
The Juggle is Real
You’re juggling work, family, and everything in between—and it can be a lot. The Juggle is Real is your weekly dose of strategies, mindset shifts, and honest conversations to help you stress less and enjoy more. Host Andryanna Gonko, an educator and mom of three, shares real-life insights, expert advice, and proven tools on topics that matter, so you can create a life that feels lighter and more fulfilling. Because 'balance' isn’t about doing it all—it’s about doing what matters most. Tune in for the fresh takes you didn't know you needed to actually embrace and enjoy this stage of life.
Latest episodes

Sep 21, 2023 • 29min
Happy Success, the Effortless Way (and my response to a DM refuting the topic) | E66
With recent episodes looking at the ways we can find success on our own terms, this solo chat dives into the topic of creating success with ease.
In this episode, Andryanna takes a closer look at what most of us are striving for in life; that is to be happy and to be successful.
With insights from the book Effortless Success by Michael Neill, Andryanna takes a look at:
- A reading of and response to the DM Andryanna received that says when we remove hustle from culture we are left with those who do not work or contribute meaningfully to society;
- The 4 types of happiness outlined in the book (pleasure, satisfaction, meaning and fulfillment);
- An exercise from Michael Neill to help us feel into and define what happy success means to us.
You can listen to Effortless Success by Michael Neill on Audible here.
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Sep 14, 2023 • 51min
Sustainable Success: Letting go of Hustle Culture to Redefine Success on Your Own Terms with Natalie Ruskin | E65
With back to work, back to school, back to the grind...many of us may already be in overwhelm and survival mode or are worried that it’s just around the corner.
But maybe you’re wondering how you can be proactive as we jump into the Fall season without get sucked into overachiever overdrive?
ournalist, success coach and podcast host, Natalie Ruskin to help you navigate the busiest time of the year with less stress.
Andryanna and Natalie discuss:
- Sustainable Success: what is this and where
is the curve headed based on the research and data Natalie has found and experienced personally;
- Natalie's 3 prompting questions you can ask yourself to determine if your version of success is sustainable;
- Natalie's journey of UN-sustainable success as an award-winning journalist at the CBC with emotional eating struggles; how she came to realize her path was unsustainable and what she did to turn things around in her life;
- The metrics we can use to support our own sustainable success; and
- A special guided practice from Natalie to help you connect with your own inner compass of success.
This episode is filled with compassionate honesty and practical tips for how to re-frame the usual "back to grind" angst if you struggle with hyper-achieving or never feeling like you've done enough.
CONNECT WITH NATALIE
Download Natalie's free three-step formula to support your sustainable success (wait for the pop-up window in browser)
Listen to Natalie's new podcast A Success Of Our Own, wherever you get your podcasts!
Learn more about Natalie's group coaching program, which includes
live weekly coaching calls, daily live audio practice and a personalized App to keep you accountable
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
*Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help build systems, provide structure, and create helpful routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).
*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Sep 7, 2023 • 41min
Stop Dimming Your Light: Why Purposeful Self-Promotion is the Key to Your Success with Lisa Bragg | E64
In this episode, Andryanna sits down with author Lisa Bragg to discuss bragging, what it really means and why we should all (especially women) be doing it.
A former TV reporter and anchor Lisa is a now a speaker, advisor, professional mentor, and author of the book on how to talk about success.
Andryanna and Lisa discuss:
An encounter Lisa had with a now very famous pop star, which sparked her to make a shift in her career and professional purpose.
The world's most extensive research study on bragging that Lisa conducted for her book on purposeful self-promotion.
Why we shy away from speaking up about ourselves in a positive way.
The choice we all have to stand by and continue being hidden or to show up and act and how we go from "hidden to daylight".
The pitfall of modesty, how it differs from humility and what we can do to stop deflecting and dismissing our accomplishments and praise from others.
How we can both receive and give compliments as a first step by using the concept of 'flip it to test it'.
How sharing is truly a way to serve others, help more people and allow others to be seen and heard.
CONNECT WITH LISAGet the book: Bragging Rights: How to Talk About Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion
Website
Free Bragging Rights Riff Tool for idea generation
LinkedIn
Instagram
Facebook
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
*Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help build systems, provide structure, and create helpful routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).
*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Aug 31, 2023 • 26min
Tips for Tackling Back-to-School with Ease | E63
For this episode, Andryanna is sharing some favourite tips for the busy back-to-school season, vetted by actual teachers and moms!
In this recording, she shares 8 actionable ways to reduce your own stress and set your kids up for success with hands on practices, helpful ways to prepare and proven mindset tools to start the season on the right foot.
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
*Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help build systems, provide structure, and create helpful routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).
*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Aug 23, 2023 • 24min
August Catch-up & Trusting Your Intuition | E62
After a three-week hiatus, Andryanna is back and sharing some news that has created change in her family life recently.
This episode includes a bit of a catch-up and details on what's been happening during this hiatus. Andryanna shares a story that's still in the making, on how she was intuitively led and how she acted on her nudge, using principles of faith and trust.
She includes notes on how you can start (or continue) trusting yourself and your own intuitive nudges, knowing that everything always works out.
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
*Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help build systems, provide structure, and create helpful routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).
*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Jul 27, 2023 • 48min
Understanding Your Energy through the 7 Levels of Leadership for Parents with Shayna Bergman | E61
To be an effective leader, you must be aware of the energy you send out and absorb, and how it affects your leadership - whether in your professional or personal and parenting life.
For this episode, Andryanna sits down with executive and leadership coach, Shayna Bergman, to discuss the 7 Levels of Leadership framework applied to parenting.
In this interview, Shayna shares and explains the following levels to help you gain awareness and understand where your energy lies within the seven areas of:
1. Victim
2. Antagonist
3. Rationalizer
4. Helper
5. Collaborator
6. Creator
7. Passion
Understanding and being aware of how these catabolic and anabolic energy levels affect your leadership can make a big impact in how you find success or failure in life.
This conversation then helps us understand how to move forward, take action and be the most effective, focused and driven leader, parent, and partner you can be.
CONNECT WITH SHAYNA
shaynabergman.comOn LinkedInDownload Shayna's free guide for 5 Ways to Cure Your Imposter Syndrome: https://shaynabergman.com/free-guide/
Book a free discovery call: https://shaynabergman.com/discovery-call/
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
*Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.*Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help build systems, provide structure, and create helpful routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).*Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools resources and more.

