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199: Getting Rid of Working Mom Guilt with Olena Mytruk

LauraAura | Alignment Coach for Driven Women, Speaker, Author, and Entrepreneur of 16 Years

You’re a high-achieving working mom. You LOVE to work – it fuels your mind and stretches your mind AND you love being a great mom. You want to strive for more but as a result struggle with shame a guilt around how much time you’re spending working vs. being with your kids and often question if you’re doing a good enough job raising humans.

Today, we’re talking to personal growth educator, Olena Mytruk, about getting rid of working mom guilt in three simple steps – backed with lots of reframing and new perspectives on balance.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • The mindset shift we need to be the best parents we can be
  • Breaking with how other generations parented
  • How to find the clarity you need to move forward
  • The power of slowing down when you need to
  • Taking care of yourself is your duty as a parent
  • Thinking about work-life harmony instead of balance
  • Practical questions to bring you back into yourself
  • 3 Step process to help get rid of mom guilt and shame


Olena Mytruk is a personal growth educator for multifaceted women, founder of a personal development company, Breverie, and host of The Breverie Handbook Podcast. Olena works with high-achieving, deeply responsible working women—women who wear many different hats, who strive for more, and who struggle with shame and guilt because they feel that by dedicating their time to careers or spending time on themselves, they sacrifice their most important mission in life: being a mother.

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Connect with Olena Mytruk
Instagram: @thebreverie
Personal Instagram: @olenamytruk
Podcast: Breverie Handbook
Website: thebreverie.com

Connect with LauraAura
Facebook: @thatlauraaura
TikTok:  @thatlauraaura
Instagram: @thatlauraaura
Website: LauraAura.com


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