The Boss Mom Podcast

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.

One of the biggest barriers to more sales is being so passive in our approach, we can't move people into action. We fear being too aggressive and pushy so many people we talk to hover at hesitancy. Can we be more proactive without putting people off? What can we do to make our emails and messaging more proactive? In this episode, I share tactical tips on being more proactive about sales. Being aggressive, pushy and in your face is very different to being assertive and proactive. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - How to close the uncertainty gap There's a lot of hesitancy in the market, but there are still people who need your help. How do we move them forward? - Stop having chats How do we put more intention behind our communication? - From the passivity of writing to the proactivity of talking What hacks can we use to engage with people more directly?

When it comes to building great brands, the words we use matter. Good copy shouldn't just inform people, it should ooze personality and speak directly to our audience. Whether you write your own copy or hire someone, there are ways we can set ourselves apart with the words people see on our websites and social media. What's the secret to personality-filled copy? Is A.I a threat to copywriters? In this episode, I'm joined by Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, Lactation Consultant, writer and coach, Julie Cunningham. She shares how to craft copy that stands out. There's a ridiculous amount of content that's going out on the internet everyday and all kinds of online publications pay for content. -Julie Cunningham 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - The truth about A.I copy Should copywriters be worried about A.I replacing them? - How to turn your expertise into a copywriting service How do we leverage the topics and subjects we know really well? - How to make your copy sound like you How do we make sure our content feels true to our personalities? Guest Bio Julie Cunningham is a Dietitian, a Diabetes Educator, and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant. After 20 years in healthcare, Julie became a writer and coach for women in the helping professions. She creates evergreen email sequences designed to highlight expertise, nurture connections, and maximize sales. For more information, visit https://www.juliecunninghamcoaching.com and https://boss-mom.com/julie/ for her 90-day nurture email sequence.

As parents, our kids are our priority. We want to raise them well and help them grow to be the best version of themselves. We want our kids to grow up to be confident and resilient. How do we create common language between us and our kids so that we can have meaningful conversations that will instill confidence? How can we show our kids that we respect them and that they are capable? Founder and CEO of the family mental health and wellness company Mighty + Bright, Sara Olsher joins me for this episode to talk about the different ways we can support and encourage our kids, and how we can teach them valuable skills that will help them grow. Sara also shares her story about her journey into helping families through difficult times. We treat kids with a different expectation than we have for ourselves. -Sara Olsher 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Building a baseline of trust How do we build a baseline of trust between us and our kids? - Don't avoid talking about the hard stuff Sometimes we keep the difficult stuff to ourselves as it's painful or hard to talk about it. What can we do to make it easier to talk about, especially to our children? - Projecting trauma Everyone has different experiences and we should not project our own trauma onto our kids. Guest Bio Sara Olsher is the founder and CEO of the family mental health and wellness company Mighty + Bright, and the author of ten picture books for kids coping with divorce, cancer, change, and big feelings. As a single parent and cancer survivor, Sara has seen firsthand that the universe can deal some pretty harsh blows. Her company, Mighty + Bright, provides tools meant to help overwhelmed parents prioritize mental health for their kids, learning together and incorporating coping skills into day-to-day life. Visit https://mightyandbright.com Find Sara on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/mightyandbrightco Find Sara on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/mightyandbrightco Find Sara on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@mightyandbrightco