I’ve been working with a client who feels unbalanced and is having a hard time recognizing where she is doing a great job in her motherhood. ⁠
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I asked her what she had done that day. ⁠

She told me that she prepared her children a healthy lunch, spent time with them doing a new activity, and planned to take them to a pumpkin patch later. ⁠
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I told her those were all a series of successes. They were all evidence of doing a great job in motherhood. ⁠
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Her reply, “yeah, but those are normal. Everyone does that!” ⁠
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I had to remind her that not everyone does, and even if everyone did, it doesn’t make her actions any less!⁠
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Will you PLEASE do me a favor? ⁠
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This week, will you make an intentional attempt to notice where you have victories? Notice the things you are doing even if you think “everyone does them.” ⁠
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When we downplay our series of successes, it makes it hard to feel balanced and believe in ourselves as a great mom! ⁠
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I’d love to hear what you discover!  Hit reply back a let me know one thing you did today that makes you proud! ⁠

One of the 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 I see my clients make is believing their critical, self-judgmental thoughts. ⁣⁣⁠
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They are running successful businesses, but instead of focusing on that greatness, service, success, they are overwhelmed and fall victim to…⁠⁣⁣⁠
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“Yeah, but if they knew how messy my house was”?⁠⁣⁣⁠
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“What if they knew I fed my kids frozen pizza, again, and put them to bed in what they wore to school?” ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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“I’m embarrassed to admit how many emails I have in my inbox.” ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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“I am a total mess when it comes to motherhood!”⁠⁣⁣⁠
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“I feel so disorganized in my business. I often wonder how it’s doing so well”!⁠⁣⁣⁠
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Guess what, your clients don’t care about that! ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮! ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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They care about you, your product/service, and if you sell/provide something they can purchase 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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You might care about your home, your schedule, motherhood organization, and how many emails are in your inbox, and 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮! ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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I help you 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬 so that you can 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫! ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳 so that you can be the incredible mom you want to be while creating a business that improves client’s lives in 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲! ⁠⁣⁣⁠
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On our wedding day do you think either of us thought…⁠
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“I don’t really expect this to work”⁠
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“This might fail”⁠
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“This is probably a dumb idea” ⁠
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You might think I’m crazy for asking such a question, right!? ⁠
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Sometimes, when my clients, start a new program, launch a new course, hire a new VA, increase their prices, or host a webinar, they think these types of THOUGHTS! 😬⁠
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” I already know this isn’t going to work” ⁠
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“I don’t really expect this to turn out”⁠
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“I this totally going to fail” ⁠
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What would change in your business, and your motherhood if you thought the very same things that you did on your wedding day? ⁠
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“I’m so excited for the future”⁠
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“I can’t wait to see how incredible this is”⁠
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“I’m in it for forever”⁠
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“This is going to be good”⁠
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Whether you’re struggling in your motherhood feeling unorganized and not sure how to schedule in all the things you think are important or you’re worried about having enough time in your business to get all the tasks completed on time if you thought… ⁠
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“I don’t really expect this to turn out”⁠
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You know what you’re setting yourself up for, and it’s not pretty! ⁠
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I work with incredible businesswomen who know how to believe the “wedding day” thoughts about their business, but when it comes to streamlining and scheduling their TIME, motherhood and the tasks of the day they are living in “this IS a total disaster”!⁠
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If you want help organizing, scheduling, and structuring your time so that you can be the amazing mom that runs a thriving business, we can work out a plan to move forward so that you can create the motherhood you planned to have when you also started your business! ⁠

