Merry Christmas in July! Cue the tacky Santa earrings & Hallmark movies.

I had to take a step back from my podcast the last couple months because shit got crazy in my personal life. My household got plague after plague, my oldest daughter had surgery, my sister & I were figuring out Father's Day without our dad, & my dog swallowed a fucking needle.

I seriously cannot make this stuff up.

But that's just life, right? It gets crazy & sometimes the crazy all happens in a silo.

So for my first episode back I just wanted to sit and have a coffee with you all. Just like 2 girlfriends who haven't seen each other in far too long getting caught up in a Starbucks.

I'm so happy to be back & I have so much kickass content planned for my f*ck it mamas.

My question for this week is: what's your favorite Christmas movie? Comment in my social thread to let me know & you'll be entered into my monthly book raffle for July.

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In honor of Mother's Day, this week's episode is devoted to getting real about what we actually want.

No more main stream media bullshit, mamas. This is the year when we start doing what we want to do on Mother's Day, instead of what our mom or mother-in-law or children or husband wants us to do.

In this episode, I have included a 'No-No' list (ex: jewelry, eating out with our children, fucking teddy bears) & a 'What we actually fucking want' list (ex: sleep, orgasms, & to be left the fuck alone).

You're welcome.

Happy Mother's Day, you badass mamas. May your day actually be your day this year.

Are you tired of fighting with your kids? It gets you nowhere but frustration & stress & a lot of other negative feelings in your body.

Today, I have another option for you. An option that will prevent your kids' attempt to push your buttons from working, and will keep you cool and calm while your kid is being a psycho. This option will be the opposite of all the advice you've gotten thus far, though. Instead of an action that has you trying a new parenting technique or disciplinary action, this action will have you getting to the root of the problem, which lies inside of you.

Every parent needs to hear this message: thoughts are just our brains offering us stories. We get to choose whether we want to believe them or not, based on if those stories serve us or not. Every word that comes out of your kids' mouth is just a story their brain is offering them. If you stop jumping in the pool of emotion with them, stop believing their brains' stories, you will feel calm and in control whenever your kid is acting a fool.

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In a life full of uncertainties, there is only 1 thing that is for certain: one day, it will end. Yet we resist this truth to such extremes that we refuse to think about the ending. But when we don't consider the ending, we rob ourselves of the authority of painting the picture of our lives. We let other's opinions, social expectations, and scarcity thinking paint it for us, leaving us with an overflowing bucket of regret to contemplate on our death beds.

I have chosen to live my life with the big picture goal of a standing room only funeral, just like my Grandma Toni had. She didn't have much to offer in a material sense, but that woman poured into every person who came along her path. And the result was too many people and not enough chairs at her funeral. Y'all, the people were spilling OUTSIDE the chapel!

What kind of picture are you painting right now? Do you like it? Why or why not? If there's something that you don't like, what's stopping you from grabbing the white paint & starting over?

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As moms, we are fucking bosses as making shit happen for our kids. Oh this day includes a full work schedule, a mid-day orthodontics appointment for child number 3, dance class immediately after school for kids 1&2, and a school concert at 6:30 for the kindergartner? No biggie; we'll make it all happen & even have a home cooked dinner ready for everyone to eat in the mom taxi.

But when it comes to finding the time to take care of ourselves or to do something fun for us? Nope, that's impossible. We'll even whip out our color coded calendar to prove how there are just no available time slots.

Mama--I want to challenge you to imagine what could be possible if you poured even a fraction of the energy you give your kids into yourself. If you took the 'whatever it takes' mindset you have with your kids & allowed it to go to work for your benefit too. This single mom of 4 is here to tell you it is 100% possible to show up for yourself and your kids.

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Did you know that the average person makes 35,000 decisions in a day? I couldn’t find a number that is specific to moms, but I would wager that the amount of decisions we make in a day has to be double that. Because if a single person makes 35,000 decisions just about themselves, then we have to be blowing that out of the water, because we’re making decisions for ourselves, each of our kids, and if we’re in a heterosexual partnership, we’re also making their decisions. We probably make 35,000 decisions before our morning poop. But whatever the number is–it’s a lot.

