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This is the last episode before the new year and in this episode I wanted to give you a more in depth look into how we try to balance family and work in our home. It’s not perfect, but we sure try our best to do what works for us. I thought I would include what our general routine has looked like this year and how we try to divide the family and work time. You can see it below.

Also stick around at the end where I give 5 pieces of advice to help with the balance and sustainability of work and family. 

Looking to outsource in the new year?? If you need someone to take on some tasks you don’t have time for or need an expert, we’ve got you covered! Go to allobee.com. 

See you back on the podcast in the new year!

Our Family Routine in 2020-

Wake up at 5am (my 3 year old and I are early risers) 

• I get him settled with a show or book 
• Make a cup of coffee with my Nespresso
• then knock out an hour of work - whatever is most pressing or needs my full attention

Around 6ish my daughter wakes up and I get her and my son breakfast and head up to shower.

• Then make lunches
• Kids clothes laid out

During this time my husband meditates.  Then we switch and he gets kids dressed & I meditate.

7:55 - out the door for school drop off

8:15 - drop off

8:30 - either a 30 min walk with hubby or back for prepping for a meeting

9:30 - 2:00 - Work

2-2:30 - Workout or if I cannot swing it then I do it around 4:30.

2:40 - off to grab kids

3:00 - kid pick up

3:15 - 5:00 - a mixture of kids time, responding to emails, and possibly a quick team touch base.

5:00-7:00 - dinner + family time

7-7:30 - bath and bedtime for kids

7:30-8:30 - wrap up anything outstanding/set plan for next day. 

8:30 - computer off, phone off

8:30 - 9:30 - reading

9:30 - bed

Have you taken the enneagram? Whether you have or not, you will find this episode super intriguing as to why the enneagram is something that is helping people get to the core of who they are and why they do the things that they do. In this interview with Nicole Seawall, we talk about what the enneagram has done for us and how understanding others' enneagram scores helps us better understand one another. We even talk about how knowing certain things about our personalities reflects in our parenting. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope that you enjoy learning more about the enneagram and what it can do for you!

Nicole is a Life Strategist who helps moms see the extraordinary in the everyday and release the need to be perfect, please everyone else and prove themselves and believes we are all worthy of a beautiful, purpose-filled lives. In 2012, she co-founded a social enterprise called Women in the Mix dedicated to the idea that women could have meaningful work and meaningful family life, while acknowledging that we are not human scales.  She values education and has a BS cum laude from Cornell University and JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

She is a  wellness and productivity coach, mom, wife, crazy golden retriever lady, avid traveler, outdoors enthusiast, lawyer, entrepreneur and savvy consumer. She is a juggler and a doer, and she strives every day to live her own version of the sweet life. 

More Info About Nicole:

https://www.sailorssweetlife.com/work-with-me

https://www.instagram.com/sailorssweetlife/

Do you ever just get super overwhelmed by being an entrepreneur or do you wonder what it would be like to start a side gig while being a mom? In this episode with Pamela Pekerman, we break down all the real things about being a mom business owner. We talk a lot about how we have to change and pivot in the different seasons of our lives. We have to know our boundaries when it comes to the scope of our business and balancing that with our family’s needs. Pamela also talks a lot about community and how it’s your brand, not your business, that creates community! Community is at the core of her business Hustle Like a Mom and she talks a lot about her passion around why she wants to support moms and their businesses.

Pamela Pekerman is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Hustle Like a Mom, a  multi-media platform and events brand focusing on empowering and educating moms to build a successful bridge from mom life to entrepreneur life. Hustle Like a Mom, which began as an interview series in 2017 with amazing women that were doing, creating and redefining what it means to be a working mom, has evolved into a blossoming business that empowers current and aspiring mompreneurs with the business education and networking skills needed to thrive. 

Over the years, Pamela has lent her friendly, girl-next-door voice, to HSN and QVC, helping sell millions of dollars’ worth of women’s merchandise. She has shared her tips and tricks in Life & Style, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Affluent Magazine, to name a few. And, Pamela has collaborated with HYATT Union Square NY Hotel as a style curator for a borrow-for-the-night accessory exhibits for hotel guests. The Accessories Butler at HYATT won a major marketing award and garnered huge press. Pamela currently resides in New York, with her husband, two adorable munchkins who know way too much about branding and staging a good TV segment. 

Learn More About Pamela:

Share to Sell-Build a Community that Buys Freebie:  https://www.hustlelikeamom.com/optin-share-to-sell

Website: https://pamelapekerman.com/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/hustlelikeamom/

https://www.instagram.com/pamelapekerman/

I love planning.  I was always the kid with lots of notebooks (still am) and I always had lists upon lists.  I had/have big dreams and am a visionary.  I am the one with a million ideas and love helping others with their ideas and bringing them to life. I used to take the last 2 weeks of the year to plan for the following year, but I realized that then I felt rushed for the new year.  I have learned I need space and support throughout, so I start planning for the new year in November now.  I take a 4 part process and I am going to share that with you today, as well as invite you to join me live for this series or what you can drop in for. This process can be used whether you are a business owner or not, you can focus on the business elements or leave them be.  The following is a high level look at my planning process, if you want to dive deeper into this make sure you are on our list so you get an invite.

Join us for a 4 part series (that you do not have to attend all sessions), on end of year planning for your life and business.  We had lots of requests for this and wanted to make it available.  Click the link to register and for updates and notifications: http://allobee.com/events

Books:

Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte

The Vision Driven Leader by  Michael Hyatt https://visiondrivenleader.com/

https://assessments.michaelhyatt.com/vision/

Born and raised by entrepreneurs, fab’rik Founder Dana Spinola has been taught from a young age that if you love what you do you will never work another day in your life. This mantra inspired her to leave Corporate America and open her first boutique in 2002. Since then, she has carried out her mission of High Style With Heart nationwide with over 40 locations and growing. As Chief Visionary Officer, Dana’s vision for her company is to make women feel beautiful inside and out, one piece of fabric at a time.

Forbes called her “one of the five great American Entrepreneurs you haven’t heard of yet but should know” because of her dedication to not only building a growing fashion brand but for inspiring a culture of people to weave purpose into their companies and their life. Dana has taken this message not only onto the pages of her book, love what you do, but to stages across the country. She has been voted Business Person of the Year, Women Making a Mark, and has appeared in dozens of publications from Wall Street Journal to Elle.

While Dana sits at the head of a leading fashion franchise as well as a non-profit organization, her most rewarding job is being a wife and mom to her four children, two dogs and 20 chickens! She has three wild and adventurous boys, and a strong, fearless daughter, Asher, who they adopted from Ethiopia. When she is not busy speaking or running her company, she loves dance parties with her kids and sushi date nights with her husband. She learned the love of God on a trip to Haiti after the devastating earthquake and has been on a mission to share His love ever since. Her mission is to remind those people with broken dreams to dream big again… and has built her life around that.

More Info About Dana:

Website-https://danaspinola.com/

Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/danaspinola/ 

https://www.instagram.com/fabrikstyle/

Our world has changed this year in many ways, but especially in the workplace and how many jobs have had their employees work remotely. Ironically, Abbi Peret was ahead of the game with her freelance copywriting business. In this interview, we chat about how she got her business started, how she is helping other moms become freelancers, and how much she enjoys what she does!

Abbi is an award-winning copywriter with over 20 years of experience working with some of the biggest brands in the world. She’s also the go-to coach for moms who want to break into freelance writing and work from home on their own terms. As a mom of five kids — including one with significant special needs — Abbi knows the unique challenges moms face when building businesses, and her trainings are fun, actionable, relatable — and grounded in reality. Abbi has helped hundreds of moms to become freelance writers – earning income while raising their kids. 

More about Abbi:

Website-successfulfreelancemom.com

Instagram-@abbiperets

FREE mini course on how to be a freelance writer: https://successfulfreelancemom.com/how-to-be-a-freelance-writer/

In this episode, I got to chat with Liuba Grechen Shirley, who is an amazing mama who ran for Congress while she had a 3 year old and a 1 year old!

Liuba has spent her career leading organizations to empower working families both at home and abroad. She has worked for the UN Foundation and was selected as a Global Champion for Women’s Economic Empowerment by UN Women.  Together with UN Women, she launched the #IAmParent campaign for Parental Leave.

Liuba has forged partnerships between government, businesses, and nonprofits to tackle issues including economic development, access to health care, and paid family leave. She has worked with diplomats, healthcare workers and government leaders across four continents, and fought to make the use of international aid funds more accountable and less corrupt.

