What is Ambitious Motherhood and why did we change the podcast name? Ambitious Motherhood is for the mom who is chasing after her dreams in motherhood and in business. This is your permission slip to pursue all that you were created to be, and live out your calling both in your home and outside of your home.

Show Notes

• (1:20) How to make money from your expertise
• (1:40) Katie’s Ninja Skills
• (2:22) Contribute income to your family while being home, raising your kids
• (2:36) The transformation of the podcast
• (3:34) What Ambitious Motherhood is all about
• (4:34) What does your calling outside your home look like?
• (6:00) My story
• (9:35) Stewarding all the things well
• (10:20) What ifs that you might be saying?
• (12:05) The illusion of motherhood
• (14:05) Using discernment in your motherhood journey

Links to Connect

• Join the FREE Ambitious Motherhood Community
• Download the Roadmap to $1k – The 5 Step Process to Making Your First $1k Online
• FREE CLASS...

Breakfast Invitations is something that Beth created to help moms start their morning calm, collected and centered by creating simple activities for their kids to work on that are educational, fun and avoid turning on the TV first thing each morning. She encourages moms to keep set up simple and often shows moms on Instagram how to set them up in under 5 minutes. Creating opportunities for our kids to learn, play and explore doesn’t have to be complicated and stressful.

 Meet Beth

Beth is the creator of Days with Grey, that provides manageable activities for preschoolers that help prepare for Kindergarten. As a previous educator of 13+ years, she knows how to sneak in important vocabulary to daily activities and is determined to show you how to do the same. Masters in Teaching Reading with an add-on for teaching gifted.

Noteworthy

• Meet Beth (00:30)
• How Beth got started in business (03:03)
• Be who you are (06:10)
• Juggling motherhood and business (07:40)
• Keeping...

Life with littles doesn’t have to be elaborate or Pinterest Worthy to be able to celebrate and find the joy. In today’s episode with Ashley Canipe of The Littles & Me, she shares with us ways that we can practically weave in celebration into our everyday lives with our kids and create meaningful moments and opportunities to enjoy life, together.

Meet Ashley

Ashley is a wife and mama of two girls (ages 4 and 2). She believes in celebrating everyday moments, the power of play and spreading freshly squeezed joy along the way. On her blog she shares favorite kids activities, simple ideas for family fun, everyday ways to point your kids to Jesus + encouragement for your mama heart. She's a firm believer in living room dance parties, playing dress up, not taking yourself too seriously, and that life is truly worth celebrating.

Noteworthy

• Meet Ashley (01:25)
• How did Ashley start producing content (05:00)
• A typical week in Ashley’s house (06:50)
• ...

Selling on Amazon is a great way to make money from home, especially as a mom. In today’s podcast episode, Kathleen Kobel shares with us how to begin making money with Amazon.

Meet Kathleen

Kathleen Kobel is an Amazon expert seller and consultant who helps small businesses grow their brands and scale their sales by selling products on Amazon. Her mission is to help business owners increase their visibility, trust factor and profits by selling on a marketplace full of customers ready to buy.

Noteworthy

• Meet Kathleen (00:27)
• How Kathleen started selling online (02:50)
• The basics of the Amazon world (08:11)]
• How has Amazon changed the past 5 years? (12:30)
• Amazon Private Labeling (15:10)
• Marketing your product on Amazon (17:38)
• Restricted products (19:34)
• Finding manufacturers (20:55)
• What profit margins should you shoot for? (23:03)
• Ranking your product on Amazon (24:55)
• Getting an email list (27:58)
• Amazon Merch (35:07)
• How many hours a week does it take to run...

Melissa has honed her expertise over the years and really perfected her craft. Creating sales pages for her clients is her strength as well as showing other designers how to create a strong niche for themselves in the field. Listen in to hear her story.

Meet Melissa

Melissa Burkheimer is an award winning graphic designer, creative director + design visionary who helps well-known thought leaders, entrepreneurs, authors and personality brands create the BEST websites in their industry.

Today, her design studio stays at the forefront of the digital marketing industry by designing web sites and sales pages that elevate her customers' brands, products and services with the iconic design they deserve.

Her mission is simple: help her customers create identities + websites easily so they can spend their time doing the things they love. Melissa also mentors freelance web designers who want to grow 6-figure businesses and has been featured in Daily Worth, Social Media...

