S3, Ep. 120- A Year Without A Nanny

Leah Gervais: Hey visionaries, welcome back to the show, Leah here, and I have a new podcasting microphone, so hopefully I sound good. Hopefully better than usual, but most of all, hopefully I just sound like you can listen to this whole podcast, without feeling frustrated. Not having good audio is a pet peeve of mine, so thanks for bearing with me.

 Today’s episode is an emotional one. I’m recording it at the end of my pregnancy, so I’m already pretty emotional. But today I am looking back at the decision we made a year ago to let go of our then nanny so that I could be the primary caregiver of my son. And so today I wanna talk about what went into that decision, how I was able to make that transition. Um, it’s going to be kind of a mix of an episode of like a little bit of woo woo because it was so, it felt like divine intervention at the time when it was happening.

Um, but also some practical business shifts that I went through. And then just some practical scheduling shifts that I went through. And this might not be of any interest to you at all. You might just feel like, what is the big deal, Leah, you let go of your nanny. It’s not like you’re the only person to have ever been a stay-at-home Mom. It’s true, it’s true that I’m not, but it feels, it still feels like one of the biggest deals in my eight years of business to me, because at the time, and still to this day at the time, I was definitely the only stay-at-home mom that I knew that was also making as much as I was.

So I’ve had amazing stay-at-home Mom friends, I would say the majority of my friends here in New York are stay-at-home moms and don’t work. Um, and I’ve also got a handful of very ambitious mom friends.

I have a mom friend that is a partner at a law firm who really, really impresses me. And in New York, you’ll find plenty of women who make far more than I do, um, through their jobs, but they typically have, you know, very hands-on childcare. Um, and so doing both did feel like a big deal to me, and it still does. I know that I’ve been so vocal about my story and the situation that I found myself in, um, I have connected with other moms that have done similar things, but it’s still very much not the norm. 

And, and for some people that’s not what they want. And I think that that is very respectable. I think that all moms need to listen to what is going to make them the best mom they can be. Some moms don’t want the life I’ve chosen where you’re both working and with your kid and straddling two very different worlds sometimes all the time. It is mentally inefficient. I will be the first to admit that, you know, going from looking at the metrics of an ad campaign to playing with Legos on the floor within the same 20 minutes is probably leaking a lot of thought processes and strategies that my brain is halfway forming before I then switch to something totally different. 

And I know that. And so I totally respect and understand when this just isn’t the desire that a mom has for herself. But I think that there are moms out there that do have this desire but have not even considered it or don’t think it’s possible or don’t see how this could even work for them. 

And that’s who I really wanna speak to in this because that’s really who I was up until we made this transition. It was something I almost knew in my gut that I wanted, but consciously couldn’t have even put words to because it felt so farfetch’d, it felt so unrealistic and undoable because how in the world could I make a business work while still being with my son full-time without absolutely driving myself insane?

You know, what, what could that even look like? Don’t you need focused time to work? And how do you get focused when you have a toddler and just all of these things. So that’s, that’s kind of where I wanna go with this today. That’s what I wanna talk about. And, and it’s not just about the logistics of how I ended up figuring out how to do that, although I will share that because I love hearing about that kind of stuff. 

But it’s about the bigger message that we have to advocate for our own desires, even when other people have made us believe that they’re not possible, even when we’ve made ourselves believe that they’re not possible, even when we have no example of proof that it is possible. That is what this is about. And I don’t know about you guys, I say this a lot, but I really come back to it.

I did not go through quitting my nine to five job, giving up my acceptances to law school, giving up that defined career path, um, going into tens of thousands of dollars into debt to start my business publicly, putting my story out there, risking myself to public humiliation, being publicly humiliated, being gossiped about having mean comments. All the things that I was afraid would happen just to feel like I’m 80% living the life that I want. You know, I didn’t do all of that to not really do it my way. 

