For all the talent, strength and experience women breadwinners bring to the table, it's amazing that many women breadwinners still stay up at night grappling with the same question: Am I good enough? It's a crazy question taking up so much mental space that it's time to deal with the issue RIGHT NOW. Insecurity comes …
Continue reading Women Breadwinners & The Crazy Question (Read Time: 4 min.)
Most people have a bucket list, the list of all the things they want to do before they leave this lifetime. I've decided to apply the same concept to my pre-pregnancy life now. Having not been pregnant for 7 years at this point, it's hard for me to remember what being pregnant felt like. The …
Continue reading My Before-I-Get-Pregnant-Next Bucket List (Read Time: 4 min.)
Do you have what you want in life? Do you bitch about not having it? Are you so focused on what went wrong in the past that you aren't able to effectively use the present to create the future? Let me help you out here: Stop wishing for a better past. I've tried it. It …
Continue reading 21 Things You NEED to Do to Get What You Want in Life (7 min.) (Read Time: 5 min.)
Over and over, I've heard it said, "If it's not scheduled, it's not real." I've fought the idea of putting my life on a schedule. I've said: How can you schedule when a child's going to get sick and they have to stay home from school? How can you schedule an accident on the …
Continue reading I don’t like to commit to my calendar… but here’s why I do (Read Time: 3 min.)
69% of all marital conflicts are PERPETUAL In other words, there is no solution to them and engaging in conflict over them is a complete AND total waste of time. Given this fact, it's important to distinguish between marital conflict that's solvable and conflict that's perpetual. If it's solvable, it's worth working through. If it's …
On May 29th, the Pew Research Report on Breadwinner Moms came out and it caused a firestorm of controversy. The mere fact that the percentage of households with breadwinning moms went from 11% in 1960 to 40% in 2011 was enough to make the world take notice. Every media outlet was declaring the rise and …
Yup, I did... committed a woman breadwinner MAJOR NO-NO this morning... On a regular basis, I remind my woman breadwinner clients to do three things: 1) Create joy by creating time 2) Create time by delegating tasks 3) Delegate tasks by creating rituals, schedules, and routines that offer both efficiency AND fun Each client is …
Continue reading I Committed a Woman Breadwinner Sin This Morning… (Read Time: 3 min.)
According to my blog editorial calendar, this post was originally going to be called "Why Wishing You Were Single is a HUGE Mistake" and I was going to spend the time talking about why the "whether or not" decision of "Do I stay married or return to being single?" is such a bad way to …
You married who you thought would be Prince Charming... and you wound up with a frog. He's not as strong as you thought. He's not as smart as you thought. He's not the provider you expected... and you now find yourself in the role of breadwinner (probably still doing the laundry and cleaning the house …
Continue reading Woman Breadwinner By Default: How to Handle the Resentment (Read Time: 7 min.)
Woman breadwinner... Who gave you that role? Who keeps you in that role? What could easily erase that role? One answer: Your job. Maybe it's your career. More than likely, it is your profession. Is it your calling? Your vision? Your grandest purpose for your life? Probably not... And, yet, you do it. You …
Continue reading Women Breadwinners & Career Change: Climb, Transition or Quit? (Read Time: 5 min.)
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