finding sustainable energy as a working mom | a sneak peek of my presentation from the working mom retreat

Finding Sustainable Energy as a Working Mom | A Sneak Peek of My Presentation from The Working Mom Retreat

The Importance of Sustainable Energy for Working Moms

Sustainable energy is the foundation of everything you want to achieve. Whether you’re climbing that career ladder, trying to be more present with your kids, or just wanting to feel more fulfilled – it all comes down to having sustainable energy.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “I’m doing all the things—but I’m still so tired,” you’re not alone. In this week’s episode of the Dream It, Do It Podcast, I’m pulling back the curtain on a topic I care deeply about—one that doesn’t get talked about enough in the world of working motherhood: how to create sustainable energy.

This episode is a behind-the-scenes listen into the keynote I recently gave at the Dream It Do It: A Moment for the Working Mom Retreat. I spoke to a room full of high-achieving women who are doing their best to do it all—and feeling the weight of it. Maybe that’s you, too.

But what if exhaustion isn’t just a “normal” part of being a working mom? What if we’ve just been taught to carry too much, for too long?

“Oftentimes, reintroducing things that used to bring you joy that you just completely got away from, that’s another, like, will help you rebuild the skill or, like, help you discover yourself again.”

In this episode, we dive into:

  • The Working Mom Energy Pyramid – and how you can build real energy from the ground up
  • Why rest, movement, and rhythms aren’t luxuries—they’re essential
  • How to quiet the constant mental checklist so you can feel present again
  • How simplifying your routines can actually give you more time, energy, and joy

Whether you’re in a full season of work and parenting or just craving more clarity and calm, I hope this conversation feels like a deep breath. Because you can chase your dreams and be present with your people—without burning out in the process.

Key Takeaways:

Simplify and Automate the Unimportant:
Free up mental space and time for what matters most by automating, pre-deciding, and streamlining day-to-day logistics and routines. When your mental load is lighter, you can show up with greater presence and energy for your family, career, and yourself.

Sustainable Energy Starts with Intentional Habits:
Building and maintaining energy isn’t about hustling harder—it’s about tuning into what energizes you and creating habits that support you physically, mentally, and emotionally. Movement, sleep, and a grounded morning routine are foundational for lasting energy and fulfillment.

Don’t Skip the “In-Between” Needs:
High-achieving women often care for the basics (health, fitness) and the big priorities (family), but neglect the middle layers—personal connection, self-reflection, and joy. Tending to these “in-between” needs is crucial for a sense of wholeness and lasting satisfaction.

Full Transcript

Molly Asplin [00:00:02]:
Welcome back to the Dream It Do It podcast. Hey. I am excited to share a really special episode with you today. So this was one of my presentations that I gave at the moment for the working mom retreat, which was so well received that the all the content, not just this piece, all the speakers did absolutely amazing. And we did record bits and pieces of it, and you may hear some of that through the podcast. Now I always think if you’re at an event, it’s just a much different experience. Right? Like, you’re there. You’re in the room.

Molly Asplin [00:00:43]:
You have the energy around you. But nonetheless, I think this topic is so relevant to podcast listeners, and it’s really part of my mission to help you go after whatever roles and ambitions and desires your life in a way that feels good for you. Right? Because I think whether or not you’re trying to grow and scale and climb in your career or you’re like, you know, Molly, I just wanna be more present. I really think energy is this underlying currency and this underlying factor that if your habits aren’t there it’s like that quote, like, your life is your habits. I just think that is so real. And it feels like the more I get in tune with what really makes me feel good and the more I can set my day up accordingly with that and sort of go from good to great, because I know every person listening to this is already a high performer. Right? We’ve done the listener surveys and and we see that. And so it’s like, what can con continue to give you that performance edge and that clarity and those next steps in career and in life that just leave you feeling so jazzed, right, and jazzed up and, like, excited about the day to day and that set you up to do it in a way that’s sustainable.

