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Cara Harvey 00:00:03 Welcome to the Purpose Driven Moms show here at A Purpose Driven Mom, we believe that it’s possible to manage your home, work on your personal goals, and grow and scale an online business. Most productivity tips out there tell you to hustle more and make you feel shame about not being motivated enough. And we’re here to dispel this myth. I’m Kara Harvey, and I am on a mission to help work at home. Moms realize that they have the power to go after their dreams, take care of themselves, and manage their home without perfectionism, guilt, or having to sacrifice their sleep. If you’re ready to shift your thinking around productivity and get some practical tips to help you manage your mom life. Toss your earbuds in while you fold the laundry. And let’s do this! Welcome to the Purpose Driven Mom Show, episode 459. Today we are going to talk about how to close out the end of the school year without that incredible chaos that I think a lot of us feel. Because here’s the thing. It’s real.

Cara Harvey 00:00:58 We are doing our May Summer challenge in the Purpose Driven Mom Club right now, where every single week we have different prompts, and taking 5 to 15 minutes a day to just make may feel less stressful. And so I’m hoping if your club member this May is feeling different than the past maze you’ve had, and if you’re not, you can go to a purpose driven romcom club to get on our waitlist for the next time we open. But the end of the school year is chaos, and when we were on our call the other day, one of the club members was saying, her kid gets done mid-May. Mine don’t get done to the second week of June. So I have a little bit more time. So your kids might be done. They might be closing things up. And I want to talk about all that today. Your show notes are going to be at a purpose driven romcom podcast for 59. We’ll have all of the links to everything there. Okay, but I know that there’s a lot on your mind.

Cara Harvey 00:01:46 Final projects, award ceremonies, class parties, the spirit week. Can we talk about the Spirit week? Like why do we have to have the Spirit Week right before school ends? I also have a high school senior this year. So graduation is happening. All these things to kind of close up shop and the kids are also feeling it. They’re excited for the year to end. But there is this like emotional load of transitions, not just for them, but also for us. Our kids are saying, you know, goodbye to their teachers. They’re getting ready to go to a new grade. I don’t know about you, I’m a mush bowl. And I think part of it is because I have a senior and I have a first grader, and I have a third grader, so I’m seeing one kid get ready to fly the nest and go to college and like, really say goodbye. Like, oh, stop. Okay. If you’re watching this on YouTube, like, I actually feel like I’m gonna cry.

Cara Harvey 00:02:35 That just hit me in the chest. The boys this weekend, my husband and my stepson, they’re actually down in Atlanta. My oldest is going to Morehouse in the fall, and they’re there right now for an accepted students weekend. Oh, I feel the feelings. And so it’s all so real. And, you know, my my husband and I, we’ve been together since my stepson was four. He’s with us half the time. You know, I’ve helped raise him and. Oh, yeah. Yep. So if you’re watching on YouTube, you probably see me right now feeling like I’m a little bit of a mess. If you’re on the podcast, not on YouTube, feel free to come watch. But man, there’s a lot of feelings. I am in big feeling and I know he, you know, is in big feeling land. He’s 18, he’s getting ready to go to college. I just, you know, you hope you prepared them. Oh, man. Okay. I’m gonna try to hold this together for the rest of this episode, but because I have this unique perspective of having an older kids and younger kids, I know how fast the time goes.

Cara Harvey 00:03:24 And lately. Oh, man, I’m watching my daughter. She’s almost ten. She’ll be ten in December. So what is that? She’s nine and a half and she’s really becoming her own little person. And the puberty is hitting and we’re just she’s just becoming a big kid. Double digits feels like such a big kid. And my little guy, he in my brain. Do you ever have your kids just, like, implanted at a certain age in your head? Like he’s four, maybe five, like he’s still in his last year of preschool? Like he just turned five in my head, where in reality, he’s going to be eight at the end of the summer and I’m not ready for it. There’s just so much emotions happening for me, so I can’t even imagine what it feels like for them. And especially if you’re making that transition maybe from elementary to middle, middle to high school high school. Goodbye. My son. He’s been at his school since kindergarten. He goes to a private school and so.

