WPR009: Embracing Your Ambition Without the Guilt with Monica Froese
03/01/17 • 64 min
Episode Summary:
I could just talk to our guest today, Monica Froese, forever. She is honestly a reservoir of helpful information and a pioneer who’s doing what she can to help working families create more balanced and less stressful lives. She’s a working mom herself who’s felt the exhaustion and the frustration, and decided to take matters into her own hands to start a productive conversation to begin changing things for the better (a girl after my own heart!). I truly enjoyed this conversation, and love the message she’s spreading.
Monica Froese is a mom, wife, author and business strategist for mom entrepreneurs. She has an MBA degree in Finance and Marketing and blogs at www.RedefiningMom.com, a site for empowering working moms. In 2015, she traveled to the White House to discuss family-friendly workplace policies with President Obama’s senior advisors and has been featured on several media outlets including Fox News, Scary Mommy, Healthline, and Mom Talk Radio. Her passion is to help other moms find their version of balance through time management tips, flexible work options, and helping women build online businesses to escape the 9-5. Her new eBook, “Busy Moms Building: 12 Steps to Running Your Own Online Business for Busy Moms,” helps moms start their own online businesses in just 45 days.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How to process those overwhelming emotions that come up when you return to work after having your baby.
- How to deal with the judgment we face when we become a working parent, and standing up to the expectations of others that we stay home with our kids.
- Learn about the conversations they’re having in Washington around the struggles facing working families, including maternity leave laws, managing your packed (and often inflexible work) schedule, childcare expenses, etc.
Show Notes: http://WorkingParentResource.com/9
Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Working Parent Resource Website
About the Working Parent Resource:
The Working Parent Resource is dedicated to helping ambitious working parents acquire the information, insights, and tools they need to create a more intentional and fulfilling life that reflects their deepest values and priorities. Sarah Argenal, the host of the Working Parent Resource Podcast, has her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy and Adult Development, and is a Certified Professional Coach with over 15 years of experience in counseling, coaching, teaching, course development, and project management. You can access episode Show Notes and learn more about the Working Parent Resource at http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Join the Conversation!
Leave your comments about the show, offer suggestions for upcoming show topics, or let us know what we can be doing better! We’d love to hear from you over in our free Facebook community at: http://WorkingParentResource.com/Community.
Sponsor:
This show was sponsored by the Working Parent Resource. We offer a carefully curated archive of Resources, a diverse suite of coaching opportunities, in-person and online communities, and much more. Check it out here: http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Reminders:
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Episode Summary:
I could just talk to our guest today, Monica Froese, forever. She is honestly a reservoir of helpful information and a pioneer who’s doing what she can to help working families create more balanced and less stressful lives. She’s a working mom herself who’s felt the exhaustion and the frustration, and decided to take matters into her own hands to start a productive conversation to begin changing things for the better (a girl after my own heart!). I truly enjoyed this conversation, and love the message she’s spreading.
Monica Froese is a mom, wife, author and business strategist for mom entrepreneurs. She has an MBA degree in Finance and Marketing and blogs at www.RedefiningMom.com, a site for empowering working moms. In 2015, she traveled to the White House to discuss family-friendly workplace policies with President Obama’s senior advisors and has been featured on several media outlets including Fox News, Scary Mommy, Healthline, and Mom Talk Radio. Her passion is to help other moms find their version of balance through time management tips, flexible work options, and helping women build online businesses to escape the 9-5. Her new eBook, “Busy Moms Building: 12 Steps to Running Your Own Online Business for Busy Moms,” helps moms start their own online businesses in just 45 days.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How to process those overwhelming emotions that come up when you return to work after having your baby.
- How to deal with the judgment we face when we become a working parent, and standing up to the expectations of others that we stay home with our kids.
- Learn about the conversations they’re having in Washington around the struggles facing working families, including maternity leave laws, managing your packed (and often inflexible work) schedule, childcare expenses, etc.
Show Notes: http://WorkingParentResource.com/9
Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Working Parent Resource Website
About the Working Parent Resource:
The Working Parent Resource is dedicated to helping ambitious working parents acquire the information, insights, and tools they need to create a more intentional and fulfilling life that reflects their deepest values and priorities. Sarah Argenal, the host of the Working Parent Resource Podcast, has her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy and Adult Development, and is a Certified Professional Coach with over 15 years of experience in counseling, coaching, teaching, course development, and project management. You can access episode Show Notes and learn more about the Working Parent Resource at http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Join the Conversation!
Leave your comments about the show, offer suggestions for upcoming show topics, or let us know what we can be doing better! We’d love to hear from you over in our free Facebook community at: http://WorkingParentResource.com/Community.
Sponsor:
This show was sponsored by the Working Parent Resource. We offer a carefully curated archive of Resources, a diverse suite of coaching opportunities, in-person and online communities, and much more. Check it out here: http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Reminders:
Don’t forget to subscribe to our show on iTunes to be notified when a new episode is published. Please leave an honest rating and review as well. Ratings and reviews are extremely important and greatly appreciated! They do matter in ranking the show, and I read each and every one of them.
***Founding Member of the Parents On Demand Network***
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WPR008: The Moment I Realized What Being a Parent Means to Me
Episode Summary:
This episode is one of my “Moments of Truth” episodes, where I describe one of those pivotal moments in my life where my perspective permanently changed.
