I did not love school. School was actually some of the hardest days of my life. And then I found glimpses of a different kind of info – about entrepreneurship, food, personal development, mindfulness, productivity, spirituality, magic … It started somewhere near my 30th birthday with 3 books — Simplicity Parenting, Think and Grow Rich, and The Artist’s Way. They opened my worldview and I became a lifelong learner. Fast forward…
How are you feeling about the holidays this year? I talk about holiday planning year after year, and every year is a little different. The holidays give us a chance to practice the things we say we really want in our lives: boundaries, going toward what we want instead of what we think we have to or are supposed to do, flexing our emotional muscle. This time of year is…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Michele Julian, a healing life coach and meditation teacher about tools for this time we are in now. It’s a really important time to pause and really listen to ourselves. If you’re feeling like life has been on pause and you’re ready to resume, you could think about it as a time to process what’s happened. You…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m sharing 10 of the most important parenting concepts I’ve learned and implemented over the past 18 years. I’ve picked these up from different places — which I credit as I go. Some came easily and some took a while to figure out and untangle, but all of them have made a difference to me as a mother and to my family. Family…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Trace Bell about parenting and your kids’ spirituality. Trace is the son of renowned spiritual teacher and speaker, Rob Bell, who wrote Love Wins. Trace talks about the freedom he had to explore his own spirituality even when his father was a pastor and founder of a megachurch. Trace was never interested in organized religion, and never…
Motherhood wasn’t meant to be a juggling act, yet many of us moms have had “too many balls in the air” since the day our kid was born — and then came the pandemic. The pandemic made a few things about mothering better, and a few things way harder. Whether or not you experienced it as a good break or the hardest stretch of mothering yet, it changed usThis fall…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Eliza Reynolds, who co-wrote Mothering and Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years with her mom Sil, who has also been on the podcast. Eliza has been coaching preteen and teen girls for 15 years and offers an amazing perspective to moms. Let’s start by talking about the preteen/teen period. So many of us are taught to…
This is the third of three episodes about rethinking time. I’m exploring my own ideas about time and sharing exercises that resonate with me and my FLOW365 group as we head out of the pandemic and into the fall. If you missed the first two episodes... You can listen to the first episode about planning and the freedom it gives us (and the dreaming exercise I gave). You can catch…
This is episode two of three episodes on some of my current thinking about time. I’m doing my own deep exploration of time, and we are also working through our changing perceptions of time post-pandemic year in FLOW365. This series is my reflection of both. You can catch up on the first episode about planning and the freedom it gives us (and the dreaming exercise I gave) here. In this,…
I am hearing from a lot of women that time these days feels like a weird mix of foggy and heavy. Most of us want to feel clear and light because those are the feelings that lead to creative, growth-focused actions. The pandemic made the days of the week kinda confusing, and I have noticed that even though the world is opening back up it's still hard to remember it's…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Brandyn Campbell, a consultant who helps companies build and articulate their commitment to racial justice. That means building inclusive environments and fleshing out their values and how those can align with being anti-racist. This is not an easy conversation. I’ve realized over the past year ways that I am not anti-racist, ways I am not inclusive. There…
On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Moni Castaneda, about Feng Shui and how to set up our homes so that we can be more relaxed, more productive and get along with others better. If you do a lot of tidying and decluttering, we’re going to take a step back here to what comes before that — and the beauty and energy of it!…