Cara Harvey 00:04:13 Oh, man. Oh, I got the feelings right. There’s just so many feelings. And on top of that, the mental load, the calendar overwhelm, the decision fatigue. Right. There’s a survey from care.com. You know, the people make the babysitters and connect you. Right. That found that 67% of moms feel that at the end of your season is actually more stressful than the holidays. And I believe it, at least with the holidays, there’s like a break, right? You’re like, all right, all this is happening. There’s a lot going on. But then we get like two weeks off and we get to chill. Now, I know that summer is coming, but we’re still in spring sports season. At the time of this recording. I’m actually going to Florida next week for cheer, so we’re closing out cheer season and then a new cheer season starts. My son is playing softball or softball. Baseball. I mean, we’re it’s like all happening and there’s no break. so I’m am very excited for summer.

Cara Harvey 00:05:01 But maybe you’re feeling the same. Maybe you’re feeling the mental overwhelm. And I want to give you some tips today to make kind of your wrap up survival plan. Again, we have this mini course. We’ll link it over in the show notes. It’s your May summer survival guide if you want to check it out. 17 bucks. It goes through the prompts or some videos and things like that. So we’ll make sure that gets linked up for you. And I want to give you some of those tips today. The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to declutter your mind and your calendar. I want you to brain dump everything, okay. Every event, every to do everything that’s like ping pong back in your head to give yourself some brain space. Okay. You can take a piece of paper. Dump it all out. Right. And then you’re going to categorize it. We’re going to categorize it by event. So I just did this last week with the club when we did our May planning.

Cara Harvey 00:05:49 But I went through and I was like, okay Isaiah, that’s my youngest Ariana Dean. Like I went through each of my kids. What do they have going on? Then I went through with Girl Scouts because I’m a Girl Scout leader. We’re getting ready for our bridging. We’re going camping in a couple of weeks, like we have all that happening. Then I went through to cheer because I’m on the booster club, so I got to close up shop with cheer stuff. I then went through with work. Right then. I’m going to categorize it. Once you have it categorized, I want you to grab a highlighter and I want you to go through and ask yourself two questions or two color highlighters. Two questions. Question one what can I delegate? So you’re going to go through and say is there something somebody else can do. Do you need to be the one who goes and buys the teacher gift cards? Okay. Can you automate? Can you order your groceries for the next couple of weeks to make it easier? Things like that.

Cara Harvey 00:06:34 And then with your other highlighter, you’re going to ask yourself, what can I drop for now? So maybe every year you do these elaborate end of year teacher gifts. Okay, maybe this is the year you’re like, I’m gonna get a gift card, and here we go. Let it go. Right. Things like the spirit week we’ll talk about now. I am very lucky because my son, he does not like spirit days like this man will not even dress up for pajama day, okay? It is not his his thing. My daughter cares sometimes. So for decades day she was so excited for her 80s outfit. And then for the 100th day of school, she just didn’t care, right? So this is something I’m choosing to drop and delegate for the end of the year. Spirit week is coming. My son does not care. My older child. My middle child, she cares sometimes. She’s also nine. She is old enough to get her outfits together by her herself. Right? So what I’m going to do is I’m going to say to her, I am not going to get you outfits together for any of the spirit days coming up.

Cara Harvey 00:07:33 If this is something you’re interested in. Here’s the list of when they are. Go through your closet and pull stuff out. Now if you need to make a run to the thrift store for something, come with me. Like come to me with a list of what we need from the thrift store and we can make one trip. And I will take you to the thrift store one time to see what we can find for your outfits. And if she does not do it, I’m going to let her. I think I’ve mentioned a few times on the podcast that I listened to the Let Them theory this year. Oh, game changer. And it’s let them. If she wants to do it, she will She will do it. And you know, my friends. And we were just like coffee the other day, and we were having this conversation about how old our kids are. Most of my friends, kids, same age, maybe a year older. And, like, is it too soon? Like, do we let them write? We just had an orchestra concert.

Cara Harvey 00:08:13 My daughter is in the orchestra. She was actually first chair. Not so humblebrag in the orchestra concert for cello the past week that we just did it right. And we were talking about this and it was like, do I let them not practice? Like, how much do I hound them? And I think now that she’s moving into fourth grade, we’re transitioning out of mom is micromanaging your life into let me assist you. I just listened to this podcast. I gotta find it was super good. It talked about how our goal as parents is to become their consultants until they are ready to independently launch. And I loved that. Freeman. Right. Because it was like, I want to be here. I’m going to be here to help you. But if I am constantly reminding you to make sure your Chromebook is charged for school, it’s not teaching you any responsibility. I will not be there when you go to college to charge your Chromebook. And again, I feel like I’m in this unique position because I’m living this life right now with my oldest, and the question that happens to me often are I feel the feelings again is like, oh gosh, it’s like, did we do enough? Right? And I think I’m not done parenting him just because he’s 18, right? He’s always my kid.

