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Establish Your Time

Prioritize, plan, and organize your own time so you’re not stuck in survival mode. Get your schedule, goals, and personal systems in place so you feel in control—not constantly behind.

#50: Goal Setting 101 – Your Key to Success for 2024

In this special 50th episode, I discuss an effective approach to goal setting for the new year, 2024. This episode is inspired by a social media post focusing on setting specific, achievable goals based around a single, manageable action or habit. I also share my personal goals and the practical steps I plan to take to achieve them. The strategies shared are meant to be easy, actionable, and simple to maintain throughout the year.

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#49: Sparking Joy – Unconventional Holiday Ideas

In this episode, I talk about enjoying the holiday season in a unique and fun way, focusing on activities we don’t usually do. I share a list of five fun activities that don’t always involve the kids.

The episode also touches on finding balance in busy schedules and remembering to appreciate the small joys amidst the chaos of the holiday season.

Hope you get some inspiration into creating your own unique activities. Or grab 1 or 2 ideas from this list to start the holidays on the right track.

Enjoy!

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#48: Coping-through-Chaos

Today, we’re delving into the challenges that resonate with every parent in the trenches – the holiday hustle, strikes, and the constant threat of illness.

🌟 Exploring Current Challenges with Compassion

Beyond the decorations and festivities, we’re acknowledging the stress many of us are grappling with. From navigating the complexities of holidays to the weight of dealing with strikes and sickness, it’s a tumultuous time for us all.

🤒 Navigating Health Struggles with Shared Stories

In this episode, we share a personal journey of recent illness and the ongoing struggle to recover. Through these narratives, we aim to foster a sense of understanding and solidarity as we collectively face the daunting challenges of illnesses, flu, and the looming presence of COVID.

⚠️ Strikes, Work, and the Overwhelming Reality

As strikes disrupt the familiar routines, parents working from home find themselves in an even more challenging balancing act. The chaos at home and the interruptions at work are all too familiar. We’re here to acknowledge the difficulties and provide a virtual shoulder to lean on.

🛠️ Empathetic Coping Strategies for Parental Survival

In the face of chaos, we share three practical coping strategies – creating personal space, tapping into creativity, and reconnecting with your support system. Our aim is to provide a supportive environment and practical tips for alleviating stress and overwhelm.

🔊 Tune in for a Compassionate Discussion

Whether you’re nodding along or seeking a moment of solace, join us at “Parenting Unplugged” for an empathetic discussion. We’re not just a podcast; we’re a community sharing the weight of these challenges, acknowledging the struggles, and offering a compassionate space for parents to connect.

👂 Because Parenthood is a Collective Journey, and Your Struggle is Validated Here.

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#43: Adjusting To The Back to School Overwhelm

In this episode I talk about this crazy period in the parenthood journey and that’s Back To School.

Back to school isn’t just a one day event. This is actually the starting off point of when things start to change dramatically for everyone, not just the kids. As our schedules fill up, things need to be taken care of on top of all the things LIFE is throwing at us, it’s easy to get lost, confused and overwhelmed.

This is a huge adjustment period most of us go through at least once a year. Unfortunately, some go through it alone. Listen to this much-needed-to-be-talked-about podcast episode to help you cope with the overwhelm. I give you ONE simple strategy as well as guide you to do this 1 thing, so you don’t feel like you’re at this alone.

Hope you find this episode helpful – Enjoy!

XO – Dianne

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To show the end result of overcoming the overwhelm and frustrations when maintaining our home

#38: Reduce Overwhelm and Frustrations When Maintaining Your Home

Managing your household tasks can be a lot on your mental health and well-being – especialyl if it falls on 1 person most of the time.  As busy parents, we tend to truck through the every day grind on top of all our other obligations such as work, taking care of the kids and trying to squeeze in time for our own projects and passions.  But WHAT IF, we had a system that could alleviate, even a little, the amount of overwhelm and frustrations we have when it comes to maintaining our home?

In this episode I take you step by step through a process that I’ve done myself for tasks that overwhelm me the most.  If you have tasks that you wish would just disappear, then have listen to this episode now and get ready to take action.

Enjoy friend!

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#30: Work-life balance for moms

Work-Life Balance for Moms
In this episode you’ll learn the reasons why it’s so tough to balance out all the things related to motherhood, work, homelife and our own personal goals. First off, I’ll give you a glimpse of HOW to balance things out using the insight from an article I recently published. Then I’ll also talk about my secret strategy when trying to prioritize the ever-growing to-do list and gain some perspective on what’s eating most of your time. Finally, you’ll get access to a free resource I created to help you get super clear on what to do next.

Basically, I guess it’s fair to say this episode’s going to be like a free mini training for how to deal with the very challenging work-life balance. So you’ll want to grab a pen and a paper, my friend, to take notes. Or, you can save this episode, listen to the replay and get to work.
Work-life (im)balance
We all know as a mom we play many roles: chef, driver, counselor, referee, judge and jury, therapist, friend, builder and finder of toys, artist, teacher, etc. It’s constantly changing from one moment to the next, and often without notice.

Ironically, we have all the answers to problems, struggles and challenges. But at the same time, have no clue what to do, or what we’re even doing for that matter. Motherhood is a constant push-pull on our emotions, energy, patience… and it’s all worth it. Because this whole adventure is for the most beautiful and wonderful creatures on earth, our children!

For these reasons alone, there’s no doubt the toll on our mental load is quite heavy. Oftentimes, we get the short end of the stick. But we keep going and push through it all. In essence, it all comes from love. Now, if you ask any mom out there, anything short of a 100% effort on our part results in guilt and/or worry. This vicious cycle of selflessness, joy, love, guilt and worry is far from healthy and putting it out there like this, just raises the question, why? Undeniably, mothers would walk to the ends of the earth for those we love most.

With the joys of motherhood, come the challenges of having to balance everything out: all the things involving the kids, the house, our relationships with others, our passion projects, trying to fit in our own personal needs and then there’s our regular job!

How do moms get a better work-life balance?

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