How to Align Motherhood and Your Big Ambitions
- August 20, 2020
- by Chelsea
Why You've Got to Listen to This Episode...
Moments You Don't Want to Miss
- [06:44] Listen to Rebecca share her decision-making process before she made the leap to start a coaching business
- [09:27] Discover what impact Rebecca’s career transition had on her whole family
- [25:28]Hear about how Rebecca helps moms get clarity by defining your values, purpose, and identity
- [40:25] Find out the reason why our brains get lazy more often than we prefer
- [45:24] Learn what makes you 90% more likely to reach the goals you set for yourself
- [51:40] Chelsea’s Top Takeaways
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Key Takeaways to Help You Align Motherhood and Your Big Ambitions
1 - We Have to Strive for Our Own Sense of Internal Balance
Whenever I’ve thought about balance in the past, I’ve thought about it from a scheduling perspective. Rebecca’s perspective was incredibly eye-opening of thinking about balance as managing our own energy and resources.
That saying no to things that drain us and respecting what our minds and bodies need is an integral part of having true balance in your life, even if that means saying no to your kids sometimes or not engaging with their mood swings.
Rebecca’s point about how she can work more hours as a life coach and feel in better balance as a parent than she felt when she was working fewer hours in event planning is a great example. I feel the same way about my Smart Money Mamas work compared to my investing work.
You have to decide what fills your cup in all areas of your life and prioritize keeping yourself full and internally balanced.
2 - At Some Point, You’re Going to Have to Take a Leap of Faith
Whether you’re starting a business, completely changing careers, or just applying for a new job or promotion – at some point, you have to take a risk.
Things can’t change if you continue to just stay where you are. And, as we’ve talked about before on the show, we’re not fortune tellers. You don’t get to know where the next big step will take you.
But if you want to find work that has meaning to you and fits who you are and the type of parent you are, you have to be willing to make changes.
Do your introspection and research, talk to your spouse or friends, and take the leap.
3 - You're Destined for Big Things—Don’t Get Stuck in the How
I really enjoyed Rebecca’s exercise with clients of creating a metaphor that embodies your purpose. Because metaphors can have so many different meanings – and those meanings can change with circumstances and moods and stage of life.
As Rebecca says, your path is linear – you’re never making a break and starting over in a way that doesn’t connect back to all the things you’ve done before. You’ve never quote-unquote “wasted time” in a career because you learned and grew from every experience.
What we have to remember is that our metaphor – our big, great purpose still holds true even when we need to make changes to how we embody that purpose and maintain our internal balance.
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Connect with Rebecca
Rebecca is a life coach for working moms and founder of the coaching program, Aligning Motherhood. Through a unique combination of mindset, behavioral and researched techniques, she coaches working moms to achieve all their career goals without ever sacrificing their family. She is a California native, loves tea, has a 3 and 5 year old and plays ultimate frisbee for fun!
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