Dr. Celia
00:01 – 00:43
Do you ever have a day where you had a plan and you had good intentions of what you wanted to do for that day, but by the end of the day comes your day turned out nowhere what you expected and you didn’t get accomplished in your business what you wanted to get accomplished? Like, for example, that you get your kids ready for school and you’re homeschooling them for today. and you’re trying to make sure they eat the breakfast, that everyone’s situated and sorted but they’re fighting among each other and don’t want to go to school and they’re kind of prolonging it and you finally get them around to starting the homeschooling lesson and you realize that one didn’t do their homework, another one is just like throwing food at the other one and it’s just been like constant chaos.
Dr. Celia
00:43 – 01:29
and you finally get them in a groove and teach them and start the homeschooling and they’re able to start working on their class projects and in between that you decide that you want to work on your business but by then you’re just super exhausted about everything that’s going on from the morning that started and it’s not even like two three hours in So you start working your business and you open up your inbox and you see a ton of emails, many of them admin, some of them clients, and you’re just tired and overwhelmed because you had a plan on working on your business and getting like your launch material ready for it and everything and It’s just already going awry because you’re already feeling so tired, so negative about the day, and just resentful that you’re trying to juggle all this at the same time.
Dr. Celia
01:30 – 02:02
This is what my client Cathleen Thomas was experiencing. She was like a busy mom, and when I say busy, she was busy. She was homeschooling three kids, she was running not one but two businesses, and she was just like trying to keep up with her household and just everyday life. She had a Christian clothing store as well as a digital print art store through Olive Groove Life and doing all this she was just so exhausted and tired and just didn’t know how to get much done in her business while homeschooling three of her kids as well.
Dr. Celia
02:04 – 02:43
So as she was telling me all this, I knew that like I could help her given everything she had mentioned. So I told her more about my program, Biz Mom Balance Blueprint, how we work together to not just get your schedule under control, but also internally feel better about what’s happening on the day-to-day life. Because It’s not just like, all right, you need more physical time, you get more stuff done and that’s that. There’s just like so much complexity that goes into time, how you’re feeling internally and how you’re feeling externally. Because how you’re feeling internally, it’s going to drive how you’re doing externally in your business.
Dr. Celia
02:43 – 03:09
Like for example, with Cathleen, who was just feeling so tired and overwhelmed and exhausted by the time she hit work, She’s already in that mindset of like, oh, I’m exhausted. I’m tired. Why am I doing this? Like, I just want to take a rest. I want to take a nap. I don’t want to do this. And that just that’s a heavy emotion to go into working your business. So it’s gonna be harder to work on your business. It’s gonna be harder to write that email. It’s gonna be harder to work on your launch that you had planned.
Dr. Celia
03:09 – 03:39
It’s just gonna be hard to do what you want to do. And so I told her, look, this is what I noticed that you’ve been telling me. And this is how I think I can help you. We’re not just going to look at your schedule and come up with a pretty picture perfect schedule. We’re going to work on all aspects of your schedule, how you’re feeling internally, how to actually get a schedule that works with your life, not against it, and actually feel good about it. And I know that might seem like a lot right now because you’re just so overwhelmed, exhausted.
Dr. Celia
03:39 – 04:07
But you know what? At the end of our time together, you’re going to feel so much better. And she was like all in. She was super excited about it. She’s like, oh, thank God that someone’s going to help me with this because it’s been so much on my plate and just so much to deal with. So we got to work. We started working together and I did my assessment with her and I went through my framework, the peace method with her. and she gave me all the information we need and we discussed her schedule at length.
Dr. Celia
04:07 – 04:44
We discussed that what’s working, what’s not working and what needs to be tweaked and we also discussed internally like how she’s feeling, how she’s processing everything and just like a really detailed questionnaire. Which actually came through like my experience as being a psychiatrist where we would do psychiatry assessments and literally ask every question to see what we need to do in terms of the differential diagnosis to come to the diagnosis. It was a very similar format of how I did questionnaires with my clients to get to the root cause of what’s really happening underneath, both externally and internally.