Molly Asplin [00:02:10]:
I think that’s a really big takeaway and a for a lot of people, and you’ll hear exactly how to do that is that if how you’re doing success in life is not feeling sustainable, like, you’re like, this is fine, but, like, I cannot continue at this pace forever, or this is fine, but I’m tired, or this is fine, but my family is getting the the rest of me in the depleted version of me. I want you to know there’s a better way. And in this episode, I’m gonna teach you exactly how to do it. Now is all of this easy to implement? No. But you know what? I think it’s simple in concept. I really do. And I really try to go, like, double click into everything to go a little deeper on, like, how to do this, why it’s important, how can you set up your day for maximum success output and and feel good. You know? A lot of women will come to me, and it’s sort of like they’re trying to just, you know, master the health and fitness, and they’re just trying to be present at home.

Molly Asplin [00:03:14]:
And as I explain in this presentation, there are some steps in the middle of that that you just can’t neglect. I know because I did it. And it doesn’t matter how great you are with your health and fitness routine or how awesome of a mom or a, you know, partner you wanna be. If you can’t master those in between steps or get a good hold on them so that you’re fulfilling them 90% of the time, let’s say, your life will feel like it has void in it. It will feel like something’s missing. You will lack enrichment. You’ll lack joy. You’ll lack fulfillment.

Molly Asplin [00:03:48]:
So, hey, I’m so excited to bring this to you today because, I mean, this is the work that I’ve I’ve been doing on myself, and it has taken my energy from a pretty tired place to a very energetic place. And I I I want that for you too. I really do. And it’s it’s tried and true. I don’t teach very many things that I’m not doing myself. I don’t. I like really like to lead by example and role model because when I feel really convicted in something, it means I’ve practiced it. And I’ve lived it, and I’ve seen the results.

Molly Asplin [00:04:21]:
So with no further ado, I want to bring you to this energy presentation on from tiredness and depletion to really sustainable energy for the long haul that can support you in a really vibrant life. I can’t wait to hear what you think. Here we go. Hey. I’m Molly. I’m so glad you’re here. Welcome to the Dream It Do It podcast. I’m a wife, mom of three, a certified high performance coach, and the founder of Dream It Do It wellness.

Molly Asplin [00:04:57]:
After leaving my corporate finance job, I discovered the joy of building a life and business that truly light me up. And now I help others like you do the same. Together, we’ll use intentional habits, smart time management and productivity, and meaningful work to help you excel at your career and experience the life you desire. Let’s dream big, take action, and create a life you love. Let’s dive into the show. Show. So Dream It Do It was founded about six months ago when my career took a pivot. And some of you have asked, so, like, you know, Molly, what’s the business? What’s what’s happening? And so I wanted to just kinda explain how these retreats fit in and other things that we’re doing.

Molly Asplin [00:05:46]:
So what I’m really here to do and what I believe the the broader company will do as this continue to build out is help people live intentionally, achieve meaningful success, and cherish life’s moments with loved ones. So that while you achieve and while you grow and while you change your definition of success throughout the seasons, it feels really good. I love the notion that the chapter that you’re entering or the chapter that you’re in now should really be more enjoyable than your last because we get wiser and we get smarter, and life experience should give that to us. So we’re doing this through high performance coaching That has been one on one. We have one on one clients in the room. So thank you ladies for all being here and just being awesome. That’s been really, really fulfilling and just feels very aligned. I love in person.

Molly Asplin [00:06:35]:
Like, I love this kind of stuff. It’s, like, my joy zone, and so I wanted a, like, quarterly retreat or quarterly off-site of some sorts. So that it’ll probably end up being three to four times a year. Again, we’re kind of building this out, but that’s where we’ve got the high performance retreats with the themes sort of changing based on the season or based on what I’m hearing my one on one clients are dealing with. And then I’ve got an online membership, which is more like a one to many place where I serve. And it started off very wellness focused since that was my previous life, but then it it’s really sort of sort of molded into the things that we’re talking about today too with, of course, habits being part of that too. So that’s just a little bit about what’s going on with the business as a whole. But we’re gonna go into energy today because no matter if you wanna make a career downshift, upshift, I think what we all really want is we wanna feel good doing it.