Jul 13, 2023 • 40min
Shining a New Lens on Body Image and Movement (replay)
As we make our way through the summer season, this episode invites us to look at how we see our bodies and the ways we choose to move in a new light.
In this episode Andryanna chats with Lee-Anne Reuber, coach, CEO and founder of Sekond Skin Society, a health and fitness app designed to be accessible for everyone and inclusive of all.
Andryanna and Lee-Anne discuss:
the psychology of our self-image;
looking at and shifting out of the effects of diet and weight-lose culture;
becoming aware of our thoughts to change how we think about ourselves and treat our bodies;
how to reduce our stress around the way we look and in effect balance the 'mindset scales'; and
how to take action from a place of love.
CONNECT WITH LEE-ANNE
To learn more about Lee-Anne and Sekond Skin Society, visit: sekondskinsociety.com
Check out Sekond Skin Society on Instagram.
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA
On Instagram
Email: hello@andryanna.com
Click HERE for your FREE '30 Days For Me' Self-Care Guide
to build helpful habits within 5 wellbeing pillars. Recharge, reset and
reestablish yourself with these small + simple shifts.
Click HERE for your FREE Kids Morning Tasks Chart to help
build systems, provide structure, and create helpful
routines for great starts to the day with your kid(s).
Click HERE to Release guilt + judgements and Make the Shift to
Better Balance by creating new truths for the life you
want to lead with this FREE worksheet and exercise.
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
And please visit Andryanna.com for upcoming workshops, tools
resources and more

Jul 6, 2023 • 33min
Reduce Your Money-Stress This Summer with Kelley Keehn (replay)
The cost of goods is rising, inflation at an all-time high and a new FP Canada Financial Stress survey revealing that 40% of respondents feel that money is their top stressor. How can we enjoy our summer while reducing our financial stress?
In this interview replay, Andryanna chats money and finances with special guest: bestselling author, personal finance educator, and founder of Money Wise Workplaces Kelley Keehn.
Andryanna and Kelley discuss why the topic of money and finances is a stressor for so many, how to balance your books and your mindset, common misconceptions about women and their financial power, and how to take action today.
To learn more about Kelley, her latest books, Money Wise Workplaces and more, visit: KelleyKeehn.com
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA:
On Instagram
Andryanna.com
Get your FREE ’30 days for me’ Self-Care Guide
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
Email: hello@andryanna.com

Jun 29, 2023 • 42min
Stress-Free Summer Parenting with Tia Slightham (replay)
With school out for summer, you may be feeling a range of emotions from joy and excitement to dread and overwhelm with the kids home and extra parenting duties added to your plate.
In this interview replay, Andryanna chats with parenting coach, Masters in education, entrepreneur and mom, Tia Slightham to get to the root of why parenting can be so stressful and how we can better enjoy our summer with the kids by implementing proven systems and practices.
This episode is chalk-full of hands on tools that you can implement with your family today, including:
how to actually use charts to create successful and consistent routines;
creating metaphorical 'buckets' to fill your children's needs for attention and power;
how to connect with your kids, fill their buckets, and reduce unwanted behaviours with Tia's short, simple and effective practice called 'golden time'.
CONNECT WITH TIA & TIA SLIGHTHAM PARENTING SOLUTIONS
TiaSlightham.com
Sign up for Tia's 'Break the Yelling Cycle' Workshop on July 19, 2023
Free Resources and links, including the Golden Time Guide
On Instagram
On TikTok
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA:
On Instagram
Andryanna.com
Get your FREE ’30 days for me’ Self-Care Guide
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 self-led workshop recordings with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
Email: hello@andryanna.com

Jun 22, 2023 • 42min
Getting Comfortable with Uncomfortable Race Conversations featuring Natalie Haynes
In this episode, Andryanna sits down with Natalie Haynes to look at getting comfortable with uncomfortable race conversations.
Natalie is a corporate connection consultant, educator, speaker and psychotherapist. She is also the creator behind “The Comfortable Race Conversation Process” which has been included in the Government of Canada’s, 50-30 Challenge and leads individuals through an experiential process to learn how to have uncomfortable conversations about race with other races.
This interview includes:
what it means to have uncomfortable conversations about race and how to approach it;
vulnerable hot seat coaching with Natalie taking Andryanna through an initial conversation about race from her childhood;
how to become aware of our own responses emotionally, psychologically and relationally to the concept of race, by using ourselves as
the tool;
how to slow down, get curious and take action by looking inwards to better bridge the gap on diversity, equity and inclusion.
To learn more about Natalie and her work:
Website
Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
50-30 Diversity Challenge
CONNECT WITH ANDRYANNA:
Instagram
Andryanna.com
Get your FREE ’30 days for me’ Self-Care Guide
You First: Making the Shift to Better Balance: 3 workshop sessions with mindset tools, exercises, and expert-led practices including breath-work, yoga and hypnotherapy. Click here and use promo code REPLAY for exclusive savings.
Email: hello@andryanna.com