The Confident Parenting Podcast with Dr. Julie Fernandes

Today we're getting real vulnerable because I'm discussing how as a woman and/or a mom if you decide to quit your job to stay home with your kids, you are potentially putting yourself at risk if you were to break up from your partner or separate or divorce and then you are set way back in your career when you need to return to work. What if you need your own money and you feel like you are lost in the power dynamic because you are not contributing to the household? I discuss these issues and also touch on how I am finding joy and purpose and meaning beyond my children and being a mom which I think is so important to role model to our kids. We are still a person as well as someone's mother.

I have tried this method for decluttering over and over and when I say it works, I mean it! Try my simple strategy to ensure your home becomes uncluttered and stays declutter free forever! It is very easy to follow this process if you keep it simple. Let me know if you try it!

I have noticed more and more than when my life feels chaotic and crazy, it's because I do not have enough structured or I am not organized enough to deal with all the responsibilities I have to juggle. In this video I talk about the benefits of structuring your life so that you have freedom and flexibility to do the things you want while still achieving all of your personal goals.

I think about how to make and break habits a lot and I was majorly inspired to crack the code when it comes to forming better habits by this  @melrobbins  episode that I listened to. There are proven strategies to making a habit stick so you know longer even think about it as well as ways to make breaking a difficult habit easier. I share my own habit goals in this episode and I hope you find it helpful in your own journey. Mel Robbins' Podcast on Habits: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gBJ66IjSIW2zs4sZFAqsK?si=VXxNZ3JnRR2cZdkvQVjLZQ

Modern life has brought many conveniences.. perhaps too many and I think we are paying for it. In today's podcast and video, I talk about how we are in a comfort crisis and as a human species we need to hard things to grow and evolve, we just don't want to a lot of the time! So much of how we build self-esteem, self-confidence and resilience is through doing things we perceive as challenging and to never step out of our comfort zones and try is doing us a great disservice as a society.

Do you want to be an organized person? Where your home can be put back together in less than 30 mins a day? It's not that hard you just have to start somewhere.. You need to understand WHY living in an organized space is life giving and really how easy it is to be more organized - you just need to do it. I go through my super simple process to keep my home organized and reset every day in this video and I hope it will inspire you to do that same.

I made the difficult decision to quit my traditional, corporate healthcare career 4 years ago to be a stay at home mom (SAHM). This decision was certainly not easy and over the years I have fretted as to whether it was the right one. There are things I miss about working, namely my friends and the sense of professional satisfaction it brings, as well being able to contribute to my family's cost of living. And then on the other hand, I will never get these years back with my kids whereas technically I could probably go back to a job. So in this video, I share my story and where I am with all of this now. 👉CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIALS:

I have always struggled with how our society is geared to over consume *things*. With the availability of fast fashion, fast manufacturing and the affordability to buy cheap "junk" essentially for kids especially, one can see how we can go overboard and essentially spoil our kids. What ends up happening for me, is we waste a lot of money, we have a lot of clutter in our homes that could have been avoided and is causing us stress and we struggle to keep our homes clean and tidy with kids. In today's video, I'm going to talk you through how I manage holidays like Halloween and all the candy I don't want my children to eat, as well as how we manage birthdays and parties and big traditional gift giving holidays like Christmas.

I don't know about you but I feel rushed and stress and like I'm going to be late for school drop off or pick up or after school activities or birthday parties or functions A LOT of the time. I spend a lot of time solo parenting which certainly doesn't help matters but it's adapt or die - I can't use this as an excuse all of the time. Yes we are all busy but then why are some people always early and seem to have it all together and others (like me) feel like a chicken without a head a lot of time. In today's video I'm going to walk you through how to analyze your specific situation as it relates to punctuality or being chronically late and how you can then create tailored solutions for you and your family so that you're never late again!

I’m honing in on the people pleasing and im finally saying no