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Raising Businesses & Babies Like A Boss" Featuring Dana Malstaff of Boss Mom Oct 02, 2019

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Are you dreaming about creating an online business with real income? Today we're discussing building a business based on community. We brought on the Boss Mom, Dana Malstaff to share how to cultivate an online community and in turn generate profits for yourself and your family. We discuss how not getting the job she wanted led her to start a business. She shares her goals for the community and how she wants to use it to impact other women, why you can absolutely "have it all" and how lack of communication can have an effect on your relationships. She also dives into tackling challenges and recognizing that you don't have to play all of the roles and being comfortable with letting other people handle tasks and responsibilities.

What's In This Episode:

What it felt like releasing her third book
Feeling that people didn't know how to love her in the way she needed to be loved
How not getting the job she wanted to shift her mindset and led her to become a consultant
Feeling isolated and unsure of what to do which led to the birth of Boss Mom
Dana's goals for how the company will help other women
Her advice on how to tackle changes and move forward
Why you can "have it all" and knowing what your "all" is
How community can help you in life and business
Understanding that you don't need to play all of the roles
Learning how to make people feel protected and valued
Being okay with acknowledging that you need "me time"
How fights stem from a lack of communication
Pretending to be someone else to keep others happy
Building your brand around your product or offering
Going through her divorce and being transparent about it with her community without oversharing
Dana's advice for entrepreneurs working on building their business

Bonus Episode! Building Your Mompire & Pushing Against Social Norms with Podcaster Ashley Meyer of The Mompire Podcast Sep 27, 2019

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Do you often feel overwhelmed with the expectations that come along with motherhood? Today we're excited to bring you another bonus episode with a fellow podcaster, Ashley Meyer. Ashley is the founder of MOMpire, an online community and podcast dedicated to helping women navigate their day to day in motherhood. We discuss the social expectations placed on women and how we can become more aware of these to change them. Ashley shares her experience with adrenal fatigue, why she started MOMpire and taking the pressure off of yourself to constantly produce.

What's In This Episode:

How Ashley's life and career has transitioned due to motherhood
What made Ashley start MOMpire
Why you need to set up expectations in business and motherhood
Taking the pressure off of yourself to constantly perform
Deciding to stop taking clients and slowing down at the law firm
Shifting roles and responsibilities in her business and home
Ashley's advice for figuring out the best steps to take toward the roles you want
Bringing clarity to what is out of alignment in your life
Making the time when you need clarity
Getting stuck in the "woe is me" stage
Not letting your fear get in the way of what you want to happen
The importance of having a community to support you
What MOMpire does for moms and their families

The Science & Nature of Breastfeeding & Baby Wearing Featuring Emily Little, Founder of Nurturely Sep 25, 2019

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This episode is for you if you've ever cried over spilled milk - spilled breast milk that is. Today we brought on Emily Little, a maternal-infant health researcher, educator and non-profit leader. We discuss breastfeeding and postnatal touch and how this benefits both the child and mother. She shares how breastmilk changes to fit the baby's needs and stages, the differences between daytime milk and nighttime milk and how breastfeeding can affect a mom's mental health.

What's In This Episode:

Starting her non-profit, Nurturely
The science behind breastfeeding and postnatal touch
How breastmilk changes to fit the baby's needs
The difference between daytime milk and nighttime milk
The profound implications of breastfeeding on maternal health
What postnatal touch is and how it benefits parents and babies
How breastfeeding affects a mom's mental health
Lara's experience of breastfeeding her children
What a supportive breastfeeding experience looks like
Preparing for the postpartum period
How to know when your child is ready to get off breastfeeding
Cultural differences between the U.S. and other countries with regard to breastfeeding
Changing the conversation around breastfeeding in the U.S.

There's An Oil For That! A Mom's Guide To Essential Oils Featuring Kelowna Giuliano of Drop Into Wellness Sep 18, 2019

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Have you ever heard the phrase, "there's an oil for that"? On this episode, we've enlisted Kelowna Giuliano, a holistic health practitioner and owner of Drop into Wellness who has over two decades of experience on healing from within. She breaks down all of the benefits and uses for essential oils including how to use it to support sleep, digestion, immunity, libido and even to clean your home. We chat about living a toxic-free lifestyle, how to use essential oils to benefit your health and wellness and precautions to take when using essential oils. If you want to ditch the chemicals from your life, then this is the episode for you.