Prior to becoming a coach, I spent many years as a special education teacher. ⁠
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I noticed that many teachers would hone in on a child’s weakness and then have them work on that over and over and then wonder why there wasn’t much progress. ⁠
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I had a different approach. ⁠
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I had them work on and refine their strengths. ⁠
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As they worked on their strengths, they become stronger. ⁠
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They became more confident. ⁠
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They become more willing to work on something that was harder.⁠
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They discovered more of what they were good at.⁠
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They lit up, and that enthusiasm was passed on to others. ⁠
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They developed strengths in areas they had no idea were options to them. ⁠
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It’s ok to notice an area you would like to improve in, but if you want the most improvement in your motherhood and business, focus on your strengths. ⁠
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Use your strengths to grow your business and your motherhood relationships!⁠
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Curious about what your strengths are? ⁠
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Here are a few questions that might help you uncover them. ⁠
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1. What are you good at?⁠
2. What do you enjoy doing? ⁠
3. What is fun/easy for you to do? ⁠
4. What do other people say you are good at? ⁠
5. What is something that you can do for hours? ⁠
6. What excites you? ⁠
7. What do you enjoy learning about?⁠
8. If you had to talk about something spontaneously for thirty minutes, what would you talk about?⁠
9. What is the best part of your motherhood? ⁠
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Tell me below one answer to the questions above. ⁠

My oldest daughter has an August 6th birthday. ⁠⁠
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When she turned five, she had 5 friends with summer birthdays too, yet I was the only parent that had their child start school that year. ⁠⁠
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The rest of the parents “held their kid back” another year and waited to send them when they were 6. ⁠⁠
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When some of the other mothers asked why I didn’t hold Camryn back, I had two quick thoughts. ⁠⁠
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1. I expected her to succeed and love kindergarten. ⁠⁠
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2. It didn’t occur to me to hold her back. She was ready! And if there were areas that she wasn’t “ready” in yet, she would learn those things! ⁠⁠
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Luckily, this story isn’t about whether or not to hold your child back. ⁠⁠
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However, it is about whether or not you’re holding yourself back. ⁠⁠
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That thing in your business or motherhood that you’ve been “holding off on”, “waiting to be ready”, waiting for “more time”…
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How would it be different if you ⁠⁠
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1. Expected to succeed⁠⁠
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2. Believed you could learn what you need to learn to have it be a success? ⁠⁠

And now my 19-year-old killing it in college! She’s a junior that just turned 19 this month! They said she wasn’t “ready” to apply to nursing school, but look who’s totally ready! ⁠⁠
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You change everything when you expect to succeed!

My youngest daughter just tried out for the HS tennis team and made it. She’s still working as a house cleaner while also keeping up on her wrestling workouts and learning how to drive. ⁠

My middle daughter works several hours each week at a local taco shop, takes a few AP classes, picks up extra shifts, has a killer social life, and still uses some of her time to sell adorable jewelry at the local farmer’s market. ⁠

My oldest is taking summer classes, just got hired at the mom and baby unit in the hospital, kept her old CNA job as PRN, and still makes gorgeous wedding cakes each weekend for her clients. ⁠

Is this what you were thinking?

“Wow, these girls are selfish? They have so much going on, they are working a lot, have school, their plates are full, and now they want to add more into their schedule? That is totally selfish!”

I bet you didn’t. 

I bet you thought something like, 

“Good for them!”

“They are ambitious girls following their desires.”

“These girls sound amazing!”

Why is it, when moms want to add growing a business or reaching a goal to their already packed schedule, we think,

“maybe we are being selfish?” 

Why aren’t we saying

“That’s incredible, way to go after our desires!”

“Good for us!”

“Our ambition sounds amazing!”

It’s HARD!

It’s hard feeling selfish when going after a dream!

It’s hard questioning yourself in your motherhood and business growth.

It’s hard thinking that something has to be sacrificed for your business to grow!

What if it’s doesn’t have to be so hard? 

What if you don’t have to sacrifice the things you value most (especially time and money) to be a great mom who makes great money in her business? 

There are simple solutions inside my 1:1 coaching program.

I help clients discover personal priorities, strategies, schedules, clarity, intentionality, and growing an intuitive business in a way that compliments their motherhood! 

I dive into your mindset, confidence, and the know-how for you to grow your relationships with your family, your clients, and yourself!

If you think this might be for you check out the link here to schedule a free discovery call with me.

