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.

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• 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)
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you. can't do it all yourself. And when you try to

do it all yourself. That is the fastest path

to burnout. Doing it all yourself is the

fastest path to burnout. You are now tuned

in to the mom CEO suite podcast. I'm your host,

Felicia, wife, mom, and entrepreneur. In

this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur journey along with

strategies that will help you build your online business operations

in a sustainable way. The goal is to help you build a business that

fits into your lifestyle as a mom who values putting family

first. We will also hear the experiences and expertise

of other moms with service based businesses. You'll get a peek into

our journeys, so you'll know that you aren't alone. Motherhood

gets hard. Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together,

we can do hard things. Welcome to

the suite.

Hey friend, welcome to another episode. Thank you so much for being here. So

today I wanted to talk a little bit about burnout

because it is something that lots of moms.

Experience. And transparently, I have not

experienced burnout. Um, I have had periods

where I might feel tired or overwhelmed, but I've never been in a place where

I've, experienced a burnout. And so I want to kind of have this

conversation today from that perspective. I want to

share how to avoid burnout as a busy mom

preneur. And so just so we're all kind of on the

same page, what exactly is burnout? This is how

it's defined. Burnout is a state of physical, emotional,

and mental exhaustion. Caused by

prolonged stress. Typically from trying to

meet excessive demands over an extended period

of time. So burnout is not like, oh, you feel tired for a

day or a couple of days. This is really like

prolonged extended periods of times. Um, it

often results from feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and

then unable to meet constant work or personal

life expectations. All right. And then when I looked

up, some of the symptoms were. Um, it's

broken down into three categories and.

So physical symptoms. Our fatigue, headaches,

sleep disturbances, and lowered immunity.

Emotional symptoms might be feeling detached.

Feeling hopeless, irritable and unmotivated.

And then mental symptoms. Might be.

Decreased productivity, difficulty concentrating,

and a sense of any effectiveness. And so,

um, if you're feeling any of these things, Even if

it's not in a prolonged state, right? You want to catch

it before it gets to this burnout phase. But if you have

identify any of these things, That might be an indication that you

just might want to evaluate what's happening. In your

life so that you can rectify a situation.

Change some things before you get to a state of burnout.

And there've been people in the podcast in the past. Who have

shared, you know, specifically what burnout or even what

like anxiety has looked like for them. So I

will try to find those episodes and link them in the show description.

But of course it looks different for everybody. If you

feel like again, you are experiencing any of these symptoms, definitely

go, um, seek professional help or find somebody to talk

to. There is no shame in that. So I want to

give just really quick three specific

ways that you can, well, not that you can a

hundred percent avoid burnout, but that can help you avoid burnout.

Okay. So number one is saying

no. My sister joke with me. Um,

That I say no too much. But. As a

mom in business, there are so many.

Different things that are competing for our

attention. And we cannot always say

yes to all of the things. Like at the same

time. So if you're trying to mess you say you're in a

season when you, you have little ones, it might not make sense for

you to be, um, in this state in your business where

you are hustling and you're doing the late nights. You

know, there's lots of conversation on social media, from moms

who would prefer to have a coach who was also a

mom who also understands the lifestyle of being a mom and having

little kids. Because the capacity is different. It's just different.

And we're not able to do the same things in the same way.

Right. We can't stay up, you know, until midnight, all the time

working on the business or burning the midnight oil. Because we're

probably tending to kids. If you have a baby, your baby might be waking up

in the middle of the night, you might need to get your rest. So you

can wake up in the morning to be able to be present for your kids.

And so having to say no, We'll

help you to avoid a situation where you're burnt out, because remember

going back to how we kind of define burnt out. It's like feeling

overwhelmed by, um, all of these

expectations and Expectations that are unmet, you

can't keep up with it all because it's too much. If

you feel like you are doing too much, then that means you have

said yes to too many things. Right. And

you know, I don't, I don't subscribe to this, this thinking, but

there's. This idea that women. Or moms

are super women and. I'm not a fan of it. Like we don't have

to be superwoman. We can just be human. Right.

And with humanity comes weakness. It comes

frailty, you know? And so we don't have

to always be on 100% of the time.

So it's okay to say no to things. No, you

can't take on more work for this client

or. No, you can't do a speaking engagement.

No, I can't do this collaboration right now.

Um, and it's not that you, you won't ever be able to do. It's just

a right now. if you know what your capacity is, if you

have taken the time to truly understand. All of the things that you are

responsible for. Uh, if you've taken the time to truly understand what your

priorities are. Then you'll know what your capacity is.

and I talk more about that in the harmony private podcast.

But knowing your priorities and then saying no to things that are

not in alignment with your priority. We'll help you to

avoid a situation where you are.

Um, not able to meet excessive demands. Okay.

And you have prolonged stress. So that's the first thing

is saying, No. The

second thing. And I, I kinda talked about this a lot on

social media. But you want to have some type of

daily. Rhythm. Some people might call it a routine. I

prefer rhythm because it's more flexible. A routine is a little

bit more rigid and it's time-bound whereas a rhythm is

just more so a framework. And it's flexible. It

allows you to flow in and out, but you still know what. Nice to get

done in the day. Now sometimes when we don't have these

routines or rhythms. Uh, we have not given our time

any assignment. And so we may find that we end up

doing things that are wasting our time. We may find that we are

doing things that again, We don't necessarily need to be doing, we

shouldn't be doing because they are not in alignment with our priorities.

