Gena (pronounced "jenna") is a mom to two reciprocal IVF babes, wife to her wife, and serial entrepreneur. She was a corporate lawyer in NYC until she started her own law practice in Jan 2014. She then started a mama blog after the birth of her son Parker and 2 years ago, became a fitness + wellness coach after being a nationally competitive gymnast for 15 years. but of all the things she has done and all the awards she has won, "mommy" is her very favorite title of all. In this convo, we cover what sparked her shift from the traditional corporate attorney route to becoming an entrepreneur, how she and Jordana tag-team working + parenting from home, their experience with reciprocal IVF, what it was like delivering during the early stages of the COVID19 pandemic, her experience with postpartum anxiety - what helped her, plus ideas for supporting loved ones going through it, how she's shifted approach to business in the early months (years) of motherhood (+ a super smart strategy for being of service without actually taking on new clients), and more. Enjoy!   ______________________________ If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action. Get started here: http://naptimeempires.com/guide ________________________________     SHOW NOTES: http://naptimeempires.com/072  FB GROUP: http://naptimeempires.com/facebook INSTA: http://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown   MUSIC: "So Far So Close" by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike License.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
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Gena Jaffe on Motherhood + Mental Health [NE 072]

There’s no one RIGHT way to raise great humans, just like there’s no one RIGHT way to build a profitable business. That’s why it’s so comforting to know you’re not the only one trying to do both at the same time. Join me (Nikki Elledge Brown) and a brilliant lineup of family-focused entrepreneurs for the Naptime Empires™ podcast - refreshingly honest conversations on the realities of parenthood + entrepreneurship. Topics include motherhood, entrepreneurship (obvs), relationships, spirituality, inspiration, success, health, and fun (remember that?).

Business

Investing

Careers

Management & Marketing

Business News

Shopping

Entrepreneurship

I loved this convo so much that I had to bring it directly to you. (It started on Jadah Sellner's Lead with Love podcast, just like our last episode!)


In this one, we bottle Jadah's pre-launch feels in the weeks before her best-selling book She Builds officially launched into bookstores, homes, and earbuds. I asked all my nosy Qs so we can benefit when it's our turn to jump!


Jadah shares get nitty gritty details on what made her audiobook recording process a huge success, plus we jam on what it was like collaborating in our unofficial "Bibbidi Bobbidi Book Retreat" at Disneyland for her birthday in May 2022. (Tune in for details, especially if you'd love to fly me out to a 5* or Disney Resort, lux National Park lodge to play the role of Fairy Doc Mother ;)). We also talk hair - highlights, lowlights, and giggle a lot. Probably sounds a bit like an SNL skit at times -  the ones with the ladies and their microphones.


Bottom line here: ( love this book so much and would love to share it with you. If you don't yet have the Audible version and would love to enter the She Builds audiobook giveaway, take a screenshot of the pod as you listen, then tag @nikkielledgebrown @jadahsellner AND two of your besties! I'll announce the winner at the end of the month. 


(You can learn more and grab your hard copy at shebuilds.com in the meantime; the exercises are so helpful to SEE in written form!)



  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
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If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action.   Get started here: https://naptimeempires.com/guide


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Bibbidi Bobbidi Book Launch Vibes: BTS of Jadah's Prep and Process (+ a giveaway!) [NE 082]

In this super-special book mode episode, my Polly Pocket BFF* Jadah Sellner and I invite you behind the scenes to join us for a convo on pretty much ALL THE THINGS. (*we were born in the 80s and basically audio livestream our days to each other via the Voxer app, hence Polly Pocket) If you haven't met her yet, Jadah's the star of  NE episode SIX and I've been on her  Lead with Love podcast a couple times too. She's an author, speaker, coach, and one of my favorite humans. In this dual-podcast convo (recorded days after our most recent friend trip to Austin and Waco!), we cover a lot of ground, including but not limited to:  the path to traditional book deals (she's working on her second traditionally published book now!) practices for mindful + intuitive decision-making the power of friends who KNOW you managing fam expectations around biz + work time maintaining stamina while working on manuscript(s) #pomqueens: the power of the  pomodoro technique navigating life, loss, AND time-sensitive creative projects challenges of having two parents at home (my active duty spouse self would roll her eyes SO HARD) sQuad trip origin stories - making time for fruitful *in person* friendship as women with full plates behind-the-scenes shares on our homework assignments, packing habits, and unique travel styles our ever-changing relationship(s) with visibility, privacy, social media and creative expression -- and how we ended up discussing this with author Liz Gilbert and more, of COURSE.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let us know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging us on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown and @jadahsellner with #naptimeempires and #leadwithlove. I’ll meet you there! ______________________________ If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action. Get started here: http://naptimeempires.com/guide ________________________________   SHOW NOTES: http://naptimeempires.com/081 FB GROUP: http://naptimeempires.com/facebook INSTA: http://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown   MUSIC: "So Far So Close" by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike License.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
______________________________


If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action.   Get started here: https://naptimeempires.com/guide


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BFFs and Bookity Books: Creative Cocoon Life with Jadah Sellner [NE 081]

