This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 59.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.

I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated

moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your

dreams.

I'm also here to help you be a little more

shameless every day because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of.

What kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. Hello, shameless moms. I'm excited to

be here today and I want to just give myself a little pat on the back because I'm recording a day earlier

than I usually do. I've gotten in the horrible habit of waiting to the last minute of the week

to record episodes for the upcoming week, which leads to stress and anxiety on my part.

And it's actually, like, I used to be the kind of person who did everything way in

advance. So like if a teacher assigned some sort of homework assignment and said like, okay,

you need to write this paper and it's due in like three weeks. I would go home and start working

on it that day and I would have it done in a week and a half. I lived my life like that through

college. And then something happened in my 20s. And when I went back to school for personal

training, I still did very well in school. I was still a high achiever, but I did everything at the last

minute and just did what I needed to do. Like I made sure I did enough to get the A, but I didn't do it

well in advance. And somehow I've continued at that rate, like not doing things way in advance unless I really

have to.

Or a lot of times I intend to do things way in advance, but it just doesn't happen.

And I think that that happens with motherhood and chaos in your life is that you have the

...