Claim OwnershipThe Confident Parenting Podcast with Dr. Julie Fernandes
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Grab yourself a cup of tea and let’s have a chat on my giant beanbag about all things motherhood, mental health, living in these trying times, raising children intentionally and ultimately finding joy in your parenting and life. Glad to have you here.
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Today we're catching up where I left off at the beginning of year discussing life lessons and personal growth. I talk about how I am using my value system to guide my decisions and relationships as well as I why I am being forced to slow down in my every day life for a while. I also confess how hard it is for me to ask for help and ponder where this comes from. Perhaps you can relate?!👉CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliefernandescoE-mail: julie@fernandes.ai
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be overnight successes and you are just not meeting your goals? Well there are many things that go into being successful but a critical concept, that you need to understand in order to do anything well in this life is delayed gratification aka pain now vs pain later. In this video, I hope to show you how putting in the work now in any area of your life that you want to improve will make a huge difference to your happiness, productivity, and parenting. Delay the pain and seek comfort now or meet it head on, do the darn thing, and reap the rewards later. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Today we're back with some more mom tips and hacks and motivation to get and stay organized in 2025 and have more fun alongside it. Let's be honest motherhood can be a real slog sometimes and a lot of that can be solved by being more organized in your home and your life and creating time for hobbies and fun. I hope this video motivates you to tackle an area of your home that you have been avoiding but needs to be organized as well as start a new hobby!
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Welcome to 2025! It's only January and it's already been a doozy! I'm getting into this year discussing the hard lessons I have already learned in just this first month alone. Plus book recommendations and doing creative projects and crafts again, that bring me joy!
The Mel Robbins Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vz4RYsD5MulTCrcH478t1?si=4e0d52136a8a40ec
The Let Them Theory Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFMZMKFJ?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_8198XKNDZZ52BZQY8EQ4&skipTwisterOG=1&bestFormat=true&newOGT=1
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Today we are going to conquer my stress and anxiety around a super busy week and time of year. I share my top tips and hacks to help me cope with a very busy week ahead, solo parenting, at a chaotic time of year. I show you how I meal plan and write a to do list as well as what I do to relax my mind and brain so I can sleep better and be happier through a hectic time. Hope this helps you too!My favorite pens for writing to-do lists: https://a.co/d/fVZPGNAMy favorite affordable daily planner: https://a.co/d/ctTHdkD
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Join me as I discuss my intentions for this upcoming year of 2025! I want to plan and be as intentional as I can going into a new year. A lot has happened and changed for me in 2024 and I want my goals and intentions to reflect on that. I hope you will also start to think about your goals and intentions for the new year as well.
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Today I'm sharing my top tips and tricks to get more done. As a busy mom of 3 young kids, I need to be intentional with my time and energy otherwise I will always feel like I'm failing and falling behind. These are my tried and true best hacks to get what you need done even when you feel unmotivated and don't want to get out of bed. I hope you find these helpful. Here's to knocking your to do list out of the park!
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You'll see a lot online about slowing down, resting and just "doing nothing" but I think there is more to this story. I have found personally that when I have nothing going on, or I'm just slouching around, I feel a lot worse than when I am busy and engaged and contributing to my family and society. I think the difference is being busy in and on purpose. When you are on a mission, you're passionate about something and you have goals to meet, you become more energized and you get more things done. A life without purpose, is truly not worth living. I hope you love this perspective as much as I do.
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It can be really hard to keep going when you are not feeling your best but you still need to parent and work and maintain your home. I felt very down and low energy recently and I wanted to share how I approach this to problem solve how to feel better so I can keep going for myself and my family. I hope this helps you too. 👉CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIALS:
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Planning, shopping, meal prepping and cooking food for my family at least three times a day has always been a struggle for me so today I am sharing what has been helping to get healthy food on the table for my kids. I try and make a lot of our meals from scratch in order to keep them balanced and nutritious even for picky eaters. I share my very simple approach to meal planning in the hopes it will help you make healthy decisions for your family and avoid take out and needing to eat at restaurants which gets super expensive real quick. 👉CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIALS:
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Without understanding the basic layers to decluttering your space, you will always struggle to keep your home organized and tidy. In today's video I talk about living a clutter free life with all the busy-ness of kids and family and life and how it is totally possible if so long as you understand the process of decluttering in layers. One layer allows you to maintain a clutter free home and the other allows you to tackle what lies beneath the surface in those forgotten drawers and cabinets and overstuffed cupboards and closets. Here are more videos on decluttering that I think you will find helpful: My tried & true decluttering & organizing process that keeps my home clutter free ALL YEAR round! https://youtu.be/xZZXizWA3I4Get & STAY ORGANIZED FAST! Put your home back together in less than 30 minutes a day! https://youtu.be/2S9P5KuVXYQI declutter big projects & small projects all the same! This is the “cheat sheet” to get you started! https://youtu.be/bFXLjd5psfY
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Habits are small once off steps that we take to build a routine. Habits and routines form regardless of whether you want them to or not so you may as well make them work for you. In today's video/episode I talk about how when I have a down day or I'm extra tired or feeling like I am being dragged upstream, my routines save me and keep me going because it's like I am on auto pilot.
Other videos on building Routines and Habits:
STRATEGIES & TIPS for getting out the door ON TIME on busy mornings STRESS FREE with little kids!!! https://youtu.be/p5IC9gV05o4
Being UNSTRUCTURED & DISORGANIZED is trapping you! Change this IMMEDIATELY with this simple shift! https://youtu.be/Gc3G2pNkHMM
Get & STAY ORGANIZED FAST! Put your home back together in less than 30 minutes a day!
https://youtu.be/2S9P5KuVXYQProven, science-backed ways to unlock healthy habits & break bad ones FAST! https://youtu.be/TDDPx33CxtM
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I used to HATE early school mornings with my kids when I was parenting on my own and trying to get everyone out of the door on time. It was a really hard time of day for me and I felt like I was failing continuously. Not any more! I am changing the narrative and implementing all the advice, strategies, tips and hacks that I talk about in this video to get everyone ready for school, staying calm, and happy. I reflect on things I can do better to make mornings less stressful and more enjoyable for everyone because the morning really sets up your day, doesn't it? Let me know if you try out any of these tips I discuss and what your tips are.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
What do you think?
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:
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