Hello, welcome back to the pod. This is another CEO Mama episode and this one is also repurposed for motherload.

So I'm happy that you're here in listening. This one is a conversation about the mental math that I do and that I'm introducing you two on this

episode around thinking about the time that we put into taking care of ourselves

and how often as ambitious mothers we think of that time as time that we should be doing something else.

So by by deprioritizing ourselves we're actually saving time and then we can use that time to work or we can use that time and

poured into our kids and how in the moment that feels like the right decision to do

because we need to work more or our kids need us or something else has come up that

feels in the moment more important than taking care of ourselves.

But how that lack of prioritization of ourselves will catch up with us in the form of, in my case in this episode,

I got the flu and it took me down literally for 10 days. This was back in the fall of 22 around

literally for 10 days this was back in the fall of 2022 around

Thanksgiving of 2022 I got sicker than I'd ever been I

literally could not move off the couch with the flu for 10 days and all of that time I couldn't work or anything and so this was a big

lesson for me around you know the months leading up to that I had told myself these stories

that if I don't go to the gym this week I'm

that's 10 hours of time that I can work more or you know if I stay up a little bit

later tonight and steal the night you know this concept of like stealing the night where we get our

alone time at midnight because that's the only time that moms can get alone time.

So I was stealing the night a lot to like get some alone time and read books and watch shows.

And you know, I'm like I can't I can't do these

things during the daytime I only can do this at night after everybody else is

asleep so I was you know I was negatively impacting my sleep I wasn't taking

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