18: Natalie Taylor: Focusing on your Core Values While Creating Margin and Slowing Down
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Finances play a huge role in our day-to-day life and where we choose to focus our money is important. Today’s guest, Natalie Taylor, is a financial planner who emphasizes how to spend money and live life in a way that aligns with your core values. Natalie shares how she transitioned from life in corporate to work from home, the struggles that can often accompany those transitions, and the fulfillment she’s found in her journey. She also talks about how to build margins into your day in order to be efficient and effective but in a way that gives you space to slow down. Join Robin Long in this interview to learn more about Natalie’s story and how you can create a life that aligns with your values.
Show Highlights:
- Who is Natalie and what does she do
- Natalie’s corporate career and how she transitioned to where she is now
- Creating a life that aligns with your core values
- Working through transitional seasons and the role of finances
- What Natalie’s daily life in corporate looked like versus now
- The importance of margins and having space to rest
- Tips to maintain margins and build rhythm into your day
- What “adult swim” is and how Natalie implements it into her parenting
- The difficulties of transitioning from full-time child care to being the predominant caregiver
- Natalie’s health journey and the role exercise plays in her life
- How Natalie uses her gifts to help people think and feel differently about money
- Things Natalie doesn’t do in this season
- A rapid-fire session of Natalie’s favorites and go-to products
- How to find your own unique sense of balance
Links:
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
5 Day Jumpstart:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Enrollment for the Sisterhood:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/balanced-life-sisterhood/
Contact Natalie:
Instagram: @Natalieanntaylormoney
https://www.natalieanntaylor.com
Products and Resources Mentioned:
https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 18 with Natalie Taylor. |
| 0:03.6 | I have this expectation in my mind. |
| 0:05.4 | Like, I'm going to be super mom and it's going to be so fun. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm going to have so much time on my hands and capacity and energy |
| 0:11.6 | because I'm not working this corporate role for this Fortune 100 company. |
| 0:15.4 | And it's just all going to be roses and sunshine and beach days. |
| 0:18.7 | And it's super wasn't. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah. be roses and sunshine and beach days, and it super wasn't. I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:33.4 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all, but the truth is they don't. |
| 0:40.2 | None of us do. |
| 0:41.7 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, |
| 0:47.3 | sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more |
| 0:52.1 | importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of |
| 0:56.8 | from food and exercise to work and family we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help |
| 1:03.8 | you create a beautiful uniquely balanced life of your own this is the balanced life podcast |
| 1:14.8 | Hi friends welcome back to the podcast. It's my birthday week, which is exciting. But as an adult, as you know, it's kind of just another week, right? |
| 1:22.3 | Life goes on. Things don't really change like they used to when you're younger. I'm still working. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm still momming. And the babies don't really know to give me a day off. But I'm still grateful. I actually |
| 1:33.4 | started a practice leading up to my 30th birthday where I did 30 days of gratitude leading up to my 30th |
| 1:39.9 | birthday. At the time, I had just had my first daughter and I was new in town and just kind of |
| 1:47.6 | in a little bit of a funk. And instead of feeling sorry for myself, I decided to focus on gratitude. |
| 1:54.3 | So I did and it was really powerful and I've done that almost every year since. I didn't do it |
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