The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms
Welcome to the Unbusy Mom, where I help you love your work-from-home mom life again.
Hi, I’m Alyssa - the Take Your Time Back coach, plus a homeschool mom to 5 kids - and mompreneur life is easy for me!
And if I can make it work - not just work, thrive - then you can, too.
It’s time to
-Give yourself the workouts, journaling, and hobby time you need every single day (that’s why it’s 3 hours, not 40 minutes)
-Deep work for hours (guilt-free) as you scale your business
-Shut off the marketing brain so you can be fully present as a mom
-Spend more time cuddling your kids, less time cleaning up after them
-Up your revenue, not your hours
Ready to take back the “work at home with kids around” life you always intended this to be?
Fill out your free Have It All Game Plan at https://yourunbusylife.com/game-plan/.
Take your time back as a business mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/
Episodes
406 episodes
Just 3 items on your to-do list. Is that enough for an entire work day?
(First, we’re cheating: your business and your home life get separate task lists.)‘Cause I’m sorry, writing launch emails is a totally different head space than prepping the Instapot.But only doing 3 things is going to force you t...
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Debunked: you do not have to “earn” time off or taking breaks during your work-at-home day as a CEO mom!
Newsflash: You do not have to “earn” your way to relaxation and time off. Because ease is not being lazy.Here’s what I’m talking about: “You have to learn to get comfortable with ease.” That’s a quote from Allie Casazza.But is thi...
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Client Case Study: The ONE time I want you to blend business with personal life in your weekly schedule!
How many of those "need to schedule the next dentist appointment" or "buy my 4-year-old's next season wardrobe" or "plan the family birthday party meal for 10 people" mom to-do's do you have on your mental to-do list?Just sitting there, ...
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Sneak peek: A personal story of how not to do work life balance in a business launch - aka, why I still need my own productivity principles as a work from home mom!
Don't do what I did. Yes, this is me, the productivity expert, talking.When I was 6 weeks into starting my online business, I got a case study opportunity and used that to pressure myself to overdeliver.You see, I didn't have a we...
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Client Case Study: Do THIS when you’re running out of time during the week to get everything done for your team and clients!
What's going to happen to your business if you're a work-at-home mom who's only got 10 hours a week to devote to business needle-moving activities?And is this going to be a death knell to your business ambitions, or can you wriggle any w...
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4:42
Don’t do this: the MOST burnout-prone way to set up your weekly schedule when scaling your business!
All right, time to get real with you: here's why working through the weekend is the most inefficient use of your time as a mom biz owner.'Cause you've got a whole bunch of mom things to do on the weekend, NOT enough time to be franticall...
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Turning Layoffs Into Launches with Megan Tobler
Today we have a bonus episode for you all about Turning Layoffs Into Launches. We’re bringing on a guest, Megan Tobler, to talk about how she got kicked out of the corporate world into the business one - literally! - and had to make her own way...
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Client Case Study: Try THIS if you love your work from home day, but you’ve got way too many chores and kid activities to cram into your weekend!
Unless you have ironclad off time boundaries, you’re going to naturally view the weekend as the “catch all” for whatever chores and tasks you didn’t have time to get to over the work week - pretty natural to have that view.And then, you ...
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4:46
Why I started this online business after swearing I’d never be one of those side hustle mom entrepreneurs!
Guess what - I wasn’t one of those kids who ran lemonade stands and always knew she wanted to start a company. In fact, I was determined that I would never be an entrepreneur.They were “those people.” They took risks.T...
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Client case study: Try THIS to get things done when you truly hate schedules and task lists - but you’re also an entrepreneur!
Are you feeling stuck, confined, overscheduled at the thought of building your own “best life” or “mom productivity routine” or all that stuff?Does creating your best weekly calendar sound like just another hoop to jump through, another ...
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4:17
Successfully running a family alongside a business is NOT just about to-do lists - here’s the secret key you ACTUALLY need!
If it were all about to-do lists, I could just send you home with “the 7 essential hacks to crush your to-do list” and you’d be done and good forever.But it doesn’t work that way. What you put on your to-do list, when you make time for i...
