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In this episode, I'm talking about something that plagues many moms and mompreneurs...burnout. I share 3 practical tips that mom entrepreneurs can implement to maintain balance and prevent exhaustion while juggling motherhood and business responsibilities.
LINKS & MENTIONS
- Ep 59. 15 Tasks to Delegate as a Busy Mompreneur
- Ep 78. How I Use AI Tools to Support Me (Pt 1)
- Ep 94. How I Use AI Tools to Support Me (Pt 2)
- Access the Harmony Private Podcast
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you. can't do it all yourself. And when you try to
Speaker:do it all yourself. That is the fastest path
Speaker:to burnout. Doing it all yourself is the
Speaker:fastest path to burnout. You are now tuned
Speaker:in to the mom CEO suite podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker:Felicia, wife, mom, and entrepreneur. In
Speaker:this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur journey along with
Speaker:strategies that will help you build your online business operations
Speaker:in a sustainable way. The goal is to help you build a business that
Speaker:fits into your lifestyle as a mom who values putting family
Speaker:first. We will also hear the experiences and expertise
Speaker:of other moms with service based businesses. You'll get a peek into
Speaker:our journeys, so you'll know that you aren't alone. Motherhood
Speaker:gets hard. Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together,
Speaker:we can do hard things. Welcome to
Speaker:the suite.
Speaker:Hey friend, welcome to another episode. Thank you so much for being here. So
Speaker:today I wanted to talk a little bit about burnout
Speaker:because it is something that lots of moms.
Speaker:Experience. And transparently, I have not
Speaker:experienced burnout. Um, I have had periods
Speaker:where I might feel tired or overwhelmed, but I've never been in a place where
Speaker:I've, experienced a burnout. And so I want to kind of have this
Speaker:conversation today from that perspective. I want to
Speaker:share how to avoid burnout as a busy mom
Speaker:preneur. And so just so we're all kind of on the
Speaker:same page, what exactly is burnout? This is how
Speaker:it's defined. Burnout is a state of physical, emotional,
Speaker:and mental exhaustion. Caused by
Speaker:prolonged stress. Typically from trying to
Speaker:meet excessive demands over an extended period
Speaker:of time. So burnout is not like, oh, you feel tired for a
Speaker:day or a couple of days. This is really like
Speaker:prolonged extended periods of times. Um, it
Speaker:often results from feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and
Speaker:then unable to meet constant work or personal
Speaker:life expectations. All right. And then when I looked
Speaker:up, some of the symptoms were. Um, it's
Speaker:broken down into three categories and.
Speaker:So physical symptoms. Our fatigue, headaches,
Speaker:sleep disturbances, and lowered immunity.
Speaker:Emotional symptoms might be feeling detached.
Speaker:Feeling hopeless, irritable and unmotivated.
Speaker:And then mental symptoms. Might be.
Speaker:Decreased productivity, difficulty concentrating,
Speaker:and a sense of any effectiveness. And so,
Speaker:um, if you're feeling any of these things, Even if
Speaker:it's not in a prolonged state, right? You want to catch
Speaker:it before it gets to this burnout phase. But if you have
Speaker:identify any of these things, That might be an indication that you
Speaker:just might want to evaluate what's happening. In your
Speaker:life so that you can rectify a situation.
Speaker:Change some things before you get to a state of burnout.
Speaker:And there've been people in the podcast in the past. Who have
Speaker:shared, you know, specifically what burnout or even what
Speaker:like anxiety has looked like for them. So I
Speaker:will try to find those episodes and link them in the show description.
Speaker:But of course it looks different for everybody. If you
Speaker:feel like again, you are experiencing any of these symptoms, definitely
Speaker:go, um, seek professional help or find somebody to talk
Speaker:to. There is no shame in that. So I want to
Speaker:give just really quick three specific
Speaker:ways that you can, well, not that you can a
Speaker:hundred percent avoid burnout, but that can help you avoid burnout.
Speaker:Okay. So number one is saying
Speaker:no. My sister joke with me. Um,
Speaker:That I say no too much. But. As a
Speaker:mom in business, there are so many.
Speaker:Different things that are competing for our
Speaker:attention. And we cannot always say
Speaker:yes to all of the things. Like at the same
Speaker:time. So if you're trying to mess you say you're in a
Speaker:season when you, you have little ones, it might not make sense for
Speaker:you to be, um, in this state in your business where
Speaker:you are hustling and you're doing the late nights. You
Speaker:know, there's lots of conversation on social media, from moms
Speaker:who would prefer to have a coach who was also a
Speaker:mom who also understands the lifestyle of being a mom and having
Speaker:little kids. Because the capacity is different. It's just different.
