17: Jesse Coulter: Loving Your Job, Not Shopping for 6 Months, and Cap'n Crunch for Dinner
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Coulter is an Austin local, mom, wife, lifestyle blogger, and works in Marketing for IBM. Jesse shares how she juggles all the different aspects of her life, along with tips and strategies you can implement in your own busy schedule. Jesse also shares the struggles with marriage, finances, and burnout that often accompany chaotic seasons. This raw, honest, and vulnerable interview with Jesse and your host, Robin Long, has a little bit of something for everyone.
Show Highlights:
- Ways to set yourself up for success during busy weeks
- What Jesse’s career looks like and how it’s evolved over the years
- A day in the life of Jesse
- How Jesse finds time to write for her blog
- The biggest challenges with work/life balance
- Managing mornings and evenings as a parent
- Prioritizing marriage during busy seasons and defining responsibilities with your spouse
- The struggle with staying home or going back to work after having kids
- Prioritizing family and leaning into building a career
- Ways to manage spending and savings
- Areas of life Jesse has had to let go of
- How self-care and exercise play a part in Jesse’s life
- Dealing with burnout
- Jesse’s strengths and how she thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Rapid-fire session of Jesse’s favorite products and resources
- The importance of remembering who you are and connecting with yourself
Links:
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
5 Day Jumpstart:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Mind, Body, Pilates Challenge:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/mind-body-pilates-challenge/
Contact Jesse:
Instagram: @Jessecoulter
Resources and Products Mentioned:
Posts from Jesse's blog on budgeting + no shopping challenge
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 17 with Jesse Coulter. You know, we've kind of ebb and flowed with our money, |
| 0:06.0 | but it's something we're both very conscious about. And I do a lot of like budgeting blog posts. I share like |
| 0:12.2 | every month what I spend on eating out, what I spend on clothing. I did like a no shopping challenge once |
| 0:19.6 | for six months where I didn't buy anything, you know. |
| 0:22.1 | So I like financial challenges and I like to keep it top of mind because it's so important |
| 0:27.3 | everybody deals with it. |
| 0:28.8 | I like to be transparent about money. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Robin Long. Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:48.5 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all. |
| 0:50.7 | But the truth is, they don't. |
| 0:51.9 | None of us do. |
| 0:56.3 | 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, |
| 1:02.4 | and perhaps more importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. |
| 1:08.2 | From food and exercise to work and family, |
| 1:11.5 | we'll cover it all and provide practical tips |
| 1:14.1 | to help you create a beautiful, uniquely balanced life of your own. |
| 1:19.3 | This is the balanced life podcast. |
| 1:22.7 | It is a busy week around here in TBL headquarters, |
| 1:30.5 | which is my she shed, my home office. |
| 1:33.3 | The headquarters sounds really cool. |
| 1:39.1 | It is a busy and crazy week as we have just reopened enrollment for the Valance Life's sisterhood, which is my favorite thing to do. |
| 1:43.4 | I absolutely love reopening enrollment because I get to be |
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