As we all know, hindsight can be 20/20, and when I look back on my life I’m able to identify some of these moments where everything I had thought was true, ended up not really fitting for me anymore... these are some of the moments in my life where I changed as a person and my perspective shifted for the better.
In this episode we’ll be talking about the moment I realized what being a parent really means to me. We all become a parent the day our first child joins our family. But it took me a little time to realize what taking on that role would really mean in my life. So today I want to go through the process I went through, some of the discoveries I made about myself and about my role as a parent, and I’ll talk a bit about how this shift in my perspective really changed the way I approached being a parent forever. This was my experience, so this may or may not apply to you. But I like to share these things in case you can relate and can take away some new insights for yourself.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- You’ll hear my personal story of feeling like a complete failure early in my parenting journey.
- I share the “Aha Moment” that changed how I felt about my role as a parent, and forever shifted the way I interact with my son.
- You’ll hear my biggest takeaways as a result from this painful period of my life.
Show Notes: http://WorkingParentResource.com/8
Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:
The Conscious Parent by Shefali Tsabary
Parenting Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Authoritative vs. Authoritarian Parenting Styles
3 Realizations About Parenting that Instantly Improved My Life by Sarah Argenal
Working Parent Resource Website
About the Working Parent Resource:
The Working Parent Resource is dedicated to helping ambitious working parents acquire the information, insights, and tools they need to create a more intentional and fulfilling life that reflects their deepest values and priorities. Sarah Argenal, the host of the Working Parent Resource Podcast, has her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy and Adult Development, and is a Certified Professional Coach with over 15 years of experience in counseling, coaching, teaching, course development, and project management. You can access episode Show Notes and learn more about the Working Parent Resource at http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Join the Conversation!
Leave your comments about the show, offer suggestions for upcoming show topics, or let us know what we can be doing better! We’d love to hear from you over in our free Facebook community at: http://WorkingParentResource.com/Community.
Sponsor:
This show was sponsored by the Working Parent Resource. We offer a carefully curated archive of Resources, a diverse suite of coaching opportunities, in-person and online communities, and much more. Check it out here: http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Reminders:
Don’t forget to subscribe to our show on iTunes to be notified when a new episode is published. Please leave an honest rating and review as well. Ratings and reviews are extremely important and greatly appreciated! They do matter in ranking the show, and I read each and every one of them.
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WPR010: Utilizing Conflict to Strengthen Your Marriage with Chuck Starnes
Episode Summary:
In this episode we chat with Chuck Starnes who is a marriage coach in San Jose, California. Chuck and I really dive deep on one of the topics that I know so many of you really struggle with: how to stay connected with your spouse when you’re raising a family and managing your career and running a household... there are just so many things that can pull us off track in our relationship, and Chuck’s advice and insights are so on point.
In this episode we talk a lot about why conflict doesn’t have to be a bad thing in your relationship, and in fact, why experiencing conflict in your relationship really means you’re probably with the perfect person. We also dive into some specific tools couples can use to re-connect if they’ve been feeling distant or if they’ve been bickering with each other more than usual. And we’ll talk about how we can look deeper at what we’re fighting about to REALLY grow as individuals and to strengthen our marriage.
Chuck Starnes has a Master’s degree from Pepperdine University and over 20 years of experience in pastoral counseling working with marriages. His marriage coaching has been highly effective in helping couples reconnect and restore intimacy in their relationship. He and his wife Sandy have been married for 36 years, have two daughters and two grandchildren, and live in San Jose, California. Chuck is also a member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- We chat about some of the hidden reasons why couples fight, especially after they become parents. The things we tend to attribute to our marital discourse aren’t usually the REAL problems that needs to be solved.
- We discuss the deeper, subconscious reasons why we encounter conflict with our partners, and how we can start to use those times of conflict to re-connect and become stronger individually.
- Chuck shares specific tools we can use to “baby-proof” our relationship.
Show Notes: http://WorkingParentResource.com/10
Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix
Gary Brainerd, Certified Imago Trainer
Working Parent Resource Website
About the Working Parent Resource:
The Working Parent Resource is dedicated to helping ambitious working parents acquire the information, insights, and tools they need to create a more intentional and fulfilling life that reflects their deepest values and priorities. Sarah Argenal, the host of the Working Parent Resource Podcast, has her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy and Adult Development, and is a Certified Professional Coach with over 15 years of experience in counseling, coaching, teaching, course development, and project management. You can access episode Show Notes and learn more about the Working Parent Resource at http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Join the Conversation!
Leave your comments about the show, offer suggestions for upcoming show topics, or let us know what we can be doing better! We’d love to hear from you over in our free Facebook community at: http://WorkingParentResource.com/Community.
Sponsor:
This show was sponsored by the Working Parent Resource. We offer a carefully curated archive of Resources, a diverse suite of coaching opportunities, in-person and online communities, and much more. Check it out here: http://WorkingParentResource.com.
Reminders:
Don’t forget to subscribe to our show on iTunes to be notified when a new episode is published. Please leave an honest rating and review as well. Ratings and reviews are extremely important and greatly appreciated! They do matter in ranking the show, and I read each and every one of them.
***Founding Member of the Parents On Demand Network***
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