did feel so much guilt around not doing a good enough job, having a plan for dinner, coming out of my office when the kids got home and realizing, oh my gosh, I didn't pull anything out of the freezer. I have no plan. What am I gonna do? Right. Like there was just so much frustration and guilt around this priority that was family dinner. And when I untangled all of that, got clear on what's the simplest way to actually make this happen, it was amazing. And family dinner has been this consistent thing for a decade, right? That like feels really good. And and so there, there it is in kind of like very in real life, in my real messy life.
Ciera Lancaster:No, that's really good. I think that that find that step, you find your priorities, and then for me, I would be like, okay, now like what's my system? How am I gonna do it? But I think missing that step, like you said, like what how am I getting in my own way? Like, what's the obstacle? That is an important step that you could have the best system, according to the system expert in the world, but it's not gonna work if you're still having that obstacle of you getting in your own way, right? Yes.
Leah Remilett:And often we overcomplicate systems. So systems sound complicated. My version of systems are insanely simple. I think people are always surprised by how simple my systems are. We can't sustain a complicated system. So if I had gone straight to that step of like, I want family dinner, what is the system? I would have had this. I mean, maybe I would have done grocery delivery, but with this huge, ridiculous list of groceries so that I could then cook incredible dinners with pens, sauces, and garnish, right? Like, so it still would have been too complicated. So by asking that question and getting to the what's the simplest way to accomplish this goal, then yes, we can get into something that's actually sustainable.
Ciera Lancaster:That's really good. That's really good. And I just keep thinking, like, your goal wasn't to have a fancy meal, it was to have connection with your family. And so, like, we can do that in any area of our life that we're trying to get our priorities met. Like, we can just think like, what's what's the end goal? Like, what is what is it that I actually want? Because those stories that we build in our heads are they're just crazy sometimes.
Leah Remilett:They are like I say it now and I'm like, I laugh, right? But I'm like, no, but I really did feel that way. I really did feel like I don't know. I I think I didn't ever have family dinner growing up. Okay. Like I don't have, I'm sure I did. That's not true, but I don't have a memory of ever sitting at a table. So I came up with, you know, I become a mom. I like come up with this very grand, idealized version that like I basically got off movies, right? Like that's kind of what I did. I got it off of movies, and so I also suddenly I'm having this huge problem actually creating because, well, there's not an entire team behind setting up the scene for me. I have to do it all myself, right? So, yes, yes. Learning to figure out what stories, where are they coming from? Is it true? Like, is this actually true? Does the fancy dinner equal the goal? No, quality time was the goal.
Ciera Lancaster:Yeah. So, what's the easiest way somebody could start putting systems into their life?
Leah Remilett:Okay, so the easiest thing, okay. Step one is you got to notice where you're feeling off. Okay. Like you got to notice where you're feeling friction. Next is what are the things that you do all the time? These are the recurring tasks. They're they show up whether you want them to or not, all the time. For example, the family being hungry shows up every night, right? So there is something where I can say it has friction, it's a recurring. What systems could I put in place to simplify this? That could be anything from I say I want to exercise, but I'm not doing it consistently. Okay, where's the friction? How could I simplify this? So you can literally look at this in every single area. We could talk about date night, we could talk about dinner, we could talk about exercise, we could talk about self-care, we could talk about sleep routines, we could talk about getting the kids down for bed, we could talk about getting kids' lunches ready, we could talk about getting kids ready in the morning for school. Every single one of these is a reoccurring. Which one, when I started saying those, you know, as the listener, are you like, oh yeah, there's some friction there. There is definitely some friction there. And then you start asking yourself, what is the simplest way to accomplish the goal? What system could I put in place that could make this a lot easier? Maybe right as you're walking out to get them to school, you have a recurring problem where one of the kids is like, I have no shoes, I don't know where my shoes are. And you just spend all this time trying to figure out where in the heck those shoes went. And you know, you're like, just put these ones on. No, I can't put those ones on. Who knows what's happening, right? And so you look at that and you're like, okay, is there a way to make this easier? Is there a way to have a system? And I would say, yes, every night before bed, part of the routine is, okay, everybody get your shoes by the door, your backpack by the door. Do you have your papers in your backpack? Do we right? Like you could have a cute little checklist that you make that everybody does. And here's a super simple system that then turns that morning out the door from you are trying not to lose your mind to, oh, this is good and peaceful, and we all get out on time.
Ciera Lancaster:That's good. My initial thing was like, well, get like a shoe basket and put the shoes in the basket. But that's not really necessarily gonna fix the problem because then you have to rely on them putting the shoes in the basket. So actually having like the system where they're getting it done early, like that is so much more helpful because it's actually gonna get done.