Cara Harvey 00:09:17 But as you send your kids out and into college, you just did you do enough. Like did you do enough to make them these contributing members of society, do my kids know how to do their laundry? Can he make enough food for himself? Like all these things you’re like, did I equip them? Because I’m at this spot with my oldest. It’s making me very reflective about where I wish I had given him more independence when he was younger, so that he can learn to do this. We just listened to The Anxious Generation or redid in our book club in the purpose of a mom club, and it was really good. And it talks about the increase of social media usage, video games technology and the decrease of independent play and risky play and how we as a parents are not allowing our kids time to just have risky play where like they need to learn like what their own limits are. You know, and it depends on the age, obviously. But like, my daughter loves to climb trees, for example, I struggle with the climbing of the trees because she will.

Cara Harvey 00:10:19 I mean, she will. My husband has sent me pictures sometimes, like if they’re at football and I’m not around and she’s just playing because we let her play outside, you know, while her brother’s at football. And she was, I remember I’ll see if I can find the picture, Joe. But there’s like up, like up in the highest tree. And my mom heart panics because accidents happen. But I need to let her find and learn her own limits. So anyway, the book is about this. About how we don’t allow our children space and time to to do these things, to learn. So anyway, the point of this is I want you to take your list. I’m like, this was not where we were talking about today. I want you to take a listen and ask yourself, are there things that I can delegate especially to your children, right, especially to your children that they can be doing right now or what can you just drop completely? Is there maybe some stuff you typically do at the end of the year, tradition or not, tradition wise, that you’re like, you know, this just isn’t the year for it.

Cara Harvey 00:11:09 We normally go camping in June. I don’t have it planned right now, and I actually don’t think we’re going to be able to go camping in June. I just don’t think it’s going to fit into our schedule. So I’m sad about it, but I’m going to find another time for us to get to go camping, right? It’s just we have to make some different decisions. So once you’ve decluttered your mind, once you’ve gotten your calendar cleaned up, then you’re like, all right, now I’m going to simplify my must do’s. I’m going to take those teacher gifts and keep it simple. School projects. Let’s make sure they’re broken down. My daughter, they have a wax museum. They do a research project, and then they stand there like, you know, like a wax. And then you tap them and they tell you who it is, right? I’m going to help my kid with it again. I’m not going to feed her to the wolves and be like, you have to figure it out.

Cara Harvey 00:11:48 You’re nine. I’m going to help get her books from the library, but I’m going to help break it down for her. I also want you to decide not about events. Say no to a couple of things, okay? Graduation parties are one of them, right? Obviously, like we’ll attend the ones for my my son’s closest friends. He can attend to all of them if he wants. But me as the parent, right? Like, I don’t want to go to everything. And I think that’s the other thing. I’m struggling. Slash learning is like, my kids are getting to the age where we’re starting to do more drop off things because of the nature of our calendar. My husband and I have to split up activities. We can’t all be at everything all the time. So the past few weeks, one of us has been traveling, so one of us is in charge of. It’s been. It’ll be three weeks in a row for four weeks in a row where one of us is solo parenting that weekend.

Cara Harvey 00:12:34 And of course, their activities are the same time. Like this Saturday alone. Field hockey and baseball are at the exact same time. And then my son has back to back birthday parties. Okay, that is a lot and my husband is away. I’ve had to lean into my village. Right. So if this was Kara, I’m gonna tell you something right now. If this was me weeks ago giving myself advice, I would tell myself to have my kid pick one of the birthday parties. Right? I didn’t listen to my own advice, but that’s what I would say, because you don’t have to go to everything, right? It’s okay if you have to miss a couple of things. It’s okay if you don’t attend every single thing that’s going on right now. It’s a good season to slow down just a little bit. I want to chat with you now and invite you to grab one of my top free resources that have been downloaded almost 4000 times, and this is my ultimate weekly planning checklist.

