Money Career & Motherhood Podcast

Have you ever wondered what a financial coach does and if they may be able to help you get your money right? If so, my conversation with Maggie Germano, financial coach, and host of the podcast Money Circle, is for you. Maggie talks to me about how she helps her clients set goals and reach their financial goals, as well as why she feels so strongly about financial empowerment for women.

About the Guest:

Maggie Germano is a feminist and financial coach for women. She helps women improve their relationship with money so they can take control of their financial future. She does this through one-on-one financial coaching, workshops, writing on her blog and Forbes column, and speaking engagements. She also founded Money Circle, which is a safe space for women to talk about money without feeling judged, and has recently become a podcast of the same name. Passionate about helping women earn more and closing the wage gap, Maggie was also trained as a salary negotiation facilitator by AAUW.

In 2018, Maggie received the Woman Empowerment Entrepreneur Award from the DC Women’s Business Center, and was a finalist for the Entrepreneurship for Good award from the Women’s Information Network. In 2019, Maggie received the Excellence in Finance award at the Perfect Entrepreneur Awards.

When she isn’t talking about money, you can find Maggie spending time with her husband and her corgi in Riverdale Park, Maryland.

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes, The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.

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Successful decluttering often happens from the inside out. It’s only by understanding what we value and how we use it that we can create efficient spaces that work for us. Listen as I chat with productivity coach Lisa Zawrotny about how decluttering helped her through an incredibly emotional and stressful time, and how she uses this experience to help her clients. We also talk about the powerful impact gratitude has on anyone looking to simplify or declutter their life and home.

In this episode, Lisa referenced the book The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks.

About the Guest:

Lisa Zawrotny founded Positively Productive Systems as a result of a deeply overwhelming time in her life juggling multiple roles as a caregiver for her Mom with Alzheimer’s, as well as wife, mother (to kids & cats) and as a business owner.

As a Productivity & Organizing coach certified in time & stress management and life coaching, Lisa shares the powerful healing of simplifying, self-care, and structure with her chronically overwhelmed clients. 

Believing that one size does NOT fit all—especially when it comes to organizing your time and space—Lisa teaches value-based decluttering and customized system design in a way that will honor your personality and purpose.

Lisa is also the host of the new podcast, Positively Living, where she helps the chronically overwhelmed make space for what matters most in their lives.

To learn more about Lisa visit her at www.positivelyproductive.com, Facebook, Instagram, and listen to the Positively Living Podcast.

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.

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How do we bring education about the world into our family experiences? In this episode, I’m talking with multi-passionate entrepreneur Erin Austen Abbott about her life and work, including her most recent venture as the author of the book Family Field Trips: Explore Art, Food, Music & Nature with Kids. We discuss how expanding our exposure to the globe can grow opportunity and compassion in our children, as well as how Erin manages to stay on top of her multiple business ventures.

About the Guest:

Erin Austen Abbott, born in 1976, in Tupelo, Mississippi, studied photography at the Museum School of Fine Arts in, Boston, MA,  and at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA. She has had photography shows in Tampa, Seattle, Boston, Memphis, Los Angeles, Oxford, MS, Charleston, SC, Basel, Switzerland, Milan, Italy, Berlin, Germany, and Water Valley, MS, 1999-2018.

Her writing and photography have been published in such publications as Esquire, Bon Appétit, Visit Baton Rouge, Invitation Magazine, Country Roads, liquor.com, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, Bitter Southerner, Teen Vogue, Alternative Press, Los Angeles Times, Uppercase, Bake From Scratch, Southern Lady, Oxford Magazine, Oh So Beautiful Paper, West Elm’s blog First + Main, Good Grit, Laurel Mercantile journal, Splinter Creek, and Southern Spaces. 

She has been featured in The New York Times, Anthology Magazine, Flea Market Style Magazine, Design Sponge, Lonny, Domino, First + Main, Pennyweight, Houzz, and in the book Sage Living by Anne Sage for Chronicle Books, to name a few.

She published her first book,  How To Make It, on Chronicle Books, in the spring of 2017 and has a new book that will be out in April of 2020 called Family Field Trip. Her blog, Field Trip works to teach parents and children about design, food, art, and culture, from home and beyond. 

