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If you’re looking for an operation manual on motherhood, then today’s episode is for you. On this episode, Jenn talks to Lara about a tool that has changed her life, The Ultimate Life Tool. This tool is something that she uses in her coaching business for leaders, teams and professionals in identifying how to best play to their strengths in the workplace. Now, Lara is using this tool to help mothers identify the parent they want to be and how to pair it to their skillset. She explains how this tool can help you identify your natural talents, strengths, weaknesses, tolerance levels, communication styles and more. This episode will help you to better understand who you are and help you in becoming the mother and partner you dream of being.

What’s In This Episode:

• What the Ultimate Life Tool or ULT is and how Lara’s uses it for her career and motherhood
• Why Lara knew it was time to move on from her corporate role
• Manifesting being able to work remotely and pursue what she loved
• Starting a side hustle as a coach
• Becoming a mother and how this has shifted her perspective on coaching clients
• Rebranding her business to focus on helping other moms
• Natural talents vs. learned talents
• Using your driver and codriver to motivate you
• Understanding your tolerance levels and boundaries
• Taking time to fuel yourself
• Figuring out your communication style
• Using the ULT as your life’s operation manual
• Understanding your strengths and what you excel in
• Why we need people with neutral perspectives, people with positive perspectives and people with negative perspectives
• How things can change due to circumstance
• Taking the pressure off of ourselves

Connect with Lara:

Website | Instagram

Quotes:

"I saw that the people that I worked with had incredible talents yet they were being overlooked. I didn't want to manage people that way." - Lara Schulte

"Motherhood was completely not how I suspected it would be. It didn't allow for a lot of time and I didn't have the time to dedicate to my coaching business the way that I had anticipated." - Lara Schulte

"I think a lot of young moms are just in the thick of it and don't realize that one of the hardest pieces of motherhood at this stage is really identifying with who you are now as a mom, and not who you were before." - Lara Schulte

"You're not gonna expect a lion to elegantly prance around like a deer. You're gonna expect it to use its roar and be aggressive so it can get its prey." - Lara

"I have to be really aware of how my alchemy flows with his and vice versa." - Lara

"These 4 types of communication styles are basically like tires on your car, you want them as balanced as possible." - Lara

"I see this being really helpful for people who manage other people." - Jenn Rout

"They can really use it as a guide to how they need to take care of themselves and work with their husbands or partners and where they should put themselves first and where they should be spending time when they do feel depleted of energy in order to get re-energized." - L...

This episode is for you if you’re looking for some data-driven answers about the many decisions made during pregnancy and parenthood. There’s so much information out there about what you should or shouldn’t do during pregnancy, delivery, and those early parenting years that it can be really challenging to determine what is right for you and your family and what is fact versus fiction. For this episode, we brought on Emily Oster, an Economist, author and New York Times contributor. She shared how we can make measured approaches to decision making in parenting. We talked about a few of the do’s and don’ts in pregnancy and motherhood, using evidence to determine what is important to you and your family and some of the common misconceptions that come with breastfeeding, cosleeping, sleep training and more.

What’s In This Episode:

• How Emily navigates the success of her work while being a mom
• Sharing the same profession with her husband
• How having a common language helps with their parenting
• The career shift she had when entering into motherhood
• General parenting misconceptions she came across
• What an Economist does
• Using data and determining what is important to you and your family
• Accepting that there is no absolute right choice
• Looking at risk tolerances in parenthood
• To do’s and not to do’s in pregnancy and motherhood
• Food and drink avoidances for pregnant women
• C-sections vs. vaginal delivery
• Data on getting an epidural for delivery
• Eating the placenta
• The data on vaccinations and how important they are
• Common misconceptions with breastfeeding
• Sleep training and cosleeping
• Evidence about cosleeping and SIDS
• Being a stay-at-home mom or a working mom
• What research surprised Emily about parenting
• Her best piece of advice for parents in the decision-making process
• What is next for Emily and her research

We brought on Vienna Farlow, a holistic reproductive health practitioner intern and founder of the Cvntsultant. She focuses her work on demystifying the female body and teaching women better ways to connect with themselves. We discuss what body literacy is and how to become your own expert for your health. She shares the stigmas that there are about the female body, misconceptions there are around feminine health and how to determine what your body is telling you.

What’s In This Episode:

• How Vienna got started in this industry
• Learning more about natural birth control methods and deciphering your health through the menstrual cycle
• Why there is a stigma about the female body
• Why bacteria is a good thing when it’s in balance
• What the term cvntsultant means to her
• What she wishes more women would talk about and the misconceptions around vaginal health
• Being able to self-treat and have “body literacy”
• How your menstrual cycle is a window into your overall health
• What hormonal birth control and reversible contraceptives actually do
• What a healthy period looks like
• Discharge, cervical mucus and what it does for your body
• What the cervix does for your reproductive system
• What roles estrogen and progesterone play in your health
• Checking in on yourself day to day
• What you should expect your cycle to look like after birth
• What a “yoni steam” is and what it does for your vaginal health
• Vienna’s advice for being your own best expert

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Have you ever heard the phrase, “there’s an oil for that”? On this episode, we’ve enlisted Kelowna Giuliano, a holistic health practitioner and owner of Drop into Wellness who has over two decades of experience on healing from within. She breaks down all of the benefits and uses for essential oils including how to use it to support sleep, digestion, immunity, libido and even to clean your home. We chat about living a toxic-free lifestyle, how to use essential oils to benefit your health and wellness and precautions to take when using essential oils. If you want to ditch the chemicals from your life, then this is the episode for you.

What’s In This Episode:

• Wanting to raise her family holistically and help clients with healing
• How Kelowna’s life and career has transitioned from motherhood
• Incorporating essential oils into her classes and educating moms on how to use them
• Ditching the toxic chemicals and upgrading to products that come from plants
• The three ways you can use essential oils
• How Kelowna uses essential oils in conjunction with carrier oils
• Using foot mapping when applying essential oils
• Knowing the difference between higher quality oils and synthetic oils
• Oils that Kelowna uses daily
• Precautions to take when using essential oils
• How to use the oils on a wound, to support sleep, for babies, etc.
• What oils to use for healthy digestion and immunity
• Using oils for hormones and to support your libido
• Addressing what’s going on physically and mentally
• Using essential oils for cleaning
• How to get started using essential oils

Does your family have food issues? If so, you’ll love this episode with Jennifer Anderson of Kids Eat in Color.

Today we’re exploring all of the feelings that go along with food and family meals with little ones. Have you experienced mom guilt in relation to what you’re feeding your kids? Too much mac n’ cheese, not enough veggies, the list goes on!

Jennifer shares the nuances and best practices around how and what we should be feeding our kids, without the guilt.

We chat about everything from how to help your kid eat intuitively, what diet culture is teaching our kids and how to help picky eaters who are experiencing anxiety around food. You’ll definitely want to hear all of the tips she shares about incorporating play into meals and being present during meals.

WHAT’S IN THIS EPISODE:

• Her feelings about being a mom and the CEO of her business
• How Jennifer’s passion for food and family influenced the start of her business
• What you should focus on besides just the food
• How mom guilt plays into meal choices while eating out
• How you can incorporate food play into mealtime
• What you can do to be more present during meals without mom guilt
• The challenges of dealing with picky eaters and helping them overcome anxiety around food choices
• What intuitive eating is and how it helps people regain the ability to eat intuitively
• Why parents have to protect their kid’s instincts to maintain their ability to eat intuitively
• The 3 best practices to help encourage your kid’s instincts