Molly Asplin [00:07:36]:
And we wanna feel present in the day to day. We wanna feel so many people said it doesn’t it’s rushed. It never slows down. And I don’t think it does either unless you make it slow down. Right? And unless you carve out those moments of time and, you know, it might be ten minutes, it might be an hour. It might be a day like this where you can really pour into yourself and make yourself whole again. So I want to start with my journey on survival to sustainability. So in 2018, that’s when we had Kate.

Molly Asplin [00:08:11]:
She’s our our first. She’s six now, and I just had the I had the mentality that I would just work out harder, work harder, get it done, push through. And I was like, well, you have a kid. How hard can it be? Like, just keep doing all the things. And you know what? I I think it it works for a while. Then we added a second kid in 2020, and I still kinda carried that mentality with me. And it it worked until it didn’t. And my career was really growing.

Molly Asplin [00:08:44]:
Steve’s career was growing. We had two kids, and I I remember standing at the kitchen island and there’s, like, heaps of laundry up in our upper level, and I’m like, we’re we were eating crap food. And I remember telling Steve, like, I don’t I can’t sustain at this pace anymore. And I was like, what’s this all for? Like, so that we we both have these jobs and these great income levels, but, like, I’m just drowning on a day to day basis, and so are you. And the kids come home in, like, witching hour, and it’s terrible from, like, five to 7PM. That’s the only time we see them. And then they go to bed and we just and then we both go to our offices and we just keep repeating the cycle. Strange.

Molly Asplin [00:09:25]:
Right? And so I was like, I I don’t wanna keep doing that. So that’s where we made some pivots, which I’ll talk about more on the panel. But when we had our third, I Will was born in 2023, and this picture was last summer. But I just said, I’m I’m not gonna do it like that anymore. Like, I want to feel good, in this life. Like, there’s no reward at the end of life for having bags under your eyes or for you know, like, I hustled the hardest. And so I just really had the switch on, like, I want my energy to be sustainable. I want to feel good throughout the day.

Molly Asplin [00:10:03]:
I wanna feel good on the weekends. I wanna feel good in the hustle seasons, which I do believe are required at sometimes or, you know, the heightened moments of motherhood. And I started looking at energy more as just a way to take me through it all instead of sort of removing this, like, you have your health and fitness, and then you have, you know, your career. I’m like, well, no. You it kind of should it should really all work together. And when I made that shift, I it helped me a lot, and so I’m gonna try to teach that to you here today. I work with my high performance clients on this a lot. Okay.

Molly Asplin [00:10:36]:
I just love this visual. Chat GPT helped me with it. I was about to, like, start plot it plotting it myself, and then I’m like, no. Don’t do that, Molly. Michelle Fields would be proud of me. But this is why this happens. Because I think we we get in rooms like this and we’re like, but why am I so stretched thin? Or am I just weaker than I used to be? I hear clients say that to me. Am I just weaker? Am I not as resilient than I used to be? Like, why can’t I handle it like I used to? Well, this is why.

Molly Asplin [00:11:05]:
It there’s it’s facts. So, you know, this is your years into career. You’ve got maybe your first promotion, and then you’ve got your first child, and then maybe you add a second child. Your kids start activities that adds a whole another schedule and more to the mental load, and then you’re juggling their schedules. So you’ve got this, like, career and family load both on this up and up trajectory. And this pink spot is you, and it’s your you time. And that just continues to shrink and shrink and shrink. And so you just have to know that you can’t feel weak because of it.

Molly Asplin [00:11:42]:
It’s like the facts are there. Your time is shrinking. And, you know, you hear, like, the 20 year old fitness influencers with no kids be like, everyone has the same twenty four hours in the day. And I’m like, sure. Right? But, like, my my margin time is very slim. Right? And so if everyone’s in this room, your margin time is slim unless you’re mindful of it. So these are not actually, like this is a conceptual illustration, but the, like, research is all there that the mental load, working mothers, it it that we experience, it shrink shrinks your self care over time. I call this the working mom energy pyramid, and what I’m really discovering that a lot of high performers experience is we’ve got this base level of physical needs.

