115. 4 Questions I Am Asking Myself As I Enter This New Season Of Life

But anyways, the point of this conversation is, so I'm gonna be, you know, going through this very transformational period in my life, and I'm going through and navigating this different season and it's a new season.

And with that, after my mini la- mat leave when I, you know, fully come back in January, even though I'm coming back to work, it's still going to look different.

Things are going to have to be different.

There's going to be a lot of changes and a lot of adjustments, and there's gonna be things that I am going to need to do differently.

And so I've been thinking a lot about, okay, what I did in 2026 is not going to work for my business and for my life in 2027.

So what does it look like for me to actually be able to have it all? What does it look like for me to be able to, you know, be with my newborn, with my baby, with my toddler and, you know, take him to his activities and be present in my life with not just one, but both of my kids now, and at home, and as a wife, and take care of me.

You know, I'm, I'm looking forward to getting back into my exercise routine when it's time.

There's-- I'm not rushing that.

But when it is time, I am, I'm looking forward to that again, and that's, that's a value of mine, and that's something that I, that I want and something that I don't negotiate on.

So what does it look like for me to have that? And a business and clients that I'm literally obsessed with, an income that I don't wanna apologize for, and really just allow myself to have it all, but in a different way in this new season.

Because like I said, like the reality is that the way that I have operated in the last couple years with one child, you know, a child in daycare two days a week, and I've had about two to three days a w- two to three days a week, usually three days a week of work with my husband having a day off during the week.

Um, you know, this, this system that we've had and that honestly we've like, you know, nailed and perfected i- in certain ways.

Like, there's lots of ebbs and flows.

There's lots of things that don't go as planned.

There's lots of shifts and days that don't look the way that I want them to.

That's okay.

But we've had a rhythm and we've had a flow for literally a couple years now, and that flow is no longer going to work in the next season.

And I've been sitting with that a lot, one, for myself obviously- Because even though I've technically done this pregnancy thing, this newborn thing, this have a baby, we'll have a business thing before, I have not done it as a mom of two.

I haven't had a child and a newborn at the same time.

I, I haven't navigated this way of life before.

So even though I've done this before, this is still all going to be new to me in a lot of ways, and a lot of adjusting again.

And if I do know anything [laughs] it's that it's going to be an adjustment.

Things are going to need to change.

But the problem is that I, I know that as h- women especially, and I think as high-achieving women, where we like want to do our best and optimize and like be productive and, you know, have our goals and all of these things, right? We so easily will just like default to trying to squeeze ourselves into an old box, so old versions of ourselves that we once were.

I see this all the time just, just in, you know, as mothers in general.