That’s, I think, the bigger message here. Do whatever you feel is best for you and your kid in your childcare situation. I’m not, I don’t have an agenda around whether or not you have a nanny or whether or not you have daycare or whether or not you, you know, do you, what I do wanna push is the settling. What I wanna call out is the assumptions. What I do want to draw attention to is where we are not even trying anymore to do things that we really want because we just don’t think that we can without forgetting all that we’ve already done. And defied, if you’re listening to this and you’re a six figure business owner and you’re a woman, you’re already, let me do the quick math. How many female businesses hit six figures?

You’re, you’re in like under 5% of all businesses. That was just a quick Google. There could be some nuance there. I’m sure there’s nuance, but the point is it’s very, very rare. It’s very rare for female businesses to still succeed. It’s very rare for small businesses in general to succeed. And yet then when it comes to what we haven’t yet seen before, we think somehow we’re disqualified from that because we’ve never done it. 

And my mantra this whole year has been I no longer need proof of what I want. I can become the proof, which is so empowering and sometimes lonely. But I think for a long time my business and my growth and my dreams relied on me watching other people do them. And, and that did leverage me so much and that did get me so far. And it is a huge reason why I still openly share things like my income and my lifestyle because I know that seeing that in other people gave me a lot of hope and propelled me forward a ton.

So it works. And sometimes you don’t have the proof right in front of you and you have to find a way to keep going. Anyway, that’s what we wanna talk about today. 

So let’s go back a year. Last year was August of 2023 and everything really happened at once. It was such a beautiful cascade of synchronicities coming together. I had started my passive park sales, I was just a few months into them. So they weren’t, you know, the profitable powerhouse stream that they are now. Which I think is important to remember if you’ve, if you are interested in starting your own passive park funnel, if you are coming to one of my webinars on them, remember that you can see results quickly, but you probably won’t see the true income that you want for a little while. It’s okay. It takes time. 

So that’s where I was. I had started it and my son had just graduated from a pre preschool class that we took. We took it in like the spring semester for I think three or four months.

And the class was fine. I thought it was really going to be so good for him. I remember applying and like following up, getting kind of nervous whether or not we’d get in. ’cause it was at this private school on the upper west side and it was like 90 minutes once a week. And it was meant to get them into the habit of, um, going to school. 

Okay. I’m, I’m just, I just, I’m realizing I need to put a disclaimer on this podcast before I go further, that I’m going to be a little bit mom ranty. And I’m not trying to be insulting. These are just observations I had for our family. And I thought that this would be so smart. I thought it would be a great way for him to, you know, get used to school. Because we knew we would have to start applying to preschool in the fall, blah, blah, blah.

It was really a catalyst for me in what I wanted for my son and in my approach to motherhood. I think up until that point, I didn’t have the strongest opinions on motherhood. I sort of just felt like as long as I’m, you know, as long as my kid is healthy and we’re getting through the day, and I can see that he is developing as his pediatrician wants and doing a good job. And that is true, right? Like mom’s put so much pressure on themselves.

But I didn’t have favorite parenting books or particular styles or approaches that I was attached to. I sort of just went with what I thought was best at the time and went with what I thought would get him advanced, that would advance him the way that he could, particularly in New York where we live. And this was, I think the first moment that just something felt really off to me.

I just started getting very skeptical of all these like sub two year olds in this classroom every week. Not outside having structure, you know, having to sit in circles, having to, um, having to play like with particular prompts. It all just felt so weird to me personally to have kids this young doing this because I just felt like, why am I putting him in a school environment when he has the next whatever, 16 years, 15 years from when he starts pre-K to be in school beyond that, right? That’s just even through grade school or um, through high school. 

What about college? Like, why am I rushing this? And I had gone into this thinking that this would be such a good thing for him, but something in me felt like, whoa, this feels way off and just too young and I don’t think that this is right for him.

