Have you ever been leaving a friend’s birthday party, and your 4-year-old rushes up to the hostess to ask if they can bring home an extra piece of cake or goodie bag to give to her sister?

I have, more than once, and I was always so embarrassed! 

I have a 16-year-old daughter who is very outgoing, not afraid of authority, will tell a teacher when they have made a mistake, and always asks for and gets what she wants. She’s always been this way. She was that 4-year-old at the party. 

No matter where we went, she came home with something that she wanted that she had asked for. She wasn’t scared to ask an adult where the bathroom was in a store. She wasn’t nervous to ask the waiter for more chips, their cool pen, or a free dessert. 

I was so embarrassed that she asked everyone for what she wanted. 

• I thought it wasn’t polite.
• I thought people were judging me for allowing her to ask. 
• I was hot with shame, thinking, “Good moms don’t let their kids do this.”

As a brand new 14-year-old, this daughter wanted a job. I told her that the stores didn’t hire till 16, but she didn’t let that stop her. No matter where we went, she asked if they would hire her. She filled out every online application she could find and spent hours calling stores to find out the age you had to be to work there. She even tried to talk them into making an exception. And she got a job at 14 then another one at 15!

I’m still somewhat embarrassed but for an entirely different reason. 

That I didn’t recognize what a fantastic quality this is to have!

I’m in awe that I have a confident daughter who isn’t afraid to ask for what she wants. She didn’t give up!  

She made the impossible possible!  

I’m often reminded, that we can learn so much from our children if we put our fears of what other people think of us, and our ego aside. 

Is there something that you want, but you’re too afraid to ask?  

Are you working on being a great mom while growing a business? 

How does your children’s daycare or school situation change your schedule next year? 

While building my coaching practice, I was an online school teacher for the home school population of my district. I earned a Master’s Degree in Education while pregnant with this amazing, said daughter, and taught special education for many years. I understand ADHD and many other learning and behavior challenges! 

My passion is to help mompreneurs build a thriving business that makes great money while being amazing mothers. I teach women how to implement simple steps to achieve their desires without sacrificing what matters most.

Are you asking for the help you desire to achieve your dreams?  

I’m offering a small group coaching package for moms, growing a business, and possibly while their children are home learning next year. 

Here are the details of this group coaching experience.

• 12-week program
• 10 small group sessions
• 2 private 1-on-1 sessions
• Group Marco Polo or Text to connect, ask questions, gain support, brainstorm, and share ideas with the group. 
• I will teach you the simple tools and strategies that I use with all my clients to help them create the time and schedules that support their business and motherhood goals. No boot camp style, no “just push through”, wake up before the sun kind of tools!  
• I will work with you to create the online learning schedule and environment that will set you and your children up for the most success, for learning, and your relationship while we create personalized business strategies to help you grow your business.
• Group Sessions will start the 2nd week of August. All sessions will be recorded and sent out to group members unable to attend. 
• Group sessions will be on Fridays, between the hours of 10-1 MST. I’ll let the majority decide the time before we have our first session. 
• Groups are more fun with friends! $100 Discount (for both of you) if you refer a friend, and she signs up. 

If you’re ready to…

• grow your business in a way that works for you
• facilitate your children’s education with fewer struggles and more purpose
• show up as the mom you want to be while making money in your business, then click here to send me an email that says, I want to learn more.  

We will discover simple ways to maximize time and schedules with intention so that you can be an amazing mom who makes great money. 

This will be a small group experience, so space is very limited.  

If you’re interested, curious, or already all in, click here to send me an email. 

I am looking forward to seeing you in my inbox.

What are your summer plans? 

This summer, my family and I were going to go on a cruise for the first time. 

I could have just booked the first one that popped up after my google search and hoped for the best.  

Instead, I asked people that had experience with cruises all about them. 

I asked what they thought made a great cruise, what they liked, and what made it less than great.  

I ask how they planned it, what agency they used, and who was easy to work with. 

I found out their opinions for stateside and foreign cruises. 

I inquired about boarding differences between the west coast and the south.  

I talked with people that have experiences with cruises, what worked, what didn’t, what they would do differently, their best advice, what to do and not todo, and the “how-to” for the most successful overall cruise experience.

This is no different from hiring a coach.  

Hiring a coach that has experience where you currently are and has figured out how to get where you want to be already makes for the best knowledge.

A coach will get you there faster, with less stress, less failure, more clarity, and success!

A coach will guide and help you to have the best experience and create the life you want.  

If you’re trying to build a business while parenting children, I’ve been there.  

I built my successful life coaching business while parenting three young daughters and teaching school full-time. 

I know the challenges and struggles you are facing.  

I know the time constraints and the demands of motherhood you are feeling. 

I know the shame, guilt, exhaustion, disorganization, and overwhelm that keeps you up at night.  

