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As Christians, we know the Bible is God’s Word, meant to be a guide, a comforter, and a motivator as we each follow the path God has laid before us. But what might be of interest to you as you think about moving forward in your career, is that the Bible also talks extensively about business and offers insights for leaders at any place in their professional journey. 

In this episode, you will hear from Nicholas Leone, founder of Business Bible, and 4word founder, Diane Paddison. They discuss how faith integrated into business can produce miraculous results, and share about the exclusive 4word edition of Business Bible. 

It's my 101st episode which is meaningful in Indian culture, so I asked my favorite guests to tell me their secrets to work life balance, work life harmony, and work life integration, whatever your preferred phrase is. It's all right here - from seasoned litigators who are partners in their law firms to doctor moms and CEOs - it's all in one spot!

Guests:

Mridu Parikh:  Episode 68: Minimizing Decision Fatigue With Mridhu Parikh

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minimizing-decision-fatigue-with-mridhu-parikh/id1569697237?i=100058232856

Elizabeth Lemoine: Negotiating Your Job Contract

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-good-to-see-you-working-mom-tips-productivity-pearls/id1569697237?i=1000558788151

Megan Hyatt Miller:  Episode 84: Win At Work And At Life With Megan Hyatt Miller

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-at-work-and-at-life-with-megan-hyatt-miller/id1569697237?i=1000597448076

Dr. Alexandra Laifer: Navigating Life Transitions: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-good-to-see-you-working-mom-tips-productivity-pearls/id1569697237?i=1000566417792

Tameeko Clark:  Episode 76 : 3 Simple Habits To Create An Authentic Healthy Lifestyle

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-simple-habits-to-create-an-authentic-healthy-lifestyle/id1569697237?i=1000589125098

Dr. Shelby Harris: Episode 43: How To Sleep Better 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-sleep-better-with-sleep-expert-dr-shelby-harris/id1569697237?i=1000557403553

Candes Gentry: How To Make Healthy Meals For Your Family With Endurance Athlete & Cookbook Author:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-good-to-see-you-working-mom-tips-productivity-pearls/id1569697237?i=1000570505311

Dr. Pamela Mehta: Pregnancy Discrimination And Proving People Wrong https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-good-to-see-you-working-mom-tips-productivity-pearls/id1569697237?i=1000536194095

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Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career.

On this week’s episode, Leanna shares how she used to feel like she was failing at everything, despite her accomplishments, due to five factors: perfectionism, all or nothing thinking, people pleasing, valuing work ethic as identity, and recurring negative thoughts. Unfortunately, many working moms can relate to these experiences, which is largely due to a broken system that fails to support working mothers.

To combat these negative feelings, Leanna recommends noticing and challenging those negative thoughts and emotions. It's also important to seek support from others who understand the unique challenges that come with being a working mom. By doing so, you can feel less alone and create a more balanced and fulfilling life for yourself and your family.

To reach out to Leanna, please find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leannalaskey/

Full transcript available here.

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In this episode, Dr. Shannan Crawford and host, Jordan Johnstone, walk their way through the last two steps in the boundary-setting process, and also talk about working through the possible “fear of missing out” feelings you may battle when you start flexing your new “say no” muscles.

Feel like you're always in danger of missing some important event or action item for your kids? That you're barely hanging on in terms of family calendar organization? I'm sharing the one thing I do every night with my family that helps our household run smoothly and gets rid of the anxiety that I'm missing something.

If you want to get consistent about managing your home and schedule, get out the door on time in the mornings and feel more in control - then this episode is for you.

And, I promise you - it's easy to start implementing in your home TODAY.

aloha,

Rupa

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Do you feel the need to be constantly busy? ? Always working on something? Going the extra mile at work, always trying to squeeze in one more task? Everything is goal oriented -leaving you feeling burned out, emotionally drained and exhausted.

Well, you're not alone. You're suffering from toxic productivity and it's something I constantly  am attuned to because I've succumbed manytimes as well.

Productivity is great. I'm all about it. But it's a problem when you begin overworking at the expense of parts of your life - relationships, family, mental health, sleep and exercise.

If this is something you wish to overcome, then join me for today's episode!

aloha,

rupa

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Say No Guide - Your guide for evaluating which opportunities to say yes to and which ones deserve a no: https://www.drrupawong.com/say-no

Eisenhower Fillable Matrix - You free workbook for determining your IMPORTANT tasks, not just your urgent ones: https://www.drrupawong.com/matrix

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The world is plagued by mediocrity - people living to die in a state of absolute contemplation of nothing. The path of least resistance is a well-worn road, rife with depression, anxiety, stress and lack of fulfillment. Why? Because it's EASY. And people love easy. The problem is that easy is not IT. Easy is failure. Easy is lack. Easy forgets and deserts the connection you claim to want so bad but won't work for. As you barely plant seeds and don't water the plant, you wonder why nothing grows. BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUNLIGHT. Because you let no storms in. Because you haven't surrendered your life to nature in a way that will satisfy your soul instead of your pocketbook or your vanity. What a shame-based life to live, brought on by nothing and nobody but your ignorance and unwillingness to be uncomfortable or look stupid. Life is difficult; you won't learn how much until you live it fully. The more fully you live it, the more likely you will master storms - AND the more likely you will learn how to REALLY LIVE. You'll climb mountains when you didn't even own hiking shoes. You will swim oceans when you're afraid of the tides. There is plentiful courage. You simply first have to face pain. Welcome to the mastery of your life at the top of the mountain of resistance. Enjoy the climb!