Speaker:And we're not able to do the same things in the same way.
Speaker:Right. We can't stay up, you know, until midnight, all the time
Speaker:working on the business or burning the midnight oil. Because we're
Speaker:probably tending to kids. If you have a baby, your baby might be waking up
Speaker:in the middle of the night, you might need to get your rest. So you
Speaker:can wake up in the morning to be able to be present for your kids.
Speaker:And so having to say no, We'll
Speaker:help you to avoid a situation where you're burnt out, because remember
Speaker:going back to how we kind of define burnt out. It's like feeling
Speaker:overwhelmed by, um, all of these
Speaker:expectations and Expectations that are unmet, you
Speaker:can't keep up with it all because it's too much. If
Speaker:you feel like you are doing too much, then that means you have
Speaker:said yes to too many things. Right. And
Speaker:you know, I don't, I don't subscribe to this, this thinking, but
Speaker:there's. This idea that women. Or moms
Speaker:are super women and. I'm not a fan of it. Like we don't have
Speaker:to be superwoman. We can just be human. Right.
Speaker:And with humanity comes weakness. It comes
Speaker:frailty, you know? And so we don't have
Speaker:to always be on 100% of the time.
Speaker:So it's okay to say no to things. No, you
Speaker:can't take on more work for this client
Speaker:or. No, you can't do a speaking engagement.
Speaker:No, I can't do this collaboration right now.
Speaker:Um, and it's not that you, you won't ever be able to do. It's just
Speaker:a right now. if you know what your capacity is, if you
Speaker:have taken the time to truly understand. All of the things that you are
Speaker:responsible for. Uh, if you've taken the time to truly understand what your
Speaker:priorities are. Then you'll know what your capacity is.
Speaker:and I talk more about that in the harmony private podcast.
Speaker:But knowing your priorities and then saying no to things that are
Speaker:not in alignment with your priority. We'll help you to
Speaker:avoid a situation where you are.
Speaker:Um, not able to meet excessive demands. Okay.
Speaker:And you have prolonged stress. So that's the first thing
Speaker:is saying, No. The
Speaker:second thing. And I, I kinda talked about this a lot on
Speaker:social media. But you want to have some type of
Speaker:daily. Rhythm. Some people might call it a routine. I
Speaker:prefer rhythm because it's more flexible. A routine is a little
Speaker:bit more rigid and it's time-bound whereas a rhythm is
Speaker:just more so a framework. And it's flexible. It
Speaker:allows you to flow in and out, but you still know what. Nice to get
Speaker:done in the day. Now sometimes when we don't have these
Speaker:routines or rhythms. Uh, we have not given our time
Speaker:any assignment. And so we may find that we end up
Speaker:doing things that are wasting our time. We may find that we are
Speaker:doing things that again, We don't necessarily need to be doing, we
Speaker:shouldn't be doing because they are not in alignment with our priorities.
Speaker:And so you just want to, Take some time to create whatever your daily
Speaker:rhythm is going to be. What does that look like for you? And
Speaker:your family. And again, this is going to look different for everybody.
Speaker:I always recommend that. However you choose to do it, whether
Speaker:it's, you know, very detailed. Or just very light,
Speaker:do some type of time study. So you can really identify where
Speaker:your time is going, how you are spending your time. And you might
Speaker:find that. You've spent way more
Speaker:time doing things that were not important, or you spent way more
Speaker:time. Uh, focused on things that were not
Speaker:your priority. And you'll be able to make changes. You may
Speaker:find that the things that you do consider priority take
Speaker:you longer than you actually expected.
Speaker:And so when you know, How long things actually take you
Speaker:and, you know, your priorities, you'll be able to create a rhythm that makes sense
Speaker:for your family. Um, and this will kind of eliminate
Speaker:time wasters and eliminate, think slipping into your
Speaker:day. That are not going to be beneficial to you that are not going
Speaker:to bring you peace that are not going to allow you to be
Speaker:productive. Um, and that are not just in alignment
Speaker:with your priorities. So that's the second thing.
Speaker:And then finally. You want to delegate? So.
Speaker:You definitely can have it all. Right there. Some people
Speaker:believe that you can't have it all. I believe you can have it all, but
Speaker:you can't do it all. Now, what does this look
Speaker:like? This looks like. Figuring out a
Speaker:way to duplicate yourself, or figuring out
Speaker:a way to, have another person do what it
Speaker:is. That you do. So you can
Speaker:delegate to. AI artificial
Speaker:intelligence. So I talked about this a lot in the past
Speaker:episodes where I share how I use AI to support me.