And it just, it, that was kind of a big eye opener to me that I, I didn’t really want these classes and this structure and being inside and, you know, it just sort, sort of felt like, how did we get to a place where these young toddlers are in these like school basements for hours at a time and why aren’t they like running around eating mud? You know, isn’t that kind of what they should be doing at this age? That’s kind of what I thought anyway. Maybe it sounds less sophisticated, but that’s kind of where I started getting suspicious. 

So this led me to the work of someone named Jerica Sains. She’s a, she’s a, um, early childhood development, um, educator. She is a homeschool curriculum creator. Uh, she’s, she has an Instagram account that I found and she also has a course on playing with very young kids.

So I took this class and it sort of just put into words everything that I think I had been feeling from that pre preschool class, but didn’t really know how to articulate. I talked a ton about the importance of independent play, how school had really come to be as a place to like have kids go so that because we live in a world where both parents work most of the time, um, kids don’t necessarily need to be in school for as long as they are, especially this young.

 Um, the importance of being outside, the importance of having unstructured time, the importance of just being able to hear yes and the importance of letting kids kind of discover things on their own instead of via a teacher or via you, the mother or a nanny feeling like they have to entertain a toddler, meaning feeling like they have to be on the floor with them, constantly reading with them, doing puppet shows with them, pointing out toys to them, et cetera, et cetera.

Which was largely what I was asking our wonderful nanny to do. So I’m getting a little bit down a rabbit hole here. But the point is, I started taking just a closer look at overall how I was parenting my son and how we were having our nanny do it and this class that I was having him enroll in. And I knew that we were probably going to start applying for preschools in the fall, even though I was starting to have some skepticisms about this.

But it all just sort of made me realize that maybe we were just doing too much as parents and needing him to do too much. Having him go to too many classes, having a nanny, that was amazing. I mean, I loved her and that was a hard part of this, but she was very hands-on because I asked her to be.

Um, and, and, and that was just a turning point. Now, simultaneously, let’s look a little bit at my business. I had had these passive sales starting, which I had just wanted to do because I had wanted to do them for a while. Um, but as I started developing them more and as I started kind of down this more, um, outdoor enthusiastic parenting approach, they started to kind of couple together. This is really how my passive at park sales was born. I really focused on them as ways to allow me to be outside more with my son. 

So when I would normally come home from work and kind of play with him, I would go outside. Instead we’d go to Central Park. We’re very fortunate to live so close to it, um, and just spend more time there. And I just kept kind of having that become our default.

Let’s go outside, let’s go outside, let’s go outside. And I started working on my passive park sales more intensely because I wanted to see how much I could make from them while we were going outside and outside and outside and was really working. It was really starting to grow. And at this time, our then nanny took the month of August off because she has family in Europe and she wanted to go visit them for the month, understandably so, I had been preparing to take a slower month from work because I knew we wouldn’t have childcare. 

And all of this just sort of happened at once. My reexamination of my son’s schedule, my reexamination of my own business and how much of it actually relied on me showing up and being on Zoom or showing up and recording webinars or showing up and doing Facebook lives, all the things I had been doing for years.

And frankly, I loved that season of my business where I was, you know, talking to people, connecting, coaching, always on, on, on, on. Um, sometimes it would get to be a little bit exhausting, but that’s entrepreneurship, right? You gotta hustle. And um, overall it was a great, a great season, but I started just kind of rethinking things like do I need to be on my computer as much to really see my business grow?

 And I started reading articles about Zoom fatigue and I swear God or the universe, whatever you believe in, was putting all of these things in my path because I felt like every day I would wake up and a new sign would be there that like I was about to change my business and my family’s life for forever. And so at the time though, my nanny, we and we loved her, had been with us.

She had been part-time with us for three days a week. I think she was at around 30 hours a week. Um, I made the decision that we were, I was going to try to do this on my own and that I was going to try to, to basically rely more on my passive park sales, rely more on my son playing independently so that I would feel comfortable answering an email if he was, you know, in the mud or something outside. 

Whereas before I had really relied on myself to like, entertain him on the floor whenever I was with him, I was constantly on his play mat with him. And I started realizing that it probably wasn’t the best thing for him. Um, I decided to try this to just let her go and see how we did. And I just, it was a scary decision.