Nope, it ain't to take a new job, get married (or divorced), move or have children. It's TO LOVE. What makes it the most major decision is because the decision or choice to love creates the most amount of positive consequences. Making the decision to love is conscious and ideally balanced between logic and emotion. Many feel love is a feeling but it can also be very grounded in logic and sanity. A decision to love can produce a ripple effect of positive energy for you and others. Choice is so powerful because it clears away uncertainty and leaves a foundation of connection. To understand all this consciousness make me feel more comfortable being more emotionally loving. The decisions I made to be "in love" produced the greatest consequences and fundamentally transformative experiences for me and others. Don't think you can "decide" to love? OK--but if you don't choose--are you preparing for a grounded love that will last or, at least, produce positive movement, change and energy? Love is the greatest force in the universe...choose it for better or worse. FromTheNthPower

Do you have trouble managing it all? Kids, school, meals, work. Part of you feels like you *should* be able to somehow have the time and energy to do all the things but you can’t and you’re feeling spread thin and unhappy? Somehow, justifying spending money on help feels elitist and privileged and wasteful, but it’s not.

If you’re a professional, working woman, then there is a simple solution to this.  It’s utilizing paid help at home - whether in the form of domestic help or a personal assistant. A recent article came out that women in the C-suite pay for help at home and many are loathe to admit it - as if somehow it’s possible to be a high ranking leader in your organization, physician, attorney, whatever you do and pick the kids up from school, cook dinner, make cupcakes for the bake sale, organize holiday cards and on and on without help.

I’m here to tell you that there is nothing shameful about paying for help. In fact , in order to likely be at the point you want to in your career and be at home for the moments that are important for your family - you must delegate.

I’m sharing and telling you exactly what I delegate and outsource weekly, monthly and quarterly in this episode. It’s time to normalize having help - whether it’s housekeepers, nannies, house managers or babysitters.

aloha,

Dr. Rupa

Read "Childcare, housekeeper and a personal assistant: Women are paying big bucks for support at home in order to reach the C-Suite" 

Interested in hiring a virtual assistant? Before you do, get this resource bunde: How To Train Your Best VA

Ep 54: Live in your zone of genius why you need a virtual assistant

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What is "security consciousness" and why is it a sword? We all know people who have no money but who are abundant and confident. On the flip side, there are wealthy people who live an emotionally empty existence. The Sword yields force...Consciousness is powerful...Security is abundance mindset. Much of the people I know who grew up without a lot of money often work hard but still don't feel secure financially, no matter how much money you/they make. Simply put, a security consciousness is necessary for the financial freedom most seek. It means that you choose to believe that you can have abundance and that your consciousness will draw abundance to you through dreams and visions. Ideas you have about money have been taught with words and unconscious behaviors so you must unlearn them with words and conscious actions.

Also, one of the biggest block to security consciousness says that money and people who make more money are BAD. If you believe this, your own security consciousness - and therefore financial abundance - will continue to be a struggle. Deep early childhood experiences revolving around family financial drama will also prevent the level of financial (and even emotional) security you crave. Having a hard time getting ahead financially? Might be time to do some work around financial and emotional security limiting beliefs.

You may need to search deep within your heart to find security. Let me lead you there. 

Let's be honest, love is - and never should be - about keeping score. But let's play with that anyway because sometimes we don't know what we know (or don't) about love. For me, consciously, LOVE is doing/being/becoming what you love. LOVE is everywhere all the time. LOVE is living in abundant manifestation. The (imaginary AND creative) scorekeeping system of LOVE I present here is creative food for contemplation...

Love is about:
TIME: if you want love, you give your time. I am a liar if I say "I love you" but won't give you my time. It is my greatest and most precious gift to give or spend. 
ATTENTION: if I give you my time, I will do my best to not allow distractions to remove me. Even if I have my own emotions happening, I will come back to being there. 
ENGAGEMENT: Being fully engaged means I'm on the highest level of deep listening. I ask questions. How do I engage with you to help you experience my time as powerful?
PRESENCE: Being fully present means my body - mind, eyes, ears, feelings - are looking to KNOW who you are. Breathing consistently re-engages presence. I am MYSELF.
RESPONSE: Am I attentive to your/our needs both then and later? How I respond to you as an individual and partner means I do my best to remember what you need. 

If you explore this type of scorekeeping, the game of competition ends and the game of LOVE remains and reigns supreme - as it should. 

You're on the precipice of change and the fear and discomfort you're experiencing will prompt questions that you don't know how to answer. It's when WTF will be in your face that you'll have to seek solutions from a place of greater power. When you start to seek those answers, you may have a level of perfectionistic denial that makes it hard to see yourself. Your need for security actually prevents you from seeing what's happening. Logic won't serve you at this time - which is why WTF is the most prominent question. It means you're frustrated by the lack of clarity in your over-thinking mind. Because of your suffering, you may not understand that greater energies have led you to WTF to let you know that you're out of answers. Because when you're out of answers, you're at the beginning of everything you've been looking for... When you're willing to go anywhere in surrender to this type of energy, WTF is the question of surprise and curiosity that takes you to the next greatest version of the grandest vision of who you really are ("Friendship w/God," Neale Donald Walsch). 

It's been said that Autonomy is a $$million-dollar$$ word. More clearly, it's invaluable to your self-esteem and overall well-being. If you weren't taught - or aren't cultivating - a powerful way of making up your OWN mind and evaluating what's happening to you without layers of stuck conditioning, then you're not truly free. You are, effectively, not yourself. Autonomous people have integrity. They know when to ask for your help. They thrive on examining circumstances logically, emotionally and intuitively to make decisions. Autonomy gives a person a sense of calm, thoughtful presence to self and others - something that, in these days and times - cannot be bought or paid for. If you have unhealthy attachments to controlling yourself or others, start with this...
LEAVE THEM ALONE. 
See how you feel about that. Let me know how uncomfortable you get.