Decision fatigue & choice overload are 2 HUGE components to why moms are so stressed out, overwhelmed, & burnt out all the time. Listen to the Katie special podcast for how you can recognize & get rid of decision fatigue in YOUR life. I swear, mama, this alone will alleviate so much of your daily stress.

And if you haven’t heard yet–I’m running a free coaching group this week called Burnout to F*ck It. We are meeting again Friday at 12pm CST & Saturday at 10am CST. IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN. 

Do something that is exclusively FOR YOU. I double dog dare ya.

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Have you ever found yourself saying something along the lines of, “Ugh I wish I had a day to just do nothing”. Maybe you follow it up with whatever pleasure activity you would love to have the luxury of doing: read all day long; binge ‘Dead to Me’; sit on your porch and enjoy the sunshine; take a nap. But then you end it with, “But I can’t, because I’m a mom. The go-go-go doesn’t stop just because it’s Sunday!”

Guess what? You’re full of shit. I say that with all the love in the world, but your excuses are bullshit. You absolutely CAN have a lazy Sunday where you do whatever the fuck you want to do, even though you have kids & a to-do list the length of your arm. The secret is so simple, mama: say fuck it. Let go of the belief that you need the house to look a certain way for you to be “able” to relax. Let go of the belief that you first need to earn rest by being a productive boss. You’ve already been a productive boss all week, and the truth is you can’t earn rest. 

Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how to let go & fucking relax. I swear it’s life changing & you’ll actually feel rested going into Monday.

“I have no idea what I’m doing” – Every Mom Ever

We’ve all had this thought surface for us multiple times in our motherhood journeys. It creates feeling of overwhelm, stress, and even hopelessness. This thought causes us to look outside of ourselves for a solution to our stress; any expert who can tell us what to do with this baby/toddler/kindergartener/preteen/teenager/young adult. But it doesn’t matter how much advice we get, it never really feels better, right? And we think that the reason it never really feels better is because there’s something wrong with us: we’re weak, we’re too anxious, we’re too indecisive, we’re too all-of-the-things. 

But what if there’s nothing wrong with you? What if the problem wasn’t that you didn’t know what you were doing? What if the real problem was simply your belief that there was something wrong with you not knowing what you were doing?

Think about your first job. Whatever it was, you didn’t know wtf you were doing, right? But I’m guessing you figured it out. When you first started driving you didn’t know what you were doing, but you also figured that out (or you just ride public transit, no judgment). The human brain is pretty fucking remarkable at learning new things & adapting to new circumstances.

So in this episode, I’m challenging all my mamas to stop believing the worst of themselves. I’m challenging you to be ok with not knowing what you are doing. I’m challenging you to trust yourself, and sit in the knowing of, “I may not know what I’m doing right now, but I know that I will figure it out”.

This week, we're saying f*ck it to diet culture & unhealthy exercise mindset. Women learn to start hating their bodies around age 10. Women are brought up to restrict the food they eat, and tie their value to how many heads they can turn when they walk into a room. Women are brought up to not trust themselves when it comes to eating & to use exercise as punishment for "going crazy" and eating spaghetti. And when we become moms, we hate our bodies even more. Moms are often caught in the confusing tangle of being proud of making this tiny human that they love so much while also despising the look of their transformed bodies. 

Let's unpack the mindfuck that is a woman's relationship with her body, shall we? Because I for one think we have already given far too much of our lives obsessing over the food we eat & the numbers used to measure how much physical space we are occupying.

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What do you do on days when your kids give you the finger? Not literally give you the finger, but when they aren't following your manual, let's say. Most of us respond to days where the shit is hitting the fan by trying to control it and trying to make it what we originally wanted it to be. But the result is always the same when we choose this action, right? We end up becoming the stressed out, angry, yelling version of ourselves. Then we spend the rest of the day pissed off & also in a shame spiral for blowing a gasket.

In this week's episode, I am providing you an alternative way to look at "bad" mornings. Instead of immediately getting anxious that nothing is going the way you wanted it to & then wasting energy trying to force it to work, you need to say 'fuck it' and throw your plan out the window. When you stop looking at your kids' grumpy attitudes as a problem & stop taking their behavior personally, it frees you from being the victim of a chaotic morning. This week, I'm teaching my mamas the simple mindset pivot that empowers them to turn a bad morning into a good day.

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