Molly Asplin [00:12:33]:
So you might call that your health and fitness. Right? It’s your sleep or lack thereof. It’s your workouts. It’s how you’re fueling your body. And then we’ve got these middle sections, and then we’ve got family connection and presence on top. And what a lot of high achieving women will do is they will try to take care of these bottom things because we understand that’s important, and they’ll try to take care of the top thing. And they’ll sort of skip these middle sections or they’ll do them very lightly, and then we’ll they’ll wonder why like, why am I not whole? Why am I fulfilled? Why am I panicking about my next steps and my career ladder? Is this the life I really want? And so I wanna dive into yes. I’m gonna talk about the bottom one because it’s really important.

Molly Asplin [00:13:17]:
And if you don’t have it, I think things do feel very off. But I’m also gonna touch on the middle section so that you can get to that top point, which is, like, you just you feel whole, and you feel whole for yourself and whole for your family. So let’s dive into this a little bit more. Movement fuels your mind, mood, and energy. So, you know, Courtney talked about movement a little bit, and I just really believe that when you can start to build this habit Judy said it in her intro, like, I’ve got the movement down. When you build that habit and you’re just fueling yourself and moving in a way that feels good for you, it’s sort of like this good, like, deposit in your trust bucket. And everything else starts to feel better. And this is not Molly being a health coach, but it’s really me just telling you to give yourself that time for yourself because it really does raise your energy and lowers anxiety.

Molly Asplin [00:14:11]:
Like, the the stats are very true. A single session of thirty minutes can lower anxiety and stress for several hours. So if you give yourself that each day, you’re you’re not taking from anything else, you’re fueling it. I always say pick the time of day where you feel most consistent, where you can do it most consistently. And some people have, you know, nursing jobs and things like that where it does have to move around, but just pick the time of day and the workout that you feel most excited about. The best workout is the one you’re actually gonna do. How many in here have a consistent workout routine? Yeah. Okay.

Molly Asplin [00:14:46]:
So we we don’t need to talk about that anymore. Angie, my sister is the one who doesn’t. Okay. Sleep. How about this? How do we feel about sleep? Who feels like they get seven to nine hours a night consistently? That’s me. Okay. So we’re, like, half and half on that. Not Judy, not Danny, these ladies that I work with.

Molly Asplin [00:15:06]:
And this was not me. This was the part that I just skipped on for many, many years. And, again, it worked until it didn’t. And when I started to realize how much better I felt with it and from the achieving mom standpoint, how much more I could get done with it and how much more valuable and, like, life giving I felt, it sort of became a no brainer for me. And I’m sorry to the moms who are in those seasons of you know? You’ll get that. Like, slides like this are hard when you’re like, I just say pick your ideal bedtime and work backwards. Everyone needs seven to nine hours a night. So the the narrative that I loved to pride myself on for years is I only needed five or six.

Molly Asplin [00:15:44]:
You can go down five or six. No. The National Association of Sleep says every adult needs seven to nine. And then within that range, you you do actually have a optimal level, which you can identify over time. It might be eight. It might be eight and a half. It might be nine. It might be seven.

Molly Asplin [00:16:01]:
So other tips for this, the evening routine, limit screens an hour before bed. The blue light is, like, killing our sleep and our, actually, our anxiety level at night. So you really wanna turn those down. Practice the evening routine and earlier bedtime again and again. I practice it for, like, a year before I was like, okay. I’m I’m good at this now. And so it it so it was just that part that was not coming easy for me. What helped was creating more excitement for my wind down routine, like, you know, good skin care if that’s your thing.