In 2018, Liuba ran a historic congressional campaign to represent New York’s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She received the highest vote share of any Democrat to run against Peter King in 25 years. Liuba raised over $2 million with no corporate PAC money and built a grassroots movement of volunteers that knocked over 250,000 doors.

She became the first woman to receive federal approval to use campaign funds for childcare. The decision, which gained support from Hillary Clinton and 25 members of Congress, was unanimously approved by the FEC. Following her historic win, nine federal candidates used her FEC ruling to spend campaign funds for childcare— and candidates across the country followed her lead and petitioned their state and local governments for the same right.

Liuba holds an MBA with specializations in Management and Economics from New York’s University’s Stern School of Business, and a BA in Politics and Russian from NYU. She lives on Long Island with her husband Christopher and children, Mila and Nicholas.

• Want women to run for Congress? We need someone to watch our kids first. - The Washington Post, 04/09/2018
• We Need More Women In Congress - The Huffington Post, 11/28/2017

Links:

https://www.votemama.org

https://twitter.com/liuba4congress?s=20 

https://twitter.com/VoteMamaUS

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/207526/liuba-grechen-shirley-new-york-congress-2nd-district

In this episode, I get to chat with Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company, Stephanie Mehta. Stephanie shares her journey as being a business woman and balancing being a mom. She also talks about her magazine and some of the topics they’ve covered. She also talks about how their company is trying to be creative with the new online space and how their yearly summit is still happening!

Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital and live journalism. She previously served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, where she edited feature stories and co-edited the annual “New Establishment” ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017; the women’s conference was profitable in its first year. In 2016 she was editor of Bloomberg LIVE, Bloomberg Media’s global conference division. In that role she also served as part of the company’s editorial steering committee, consisting of Bloomberg’s top 12 editors. She spent 14 years as a writer and editor at Fortune, rising to the no. 2 position on the title’s masthead. At Fortune she directed the magazine’s technology, management, Washington and international coverage and helped set its overall editorial direction. She spent six years as an editor and writer at the Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.

Links:

Learn more about Stephanie and Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com

Learn more about Allobee-

Need to outsource tasks in your business? More info at: www.allobee.com

Instagram-www.instagram.com/hireallobee

Twitter-www.twitter.com/hireallobee

Welcome back to the podcast! You may notice that our podcast has had a HUGE facelift! The podcast is now Allobee Radio and our website and business have also changed to Allobee. At the beginning of the episode, I explain why we made the change and how we got the Allobee name.

Our business has grown so much during the pandemic and I wanted to give you some advice on how to grow a company, even during this unexpected time. Believing in your mission and your company is the key during this pandemic! Just like Dory said in Finding Nemo, you have to keep swimming.  One reason Allobee’s business grew during a pandemic was because I loved my business fiercely and I kept showing up every day. 

Don’t let yourself fully stop and if you need help in your business, consider outsourcing! That’s what Allobee is all about! We are here to support your business and help you succeed.

I’m so happy to be back on the podcast! We have some great guests coming on this season. Thanks for listening and please let us know how we can support you! A link to our new website is below!

Website-www.allobee.com

Instagram-www.instagram.com/hireallobee

Twitter-www.twitter.com/hireallobee

Buzz with Brooke Oct. 5th Episode - LINK HERE 

Book recommendation: Get to Aha!: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition

For the first time on MOMemtum Radio, we are doing a dual interview with a fellow podcaster and the podcast manager for MOMentum Radio, Haili Murch! Haili and I talk about time management and balance in our homes and what that looks like right now during COVID-19. We are very legit with you about all the things we are going through, what is and is not working, and some words of hope to help you get through the thick of this unique time right now!

Haili Murch is the podcast host of This is Legit Motherhood, a podcast all about the real and raw things about motherhood and a place for moms to not feel alone in their motherhood journey. Along with her podcast, she started The Legit Motherhood Group which is a place for moms to interact and support one another in their motherhood journey. She also is a podcast manager for a couple of other podcasts run by other mompreneurs. She is married and a mom to 2 boys. She loves to travel, play the piano, and try new foods!

You can check out more about Haili below:

Check out her podcast, This is Legit Motherhood Podcast. 

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Website: hailimurch.com

Instagram: @hailimurch

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