Mompreneur Tribe

Trying to decide the balance between motherhood and mompreneur can be a hard thing to juggle.  Felicity Fox sits down with Ashley on Mompreneur Tribe Podcast to discuss how to she is chasing big dreams as an author.  Felicity talks about how she does not take no as an answer and how that has landed her with a published book that can be found in major retailers. 

How to support Felicity in 2020?

For sure follow this Mompreneur on social media, but also go get her books at local retailers because we know after this episode you will want to read it to your kiddos.  Everything you need to follow this goal getter can be found in the link below.

https://thefelicityfoxhouse.com/

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

Share your new years goals with us on our Mompreneur Tribe facebook group.  We want to cheer you on to make this the best year yet.

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe .
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

Gratitude is more than just saying Thank you, it is a mindset. When you put into place a lifestyle of gratitude it can fundamentally change your life. 

Lolo from Grateful Gratitude comes to talk about how she felt the calling to put together an organization for the sole purpose of spreading the warmth of gratitude from God. 

Lolo shares some of her story, the power of how practicing gratitude in ones life and how to put in place a daily practice of gratitude.

Want to connect with Grateful Gratitude?

Spam your social feed with quotes about gratitude that make you want to pay it forward.  You do this by following Grateful Gratitude here:

https://www.facebook.com/gratefulgratitude/

https://www.instagram.com/gratefulgratitude/

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

Share your new years goals with us on our Mompreneur Tribe facebook group.  We want to cheer you on to make this the best year yet.

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe .
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

There is this phrase that constantly plays over and over in my head.  Use your voice, power and influence for those that do not have that or are struggling to find theirs.

Shiloh Place is an organization that I hold dearly in my heart, because of the power I have seen they have had to change the trajectory of a families lives for generations to come.

Having living in the North Texas area for most of my life, it can be so easy to get caught up in the affluent community.  But there is a population that is being underserved and very much apart of our community, and that is the homeless population.

Shiloh Place is a ministry to single moms and their children that offers housing, childcare and tuition assistance for up to 2 years.  Their purpose is to come along ide the homeless, single mother, deeply invest in each individual over the course of their time with Shiloh Place.  Then celebrate them as they move back into self-sufficient living. 

Ashleigh Fanning the Development Coordinator at Shiloh Place talks about the mission of Shiloh Place, the work they are doing and have done.  PLUS ways to get involved!

How to connect with Shiloh Place?

Was it put on your heart to serve or give to Shiloh Place. Or if you would just like to find out more information about the work they are doing you can so here

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

Share your new years goals with us on our Mompreneur Tribe facebook group.  We want to cheer you on to make this the best year yet.

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe .
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

Few times do you get to see a business go from a dream to thriving unless it is your own business.  But I have watched and cheered for my good friends with The Blank Slate Designs as they have grown their business over the last several years.

Crystal Spencer talks about how The Blank Slate came about, what is means to be a Mompreneur but most notably when her business took on a whole new meaning in her life.

Crystal talks about finding your passion in your business and using it to thrive.

Want to connect with Crystal and The Blank Slate Designs?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblankslatedesigns/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/theblankslatedesigns/

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

Share your new years goals with us on our Mompreneur Tribe facebook group.  We want to cheer you on to make this the best year yet.

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe .
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

Jamie Trull continues giving you great advice.

Many female entrepreneurs are afraid of the mentioning of “business finances”.  It instantly brings panic and shame to so many business owners.  But Jamie Trull is teaching women to have the inner confidence to say, “Not Today Pam” and teaching women how to stop the shame cycle with their business finances.

Jamie worked in finance for several large Corporations but left for a higher calling of helping educate women through her company Balance CFO, where she is a virtual CFO.  She discusses what you need in order to get your finances organized. balancecfo.com/checklist

This episode is a must listen for all the mompreneurs ready to make this the best year yet and it all starts in your business finances.

How can we show up as a tribe to support Jamie?

Join Jamie’s online community, where she goes live on a regular basis to share her wealth of information with female entrepreneurs. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/financialliteracyforwomen/?source_id=492989254568689

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BalanceCFO/

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

Show Notes

How do you plan out the new year?  Do you just live life or do you set intentions and set goals for the year.

For the past several years, my friend Crystal Spencer and Ashley sit down to chat how they set goals and intentionality that work for our personalities and enneagram numbers.  Crystal discusses New Years goals through the eyes of a enneagram 1 and Ashley as an enneagram 3.