Molly Asplin [00:16:31]:
I like to take a hot shower, like, have a good book that you’re excited to read so that it just, like, pulled me away from the house and the doing or the office and, like, got me into wind down routine. If you have poor sleep and late night habits, it wires your nervous system before the next day even starts. So they’ve done a lot of studies. Like, your baseline cortisol, you actually wake up, it’s higher than it would be if you would wind down with the like, have a one hour wind down time or even thirty minutes to start with and wake up fresh. And so what happens is while you sleep, it, like, it cleanses your amyloid plaques, which is like this brain buildup, and then you wake up fresh. And you you know that feeling. Right? But if you’re never allowing your like, that cleansing system to happen, you will never wake up feeling fresh, which I know is what every mom wants. So just challenge yourself eight to nine hours of sleep per night.

Molly Asplin [00:17:32]:
And I know it’s on the higher end, but if you do it for, like, a week straight or even four nights out of the week, you’re gonna feel totally different. So if you take anything from the retreat, it’s like, okay. I’m gonna go home, and I’m gonna I’m gonna get adequate sleep, you know, for a week and just see how you feel. It’s not the reward. It’s the starting line. It’s a basic need. Okay. I love the lemon juice analogy.

Molly Asplin [00:17:56]:
Has anybody heard it? Lemon juice in the morning? It’s from me. Okay. I I did not make this up. I think it’s a Mel Robbins concept or maybe it’s from some doctor. But when you wake up in the morning, you think of your brain as a fresh plump lemon. And the more you start input overload, which we all love to do, or it’s like I feel like it’s the default of society right now. The more you start putting in your brain, the faster the lemon juice starts starts to be squeezed out. So news, email, social media, notification, texts, kids waking up.

Molly Asplin [00:18:32]:
Right? Like, the more all of a sudden you have all these inputs coming at you, some of which you can control, most of which you can control. Sometimes your, you know, your kids, you can’t you can’t. But once that lemon is gone, it’s gone. You don’t get it back. And so, you know, people are waking up and scrolling news or TikTok or I don’t know what. For the first thirty minutes, like, in their bed, it kills me. Or, you know, wake up and that’s, like, how they wake up with their coffee. It’s just really, really inhibiting your brain from doing what you want it to do.

Molly Asplin [00:19:05]:
So that’s the lemon juice analogy. You wanna stop driving the morning clutter as much as you can. Don’t flood your brain with information. And then, again, the late night scrolling, it puts your brain into overdrive with comparison consumption mode, and then you wake again with higher stress. If you are looking for some free coaching on how to apply these things in your own life and reset your own daily rhythms, like set yourself up with better high performance habits, or maybe giving yourself permission to change, permission to grow, just go DM me the word fulfillment on Instagram, and I will send you my road map that really helps you design a life that lets you live again. Because what’s the point of success if you are pulling your hair out and feeling super frazzled all the time? So again, just DM me the word fulfillment on Instagram. I’ll teach you how to reset your daily rhythms exactly what I do on a daily basis and give yourself permission to change, permission to grow, permission to do it better. DM me the word fulfillment on Instagram, and I’ll send you the free road map right to you.

Molly Asplin [00:20:18]:
Okay. Power of a grounded morning. Courtney talked about those a little bit. She said, you know, you will need to wake up earlier. Maybe maybe not. But what I recommend, and the researchers the high performance researchers there with this, is if you can have your first thirty minutes or sorry, your first hour without email. Or, like, without email, without social. If you can have your first sixty minutes, it really creates a lot of grounding and a lot of clear for you.

Molly Asplin [00:20:47]:
So maybe that does mean, you know, if you’re waking up very reactively and you just have to get right to it, maybe you do need to actually bump up your wake up time earlier. But here’s what I do. And if you go to the next page in your workbooks, there’s a nice printable on this. Just taking five to ten minutes to write down some of these things. Pen to paper is really therapeutic for a lot of people. And so and and journaling, I know this is hard for a high achieving women to think that they have time for that, but the research and the science is there. It lowers your stress big time when you can have the solitude of no inputs and take pen to paper and journal about some things to start your day. And so here’s what I do.

