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  • Bookend Your Day With These 4 Routines For Maximum Success and Less Stress

    What's the point of creating routines for your day when NOTHING ever seems to go as planned? 

    My guest, Amber De La Garza, explains how reframing this mindset can help put you in the driver's seat for your day, giving you a framework, but still allowing for flexibility.

     

    She recommends the following 4 routines:

    1. Morning Personal Routine
    2. Morning Professional Routine
    3. Evening Professional Routine
    4. Evening Personal Routine

    Learn how to create stucture to work towards your personal, professional and family goals while still allowing for chaos of life. Listen now!

     

    Amber De La Garza is The Productivity Specialist! Amber has more than a decade of experience helping small business owners maximize profits, reduce stress, and make time for what matters most by improving their time management and elevating their productivity! Amber is a sought-after coach, trainer, speaker, writer, host of the Productivity Straight Talk Podcast and creator of Leverage Lab®. 

     

    Find her at: www.amberdelagarza.com

     

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    33 min
  • My Top 5 Favorite Books (With Key Takeaways) For Professional Working Women

    These books are ESSENTIAL for personal and professional growth as a working mom, SAHM, or whoever you are. They occupy a permanent place on my bookshelf and they are dog eared, highlighted andd marked over the past 15 years.

    Growth mindset, fixed mindset, habit loops, win-win strategies, abundance mindset, connectors, stickiness factor, the 1% rule - I'll dive deep into all of these in this episode.

    Want to know what are my top 5? Take a listen!

     

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    25 min
  • Master Your Time With This One Secret

    Never have enough time? There's one way I've been able to stop feeling so rushed and harried throughout my day and week and it' s not what you think!

    In this episode, I review:

    • Time famine
    • Time gluttony
    • Time affluence

     

    And it's one where you have homework! I'll help step you through how to be more present in your day. Sound good? Let's go!

     

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    17 min
  • A Holistic Treatment Approach to Managing Migraines

    18-25% of women suffer from migraines. It's one of the most debilitating conditions that affect women globally and yet, we are still grappling with effective treatment strategies. As a migraine sufferer for over 30 years, I know how much migraines can affect productivity and time with family.

     

    In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Rani Banik, neuro-ophthalmologist and featured on Good Morning America, CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox, amongst many others.

    We discuss why a holistic approach - looking at all the systems of the body is important for managing migraines, simple natural habit changes you can make in your day right now to get your migraines under better control and how diet influences more than just your migraine triggers.

     

    Connect with Dr. Banik:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drranibanik

    Shop: https://shop.rudranibanikmd.com/

    Book: 'Beyond Carrots' https://rudranibanikmd.com/beyondcarrots/   Like the podcast? Leave us a review! It just takes a couple minutes and really helps us spread the word to other working professional women like you! Let's Connect! Instagram: https://instagram.com/drrupawong Website: www.drrupawong.com

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    34 min
  • Are You Trying To Have It All? 3 Steps For What You Should Be Doing Instead

    Is it possible to have it all? Or is this even something that professional working women should be chasing?

     

    We're often bombarded with the message that if we just manage our time, systemize and increase our productivity and efficiency that we CAN do it all. But, I've learned that's not quite true and that chasing this impossible standard is simply a set up for burnout and unhappiness.

    Learn my 3 steps for what we should be doing instead of trying to have it all.

     

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    18 min
  • Why Pitching Is The Secret Weapon of Professional Women (And How To Do It)With Precious Williams

    Is pitching  just about trying to get investors to buy something you’re selling? Nope!  That’s what I thought too before this interview. But, pitching is about captivating. It’s something we all do daily, we just may not realize it, in the words of 13 times pitch champion, Precious Williams. So we'd better get good at it!