You know, we live in New York with no family, my husband and I, neither of us are from here. Neither of us are even from the northeast. We both do have sisters here, which is very fortunate. But we don’t have our parents here. We don’t have regular help. I don’t have help from my mother, I don’t have help from my mother-in-law. Like I know a lot of people do. 

Um, and so when you find an adult that you trust with your kid and that you feel like they can really confide in and lean on, it’s hard to let that go because that’s an important relationship to have. And we really trusted her. Our son really loved her. And so it felt very, it did feel very scary. It felt like, what if I mess? You know, what if I can’t handle this? What if we have to find someone new and we don’t feel as good about her because she was such a good fit?

And what if we’re gonna burn ourselves out? You know, what if, what if, what if, what if? Of course. But things just kept popping up. Like I was introduced to a woman who ran a new child friendly coworking space, um, a few blocks from our apartment and I thought, oh my gosh, what an amazing idea. 

Now this coworking space had kind of a full blown daycare attached to it, but they were so family friendly and so kid friendly that they also would allow you to just go work for a little while and sort of allow your kid to play there. Kind of, I kind of think of it like a kid’s club more so than like, ’cause he’s not there very much. He’s there for a few hours. We’ll take him, I’ll take him for a few hours here and there throughout the week. And I was like, okay.

So there’s, you know, I have that option, like if I really need to get on a call or I really need to get something, something banged out, um, I can take him there for, for a few hours. My gym had a kids’ club, a two hour, two hour kids’ club, uh, window where you could go drop your kid workout, you know, take a long shower, work a little, and um, and you’re, and he would play. And so all of these things started feeling like, okay, I do have options and the universe is sending me in this direction and, and it’s not gonna be that I have no help if I need, you know, I think that that is a pressure that moms put on themselves. 

It’s like, well, if I’m giving up my career, if I’m giving up whatever to be a stay-at-home mom, I always need to be on.

And that’s not true. You can have babysitters, you can take your kids to kids’ clubs. Like there’s ways you can do it where you still get some help, but you are still doing the things that to me, I wanted to be the one doing. It was still me putting him in the crib for naps. It was still me preparing lunches. It was still me watching him, you know, develop through these milestones. It was still me answering all his questions as he grew. 

All of those things were, I was, I was able to do. And it just felt like such a gift because as we started applying for preschools, it felt so fleeting. You know, this, in a year he’s gonna be in school forever. And even though I felt so privileged up to that point to be able to only work technically, part-time, because we only had a part-time nanny, and that was in a lot of ways the dream.

I mean, being able to spend that much time with him while still running a business that was pulling in around 50,000 a month was amazing to me. Um, there, there this meant more to me. This was even, this was even more important. So we did it. We took the leap, I let our nanny go. I explained the situation. Honestly, I loved her. 

Um, but I, you know, I felt like this was an opportunity I had to try something and excuse myself. She was, you know, sad but understanding. And here we are a year later and I have averaged ranged between around 45 and almost $70,000 in cash a month since we did that, right When I let her go, actually, it, you know, the months that followed were like September in, in Q4 last year, which are always very profitable months for us because it’s when we pre-sell a lot of our long-term coaching containers for the following year.

Um, I made almost half a million dollars in sales in the four months after I let her go, which blew my mind because my husband and I were cutting back expenses. We even moved to a smaller apartment to do this because I didn’t wanna have the financial burden on myself to pay as much as we were for our luxury two bedroom, two bathroom corner unit. Um, so we moved to a smaller apartment. It’s still a very nice apartment and we’re still across from Central Park, but I just thought, how can we cut back some expenses so that I’m feeling less financial strain?

Because I was almost preparing for my business to take a financial cut through this. And it really didn’t. I mean, maybe some months were a little bit lower that well, I, no, I mean, I, I think I had more out, um, more high months than low months and sales-wise, I did not have a seven figure year over the past 12 months, which actually I should do the double check and do the math on that.