What's In This Episode:

Wanting to raise her family holistically and help clients with healing
How Kelowna's life and career has transitioned from motherhood
Incorporating essential oils into her classes and educating moms on how to use them
Ditching the toxic chemicals and upgrading to products that come from plants
The three ways you can use essential oils
How Kelowna uses essential oils in conjunction with carrier oils
Using foot mapping when applying essential oils
Knowing the difference between higher quality oils and synthetic oils
Oils that Kelowna uses daily
Precautions to take when using essential oils
How to use the oils on a wound, to support sleep, for babies, etc.
What oils to use for healthy digestion and immunity
Using oils for hormones and to support your libido
Addressing what's going on physically and mentally
Using essential oils for cleaning
How to get started using essential oils

Parenting & Partnering To Your Skill Set With The Use of The Ultimate Life Tool Featuring Lara Schulte of Generation.Mom Sep 11, 2019

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If you're looking for an operation manual on motherhood, then today's episode is for you. On this episode, Jenn talks to Lara about a tool that has changed her life, The Ultimate Life Tool. This tool is something that she uses in her coaching business for leaders, teams and professionals in identifying how to best play to their strengths in the workplace. Now, Lara is using this tool to help mothers identify the parent they want to be and how to pair it to their skillset. She explains how this tool can help you identify your natural talents, strengths, weaknesses, tolerance levels, communication styles and more. This episode will help you to better understand who you are and help you in becoming the mother and partner you dream of being.

What's In This Episode:

What the Ultimate Life Tool or ULT is and how Lara's uses it for her career and motherhood
Why Lara knew it was time to move on from her corporate role
Manifesting being able to work remotely and pursue what she loved
Starting a side hustle as a coach
Becoming a mother and how this has shifted her perspective on coaching clients
Rebranding her business to focus on helping other moms
Natural talents vs. learned talents
Using your driver and codriver to motivate you
Understanding your tolerance levels and boundaries
Taking time to fuel yourself
Figuring out your communication style
Using the ULT as your life's operation manual
Understanding your strengths and what you excel in
Why we need people with neutral perspectives, people with positive perspectives and people with negative perspectives
How things can change due to circumstance
Taking the pressure off of ourselves

Connect with Lara:

Website | Instagram

Quotes:

"I saw that the people that I worked with had incredible talents yet they were being overlooked. I didn't want to manage people that way." - Lara Schulte

"Motherhood was completely not how I suspected it would be. It didn't allow for a lot of time and I didn't have the time to dedicate to my coaching business the way that I had anticipated." - Lara Schulte

"I think a lot of young moms are just in the thick of it and don't realize that one of the hardest pieces of motherhood at this stage is really identifying with who you are now as a mom, and not who you were before." - Lara Schulte

"You're not gonna expect a lion to elegantly prance around like a deer. You're gonna expect it to use its roar and be aggressive so it can get its prey." - Lara

"I have to be really aware of how my alchemy flows with his and vice versa." - Lara

"These 4 types of communication styles are basically like tires on your car, you want them as balanced as possible." - Lara

"I see this being really helpful for people who manage other people." - Jenn Rout

"They can really use it as a guide to how they need to take care of themselves and work with their husbands or partners and where they should put themselves first and where they should be spending time when they do feel depleted of energy in order to get re-energized." - Lara

"My favorite thing about this tool is it really teaches you how to parent really to what you are." - Lara

"Ultimately, if we're not taking care of ourselves as mothers and we don't have a true understanding of ourselves as mothers, we'll have no energy or fuel to get us through those long days of childbearing." - Lara

Links:

The Ultimate Life Tool Get 50% off by using code: GMOM

Generation.Mom is a community where you can share without judgment or critique, and we'd love for you to share your thoughts and find a friend to hold you accountable! Find us at: Website | Facebook | Instagram

Bonus! August Monthly Round Up With Lara Schulte & Carly Kenihan Sep 09, 2019

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We've got some exciting news this month. There's a new member of the Generation.Mom family. That's right, Jenn's baby boy, Gavin was born this August. Jenn will be out for maternity leave so for this month's bonus episode, I brought on a past guest, Carly Kenihan to help me with the monthly roundup. This August we had the opportunity to sit down and chat with some great mamas to hear their thoughts on motherhood. Guests included Susie Allison, Andrea Madril, Dr. Lauren Noel, Amy Dunkel and Katie Saffert. We'll go through our rapid-fire questions, along with a rapid-fire question from Carly. We'll also discuss August's episodes and what we enjoyed hearing about from each guest. What's In This Episode:

Carly joining in as a guest host while Jenn is on maternity leave
Moving to San Diego and what Carly has been up to
Rebranding her business
Carly and Lara's motherhood confession
Products that are saving their lives right now as mothers
Their current mom crushes
The mom hacks they're using
Struggling with teaching kids to share
Figuring out how to set boundaries and the pressure of when to have another baby
Taking time to have fun as a mom and having other people open up to her about their own difficulties
Their current mom juice
Encouraging kids through play-based learning with Susie Allison
The differences with play-based learning and direct-instruction
Preparing yourself for postpartum with Andrea Madril
Why we need to shift the conversation after childbirth from baby to mother
Understanding how hormones work in our health and fertility with Dr. Lauren Noel
Why everyone should get their hormones tested regularly
Creating community in motherhood with Katie Saffert
Why it's essential to disconnect from life and work as a busy entrepreneur
Sharing more voices of inspiring mothers with Amy Dunkel
Why she started a creative business and podcast alongside motherhood

Shifting Your Mornings From Cranky To Creative, With A Breakfast Invitation Featuring, Beth Rosenbleeth of Days With Grey Sep 04, 2019

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Are you looking for activity ideas for your children but feeling like you just aren't that creative? That's where today's guest and her business comes in. Beth is the founder and creator of Days with Grey where she developed creative, fun activities called Breakfast Invitations that help your child get engaged and learning during play. She explains what the Breakfast Invitations are, how they can be modified as your children grow and how you can differ the activity for children of different ages depending on their skill set. She shared how children can use these activities to explore concepts rather than worrying about mastering and perfecting them.

What's In This Episode:

Making playtime more functional and educational
How Beth's career has transitioned due to motherhood
Becoming a teacher and figuring out how to become an educator
Being a stay-at-home mom and figuring out how to prepare her children for school
Learning to do marketing and social media through friends
How to use the Breakfast Invitations activities with your children
Using prompts to help kids get started
Making changes to the activities that fit the age and stage of the child
How projects help with sibling relationships and interactions
The benefits she's seen from using Breakfast Invitations
Key supplies that you need to start
Implementing outdoor activities
Giving yourself grace as a parent

Creating Community Due to Loneliness In Motherhood Featuring Katie Saffert, Founder of Hatched Collective Aug 28, 2019

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Are you looking for your mom tribe? Today we're talking about community and how this is an integral part of motherhood, business and all aspects of life. We brought on professional community builder, Katie Saffert to help us dive into this topic. We chat about Katie's experience with entrepreneurship and the pivots she's made over the last decade. She shares why building community in your life is important and how to tap into that community for support when you need it. She also discusses how community has impacted her, the importance of learning to say no and why you need to show up for what you want.

What's In This Episode:

Disconnecting from life and work when you're a busy entrepreneur
Why she doesn't work nights or weekends
How motherhood through her for a loop
The struggles she faced as a stay at home mom
How she ended up launching the Hatched Collective
How community has impacted Katie
Why community is needed in motherhood
Learning to say no
Making community outside of the Hatched Collective
The importance of showing up for what you want
How serving people will make you feel better
Going inward before being able to give
Her hope for people to go and build their own tribe
What the Build Your Brand Conference is
Using Instagram as a tool for business
Connecting with other people on Instagram

Bonus Episode! Just Do The Thing! Featuring Podcaster, Amy Dunkel of Moms Who Rule The World Aug 23, 2019

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Today we have a special bonus episode highlighting a mama in the podcasting space that we absolutely adore. We're talking to Amy Dunkel, the host of Moms Who Rule the World, a podcast for all things motherhood designed specifically for moms who are in between ruling the world and losing their mind. In this episode, you'll hear about Amy's experience of continually reinventing herself as a woman and mother and how she prioritizes creativity to fuel her motherhood. She shares the importance of taking baby steps to make tasks more approachable and to help reach your goals. She also shares why she started her podcast, what her life looks as a mama and a podcaster, and the changes that have come along with all of life's transitions.

What's In This Episode:

The emotions that come when children have birthdays
How her career has transitioned due to motherhood
Getting married and deciding she wanted to start a creative business
Struggling with postpartum depression
The hardest part of starting her own podcast
How motherhood affects your self-identity
Navigating through changes in her life with motherhood
Managing her relationship with her spouse through all of life's transitions
How your capability of love expands with children
What her day-to-day life looks like
What Moms Who Rule the World is about
What Amy is excited about this year

Why Hormones are so Important, Featuring Dr. Lauren Noel of The Dr. Lo Radio Show & Shine Natural Medicine Aug 21, 2019

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What exactly is a hormone and what role does it play in our health? Today we're joined by Dr. Lauren Noel, a naturopathic doctor, and expert in natural medicine. Lauren, also known as "Dr. Lo", is the host for the podcast, The Dr. Lo Radio Show and owns Shine Natural Medicine where she focuses on hormonal health and fertility. She shares how her own personal health journey led her to her work as a naturopathic doctor, everything you need to know about hormones and your health, and how the brain and gut are connected. This episode will leave you feeling inspired to make small changes to your lifestyle that will benefit your health in a big way.

What's In This Episode: