Christmas week is here, and if you're feeling exhausted, click play and let's have a mom-to-mom talk.
This week, we're skipping the lessons and best practices for a real conversation about what it actually takes to pull off an amazing holiday experience for your family—while regular life, work, schedules, and expectations don't slow down. We're talking about being organized and still stressed, carrying the mental and emotional load, and why showing up tired doesn't cancel out the effort you're making.

Episode Highlights:

• Why Christmas can feel heavy — even when you're organized and planned ahead
• The difference between logistical overwhelm and emotional labor
• Wanting the season to matter without chasing perfection
• Why showing up tired still counts

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Rest sounds simple — until you actually try to do it.

If you're a driven, high-functioning mom, sitting down to rest often feels stressful, unproductive, or even irresponsible. Your brain keeps scanning for what still needs to be done, and before you know it, you're back up doing "just one more thing."

In this episode, I'm breaking down why rest feels so hard for driven moms, how we get stuck in constant "ON" mode, and why the all-or-nothing thinking around rest keeps us exhausted. We'll talk about what rest actually is (and what it's not), and how to approach it in a way that supports your drive instead of fighting it.

This isn't about letting things fall apart or becoming a different kind of person. It's about learning how to rest strategically so you can keep showing up the way you want to — without running yourself into the ground.

Episode Highlights:

• Why driven moms struggle to rest even when they're exhausted
• How identity, judgment, and fear of letting things slip keep us in "go mode"
• The difference between unstructured rest and restorative rest
• The four types of rest every mom needs (physical, mental, emotional, and functional)
• A practical, realistic process for building rest into your life without added stress
• How to tell whether the kind of rest you're taking is actually working

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Most goal-setting advice wasn't written for moms — which is exactly why it keeps falling apart in real life. In this episode, we talk about what makes goal achievement different for moms and how to design goals that actually work in a life full of kids, curveballs, and limited time.

Episode Highlights:

• How we can set goals differently now that we are moms, without watering them down or pushing them out far into the future.
• 4 things that are true for moms that affect how we set and achieve goals.
• 4 things I do to hit my goals even in our already full life.
• How working towards goals affects us and why it's so important.

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We're officially in the December sprint, and somehow also feeling the pull to think about next year. Before you start writing goals for 2026, I'm walking you through the 3 things I always do first to make sure my goals actually stick… and actually matter.

In this episode, I'm sharing how I look back at my year, choose a "word of the year," and vision out what I want my life to feel like before I ever write a single goal. This pre-work is simple and honestly the secret to building a year you're excited about.

Episode Highlights:

• Why jumping straight into goals usually backfires
• The simple look-back process I use to gather real insights from the past year
• How I choose my "word of the year"
• The quick exercise that shapes my vision for the year ahead
• How these three steps set you up to create goals that are aligned, doable, and meaningful

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This week officially kicks off the holiday season — kids home, work still happening, to-dos piling up, and Christmas somehow already around the corner. In today's episode, I'm sharing how I use Thanksgiving week to pause for a minute, reset my mindset, and help my kids do the same without making it a big production.

We talk about simple, real-life ways to weave in gratitude and the one low-maintenance activity we actually do as a family.

Episode Highlights

• Why Thanksgiving is the ideal reset before holiday mania
• How I use my CROPS framework to model gratitude and kindness
• Easy ways to talk about thankfulness with kids (no lectures required)
• Our super simple Thankful Tree tradition
• A grounding reminder before December takes over

Happy Thanksgiving week — here's to starting the season on the right foot.

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Why are we all so damn tired?!

We're talking about the kind of tired that isn't fixed by a nap or going to bed earlier — the deeper, emotional kind that comes from carrying all the life-management tasks, the logistics, the mental load, and the constant kid-monitoring that never really turns off.

I'm breaking down why this happens, why it feels different from work exhaustion, and what you can actually do to feel a little lighter in the middle of it all.

Episode Highlights:

• Why "the mom kind of tired" is different from normal tired
• The disconnect between what fuels you and what drains you
• The emotional labor and constant vigilance no one sees
• Why chores and logistics take more out of you than parenting itself
• Practical ways to reclaim energy when you can't change the workload

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You're not bad at time management — you're just out of space.

In this episode, Lauren unpacks what's really going on when your days are full but your priorities still feel out of reach. You'll learn why "I just need more time" misses the mark and how to start noticing what's truly getting in your way: capacity, clarity, conditions, or support.

Episode Highlights:

• Why feeling "too busy" isn't actually about your calendar
• The difference between time and space (and why it matters)
• Four root causes that make even small tasks feel impossible
• The cues that tell you it's not a time problem
• How to start breaking the "everything feels urgent" loop

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Ever scroll through Instagram or walk into school drop-off and feel like everyone else is doing life better than you? Like they've cracked the code on parenting, career, home, and somehow… hair?
In this episode, we're talking about what's actually going on when you feel that way, why your brain lumps everyone's "bests" into one impossible standard, and how to tell the difference between what genuinely inspires you and what just drains you. You'll walk away with a new lens for what to keep, what to release, and how to give yourself credit for what you're already doing well.

Episode Highlights:

• Why feeling "behind" is more about perception than reality
• The real reason your brain creates that "perfect" mom in your head
• How to tell if jealousy means want or should
• A quick practice to turn comparison into clarity
• The reminder every mom needs: you're already doing something someone else admires

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