Feelings Are Not Fact with Erica Gwynn! – PODCAST EPISODE 3

You guys know Erica is one of my best friends in the entire world. I am BEYOND blessed to have her as one of my soul sisters in life. I was SO excited to have her on the podcast as one of the first episodes. It’s a long one but you are definitely going to want to listen all the way through!

Feelings Are Not Fact with Erica Gwynn! – PODCAST EPISODE 3

Today’s episode is all about owning your business journey with Erica Gwynn – a blogger who blogs her life, style and more at cominguprosestheblog.com, teaches bloggers how to land paid brand partnerships through her course BossPitch, talks going from a life of simply surviving to thriving on her own podcast THRIVE, and recently published an inspirational book: Caffeinate Your Soul: 52 Monday Mantras, to help make Mondays more manageable and meaningful. We are talking all about how your FEELINGS are not FACTS (& how to do a mental check to differentiate the two), why you need to focus on taking one step at a time AND how to kick mom guilt to the curb.

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BULLET POINTS FROM THE EPISODE:

• Moms don’t get enough credit for how freaking hard it is to balance LIFE while raising children.
  • No matter what kind of mom you are – stay at home, working, work at home – it is WORK and takes so much balance to make it work on a daily basis.
  • Moms are MASTER jugglers.
• Erica’s baby was born at 32 weeks due to severe preeclampsia and spent 72 days in the NICU. Her entire life + business shifted dramatically.
  • Liv was born at 3lbs.
  • There are things in life you cannot prepare for – things like your baby being born two months early, spending time in the NICU two hours away, emergency c-sections.
    • These are the times we have to let go and let God.
    • We need to recognize that FACTS ARE FACTS and FEELINGS ARE FEELINGS.
      • If we can shift our perspective, you can better weather the storm. Erica’s birth story is the perfect example of this.
• You can have a bad day but it doesn’t mean you have a bad life.
  • Sometimes life is hard and you can just tackle things one task at a time. Maybe that’s –
    • getting up and taking a shower
    • brushing your teeth
    • eating a snack
    • getting dressed
  • When you have children, it gets more complicated. It’s so hard to prepare for the change having a baby brings to your life.
    • You can focus on what you CAN control vs what you can’t.
      • You can control your REACTIONS to things and you can work on being more flexible where you can.
• SHAME DOESN’T LIVE HERE.
  • There is a reason there is a phrase, “it takes a village”. We have lost that in our society right now and that can be really hard and really scary to do it by yourself.
    • As a working mom, you can have a different kind of “mom guilt”.
      • You are CHOOSING to spend time away from your child and that can be really hard to come to terms with.
        • It doesn’t make you a bad mom.
        • It doesn’t mean you don’t love your child.
        • It doesn’t mean you aren’t going to take care of your baby.
      • BUT you CAN realize that if you can’t be a good mom without working and taking care of yourself, that is TOTALLY OKAY.
• Social media is JUST a highlight reel.
  • If you sit there and wonder HOW everyone is doing all the things, all the time: remember that it’s just a highlight reel.
    • MOST people have help when they are working from home.
      • That may not even show up as childcare but maybe they have a housekeeper or someone who grocery shops for them. Someone taking SOMETHING off their plate.
  • It’s SO important for those of us with platforms to share how we are able to get things done for those who are watching us as an example don’t feel like we are doing it all on our own.