I may have. Um, but it, my sales, my sales numbers may have gone down. I thought my cash would go down a lot more. I was prepared for it too. It felt worth it to me. And it did not. My sales numbers were at record high by the end of last year and I remember just soaking this all in around the holidays. They are so thankful that I was able to parent my son like this. So thankful that I hadn’t had a nanny so thankful for the 400 plus thousand dollars we had made in the past four months and then I was newly pregnant. 

And that’s, you know, the, the whole cherry on top of this whole story is that now I’m weeks, maybe even days away from having another baby and I just can’t express how grateful I am that I had this last year with him with no nanny because it was me, you know, before another baby came.

Um, okay, let’s look at some common q and a I get about this, I talk about this a lot because I really want women to know that they can be the primary caregiver and still make bank be the breadwinner, make hundreds of thousands of dollars, all of that. And so let’s just go through some of them. ’cause I think it’ll answer some of those questions. 

Okay, the first question I get a lot is how do I schedule sales calls? How do I make time for sales calls when the majority of my day is with a rambunctious toddler who is unpredictable? The first part of this answer is that I don’t really do sales calls anymore. I haven’t really had to do sales calls in a few years because for a few reasons. One, I don’t, my one-on-one coaching filled last year at the end of last year because, because of this, after I decided to let go of our nanny, I decided to take on fewer one-on-one clients.

Um, that filled up really quickly because I already had some existing ones and then when I announced the few spots that I had that filled up, so I don’t have room for one-on-one clients right now. We have a wait list, you can join that. Um, but I’m not doing, you know, consistent sales calls like I was back in the earlier years of my business where I was kind of consistently taking on clients. I do do sales calls for my mastermind if, uh, if need be. I don’t, I don’t always need to. 

For example, we have, we are currently in the fast action window for enrolling my mastermind, and I think I’ve done two sales calls, um, total, and we’ve enrolled far more than that. I think we’re, we’re over halfway full, so I just don’t need to do them all the time because of where my business is at.

Um, so that makes it easier, you know, if you’re in a season of business where you still need to get on sales calls frequently because you’re still enrolling clients on a monthly basis, then I still don’t think you should discount yourself from going down the path that I did if this is what you want, but you, this just might be a situation where you say, okay, you know what, every Tuesday afternoon for three hours, I’m gonna have a babysitter and have my kid go to, you know, an activity with the babysitter or whatever. 

Like I think that you can, there’s still a very happy medium where you can find some structured relief without having to have a full on childcare situation. Um, I’ve, I’ve done that with my, uh, mastermind. That is like the one Zoom call. I, well, let me, let me get to the next question.

So that is the answer to the question of how I schedule sales calls. Okay, the next question that I get asked is, how do I schedule coaching calls coaching business and how, how am I managing to do that around a toddler schedule? The biggest answer to this is that I don’t have that many coaching calls these days. 

Again, this is something where when I was building my business, I would be on sometimes five, six coaching calls a day. My schedule was filled with Zoom appointments, probably yeah, around five to eight a day, be it through coaching calls, sales calls, zoom meetings, webinars, lives, all of that. I was on that constantly and I’m just not on them as much anymore for a few reasons. One, like I mentioned, I’ve taken on fewer one-on-one clients, so I just don’t have as many clients regularly that I do them with.

Um, really the only regular coaching calls I do as my mastermind call and that one I have kept on Zoom just because I find it to be important to see the group together. Um, and then the rest of the coaching I like a lot. Some of my one-on-one clients I don’t even have calls with in general, I do their coaching via Voxer and or email. 

And that works really well for us because they don’t want more on their calendar and it is a way that I can kind of support them in real time. Even my own coach, when I went through this transformation a year ago, I reached out to her and asked her if she could create a package for me that didn’t involve calls because it just isn’t what I needed in my business at the time. So she supports me solely over, um, Basecamp, which is what she uses.

