282. Finding Peace in Motherhood: Navigating Chaos with Grace | Leslie Burris

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m joined by returning guest and listener favorite, Leslie Burris. As a mother of seven and entrepreneur, Leslie shares her wisdom on choosing peace in the midst of motherhood’s inevitable chaos. We discuss the challenges of balancing family life, homeschooling, and running a business while embracing a mindset of flexibility and grace. Leslie also opens up about navigating seasons of uncertainty, avoiding overthinking, and taking intentional steps toward a more peaceful home life. Whether you’re in the trenches of motherhood or pursuing family entrepreneurship, this episode is full of encouragement and practical insights to help you thrive.

In this episode, we cover:

What life looks like for Leslie as a homeschooling mother of seven running an online business from home with her husband
The revolutionary way Leslie is getting beef liver into her young kids’ diets everyday (and how you can too!)
The unique benefits and challenges of working together on a family business
Thoughts on when to take big risks in life and business
What to do when you feel stuck in self-doubt or lack of motivation
Taking the pressure off when it comes to decision making
Where to start if you are a stay-at-home mom wanting to start earning an income online
A discussion on growing an online platform by sharing your life in this social media era
A refreshing perspective to consider when you are in a hard season of motherhood
How your age and experience in motherhood might change your priorities along the way

View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube.

ABOUT LESLIE

Leslie is a midwest mama of 7 who is 14 years married to her Twitter sweetheart. She is known on instagram for her morning coffee and breakfast food boards, mentoring first time moms, and encouraging women to break up with worry for good through her brand “Peace On Purpose”. Leslie will make you laugh, make you think, and provoke you to see beauty in everyday moments.

RESOURCES

Listen to Leslie’s previous episode on the podcast

Check out Leslie’s beef liver melts

Join my FREE masterclass to learn my 4-step framework for making money on YouTube

Master the rhythm of sourdough with confidence in my Simple Sourdough course

Gain the sewing knowledge and skills every homemaker needs in my Simple Sewing series

Turn your content creation dreams into a profitable business with my YouTube Success Academy

Keep all my favorite sourdough recipes at your fingertips in my Daily Sourdough cookbook

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You have exactly the capacity that you need for the season that you're currently in.
0:04.6	This friend, she had one child.
0:06.5	I had four kids ages five and under.
0:08.4	And I just reminded her, like, I have the capacity for four.
0:11.4	You have the capacity for one.
0:12.9	You need to be a good steward with your capacity with where you're at.
0:15.9	You do not have to worry about having any capacity for two children until that baby is born. I will be given
0:21.9	the capacity that I need only in the moment that I need it. Not when I'm practicing, not when
0:26.6	I'm fearful, not when I'm playing hypothetical situations in my head. My name is Lisa, mother of eight
0:32.2	and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about
0:37.0	simplifying your life
0:38.1	so you can live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget
0:42.7	through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the simple sewing series. I also help people
0:48.5	reach their goals from home through my business course in YouTube Success Academy. I will leave
0:52.6	links to these resources in the show notes
0:54.4	and description box below. Now let's get into the show. Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse
1:03.6	Life podcast. Today I'm having on a listener favorite guest, Leslie Burris, of Leslie Burris over on
1:10.1	Instagram, Leslie Burris.com. We are going to chat
1:14.2	motherhood, entrepreneurship, and mostly just catch up. I love talking to Leslie. We've never even
1:21.5	met in real life yet, but we absolutely need to. We chat for way too long. So put this in here, maybe get some housework done and enjoy. Leslie, I'm excited to have you on and to catch up. I was just on Instagram this morning and I saw that you went live and I had just hadn't seen you around there for a while. So I was like, oh, I want to catch up. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to to her later today. So we have a lot to talk about. Like, what's been going on lately? You've started a new business. So for those who don't know you, I guess let's give us a quick introduction. Obviously, you were on the show either last fall or the fall before. We can't really decide. But yeah, Tell us about yourself. Yeah. So I'm Leslie Burris. I'm a mom of seven.
2:03.6	I live in
2:04.1	Tulsa, Oklahoma. And much like you, Lisa, we are a self-sustaining family. We work together as a
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