Leah Remilett:Okay, but I love that you pointed that out, Sierra, because I do want to say a lot of times our first system doesn't work. Just realize, like, I study systems, I am an absolute nerd over systems, okay? I'm literally that person who's like, isn't McDonald's amazing? I don't even like McDonald's food, but like, aren't they amazing with their systems? Do you guys know that they like literally came up with a device just for the mustard ketchup so that it is the exact amount every single like that's who I am, okay? So, like you can give me a scenario and I'm gonna really quick be like, oh, you know what you could do. But in the beginning, it didn't look like that. I was constantly thinking exactly what you're thinking. I was thinking, like, oh, I'm gonna get a basket. And then realizing, like, this is not helping. Why do we still not know where the shoes are? How is this going wrong? Right. So all of us need to know, like, there might be some some testing ground happening. You might try the first system and realize it didn't work. And I actually love that. So I used to get frustrated with myself because I'd try to build a system and then I would still get a block, and then I'd be like, oh, I'm just the problem. And I learned to be like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm like, I just found a new block. So how am I gonna correct that block? So just know that like finding your systems is a little messy in the beginning, and and that's actually very, very normal. That's what it should look like. And then you just keep adjusting till you find the right, the right thing.
Ciera Lancaster:Oh, that's really good. I'm glad you pointed that out. Um, because yeah, I think especially people that are like me that are have like kind of like the perfectionist personality, like it has to be done right the first time. Then I could get very frustrated or overwhelmed. Like, well, why didn't this idea work? This was a good idea. It works for this person at their house. Why doesn't it work here? You know? And so I think you pointing that out is really good that sometimes it's gonna take a few different tries before you find the system that works for you and your family. Yeah.
Leah Remilett:Oh, so good. Amen. I so I had the goal of starting to exercise regularly. Okay. Way, way back in the day, I was like, I know this is important. I want to, you know, be strong and like be able to keep up with my kids and my grandkids and my great grandkids. And but I've just never been, I don't, I never saw myself as someone who exercised. Like that had just never been me, right? So it was really easy to convince myself not to, and really hard to convince myself to do it. And so I was trying to get up early and work out, but you know, like when your bed is warm and outside your bed is not, it is really hard. So I would come up with this system, right? And I was like, okay, I, you know, I notice I keep getting blocked here. So now I'm gonna adjust and I'm gonna fix this. I mean, this system took so many refinements to get myself to exercise. So I remember specifically, you know, if I couldn't find part of my my workout clothes, I'd be like, never mind. And I just go back to bed. So I started making sure they were out the night before. Tennis shoes, leggings, sports bra, t-shirt, it's all there. And then the next day, I'm like all proud of myself and I'm like, oh, now I'm gonna be able to do it. Couldn't find a hair tie. I don't know why, but I could not find a hair tie for anything. And I was like, ended up so annoyed that I like went back to bed. So the next night I'm like, and there will be a hair tie on top. And to this day, for a decade, all my workout clothes are there and there is a hair tie on the top because I just realized, right? Like that was the next thing that stopped me. I mean, it's just it was this process of me figuring out, okay, what's the next block? What's the next block that tries to get in my way? And then what do I need to do? Am I building a fence? Am I jumping over the fence? Am I digging under the fence? Like, how am I gonna get past this one? And then just keep going forward.
Ciera Lancaster:Really good. So as we're getting into October, November, December, holiday time, it's going to get crazier. Um, there's gonna be more demands with school stuff, work stuff, church stuff, whatever people have going on in their lives. So, how do you recommend some strategies that moms can put into place now for this busy holiday time?
