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The Marie Forleo Podcast

3: Latham Thomas: How to Balance Being a Mom & Entrepreneur

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Being a working mom and building your dream business while taking care of a baby can be difficult to balance. In this episode I sit down with mom, successful author and business owner Latham Thomas to discuss how working moms can balance being a great mom with growing their business. In this episode you'll learn Latham's top 5 tips for taking care of yourself, your baby, and your business when you're figuring out how to be a working mom. Learn to shift from “woe is me” to “WOW is me!” @GlowMaven via @MarieForleo

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped millions of people

0:07.6

transform their businesses and lives.

0:10.2

If you're ready to make the difference you were born to make, get ready because this is the Marie

0:15.4

Forelio podcast.

0:18.2

This is Q&A Tuesday.

0:20.5

And today's question comes from Kirstie in the UK and she writes,

0:24.0

Hey Marie, let me start by saying what an inspiration you are to me.

0:28.0

It's so great to see how you put everything across in such a fun and fresh way.

0:32.0

You are welcome. So here's my situation. I started my dream

0:35.4

business at the age of 23 and when it was just one and a half years old I got

0:40.2

pregnant. I was in a relatively new relationship, but I trusted that everything happens for a reason.

0:46.2

My daughter is now seven months old and watching her grow is teaching me so much.

0:51.3

I'm trying to be the best mum I can be, but I'll be honest, this was not part of my business

0:56.6

plan, little smiley face.

0:58.8

Being so young and having a new business and a new baby is really challenging, especially because no friends my age are going

1:05.3

through the same thing. I do have a supportive partner and he also runs his own

1:09.3

business but since he's the main breadwinner he feels his business has to come first.

1:14.4

Do you have any tips on how to be the best mom I can be and not let my dream business slip

1:19.4

through my fingers, sending you tons of gratitude, love Kirstie.

1:23.6

Kirstie, this is such an important question.

1:25.8

In fact, we have tens of thousands of moms

1:28.7

in our community that are feeling exactly how you are.

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