Erin lives in Water Valley, Mississippi with her husband and son. When not writing, she has an interior design studio and content creation business that keeps her equally as busy. 

Find Erin online at:

https://www.instagram.com/erinaustenabbott

https://www.instagram.com/fieldtripblog P: erinaustenabbott

https://www.facebook.com/ameliapresents

https://www.facebook.com/Fieldtripblog

https://www.pinterest.com/erinaustenabbott/

http://fieldtrip-blog.com/

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant, and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes, The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.

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As a parent, it’s hard to watch your child struggle in school. Many spend thousands of dollars through the years to support a student, but it may not be addressing the root cause of the difficulty. In this episode I’m talking with Dr. Karen Wilson about what an assessment can do for your struggling student, to not only help them in school today but to build their foundation for learning and success in the future. Listen in to learn:

• Is it causing my child enough of an issue that it’s causing them a hard time in a learning environment?
• The one question you need to ask yourself to decide if your student needs an assessment
• Why early intervention is so important for a struggling student
• What executive functioning is and why is it so important to a student’s success
• How early reading challenges affect learning as a child grows

About the Guest:

Dr. Karen Wilson is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, Director of West LA Neuropsychology, and an Assistant Clinical Professor (Voluntary) in the Medical Psychology Assessment Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA.  Dr. Wilson specializes in the assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents, and she has extensive experience evaluating children and adults who present with neurological, medical and psychiatric disorders.  Dr. Wilson is also the Founder of ChildNEXUS.com, a web application that provides information to parents who have children struggling with neurodevelopmental or social-emotional issues.

Dr. Karen Wilson has shared her expertise in a broad range of media outlets: television, radio, podcasts, print, and online. She is a sought after expert speaker and has been invited to address a multitude of audiences including parenting groups, educators, and professionals attending national conferences.  She has been recognized by California State University, Dominguez Hills as an exceptional scholar and educator who is among the most distinguished experts in her field. 

Dr. Wilson has a caring approach, and she is personable, insightful, informative and engaging. She is available for consultation as an expert on a range of psychological and neuropsychological issues. 

Follow Dr. Wilson on Twitter  & LinkedIn, or find resources for your child at https://www.childnexus.com/.

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes, The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.

Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!

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Mom guilt. It seems to be one of the universal truths of being a mother. Whether we work, don’t work, spend every minute with our children or take a hands-off approach to parenting, many of us feel as though they aren’t doing a good enough job. In this episode, I’m talking with Arianna Bradford, founder of The NYAM and host of the podcast of the same name. Arianna and I have an amazing conversation about how the collision of money and motherhood contribute to mom guilt, and how respecting the differences of motherhood styles can free us from the feeling of constant judgment. We’re also talking about Arianna’s new book, Shame On You: Big Truths From a Bad Mom, which offers a candid and hilarious look into the psyche of a real mom with little ones.

About the Guest:

Arianna Bradford is the founder, lead editor, and lead writer of The Not Your Average Mom Project website and host of the podcast of the same name. Arianna started The NYAM Project as a photographical and journalistic passion project back in 2016, after getting really ticked at how terrified most parents —moms especially— seemed to be of judgement. During her time running NYAM, she saw that so many mothers were dealing with guilt, uncertainty, and a host of other things because they were uncomfortable talking about it out of fear of being the only ones. Since then, NYAM has become a cooperative blog made of submissions by many different moms, a quickly growing podcast, and a popular Instagram page.

Learn more about Arianna and The NYAM Project at:

www.wearenyam.com

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nyam-project-podcast/id1475700184

https://instagram.com/thenyamproject

https://facebook.com/theariannabradford

https://twitter.com/thenyamproject

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

• IG @moneycareermotherhood
• FB facebook.com/moneycareermotherhood/
• Money Career & Motherhood FB Community www.facebook.com/groups/moneycareermotherhood
• Website www.moneycareermotherhood.com
• Resource Links

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Figuring out your spending pattern is harder than you think. To truly get in control of your spending, you need to understand when & why you shop, as well as what you spend on. My guest Chella Diaz will help you find your money leaks and teach you how to start saying no to the shiny objects of your spending.