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Cara Harvey 00:14:13 But clearly, we should probably be talking about your emotional transitions for yourself because I’m struggling. So let’s talk about the kids first, and then we’ll talk about how we can prepare ourselves. Kids at this point might be anxious. They might be excited. They might be emotional. They might miss their friends. I remember I mean this was obviously pre phones, cell phones and internet age when I was in school. Right when you went home for the summer, you didn’t really talk to your friends. Right. And I remember the summer before sixth grade or after sixth grade. Yep. It was right. Going into middle school, all my friends lived in one part of town and I did it, and my parents wouldn’t drive me up there because they were at work to hang out with those friends that could, like, walk to each other’s house. So I, like, came back in seventh grade, lost all my friends. It’s still like, I think about this a lot. Kids might be feeling this.

Cara Harvey 00:14:55 Like I might not talk to my friends anymore. Who am I going to hang out with now? My kids, they play really well together. They also fight really well together. But, you know, I think about my friends whose kids are only children, things like that. They’d be like, well, what am I going to do? So let them process, okay. Talk about the end of the school year. Celebrate the growth that they have made. Celebrate the exciting parts of the year. Have you know a little thing. Go take a walk and talk about it and also talk about summer. Ask them. Have a family meeting. What are you excited about for the summer? What are some things you would like to do? So I typically buy this massive calendar which I haven’t bought yet, so this is a good reminder. Okay, so let’s real time coach myself. Normally I buy this massive bucket list calendar off Etsy. It has June, July and August on it, and it has a bunch of random things.

Cara Harvey 00:15:38 And as we go through the summer, we can check them off, go to the beach, take a picnic, fly a kite, you know, go to a baseball game. And it really helps us like do things in the summer. I have not bought it yet. It’s not even $20 on Etsy. It prints it comes to you. I love it, right? But I need to ask myself, is this one of those things that I can drop for the year? Do I need it? So do I. Couldn’t we just make our own bucket list? Can we come up with our own thing where I ask my kids what they want to do? Yeah. So guess what? I’m making the decision right now. You and me hanging out. I’m not gonna buy it. I’m still gonna make a bucket list for them. I’m sure I can go on Canva. I can find something I can use ChatGPT. I can make my own bucket list thing. I don’t feel like spending $20 on a huge poster.

Cara Harvey 00:16:21 We just don’t need it. And I would rather have a conversation with my children about what they want on the poster first. Okay, talk to them about that. Maybe go through and have an end of year reflection activity where you can write down your favorite memories from the school year. Now, kids they struggle to remember. So maybe go through pictures, right? Go through pictures on your phone together, look at those memories and make maybe you can make a little scrapbook. Do something to help your kids really like connect so that they feel less anxious about the summer anyway, and also build in some downtime for you and yourself. Now again, it’s May. My kids are still in school. Your kids might be done if you’re in school, you know, homework is probably lightning up. Or maybe they have projects to do build in time to let them play, even just have quiet time and build in time. Time for yourself. As we’re getting through the chaos, I work from home. My kids go to school 9 to 3, so that’s when I get to work.

Cara Harvey 00:17:15 That’s when I get to be alone. So I do have this quiet space. My kids will go to a camp five weeks and will be home five weeks. So I need to look at my summer calendar and really make sure I have time for myself to decompress. So in the next week or so, I might like watch all the TV shows I want to make sure I watch. Because once my kids are home, we’re not doing those types of things. You know? I’m gonna miss that freedom and flexibility that I have now to, like, go have coffee with friends without kids. Now we all have kids so we can bring our kids to the coffee. It’s not a big deal, but giving yourself some downtime is going to help you feel a little bit more in control of the chaos. Okay. And then I want you to pre-plan the summer pivot. I highly recommend that after school ends. And if you’re homeschooling, you can create this as well. Block off one day where you don’t do anything.

Cara Harvey 00:18:01 The day after school ends now. And this is why we’re not doing our camping trip, right? Because school was supposed to end one day. And then I live in Philly. They gave everybody off for the Eagles parade. It extended the school year one year, which did throw me off because we were gonna go camping during the week. I want to give them a day of downtime at least. And if we wait that day, it’s going to overlap with other plans that we have, right? So I’m blocking off a day of nothing. So the day after the last day of school, we’re not rushing on vacation. We’re not going camping. We’re not planning playdates with friends. We’re doing nothing. We’re giving what we love to call a nothing day. We’re gonna hang it home. I will let them watch whatever TV they want to watch. I will let their nervous system and their brains decompress from being at school. All right, then, I want you to actually think about your summer rhythm, okay? This is where you’re not going to over plan.

