The Boss Mom Podcast

The journey of growing our businesses is anything but a straight line. We evolve, change our minds, and things shift in our worlds. We’ll go through stages of figuring things out, reworking things and pivoting and that’s totally okay! That journey builds up a toolkit that makes our communities stronger.   How do we figure out if we’re in the right niche and talking to the right people? How do we stop feeling bad about pivoting and moving into new ideas?   In this episode, returning guest and founder of Motherhood Simplified, Krista Lockwood returns to give us a peek into her evolution and share why it’s okay for our ideas to change.   A teacher doesn’t share with you as they are learning. The teacher takes the best lessons from everything they’ve learned -Dana Malstaff    3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   -Creating a results framework How can we reverse engineer what we’re good at so we can succinctly explain why it works?    -It’s hard to build a community on celebration  Why is it so powerful to create a space where people can share their struggles without judgment?    -Sharing from our wounds vs. our scars  How do we know if it’s too early to start teaching something even if we’re passionate about it?   Guest Bio   Krista Lockwood is the Founder of Motherhood Simplified, where she teaches decluttering for moms who don’t want to be full blown minimalists. In 2013, she and her husband moved from Alaska to Florida with only one suitcase each. While she doesn't believe you need to go that extreme, she has been able to master the balance of having enough, but not too much. Krista strongly believes we all have what it takes to create the lives and homes we want, no matter what that looks like. On top of her courses offered on decluttering, Krista is the host of the Motherhood Simplified Podcast.   Visit http://motherhoodsimplified.com/  Join Krista’s Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2010014145929427/  Listen to Krista’s podcast http://motherhoodsimplified.com/podcast/  Follow Krista on Instagram (@motherhood_simplified) Follow Krista’s Business IG Instagram (@yoursimplifiedbusiness) Here’s a Freebie Free-training   Listen to Krista’s other Boss Mom episodes: https://boss-mom.com/krista-lockwood/ https://boss-mom.com/krista-lockwood2/  

As Boss Moms with kids returning to school, getting back into old routines and figuring out new ones, feeling unfocused and stressed out is inevitable.   How do we bring ourselves back to center after feeling out of alignment? Is it normal to feel unfocused? Are we spending our time in the right places?   In this episode, I talk about how to reign our focus back in, and why we should give ourselves grace.   You are not unfocused. This moment is unfocused and if we recognize that, it’s fixable. -Dana Malstaff   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   -What we need to focus on How do we bring ourselves into a space where we feel good about what we’re doing?   -How to recognize when you’re not focused How do we get to the bottom of why we’re not focused?    -Closing out things one at a time There is no way we can get everything done at once. How do we close things out and get tasks done one at a time?  

There’s a lot of energy in this world. That’s why we can feel drained by certain people but energized by others.   Understanding what energy makes us feel good and finding more of it allows us to build the lives we want. Also knowing what’s low vibration for us steers away from things that zap our energy.   How can we understand the different energy around us and how it connects to our lives?   In this episode, serial entrepreneur and mom of 3, Nicole Brodie joins me to talk about understanding vibrations, manifesting the life you want and how affirmations and gratitude connect to a happy life.   I really believe that the universe is there for us. It will bring us what we want but we need to make efforts, take action and get out of our comfort zone. -Nicole Brodie   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   -What do we expose ourselves to? How do we pinpoint things that create a low vibration so that we can avoid it?   -How limiting beliefs affect energy  Negative self-talk is something that everyone deals with, but can we manifest what we want if we don’t believe we deserve it?   -Committing to happiness Changing things in our lives takes work, how do we do it?   Guest Bio   Nicole is a serial entrepreneur and juggles a very unique lifestyle around 3 active children. Nicole is not your ordinary coach. She swears a little when passionate, uses a non cookie-cutter approach, tunes into the guidance from strong intuition, uses healing and at the same time doing it whilst smiling and having fun. Nicole essentially helps driven women manifest their dream life using meditation. Visit  https://nicolebrodie.com/  Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenmanifestingdreamlife  Link to high vibe program: https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/  Check out the freebie mentioned in this episode:  https://www.subscribepage.com/highvibeworksheet  New high vibe tribe program - 5 day program that is a blueprint to raising vibrations - includes daily meditations, videos, workbooks and a lot more. https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/  Nicole’s group coaching program - www.joinempowerme.com  Find Nicole Brodie on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-brodie-04585450/  Follow Nicole on Instagram @iamnicolebrodie Subscribe to Nicole’s YouTube channel @iamnicolebrodie

Summer is over and we’re in the throes of our kids going back to school. That means a return to our routines, which can be overwhelming, but also exciting for our businesses.   We have more space in our schedules to get work done and we can leverage a season where people are in buying mode.   If we want Q4 and the beginning of next year to be powerful, there are 4 things we have to ask ourselves. How do we let go of things that aren’t serving our businesses and key in on what’s working?   In this episode, I share a simple exercise that will set us up for a strong finish this year.   Real success is in consistently testing, tweaking and growing. It’s consistently assessing and letting go of and only keeping the things that are really working and doing more of those. -Dana Malstaff    3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - A case for not doing all the things  There are so many things we could be doing in our businesses, how do we find what aligns with our energy and goals?   - Permission to let go  How do we sync ourselves up with what’s working and eliminate what’s not without guilt?   - Testing, tweaking and growing How do we check in with ourselves and our businesses on a regular basis?

As Boss Moms, we are strong, independent and know what we want. We can live our lives and realize how wonderful, unique and dynamic we are but sometimes it's difficult to find a meaningful partnership with somebody.   How do we go about creating new experiences with our partners and figure out who is good for us? As women, how do we stay firm on our feet but also lean back when someone is pursuing us?   World-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies Adam LoDolce joins me to talk about understanding how men love, the correlation between business and relationships and how to be happier and more fulfilled in a relationship.   The key to success in both business and love when it comes to dating is to actually be scarce. -Adam LoDolce   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - Unfolding things in relationships How do we create little love hooks without playing games with the other person? How do we keep our partners intrigued?   - Impulse control in your love life  How can we apply discipline when it comes to being unavailable for other people?   - Narrowing down your niche When it comes to narrowing down our niche, how do we decide who (and what) brings value?    Guest Bio   Adam LoDolce is a world-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies™. Over the past ten years, his online courses have helped thousands of women successfully find long-lasting love. He was also the host of "Kate Plus Date" on TLC, helping Kate Gosselin find love. His love strategies are also featured on PBS, Glamour, MTV, Cosmo, Women's Health, and People Magazine for his practical approach to attracting love. He's also lectured at over 300 universities across the country on confidence, dating & relationships.   Visit https://lovestrategies.com/  Find Adam on LinkedIn @Adam LoDolce  Find Adam on Instagram @adamlodolce  Find Love Strategies on TikTok @lovestrategies  Subscribe to the Love Strategies YouTube Channel @LoveStrategies Find Love Strategies on Facebook @lovestrategiesinc

Language, our vocal pitches and accents are the ultimate marker of identity. The words we speak and how we say them affect how people perceive us and even our ability to build authority.   As parents, there are facets of our kids' vocabulary that we might not get, like why they say ‘sus’ and ‘fire’, but these words actually reveal a lot about history, culture and identity.   How does language evolve over time? What linguistic features are unique to women, and how can we use them to our advantage?   In this episode, I’m joined by professor of linguistics and author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE, Valerie Fridland.   We have a fascinating conversation about interesting things about speech, language and how we communicate.   What we find in language is the unexpected, the novel is always more powerful than the same old, same old, and that is one of the main drivers of change. -Valerie Fridland   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - It’s not bad English, it’s the evolution of English  As parents, we might think our kids using words like ‘sus’ and ‘fire’ are decaying the language, but are these truncations completely normal?    - How to be heard the way you want  Women have developed strategies to be polite and still get themselves heard. How do we take advantage of beliefs people have about vocal pitch?    - Vocal fry and “Valley Girl accents”  Are some of the things that are seen as annoying and negative actually a way for women to have more authority?    Guest Bio   Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild, and is also a professor for The Great Courses series. She is the author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. In it, she delivers a lively exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our “likes”s and “literally”s actually make us better communicators. For more information, head to https://www.valeriefridland.com/.  Buy LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English on Amazon, and read her Psychology Today column Language in the Wild here.

As parents, what we do each and every day impacts our children. Even if we have the best intentions, when we have baggage and normalize our own pain, it affects them.   Working on ourselves is a powerful step towards being the parents we want to be, and that starts with unraveling our own trauma and baggage.   How can we work on ourselves without adding a lot more stuff on our plates? How do we become the foundation of how our kids see the world?   In this episode, I’m joined by generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents and co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement, Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill. They share how parents can do the inner work so we raise our children the way we want to.   There’s room for everyone’s needs to be important on the family plate. -Jennifer Murtagh   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - Take guilt off your plate How do we overcome the feeling that working on ourselves takes away from our kids?    - Be the rock and the tether  How do we unravel our own traumas and unhealthy beliefs so we can model the behaviors we actually want to pass onto our kids?    - We can’t teach values, we have to live them  How do we prepare our children to deal with not-to-helpful messages and ideas from the outside world?    Guest Bio   Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill are generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents, co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement and members of the Nurture to Convert Accelerator. We teach passionate parents busy nurturing young children how to give that same level of support and nourishment to themselves, without compromising dedication to their children. Instead of ignoring your own needs, and feeling like you can’t do or be enough to fully meet your kids’ needs, we help you better understand everyone’s needs fully, give you tools that actually work to meet those needs and solve the problems at hand, and help you tap into your own natural parenting manual.  For more information, head to https://www.theparentempowermentmovement.com/, and follow @theparentempowermentmovement on Instagram.