If you want to go from feeling confused, like you don’t have enough time, and out of control, to thriving in both your motherhood and business, making money in a way that you love,  I know the best way to get you there. 

Click here to schedule a free exploration session.

I will show you how to create a balanced life you love without sacrificing your health, life goals, motherhood, sleep, or relationships. 

My friend mentioned last night that she’s free all next week and maybe we should invite 2020 to show up the way we expected.

I told her that it won’t be like anything we expected, however, in time, I think it will be even better than we could have dreamed.

Speaking of expectations, there was a long stretch in my life when I wanted to get my PDH in Psychology. I never achieved it,and here’s what I was telling myself when I didn’t pursue it.

• I would score too low and the GRE… I’m not smart enough.
• I would never get accepted into a program anyway.
• My husband is too busy climbing the cooperate ladder, he doesn’t have time to support me more education.
• My kids are too little, they need me.
• As they became older, I told myself, I needed to save that money for their college education, it would be irresponsible to spend it on another degree.
• I also told myself, good moms stay home and raise their kids they aren’t off going to college and getting corporate jobs

Do any of these excuses come up for you when you’re talking yourself out of doing more?

Recently, I was a speaker at the Purpose Project Online Summit.

I talked about how to make the time and any season WORK for pursuing your dreams.

I take you through a self-discovery that will leave you with clarity about how you are currently using your time, how you are thinking about your time, and how you could be using it even more effectively to help you take small steps towards fulfilling your desire in the season of life that you’re currently in.

If you have a dream, but not currently fully pursuing it, this video had inspiration and ideas just for you.

If you have a dream, you are pursuing it, but you feel overwhelmed, confused, and unhappy a lot of the times, this video has action steps and clarity for you too.

I’ve created a little worksheet to walk you through the video and provide you with more clarity.

You can access and PDF worksheet here.

If you found this video helpful and want to take your self-discovery to another level, please feel free to schedule a free exploratory session with me. We simply have a conversation about what’s going well in your life and business, what’s not working, and how we can solve for the things you want better. It’s like talking to a really good friend that has valuable insight and knows about business building while being a mom.

Hello! 

What is it that you really want? 

It’s not meant to be a trick question, but it often feels that way, right? 

My clients come to me for a change, but they often don’t know what change they are seeking. 

They want to have a different experience in their motherhood, but they aren’t sure what that experience looks like. 

They want to make money in their business and become more confident, but they aren’t sure how.  

They want to feel differently about their life, but they don’t know how to make that happen.

They can’t hear their authentic voice or rely on their own helpful thoughts.

We spend so much time drowning out our own authentic voice because we are often too scared, too worried, or too consumed about what others think.  

Let’s see if you can hear your voice? 

If someone gifted you $5000 and a week of extra time and you could do whatever you wanted without any consequences, what would you do?  

Would you: 

start a business? 

hire a coach? 

have another child?

go back to school? 

start a diet, a mastermind, or write a book?

begin to train for a race?

sign up for a conference?  

That’s the voice that you should pay more attention to.  That’s the voice that’s taking you places. 

We spend more time listening to the voice that tells us we are crazy, that we would fail, that we aren’t smart enough, or that we don’t have enough time.

That voice keeps us playing small.  Keeps us on the same playing field we’ve always been without the satisfaction and real growth we desire. 

You may have a lot of self-defeating thoughts to work through before you can hear that voice, but it’s in there. 

I can help you hear it, belive, and stay focused on it .  

I would love to show you how to start listening to the voice that helps you grow, how to tune into the voice that allows you to follow your dreams.  

Let’s make that voice even louder, more apparent, and more real.

If you know you want to feel less overwhelmed, less stressed, less restricted in your motherhood, and your business, but not sure how, let’s chat.  

I can show you how you can grow your capacities in your motherhood and your business without sacrificing your health, relationships, motherhood, or sleep.  

Click here to schedule a free 50-minute exploratory session with me so we can discover your voice, learn how to trust it, and create a plan to make that voice your reality.  

I think “they” (whoever they are) meant well when they said, “we can do hard things.”  

Maybe it’s encouraging when you’re in the middle of that “hard thing”, but what if that “hard thing” didn’t have to be so hard? 

Being a mom and business owner is hard, but I’m here to make it easier!  

Speaking of hard, my high school senior has had a few very tough weeks during this quarantine. ⁣

⁣The disappointment of missing her friends, graduation, and all the fun senior activities that she has been looking forward to have been adding up. ⁣

⁣She missed senior prom.⁣

⁣She missed senior sunset.⁣

⁣She missed the deadline (wifi problems) of her most significant English assignment of the semester.⁣

⁣She and her boyfriend of over a year broke up. ⁣

⁣She’s been upset, angry, confused, heartbroken and grieving for all kinds of reasons. ⁣

During the middle of all this, one night, she said to me, ⁣

⁣”I don’t want to do hard things and become stronger, I just want to be happy.”