Uh, we have one meeting a year, so I just don’t have as many. That’s kind of the thing that’s important to know, know when I do. So, like I said, the MAs like my mastermind call is a great example of something that’s really important to me. And then I do one scale your side hustle call a month as well. 

And I don’t wanna give those up even though I have an amazing support coach and scale your side hustle. Um, those are just very important to me. I think that they thrive with me having this one call with them a month. And I think that my mastermind call as a group is really important. So I just know that on those three times a month, um, I, you know, I need to have backup. Well, for s scaler side hustle, I typically do that when my son is napping, so that one’s easy.

My son is a pretty reliable napper, so that one I don’t have to really plan too much around, but for the mastermind, I, I get in reinforcements whether that’s I have a babysitter come or I have my husband come home from work early and then he works later that night or whatever. I just figured out a way to have a little bit of backup for like two hours twice a month. 

So I think it’s just important to really look at your schedule and think like, what are the actual things that I have to do that I cannot be with my child for? Do they necessitate something like daycare or a full-time or even a part-time nanny, or could I get a babysitter twice a month and you know, be with him or her or both of them or the multiples that you have the rest of the time.

So that’s kind of what I do for, for my calls that are structured. The few that I still have left, I either go to the child-friendly coworking space, go to the gym, ask my husband if he can make due that day or get a one-off babysitter. Okay, next question is, did my income go down? Not really. Um, my monthly average cash did not go down. 

My sales I think did go down because I didn’t take on any more. One-on-one clients, which is, which would produce typically higher sales. Um, but again, I did that by choice. I kind of knew that was gonna happen. Like now a much higher percentage of my income comes from my passive park sales, which is not monthly recurring revenue. And I think that that is, that’s kind of the biggest shift is like when I had more clients, when I took on more clients than I do now.

Um, you know, those contracts would go from six to 12 months and that would be reliable income, so you wouldn’t really need to make a sale. Now that income starts at zero every month because it’s people buying products from me, digital products, so I don’t have as much predictability around it. 

Um, but it’s very automated. You know, my passive park sales system is passive, so it doesn’t really, it evens out for me. Like yes, it might not be as predictable as having more one-on-one clients, but it’s less time consuming than having one-on-one clients. And that is just what I am focusing on in my business more right now. And the way I’ve been able to grow my passive park sales over the past year has not really allowed the overall income to drop. So this has not really gone down even though I was kind of prepared for it too.

Okay, what is a sample schedule? Um, okay, I’ll just go through a day like today. So typically I would get up a bit earlier than my son so that I could work a bit. Now this has wildly, um, varied during pregnancy because I have just been more tired, especially here at the end. So a lot of times I’ll stay in bed until my son gets up. 

But in the past and in a perfect world, I will wake up, you know, usually at around 5, 5 30 and, um, sometimes even earlier, back in the day, back in my non pregnancy days and work for a few hours before he gets up. This was always really helpful to me. It also, sometimes when I’d work out, it’d kind of be that me time that, you know, a lot of people need childcare. I would kind of try to get it in then.

And then when he gets up, my husband and I would have our mornings together, breakfast, walk the dog, play a little and get ready. Um, sometimes I even work out like with him next to me there in the mornings when he’s playing, which is a great mom hack. Just always question like, the things I do when I don’t have my kid, can I do them with my kid? 

And working out is often one of them. Sometimes my son even does little workouts with me. It’s so cute. Um, so, and then we do that until around eight 30 or nine when my husband goes to work. Um, and then we, we either do something fun, like we’ll go to the zoo or we’ll go to the park and literally just be at the park for like hours until lunchtime. Um, or we’ll go on an adventure in the city or we’ll go to a museum if the weather’s crappy or we’ll go to a play date if we have a mom friend that you know is free.

Um, we’ll just do something fun together. Uh, or, or if I have, if it’s a day that I have to do something that day, I will either go to our child friendly coworking space or the gym and do a little bit of work and he will play for, you know, a few hours. Um, and then come home, then we have lunch together, then we play for a little, and then he plays for a little, and usually I’ll just kind of answer emails while he plays or, or get the apartment pulled together. 

