Capacity Over Hustle: Building a Business as a Mom with Dana Foster | Ep 189

And with like planning mat leave, did you feel like you had like a comfortable amount of like savings and like planning like the finances out?

It was hit or miss.

So the first one, yeah.

The first one, we were ready.

I had plenty of time saved.

We had money saved up that allowed me to take off.

I took off about three months with the first kid.

Now, I had my kids back to back.

So I found out I was pregnant with my second child eight weeks after I had my first child.

So I didn't even know you could get pregnant that fast, but apparently you did.

So my kids are only 11 months apart.

So we went through that first year of my oldest, my daughter's life.

I was growing another baby.

I ended up having hyperemesis, which basically means you're throwing up all day long.

So I had lots of like sick leave with that and it drained our savings in terms of like what I had for kid number two.

So we had to be really structured knowing that we lived very comfortably after kid number one and kid number two was going to be a little bit more.

We had to be in tune with our finances going into that because what I did know is that That time after having the kid, really difficult.

And I needed that blanket.

I needed that cushion to be able to say, okay, I'm not going to work during this timeframe because I'm taking care of our kids.

And so we knew walking into that second season, which I'm really glad that's kind of how it worked out.

Cause I feel like if it was the first one, I wouldn't have had the same thought process.

I think I would have been like, Oh, it'll be fine.

Like I'll just, I'll do work here and there and this and that.

And so that really gave me the clarity to be like, no, we've got to figure out how to structure this to where I have structured me time.

And I think that's something that You know, as entrepreneurs alone, we don't do very well.