Rise Up and Shine Podcast

Unprecedented times can cause such fear in our minds regarding our finances. In this episode, Claudine gives wonderful encouragement as she has experienced something like this before. Enduring the market crash in 2008, both her and her husband were self employed and had zero income. She shares her biggest takeaways from those previous experiences, such as the '08 crash, and how she applies those lessons to this new circumstance - the pandemic.

Many of us struggle with practicing boundaries. Or perhaps some of us may not have boundaries at all. And you might be feeling miserable! Maybe it is too hard to say "no". Maybe you are a people pleaser or a conflict avoider. Maybe you even believe that boundaries are rude and selfish. Not true, friend! Boundaries are a critical piece to happiness. If you want to feel more happy in your life then you may need to start establishing some boundaries. In this episode, we give a few tips on how to do just that. We guarantee that if you keep consistent with these practicals you will begin to feel more peace in your life. Don't forget to subscribe so you stay up to date as each episode goes live and share the love with a friend. You can also visit us at claudinesweeney.com and mindoverchaos.com for free resources.

Self-sabotage is one of those things that we don't even realize we do it. It is so unintentional that we can self-sabotage ourselves into such a rut so quickly and we have no idea how and when it happened. We have become masters at talking ourselves out of doing things because we "don't feel like it" or because we allow some of those negative thoughts back into our minds. At times without even being aware of what we are actually thinking. In this episode, we define what self-sabotage is and we share personally how we have been struggling with this exact thing during quarantine. We share a few tips to recognize if you also may be doing this in your own life, as well as a few practicals to help turn it around so you can go to sleep each night feeling good about your day.

Happy Mother's day to all the fabulous mothers out there! In light of Mother's Day nearly approaching, in this week's episode we dive into what motherhood has been like for each of us lately. The joys and challenges of being an empty-nester yet sheltering in place with adult children, and then the other side of the spectrum, being quarantined and adapting to distance learning with two school-aged children. Tune in as we share what our experiences have been like and as we offer up practicals that have helped alleviate some of the unnecessary stress as we survive this quarantine season as moms.

We all hold expectations in relationships whether we consciously know it or not. We each look at things through our own lens but how often do we expect others to see things the way we do? During this quarantine that we're all forced into our home atmosphere could be affected because of an underlying playbook that we have. In this episode, we discuss what some of those expectations are and ways to boost our relationships for the better and create a more peaceful home environment.