And so you just want to, Take some time to create whatever your daily

rhythm is going to be. What does that look like for you? And

your family. And again, this is going to look different for everybody.

I always recommend that. However you choose to do it, whether

it's, you know, very detailed. Or just very light,

do some type of time study. So you can really identify where

your time is going, how you are spending your time. And you might

find that. You've spent way more

time doing things that were not important, or you spent way more

time. Uh, focused on things that were not

your priority. And you'll be able to make changes. You may

find that the things that you do consider priority take

you longer than you actually expected.

And so when you know, How long things actually take you

and, you know, your priorities, you'll be able to create a rhythm that makes sense

for your family. Um, and this will kind of eliminate

time wasters and eliminate, think slipping into your

day. That are not going to be beneficial to you that are not going

to bring you peace that are not going to allow you to be

productive. Um, and that are not just in alignment

with your priorities. So that's the second thing.

And then finally. You want to delegate? So.

You definitely can have it all. Right there. Some people

believe that you can't have it all. I believe you can have it all, but

you can't do it all. Now, what does this look

like? This looks like. Figuring out a

way to duplicate yourself, or figuring out

a way to, have another person do what it

is. That you do. So you can

delegate to. AI artificial

intelligence. So I talked about this a lot in the past

episodes where I share how I use AI to support me.

Um, both in life and in business. And AI can

do so much. And it. It really allows you to save

time and maximize the time that you have. If

we're talking business. In terms of your content, because

content is a huge piece of an online business.

It can create tons of content for you. It can give you

creative ideas, it can repurpose your content for

you. And so things that might have taken you. Hours

to do. AI can do literally in

minutes and seconds. Okay. And so you want to find a

way once you have identified and mapped out what your

process is for doing a particular thing, then you want to

look and see, okay.

What can I. Kind of push off of my plate and where can

I push it to. So you can push somethings to AI

tools. You can push somethings to. automation and automation

is different than AI. automation is when

a software is, completing a repetitive tasks. You

have to pretty much program it to do that repetitive task. And

so, again, saving you time because you are not manually every time you

have to do this thing, you are not manually doing it. The

automation is handling that for you. So you can push things off

to AI. You can push things off to automation, and then you can also just

push things off to other people and not like in a bad way, but,

you. know, share the load with someone else. If you're not in a position

to. higher. Um, you can ask your

family for support. You can ex. your friends or

other community that you might have for support, whatever that might look like, And

so I did an episode talking about delegation. I

will link that also in the show description.

Um, but you. you. can't do it all

yourself. And when you try to do it all yourself.

That is the fastest path to burnout.

Doing it all yourself is the fastest path to burnout.

Now you might be saying, I don't have family support. I don't

have, you know, any employees or contractors.

I get it. I understand, you know, I'm in a

situation where. My family is, they're not

far from me, but they're not close. You know, I just can't

go. Um, around the corner or 10 minutes

away. To visit family or have them come and watch the kids. For

me, it has to be a plant thing. You know, they're like two and a

half hours away. Most of my family. and I don't really have

a community here yet. And so it is pretty much just me

and my husband with the kids. And as the primary caretaker inside

the home, her husband works outside of the home. It's the

majority of the time. It's me. So I get it. And even with the

business, I've talked about this before. Um, how I still

consider myself a solo preneur and I

hire contractors here and there, but for the most part, it's just

me. Now while the majority of the time it is

just me. I'm still not doing all of the things because I have

leveraged what I told you. I leverage artificial

intelligence. Okay. Chad GBT is like the bestie. I

leveraged automation. Y'all are y'all hear me talk about

automation. all the time. Okay. Um, and even

delegating things. Your grocery shopping. Delegate

that. When you use Instacart, instead of going to the store

yourself, somebody else's. Is doing your grocery shopping for you or taking, A

little bit of that task off of your plate. So that is

considered delegation. All right. So just think about different ways

that you can. You know, take some of the responsibilities off your

plate so that you are not setting yourself up

to, to be burned out. And from what I hear again, because I

have not personally experienced it from what I hear.

Um, when you are burnt out, it just takes a long time

to recover. And that's very challenging

again, as a mom, because.

Our families are relying on us for so much. So it

seems like it's a double-edged sword. Our family is relying on us for so much.

But again, we need to have some boundaries in place. We need to get some

support. wherever we can. So that, that

responsibility in that priority that we have in the home

is not burning us out. All right. So I would

love to hear. if you've ever experienced burnout, what was that

like for you? And how did you? kind of recover? Feel free to shoot

me a message over on Instagram. And then from what I talked about

today, right? If you've never experienced burnout, like what are the things that you are

going to put into action from today? Are you going to

start saying no more? Are you going to create a rhythm?

For your family. Are you going to delegate to

either AI automation or another person? Like what is

the number one thing that you are going to take action on from this

episode? Shoot me a message over on Instagram. I would love to chat

with you and I'll see you in the next episode? Thank you

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