Design Your Dream Life With Natalie Bacon

By Natalie Bacon

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What's Design Your Dream Life With Natalie Bacon about?

This podcast is for moms who care about personal growth. When life seems busy, stressful, or overwhelming, this is a space to do the inner work and become more mindful. You'll learn how to enjoy your everyday life without the mom guilt or overwhelm. You'll hear topics on mindset, anxiety, worry, mom guilt, confidence, marriage, motherhood, time management, productivity, goal setting, money, and more. I'm your host, Natalie Bacon, and I'm here to help you design your dream life. Learn more at NatalieBacon.com.

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How I Make My Everyday Life...

09.20.2023

If you find your day-to-day life to be overwhelming, busy, or just not as enjoyable as you'd like, tune in to this podcast to hear Certified Coach Natalie Bacon talk about how she uses her tools and practices to make ...

Design Your Dream Life With Natalie Bacon episodes:

09.20.2023 How I Make My Everyday Life Easier If you find your day-to-day life to be overwhelming, busy, or just not as enjoyable as you'd like, tune in to this podcast to hear Certified Coach Natalie Bacon talk about how she uses her tools and practices to make ...
09.13.2023 Finding Your Purpose As A Mom If you're unsure what your purpose is as a mom, tune into this episode. You'll learn the difference between purpose and passion, as well as how to go about defining and creating your purpose. Spoiler alert: it's an internal process, ...
09.06.2023 What To Do When Something Sucks If you're going through a challenge in your personal life, navigating it with the right tools will help you feel better, make better decisions, and show up as your best self. Whether it's a struggling child, home repairs, in-law dynamics, ...
08.30.2023 Balancing The Demands Of Motherhood The demands of motherhood are enormous and with the expectation that mom is supposed to "do it all" it can often leave you spread too thin, feeling like you're falling short in every way, second guessing yourself, and comparing yourself ...
08.23.2023 Overcoming Negative Self Talk As A Mom Negative self talk in modern motherhood is so pervasive that it's now the norm. It's more common to be harsh and critical of ourselves than it is to be supportive and loving. This type of negative self talk is harmful ...
08.16.2023 When You’re Always Putting Out Fires If you feel like you're in a constant state of overwhelm, you're not alone. This is what happens given the demands of modern motherhood. In this podcast, you'll learn exactly why the brain tends toward feeling constantly stressed and exactly ...
08.09.2023 How To Plan Better One of the best kept secrets of people who are successful in all areas of their lives—confidence, relationships, parenting, homemaking, work, money, health, etc.—is that they know how to plan. Planning is one of the best skills you can use ...
08.02.2023 Coach Yourself To Grow Have you ever wondered what the benefits are of 1) coaching yourself and 2) getting coached? Natalie Bacon's life has completely transformed from applying coaching tools, and in this episode she shares how yours can, too. Coaching is different from ...
07.26.2023 How To Stop A Bad Habit If you've ever tried to stop a bad habit and found yourself going back and forth between starting and stopping, this episode is for you. Whether you want to stop yelling at your kids, stop gossiping, stop worrying, stop overeating ...
07.19.2023 Motherhood Mindset 101 To thrive in motherhood, you have to manage your mindset; your inner self talk that either empowers you or keeps you stuck, feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and defeated. Mindset tools help you become the mom YOU were made to be, instead ...
07.12.2023 Embracing Imperfection: Overcoming The Pressure To Do It All The pressure to do it "all" leads to feelings of mom guilt, overwhelm, and not enoughness. Yet, this is what we, as moms, experience every day, not knowing the real cause. It seems like it's this season of life or ...
07.05.2023 How To Raise A Child To Have A Growth Mindset Having a growth mindset allows kids to overcome challenges, failures, and mistakes, while maintaining self-confidence and self-love. Additionally, a growth mindset helps kids set, pursue, and achieve their biggest dreams. A growth mindset isn't something that's a given because of ...
06.28.2023 Positive Psychology Tips For Increased Happiness As A Mom It's hard to feel happy as a mom, and yet, there's often nothing we can point to that's the cause of our own unhappiness. On the outside, life seems to be going good enough. Yet, on the inside, we often ...
06.21.2023 How To Help A Struggling Child Helping a struggling child is one of the biggest challenges that moms face. The pressure and desire to fix and solve a child's problem can be all consuming and worrysome, while at the same time lead to little results. The ...
06.14.2023 The Busyness Of Motherhood Modern motherhood might as well be synonymous with busyness. But is this a good thing? And is there another way? That's what you'll hear more about in this episode. Instead of defaulting to always feeilng busy, you'll learn specific tools ...
06.07.2023 What You Can't Control There is so much within your control that you can focus on to help you navigate challenges and live your best life. Yet, because of how the brain works, much of what you may find yourself focusing on is out ...
05.31.2023 7 Tips For Strengthening Your Marriage Showing you care about your marriage in the thick of raising kids isn't easy. The logistics of daily life require so much attention that it can feel like nurturing your marriage is last on the list, even though your spouse ...
05.24.2023 Escapism Vs. Self Care Self care for moms can seem like an oxymoron with the everyday demands of modern motherhood combined with any additional challenges of the current season. This is why it's so common to want an escape from life to feel rejuvinated. ...
05.17.2023 Who's To Blame? When life throws a curve ball and there's a new challenge you're presented with, how do you handle it? If you're like me and most of my clients, the tendency is to look for someone to blame—blame towards someone else, ...
05.10.2023 Downshifting And Upshifting For Working Moms Working mom face unique challenges with time, energy, and resources spent between home life, family life, and work life. In this podcast, I explore how "downshifting" and "upshifting" can be a useful and empowering framework to help you live a ...
05.03.2023 How I Use These Practices In My Everyday Life As a former type-A lawyer and financial planner turned grounded, present living wife and mom, there's nothing that's been more powerful in my own personal transformation than applying the tools and practices I teach to my own life. These practices ...
04.26.2023 Becoming A Happier Wife And Mom How do you answer the question, "are you happy?" Where do you look to find this answer? Often, we have a default answer that includes some positives and negatives based on the evidence we look for in our lives. But ...
04.19.2023 Who Do You Want To Be In Your Circumstances? Often, we can't choose our circumstances. Whether it's a health diagnosis, in-law dynamics, struggles our kids are experiencing, or something else, life often deals a hand that you wouldn't choose for yourself. Sometimes, life is just hard. On default, the ...
04.12.2023 The Title Of The Movie In Your Mind We all have stories in our minds that our brains construct based on how it chooses to interpret our lives. The stories can be viewed as movies with titles that either help you solve your challenges or are unhelpful and ...
04.05.2023 How To Show Up More Intentionally In Your Marriage If you want to show up with more purpose in your marriage so you can better navigate challenges and increase connection, this episode provides tools with exactly how to do it. Instead of hoping for your marriage to change on ...
03.29.2023 How To Stop Worrying Worrying about your kids, marriage, family, home, relationships, work, time, and everything else that encompasses modern motherhood has become part of the culteral norm. But did you know there's another option? It's true. You can learn how to manage your ...
03.22.2023 Connection Over Correction With Your Kids As the mom, there is so much correcting of our kids' behavior that comes with the job. From keeping our kids safe to holding boundaries to teaching, it can feel like we're correcting our kids all day. And yet, when ...
03.15.2023 Mom Tantrums We all know that little kids and toddlers have tantrums, but did you know that adults have tantrums, too? It's true. And even though we don't typically call them "tantrums" that's exactly what happens when we feel emotionally dysregulated. Thinking ...
03.08.2023 Am I A Good Mom? As moms, we care so much about how we're doing and often wonder "am I a good mom?". We end up comparing ourselves to other moms, thinking we're not good enough, and even worse, looking to our kids happiness to ...
03.01.2023 What Your Kids' Behavior Means About You When your kids behave in a way that you may not want or agree with, it can be easy to assume that they’re doing it on purpose and that it’s personal. It is human nature to take things personally, and ...
02.22.2023 Feeling Tired When your body is tired, it is signalling to you that it needs rest. Ignoring its signals can lead to feelings of overwhelm and disempowerment, which make it so much harder to find solutions to your tiredness. This week, I ...
