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How does getting 20 hours back a week sound?
Mom life is easy for me. And by the way, I’m working from home (plus homeschooling!) with 5 kids.
Ready for your own “how to make things fit” strategy?
(Hint: I'm going to use Human Design to pull out the right tactics for YOUR specific personality + family setup.)
Because the way I blend Human Design with scheduling allows you to grow through the hard phases of building a business alongside a family, leveling up your CEO self alongside your capacity to hold.
What you end up with is a way closer relationship with your husband - your kids - even your clients! - because you’ve built the daily lifestyle that allows you to nurture that connection with the most important people in your life….
….No matter what’s going on with your to-do list.
So if….
✅ You feel like you’re up to your eyeballs in to-do lists
✅ You’ve got more things scheduled on your calendar than you’ve ever seen
✅ Your kids need more time than you’ve currently got (for homework & playing with them after school)
✅ Your plans for date night are getting pushed last minute (or snoozed till next week – again)
✅ You can’t even fathom taking a two-hour break in the middle of the day (because if you stop, the house might literally burn down)
✅ You can’t remember the last time you got a pedicure (because you’re too busy taking care of everyone except yourself)
Then it’s time to escape the never-ending cycle of “there goes my lunch break” meetings, “turn around by Friday” projects, & “hang on I’m almost done” answers to your kids….
…And swap that for working less, snuggling your kids, and putting "me time" back on your calendar.
‘Cause it's time for you to actually feel that day-in, day-out confidence in your role as mom, entrepreneur, and all-around high achiever.
Which is where I come in to create win-win solutions for you + your family that support business growth without compromising the mom part of your life (or requiring long-held biz goals to be left for another year).
Ready to get your personality-specific answer?
➡️ Ready to work less, snuggle your kids, and put "me time" back on your calendar? Let’s redo your CEO schedule so you can hit your priorities every day in your business, mom life, and goals list. Book your Free Up 3 Hours Daily package here: https://yourunbusylife.com/intensive/
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If you’re being honest, what you want MOST as a WFH mom is a permission slip. A “yes, you get to have this all of it, AND you’re allowed to tweak every single thing about your offer suite + business model (not to mention your day-to-day responsibilities on the home front!) till everything fits.” Because you’ve been living in “client projects never wrap before pickup time” mode for way too long - and you’re finally ready to give yourself something better. The work/life rhythms that you’d...
You think balance is about sitting down on the floor with your kids and skipping out on the housework. Or whisking them away to the park and ignoring the undone laundry. But actually? That’s a lie from the “women can’t have it all” crowd - and they’ve skewed their sample size to “prove” it. Here’s the reality available to you as a mom running her online business…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ And if you need the right answers (b...
I don’t care what schedule you want. I only care about how much YOU want it. If you’re a massage therapist, and you’d like 25 hours of client work per week, plus 5 hours of admin, and that’s your idea of a great practice? Then that’s what you need to set up - who cares what hours your competition is setting, or how many hours on social media they’re spending, or whether or not they’ve got a site presence. Your sole job is to focus on what YOU want from this venture…. Is it the ability to pick...
You built the Lego robot with your son, but now the site rebrand is going to ooze into after hours. You just can’t win. Either the kids want another story from you, or they’re asking why you’re always on your phone (when you’re on a roll with the rebrand stuff). And you’re sick of this “failing at one side or the other” version of work-at-home life. Feeling like you’re disappointing your 7-year-old daughter, who really wanted to watch a princess movie with you (NOT while you’re messaging clie...
You’re locked in a holding pattern every month, waiting for that pregnancy test to come back positive. But deep down, you’ve already pressed pause on your business. You’re pulling back on your personal outreach to new clients. You’re pushing off those launch plans. (What if I’m throwing up sick 4 hours a day and can’t see clients? I can’t deliver on a launch like that! Never mind about filming content, either….) You’re blowing up your work rhythms right now for something that migh...
Your not-so-secret dream as a working mom is looking less and less like a reality. (It’s the one where you’re the super successful businesswoman, running a crazy awesome online company, AND the present mom making memories with her kids.) But you’re not even in the messy middle to get there - right now, it’s more like struggle and hard work and barely-fitting-in balance. (Plus all those existential WFH doubts.) Don’t believe the lie. The oh-so-tempting lie that whispers you need to throw...
You’ve built a thriving business - but it’s your second hustle that’s REALLY got you lit up. There’s a course churning around in your brain that would be the PERFECT intro offer for this market segment….You know exactly what you’d market to this new B2B niche (right down to the branding colors)....Its product suite and scaling plan are all mapped out on Google docs.But you haven’t hit publish on a story for your new handle yet. Or uploaded your first series of episodes. (They’re still waiting...
Your top job as the work-at-home CEO: living & working at the right pace for you and your family. It’s not delivering on the actual client stuff. Tons of designers out there can do that. It’s knowing what tutoring your kids need from you this school year (and putting time blocks in place to handle that).It’s knowing which team members you need to increase hours on (so you can take your toddler to the park after supper 3 times a week).It’s knowing exactly how many weeknight commitmen...