Seeing how we live our lives is how our kids gauge reality and ultimately create the lives they want.   If we make them feel like parenthood means giving up what we love, that’s what they’ll believe. If we show them that we can have things we’re passionate about, they’ll follow that example.   Being mothers, business owners and everything else in our lives certainly isn’t easy, and that’s okay. The more honest we are about that and the less we obsess over balance, the better the journey gets.   In this episode, I’m joined by professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, founder of Legado and the author of “More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood”, Majka Burhardt. We talk about her journey, what she wants to teach her kids and the power of deconstructing and reinventing everything.   Seeking balance means that one day we’ll achieve it and be perfect. Motherhood made me realize that everything exists together and it’s always moving. -Majka Burhardt   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - Do it with joy, but also with honesty We all have different aspects to our identity. How does motherhood color those things and how we show up in all our roles?   - Take yourself on an adventure  How did Majka choose what life, motherhood and entrepreneurship looked like for her without following convention?   - It’s okay if our kids aren’t insanely passionate about anything  There’s a lot of pressure around the idea of having a passion. Does that do a disservice to our children?   Guest Bio   Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, which was short-listed for the Banff Book Award, as well as her latest book, More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, a Next Big Idea Club must-read. More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood is an intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage. As leading professional climbers and mountain guides, Majka Burhardt and her husband led globe-trotting, adventure-seeking lives. When she learns that she’s pregnant—with twins—Burhardt at first tries to balance her pursuit of extreme risk with her new reality of maternal responsibility. However, she is ultimately forced to face the avalanche of emotions unleashed by the biggest disruption she’s ever confronted—in the mountains or otherwise. Based on the letters and journals Burhardt diligently kept over the course of her pregnancy and the first five years of her children’s lives, More takes the reader on an around-the-world journey as Burhardt explores the transformative, identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its irreversible impact on career, identity, marriage, and self. For more information follow @majkaburhardt on Instagram and buy the book here.

Being a parent takes a massive amount of energy, love, time and commitment, but many of us yearn for that not to be the only legacy we have. We yearn to create meaningful things outside of our kids, and writing a book is one of the best ways to do that.   If you have something you want to say to help people, make clear or change about the world, you have what it takes to write something great.   With all we have going on in our lives, how could we possibly make time for writing a book? Can we write something great in a very short time?   In this episode, Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist at selfpublishing.com, Aaron Schafer shares how to write that book in a defined sprint.   If we’re able to embrace a little bit of unbalance for a month or two, that can create some pretty amazing things. -Aaron Schafer   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - Stop saying “I’ll write that book when…” With all the things we have on our plates, is it possible to add writing a book to our schedules?    - Crystalizing your idea How do we turn a bunch of ideas and threads into a full book?   - A book is a powerful marketing tool How does the process of writing a book help us clarify our messaging?   Guest Bio Aaron is a blogger, podcaster, motivational speaker and the Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at selfpublishing.com. He has been featured on the Christian Television Network, iHeartRadio, Family Life Radio, and numerous podcasts. Aaron lives in Michigan with his wife Naomi and their four children: Elizabeth, Emma, Sophie, and Andrew.  Visit selfpublishing.com/bossmom to register for the training on How to build Instant Legitimacy by writing and publishing a book and how to publish this year no matter where you're at in the writing process.

Being healthy isn’t just about looking good. It’s about feeling good in our bodies, having energy, being around for as long as possible and setting an example for our kids. Food is a huge part of health, and most of the time it feels like achieving it requires us to give up all the foods we love.   What if we could eat whatever we want, just managed intentionally, so we can still reach our goals? What are macros and why are they an easier way to track our nutrition?   In this episode, I’m joined by mother-daughter duo, Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn. They share how their app Body By Hilary makes nutrition less overwhelming and restrictive so you can have that pizza guilt-free!   As a mom, I don’t want my kids to see me constantly at war with food and my body. -Hilary Downey   3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode   - A personal budget for your calories How do we use macros to get optimum results?    - Don’t put the progress on a pedestal Why is it so much easier to achieve our health goals when we focus on the habit, not the outcome?   - Give protein more attention Why is protein so important as you’re getting older?   Guest Bio   Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn are a mother-daughter duo that each lost 100 pounds by learning to count macros and creating balanced lifestyle habits. They own Balance by Hilary – a company that teaches women how to stop fad dieting and finally lose weight for good eating the foods they love.   The Balance by Hilary app, where you can access our 28-Day Macro Challenge that teaches you step-by-step our framework for learning to count macros so you can lose weight eating the food you love. Download the app on the Play Store or App Store and follow @balancebyhilary and @bridget_bbh on Instagram.