Welcome to the Toni-Ann Mayembe Guestcast. I have done quite a few guest interviews on other podcasts. Now I am bringing them all here to this guestcast.

Episode from Starengu with Tosha Johnson. This is my first podcast recording. Recording this podcast gave me the inspiration to start my own podcast ... Real Happy Mom.

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In today’s podcast, I’m talking to Dr. Toni-Ann Mayembe. She is a dentist, wife, and mom to two little boys. Toni is on a mission to provide advice to help improve and maintain their children’s dental health. 

The episode on the Rising Mom Podcast with Renae Fieck

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Part of our goal as working moms is to have a wonderful work-life balance. Many of us have tried a lot of time and self-management tricks and some of us are lucky to be consistent with a system that works. If you’re like the latter, take a listen, as you might learn a few more tricks for your routine. And if you’re not one of those lucky few, don’t give up! These hacks might finally be what you needed.

Whether you’re working from your passion or out of necessity, we all have the common dilemma of juggling work with personal life. Work is important to us, but we don’t want it to reach the point of breaking our backs! When the line between those two become blurry, we often lose ourselves and everything seems so overwhelming. (See reasons why we hold onto busy.)

Don’t miss out on this episode as Toni-Ann, host of The Real Happy Mom podcast, and I share some great hacks on how you can achieve that work-life balance as a mom!

Episode from A Purpose Driven Mom Podcast with Cara Harvey
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Join today’s episode, a conversation with Toni-Ann Mayembe from Real Happy Mom. Toni-Ann is a dentist in Jacksonville, Florida in and in the Navy Reserves. She also has a blog and podcast, Real Happy Mom, where she shares encouragement and practical tips for motherhood. Toni-Ann understands the challenge of trying to balance work, home, marriage and kids. She is passionate about helping other moms eliminate the overwhelm and enjoy this journey called motherhood.

The episode on Taking Back You Momcast with Dani Carter Iddins

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In this episode you will learn:

• Why creating a work-at-home routine is important for your mental and physical well-being.
• The important steps that you should take to create a "workspace" or "office" in your home
• How to share household responsibilities with your spouse/partner while you both work from home.
• The main actions that should be included in every work-at-home routine.

Check out this conversation with Mandi and Naomi on the Beyond Picket Fences Podcast.

Check out this episode of Adventures in Feeding My Family with Andrea Heyman.

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Today I’ve got my friend Toni-Ann from the Real Happy Mom podcast. She talks about how she manages meal planning and prep in her super busy household. She tells us how she includes a variety of meals from her Jamacian background, American foods and her husband’s native African cuisine. It’s a pretty cool balance and fusion she has going on in her house. Plus she has streamlined a lot of the grocery shopping and meal prep processes to work really well in her household.

Check out this episode with Lori Beth on the Elevating Motherhood Podcast

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“Our children want to see us happy.”

Since recording this episode, I’ve started to implement the tips Toni-Ann is going to share with us today and I have to tell you, it’s made a positive impact in my house and in my head. Modern moms suffer from decision fatigue—big time—(especially right now).

If you’re a working mom, stay at home mom, work from home mom, or you identify with some crazy mash up of all three. This episode is for you. Toni-Ann shares ideas for us about the benefits of preparation and planning, how to deal with overwhelm, and even answers the million dollar mom question “how do you do it all?”

Toni-Ann’s Bio: Toni-Ann is a full-time dentist, a reservist in the Navy, and the blogger and podcaster at Real Happy Mom. She is a wife and a boy mom that understands the struggle of juggling work and home. When she is not working, she enjoys watching WWE and watching stand-up comedy.

This episode is packed with practical how-to strategies and ideas for how we can bust through myths about what it’s like to be a modern, working mom trying to juggle it all.

In this episode, we talk about:

· Distance learning & virtual school

· Being flexible and making way for change

· Asking for help…and receiving help

· Preparation & planning ideas for moms

·  Toni-Ann’s top 5 tips:

· 1. Get your clothes ready for the week

· 2. Get your purse/bag ready

· 3. Meal Plan

· 4. Plan out your week—include time for you

· 5. Restart your devices

· Decision fatigue and what we can do about it

· What we do for “me time” each week

· Listening to our body

· Getting rest when we need it

· Meeting our basic needs

· Overwhelm & how we deal with it

· Leaning into reminders

· Scheduling

· Toni’Ann’s planner of choice: Stil Planner

· Toni-Ann’s online organization of choice: Trello

· Working mom myths we need to bust through

· How working moms and dads are treated differently

· Dropping the vs. in mom conversations

· Aligning our actions and values…and giving other moms space to do that, too

· Taking time to figure out what you REALLY want in life

· The importance of self-reflection

· Inspiration over comparison