What would it feel like to be able to shut down your laptop, stash your phone in the other room, and go curl up with your husband and kids tonight - because there’s nothing else you need to do for the business? Your client check-ins are all handled. The email newsletter is scheduled. The LinkedIn post is approved in your VA’s folder.You’ve already laid out your “big 3” tasks for tomorrow (in fact, the whole week).You know exactly where that extra copy project is going to fit (for th...
You’re doing too much around the house. Cooking most nights.Kitchen tidy up (all nights).Living room messes.Last minute grocery shopping (forgotten ingredients).Company cleanup.Closet decluttering (the mittens won’t pair themselves).Generic bathroom cleaning.“Just this once” laundry (though your kids are really old enough by now).What would happen if you let yourself swap the end-of-day pickup for some evening Calm app, or switched social media scheduling for selfcare time mid-afternoon - or ...
Too many balls to juggle as the mom, entrepreneur, wife, house manager, school volunteer….? Most business owners think that’s the norm. They’ve accepted it. Which means they can’t think outside of it. They’ve bought into the “too much on your plate is normal” lie, which keeps them running from one sports game to one last client check-in to yet another house tidy-up before falling into bed…. All while they’re running on fumes themselves due to a long day at work beforehand. (Throw in the...
Remember the kids’ sports schedules conflicts and way too many overlapping client-and-biz-collab-and-team meetings you were complaining about to your husband yesterday? You know that all those calendar conflicts are YOUR fault, right? It’s not your clients’ fault for booking you back-to-back and having yet another lightbulb moment right at the end of your call (which makes you show up late to the NEXT client session).It’s not the coach’s fault for scheduling more game practices than 3 parents...
You and I, we’re the strategic business moms. We LIKE the analysis involved in market trends, top-performing reels, how the high-ticket customer base is shifting - all of it. The only problem is, we think we’ve got to come up with the perfect 5-step plan for what we’re going to work on when in our business (oh wait - we already did that last October), and then we’re over here come January, forcing ourselves to stick with it. (Even though our client roster, current mentorship, and conten...
You’re caught in the “just right” decision-making spiral again. I need to work on delegating and communicating more with my integrator.Wait, don’t I need to get my client processes and SOPs fully updated?On second thought, what’s up with my clients lately? I better do some content that speaks to where they’re at and reframes it.Should I re-check all the messaging in my onboarding process, to make sure I’m calling in the most empowered version of my client?You get the picture…. There are so MA...
You know what I hate MOST about our stubborn tradition of New Year’s resolutions? The shaming, should-ing, “why can’t you be better already” vibe of “total overhaul required” and “you better be all in” (or you’re a failure by February 1st). Not on my watch. In MY world, YOU get to pick the habit - attitude - CEO outlook that you’d like to add next to your life because it’d make you feel HAPPIER, not because you’d LOOK better to other people. And then you just pick the TINIEST little habit, ac...
There’s only ONE thing I’m trying to do this year in my business - and it’s not a strategy. No, it’s called “follow your gut” for every decision, no matter how small. (Think, which client project should I work on today? Whose podcast pitch should I take? Which program or mentor should I invest in next? Does this content task REALLY belong on this week’s to-do list, or would it better match the energy of another week?) And you know why I shifted from a super masculine, planning-heavy str...
Here’s the problem with most productivity advice: it assumes you have infinite time as a grown-up (read: throw overtime at your problems) - or don’t have any kids hanging off you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into the “just do podcast interviews or record your reels or hop on video while your kids are at preschool” advice… Which is totally spot on, and works amazingly well - IF you have that out-of-the-house care opportunity for your kids! But if you don’t - or you’re ...
Because if your kids are different than anybody else’s, and so is the way you run your family (not to mention your business).... Shouldn’t you get a little customized attention, rather than being thrown a copy of The 5am Club? I mean, you can’t cover special needs, homeschooling, night nursing, care and feeding of teenagers, or middle school grump sessions all under the same set of “do this at this time with your kid and you’ll be happy,” right? So why in the world would you expect that...
You know how the washer always beeps RIGHT when you’re getting into a good flow on today’s client deliverable? (It’s that sneaky “work from home” distraction thing grabbing you again.) Listen. Whatever you do, DON’T break up a perfectly good flow state for an arbitrary timer. (Because your to-do list cross-off rate’s gonna show it.) Instead, here’s what I do. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ And if you need the right ans...
If you don’t have anything to look forward to, you won’t get up for work. And that includes your from-home business, too. See, you can’t just say “I love my clients” and call it good…. Or you’re going to burn out on the entrepreneur side of life. Because we don’t truly love our task lists. We love the way that working in our zone of genius makes us FEEL. So it’s time for a quick gut check…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ And...
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