02.15.2023 Edit Your Life With Subtraction In order to create the future you want, there has to be room for it, and this requires editing. Editing your life by purging, decluttering, making different choices, and redeciding what you want in your future will add so much ...
02.08.2023 10 Mindset Tips For Meltdowns And Tantrums In this episode, I dive into why our children have meltdowns and tantrums and discuss the importance of teaching your kids to feel their feelings. Learn 10 mindset tips to help you deal with your child’s meltdowns and tantrums in ...
02.01.2023 Being Triggered By A Mess It's easy to feel overwhelmed when you are greeted with a mess in your home, and you might feel the need to "fix" it. But it might surprise you to know that it isn't the mess that is causing you ...
01.25.2023 How To Feel More Connected To Your Spouse And Kids Nobody enjoys fighting with their spouse or disagreeing with their kids or their family, and it can lead to us feeling disconnected. So this week, I’m sharing a simple shift you can make in your daily life that can really ...
01.18.2023 Being Pulled In Different Directions In this episode, I’m showing you how to navigate the problem of being pulled in various different directions and sharing some questions to ask yourself the next time you feel this way. Learn some mindfulness tools you can use to ...
01.11.2023 Human Design Basics I have a very different and fun episode for you this week, as I’m bringing Dana Stiles and Shayna Cornelius onto the show, and we’re talking all about the basics of Human Design. Learn what Human Design is and how ...
01.04.2023 Reinvent Yourself In Motherhood We all have a default way of being in all of our roles. But being a mom is one of the most beautiful, amazing growth journeys you can be on, so why not do it intentionally? In this episode, I’m ...
12.28.2022 Your Relationship With Aging Every single human body ages, that is a fact. But as a society, we have vilified aging and made it into something bad. Join me this week as I encourage you to approach aging with curiosity and share some thoughts ...
12.21.2022 All Or Nothing Thinking This week, I’m bringing you a tool that I use in my everyday life that helps me make better decisions, be more connected to other people, and work through challenges with my life and family, as well as my own ...
12.14.2022 Happy Over There How often do you tell yourself that you’ll be happy when you lose weight, or when the kids are older and out of this stage, or when you’re not so busy? Maybe it’s that you’ll be happy when you make ...
12.07.2022 The Story Of Your Past The next year can be the best year of your life if you want it to be, but you have to clean up your past first. In this episode, I’m showing you how to see if you are limiting yourself ...
11.30.2022 The Benefits Of Mindfulness In this episode, I’m sharing the many benefits of mindfulness that I’ve seen in my own life as well as the benefits my clients have experienced. Find out why this is work worth doing, and specifically what you should be ...
11.23.2022 The Mental Load Of Motherhood As moms, we have all experienced the mental load of motherhood. There is no right way to think about this load, we all have different thoughts and experiences, but there are things we can do to help ourselves navigate it. ...
11.16.2022 Challenging In-Law Dynamics In this episode, I’m sharing four specific examples of challenging in-law dynamics and going through each one of them with the mindfulness tools I use so you can see how they would work in any situation relating to your own ...
11.09.2022 Family Mindset: We're On The Same Team In this episode, I’m showing you how to shift out of blaming mentality and start to approach things with a team mentality, and why doing so can yield powerful results for your family. Discover why having this mindset is so ...
11.02.2022 Building A Connection Bank With Your Kids Join me this week as I share what the connection bank is, how to build one, and why doing so is such an important thing to do for your relationships. I’m showing you how to get curious about your relationships ...
10.26.2022 How To Have Hard Conversations As women, we have been socialized to prioritize what other people think and feel more than what we think and feel ourselves. So in the case of having difficult conversations, we struggle to know how to navigate them because we ...
10.19.2022 Someone Else's Negative Mindset If you are seeing real change from the intentional work you are doing in your life and find it challenging to be around someone who is particularly negative, I’m here to help this week. In this episode, I’m sharing some ...
10.12.2022 Mom Rage In this episode, learn the importance of meeting your own needs and why doing so will help you overcome mom rage. I’m sharing some different ways of thinking about mom rage, explaining why your previous attempts at dealing with it ...

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