Molly Asplin [00:21:33]:
Today, I’m grateful for, and I’ll write down about five things. Now the more specific you can be on the gratitude list, the better. You’ve I’m sure you’ve heard about gratitude journaling before, but I’ll see I’ll see and hear people say, well, I write down, you know, my husband, my kids, my health. The more specific you can make it, the better. It like, the that act of appreciation really helps you de stress and, like, raise your state going into the day. But if it’s just super common things, the air I breathe, right, it won’t hit as much. So maybe it’s something cute that your kid did or maybe something you’re excited for this weekend makes a big difference with gratitude journaling. Your biggest win from yesterday, we’re really good at focusing on.

Molly Asplin [00:22:19]:
There’s not enough time. There’s always more to do. If you can start training your brain to focus on the win or the wins from the prior day, that’s really helpful. There’s a whole book called The Gap and the Gain. Great read. That’s all about how wins compound and how we love to focus on the gaps. But if you actually just start focusing on the gains, you get more of them. And then today’s top three.

Molly Asplin [00:22:44]:
I love this. Your brain loves threes. The power of threes creates cognitive ease for yourself. So writing down what do you wanna get done today that isn’t just, you know, target pickup. Right? But, like, what really moves your needle forward. And the cool thing about this is, like, it’s it’s your things. Right? Because the moment you enter work mode or mom mode, a a bunch of other stuff starts coming at you that, yes, you probably have to do throughout the day. But if you go in proactively, this really helps.

Molly Asplin [00:23:16]:
So last last little bonus tip I’ll give for all the corporate business owner women, if you can spend that first hour of your work day doing something more strategic and not just Teams, Slack, Zooms, that’s really helpful too. I know it doesn’t always work, but when it does, you’ll be like, oh my gosh. I just completed that project, you know, from eight to 9AM that I’ve been putting off for weeks or that I couldn’t get done in the pockets of, you know, the other meetings. So that’s helpful for a lot of people. Judy is one of my clients, and she’s just had such good success with these three items. And here’s what she’s doing. She’s thinking. So more in, like, strategic mode, planning her top three for the day, and then you, like, you execute on the plan throughout the day.

Molly Asplin [00:24:03]:
But I think a lot of us just aren’t giving ourselves the margin or the space to think, and it’s and then we wonder, like, why do I feel so stressed frazzled or stressed? Well, just really try to carve it out. And that was hard for you in the beginning. And Judy’s in cyber, so think, like, data breaches and, I don’t know, really bad things happening. That’s why it it is stressful. Right? And so it’s not just like she’s make this choice isn’t easy for her, but I like to wanna give some context too. Okay. This is, like, you know, habits of a busy mom that I just love. Simplify the unimportant to make space for what’s matter what’s what matters.

Molly Asplin [00:24:41]:
And I think Katie might have some on this, and Angie might have some on this, so I won’t belabor the point. But if you can automate and predecide I love the word words predecide. The essential but small decisions as much as possible. So these are the things that you need for your life to sustain and for the home life to function well. It’s not like you can just delete them, but think groceries, workouts, what are we wearing, what are we eating, where are we going for second shift, what activity bags do we need. When I can just like, quick logistics check ins with your partner, When I can sort of think about that ahead of time and have it set and ready and done, my men my mental load and my stress level is like, it just goes down immediately if it’s done. But if the opposite happens, is there anything worse than trying to scurry out with the kids and, like, someone needs something and you’re missing something, you’re getting in the car and you’re, like, we’re already five minutes late. That is so stressful to me.

Molly Asplin [00:25:42]:
So I just try to do everything in my power not to have that happen. Steve and I will do, like, the quick daily logistics check-in. We’ll do it in the mornings and in the evenings. Like, okay. What’s happening tomorrow? Who’s getting kids? That really helps. So that there’s just never a surprise at 5PM if he’s still working. You know, like, we don’t neither of us like surprises. So when you have less mental load, you have more emotional presence.