About the Guest:

Chella knew at a very young age how to manage money, at 9 years old she would go to the Farmer’s market and knew the vendors that had the best produce at the lowest price.   She purchased her car at 17 and her first home at 23.  Chella was married for 17 years and has two sons.

For over 15 years, Chella has been on her spiritual journey.

Chella has been hosting workshops to empower people to master their money skills. Her simple approach to creating a spending plan that will serve you today and for many years to come will allow you to reach your financial goals with joy and grace.

Chella has worked with many coaches and mentors and created a program that meets each client where they are and provides them with the tools they need to unpack their emotional baggage around money.

Find Chella at:

www.chelladiaz.com

https://www.facebook.com/chella.diazIG @EstatePlanningMom

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Find Janice at:

https://www.facebook.com/moneycareermotherhood

https://www.instagram.com/moneycareermotherhood/

Join the Money, Career & Motherhood Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/moneycareermotherhood

Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

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Too many of us have accepted the stress and misery that comes with our careers. If you’re unhappy in your professional life, but feel like you need to stick it out because you think “This is what it feels like to be successful,” this episode is for you. Our guest, HR and career strategist Laurel Rutledge, is on a mission to help more women get out of career misery and into a career path aligned with their values and skills. In this empowering episode, you’ll learn:

• Why we stay in jobs that are making us miserable
• How saying yes to new opportunities can help us find the path to where we really want to go professionally
• How to improve our experience when we feel stuck in a job that is not serving us well

About the Guest:

With nearly 30 years of domestic and global, Laurel speaks the language of organizations. She uses her specialized expertise in risk management, consulting and human resources to guide individual clients through a customized process to address the challenges they are facing while building their teams.

Laurel created LaurelRutledge.com, The Rutledge Perspective Podcast and The ReSource after nearly 30 years in a corporate career. She has built functions, led turnarounds and led the HR/audit function of M&A activities. Being data-driven as well as people focused, Laurel knows how to work with leaders ensure that all aspects of a decision are brought forward and those in decision-making positions are accountable for the decisions that are made. It’s not about who is right, but about what is the best decision to be made with the greatest return and the least amount of negative people impact.

In starting her own business, Laurel recognized the frustration and confusion happening when small business owners were starting to hire teams. All of a sudden, the focus moved from their business “zone of genius” to the unknown of human resources management. “I wanted to alleviate the pain and frustration of these small business owners – especially women in business” To help them minimize the risk of costly fines and penalties by learning to “LEAD with their HEART, but ACT with their HEAD.”

www.laurelrutledge.com

https://www.instagram.com/laurel.k.rutledge

https://www.instagram.com/the.resource.bylkr/

https://www.facebook.com/therutledgeperspective

https://www.facebook.com/theresourcebylkr

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

Visit the Money, Career, & Motherhood website, Facebook page, Facebook group, or on Instagram.

Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!

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Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

Meg Brunson faced one of the biggest fears any mother can face, as a high-risk pregnancy nearly ended her life. Today Meg Brunson runs a successful marketing agency focused on Facebook ads for parent entrepreneurs, but her path to get there was hardly straightforward. Listen in as I chat with Meg about what happened when her life-altering event threw her off the traditional path of employment, and how her ability to reframe setbacks and take risks ultimately led to her entrepreneurial success.

About the Guest:

Meg is a mommy blogger turned Facebook employee who left the 9-5 for a life of freedom and flexibility. She’s currently RV’ing across the US with her family, while empowering other families to live their dreams, by pursuing their passions together. Her clients are building influence online - leveraging the power of Facebook and Instagram marketing to enjoy predictable leads, traffic, and positive ROI - all while spending more time together as a family.

Meg is a professional speaker, children’s book author, host of the FamilyPreneur podcast and CEO of EIEIO Marketing.

Find Meg online:

megbrunson.com/Facebook

megbrunson.com/Instagram

megbrunson.com/Pinterest

megbrunson.com/Linkedin

megbrunson.com/twitter

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

• IG @moneycareermotherhood
• FB facebook.com/moneycareermotherhood/
• Money Career & Motherhood FB Community www.facebook.com/groups/moneycareermotherhood
• Website www.moneycareermotherhood.com

Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!

