In this episode of Overflow, I invite you into a conversation about motherhood and business and what it means to build a business that truly honours your life, your energy, and your family rhythm.
I reflect on the spectrum of financial need that so many mothers in business navigate, and how naming your unique position whether you're the main provider or supported by a partner, can bring clarity, compassion, and freedom. We explore the invisible pressure to “do more” even when it’s not required, and the deep permission to do business differently, slower, simpler, more cyclically.
This episode is an invitation to honour your current season, to acknowledge the mental load you carry, and to reconnect with the real why behind your work. I speak to the longing many of us feel to pause or step back and share how I’m already planting the seeds to take time away from work after baby number two, with no guilt or pressure.
We talk about capacity, nervous system care, redefining success, and creating your own set of business guidelines that reflect what actually matters to you. Whether you're running a business in micro-moments between school drop-offs, or dreaming into a new way of showing up altogether, this episode is here to meet you where you are.
My hope is that you feel grounded, affirmed, and reminded that you are allowed to do it your way, even if that way is softer, slower, or quieter than what the world expects.
This is your permission to allow your life, family and mothering to lead and to root your business in clarity, not comparison.
flow writing prompts:
- What’s actually a priority for you?
- What’s available to you in this season of business?
- How would you describe your current season of motherhood?
- What would you love your mama days to look like and feel like?
- What does a family first business look like and feel like for you?
- What does having your own business mean to you?
- How does it add richness to your life? How does it nourish you?
- What kind of pause can you add you to your daily, weekly or monthly rhythm that allows you to feel your big feelings, supports you to gain clarity on what you really need and shifts your focus back to what’s important?
- What is enough for me right now?
- What am I allowing myself to let go of?
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Motherhood and Business: Anchored in Family, Not Algorithms
❀ Reconnect to your why and your business vision
❀ Get honest with your capacity, your time, your other priorities and this season of your life
❀ Get clear on your natural rhythm and nourishing foundations for your life
❀ Create your own business guidelines that honour your rhythm and flow in motherhood
❀ Be reminded that you get to do motherhood a
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