Let's Get Bossy

In this episode we are joined by a very very special guest who, if you’ve been a long time listener, you will definitely recognize! That’s right, former Boss Ladies and Babies co-host Mikki Flaherty joins us to give a life update! We dig into some fun ways to fill the long Summer days, and have a relatable conversation about why Summer can be so hard as a mom!

KEY POINTS FOR THIS EPISODE:

-Welcoming back and catching up with former co-host Mikki

-Learning about Mikki’s adjustment from WFHM to full time working Mom

-How to make a plan for your Summer schedule

-Fun activities to fill long Summer days

-Why it is normal to feel anxious about the kids being home

-Facing and working through mom guilt around “making Summer special”

👉Connect With Mikki : @fixerupsandsippycups

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Spotlight is Tracy Rodriguez🤩 For all those with pain that won’t quit, you do NOT have to keep living this way. Tracy Rodriguez is a Corrective Exercise Specialist giving women the tools to eliminate chronic pain when no other methods have worked. You can snag your free consultation to find pain relief by DMing her on Instagram @tracyrodriguezces or you can visit www.workpainfreeprogram.com to learn more.

Are you ready to simplify your business and be more productive? Sounds like a dream, right? In this episode, we learn how to make that dream a reality with Megan Moran, 3rd generation mompreneur and owner of The Mompreneur Guide. Megan is a podcast host and Minimalist Business Strategist who is on a mission to help mom entrepreneurs simplify their businesses so they can be more present + productive. Today she shares her secrets!

KEY POINTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

-The benefits of simplifying your business

- How to get started

- Clarifying your business foundations

- How to find your focus and declutter around it

- Streamlining your activities and creating a funnel

👉Connect With Megan :

Instagram: instagram.com/mompreneurguide

Podcast: themompreneurguide.com/podcast

Free Authority Building Audio Training: themompreneurguide.com/authority

CONNECT Retreat: themompreneurguide.com/retreat

Authority Building Guides: themompreneurguide.com/shop

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Spotlight is Miranda Meow Made 🤩 Miranda Meow Made is owned by Miranda Kufs, a former elementary and special education teacher, who currently shoulders several titles: mom, military spouse, and small business owner. Miranda is a Designer, Maker, and Paint Party Teacher. She only sells items that she has designed from scratch; working with vinyl, wood, acrylic and more. She loves helping her customers bring their ideas to fruition, and is always open for commissions. She’s passionate about facilitating Paint Parties, as it combines her love of art and teaching. She teaches private Paint Parties for 5-10 people and can bring the whole experience to you! Did I mention she likes cats?   —>Mention Boss Ladies and Babies when booking a private paint party, and Miranda will waive the $20 booking/travel fee! https://linktr.ee/Mirandameowmade

If I could share the one piece of advice that nearly every successful woman I look up to has told me, talked about, or taught, it would be time blocking. Now, time blocking is something that ya either love or hate. For some the idea of living their lives with daily structure is exciting, and for others, they loathe the idea of being changed to a rigid schedule. I’m here to tell you, time blocking will change your life… AND it does not have to be what you think it is. As type A as I can be, it took me a long time to get into the groove of time blocking, but it was because I had been going about it all wrong. Today I want to share a step by step how I create my time block so that I have structure and freedom at the same time!

Write It In Pencil

Step 1 Priorities

Step 2 Personal/Family

Step 3 Business

Step 4 Household

Do you time block? Let me know how you like to plan your day! Send me an email at [email protected]

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This week we are switching it up a little thanks to Megan's cold and some scheduling issues! Tune in for an off the cuff, random, no plan chat with Megan keeping it real about what's been happening and what's to come in the next few months! 

KEY POINT FROM THIS EPISODE:

-33 Week Bumpdate & Vulnerable Chat About Changes To The Birth Plan Of Baby #2

-A Look Into Megan's Maternity Leave Plans, What That Means For Boss Ladies And Babies, And How To Stay In Touch

-Beautiful Testimonials From The Women Inside Boss Ladies And Babies Headquarters

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Spotlight is Hello Dahl Baby🤩 The goal of Hello Dahl Baby is to curate a minimalist, comfortable, collection of clothes and baby items from high quality brands. Hello Dahl Baby will be made up of items that are easy to mix and match to accommodate many outfit changes throughout the day. The Dahlia-tested, parent-approved durability of our products ensure they will be yours to love, wash, and pass down for years. Exclusive Boss Ladies and Babies discount: use code HEYMAMA for a one time offer of 15% off site wide :)

Did you hear the news? Boss Ladies and Babies is growing! In a few short weeks we will be welcoming our new baby boy! The Boss Ladies and Babies Podcast will be going on a short break starting July to spend some quality time soaking in baby snuggles and will be back in October (just in time to celebrate our 4th birthday!) We will miss you, but you can keep in touch here: 

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Social Media…ah, the love hate relationship I have for it. Especially Instagram… but really, just social in general. Everyone is trying to keep up with the trends, the influencers, create the perfect strategy, “beat” the algorithm… and at the end of it all, we end up losing ourselves trying to create this professional and trendy image. Oftentimes, we end up building our entire brand around who we think we need to be, which only holds us back! One thing that has always been super important to me is being REAL on social media, being vulnerable, being true to who YOU are, and building your entire brand around that… around YOU. This is such a scary thing for so many people, and so many people have a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of how this works. If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ve heard me talk about some of the objections I hear like: “But I’m building a business, I want people to see me as a professional”, or “what does my life have to do with what I’m selling”. A recent (favorite) objection I’ve heard was “I’m a professional building my business. I’m not going to plaster my page in puppies and babies because I’m here to build my business”... Yikes. For me, puppies and babies are a huge part of who I am! And that’s how I’ve built my successful businesses. So, today we are going to get into a few tips to help you show up as who YOU are on social media AND continue to build the brand and business you’ve dreamt of!