Cara Harvey 00:18:51 You’re just going to decide what are our mornings going to look like in the summer? What are we going to do every week? When are we going to camps? When are we going on vacation? I really recommend a visual calendar for your kids so they know this is it. Because we don’t do the same thing every week in the summer? It’s very fun, but it’s a lot more planning. So my kids that first week, I think they ended on Tuesday or Wednesday, I can’t remember now if it’s the Tuesday or Wednesday, but we have those couple days we’re gonna like chill. And then they go to camp that next week. Now I plan my summer so that my kids are at camp for five weeks so that I can, like, really push with work. And then the five weeks they’re home, we either travel, we go camping or on vacation, or we just do mommy camp where we go to the beach and go on hikes and stuff like that. Right. So asking yourself what is happening each week for the next month, going over that with your kids, and then also talking to your kids about the rhythms.

Cara Harvey 00:19:46 Okay, we don’t have to use the word routine here. We can say, what’s the rhythm? So on camp days, this is what our morning looks like. Because at some point you got to get out of your pajamas okay. On non camp days this is what our morning. Because also you need to go brush your teeth right. So having a visual chart for them is going to be helpful. Decide now. Go through now and pre-plan that transition period for yourself okay. What things that happen during the school year. Like do you extend bedtimes in the summer? Decide that now. Now my kids go to bed at nine. I don’t want to extend their bedtime. That’s actually late. And for I think. But the only reason they go to bed at nine is because we do activities. So by the time everybody gets home showers, it’s like 830 already. It’s it’s wild, so I don’t want it. Let them stay up till 930. Ten. Their bodies need more sleep. So maybe we’ll extend bedtime to 915.

Cara Harvey 00:20:35 But I really don’t want to. But maybe your kids go to bed at 7 or 8, and you want to give them till 8 or 9. Decide that now. I also recommend you create a boredom list. You don’t call it that. We just call ours an activity list. You can call it boredom busters or whatever. But the thing is, when your kids say I’m bored, they can go to this list. So visually we keep this. Now we also have some tech rules. Another thing you’re going to want to plan out. What does tech look like in your home for the summer? Now we have tablet rules. My kids just got tablets the past few months, so we’ve got some tablet rules. They’re allowed an hour a day if they want extra time. There’s certain things that they can do to earn extra time, but I don’t have a lot of rules on the TV. I know that I’m going to want them in the summer. The reason I don’t have a lot of rules, or we don’t have a lot of rules in our home around TV, is because we’re not home that much.

Cara Harvey 00:21:22 So I don’t care if my kids watch TV before school as long as they get dressed, brush their teeth and have their breakfast first. If they do those things, watch whatever TV you want. Okay, same during the week because during the week we’re at activities, almost every mentioned baseball cheer like we’re out. Nearly, almost. I cannot wait for sports to end. We don’t do any sports in the summer. Scouts ends for both my kids. We won’t do any organized sports. My daughter will probably go to like open gyms, tumbling classes. We might have some tumbling privates with her coach for cheer last year. I didn’t sign us up for anything. The year before, they did a bowling league that they liked, and I found that we just don’t want to be committed. We don’t want to be committed any night of the week if we don’t have to. So that if we want to go to the boardwalk, if we want to go to the beach, we want to take a hike.

Cara Harvey 00:22:05 Like if a friend is like, hey, come down, visit, we can do that. So that’s something we’ve decided. So what does it look like for you? Take a quick second. I want to invite you to join one of my new favorite apps. It’s called Brand Club. I am all about trying to get my side hustle on. Right. And one of the things I hate doing is taking money out of my pre-planned budget for tiny things that pop up, like the snack stand during football season, or the $10 you have to Venmo somewhere else because you need it for school. And I found Brand Club to literally fill that gap for me. Here’s what I do with it. Every single day I go in, I earn between a dollar and $1.50. It takes me two minutes and I just fill in some surveys. Super simple, very easy. I also will link it to my Amazon, my Walmart and my target account. So when I buy things anyway, I get cash back.