Leah Remilett:So I think you already landed on a huge part of it, which is start now. Don't wait till you already feel behind. It is an amazing feeling when you feel like you're ahead. So, what does start now look like? It can look like I think the two easiest things to start with is number one, you have your family traditions that you really want to be able to do. And what I would suggest is having a family calendar that everybody can see. I have this huge family calendar. It is like 20 by 30. I mean, it's giant. And uh, I just get it laminated. It you can literally buy it on my website. I get it laminated every year and I put it on the back side of our coat closet. So if you open the coat closet, there is this giant calendar. And um I I laminate it and then I use permanent markers. And there's a trick where you can like get permanent markers back off of it, which is really great. So if I you know have to change something, I can. But where when it comes to the holidays, I start with the the things that matter most to us as a family. And that can be anything from I really want to make sure we go caroling, I want to make sure we make the gingerbread houses, I want to make sure we go look at Christmas lights, right? It can be things that are that are simple and small, but if you don't put them on the calendar, it's really easy to get to the end of the season and go, oh my gosh, we never did that because it just gets so full. I like to start by dropping those into the calendar. Now I am very aware that I don't know dates that are going to show up, you know, the Christmas concert for the school or whatever, the Christmas party for work, right? Things might pop up that I'm not aware of and I'll have to adjust those, but because they're there, now I'm moving them versus forgetting about them, right? So I love personally to start there. We usually sit down as a family, we have like a little family council, and everybody gets to weigh in on what's the most important thing that they want to do during the holidays, right? So someone will be like, we have to watch this movie, and someone else is like, I want to make sure we get to go do this, right? So we get everybody's ideas and then um we make sure that we put those in. So everybody gets to feel like their thing that really matters to them happens. So that's my first thing that I do. The next thing is just personally, I know I gotta buy a lot of gifts, right? I've got all the nieces and nephews, I've got the, you know, the kids. So I start early on having a list of everybody so that I can start thinking about what I'm gonna get them. If there's things that I know they absolutely want, I don't mind starting in September. And just, you know, I have a closet that like everything just starts getting stuck into, right? So that again, I'm not going to be behind. Um, and I can actually stay within my budgets because I definitely find that the more running late I am, the more expensive things start being late. Cause I'm just willing to spend anything to check it off, right? Versus starting earlier. And, you know, I know a lot of people are waiting for the sales, and that's great. Um, but those are two very real ways that I try to start early, and that gives me momentum. Like I just find that because I started early, because I have that momentum, I'm feeling really good as I continue through because I'm like, okay, yay, I've got this.
Ciera Lancaster:Yeah. It probably helps you to be able to enjoy your priorities that time of year a lot more because you don't have that to-do list in the back of your mind of like, I need to be doing all of this stuff.
Leah Remilett:Yes. I don't want to get stuck in, oh my gosh, I still have an A B C D E F G, right? So I just try to take some time early, you know, in October, in early November, whenever it's going to be for that person. But I try to take time very early and be like, okay, what are the what are the ABC D E FGs? And then what of those can I do early? A lot of times my Christmas cards are done two months early. Like I'm like, uh, I mean, I can design that way early, just have it done. Most of us do our family pictures in either end of summer or early fall. So it's like, just get those completely designed and ready. Be way ahead of the game on that. So there's just simple things that I'm like, well, there's not really a reason to wait. I can have that done super early. And so I just do. And that way, yes, I can be more present and actually feel like I'm enjoying the holidays versus like I'm trying to survive them.
Ciera Lancaster:Let's talk about um, we're kind of talking about obligations, but let's talk about like some boundaries on people pleasers and how people that like to say yes to everyone because they don't want to let anyone down. How can we stay firm to our boundaries any time of the year, but also in um holiday season?
Leah Remilett:Which can be extra hard because usually that's family who is making you feel very guilty and obligated that you need to go. So, okay, number one, number one thing above anything else is we have got to untrain ourselves from saying yes on the spot. That is going to save us all more angst than really anything else. If you can just stop saying sure, right in the moment when, and everybody knows what I'm talking about. And you have this dialogue happening instantly in your head where you are having a complete fight with yourself over that you just said yes to this, and how are you going to make it work? And you have just let down your family, and oh my gosh, right? Like we have all experienced that. So the very first thing for any people pleaser is you have got to learn how to not say yes in the moment. And it's a habit. It is a habit because you love getting to see the reaction of them, be so happy with you, and it makes you feel good, and it's this endorphin boost. And you've got to train yourself and break that very real bad habit of saying yes on the spot. And you're gonna want some tools for that, right? Like, oh, that sounds great. I'm gonna have to look at my calendar when I get home. Oh, that sounds amazing. I'm gonna have to check with my hubby first. I'll try it to get back to you. I love to even turn it into like, that sounds so much fun. Can you send me a text about it so I can look at my calendar later? I try to put it on them more than I'm putting the next task on me. But that that is going to absolutely like step one. If you can do just that, I promise it's all gonna get easier from there. Step two is going to be that you're going to have to come up with some ways to say no in a very, very sweet, polite way so that you don't feel like you're about to, you know, create drama and feel okay about saying no sometimes. And I I get it, I get that that can be so, so hard. Uh, we actually did an entire episode on the People Pleasers Guide to saying no. It's episode 60. So if anybody is like uh this particular one, they're like, this is me, this is me, you can just go to 660.balancingbusy podcast.com and hear that people pleasers guide. But yeah, that would be kind of my starting place.
Ciera Lancaster:What about those of us who are listening who might be like, I've tried everything, I've tried setting up boundaries, I've tried setting up systems, and I just feel so overwhelmed still. What's one small thing that you would say to them that they could just take away from this episode to start feeling less busy?
