435: CEO Mama: Vices, "Numbing Out", and How to Lighten the Mental Load of Motherhood

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Natalie Ellis

Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this inevitably relatable episode, Lindsay dives deep into the concept of the mental load that mothers carry, especially entrepreneurial + working moms. She discusses the importance of recognizing each piece of the mental load that mothers carry and teaches on how to lighten this load, which is essential to preventing burnout. Lindsay introduces her framework of the "seven buckets" that encompass various aspects of a mother’s life, offering practical strategies to manage and share responsibilities effectively. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction to Lightening the Mental Load 01:55 Understanding the Mental Load of Motherhood 08:35 The Seven Buckets of Mental Load 14:29 Evaluating Capacity vs. Load 18:44 Tools for Lightening the Load 28:11 Taking Action to Lighten the Load 35:31 Conclusion and Reflection on Motherhood RESOURCES + LINKS The Seven Buckets Outlined: Work Money Fun Health Love/Relationships Kids/Parenting Purpose/Meaning Fill out the CEO Mama Membership founding member application here. Black Friday at Bossbabe is coming! Join the waitlist here to be the first to know what our secret offer is. Learn Natalie’s proven method for building a profitable, predictable, freedom-based business and get back to WHY you became an entrepreneur in this FREE 90-minute training. Join The Société: Our Exclusive Membership Where You Can Access All of Natalie’s Keynotes & Unlock The Best Systems + Tools To Help You Build A Freedom-Based Business. Get Our Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Send Us A Screenshot & We’ll Send You Natalie’s 7-Figure Operating System Completely FREE (value $1,997) FOLLOW bossbabe: @bossbabe.inc Natalie Ellis: @iamnatalie Lindsay Roselle: @lindsayroselle

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. This is Lindsay. Welcome back to the show. Today is a CEO
0:18.6	Mama episode, and this is actually me recording the whole
0:21.9	episode live today and not using an older episode of Motherload because I feel like we have
0:27.3	had so many good conversations with my older episodes for Motherload and Natalie and I have
0:32.4	talked through all kinds of new things to be talking about. And one of the things we wanted to
0:37.2	talk about,
0:38.4	and then I said I would cover today in this episode is how to lighten the mental load. And I talked
0:45.5	about this a lot through mother load. And you've probably, if you've been listening to these CEO
0:49.1	Mama episodes, you've heard me mention the calculation around capacity and load and how we are as mothers and
0:59.2	entrepreneurial mothers, ambitious mothers, we have such high capacity and that we tend to pride
1:03.5	ourselves on that, you know, that we can run a business and be great moms and we want that.
1:07.3	And our capacity is really elastic and it expands with our desire to do both things well.
1:13.0	But that sometimes the load we carry exceeds that capacity.
1:17.4	And that's when we start to feel burned out or that's where we head to a coping mechanism.
1:21.1	Or that's where things start to feel icky inside of our relationship or our business.
1:26.2	And we get to these points where we want to burn
1:28.0	things down, you know? And of course, that's not where we want to end up. And so I want to do a little
1:32.5	primer on how to lighten the load. And if you have listened to Motherload episodes, you know that
1:39.4	one of the ways that I like to think about the mental load of motherhood is breaking it into
1:43.6	these seven buckets. So I'm going to start with how I think about the mental load of motherhood is breaking it into these seven
1:44.2	buckets. So I'm going to start with how I think about the mental load of motherhood. And then we can
1:49.2	have this conversation around how do we lighten the load? And what are some of the things to be
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