In this episode, Lori & I discuss the BEST ways to prioritize your time as a working mother and how you can eliminate the “I-Have-To” culture that plagues our current society. We discuss how it is negatively affecting women everywhere, how we can recognize it regularly, and how we can work on reversing it in our life. We also share the top 3 motivations and encouragements Lori has to for tired, working moms so that you can be fully present in your work life AND home life. You can find Lori HERE.

Prioritizing Your Time + Eliminating The “I-Have-To” Culture with Lori Oberbroeckling

Lori Oberbroeckling is the author of Secrets of Supermom: How Extraordinary Moms Succeed at Work and Home and How You Can Too! She is a wife and mom to four tiny humans, all while working as a corporate executive and nurturing several side-hustles. She helps moms who want it all develop the skills, habits, and confidence to happily have it all.

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BULLET POINTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

  • What does “Hustle Like A Mother” mean to you?
    • If I am hustling like a mother I am working smarter, not harder to get everything that I want including an amazing career and a present mom. I have to figure out the best way to be productive and efficient to do everything that I can in order of priority.
  • What is your story? Tell me more about your journey and your corporate career and why you wrote a book.
    • In six and a half years I went from not being a mom to being a mom of four.  I’ve been working in corporate for 20+ years.
    • I had thought about writing a book and then the pandemic happened. I was still working, full-time homeschooling kids, and my husband was traveling nonstop. This idea for the book that I had in little pieces and parts before really just came together. 
    • I wrote it in 34 days! I interviewed and surveyed almost 200 moms. Including strategies that I use and strategies that other moms are using that are helping them and making life a little bit easier. 
  • What does it look like to effectively prioritize your time as a working mom?
    • “Trimming the fat” refers to getting rid of things, people, and tasks that are unimportant. 
    • Ordering things to prioritize your time and be effective but still have flexible time to do what you want.
    • Outsourcing as much as you can and realizing we can’t do it all by ourselves. By sharing the load a little bit, it can also really lighten yours.
    • Tracking your time is beneficial. We build things up really big in our minds and they don’t end up being as big.  We realize tasks are more attainable than I thought they were. 
  • Let’s talk about this “I-Have-To” Culture – what is it and how is it negatively affecting us?
    • The “I-Have-To” Culture is dealing with the shitstorm which negatively affects us by putting all of that pressure on us and leaving us completely overstressed.
    • There’s a couple of questions that you want to ask yourself…
      1. Do you really have to, because maybe you don’t have to do it?
      2. Do I have to do this or do I get to do this? It changes that negative into the positive of things that we get to choose.
      3. Does this have to be done right now, or by today, or can it wait 24 hrs?
  • What are your top 3 motivations or encouragement for tired working moms?
    1. Make a happiness list – Sitting down for 20 or 30 minutes and writing down everything that makes you happy, little things that make you happy, big things,
    2. Hang out with supermoms- Have those people in your life that help you stay motivated. The people in your life can really make or break that motivation level.
    3. The more I’m doing, the more I feel like doing- Just getting started is doing that easy thing. Finding that little, easy, quick thing to do and then you got started. 
  • Where can my listeners find you and what are some ways they can learn more about you and what you have to offer?

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