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4:50
Say No with Boundaries with Tiffani Bibb of Turning Actions into Ambitions
(Re-shared with permission from Tiffani's podcast.)Struggling to say no? Feeling overwhelmed with all the demands on your time? In this episode, Tiffani sits down with Alyssa, a productivity coach and mother of five, to...
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26:42
You’re going to have to redo your daily schedule THIS often as a busy work-at-home mom - and no one warned you about it.
The best work/life balance rhythms aren't static; the best work-from-home family routines aren't set in stone.Babies grow, which means their sleep and food needs change to match. (You have lots of experience with this already!)Wel...
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5:18
Are you committed to enjoying a great work/life balance in your business, or are you just interested?
Because those are two different things. And I don’t think most mompreneurs realize the difference.See, being “interested” in change is usually thought to be enough. You’re doing all the things, researching, talking about it, talking up w...
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4:31
Don’t let yourself think THIS if you want to be a successful 6-figure entrepreneur!
“I’m just going to be in hustle mode for a bit.”Rewind!!You’re running a business, and your mom friends aren’t, but you’re measuring yourself by the exact same standard.But you’re doing the house, the husband, and the kids ...
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If I see THIS at the end of your day, you’re off track for being a great mom AND a thriving business owner.
Have you bought into this? Are you constantly fighting against that pull of “I’ve got to tire myself out today”?Here’s what this mentality robs you of.It steals the joy of sitting down when you need a break (‘caus...
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5:34
Client case study: I tell all my clients THIS when they’re already out of energy but they’ve got a huge to-do list!
Your to-do list is stacking up, your own energy is dropping, and you just can’t muster up the brain power to knock out anything else – but all those tasks are super important and really have to get done this week (or month). Sound f...
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Try THIS to wake up your brain when you’ve got a full day of projects and clients ahead, and you stayed up too late last night!
You know all those great dreams and plans you had for yourself when you started working at home? Those “I’m going to love every minute of my flexible, work from home day, get up at 5am every morning, drink a green smoothie, and dive...
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Client case study: Do THIS to fit in big annual business tasks (like tax prep and accounting) when you’re short on room in your weekly business schedule!
I know you've got a nice, everyday, taking-care-of-my clients and handling-my-kids set of routines down.In fact, you really like your typical work-from-home life!But then comes along the reconciling, or the end-of-year accounting,...
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4:22
Stop buying into all that working mom guilt – quit it by doing THIS!
Listen, it’s time you stopped paying the price. The CEO mom guilt price, I mean.The price for not knowing if you’ve got enough time to finish your to-do list today.The price for staying up too late the night before cramming...
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4:35
Standing Out from the Crowd to Make More Impact on Your Tribe with Emanuela Hall of The Speaking + Storytelling Podcast
Today we have a bonus episode for you all about standing out from the crowd to make more impact on your tribe. We’re bringing on a guest, Emanuela Hall, to talk about storytelling and visibility as a faith-driven entrepreneur. Emanu...
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18:32
Do THIS to fix a crazy morning routine when you've got 3 kids to get out the door to school! (Before you can work on your business.)
What do you do if you've got kids who go to school (which theoretically means you have lots of nice free time during the day), but that means your morning routine is crazy and your evening homework/food in mouth/drive everybody to extracurricul...
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5:07
Do this NOW, even if you haven’t earned it yet in your business!
You feel like it’s the unspoken rule of your life: moms don’t rest till they’re done.(Which means never - especially since you have a successful business to keep up with.)What our culture tell us:It’s bad to sit down i...
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4:24
A Non-Scary Look at Backend Systems for Scaling Your Business with Ashley Ludlow
Today we have a bonus episode for you all about A Non-Scary Look at Backend Systems for Scaling Your Business. We’re bringing on a guest, Ashley Ludlow, to talk about the non-client-facing, backend supporting role - because that’s just ...
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25:58
Use this ONE hack to calm your nervous system as a busy working mom!
We both know that regulating our nervous system is incredibly good for us, and we’d LIKE to be de-stressed, but sometimes it’s hard to get there practically as a mother.You’ve got the kids crawling all over you, maybe another one actuall...
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