When you're doing big things in your life, it is vital to kind of build that community around you

of people who really do get it, of people who aren't taking it personally when you say no to things

and when you're protecting your time. In fact, they're going to help you protect that time.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women,

and together we'll unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for

to help you get out of your own way and into action around your next big idea.

I want to have a conversation around what it actually looks like to protect your time so that you

have space in your life and in your calendar for the things that are most important to you

and including your big ideas, your business, the thing that you want to grow. So if you have

been recently feeling like you don't have time to make meaningful progress toward your goals,

maybe you're falling behind with what you wanted to accomplish,

or you just feel like you're being pulled in a million directions. I don't know about you,

but that can leave me feeling super overwhelmed and even depleted. I start to get frustrated.

I start to resent the things that I said yes to. If you felt any of this, you are so not alone.

And chances are that is a sign that it is time to strengthen your no muscle. The muscle of saying

no, which for some of you might make you cringe. Some of you might love saying no. And it might

be time to renegotiate some boundaries in your life. Because here's the

thing. I do believe that you can have it all in life, whatever your all is. You can have the life

that you want to create. But you cannot do it all all at once. You cannot have every single area of your life be the priority all at the same

time. And I was reading something recently just about what priorities are in general. And whatever

I was reading was basically saying how a priority in its truest sense can only be one thing. There can

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