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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➡️ Ready to work less, snuggle your kids, and put "me time" back on your calendar? Let’s redo your CEO schedule so you can hit your priorities every day in your business, mom life, and goals list. Book your High Achiever Reset session here: https://yourunbusylife.com/intensive/

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Episodes

471 episodes

Why me time after your kids get home from school isn’t working for you (when you’re also running a business).

You’ve got the hobby time reminder on the calendar every single day, for goodness’ sake – yet somehow, it never seems to happen….While the productivity experts tell you you’ve done everything you need to and it’s not their fault why hobb...

November 06, 2025 • 4:44

CEO leadership - applied to your family & chore list. (Working mom hacks!)

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 d...

November 04, 2025 • 4:13

Balancing Both Ep. 9: The REAL truth about scolding yourself for not checking enough boxes yesterday in your WFH business….

Have you ever created this amazing schedule for yourself to follow, started your day, and then realized that you lazed around during two of your key periods and didn’t get everything done?This is the exact problem a client came to me wit...

October 30, 2025 • 4:54

Balancing Both Ep. 8: The ONE truth about schedules that business coaches won't tell you… but I will!

As much as I talk about schedules, here’s the real truth that all the efficiency gurus out there won’t tell you.You can’t fix a too-full calendar by simply scheduling better.It’s a house of cards about to fall down.Every ti...

October 28, 2025 • 6:26

Balancing Both Ep. 7: What happens when you make “to do list zero” your top priority as a biz mom? (It’s not pretty!)

2 more things just hopped onto your to-do list – which means your lunch break today is now 12 minutes shorter. But wait - that “to-do list elasticity” is actually the gremlin of all your “ease and flow” work hours.So stop put...

October 23, 2025 • 4:48

Balancing Both Ep. 6: Behind the scenes of my quarterly planning process as a work-from-home mom & CEO!

Want to see how I pick my own set of biz priorities for myself? (When I'm sitting down to do the weekly content planning, podcast batching, or just backend launch task collecting.)Here’s how I plan my business priorities week...

October 21, 2025 • 6:29

Balancing Both Ep. 5: The best way to fit all your business owner hats in (plus the mom one) - WITHOUT maxing out your calendar?

What happens when you’re STILL not at your planned-for client load, but you’ve penciled in your daily work time blocks and you’ve hit calendar capacity?Facts are facts; the calendar doesn’t lie.You DON’T have enough time for every...

October 16, 2025 • 4:33

Balancing Both Ep. 4: Do THIS, and you’ll always know what belongs on next week’s to-do list! (Both the mom side and the biz side.)

Here’s how to triage your to-do list - because all a priority task list really is, is that you first brain dump out every single thing you’re working on, think you should be working on, or are planning to work on. (All of it. I don’...

October 14, 2025 • 5:15

Is This It? When Purpose Feels Foggy with Joyce Awuro-Tani

Today we have a bonus episode for you when you’re wondering, is this it? When purpose feels foggy. We’re bringing on a guest, Joyce Awuro-Tani, to talk about purpose and mission as entrepreneurs. You’ve got this!<...

October 13, 2025 • 15:48

Answering the Call of Purpose as Moms and Business Owners with Audrey Rindlisbacher

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about answering the call of purpose as moms and business owners. We’re bringing on a guest, Audrey Rindlisbacher, to talk about your overarching mission as an entrepreneur. You’v...

October 10, 2025 • 35:54

Balancing Both Ep. 3: Your priorities problem right now is actually a mom brain overload problem….

When you can’t handle another decision on your plate - it feels like you’ve got way too many things going on to even pick your top 2 or 3 priorities this quarter (let alone semester) - you actually don’t have a decision-making problem at all.

October 09, 2025 • 4:27

Balancing Both Ep. 2: The ONE trick to declutter your to-do list as a working mom (plus a peek at mine!)

You’ve already put the need-to-get-done items ON that CEO to-do list.....Why don’t you live by the triage method and be the boss of your to-do list?It’s time to think critically about what’s ON your to-do list, not just show up to...

October 07, 2025 • 6:43

Balancing Both Ep. 1: I need to homeschool AND run my business, but there aren’t enough hours in the week to do both! (Here’s my fix as a homeschooling WAHM.)

This case study comes from one of my clients, who’d scheduled her homeschooling block right before her work time block, but then found that her homeschooling time wasn’t necessarily always ending right when it needed to and thus she was getting...

October 02, 2025 • 4:51

KonMari and running an online business have THIS in common….

It’s all a matter of essentialism – of business decluttering – to get you as streamlined as you can possibly be – which means as reliable as possible about checking off those “have to happen by end of day” to-do lists.You see.......

September 30, 2025 • 5:12

Overcoming Anxiety: Effective Strategies for Managing and Overcoming the Stresses of Everyday Entrepreneurial Life with Elisha Lee

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about overcoming anxiety - effective strategies for managing and overcoming the stresses of everyday entrepreneurial life. We’re bringing on a guest, Elisha Lee, to talk about tactics and tr...

September 26, 2025 • 18:51

Scaling a business is like starting a master’s degree.

Newsflash: you’re already in a master’s level business program.When you’re scaling your business, or bringing on multiple team members for the first time, it’s kind of like you’re starting a new degree.It’s a finite time period, w...

September 25, 2025 • 7:14

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...

September 23, 2025 • 3:43

Stop freaking out at the next wave of clients as an entrepreneur mom… just hit the recharge button!

Every time you sign a few more clients (yay, money!), you get overwhelmed. Then you overwork to keep up, overcompensate, and inevitably, burn out. It’s become a pattern.So here’s my anti-brain-fog suggestion that ...

September 18, 2025 • 6:14

When your family needs you more than your business, but you still want to work….

How do you readjust your week’s workflow when you know you’re going to catch the family bug sooner or later… but you’ve got clients and students and deliverable projects to keep in the air??(And inside you’re resenting your kids for ruin...

September 16, 2025 • 4:01

What happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?

You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to tak...

September 11, 2025 • 4:37

Best time to start your kids on chores (so you can have more CEO time)? Last month.

If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going.Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores….….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them.Because the first and...

September 09, 2025 • 4:38

Anti-self development hack: how to AVOID working on your patterns.

You’re battling the same sneaky story that your brain likes to tell you - that it’s your fault for not being gracious enough and understanding enough and reframing your frustration with your team….Newsflash: you aren’t supposed to be res...

September 04, 2025 • 5:01

Which is better: morning selfcare or getting a head start on your business to-do list?

You’re already sold on morning routines, but which is better - knocking out 5 chores before the kids get up, or using your precious quiet hours to pour into yourself?Because you know you need to schedule in your personal recharge time on...

September 02, 2025 • 4:15

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 8: Your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.

Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours.If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue.Listen - your task list does n...

August 28, 2025 • 4:11

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 7: Do NOT listen to this kind of time management advice - unless you want to stay stuck as a mom growing her online business!

You know WHY the "fit everything in" hacks you’ve been trying haven’t worked for you yet?Because they’re not the full picture. They’re just the strategy part.Those gurus are forgetting that you have kids, and you can’t just wake ...

August 26, 2025 • 3:39