Today's episode is an interview with Emma Benyon. Emma is a self-care and motherhood coach and educator, supporting busy mums who are juggling the school run with a job and building a business with the tools to be less overwhelmed and have more balance, energy and clarity.

Emma is mum to a six year old and a qualified NLP, mBIT and Practical Magic Coach and full time post 16 educator. She is the editor of Positive Wellbeing Zine for Mums and host of the Self Care and Motherhood Edit podcast. Her passion is to support busy mums to have more time and energy for the all the things they enjoy and to have the tools to support and nurture themselves. I spoke to Emma about some of the challenges that she has faced juggling business and Motherhood, and she shared some insights with me as to how she has worked through these challenges. And of course some book recommendations (see list below).

Here are some of the key takeaways from this episode:

• Emma talks about ease (helping Mums to find time in a simple easy way).
• Lessons learned from hitting burnout multiple times
• Self-care, non-negotiables, but also being able to pick self-care habits back up if they haven't gone to plan one day
• Making self-care easy and to fit into your life, rather than trying to force it. Find the small moments
• Journalling, and finding a way it works for you
• The gym
• The example we set for our children
• The quiet time of early morning. Having time to yourself for self-care
• Our environment is part of our self-care. Being in a space that works for you
• Showing up in a way that is authentic to ourselves. The best version of you
• How good self-care allows you to manage situations that may get thrown at you
• Self-care as a fundamental part of making changes in life
• Exploring self-care practices… What does and doesn't work, and what we need at that time.
• Sitting in a coaching business with a full-time job, family life, and one sense of care
• Reaching burnout, and designating specific time to make it simpler
• Making coaching more accessible through small pockets of time and messages.
• How a business became a "Space for me ", a creative outlet and a self-care practice
• Business has a sense of self, to help with postnatal depression.
• Stay in your own lane. You never know what is happening behind closed doors of someone else's business.

Find the show notes and the links to recommended tools and books here.