Do you often feel like you have to hold it together for everyone else, that you don’t have time to “fall apart” or worry about yourself? ⁠ ⁠ 

As mothers, business moms, women, wives, we are like sponges. We absorb problems, emotions, tasks, responsibility, fails, and the “messes” of life. ⁠ ⁠ 

Like a sponge, we can’t go on being effective without stopping to be rung out. ⁠ ⁠ 

Do you have a space, place, or person in your life where you can land softly, and be “rung out, without judgment? ⁠ ⁠ 

Creating a place for women to have a safe place to land is just one of the reasons I help women in business have more! ⁠ ⁠ 

That more might be more support, a network, motherhood or business strategies, clarity around schedules, the know-how for their next actions, and business steps, or more confidence in their abilities to simply and strategically grow a business they enjoy. It might be a bit more money, more time for relationships with their children, or a business bestie to grow with. ⁠ ⁠ 

Did you know… 

1. I grew up in a family of 4 girls and 2 boys?  I am smack dab in the middle, although I am typed (have all the characteristics) of the oldest child. ⁠

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2. On the enneagram tests I come out as an 8 and 1 equally.  I see myself in both numbers although 8’s tell me I am NOT and 8!  🤔  But @coachingwithjacqlin is very convinced that I am an 8.  Any 1’s out there?  ⁠

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3. If I had to eat only one cuisine type for the rest of my life it would certainly be Mexican food.  If I had to choose one dessert it would be ice cream.  You can have almost every other type of dessert in ice cream flavors. ⁠

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4. When I married my husband, the deal was, he could never take me out of Arizona, he had to mow lawns, and he couldn’t work nights. (I’m afraid of the dark)  Just a few years into our marriage I was living in Wisconsin, mowing the lawn by myself, because he was at work, pulling an all-nighter at the clinic. I didn’t get the things “I wanted” but I’ve received even better things in our marriage!  ⁠

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5. My first group Mastermind mind, “IN THE MIDDLE COLLABORATIVE MASTERMIND” Launches September 2021!   

This small group mastermind is designed to help you do the work in your business and motherhood that you feel passionate about, create, hit goals, make money, NETWORK, MASTERMIND, and serve your clients without sacrificing the things you value most! And without confusion and overwhelm!  ⁠

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We will network, learn, create friendships, and grow our businesses together using our own strengths, interests, strategies, and techniques that work for YOU!! ⁠

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Life is more than just our business! ⁠ Let’s learn how to balance it! 

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Networking with friends, smart friends, that understand what you value most… success in both business and motherhood are the best kind of friends!  ⁠

There are only 24 hours each day. Depending on how you use those hours, you can create more, create productively, create results, or create nothing. ⁠⁠
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If you want to create more time, ask yourself these following questions:

1. Is there a way to make the task easier or automate it?

2. Do I need to do this task as often as I am?

3. Could I hire out or do without this task in my business or motherhood?

4. Do I like my reasons for continuing to put this task on my schedule?

5. Do I like the results I’m getting from doing this task?

Did these questions make you think? If you don’t know what you are doing with your time or doing something unintentionally, good chance you’re losing hours in your day. ⁠⁠

When was the last time you said yes?

Do you regret it?   

As women, moms, and business builders, we get asked to participate in opportunities every single day!  Before saying yes, or no, create a bit of space to think through how your answer might affect your motherhood, business, and other commitments. ⁠⁠
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1. Is there room in my schedule for it?

If not, what am I willing to give up or do differently to fit it into my schedule without sacrificing the things I value most?

2. Do I want to do it? Why or why not?

3. Am I saying yes because I am afraid to say no? 
Are you nervous of what others might think about you if you say no? 

Here’s something you can say to give you time to make the decision that’s right for you! 

“Let me check my calendar and get back with you.” 

4. How does saying yes affect my clients, motherhood,

and business?
Is saying yes a win-win? 

Using these questions you can create some space, and valid thinking options to understand how your answer might affect you in the short and long term in your business and motherhood. ⁠⁠