Have you ever stepped in the kitchen with hungry kids and have no idea what to cook for dinner? In today's episode of Ambitious Motherhood Podcast, Jasmine Schmalhaus walks us through the 5 steps to planning simple, quick and healthy dinners for your family.

Meet Jasmine

Jasmine Schmalhaus, ‘JazzyThings,' traded in her corporate life for a life of creating taste bud parties. She is the founder of Your Dinner Is Planned, the host of the Dinner Table Talk podcast, and the author of over 10 healthy cookbooks.

With thousands of healthy recipes introduced into households across the world, her continuous mission is to prove that eating healthy is easy, flavorful, and fun.

Noteworthy

• Meet Jasmine (00:30)
• 5 tips for planning healthy dinners (03:30)
• Plan your week with themes (05:25)
• Compile and organize recipe (06:40)
• Taking into account the things you have on hand and in your pantry (7:20)
• Rotating change (8:15)
• Display your meal plan, yes or no? (9:50)
• How to create healthier...

Balancing motherhood and running businesses is not easy when mom guilt creeps in. In today’s podcast episode with Sanja Hatter, co-founder of Thrive: Make Money Matter and Director of Operations for The Hatter Group, we talk about juggling motherhood and business and all the expectations and mom guilt that go along with that.

Meet Sanja

Sanja Hatter is the co-founder of Thrive: Make Money Matter and the Director of Operations for The Hatter Group, LLC. She is an expert in “giftology”, and has an unparalleled talent for fostering and maintaining relationships. Sanja loves to teach how she gets the attention of influencers you “can’t reach”, creating win win scenarios to create true lasting relationships.

Links to Connect

• Connect with Sanja
  • Website
  • Instagram
  • Attend Thrive and get $100 off with discount code KATIEFLEMING >> Let's go!

• What Sanja Reading
  • The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• Connect with...

Jennifer Blossom is building a global lifestyle brand as a new mom. In episode number 40 of the Ambitious Motherhood Podcast, Jennifer and Katie talk about all the things motherhood and business and how to balance them well. Topics like what it means to be a Proverbs 31 Woman, how Jennifer started her brand and utilizing social media to grow your brand and spread your message are just a few of the conversations had.

Meet Jennifer

Jennifer Blossom is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy and Certified Infant Massage Instructor ® on a mission to change the world one family at a time. After struggling with years of anxiety, overwhelm, and extreme eating + exercise habits, she’s using her past to create a leading lifestyle brand that services women and children all over the world on habits of healthy living through nutrition, exercise, stress management, and holistic wellbeing. Jennifer is a mother of one and wife to her Alaskan hubby, Brian.

Links to Connect

• Connect with...

What does healing your pelvic floor and abdominal muscles have in common with traveling the country in an RV with your family? This is what Catherine Middlebrooks has done and how she has chosen to make a living while pursuing motherhood.

Listen to this week’s episode to hear her story on how she has structured her business to allow her to work online, raise her family and travel the United States in an RV.

Meet Catherine

Catherine Middlebrooks is a yoga teacher, postpartum corrective exercise specialist, wife, Mom and the founder of brb Yoga and the Heal Your Core with Yoga program.

With the mind of a researcher and the heart of a yogi, Catherine geeks out on the science behind corrective exercise and helping moms like you restore your core strength so you can say YES to life again.

Catherine is currently taking yoga on the road, traveling the United States in an RV with her husband Paul and their two young children.

Links to Connect

• Connect with Catherine
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Kelly Roach is a mom who takes people on a journey to making 6 figures in their business. This conversation was so fun and I think you will gain many nuggets for how to run your business and be the best mom you can be, simultaneously.

Meet Kelly

Kelly Roach is the host of the top-rated podcast Unstoppable Success Radio, an International best-selling author, and the CEO of Kelly Roach Coaching.

As a former NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive where she was promoted 7 times in 8 years, Kelly brings a powerful combination of proven and profitable business growth strategies coupled with the mindset, wellness and productivity practices required to help entrepreneurs build a profitable business around a life they absolutely love.

Kelly’s passion and purpose is in helping entrepreneurs around the world achieve exponential profit, sales, and income growth.

Links to Connect

• Connect with Kelly
  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Learn how to use LinkedIn to build...