Speaker:Um, both in life and in business. And AI can
Speaker:do so much. And it. It really allows you to save
Speaker:time and maximize the time that you have. If
Speaker:we're talking business. In terms of your content, because
Speaker:content is a huge piece of an online business.
Speaker:It can create tons of content for you. It can give you
Speaker:creative ideas, it can repurpose your content for
Speaker:you. And so things that might have taken you. Hours
Speaker:to do. AI can do literally in
Speaker:minutes and seconds. Okay. And so you want to find a
Speaker:way once you have identified and mapped out what your
Speaker:process is for doing a particular thing, then you want to
Speaker:look and see, okay.
Speaker:What can I. Kind of push off of my plate and where can
Speaker:I push it to. So you can push somethings to AI
Speaker:tools. You can push somethings to. automation and automation
Speaker:is different than AI. automation is when
Speaker:a software is, completing a repetitive tasks. You
Speaker:have to pretty much program it to do that repetitive task. And
Speaker:so, again, saving you time because you are not manually every time you
Speaker:have to do this thing, you are not manually doing it. The
Speaker:automation is handling that for you. So you can push things off
Speaker:to AI. You can push things off to automation, and then you can also just
Speaker:push things off to other people and not like in a bad way, but,
Speaker:you. know, share the load with someone else. If you're not in a position
Speaker:to. higher. Um, you can ask your
Speaker:family for support. You can ex. your friends or
Speaker:other community that you might have for support, whatever that might look like, And
Speaker:so I did an episode talking about delegation. I
Speaker:will link that also in the show description.
Speaker:Um, but you. you. can't do it all
Speaker:yourself. And when you try to do it all yourself.
Speaker:That is the fastest path to burnout.
Speaker:Doing it all yourself is the fastest path to burnout.
Speaker:Now you might be saying, I don't have family support. I don't
Speaker:have, you know, any employees or contractors.
Speaker:I get it. I understand, you know, I'm in a
Speaker:situation where. My family is, they're not
Speaker:far from me, but they're not close. You know, I just can't
Speaker:go. Um, around the corner or 10 minutes
Speaker:away. To visit family or have them come and watch the kids. For
Speaker:me, it has to be a plant thing. You know, they're like two and a
Speaker:half hours away. Most of my family. and I don't really have
Speaker:a community here yet. And so it is pretty much just me
Speaker:and my husband with the kids. And as the primary caretaker inside
Speaker:the home, her husband works outside of the home. It's the
Speaker:majority of the time. It's me. So I get it. And even with the
Speaker:business, I've talked about this before. Um, how I still
Speaker:consider myself a solo preneur and I
Speaker:hire contractors here and there, but for the most part, it's just
Speaker:me. Now while the majority of the time it is
Speaker:just me. I'm still not doing all of the things because I have
Speaker:leveraged what I told you. I leverage artificial
Speaker:intelligence. Okay. Chad GBT is like the bestie. I
Speaker:leveraged automation. Y'all are y'all hear me talk about
Speaker:automation. all the time. Okay. Um, and even
Speaker:delegating things. Your grocery shopping. Delegate
Speaker:that. When you use Instacart, instead of going to the store
Speaker:yourself, somebody else's. Is doing your grocery shopping for you or taking, A
Speaker:little bit of that task off of your plate. So that is
Speaker:considered delegation. All right. So just think about different ways
Speaker:that you can. You know, take some of the responsibilities off your
Speaker:plate so that you are not setting yourself up
Speaker:to, to be burned out. And from what I hear again, because I
Speaker:have not personally experienced it from what I hear.
Speaker:Um, when you are burnt out, it just takes a long time
Speaker:to recover. And that's very challenging
Speaker:again, as a mom, because.
Speaker:Our families are relying on us for so much. So it
Speaker:seems like it's a double-edged sword. Our family is relying on us for so much.
Speaker:But again, we need to have some boundaries in place. We need to get some
Speaker:support. wherever we can. So that, that
Speaker:responsibility in that priority that we have in the home
Speaker:is not burning us out. All right. So I would
Speaker:love to hear. if you've ever experienced burnout, what was that
Speaker:like for you? And how did you? kind of recover? Feel free to shoot
Speaker:me a message over on Instagram. And then from what I talked about
Speaker:today, right? If you've never experienced burnout, like what are the things that you are
Speaker:going to put into action from today? Are you going to
Speaker:start saying no more? Are you going to create a rhythm?
Speaker:For your family. Are you going to delegate to
Speaker:either AI automation or another person? Like what is
Speaker:the number one thing that you are going to take action on from this
Speaker:episode? Shoot me a message over on Instagram. I would love to chat
Speaker:with you and I'll see you in the next episode? Thank you
Speaker:for listening to the MomCEO Suite Podcast. If you
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