Have you ever felt overwhelmed by your to-do list? As moms, we are juggling all the things for all the people and in today’s episode, Stacey Ogden walks us through a very tactical way of going from a brain dump of everything you have to handle and organizing that into a strategic to-do list.

Listen in and definitely let me know your AHA moments on Instagram! I’d love to see you trying this process out for yourself right alongside me.

Meet Stacey

Stacey Ogden is the founder and owner of the Busy Mom Collective. Through her podcast of the same name, and working one-on-one with clients, she helps working moms and mompreneurs master their schedules, own their time, and conquer their out of control to-do lists. She lives in western Connecticut with her husband, 7 year old daughter, and German Shepherd puppy where she teaches middle school music and runs a local chapter of Business Among Moms.

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When building an online business, the main goal should always and forever be, more engagement and more connection with your people in your tribe.

Facebook groups can be one of the best places to build authentic community, create an engaged following and provide immense value. In today’s episode, we talk with Becky Mollenkamp on how she has organically and authentically created a highly engaged Facebook Group in less than a year! She is sharing the strategy and tactics behind building an engaged Facebook Group.

Meet Becky

Becky Mollenkamp began her career as a journalist, working as a staff reporter for a daily newspaper and an editor for one of the country’s largest magazines. She left the 9-to-5 grind in 2005 to become a freelance writer, eventually shifting her focus to corporate writing. Today, she helps other freelancers with mindset and strategy so they can own their authority and crush their goals. She has a large Facebook group, Own it Crush it, and...

Have you ever wondered what it might look like to homeschool your kids while you’re building an online business? In today’s episode, we talk with Karrie Chariton about her homeschool and work balance.

Meet Karrie

Karrie is a Virtual Assistant/ Social Media Manager specializing in Pinterest, and Wellness Coach teaching families how to rid their homes of toxic chemicals and taking control of their health through essential oils. She is a wife, mom, and homeschool teacher to 3 kiddos ages: 10, 13, & 16.

Noteworthy 

• (1:10) Meet Karrie
• (2:06) What started Karrie down the entrepreneurial path
• (4:25) How did people originally find Karrie to hire her
• (6:45) What is Karrie’s expertise?
• (8:40) Give Tailwind a try, what Karrie uses to manage Pinterest (totally what I recommend as well…email me if you have questions [email protected])
• (12:50) How does Karrie manage homeschooling and running a business?
• (15:41) What hard boundaries have you put up in your home...

As moms running businesses, when we have a baby or some kind of life change, we have to take the time to prepare our business and household for a new baby. Some mompreneurs feel like they can’t take an adequate amount of maternity leave but today on the $1k Mom podcast we talk to Sharice Enis who has prepared her business and household for 12 weeks off of complete maternity leave! Listen to today’s episode to hear her wisdom on how she is making it happen!

You might be wondering, “why do I need a website for my network marketing business if my company gives me a website”!

Great question friend!

The simple answer is, differentiation. Plain and simple. When you got started with building your network marketing business you were 1 distributor among a sea of other distributors from the same company.

How do you stand out?

How do you position yourself as an expert?

How do you become the person everyone wants to work with and buy from in your company?

The answer lies in differentiating yourself and building a personal brand and it all starts with a website!

What if I told you that you could build a website in as little as 5 simple steps and with a cost of less than $40?

Today I’m going to walk you through the 5 simple steps to building your network marketing website!

Step 1 | Set up hosting

What is hosting? Web hosting is a service that companies provide where essentially they are renting you space on their servers...

Have you ever wanted to declutter your home but didn’t know where to start? You could feel your home draining your energy because of all of the clutter and things that were constantly out, unorganized and out of place.

In this episode on the $1k Mom podcast, we talk with Lisa Zawrotny about her unique approach to home organization, productivity and business and how our stuff that is in our environment plays a huge role in our family life, work life and personal life.

Before you grab the trash bags and declutter your space, give this episode a listen, because the stuff is not truly what it’s about.

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Noteworthy

• (0:40) Who is Lisa Zawrotny
• (2:15) How did you end up in this Life Coaching niche?
• (6:20) The residual effects of physically organizing your home
• (10:50) What brings you joy in your home? This is the ultimate goal of organizing your home
• (11:15) How do we begin to define what those most important things are
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Hindsight is 20/20 and in this episode, you’ll hear more about Kim Santillo’s journey towards leaving her corporate career to become a full-time mompreneur. What would she have done differently if she could do it all over again? If you are considering making the jump to full-time entrepreneurship, consider if you are the type of person who needs a plan or a push out of the nest to figure it out! Give this episode a listen!

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As mompreneurs we are often battling finding confidence in being a mom and also being an entrepreneur. In today’s chat with Crystal from the Soul in the Raw Podcast & Coaching, we talk about how to use your core values to find confidence in motherhood and business as a mompreneur.

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Meet Crystal

Crystal is a certified Life Coach, Podcaster, co-owner of “Soul In The Raw Coaching”, co-author of “The Soul Shift Guide” E-Journal, Mama, Christ follower, and instigator of joy. She has a heart to help you live life intentionally, even when that means being brave and afraid at the same time. Each day she works with people to redefine their definition of success, release limiting beliefs, uncover their core values, and create a life/business dynamic that is fulfilling.

Noteworthy

• (1:27) Who is Crystal?
• (2:41) Early days as an entrepreneur
• (3:40) Finding alignment in your work
• (5:57) Examples of...

Networking as a mom and building connections to grow our businesses is often hard when we are raising kids, home bound with potty training toddlers and consumed with playing taxi for all the activities our family is involved in. There is no doubt about it that making genuine connections and networking can be what makes the difference in growing your business and can help you grow it faster!

In today’s podcast episode with Andrea Delucia, we talk about motherhood, business and networking as moms.

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Meet Andrea

Andrea DeLucia also known as (Andy) is a wife and mother of 4 she a serial mom-pruner, COACH, SPEAKER, AND CEO. She is the former owner of Elegance & Grace Weddings and the founder of Elite Workshop. With 13 years experience in planning and designing luxury weddings  Andrea has received many awards and recognition for her top notch She has designed campaigns working with National brand companies such as UGG...

There are work at home mom challenges that we deal with on a daily basis! It’s hard stuff! When you’re a mom and you work from home, sometimes your plans (as awesome and well intentioned and systematized as they are) can go to crap…in a heartbeat.

In today’s bonus episode on the $1k Mom podcast, Katie is sharing 3 steps to take when your work at home mom plans go crazy! We can lose it or we can get it together and do these 3 things.

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When this happens. As a mom, running a household and a business, there are a few ways we can react.

The first way is, we can lose it and just flip out. Letting it control our entire day. Letting our day run us and be ruined by an uncontrollable situation!

The better and sometimes harder thing to do, is to say OK…this is what has happened, now how do we solve it? And then get yourself into problem solving mode!