The Unbusy Mom: For entrepreneur moms who don't want their business to take over their life.
Your business shouldn't take over your life.
I don't think that's why any of us started a business.
We wanted flexibility. We wanted to be there when our kids got home from school. We wanted to build something we loved without feeling like we had to sacrifice the rest of our lives to do it.
And yet... somehow it starts feeling like everybody gets a piece of you before you ever get to what mattered most.
The client needs an answer.
Your team has a question.
Someone forgot their water bottle.
The marketing project waits another week. Again.
If you've ever ended the day thinking, "I worked all day... so why does it feel like I never got to my own stuff?" ...you're in the right place.
Around here, we don't obsess over productivity hacks.
We get curious about what's quietly been running your week.
The patterns. The responsibilities you never meant to keep carrying. The things that somehow became "just how business works."
Because I don't think entrepreneur moms need another planner.
I think we need businesses that leave room for our lives.
So every week, we'll unpack the patterns I keep seeing, the questions I'd be asking, and the little shifts that help entrepreneur moms get their days back.
Because you wanted business AND kids.
Not business OR kids.
The Unbusy Mom: For entrepreneur moms who don't want their business to take over their life.
CEO leadership - applied to your family & chore list. (Working mom hacks!)
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If leading is serving, but serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing?
Remember, you’re the mom AND the CEO. The manager of your family.
You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything.
And I don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 50% of it!)
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about CEO leadership as it applies to your family.
If leading is serving, and serving does not automatically equal leading, what should you NOT be doing? (As the entrepreneur mom.)
Picture yourself as the CEO of an important company. (‘Cause you are – and one of them’s your family!)
What would that CEO NOT do? Does she sweep floors? Take out the trash? Go find each chore slacker personally?
No. Those are bottom-end, low-skill tasks.
Just translate this into your role as mom. Look at your life and your current-age kids.
What are the low-end and no-skill-required tasks in your family’s life?
(I’m thinking… picking dirty laundry off the floor, rehanging towels, clearing the table, wiping down counters, unclogging toilets, unloading the van post-grocery run, making sure cucumbers are peeled and celery is chopped – that sort of thing.)
In other words, what can you outsource? What SHOULD you outsource?
Remember, you’re the mom CEO. The runner of your family.
You’re not SUPPOSED to be doing everything. (Or even HALF doing everything!)
Like when I realized that I was letting my kids get away with only partially doing their chores.
You know, when they gathered up the cloth napkins and drying mats and kitchen towels and dishrags for washing - but that just left a bunch of blank spaces. And we’re not going to wait on drying our hands or making any kitchen messes till the stuff comes out of the dryer again.
So of course you have to put out clean towels/dishrags, right?
Except they weren’t - they were leaving me to do it!
And I’d feel resentful, and wonder why they couldn’t ever think of logical consequences themselves…. But I KEPT rescuing them.
So they never learned.
Until, finally, my husband pointed out to me that when HE was growing up, he would NEVER have gotten away with doing only the partial chore! And I realized, gratefully, that I didn’t have to keep following up after them, either.
So if YOU have this value of “I want my kids to know how to cook their own food and clean up after themselves as young adults” value, too, I’m going to first high five you, and second ask what you’re doing so they can learn.
In other words, how much you’re delegating TO them. ‘Cause they’ll never get good at knowing when to use non-stick vs. cast-iron skillets if you cook the quesadillas for them, every time.
And *I* don’t believe that you need to be on the hook for every single thing as the mom. (Or even 70% of it!)
Let’s flip that statistic around and get you doing only 30% of the work around the house, and freeing up all that time for CEO white space and daily rejuvenation and taking sales calls. (It’s called actually LIKING your day-to-day business-owning life - PLUS having the room to scale your coaching model whenever you need it!)
So what do you need to send off to your household managers (that’s code for “delegate to your kids”) to get it off your plate?
Do that - ALL five things that just popped into your head - and THEN we’ll talk.
‘Cause your work-life balance is going to be SO much better for it.