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Overcoming Anxiety: Effective Strategies for Managing and Overcoming the Stresses of Everyday Entrepreneurial Life with Elisha Lee

2025-09-2618:51

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about overcoming anxiety - effective strategies for managing and overcoming the stresses of everyday entrepreneurial life. We’re bringing on a guest, Elisha Lee, to talk about tactics and trends she’s seen as a therapist around anxiety, specifically for women in business. Hit play to find out what an actual therapist has to say about stress for working mothers.... You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https:/...

Scaling a business is like starting a master’s degree.

2025-09-2507:14

Newsflash: you’re already in a master’s level business program. When you’re scaling your business, or bringing on multiple team members for the first time, it’s kind of like you’re starting a new degree. It’s a finite time period, with noticeable workload, that produces a specific result. And everyone in your family knows to work around that (i.e., expect you to be spending evenings and weekends on your homework and papers). Here’s how to let your family know that you’re in a temporary push s...

This is how I fix the “interrupting toddler” problem as a mom who also owns a company….

2025-09-2303:43

Listen - you’re allowed to hold boundaries with your toddler and reserve naptime for yourself & your business. You’re NOT being a bad mom for sending her back to her room at nap. Because part of working from home is having the confidence that everything your business needs today got checked off - and that directly crosses over into your mindset. You have to know that you’re being a good mother EVEN as you’re setting those super clear time boundaries with your young kids…. And here’s...

Stop freaking out at the next wave of clients as an entrepreneur mom… just hit the recharge button!

2025-09-1806:14

Every time you sign a few more clients (yay, money!), you get overwhelmed. Then you overwork to keep up, overcompensate, and inevitably, burn out. It’s become a pattern. So here’s my anti-brain-fog suggestion that lets you hit the reset switch and hit the ground running (AFTER you do this one thing!) to efficience-ize your schedule You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Subscribe to your weekly Mompreneur Life Made Eas...

When your family needs you more than your business, but you still want to work….

2025-09-1604:01

How do you readjust your week’s workflow when you know you’re going to catch the family bug sooner or later… but you’ve got clients and students and deliverable projects to keep in the air?? (And inside you’re resenting your kids for ruining your nice, was-going-to-be-productive week and swapping it out for taking care of sickies!) The one thing I for-sure-for-sure know is that if you’ve got THIS one thing in place, it’s actually a really quick and easy process to rejigger your to-do list on ...

What happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?

2025-09-1104:37

You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to take time for, too. And the reason you haven’t done anything about it yet is that you’re on contract with each and every one of those clients, so you don’t want to do anything legally liable in your search so far for more day to day balance! That was the c...

Best time to start your kids on chores (so you can have more CEO time)? Last month.

2025-09-0904:38

If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going. Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores…. ….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them. Because the first and primary way you’re going to have less on your plate to do around the house - i.e., permanently do less housework - is with the two magic words of “kids” and “delegation.” You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.co...

Anti-self development hack: how to AVOID working on your patterns.

2025-09-0405:01

You’re battling the same sneaky story that your brain likes to tell you - that it’s your fault for not being gracious enough and understanding enough and reframing your frustration with your team…. Newsflash: you aren’t supposed to be resenting anything in your ideal everyday life! That’s a red flag that something’s wrong. So why are you sitting there, stewing in your own “should I say something to my content VA or should I let it blow over again” juices, instead of tweaking your workflows to...

Which is better: morning selfcare or getting a head start on your business to-do list?

2025-09-0204:15

You’re already sold on morning routines, but which is better - knocking out 5 chores before the kids get up, or using your precious quiet hours to pour into yourself? Because you know you need to schedule in your personal recharge time on the daily, and morning’s one of the easiest times to actually guarantee it…. (Aka, win-win for your scheduling process….) But should you ACTUALLY be doing it? Right then and there? Because it's not going to work too well to cram both into your morning....

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 8: Your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.

2025-08-2804:11

Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours. If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue. Listen - your task list does not have the ability to burden you. (From Allie Casazza.) It’s how you think about it that’s affecting you. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Subscribe to your weekly Mompreneur Life Mad...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 7: Do NOT listen to this kind of time management advice - unless you want to stay stuck as a mom growing her online business!

2025-08-2603:39

You know WHY the "fit everything in" hacks you’ve been trying haven’t worked for you yet? Because they’re not the full picture. They’re just the strategy part. Those gurus are forgetting that you have kids, and you can’t just wake up at 5am every day to bang out 4 hours of work like nothing else exists. You have luteal cycles.You have motivation dips.You have wake-in-the-middle-of-the-night kids.You have stayed-up-too-late-Netflix-binging sessions.All this, on TOP of whatever "just get disc...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 6: If work is bleeding into your weekend again (when you really need that Sunday break)....