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Cara Harvey 00:23:33 Well, in the summer it might look different. On camp days, they’re at camp 9 to 4. It’s just like school. But on non camp days I know I’m gonna have to create this. So I want to make those tech rules. Now I want to have a list of things they can do. I love when my kids are bored now. Side note in the moment, sometimes I get annoyed and frustrated and then I’m like, there’s a huge mess. And because my kids are incredibly creative like most kids are, which means that there’s paint everywhere and stuff. And there’s a mess, right? But I love it because this is the one thing I was like. Again, reading in this book. But like, we don’t let our kids be bored. And that is where creativity happens, right? Like my house is the house. Like, if we have a playdate, kids are starting to get phones in my daughter’s grades, which I have feelings about. But you do what you want to do in your house, right? Like we just don’t.

Cara Harvey 00:24:19 So when kids come to playdates at our house, phones, watches, tablets get put aside and we have tech free playdates. Sleepovers are different by watching movies. Whatever. But if your friend is coming over for 2 to 3 hours, you’re not doing anything on the tech. You’re gonna go play. And my daughter and her friend the other day were like, oh, you know, like they wanted to watch a movie, which they wanted to watch Hamilton. And I was like, I kind of love that. But like, let’s say that for a sleepover date, right? Go play. So they actually wanted to paint the clubhouse, and I looked outside and they had nail polish, and they were painting like our wooden swing set. And I was like, if they had asked, I would have given them real paint, like, I don’t care. I want you to be bored and I want you to be creative. They were, you know, playing dress up. They decided to make slime, like all things that drive me a little bit nuts because they’re messy.

Cara Harvey 00:25:00 But that’s where kids need to be there, right? So I like when my kids are bored, but a lot of our kids don’t know how to be bored because they know all of us. They live in the stimulated society. So we have maybe sometimes I give them suggestions. What could you go do? And I sometimes I have text suggestions like my kid loves coding. Go make a video game on, you know, we use scratch mit good app website. We use Microsoft Maker where you can make video making mazes so it doesn’t have to be a non-tech list, but give them some ideas. Okay, now as we get into the end of school year, start of summer transition period, I hope these tips helped you a little bit, and I just want to give you some grace over guilt, if you will. You’re not failing if you’re tired. You are a mom who is doing her best. It was so funny. My mother in law’s the other day and she’s like, how are you? Like, what’s going on? I’m like, I’m just tired.

Cara Harvey 00:25:46 And she goes, why said life? What do you mean why? I’m tired. Right? It is okay to let go of some expectations in favor of peace, presence and just existing. So give yourself some margin. Say no to a couple things, you know, and Lamont has this quote every almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. So give yourself that time. What I’d love for you to do is make this brain dump, delegate some things, highlight them, come up with your transition plan now and get ready for the summer. It’s going to be great. In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be doing a series on kind of some summer stuff to help you really enjoy the time. I have learned how much I love Summer, and I was just talking to a friend of mine too because I keep I feel this calling. I want a camper. I want to homeschool my kids, I think, and I just want to like go. I, I get to the end of the school year and I’m just tired.

Cara Harvey 00:26:36 I’m tired of the commitments and things like that. And I was like, when am I going to stop fighting? What I feel is God saying like, this is the life like, like lean towards this life and take less on your plate. Like I keep fighting these signs but at the same signs keep coming up. At some point you have to listen right? And I’m the problem, right? I sign us up for the activities. I do all the things. And so just this reminder of less is more. Last summer we had one of the best summers ever because it was less as more we were outside. We went out without agendas or timelines. We explored the wilderness. I love being out in nature and I want to do more of that. So we’re going to take some time over the next few weeks to talk about how you can craft a summer that is slowed and lets you have joy, even if you’re working like I am, right? Because it’s not like I can take I’m not taking the entire summer off.

Cara Harvey 00:27:23 I’m still working. I’m still showing up. I do coaching calls and the Purpose Driven Mom club. Four days, four days, five days a week, Sunday, Tuesday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I do coaching calls and then Monday I have administrative meetings with my team, so I only technically have Thursday where I have absolutely nothing on my schedule. So part of this is deciding like, hey, I’m not scheduling anything on Thursday that has work. Even if my kids are at camp and I can work like that’s going to be a day for me, right? So what does it look like? And we’ll talk about that in the next few weeks. Show notes are the Purpose Driven Mom podcast. 459 and come on over. I’ll have a link over there to the May Summer survival if you want to binge it. It’s super easy. 17 bucks you can binge very fast and help plan out your summer if you want. Otherwise, come hang out with me on Instagram out of purpose driven mom, and I would appreciate if you went over and left us a nice review if this helped you at all today.

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