Since I am and work with a lot of humans who care about building businesses that fit into LIFE (vs. the other way around), this concept comes up a lot in conversations with my clients, my friends, mySELF. I'm anchoring this idea here so we have it when we’re feeling a bit aimless and sneaky, avoiding the work that we KNOW will lead to the results we deeply desire. It's time we talk profitable priorities. (*Profitable prios* for obnoxiously short. Check your local GIF library for stickers.) It’s not so much about the time we have in a given day. It’s not even just about the energy. It’s about confidently knowing that, even if we only have a teeny pocket of time to dedicate to moving our businesses forward in a given day, we're crystal clear on our personal paths to least resistance and the most profit (for ourselves, our teams, our fams, and our clients). This episode is a mini coworkshop -- I'm inviting you to do the work with me in real time: What specific action(s) led to you enrolling the last client you LOVED working with? And what about the time before that? And the time before that?Did you send an email? Publish a podcast? Reach out to a past client or friend to say "hey, I'm offering this - know someone who would benefit?"Maybe you did some EFT / tapping videos without making a public PEEP. Your energy shift was enough to call 'em in.Maybe you updated your sales page.MAYBE you relistened to the DIY copywriting course you created years ago in podcast form and remembered how valuable it is!Perhaps it was a client magnet-themed guided visualization that did the trick… seeing all the people from around the world who are the PERFECT match for what you most love to offer feeling drawn to you with a clear, heart-centered KNOWING. Your challenge right now, should you choose to accept it, is to make a list of the top three to five activities that consistently bring clients into your sphere. Think and be SUPER honest. It’s okay if they seem weird. If they’ve worked at least a couple times, it’s worth testing to see if they continue to work! And if it’s just one or two main things that work, consider this your sign that it’s time to double DOWN on those activities. Refresh your list at least once a quarter so you’ve got it handy. Keep it in your phone via Notes or Google docs. Post it by your computer screen.I venture to guess that even if you only have 25 minutes today -  one micro-hustle pomodoro sprint… if you allow yourself to focus ONLY on profitable prios, you will feel amazing.You did what you could do to turn your “open for business” light on today. You showed up so you could engage in a mutually beneficial exchange with the people who need you the most right now, which benefits THEM, benefits YOU, and benefits the people you love and care for. Take a listen to the full episode here or in your fave pod player when you wanna and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie as you listen) + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires. I’ll meet you there!   ______________________________ If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action. Get started here: http://naptimeempires.com/guide ________________________________   SHOW NOTES: http://naptimeempires.com/080  FB GROUP: http://naptimeempires.com/facebook INSTA: http://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown   MUSIC: "So Far So Close" by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike License.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
______________________________


If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action.   Get started here: https://naptimeempires.com/guide


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Profitable Priorities [NE 080]

We recently celebrated our daughter Noey’s first birthday. In this episode I’m sharing reflections from my third and final experience with the first-year baby bubble / fourth trimester… how it’s been different than my first two, what I’ve learned, and how her presence has changed so much already. Take a listen here or in your fave pod player when you wanna and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie as you listen) + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires. I’ll meet you there! ______________________________ If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action. Get started here: http://naptimeempires.com/guide ________________________________   SHOW NOTES: http://naptimeempires.com/079  FB GROUP: http://naptimeempires.com/facebook INSTA: http://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown   MUSIC: "So Far So Close" by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike License.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
______________________________


If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action.   Get started here: https://naptimeempires.com/guide


INSTA: https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown

 
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Her First Year [NE 079]

Once upon a time (at the start of summer 2021) I launched season four: BOOK MODE with the intention of tracking my journey to self-publishing. Then my friends came to town and shook that ish up.In this episode I’ll share why we’ve had a CHANGE IN PLANS over here, why it feels a bit scary to admit that out loud and in published form, AND what that means for coming episodes. Musings include, but are not limited to: - why I originally went down the self-publishing path - behind-the-scenes of a (probably life-changing?) late night summer sQuad convo - the power of finding one clear, inclusive goal that makes all your other micro-goals inevitable stepping stones (repeatedly) - why I’m a bit nervous to publish this episode :) - a simple yet super powerful exercise for more mindFULL, intuitive decision making - a detailed list o' the benefits and drawbacks I *currently* see to both traditional and self-publishing paths - subject to change as I gather more actual experience! Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires. I’ll meet you there! ______________________________ If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action. Get started here: http://naptimeempires.com/guide ________________________________   SHOW NOTES: http://naptimeempires.com/078  FB GROUP: http://naptimeempires.com/facebook INSTA: http://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown   MUSIC: "So Far So Close" by Jahzzar is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike License.  Take a listen here or in your preferred pod player and as always – let me know your fave takeaway by taking a screenshot (or a selfie) as you listen + tagging me on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown with #naptimeempires.


I’ll meet you there!
______________________________


If you enjoyed this episode, safe to say you will LOVE The Naptime Empires Survival Guide - a free email-and-audio series I created to help get you out of overwhelm / hiding in the bathroom and back into aligned, imperfect action.   Get started here: https://naptimeempires.com/guide


INSTA: https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown

 
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Gena Jaffe on Motherhood + Mental Health [NE 072]

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