Um, and then he naps for a few hours in the afternoon. And then I work a bit more. It really is actually striking how much time I have to work when I really think about it. This could all change any minute when I have a second kid and all of a sudden their naps don’t line up.

But for now, this is how it’s been. Um, and then I would get a lot of work done while he would nap and then he’d wake up at around four and we typically would go back outside until the sunsets, which unfortunately in the winter was like right at four, so that was kinda tough. But with the longer days and the nicer weather, we will go outside for, you know, hours. 

Sometimes they’ll just bring us dinner so that we don’t have to come home for dinner. Um, or we’ll come home for dinner and, uh, then we get ready for bed. And then I’ll usually work for about an hour after he goes to sleep. I’m not a great night person. I don’t like staying up late. I don’t like work. I honestly don’t really like working at night, so it’s usually just when I finish a few undone things throughout the day.

Um, but that is pretty much our schedule. So we do, we have a lot of fun, a lot of adventures. Um, I find time to work throughout the day. I’m big on independent play. I don’t like to play with him the whole time. So, you know, I have no qualms if he’s like at, if we’re at the park and he is shoveling and filling up a bucket with dirt or walking through the trees or whatever, we don’t even go to the playgrounds that much. 

We kind of just try to, I let him just follow whatever is interesting to him. I’ll respond to an email or I’ll write down the outline for something that I wanna create or something like that and just, you know, be there with him and make sure he’s doing okay, but not interrupt him. Uh, okay. Next question is, what has been the hardest part?

The hardest part has been pregnancy because it kind of felt like this dramatic shift of like how much I was able to do with him versus having to readjust that and having to ask for help more because especially in the beginning I felt so rough. I had a very rough first trimester and then had a pretty great second trimester. But still throughout my full pregnancy and even now, I still feel pretty great even though I’m almost at the end. 

Um, my second and third were great, but I would say like once a week or once every other week, I would have days where I would just be like, man, I am in it. And then the rest of the time I’d feel great. But on those days where I’d be like, I need to nap twice and I just am not able to really, you know, rally around anything, um, I, I just had to learn to ask for more help.

And I’m fortunate that my husband has, he works for himself also, so he has a flexible schedule. Um, and I encourage you if this is something you wanna go, if you’re interested in doing, you know, kind of having a more, a different structure for your business and life, something that I teach in the 50 K month, mama is like, find your luck, find your advantages. Because I think so often we think, oh, well I could do this if only I had a blank, or I could do this if only my situation were different. 

So find the things about your situation that make this possible, whether that’s you have family that lives nearby, right? And that you can call them if you need a little bit of help. Like not a lot, not everyone has family nearby, so that’s an asset on its own. Or maybe you have, um, a job where, or you know, within your own work things that you can do less between nine, nine and five than you maybe have given yourself permission to do in the past.

And those are things you can do during random times. Like you can do them when your kids are sleeping if that’s what you wanna do. Um, or maybe you have friends that can help you out that have flexible schedules, whereas some people just feel like they don’t. So, and kind of made that list like I did, I was like, all right, I have this coworking space, I have this, um, gym that has childcare. 

Like what do you have going for you so that you have those like back pockets? What if moments are covered? Okay, those are the biggest questions I get. I hope that you guys found this episode helpful. I hope it really pushes you to think through things hopefully in a different way if that’s what you want. Um, I just had someone yesterday at an alum of my 50 K month mom course email me and say, you know, I don’t think that I would be in this

Situation if it weren’t for this course. Um, we were able to end after school care and you know, now I’m with my son so much more. So I hope that whatever this looks like for you, it puts you in that direction. But thank you guys so much for tuning in. Most of all, I hope this pushes you to continue to create the life and the business that you really want. I’ll talk to you guys soon and have a great rest of your day.

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