We talk through tangible steps to successful tackling yours new years goals, but also knowing when to show yourself and acknowledge that goal might now be right for this season of life

Want to connect with Crystal and The Blank Slate Designs?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblankslatedesigns/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/theblankslatedesigns/

Want to connect with more Mompreneurs?

Share your new years goals with us on our Mompreneur Tribe facebook group.  We want to cheer you on to make this the best year yet.

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe .
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

This year was a hard year.  And to be honest to just say those 5 words out loud just drained me.  12 hours ago I was barely able to say them, I felt them in my heart.  I knew it in my mind, but to say it out loud here on my podcast today is terrifying.

I am a 3 on the enneagram, I may have mentioned it before.  But in my world I don’t like to admit when I am feeling something, because it feels like my weakness.

But after this past year and spending the past 2 months and entire holiday season trying to figure out how to pick myself up I realized that I needed to share it, but completely transparent and vulnerable.  

In 2019 our kids went to the pediatrician over 30 times.  We literally started the new year with pneumonia with our youngest, and are ending the year with our oldest having had the flu for the entire Christmas week and now have walking pneumonia.  But in the 12 months between those dates we have had a buffet of other illness including whooping cough, multiple viruses, allergic reactions that lead to anaphylactic shock, and a diagnoses of Celiac in our older.

I must stop and say here out forever grateful I am that everything is treatable.  And it is not a terminal illness.  And I will be honest I was not going to share all of this on the podcast, until at thanksgiving a close friend came to visit. She needed something and I opened a kitchen cabinet that housed our daughters medicines.  She was blown away and noted that I should share.  

But my thoughts have always been there are people suffering way worse then we are.

And that is where I have identified my problem for the year, it is in the mindset.  I have spent the last half of 2019 saying that someone has it harder and chose to internalize all of the pain at home.

Then in my business that mindset let to me getting discouraged when things were not going as planned and I felt like I was failing to use the saying, well someone else can do it better than me.  So why try?

I will be honest I literally feel like I was having to pick myself up off the ground here at the end of the year. I feel like had failed at so many things.  Which doesn’t sit well with me, plus it is not something I have experienced many times in my life.  

I ended the year angry and bitter.  I was short with everyone in my house.

I had started 2019 so strong and determined, why did I end on such a low note?

The start of the year I started with strong habits, it was a new year.  Things were fresh, I was rested.  

But then when the girls got sick, I tried to keep up with everything.  I was determined to keep up with everything, instantly in Captain Mood.  I will keep this ship afloat and be the super hero that saves us.  

But the truth is, and may be hard for some to hear….. that someone being myself, we are not super heroes.  We are humans who have needs.  And those healthy habits helped meet my needs.

So ending the year, this is what I learned that a routine of self care each morning is a MUST.  I must be grounded in myself, fill up my cup so that I can overflow and fill the needs of my family and pour into my business.

For me that looks like getting up before the kids, and having time to myself where I read my bible, meditate and then do a practice of gratitude.  Then I take the time to plan out my day with intentionality, so the goals are clearly defined. 

I challenge you this year to find a practice of self care to pour into yourself. 

Want to connect?

• Join our tribe of Mompreneurs on our new facebook group: The Mompreneur Tribe
• You can also connect with Ashley on the gram @mrsashleymalfitano;

We are starting the year off with a book club, so come join in the conversation.

Also if you enjoyed this podcast, we greatly appreciate a review for us on whatever listening platform you join from.

Mompreneur Holiday Hodge-Podge

 The holidays are stressful time, then add on being an entrepreneur and running a business it adds a little extra busyness to the mix.  If you a business that’s peek session is during the November & December timeframe you are probably constantly asking yourself, how will I go it all this holiday in my business while also showing up as the best version of myself for my kids.

This episode of Mompreneur Tribe is for you.  Through personal experiences, I have learned several key things about running a business and juggling the kiddos during the holidays.  How to thrive instead of just survive.

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How you can show up as a tribe?
As we end each episode on the mompreneur tribe, with a challenge in how our tribe can show up.  And on this week’s episode it is simply taking the time to pour into yourself to determine how can you personally set yourself up for success this holiday both at home and in your business.  We are cheering you on, your tribe is here.

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Ashley catches up with Amy Klein of Give Her Courage

As a former online TV host, Amy will make you laugh until you cry and find a way to make every #momlife moment humorous - even on the days when adulting seems way too hard.Amy has an award-winning sales and leadership background of coaching and managing very dynamic teams.

As a coach, Amy has built her career on bringing out the best in everyone around her and helping each person she touches perform at their best, and believe in themselves

.As a coFounder of Give Her Courage, Amy has committed her life's work to helping women know their worth and break the paradigm that comes with age.