15: Laura Whitaker: Building a Career, Raising a Family and Doing Small Things with Great Love
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week’s extra special and inspiring guest is Laura Whitaker. Laura Whitaker has been the executive director of Extra Special People since the age of 19 and has since taken on new roles as a mother and wife.
In this wisdom packed episode, Laura shares how her career has evolved and the many tidbits of knowledge she’s acquired throughout her journey. You won’t want to miss this conversation with your host, Robin Long, about developing emotional intelligence, living for small moments of love, along with tricks to make mornings with kids easier.
Show Highlights:
- What Laura’s career and current season of life looks like
- How Laura got involved with ESP and how it’s evolved
- Having a mentorship mentality and surrounding yourself with uplifting people
- Different seasons Laura has experienced throughout her career and redefining what her job means over the years
- Mental practices to master putting on different hats
- Being understanding of the capacities of others
- How Laura balances friendships
- How Laura utilizes her gifts of encouragement and marketing to motivate others
- Things Laura doesn’t do in her daily life and the guilt of missing important moments
- Laura’s current self-care regimen and what she does to prioritize her health
- Dealing with burnout and shifting your mindset to positively impact others
- The benefits of establishing a morning routine and meal prepping for the week
- A rapid-fire session of Laura’s favorite products and resources
- How to create a life that is unique and whole to you
Links:
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
5 Day Jumpstart:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Mind, Body, Pilates Challenge:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/mind-body-pilates-challenge/
Contact Laura:
https://extraspecialpeople.com
Resources and Products mentioned:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 15 with Laura Whitaker. |
| 0:03.4 | We do have someone come clean our house. |
| 0:05.5 | I tell my husband I would rather eat peanut butter and jelly every single night than clean my home because I want to spend time with my children when I'm home. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't want to be cleaning toilets. |
| 0:14.3 | And so that's just something we sacrifice with. |
| 0:17.2 | And we just put it in the budget probably eight don't know, probably eight years ago, and we've never |
| 0:21.7 | stopped. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:35.5 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all, |
| 0:39.5 | but the truth is they don't. None of us do. Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find |
| 0:46.1 | honest conversations with inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make their life work, |
| 0:52.1 | what they do, and perhaps more importantly, what they |
| 0:55.2 | don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. From food and exercise to work and |
| 1:01.7 | family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help you create a beautiful, |
| 1:07.7 | uniquely balanced life of your own. This is the balanced life podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | Hey, beauties. Welcome back to the balanced life podcast. You are in for a treat with today's |
| 1:20.3 | episode. I am so excited to share it with you that I'm not even going to do my usual chit chat |
| 1:26.3 | for too long. I just want to dive into |
| 1:28.1 | this conversation that I had with Laura. It is full of encouragement, full of practical |
| 1:35.1 | tips and also just little nuggets of wisdom. She shares an analogy about using a mailbox |
| 1:42.4 | to help you transition at the end of the day. Yes, a mailbox. I'm not |
| 1:46.8 | going to give it away. I want you to listen for it. It's really, really good. And she also shares |
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