Leah Remilett:Okay, if you are generally just feeling like you kind of live in overwhelm, like chaos is your mascot. Okay, like you're like chaos and me, we go everywhere together, and I'm really tired of it. I want a new mascot. Then I'm gonna say stop trying to change everything and just start changing one tiny thing consistently. So I am a very all-in person. I think that was probably pretty obvious with the whole dinner fiasco, right? But like I tend to go like full send. It is like, I constantly joke that I feel like I have been working to install the dimmer switch in myself for you know the last 20 years, right? Like, because I am either yes or I am completely no. And so um, whenever I saw something that was out of alignment, it didn't feel good, I'm out of balance, I'm feeling overwhelmed, I would make the mistake of then going all in to try to fix it, which also wasn't sustainable. Like I was still keeping the same pattern of too much, just on the flip side of the pendulum. What I've learned now is that starting by making very tiny changes, and everything in you is gonna want to argue. Everything in you wants to be like, but if I can do one thing, I could I could do five, I'd be fine, I can do five. But don't do it. Just start with one small change, get consistent with that, and then add the next one. It is incredible what can happen when we just start stacking those. And that's why I love stacking simple systems. You start stacking enough of them and your entire world, your life experience can change, but not if you try to do everything at once, because you will just overwhelm yourself and then default back to where you were at.
Ciera Lancaster:Okay, you have you talked about your family dinner system. Do you have one system that you have implemented in your life that you are like this for me was a game changer? Do you have one of your favorites?
Leah Remilett:So, okay, personal or business?
Ciera Lancaster:Let's do one of both.
Leah Remilett:Personal. Oh, I don't know if I would say one particularly is a game changer. Definitely dinner. Um, it's it's when you stack them together, right? Because like I have a system for laundry, I have a system for dinner, I have a system for my exercising, I have a system for my morning routine. I have, and then like I put all those together and it's just magical. In my business, I would say batching. I would say batching is probably my favorite productivity strategy, and it's probably my favorite system that I use. So, and and really actually this goes in my personal life too. I'm I don't do a little bit all the time. I put them all together and I do it at once. So for example, if I'm going to be recording solo podcast episodes, I'm batching them. I will probably record three or four solo episodes on the same day. And on a different day, I batched planning them and researching for them and structuring them. And then I come and I record, right? So it's batched doing like-minded tasks all together. This is so silly, but it shows up in my personal life too. Literally yesterday was batch day where I batched all my vitamins for two weeks for the morning. I batched all my vitamins, my nighttime vitamins for two weeks. Have this little like, it's weird, but it's like roasted dandelion with like, anyways, it's very healthy, but I like it. It's yummy. And um and it takes three different ingredients. It's like I use like this special cinnamon, I use the roasted dandelion, and then I use this special maca chocolate thing. And I don't like having to pull all three bags out and scoop them. So I got these little containers and I literally make like 12 of them at once and then I put them into like a little container and that way I can pull out one at a time and it's just faster and more convenient. I like to make this little protein drink that I make myself and so I bought little glass bottles and I will literally make four at a time instead of having to make one every day and then have them in the glass bottles in the fridge. So I mean those are simple little systems where I batch it and then it's just there and ready for me. And then I feel so much more productive because it's like oh it's already ready like it's already there and I pull it out and I'm like yay me.
Ciera Lancaster:That's so good. I I love batching. I think batching is genius. It's like to me that's probably like the number one system. If anything like you could just like batch it like and I I've just recently started to like try and implement it in more areas of my life and it's been so helpful because um for example laundry is one that I just started batching. I used to do a load of laundry every single day. And I know for some people like this was one of those things where I'm like some but everyone swears by it. They say that this is the thing that you should do. And I was like but for me it all ends up on my bedroom floor. Like I can't I can wash it but I can't get it put away and then I'm still doing one a day and so it's just piling and piling and piling. So I've started batching and I just have a laundry day and it has been so nice because I only think about laundry on Fridays and so every other day of the week I don't think about laundry at all. And it I have been really surprised at how much like brain power it has freed up because I'm not thinking about it. So I love batching. I love it. And so and I mean the exact same thing.
Leah Remilett:Yes so you know the exact same thing. Everyone swears by one load a day. I tried it I hated it I was never on top of it. Monday is my day and it's all on Monday. It's one single day and it works so well for me. And that's what I love. Like we're all gonna find our different ways because obviously there's people out there who think that one load a day they swear by it. It did not work for me. And I think you know you talking about how like I love that you said you know this is what everyone says but it didn't work for me and I'm doing it this way and now it is working. And that is the sign when it relieves that mental clutter right like there was this constant mental fatigue mental clutter that you had where you're like oh my gosh I've got to put this away it's sitting on my floor I haven't finished oh I've got to get another load in oh where am I at? And you have alleviated that and that's when you know you have a killer system is when that like mental struggle goes away.
