Holiday Stress, Real Talk

Holiday magic doesn’t feel magical when the house is loud, routines vanish, and you’re carrying the mental load for everyone. We open up about the pressure cooker of this season—new teen freedoms, shorter fuses, and the moment a small disagreement turned into a blow-up—and then lay out a calmer way forward you can actually use this week.

You’ll hear how we’re naming shifting roles at home and setting clearer boundaries around curfews, check-ins, and shared cars without turning every talk into a standoff. We break down simple regulation tools—box breathing, short resets, and pattern interrupts—that help you step away before words land hard. From there, we tackle the perfection trap: do you really need more bows, more errands, and more late nights, or would “good enough” give you back your presence? We share how to simplify gifting, focus on one meaningful tradition, and let go of the rest.

Work pressure is part of the problem, so we address it head-on. If you’re eyeing a post-Christmas launch or cramming deliverables into a chaotic week, consider moving the date. We show you how to protect time off with autoresponders, clear expectations, and a plan that favors January momentum over December burnout. And we model the boundary ourselves by pausing our unhinged episodes during Christmas week, inviting you to use the quiet for family, rest, or a solo walk instead of more noise.

If you’re ready to trade chaos for calm and perfection for presence, this conversation will help you reset the season on your terms. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a breather, and leave a quick review to tell us one holiday task you’re cutting this year.

Chapters

• 0:00 Naming Holiday Stress
• 0:38 Teen Independence And Home Tension
• 1:16 Grounding And Breathing Tools
• 2:11 Letting Go Of Perfection
• 2:44 Resetting Business Expectations
• 3:17 Schedule Update And Time Off

Transcript

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I often find that this is the most stressful time of year. Many of you know that I always have said summers are crazy for me because the girls are home and I can't record and I can't do all the things that give me that routine that happens throughout the school year. Well, this time of year, as a mother, as someone who's is in charge, making sure that all the holiday magic comes to fruition, it is very stressful. And I had my blow-up moments that are to happen that had already happened because of all the stress and craziness that happens. And I want you to be able to actually enjoy the holidays and not feel like you're going to lose your mind as I did last week. There was definitely some moments of chaos in the home with the girls. And as those listening probably already know, mine are teenagers, and we have recently have a new driver. So she gets a lot of uh more freedom than what she used to have. And with that freedom seems to come a little bit more of an attitude towards mom. And this time of year, I really don't appreciate it. So I think what I want you to be able to take away from this, and the purpose of this episode is for you to make sure that you are taking care of yourself. I, at that moment, when our explosion was happening, should have stepped away, should have taken the time to ground myself, to realize that our hormones were bouncing all over each other and it was just too much, and I should have just stepped away rather than getting to a point and saying things that got said. So I want you to keep that in mind for yourself. Make sure that you are taking the time to ground yourself. Take those deep breaths, do the box breathing, do the things that you need to do so that you can move forward to be able to enjoy your family and the season in general. I think we have a tendency to put a lot of stress on ourselves, like I said, to make everything as perfect as possible. And we lose ourselves in that moment a lot of times. So take that time, really reflect upon what it is that you're doing, why you're getting frustrated, why you are putting this type of pressure on yourself to make things perfect. Do you need all those extra bows on the presence? Um does it matter if you put more than one gift in an actual box that you're wrapping, and still set expectations for yourself with your business that are achievable. You know, this is gonna be a crazy next week. If you need to be taking that time off, take that time off. Don't plan a launch for the the following week after Christmas. Find a different time, push it out a couple days. It is okay to do that. So I really want you to hear me on this and make sure that you are taking care of yourself during this time. Want you to have a wonderful holiday season. And with that being said, I want to make sure that I set the expectation that there will not be any unhinged episodes the week of Christmas. So next week, you will not be getting unhinged episodes because I need the time to be able to take that for myself and my family as well. And I want you to use that time to spend time with your family or to take time for yourself instead of listening to me gab at the mouth about the things that I love to talk about. So I hope that you will do that and make sure you stop back in tomorrow for our last episode of this week.