244. Try This When You’re Feeling Out of Balance with Tiffany Sauder

If you really feel in your heart, “I can't wait till my kids grow up,”-- what you mean to say is how, do I solve for the and? How do I solve for joy with my children and the thing that fuels me so that I can be available for the joy with my children moments?  Tiffany Sauder is a wife, mom, entrepreneur, CEO, board member, investor, podcast host and keynote speaker. She founded the marketing agency, Element Three, 18 years ago and ever since she and her husband have been building their companies and their family on the exact same timeline. That means four kids, three businesses and two careers, all building towards one abundant life. We are going to talk about what happens inside a household when a woman is truly ambitious. Be sure to listen to the full recording to get her tips about implicit expectations vs explicit agreements and how she found herself “marrying” the same man twice! Tiffany says entrepreneurship is just this massive process of discovering yourself – your real motivations, your real, a real understanding of your talents and gifts. She says she loves the pressure the business environment affords her.  “You talk about putting more money in the hands of women. I feel like my job is to, like, show that you can do this,” says Tiffany. She would often hear an exhausted “I feel so out of balance.” Tiffany recognized there were seasons in her life where she slept four or five hours a night, but no part of her felt tired. And she started to realize that balance wasn’t connected to time. Her definition of balance is the intersection of your priorities and your values, and being “out of balance is when we begin to behave in ways that are not aligned with our priorities. For example,  let's say, health is a priority, but you’re having trouble eating foods that are real. You're not making time for movement. You're not making time for personal reflection. You begin to say, “I am so out of balance.” But what if you said to yourself more specifically, “I am not honoring in my choices, my priorities.” “When I'm just like ‘I'm so out of balance’ that feels like I'm a reactive victim to this concept that other people are sort of putting on me instead of saying if I fell out of balance, it probably means I am violating a priority, or I'm pursuing a priority at the expense of a value,” says Tiffany. She says it doesn't mean the choice to choose this priority was bad. It means that you’re doing it to a degree that is violating what you really care about. In that sense, balance isn’t about time or having more of it. “I think what you want is to say, I want to be doing things that are moving towards the things I care about. The adventures I want to have. The stuff I want to create value around,” says Tiffany.  “The causes I want to serve, the people I want to have adventures with, and I want to do those in a way that are aligned with who I am as a human being, which is our values.” The waitlist is open at the https://LifeOfAndAcademy.com for Tiffany’s four-week course to help two-career families get on top of the life of and, and begin living in a way that feels free and abundant and present. Mentioned in this episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything : https://amzn.to/4av6MFs   Connect with Tiffany Sauder: https://www.tiffanysauder.com  Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: How to Deal With Mom Guilt and Balance https://sarahwalton.com/albiona/  How do I Find Work-Life Balance? https://sarahwalton.com/find-work-life-balance/  You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton   Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #LifeBalanceManagement #MomsInBusiness #WorkLifeBalance #ProductivityTips #Success #LifeBalance #MomEntrepreneurs #AskExpert #BusinessCoach