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So many mothers seem to have it all – the high-paying professional job, the great family, a nice house – but on the inside, they’re struggling. Just a few years ago, that was the story of Wendy Mays. While Wendy was a high-income earner at the time, the six-figure student debt and even bigger mortgage Wendy and her husband had accumulated were keeping her from living and raising her family the way she wanted to. While Wendy loved her career as an attorney, her priorities changed when Wendy and her husband adopted four little boys, some with special needs.

As the primary breadwinner for the family, Wendy couldn’t just decide to stay home at that time. She was facing extreme burnout, depression, and the overwhelming feeling of being stuck in a lifestyle she no longer wanted.

Through an internet search at home one night, Wendy came across the MAD FIentist. She was shocked to learn about everyday people who were saving significant portions of their income - and ultimately retiring early. This epiphany resulted in a dramatic shift in Wendy and her husband’s finances, family, and Wendy’s career. Listen in on this inspiring story to learn:

• What is the FIRE movement
• How Wendy and her husband have managed to eliminate $650,000 in debt in just a few years
• How Wendy’s children reacted when they changed to a more frugal lifestyle
• How it’s never too late to improve your financial situation

About the Guest:

Wendy is a mompreneur...former criminal defense attorney - turned - turned Podcaster and Blogger.  She hosts a top-ranking podcast and YouTube Channel that aim to inspire and encourage families of all shapes and demographics to Dump Debt, Build Wealth and Budget Better while living a joy-filled life.  In three years, she and her husband have eliminated $650,000.00 from their lives, have begun real estate investing and plan to reach Financial Independence by the time they reach 55.  She and her husband reside in San Diego with their 6 children and 2 German Shepherds.

You can learn more about Wendy on the House of FI website, YouTube channel, and podcast.

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

• IG @moneycareermotherhood
• FB facebook.com/moneycareermotherhood/
• Money Career & Motherhood FB Community www.facebook.com/groups/moneycareermotherhood
• Website www.moneycareermotherhood.com

Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!

Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device.

Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

I’ve always struggled with habit change, and I know I’m not alone. I’ve got the greatest intentions, but quickly backslide into my old ways. Then in sets the guilt for not having enough willpower to make the change! But what if the problem isn’t willpower?

Whether you’re trying to change a money habit, start a budget, or find more time in your day, you’re going to want to listen to today’s episode. Neuroscience coach Sara Hyzdu is going to teach us the science behind effective habit change. In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why you should focus on inspiration rather than motivation when it comes to habit change
• The most important thing to give your brain to be able to keep focus during these challenging times
• How to use the different mental space and time in your day while at home to build a new habit that you can hopefully keep once we return to life outside our households
• How to use a when-then routine to stop your brain from operating on auto-pilot to making intentional decisions

About the Guest:

Sara Hyzdu is a neuroscience coach who helps people unleash their full potential by incorporating what the brain needs to be inspired.  She is the creator of NeuroInspire®, a program designed to increase personal effectiveness by using brain insights to create meaningful habits that last.  For those ready to ignite their impact, reach out to Sara via [email protected]

About the Host:

Janice Scholl has spent her entire career talking about money and business. Through her time as a commercial banker, consultant and mentor to budding entrepreneurs, she helped clients create solid business and financial strategies to help propel their business to success. While working with aspiring female entrepreneurs, Janice noticed that the same four themes kept repeating:

• Many women are uncomfortable with finance, both in their business and in their personal life.
• Women want access to more women mentors and advisors.
• Women often start businesses because they feel the corporate world doesn’t fit their lifestyle. Few are motivated by purely financial reasons.
• Mothers didn’t want money to drive their family decisions.

From these themes The Money, Career, & Motherhood Podcast was born. Now Janice spends her time helping mothers gain confidence and understanding about money, career, and business topics as they relate to motherhood and family – the way many women actually think about money. Janice loves helping mothers implement business and financial strategies within their families to help each family member thrive.

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