Create A Strategy

Show Your Face

Utilize Stories

STOP Trying To Be Perfect

Make Real Connection

How do you feel about being true to you on social? Let me know at [email protected]

Summer is coming! And while I’m gearing up for maternity leave, many of you are likely gearing up for your kids to be home all summer long. I just got notice that my daughter’s preschool is closing an entire month early and not reopening next year, so that has been a fun plot twist… Summer is a time where we want to, and are sometimes forced to, slow down a bit and enjoy the ins and outs of life and motherhood. And as wonderful as it is to have our kiddos home, it can drastically change how we operate our businesses. For a lot of us, this might mean scaling back, or at least shifting how we do things. So let’s talk about how to make this happen without losing our minds! These tips work great if you’re planning on taking some time off, going on vacation, slowing down your schedule, or any variety of shifting to a slower pace for any amount of time!

Get Organized

Plan Ahead

Batch + Automate

Plan Your Return

Prep Your Mindset

Are you scaling back this summer? What are you most excited or worried about? Send me an email at [email protected] and let me know! 

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We start this episode with a moment of silence for the victims and families of the horrific Robb Elementary School shooting that happened earlier this week. If you would like to take action now text ACT to 644-33 to join the millions of Americans demanding our lawmakers stand up to the gun lobby.

Who could use a good laugh? Then this episode is for you! Joined by stand up comedian, Heather Tolley-Bauer, this episode will have you rolling! Heather is a stand up comic focusing on mom com (pet moms count). Heather uses comedy to give moms a laugh break from the laundry list of things that keep us up at night, including the laundry. Things like marriage, getting older, getting cancer, parenting, Pinterest, the PTA and now a pandemic, Heather teaches us how to find the humor in it all! Her core belief is laughing at the small stuff gives us the bandwidth to tackle big stuff and her passion is to make women laugh. So give yourself a laugh break and tune in. You earned it!

KEY POINTS FOR THIS EPISODE:

-The secret to finding the funny in the day to day small stuff, and the big scary hard stuff

-Heather’s battle with cancer and how comedy helped her through it

-How to cope when you just can’t laugh it off

-What it’s like to be a comedian and balance that with family life

-Why motherhood is the perfect niche for comedy content

-Hot Mess Moment that involves calling her kid a jack-ass on Christmas morning!!

👉Connect With Heather : https://hyphenup.com

https://www.instagram.com/hyphen_up/

https://www.facebook.com/hyphenup

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Spotlight is 🤩 Sweet Indulgence is a custom bake shop. They do cakes, cupcakes, macarons, and cookies that are as beautiful as they are delicious. The owner Amy loves frosting and hopes to bring smiles to as many people as she can through baking- and she does just that. Check out her amazing creations and contact her to order your own @sweetindulgencepnw or you can find her goodies at Joe's Fine Coffee on Mt. Baker Hwy in Whatcom County.

We are shifting gears a little this week to talk about something that really does play a big part in our businesses, and sometimes we may not necessarily realize it. Mental health. Being an entrepreneur comes with all kinds of highs and some really low lows, and keeping our mental health in shape is really crucial for our success. Now, it is no secret that I’m an open book, and mental health is something I feel strongly about being open about. I suffer pretty bad anxiety, occasional depression, and have quite a few OCD tendencies. And there are times where my business directly impacts my mental health, and of course times that mental health impacts my business. So I want to share some ways that I manage my mental health to keep my mind and my business as strong as possible. I’m obviously not a dr, or even an expert on mental health, but this is what works for me!

Routines

Planning Your Schedule

Organization

Limiting Screen Time

Supportive Community

Vulnerability

If you are struggling with your mental health, you are not alone! I'd love to support you! Send me an email at [email protected] 

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May is Mental Health Awareness month, and this episode focuses on the importance of Maternal Mental Health. Our guest for this week is a wife & mama to 2 girls, a former first grade teacher from New Jersey, and a postpartum anxiety & depression survivor that is here to open up about the importance of maternal mental health and raising awareness for perinatal mood disorders. She turned her pain into her passion and started sharing her story on Instagram and has since created a safe, inspiring, and educational space for all mothers to turn to.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS EPISODE: 

-Jenn's Personal Story With Postpartum Depression and Anxiety & How She Created Her Platform, Mom's Maternal Health

-What Are Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders

-Facts About Postpartum Depression/Anxiety & Symptoms

-The Importance Of Raising Awareness & Asking For Help

-Resources For Women Suffering From Perinatal Mood Disorders 

*If you are suffering from postpartum depression, anxiety, or the variety of other perinatal mood disorders that exist remember you are not alone! Jenn is a wonderful resource, and you can also check https://www.postpartum.net for more! 

👉Connect With Jenn :@momsmaternalhealth

 www.momsmaternalhealth.com

 https://mamavillage.momsmaternalhealth.com/landing

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 👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Spotlight is 🤩Crystal Ramalho of Glitter Me This And Things is here to help you with all of your customized and handmade items from tumblers, to clothing, home decor, and so much more. Crystal is always here to bring your custom items to life! She loves creating that 1:1 personalized experience to make you feel involved in the creation process if that’s your jam. Otherwise, give her your ideas and let her run with it! Check out Crystal’s designs and use code THANKYOU10 for 10% off any item.