Welcome to the Melissa Ambrisini Show. I'm your host, Melissa, best-selling author of

Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, Comparisonitis and Time Magic. And I'm here to remind you that

love is sexy, healthy is liberating, and wealthy isn't a dirty word. Each week I'll be getting

up close and personal

with thought leaders from around the globe,

as well as your weekly dose of motivation

so that you can create epic change in your own life

and become the best version of yourself possible.

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Hello and welcome back to the Melissa and Bracini show. I'm so excited about this episode because this is one of those topics that can instantly change how you move through your day,

especially if you are a mother, a leader, a business owner,

or you're just the kind of woman who carries a lot. And today I'm talking about something I

honestly do not believe in, and that is balance. I don't believe in perfect balance,

because life isn't a perfectly still set of scales.

It is a dance. And some days I am doing the wild tango. And some days I am doing the jive. And some

days it is a waltz. And some days you're doing some kind of interpretive dance that no one has ever taught you,

and you're barefoot, and you're holding a snack, and you're trying to answer an email,

and you've got a baby on your hip, all at the same time.

So instead of chasing balance, which can make you feel like you're failing every time your day gets messy. I want to

offer you a different framework. It's called load management. It's what athletes do. It's what high

performers do. It's what emotionally mature women do when they stop treating their bodies like

machines and start treating them like living,

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