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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?
The way I do 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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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...
Resentment is actually the best spotlight you could ask for. It’s going to show you right where to look for your overgiving, overscheduling, and flat out overworking… if you’re willing to let yourself feel those uncomfortable emotions. Because it’s not a matter of maturity here. It’s that you can’t keep functioning as a wife, mom, business owner, special needs caretaker, homeschool educator, taxicab driver, and STILL put in enough energy reserves for your own tank to keep serving your c...
You’re not supposed to force yourself to get up and do one more thing. What you’re supposed to do is stop BEFORE it gets to be too much as a mom. (Or homeschooler or business owner.) Not make yourself get up and go through the motions again on empty. Here’s the reason you feel like you’re always playing catchup…. 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 (both for the kid side of your schedule AND your...
Resting first is the most backward productivity hack ever. But what changes about your schedule? All kinds of things, right? All of a sudden you’re deleting “answer my DMs” from your Wednesday morning at 10am calendar so you can drop by that local coffee shop and enjoy a rare morning out with your laptop instead (because you ALWAYS get the best content ideas when you’re outside the home without the kids). Here’s the nitty gritty, calendar-level changes that make a HUGE difference ...
"Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today." ~ Greg McKeown Wait - you mean watching Netflix with my husband at night ISN’T the only “recovering” I need to do?? Nope. Not by a long shot. Because you want something a heck of a lot better than waiting 17 years till your kids are out of the house so you can enjoy all the peace and quiet again! Here’s how to marry your purpose with your energy levels as a mom in business…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-...
Today we have a bonus episode for you all about reclaiming energy and meaning at work as women. We’re bringing on a guest, Rebecca Visser, to talk about healing the overachiever mom. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Rebecca's freebie: learn.crescentcoaching.ca/career-alignment-starter-guide And if you need the right answers (both for the kid side of your schedule AND your “what’s next” project list), I’ve got two m...
Listen - you can't keep doing ALL the chores AND building your business as a work-from-home mom. Chores + business + 0 kids? Fine. Chores + business + 1+ kids? Too much. So why are you pretending you can be a full-time stay-at-home mom AND a crazy ambitious CEO AND keep up everything around the house, plus do your workouts, plus have oodles of time to spend with your husband….. When we both know that’s insanity?? It’s because of THIS. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-hom...
Why in the world would I choose to run a family of seven - AND operate a successful online business (not a side hustle) - plus homeschool - am I crazy?! No, and I’m not actually as busy as that sounds. Because I’m not actually doing all the housework and ALL the cleaning and teaching every single subject to every one of my kids on top of handling all of my marketing and lead gen and client serving and content activities by myself. (That WOULD be crazy making!) So here’s how I make everything ...
Are you the mom who serves each and every one of her kids by doing their chores, cleaning their rooms, making them hot meals, cleaning up the kitchen, and grumbling about it the whole time? That’s the idea some of us have when we hear “moms should serve their families.” But would YOU want to be on the receiving end of that “service”? Let’s try a different scenario…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ And if you need ...
Are you so far into the weeds of mom life that you can’t even imagine this glorious, mythical place of doing less around the house for your family? Like you don’t even know how outsourcing would WORK for your current setup of finances and small kids and “always shrinking your favorite top” laundry helpers? Then it’s time to get some super easy delegation hacks going - but first, we have to dig into your outsourcing mindset. So take one deep breath – then another – and do this visualizat...
Today we have a bonus episode for you all about ditching willpower and getting support as a working parent. We’re bringing on a guest, Amy Briggs, to talk about the invisible load in modern parenting (and what we can do about it!). You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-home mom: https://yourunbusylife.com/ Her links: Check out the Aviva website Download Aviva on the App Store or Google Play Store And if you need the right answers (both for the kid side of...
You’re already making good money but it’s all held together by the seat of your pants…. Which means what you ACTUALLY need most of all is time. Because the one thing you know for sure is that the money's nice, but you can’t keep going like you are right now - not if you want a $250k-a-year business. ‘Cause to do that, you’ll need more VAs. More clients. More $20k months. And all those have ONE thing in common…. You’ve got this! Alyssa Free up your time as a work-at-hom...
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