⁣I get it, baby girl! ⁣ That’s what we all want! ⁣

⁣What if it’s possible to become stronger, do hard things, and still be happy? 

What if it’s possible to work on these hard things and make them easier? 

What if they didn’t have to be so hard? 

⁣I believe that we can have challenges, find ways to be happy, and find ways to make them easier at the same time.

⁣What is the hard you’re facing in life right now? 

Is it your motherhood, your relationship with your children, your lack of time to show up for them?

Do you worry about whether you’re being a good mom and doing it right? 

Do you stress about your business?

Do you want to spend more time working in it, but don’t know how to do that with everything else you have going on?

When you don’t accomplish your business goals or the opposite, work too hard in your business on a certain day, do you feel shame and guilt about your choices?

Do you want to lay your head down on the pillow each night knowing you did your best in both your business and motherhood each day? Do you want less regret?  

If you’re ready to create schedules, plans, and mental clarity, find time to grow your capacity in all your life roles, then schedule a free consult session with me so that I can show you how to make hard things easy!  

Want to make being a mom and business owner less hard?  

Good, because that’s my calling, to show you how to create a life you love, the good, the easy, the hard, and the less hard, without sacrificing your health, relationships, or sleep. I’ve got a system figured out, and I can’t want to show you!  
 

Click here to learn more about my one on one coaching package designed to help make hard things easy.

I was watching a show this past week on Netflix.  

The mom of the family sat down her children for an important announcement.  She told her boys, 

“I’m not just your mother; I am a member of this family. 
In this family, we don’t let each other settle for anything less than what we deserve. If I am going to ask that of you, I have to ask that of myself too.”
She then went on to explain to her kids that she had picked up an application to apply for college. She was going to get that degree that she had always wanted. 

As the mother of your family, are you holding your children to high expectations, dreaming big for them, sacrificing time and money to provide them with opportunities, rooting for their success, only to stop short when it comes to you? 

You are a member of your family.
You deserve the same opportunities to reach your goals as anyone!  

I built my life coaching practice while teaching school full-time, parenting my three children, and supporting my husband in his demanding career.   

I learned how to root for me.  

My children nor my husband took a back seat in their dreams, and neither did I. 

Who’s keeping you from reaching your goals? 

I’m rooting for you.  

I help show women how it’s possible to be the mother they want to be and go after their dreams.
I help them reach their goals without sacrificing their health, sleep, relationships, or motherhood. 

Let me show you how it’s possible for you. 

Click here to sign up for my free 55-minute consult session. 

Together we can discover why you’re not holding yourself and your dreams to the same high expectations you desire for your family. 

My teen daughter had a rough day last week. 

That’s putting it lightly!

She yelled at her sister for 10 minutes while I was in another room coaching a client.  

She didn’t just yell loud enough for the neighbors to hear, 

she screamed a curse word for the first time, EVER.  

She didn’t just say one; she said three! 

She slammed the front door so hard; it shook the house.  

She went for a walk and ended up 10 miles away from home. 

She called for me to come get her.

I had five things left to do before dinner, but I dropped them and when to get her. 

I was not happy about this interruption, the yelling, nor the door slamming.  

I had plenty of things I wanted to say to her once I picked her up.  

I was scared that my usually happy, high-achieving teen, who keeps life together was spiraling down into a deep hole. ⁣⁣

I was annoyed that she was letting her anger out so uncontrolled. 

As I went to pick her up, her phone died, and I couldn’t find her. 

Once I got to where she said to pick her up, I spent 10 minutes looking for her.  

I was a bit scared but more annoyed at this point. 

When she got in the car, I yelled, “This is not OK.”  

I saw her clench her fist and then her teeth.

Her breathing became shallow and rushed. 

She was on the verge of an anxiety attack.

A soft voice whispered to me, “You can do this.”

I then whispered it to her as I prompted her to try to take a deep breath. 

So whoever needs to hear it today, 
You CAN DO this! 
It feels difficult as we are faced with unmet expectations, cancellations, interruptions, disappointments, sick babies, homeschool, business growing, and angry teens!⁣⁣
⁣⁣
If you’re a teen with lots of emotions, or the parent not knowing what to do with your teen’s emotions, or if you feel like my teen, but you 𝐀𝐑𝐄 the parent, trying to grow your business, we can do this together. ⁣⁣
⁣⁣We CAN DO this! 

There have been many times when I was “giving away my time” (although I wasn’t calling it that then), that I was moody and resentful.

I would be doing something I thought I “should” be doing, yet showing up completely opposite of how I wanted, especially to the people that mattered most to me.

Back in 2008, while prepping dinner for a family in need, I was yelling at my then, very young children to get out of the kitchen and to stop getting in my way. I rushed them out of the kitchen and sat them in front of the TV so I could finish preparing a meal for this family.

Once the meal was ready to be delivered, I impatiently instructed my daughters to hurry up and get in the car.

I snapped at my 6-year-old for carrying the dessert haphazardly, frustrated that the perfect design I placed the cookies in was now ruined.

I reprimanded my 4-year-old for twisting the bread bag so tightly that it squished the rolls.

The entire car ride I shouted at my 3-year-old, “don’t you go to sleep,” because it was 5 pm, and the home we were taking the meal too was 15 minutes away. She didn’t have her nap, and I wasn’t going to let her fall asleep in the car and be up all night.

It wasn’t until much later that night, when these beautiful babies were finally asleep, that I realized I was turning into a monster, and that’s not how I wanted to show up for my kids, or myself. I wasn’t setting the example of service that I wanted to set for them.

I was giving away my time and resenting and yelling at everyone for it, but the person responsible, me!

It was that night that I decided that when I gave of my time, I would WHEN I could do it happily, without guilt, and without sacrificing relationships.

It was so painful when service opportunities were announced in church/community, asking for my time, and I just sat there. I was judging myself for not giving of my time, and I was assuming everyone else was judging me too.

But they weren’t! I bet no one even noticed if I signed up or not.

I have learned, for me, service is meaningful when I can do it with a willing heart and with a peaceful attitude because it’s what I want to be doing with my time, not what I “should be” doing. I get to say yes to service when I want to say yes, and I get to say NO when I don’t think it will help me keep the balance and character that I strive for in my life.

We get to choose how we spend our time and how we feel when we spend that time. When we spend our days working on our priorities, not our “shoulds”… not operating out of fear, or comparison, but out of love and respect for yourself and those around us, we get to show up the way we want to show up spending our time in the best way for us.

To protect what you value most, stop giving away your time.

If you’re not protecting your time, who is?

Is there something you want to be doing but can’t decide how to do it?

What degree, goal, class, or business do you want to pursue, but haven’t decided how to make it a reality?

Choosing not to decide wastes time and mental energy.

What’s stopping you from making the decision?

Is it fear?

Is it that it will be too hard, too difficult?

Is it that you’re already so busy?

Is it that your kids are too little?

That it will cost too much money or take too much time?

Is it because you can’t be a good mom and… (you fill in the blank)

Is it because you might fail?

If you want to increase your confidence and need help deciding to go all-in on your goals, dreams, or business, then sign up for a complimentary session with me. Not only can I help you make a decision, I can help you plan the time and create the schedules to make it happen.

I can help you decide once and for all!

Stop wasting time in indecision.

Indecision robs you of living in the now!

Are you busying creating the life you want or the life you think you “should” be living?  

When was the last time you stopped and asked yourself, what do I want to be doing with my life? 
 
I recently had a client that was trying to make a big decision in her business.  

She felt like she “should” be creating an on-line course to grow her business. 

She felt “obligated”  to her clients, to her family, and her business partner, but not really interested in taking the time creating the course. 

I asked her,

If you could do anything you wanted and you had no obligation to anyone else, what would you do? 

It wasn’t the course.  

Instead, she answered that she would write a book.

I then asked her, “so why aren’t you writing a book?”  

Another client came seeking clarity on whether or not she should become a certified coach. 

Another asked me if she should have a baby right now. 

And another asked if she should quit her MLM business.  

We get to create our lives!  Yes, other people are part of our lives, but don’t allow those other people to be excuses and obstacles as to why you aren’t living the life you want to live. 

Ask yourself, what do you WANT to be doing? 

Before you answer, pretend that all the reasons that are keeping you from doing that thing don’t exist. 

Pretend that the bills will be paid no matter what.  
Your husband will be supportive. 
The kids will be cared for. 
The house will get cleaned.
Your husband’s job won’t be as demanding.
You can get extra money.
You have the time.  
You’re not too old. 

It’s important to pretend that this fairytale does exist, at least for a tiny moment.  

Once you’re in a place where all of your reasons are no longer valid, then answer the question, what do I want to be pursuing right now?

Is it something different than you are doing now?  

How different?  

Sometimes my clients are shocked how different their dreams are than their current life. 

Sometimes they are shocked that it’s very much the same, and they didn’t realize they ARE living the life they want.

Sometimes we blame our life circumstances for not going after the dream, but it’s not the dream we want, so we blame the life we currently have, and then we feel stuck and less fulfilled when the dream doesn’t happen.

AND It’s not EVEN the DREAM we WANT!  

Taking ALL the excuses, all the reasons that we think are holding us back and making it impossible out of the equation and then asking ourselves, “what we want to do” is valuable. 

There’s so much wisdom and power in that question.  

If you want help achieving the goals your dreaming of, but you feel like there are too many reasons holding you back, schedule a free session with me.  I help you see just what is possible for you in your life now.