08: Lara Casey: Maintaining Friendships, Boundaries on Social Media and Cultivating What Matters
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today’s interview is filled to the brim with insightful and enlightening conversation. Lara Casey is a wife, mom of 3, and entrepreneur, with a countercultural take on life and business. She is the CEO of Cultivate What Matters, a business that helps individuals uncover what matters to them and make an action plan to attain their goals. Lara uses the tactics she implements in her work into her daily life and has created strategies that help her juggle homeschooling, work, and motherhood. Join Robin Long in this interview to learn more about how Lara keeps her cup full and still manages to pour back into others through all life’s chaos.
Show Highlights:
- What brought Lara to her career now and how she applies her work to everyday life
- Identifying priorities and being selective with focusing energy
- Navigating saying no and letting go of things that don’t align with your priorities
- Putting programs in place to balance childcare, work, and homeschool
- Dealing with feelings of judgment
- Tips to help stay present and setting boundaries
- Using social media as a platform to minister and pour into others
- Creating daily rituals for self-care
- Finding ways to have quality time in a countercultural way
- Lara’s approach to eating and how she meal preps
- Overcoming feelings of guilt and using it as a motivator
- Maintaining a sense of community and friendships in busy seasons
- Finding contentment in the current season of life you’re in
- Rapid fire session
- The importance of always thinking of the big picture
Links:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com
Contact Lara:
https://cultivatewhatmatters.com
Lara’s book:
Organizations Mentioned:
https://www.zachariahsacres.org
Products Mentioned:
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number eight with Wara Casey. |
| 0:03.5 | You know, whether it's a season of having a new baby or a challenge or of transition or a new job or a move or an illness in the family, whatever it is, those seasons will teach you. |
| 0:13.6 | They'll teach you about that singular word priority. |
| 0:16.1 | Sometimes the priority is, hey, I just need to drink water today. |
| 0:28.9 | Music The priority is, hey, I just need to drink water today. I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:33.7 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all, but the truth is they don't. None of us do. |
| 0:42.0 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. |
| 0:57.5 | From food and exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help |
| 1:04.1 | you create a beautiful, uniquely balanced life of your own. This is the Balance Life Podcast. |
| 1:15.1 | Hey friends, I've been spending the day writing new workouts for an exciting new program that I'm working on. So I'm mapping out the |
| 1:20.3 | workouts, writing the exercises, and I'm getting really excited to share this with you soon. |
| 1:25.4 | Writing workouts, I kind of love and hate it. I love it because |
| 1:29.2 | I love Pilates, but I hate it because I'm always trying to change it up and make it interesting, |
| 1:35.6 | and it just takes so much time that I kind of put myself into a crazy mindset. So it was great for me |
| 1:41.8 | today that I got to take a break from my crazy workout writing mode |
| 1:45.4 | and pause into a podcast interview with a guest that I am so excited to share with you. |
| 1:52.6 | Today I interviewed Laura Casey. |
| 1:55.9 | And Laura is someone that I've always admired. |
| 1:59.6 | I found her years ago through blogging, I think, |
| 2:03.3 | and then begin to just follow her on social media and follow her journey. And I've always been |
| 2:08.9 | intrigued by her dedication to speaking truth. She lives with integrity and it's really |
| 2:14.1 | obvious through the work that she does and how she is on social media. |
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