     

    In today's episode, I'm joined by Precious Williams - elevator pitch champion,four time best selling author, and featured on Shark Tank, CNN, The Wall Street journal and black enterprise magazine and more for her killer pitches. Precious is a world-class speaker/trainer for global brands including BMW, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Harvard University, Columbia University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, George Washington University, Intuit Quickbooks, Yelp, and moreWe discussed it all and how women can start shifting their mindset of what it means to pitch and utilizing it to get in front of the right people - whether that’s patients, managers or executives wanting to hire you. Let’s get to it.

     

    Connect With Precious Williams:

    https://www.perfectpitchgroup.com I

    https://www.instagram.com/perfectpitchesp 

    https://www.facebook.com/PerfectPitchP 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/precious-l-williams I [email protected] 

    Book Links: 

    https://bit.ly/Rainmaking101PLW 

    Upcoming events: 

    https://perfectpitchgroup.com/events/ Pitching for Profit Masterclass 1: https://bit.ly/Pitching4Profit1 Pitching for Profit Masterclass 2: https://bit.ly/Pitching4Profit2

    Good morning Queen!  We are having a Labor Day sale on our Pitching for Profit Masterclasses.  Take $150 off!

    Here is the links:

    Pitching for Profit Masterclass Part 1:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitching-for-profit-masterclass-part-1-tickets-705276690567?discount=LaborDay23

    Pitching for Profit Masterclass Part 2:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pitching-for-profit-masterclass-part-2-tickets-707068800817?discount=LaborDay23

     

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    38 min
  • Navigating Back To School: 3 Essential Steps For Working Moms To Systemize Smooth Transitions

    Back to school time can be stressful, chaotic and overwhelming. Transition points can be challenging for kids and adults alike. In this episode, I'll cover my 3 simple steps to ensure a smooth transition to back to school.

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    23 min
  • Learning To Lead From Within With Leadership Coach Meilan Akaka Manfre

    Stepping into a new leadership role can be scary. And, at times we don't feel well equipped for it. But this is a skill set that can be learned and as are most things - is rooted in the proper mindset.

    In this episode, I am  joined by Meilan Akaka Manfre, a certified professional  co-active coach who has coached hundreds of clients- helping leaders at all level improve their performance and fulfillment through deepening self-awareness, understanding, impact and defining concrete actions.

     

    Meilan Akaka Manfre: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meilanakaka/

     

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    32 min
  • A 3 Step System For Minimizing Interruptions And Skyrocketing Productivity

    You're in the zone, fully engrossed in your work, making incredible progress on that important project. But suddenly, your phone rings, breaking your focus like a sledgehammer through glass. You answer, and before you know it, minutes turn into an hour of scattered attention and frustration.

     

    Interruptions have a tremendous cost to our productivty. In this episode, I'll share the cost of task switching and context switching and the 3 steps I employ to help prevent work flow interruptions.

     

    Ep 107: My 5 Step System For Time Blocking https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-good-to-see-you-working-mom-tips-productivity-pearls/id1569697237?i=1000622330373

     

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    18 min
  • How To Avoid Expensive And Time Consuming Mistakes By Crafting a Personal Mission Statement

    Do only companies need mission statements? I used to think that, but I discovered that was a big mistake. Personal and family mission statements are truly integral for guiding pivotal decision making professionally as well as personally.

    In this episode, I discuss why personal and family mission statements are important as guideposts and a simple system for creating your mission statement so that every decision you make is guided by what YOU truly value (and not what others believe).

     

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    24 min

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In Focus: Vision, Clarity, and Eye Health for the Whole Family with Dr. Rupa Wong is your trusted resource for smart, straightforward conversations about eye health, parenting, and living with clarity—hosted by physician, clinic owner, and mom of three, Dr. Rupa Wong. Each week, Dr. Wong puts everything into focus, from children’s vision and screen time to LASIK, eye makeup safety, floaters, and more. Whether you're navigating your child’s first eye exam or wondering if blue light glasses actually work, this show gives you the expert answers you need—without the medical jargon. Designed for modern parents who want real information and real solutions, In Focus helps you care for your kids’ eyes—and your own—with confidence. Because when you can see clearly, you can live fully.