Dr. Celia
04:45 – 05:22
And at the very end of our initial assessment, Cathleen was floored. She was like, wow, no one’s ever asked me these questions. No one’s ever really took the time to really dig deep and figure out, like, why my schedule’s not working. And I feel so much better about it already. And we were just off to a great start. During our time as we were working together, I just saw her naturally flow into a rhythm that worked for her and her schedule. Like she, for her, like she realized that she worked better during like afternoons and she tried to work in the evenings when everything is done, but she feels guilty because that’s her quality time with her husband.
Dr. Celia
05:23 – 05:57
So we played around with her schedule and she realizes that like, She used to get up early in the morning to work, but that didn’t work for her because she wasn’t getting enough sleep. And I mentioned to her, like, look, you really need to get sleep. Sleep is non-negotiable. Sleep is how we rejuvenate ourselves. Sleep is how we feel good. And sleep is essential for the body. Our body cannot function without adequate sleep. So taking that advice, Cathleen figured out what times worked for her in terms of getting things done in her business while getting really good sleep.
Dr. Celia
05:58 – 06:32
And during our time together, we worked on figuring out for her, what are the needle moving aspects of her business? What are things that are important but can wait till later? And what are things that like if like her schedule is more flexible or she has more time capacity that she could do at a later point? So we took all that and we kind of we worked together because her schedule like Amazon flows because we’re also testing it against real life. And the beautiful thing is that not only did we have our initial Zoom call, we had our Voxer support as well.
Dr. Celia
06:33 – 07:17
So with Voxer it’s kind of like a walkie-talkie where you could leave like voice memos or text and Cathleen let me know what was going on with her life like hey this is not working because of XYZ happening in my family or hey this is not working because I have this happening where I need to be with my family member. and Cathleen also let me know what was not working internally. Like there were days where she was exhausted and feeling irritable and overwhelmed and we coached on that. We coached through the feelings that she was experiencing and the thoughts and really worked on getting her thoughts and feelings in a place where she felt better about how what she was experiencing internally and that reflected in her schedule externally as well.
Dr. Celia
07:19 – 08:41
So we adjusted her schedule in real time and tweaked it so it actually worked with her real life that it was adjustable with the lifestyle she’s having. So our time was coming to an end and Cathleen was just like blown away with like how much we accomplished in the time that we had and how much she accomplished in the small pockets of time she had in her schedule. the fact that like she was able to gain really significant momentum in her business and her business was going in a place that she was really loving she was able to get done what she needed to do for homeschooling and her relationship with her husband even improved given our time working together which she did not expect and which was an added bonus and towards the very end of us working together she had told me that like she has a plan and a sense of calm of what to do next and she really loved like having someone look over the day-to-day and your to-do list it’s a great concept and time well spent and yes she did give me permission to quote her on that and she’s also just like so astonished with like how things turned out at the very end So at the end of the time working together, Cathleen had transformed from like a mom lying awake at night worrying about her endless to-do list to a confident business owner who got her time back in a way that works for her.
Dr. Celia
08:42 – 09:21
And she also discovered that success wasn’t like about doing more, it was about finding and maximizing the valuable pocks of time throughout her day. And I just want to also like emphasize, like she started out where many of us find ourselves, like drowning in the daily juggling of homeschooling three kids, running two businesses, feeling isolated and overwhelmed. She found what she needed through Biz Mom Balance Blueprint, finding a schedule that works with her internally and externally. And she was able to figure out in real time what’s working and not working. And we worked together to tweak her schedule to a place where it works with her real life.
Dr. Celia
09:23 – 09:54
The best part is that Cathleen runs her Christian clothing store and digital art print with a sense of calm and purpose, and her kids know that she’s happier, her marriage is stronger, and she makes decisions with confidence, all while growing her business in a way that feels sustainable and fulfilling to her. And I just want to point out that if you’re nodding along to Cathleen’s story thinking, this is me, this is exactly why I’m stuck, let’s change that. I created a Biz Mom Balance Blueprint for moms like you, moms who want to grow their businesses without burning out.
Dr. Celia
09:55 – 10:19
As Cathleen put it, I went from feeling constantly overwhelmed to feeling in control and purposeful. If you’re tired of feeling stretched thin and ready for change, check out Biz Mom Balance Blueprint. Your future self and your family will thank you. And if you’re interested in learning more about bismuth balance blueprints, please check out the show notes below. Thank you so much for listening to today’s episode. I’ll talk to you next week. Take care.