2025-08-2104:46

It’s like Saturday is hiding out from you, hoping you won’t notice that it’s stolen most of the to-do list and hoarding all those tasks to dump on you! But good news, here’s how my latest client and I dealt with the chore hideout monster. S.’s words after we finished our “chase the chore monster out of hiding” session were, “Yay, all fixed - no more pushing through!” Which is exactly what I want for YOU. You’ve got this! Alyssa Love your daily life again as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunb...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 5: Stop thinking other high-performing business moms know the secret.

2025-08-1906:16

It's just time management, following through on your to-do list, using your time buckets like crazy, and delegating something. Lots of somethings. That’s how it’s all “fitting in” for them. Which means you can do it all, too. We’re going to leverage the twin turbochargers of time blocking it all out plus outsourcing everything that DOESN’T necessarily have to be done by you. Because you’ve already gotten clear on your top priorities for this quarter and month. Which means you’ve p...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 4: You’re going to feel mom guilt even if you’re working from home.

2025-08-1406:34

Because every mom deals with guilt. The only question is what that guilt’s going to be about. Using the frozen pizza one night instead of cooking from scratch for optimum nutrition?Letting your phone play babysitter once too often?Not running a business to bring your gifts to the world? So let’s stop with this idea that the mere existence of you having mom guilt as a CEO mother means you’re doing something wrong. We all do. The question is what you make of it. What you do in ...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 3: The busier you are, the more scheduled you need to be. True?

2025-08-1205:26

If you’ve got a ton of stuff going on, you have to be way more strict about holding yourself to pre-determined timelines and boundaries for when you have to shift tasks. Because all you need to do is firmly wall off your creative work time – no Slack messaging with clients allowed! - and give yourself the ironclad “only do this” boundaries your brain needs. And poof, your copy gets written and your launch assets are back up and your big project is already checked off. So here’s how to d...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 2: What you should know before starting ANY new scheduling practice.

2025-08-0705:39

You’re hitting everything on the client work plus marketing plus sales outreach plus content creation plus business bookkeeping plus CEO time to-do list - but it’s all feeling kind of catch-as-catch can instead of smoothly flowing from one thing to the next. You feel like your schedule isn’t properly in order (except every time you DO try to tweak your schedule, you always end up ditching it for some reason or other), and you’re having a hard time prioritizing your own business needs over you...

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 1: Is hustle mode mandatory for a business mom?

2025-08-0509:45

Am I seriously supposed to act like I’m Elon Musk and just live at the office, only popping out every now and then to see my husband and kids and go to church, and meantime tell them “I’m working to secure your future” and have that be my workaholic guilt-free card whenever they ask about me? Is the only alternative to this level of die at your desk, like Ann Keaney says, to pull way back to side-hustle-$30k-a-year mode, and give up on ever growing my business? No. You get whatever you ...

How to radically chop your calendar when there’s nothing else to cut.

2025-07-3106:46

“I’ve got ‘due by’ client projects to turn in; my kids need a lot of attention from me right now; there’s a bunch of food prepping and household stock-up tasks on my plate; and I’ve got 3 ‘go out to coffee’ invites from friends just sitting there in my inbox (‘cause I’ve had no time to even respond to them).... Can you help me prioritize all this so I get it done?” That’s what my client asked me, and I told her NO. (So what in the world did I tell her instead?!) You’ve got this! Alyssa ...

The ultimate guide to cycle syncing (so you never burn out on period week again).

2025-07-2906:28

You’ve heard about cycle syncing by now. But you’re thinking, is it really going to be the be-all end-all if I just track a few dates and add an extra calendar app thing? How much does this actually affect my energy levels and work output day to day? If you’re feeling that “out of sync with my workflow” thing regularly – and I mean the “I really thought I’d put in enough time for me to wrap up with that client before grabbing Owen from nap and heading to the park to let him run ar...

Is there a right way to handle client meetings when your kids are halfway through their bedtime routine?

2025-07-2404:43

“No client calls while the kids are awake” is your general rule, but…. This one time the sales call can’t be moved, and your preschoolers aren’t in bed yet (teeth brushed though!), leaving you uncertain how this call’s going to go on top of your ordinary “am I being a good mom if I block them out” worries. (You know what the “good business owner” answer is - you take the call with everyone quiet in the background - but what you aren’t sure of is whether that’s doing a disservice to your...

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The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms