You know the feeling of staring at a massive to-do list, feeling like you have to do everything right now, and not knowing where to even begin. Building a business on top of a full-time job means you are doing two roles at the same time, and standard business advice rarely fits your life. Maybe you have told yourself you just need a better schedule or more discipline to make it all work. In this Q&A episode, I answer three of the most common questions from women balancing a job and a business.

Key Takeaways:

• How to structure a bulleted weekly to-do list and isolate the single task that actually moves your business forward

• Why reducing cognitive load calms your nervous system and stops mental spinning

• Why discipline around your schedule must include a hard stop time to protect sleep and physical recovery

• How taking tiny, two-minute actions breaks procrastination without draining your energy battery

• Why long-term business growth is built on patience and health management, not overwhelming daily goals

Recognize yourself in this episode? If you want to sit down and figure out how to structure your time and manage your energy for your specific life, let's talk about it.

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About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: www.livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

You know the feeling of closing your laptop at the end of the workday, only to open a different one twenty minutes later.

Business in the evenings, business on the weekends, while everyone else seems to be resting. Maybe you've told yourself you just need to push a little harder, sleep a little less, get a little more disciplined, and then it'll all click into place.

It won't. I spent years living exactly that, and it just left me burnt out. So I built the F.R.E.E. framework, the strategy I now use with the women I work with to help them go from feeling stuck and depleted to feeling like their life and their business are both actually manageable.

In this episode, we walk through all four steps: focusing your time on what actually moves your business forward, regaining the energy that's quietly draining out of your day, experiencing real balance instead of chasing a fifty-fifty split that was never realistic, and building freedom into your life now instead of waiting to earn it.

Key Takeaways:

• Why your time problem is usually an energy problem in disguise

• How to identify what to keep, drop, or delegate so you stop wasting energy deciding where to start

• Why real balance means work stops bleeding into everything else

• Why freedom has to be built into your schedule now, not treated as a reward for later

Recognize yourself in this episode? If you want to know how this framework could apply to your life, let's talk about it.

Book your free discovery call here  👈

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me: 

Website: www.livewellandexplore.com 

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

I work a full-time job, and I'm trying to build my business in the evenings and weekends, and I genuinely don't know how much longer I can keep doing both." If that's you, this episode is for you.

Most women in this position think their problem is time. But your body isn't tracking hours. It's tracking energy. And a full-time job doesn't just take your time; it takes a real mental and emotional toll that leaves you starting your business hours already running on empty.

In this episode, we talk about why the transition between your two roles is often the hardest part of your day, why generic productivity advice (wake up at 5 am, just push through) doesn't work for this specific problem, and what actually helps you protect your energy without overhauling your entire life.

Key Takeaways:

• Why your exhaustion is an energy problem, not a time problem

• Why the transition moment between your job and your business drains you the most

• Why comparing your pace to people without a full-time job isn't fair to you

• Small, specific shifts that restore your energy without a total life overhaul

Recognize yourself in this episode? If you're tired of feeling drained the second you switch from your job to your business, let's talk about it.

Book your free discovery call here

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: www.livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Have you ever noticed that the hardest boundary to hold is not with other people, but with yourself? When you run a business alongside your other responsibilities, work can quietly seep into family dinners, late nights, and your weekends. In this episode, I share the real story of how my client overcame non-stop workdays and guilt-driven exhaustion by shifting from rigid schedules to simple, energy-aligned boundary protocols.

Key Takeaways:

• Addressing the Root Cause: Why boundaries fail when you try to fix guilt with tighter schedule rules.

• Realistic Energy-First Scheduling: Building work hours around your actual capacity.

• In-the-Moment Tools: Practical steps to take when boundary guilt comes up so you stop working past your limits.

Recognize yourself in this episode? If you're exhausted just thinking about tonight, let's talk. Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 👈

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: www.livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Spending eight solid hours at your desk on Saturday, only to accomplish very little and face Monday twice as exhausted? Relying on weekend marathons goes completely against how human focus works, leaving you trapped in constant guilt and decision fatigue. In this episode, I break down how to replace long weekend blocks with short, highly effective weekday execution windows so you can make continuous progress on your business while keeping your weekends completely free.

Key Takeaways:

• How transition fatigue and decision fatigue drain your mental battery before you even start working.

• Leveraging Parkinson’s Law to produce higher quality creative output in short, dedicated blocks.

• Using a 10-minute screen-free break to signal the end of your day job shift.

• How assigning specific focus themes to select weeknights guarantees a total weekend shutdown.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 👈

We’ll pinpoint exactly which daily transition is leaking your energy and create a custom plan just for you.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Tried every productivity app and strict calendar setup only to end up exhausted on the couch by late afternoon? Traditional workday advice treats you like a machine, forcing rigid time rules that ignore what your body actually needs to feel regulated. In this episode, I share why mainstream scheduling methods backfire for multi-passionate women and how to build a visual, energy-first workflow that protects your well-being while keeping your business moving forward.

Key Takeaways:

• The Root Cause: Why your scheduling struggles are a biological regulation problem rather than a time management flaw.

• The Energy-First Framework: How prioritizing personal time on your calendar first protects your baseline energy.

• Visual Color Coding: Using quick visual cues to instantly identify workload imbalance before reaching burnout.

• Overcoming Perfectionism: Why rigid templates create decision fatigue and how low-friction planning restores momentum.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 👈

We’ll pinpoint exactly which daily transition is leaking your energy and create a custom reset ritual just for you.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Closing your laptop at the end of the day only to sit down, stare blankly at a screen, or scroll mindlessly on your phone? When you spend all day managing tight deadlines and back-to-back demands, your autonomic nervous system remains trapped in fight-or-flight mode long after the workday ends. In this episode, I walk through the biological reasons why your mind and body resist evening work, and share simple, physical tools to reset your nervous system so you can step into your personal goals feeling calm, clear, and steady.

Key Takeaways:

• Why evening fatigue and resistance are signals of overstimulation rather than a lack of discipline.

• How to use a quick double-inhale breathing pattern to directly engage the vagus nerve and lower physical tension.

• How shifting from narrow screen vision to soft peripheral vision signals safety to your nervous system.

• Using rapid temperature changes and light movement to flush out accumulated stress chemicals.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 👈

We’ll pinpoint exactly which daily transition is leaking your energy and create a custom reset ritual just for you.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Does your brain feel like "concrete" the moment you log off your day job? When you’re living two lives: employee by day and CEO by night, the transition is often where the most energy is lost. In this episode, I share a practical 3-step protocol designed for busy women to manage their energy, clear stress, and stop the "daily juggle" from leading to total depletion.

Key Takeaways:

• Context Switching Cost: Why jumping straight into business work without a transition period is draining your battery.

• The Somatic Reset: Three quick physical tools to tell your body the 9-5 workday is officially over.

• Mental Closing Rituals: How to "brain dump" your day job so it doesn't follow you into your business hours.

• Energy vs. Time Management: Why a strict schedule fails when your biology isn't on board.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 

We’ll pinpoint exactly which daily transition is leaking your energy and create a custom reset ritual just for you.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

Can taking a vacation actually make your business more profitable? Most entrepreneurs think of travel as a "reward" to be earned after success, but it is actually a strategic resource for growth. Today, we explore how changing your environment resets your nervous system, clears "tunnel vision," and acts as a vital stress test for your business systems.

Key Takeaways:

• Cognitive Flexibility: How new environments force your brain to create the neural pathways needed for creative problem-solving.

• The Bottleneck Test: Using travel to identify where your business is too dependent on your manual labor.

• Active vs. Passive Rest: Why navigating a new city can be more restorative than lying on a beach.

• Sustainable Momentum: How to "unplug" without the anxiety of missing out on progress.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here 

Let’s look at your current workload and find the bottlenecks keeping you tied to your desk so you can finally take that trip.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde

"I'll do it when I have more time." We’ve all said it, but for women juggling a 9-5 and a side business, "more time" rarely just appears. If you find yourself scrolling social media or doing minor chores instead of the needle-moving work for your business, you aren't lazy. Your brain is actually in protection mode. In this episode, we break down why high-achievers procrastinate and how to reset your nervous system to move from "stuck" to started.

Key Takeaways:

• The Biology of Procrastination: Why your brain "plays dead" to protect you from burnout.

• Decision Fatigue: How your day job drains your "choice bucket" before you even start your business work.

• The 15-Minute Rule: A simple strategy to break through mental paralysis without needing hours of free time.

• Overcoming Perfectionism: Why "B-minus work" is the secret to gaining momentum and freedom.

Book your 30-minute Energy Audit call here

We’ll identify the specific habit draining your time and map out your first two steps to fix it.

About Your Host

Solveig Eitungjerde is a former dancer, educator, and adviser turned avid traveler and certified health coach. She helps women who juggle work and entrepreneurship overcome the overwhelm and get more done in less time. Her goal is to help you design a lifestyle where you can grow your business without burning out, finally creating the time and freedom for the exploration and fun you crave.

Connect with me:

Website: livewellandexplore.com

Instagram: @solveig.eitungjerde