We all have dreams about the kind of family we want to create, but can hit some major roadblocks. How do we show up and keep going as family leaders for ourselves, our children, and for our work when personal challenges tempt us to give up? This is a question many of us find ourselves asking, and one that Leadership Coach Rachelle Archer has faced head-on multiple times. In this episode, Vanessa Callaghan, MED. interviews our very own Coach Rachelle, who shares the crossroads that she faced when her marriage ended when she was 5 months pregnant. Instead of giving into the darkness, she chose to build herself up and create a life that worked for her and her son.

Borrowing from Rachelle’s 25 years of experience working as a trauma-informed practitioner in arts, education, and leadership, and the lessons she learned along the way, you’ll learn how to incorporate powerful practices into your life to help you start each and every day with clarity and purpose. Rachelle and Vanessa share their parenting leadership framework where parents shift into a more creative, empowered, and calm mindset. Rachelle also reminds us that these difficult times you are in will pass faster than you think and demonstrates how we can actively choose to create joy and peace, right now. Listen to this episode for the empowerment that you need to become a leader in your life and your family.

Here are the topics we covered in Embracing Parenting Leadership to Create the Life We Want.

• How to show up for ourselves, our children, and for others when we are faced with so many personal challenges.
• Learning to ask the questions, “Who am I?” and “What am I creating?” in order to decide what we really want for ourselves and to shift into a more creative, empowered, and calm mindset.
• How to incorporate powerful practices in your life that help you start each and every day with clarity and purpose.
• Why framing parenting or caregiving as a leadership role in the family system is one of the most life-changing parenting practices.
• Challenging the idea that you’ll be happy when your child reaches certain milestones and instead encouraging you to create that joy and peace in your life right now.
• Learning to notice the better parts of our lives and expanding on them, bit by bit.

Hope you enjoyed this episode and learned the art of parenting leadership to create a better life for you and your family.

Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.

Find out more about Coach Rachelle and her work at www.rachellearcher.com or @artfulleadership on Instagram, and you can listen to Coach Rachelle’s podcast The Artful Leader on all major listening platforms.

Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.

Music by Jabari Martin instagram.com/iamstolenartifacts.