Boundaries are the decisions you make to either protect (or not protect) the things that are most important to you, things like time with your family, date nights, rest and working-out. Every day you make decisions to either honor those priorities and keep them safe, or not. In today’s podcast, I help you understand exactly what it takes to prioritize the things that matter most and I explain the 3 most common breaks in your boundary. This is step 4 of a 5-part series on creating sustainable work life balance.

• What exactly is a boundary?
• A helpful image to use when thinking about your boundaries
• How to identify leaks in your boundary
• The 3 most common things that rob you from prioritizing the things that matter most

• Create sustainable work-life balance by joining the Ambitious and Balanced Working Mom Collective: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/collective
• Step 1: The first step to creating work-life balance (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/60)
• Step 2: How to make work-life balance easier (part 2) (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/61)
• Step 3: Balance starts with your thoughts (part 3) (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/62)
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Balance starts with your thoughts. If you want to FEEL balanced, then you need to start thinking thoughts that make you feel that way. In today’s episode I am covering the 3rd step of the 5 Step to Work-Life Balance process: controlling your mind. There are three things you need to know when learning how to interrupt negative thoughts and start cultivating an arsenal of positive ones. This is part 3 of a 5 part series.

• How imbalanced thoughts lead to overworking
• Why you shouldn’t always believe your first thought
• What it takes to cultivate other perspectives
• How to get your brain out of default mode
• The first kid vs second kid mindset

• Create sustainable work-life balance by joining the Ambitious and Balanced Working Mom Collective: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/collective
• Step 1: The first step to creating work-life balance (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/60)
• Step 2: How to make work-life balance easier (part 2) (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/61)
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In today’s episode I am sharing the 2nd step to creating a balanced life: clarity. There are 3 things you need to know: where you are headed in your career, what your day-to-day priorities are and exactly what a regret-free looks like to you. Clarity is the roadmap to a balanced life and it will help you start making confident decisions around how to spend your time and energy with ease. This is step two of a 5 step process.

• Feeling lost and uncertain in your career, after having kids
• The importance of being clear on exactly what you want and why
• What to do when you have 10 things that need to get done at once
• How clarity eases day-to-day decisions
• Why you must feel certain about your career and how

• Ready to create sustainable work-life balance? Join the Ambitious and Balanced Working Mom Collective: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/collective
• Step 1:The first step to creating work-life balance (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/60)
• Does your job need to be fulfilling to create balance? (www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/33)
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Balance is a feeling. It is not found in a perfect set of circumstances, it is found inside your body. This is an important distinction to make because the process to creating balance isn’t found in changing your job or working less hours, it’s found in you. You are in control of creating a balanced life and it is only possible when you are feeling confident in yourself and your work. This is part 1 of a 5 part series covering the proven 5 step process I teach inside, The Ambitious and Balanced Working Mom Collective.

• The importance of thinking amazing things about yourself
• What it takes to end all the scripts that say “I am not good enough” or “I didn’t do enough”
• Why your job never creates balance
• Balance is not dependent on the number of hours you work

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Coaching is a process of not just finding balance right now, it’s about figuring out how to create it from here on out. On today’s podcast I am interviewing a past client, Ali Gorsuch, who stopped coaching with me over a year and half ago, but the impact of coaching has had a lasting effect. In this interview Ali speaks about how the coaching we did back in 2019 helped her to get a recent promotion, move across the country with ease and feel present and connected with her kids. She shares some of the tools that had a profound effect and that she continues to use on a daily basis.

• The importance of choosing your thoughts
• Why knowing your values creates clarity
• What you need to believe in order to get promoted and reach big goals
• How to unwind the thought “this is the best I can get”
• How to choose to not feel guilty

• Want to learn how to create a balanced life both now and 3 years from now? Schedule a time to chat and I will walk you through the process: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/book
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To become a confident decision maker, you have to start making decisions in a different way. There are 4 distinctions that separate confident decision makers that ensure they don’t procrastinate, people please or perfect (the enemies of all decisions). In today’s podcast I will cover each of the distinctions and why they are so important.

• Confident decision making does not mean you will get it “right”
• The importance of giving yourself a container of time to make a decision
• How gathering people’s opinion does not lead to better decisions
• The importance of making faster more decisive decisions to create a balanced life
• Why self-trust is important part of confidence

• Want to make a confident decision about your life & career? Schedule a time to chat and I will walk you through the process of confident decision making: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/book
• Episode 27: #2 Strategy to grow confidence
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Career happiness is an important part of creating work-life balance. And for many working moms, this leads them to consider making a change in their career. But change feels scary and they got lost in the options and the “what-ifs”. The reason for this, is because they are going about the career change in the wrong way. As a coach for working moms I have a specific method I use to help my clients take the guessing game out of the job search and in today’s episode I am going to share it with you.

• How NOT to go about job search
• Why you should never start by listing out your options
• Why you shouldn’t trust your gut when it comes to making a career change
• Where to start in the job-search process
• How to calm down your brain when it freaks out about making a change

• Want to chat about how to create your own job search compass, so you take the guessing game out of the career change? Schedule a time to chat by going to: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/book
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Emotions are not meant to be avoided…they’re meant to be felt. When you give yourself space to feel your emotions, they don’t linger as long, you feel more in control of them and you don’t allow them to build up to an explosion. In today’s episode I am sharing 7 truths about emotions and how to give yourself space to feel them.

• My journey out of being a feeling avoider
• Why toddlers are so good at feeling their emotions
• What to do with disappointment, anger and other icky emotions
• What science says about emotions and how they vibrate in our body’s
• An emotion can pass through your body in just 90 seconds
• What it takes to give space for an emotions and how to do it

Want a step by step guide for handling unwanted emotions like disappointment and failure? Join the Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms Collective. Click here to learn more and sign up: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/collective

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As a working mom your brain is likely always "on". You are constantly thinking about the things that need to get accomplished and the decisions that need to be made. For my client Cathy, these constant to-do’s, the second-guessing of herself, the need to make sure she bought the right products and was always prepared…this constant chatter in her head was preventing her from being happy and present in the way that she wanted. In coaching, Cathy learned several tools to help manage all of the thoughts in her head and the overwhelm that came with it and on today’s podcast she is sharing her top 4.

• All the things working moms hold onto in their brain and how to let it all go
• 4 tools to help calm an overwhelmed mind
• What to do when you need to clean up the house and you want to be with your kiddos
• A funny story about managing the piles of artwork from preschool
• How to not feel like a bad mom when you get angry at your kids
• The importance of knowing your superpower

• If you want to create a customized plan to calm your brain and stop feeling overwhelmed, I invite you to schedule a free breakthrough call. Click here to book your call: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/book
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There is a secret to feeling confident. To prioritizing your own needs. To feeling in control of your time and turning off your work brain at the time that you want. There is a secret to getting out of procrastination and learning how to make more decisive decisions. You ready for it? The secret is learning how to self-validate. In other words, to stop needing someone else to tell you that you’re good, that you’re doing enough and that you’re doing things right. You can simply choose to believe those things without ever needing someone else to tell you so. In today’s episode, I will show you how.

• The need for recognition and validation
• The connection between confidence and validation
• The sneaky ways the need for validation surfaces
• How procrastination and perfectionism are really all about validation
• What it takes to increase your belief in self
• A free event to help you learn the skill of self-validation

• Increase your confidence and feel like a badass working mom! Join Belief Week, a free week-long event: www.rebeccaolsoncoaching.com/beliefweek.
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