Molly Asplin [00:26:06]:
So the more you can automate these kind of things, the easier your daily flow is gonna be. And communicate that to your spouse. Right? Like, I always explain to him why I need to do all this because I’m like, I don’t want it to be stressful. He doesn’t want it they don’t wanna see you feel stressed either. Right? So I think explaining it to them can really help. Alright. These are some signs. Remember I opened with the pyramid.

Molly Asplin [00:26:29]:
So we’ve talked a lot about these this kind of bottom area, and maybe even some personal self connection with the journaling, with kind of planning your day, with taking that solitude. But what if you still feel off? Because when we did introductions, a lot of you felt off. Here are some things that I hear. I’m doing everything I’m supposed to. Why do I feel disconnected? That can be oftentimes because you’re just literally going through the motions. Like, you’re a robot, and we are we’re human beings, not human doings. I feel lonely even though I’m surrounded by people. This is usually because you’re with, like, you have, like, surface level interactions, and there’s no there’s few people in your life that are really inspiring you or that you’re able to get deep with or that you just feel like, I feel better from that conversation, not worse.

Molly Asplin [00:27:19]:
Right? Or I you know, she really lifted me up. I don’t know even exactly what I need. This is almost always you haven’t given yourself space to even think about it. And a lot of a lot of the people I work with, they feel like that in the beginning. I don’t even know what I need. And it’s like, okay. Well, we kinda gotta unpack this and, like, think about it together. I’m grateful, but also quietly resentful.

Molly Asplin [00:27:44]:
So if the resentment is is happening, it’s usually because your joy needs are unmet. Right? For those who said, like, my husband is the floater and I you feel resentful of that. Well, that probably means you aren’t feeling whole or full. Like, your needs aren’t really met on that front or your wants, whatever we wanna call them. So what do we do? I’m gonna give some, like, kind of a laundry list of ideas, Simple ways to feel fully alive. Just start booking the self time like a work meeting. And these don’t have to be grandiose things like a spa you know, when you hear self care, like traditional self care, like spa day, not talking about those kind of things. Sure.

Molly Asplin [00:28:23]:
If you wanna schedule those in, but just having some time to yourself. And so I put up a bunch of things that I hear from my high performance clients too, but when I can have coffee by myself, if I can take a walk outside either alone or with a friend. Oftentimes, reintroducing things that used to bring you joy that you just completely got away from, that’s another, like, will help you rebuild the skill or, like, help you discover yourself again. I really love to bake, and I hadn’t done it in, you know, really, like, the little kid years very much, but I’ve kinda, like, gotten more into that this year. And I’m like, this is just fun. I love baking goodies and then bringing them to all the neighbors and, you know, it, like, kinda brings me back. Deep catch up with a girlfriend, like, a deep real conversation, an unhurried date night, taking a trip or even planning the future trip where you’ve got that, like, anticipation built in. The study show that’s almost just just as effective.

Molly Asplin [00:29:21]:
Connecting with like minded people just like we are doing here today, browsing, shopping, boutiques, that kind of thing. So just really like, the more you start giving yourself some of this time, the more clear everything else gets. And for the for the productivityaholics in the room, I will also say the more productive you’re gonna get. I’m not even kidding. It’s like you start scheduling these things and you start getting more effective with the other things on your plate. I do really think it works together. The last thing is you’re not here to run on empty. You’re really here to move through your days with energy, clarity, and grace.

Molly Asplin [00:29:59]:
And so I think the days of running our self ragged, I I think that’s a past narrative that, like, high achieving women are are really starting to come to terms with. And it’s like, what what are you here to prove? Right? Are you here to prove that you are tired and drained, or are you here to do something else? Because I know that I’m here to do something else. Could I ask a quick favor? It would mean so much to me if you took two minutes, literally two minutes to rate and review this podcast. Ratings and reviews are how the podcast grows, and it’s listeners like you who are here every week listening and benefiting who can really help me grow the show. It would mean a ton to me. And as a token of my appreciation, for for any written review that you share, I will send you a $5 Starbucks gift card. Why? Because we all need more Starbucks in our life. A little coffee for you to enjoy on me.

Molly Asplin [00:30:59]:
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