Ciera Lancaster:Yes. Yes. Oh so good. Okay, this has been really good. We've talked about systems we've talked about boundaries, batching I feel like we've covered a really good amount of stuff that is going to make anyone feel less busy, less overwhelmed. We're going to break up with busy finally like um so thank you so much. I loved talking to you and I love to end all of my interviews with this one question is what is one thing you try to do every day that helps you feel more confident?
Leah Remilett:Okay so I was trying to think about this and I was like oh it should be around balance and but but here's the honest truth the thing that I do every day that helps me feel more confident is get dressed. It's get dressed. If if we end up wearing our pajamas all day or like the workout clothes or whatever, I just I don't feel as confident. So it's my morning routine when I accomplish that morning routine and I think probably one of the bigger parts of that is getting dressed. But my full morning routine is like I look for what I'm grateful for. I do my scripture study I exercise I drink my lemon water. When I do that morning routine I just feel so proud of myself like yay me I'm I'm a person who drinks lemon water and exercises and reads her scriptures you know like I feel so good about myself that then I feel so much more confident going into my day.
Ciera Lancaster:Yeah yeah I think getting dressed it it's crazy how much it shifts your your brain and your feeling like it's just yeah it's a really good one. So I love that it's so fun to hear everyone that I interview they all are different ones and I don't know if I've had a repeat yet. So it's really that's amazing I know I did I did an episode I can't remember which one it is it's like in the 70s I did an episode a while back where I did like a a compilation of all of the everyone all of everyone's answers that I've ever interviewed. And yeah I really don't think that there was a repeat. So it's it's really fun to hear.
Leah Remilett:So thank you I'm like so fascinated with this I'm like I want to know what everybody's like thinking I'll send you the episode and I can put it in the show notes too for our listeners.
Ciera Lancaster:But yeah it's it's fun to listen to everyone's they're all different.
Leah Remilett:Leah can you tell our listeners where they can connect with you where they can find you you mentioned that calendar that you have on your website do you have other resources that people can find or a community that people can join absolutely okay so anyone who is like oh my gosh I just want more time I would say uh best place to go is time dot balancingbusy dot com. And that is going to give you my my 10 favorite time saving hacks. Like these are my go-tos they're super quick they're super easy but they have saved me so much time. So time.balancingbusy dot com obviously we know that your audience has amazing taste in podcasts. So I think they should kind of follow balancing busy like you're right here in your app right now so just search balancing busy hit that follow button and I think that's two great ways to start connecting with me. And then I've got all kinds of resources on my website so they can find all those as well later. There's all kinds of freebies and uh resources there and ways to work with me.
Ciera Lancaster:Awesome. Yes your balancing busy podcast is so good. I love listening to it. Do you have any like new launches or products or courses or anything that's coming out that you would like to share with the listeners.
Leah Remilett:So I would say the three main things are uh balanced home. So for my mamas who are like you know we we talked about laundry we talked about dinners if you want to know and understand and hear like all of the systems in my home uh that is an opportunity and it really really well priced like that is like a great gateway get to know me. Okay. So uh also for anyone who's trying to use chat GPT especially in their business and they want to make it actually sound just like their voice if not better, have it be able to be your personal assistant, write your copy, all that kind of stuff I have a uh mini class, the Chat GPT advantage. And then for my entrepreneurial mamas, we have Mom Business Academy. And mom business academy it actually has both of those things I just talked about inside of it, but it is every system in my entire business and it's broken down into four tracks more time, more money more um visibility and more reach. So it is literally every single area of my business and every system in it to just get your life back. So that would that would be some of my favorite ways right now to be able to work with me.
Ciera Lancaster:Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm glad that we can share those with the listeners and yes I you are just you're amazing. So I just love that thank you. Your podcast is a fun way to get to see a little glimpse of your personal life too which I have really loved like hearing about your kids and what you're doing with just your personal side of things too and how you're implementing all of your strategies into that area of your life as well. Thank you so much Leah this was really good and moms who are listening I hope that as you're diving back into your day you can just think what's one busy thing that you could cross off your list right now? What's one busy thing that you could put a system in place now so that it makes it easier for you so you can break up with busy for good. So thank you so much Leah this was really great.
Leah Remilett:Thank you for having me. I was so excited to be here.
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