The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
How does getting 20 hours back a week sound?
Mom life is easy for me. And by the way, I’m working from home (plus homeschooling!) with 5 kids.
Ready to give yourself permission to quit?
✅ You feel like you’re up to your eyeballs in to-do lists
✅ You’ve got more things scheduled on your calendar than you’ve ever seen
✅ Your kids need more time than you’ve currently got (for homework & playing with them after school)
✅ Your plans for date night are getting pushed last minute (or snoozed till next week – again)
✅ You can’t even fathom taking a two-hour break in the middle of the day (because if you stop, the house might literally burn down)
✅ You can’t remember the last time you got a pedicure (because you’re too busy taking care of everyone except yourself)
It’s time to escape the never-ending cycle of “there goes my lunch break” meetings, “turn around by Friday” projects, & “hang on I’m almost done” answers to your kids….
And swap that for working less, snuggling your kids, and putting "me time" back on your calendar.
Listen - I’ve been a work-at-home entrepreneur for 5+ years, with 5 kids at home with me (all day every day), with podcasts to record and client calls to take - and I’m still getting 3 hours of free time a day.
My genius is showing you what you SHOULDN’T be doing - ‘cause you’re right, you can’t do it all.
And it’s time for you to stop creating unnecessary pressure in your role as mom, entrepreneur, and all-around high achiever.
Here’s your new “work from home freedom” plan….
✔ Give yourself the workouts, journaling, and hobby time you need every single day
✔ Spend more time cuddling your kids, less time cleaning up after them
✔ Shut off the work brain and be fully present as a mom
✔ Deep work for hours (guilt-free) as you scale your business
✔ Up your revenue, not your hours
Ready to turn down the pressure valve on your time management?
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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
This is how I fix the “interrupting toddler” problem as a mom who also owns a company….
Listen - you’re allowed to hold boundaries with your toddler and reserve naptime for yourself & your business.
You’re NOT being a bad mom for sending her back to her room at nap.
Because part of working from home is having the confidence that everything your business needs today got checked off - and that directly crosses over into your mindset.
You have to know that you’re being a good mother EVEN as you’re setting those super clear time boundaries with your young kids….
And here’s how.
You’ve got this!
Alyssa
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This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about how I fix the “interrupting toddler” problem as a mom who also owns a company.
Listen - you’re allowed to hold boundaries with your toddler and reserve naptime for yourself.
Especially since your kid-free hours are so few and precious while you’re scaling this business.
You’re NOT being a bad mom for sending her back to her room at nap.
For not attending to her every whim and babble all 24/7.
It’s not going to ruin her psychologically to hear you say “it’s mommy’s work time now; go back to your room.”
(Pro tip: grab a couple of those doorhandle covers, so she can’t come out by herself next time - if she’s still in diapers, you need this hack!)
Because part of working from home is having the confidence that everything your business needs today is crossed off - and that directly crosses over into your MINDSET.
You have to know that you’re being a good mother EVEN as you’re setting those super clear time boundaries with your young kids….
Otherwise you’ll constantly get derailed because you’re letting them drive duplo trucks through your “used-to-flow-well” CEO work day.
And listen, I do this all the time. As soon as I see someone peeking in my field of view…. “Squiggles, it’s time for nap right now. That means in your room or outside.”
(Only for an older napper, of course, or you’ll REALLY get interrupted! The young ones, it’s room only for them.)
Because if you’re in creative flow, and you KNOW you’ve got a little cushion to get this task done, then that kid interruption resentment doesn’t even creep up - because you KNOW you can go right back to work with just that 30-second delay.
You’re not on a tight “13 minutes and 30 seconds per post” timeline here.
You can just look back at your content doc again, pick up right where you left off, and start typing the next sentence of your (totally amazing) client story.
All because you had the TIME.
You carved it out of your schedule, then out of your kids’ schedule….
….By enforcing the “naptime is don’t interrupt time” rule, which is what allows YOU to show up as your most present self (as the business owner, not just the mom).
So for you, right now, what comes up when I tell you to get hardcore about mommy worktime boundaries? Do you feel any squishy edges like “that wouldn’t feel right” come up?
That right there is what we need to work on. Process through, and journal on.
Because until you get to the bottom of where those thoughts are coming from, you’ll be self-sabotaging your CEO potential.
And I want you to put your CEO hat on - with a heaping dose of no-guilt self-confidence.
What’s changing about your kid availability today?