78: Teaching Kids the Value of Work (PJ Jonas)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
PJ Jonas is a business owner, goat-wrangler, entrepreneur, and mother. After getting goats to provide healthy milk for her eight children, she decided to put some excess milk into a batch of handmade soap. That decision was the beginning of Goat Milk Stuff, a growing goat milk products business that includes Goat Milk Soaps,cheeses, candies, fudge, gelato and more! PJ lives in Indiana with her husband, Jim and eight children. The entire family along with 6 full time employees work hard to promote the goodness of goat milk. You can explore more at www.GoatMilkStuff.com
Nuggets of Wisdom from PJ:
"Thomas Jefferson - I'm a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more I have of it."
"All that hard work, ultimately, leads to the success that we are looking for."
"By teaching our children how to do things, to cook, to do the dishes, to do the laundry, that frees a lot of my time and leaves me more time to spend having more fun times with them. When everybody works, all the work ultimately gets finished for the day."
"When we started Goat Milk Stuff, everything had to become more focused. Starting a business from the very beginning, I had to involve my children in all the business aspects. It's all something that we all had to work side by side."
"You start small, you are not going to change something big overnight. That's where a lot of us Go wrong. We have too drastic of a change too quickly. Pick something. Start with something small. Start with cooking. Pick a meal that you can teach your children to make. Don't try and do it all radically because if we change too fast, it just falls apart. It's all hard but it's worth the effort."
Some of PJ's Favorite Things:
"SLEEP is the priority. I go to bed early. Don't have time to go to a gym. I incorporate exercise into my day: 10-20 squats in the bathroom and 2 pushups against the sink, calf raises while washing dishes, 1 legged toothbrushing."
Favorite kitchen gadget: Cutco Knives
Niyc's Favorite Books: "Margin by Richard Swenson. Having space in your life. Time, physical energy, finances, and emotional energy. Keep space. That space between being overwhelmed and being able to keep up with where you're at. Just keep that little bit of space, life will be so much more enjoyable."
Best advice received: "Remember what's important… You have to look 20 years down the road. Is what I'm doing contributing to that? I want my kids to be best friends and have successful marriages and families of their own and put others' needs in front of their own. "
PJ's Happiness Formula:
"Sleep + eating well + doing nothing with my family. That would make me happy. Just together being a family. Telling stories, laughing -for me that's what it's all about."
A Challenge from PJ:
"Let go of something and create more margin in your life. Say no to something and free up more time. Figure out something that you can let go of. "
Resources
Free Bar of Soap for Vibrant Happy Women Listeners
Vibrant Happy Women Facebook Group
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 78. |
| 0:04.9 | Because we all know that as moms, we can do it better and we can do it faster than our kids can. |
| 0:09.0 | But if we don't spend the time teaching them how to do it, then we're stuck doing all of that |
| 0:15.3 | ourselves. And so by teaching the children how to do things, I mean, you know, the children do |
| 0:19.8 | things like they cook, they make, you know, they make the dishes, they do the laundry, they do things. I mean, you know, the children do things like they cook. They make, |
| 0:21.5 | you know, they make the dishes. They do the laundry. They do all of that. So that frees a lot of my time |
| 0:27.9 | up. It gives me a lot more time to do other things. It gives me a lot more time to spend time |
| 0:31.6 | having fun with them. Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:40.2 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:48.2 | Hey there, welcome to Vibrant Happy Women. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Dr. Jen Ryday. |
| 0:52.1 | And I'm here to help you shift from burned out and overwhelmed |
| 0:55.6 | and back into that place of loving your life again. Just because we're busy, busy women doesn't |
| 1:00.9 | mean we need to lose ourselves. It's okay to do the things that make us happy. I get to interview |
| 1:06.5 | so many amazing women on this show, and I am so grateful for that. I've learned so much, |
| 1:10.7 | and I hope you've learned even just a portion that. I've learned so much and I hope |
| 1:11.2 | you've learned even just a portion of what I've learned. I love how there's so many women out there |
| 1:15.9 | who struggle truly with deep and difficult hardships but they're able to find happiness despite it. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm so glad you're here. School has started again and that means you're probably trying to get back into the routine of |
| 1:28.7 | things, doing more of the things you need to do, like exercising or maybe a bit of journaling or |
| 1:34.6 | cooking healthy food. But if you're like most women, and I get a lot of emails about this, |
| 1:40.2 | you feel like you're constantly tied down by that to-do list, by the schedule, by the school |
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