Thank you for joining us for episode 467 of Live Happy Now.

In just a few days, we're going to celebrate Mother's Day.

But the fact is, all the moms out there need to take time to celebrate themselves every day.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm sitting down with Jennifer Mulholland, a working mom,

conscious leadership expert, and co-author of the book, Leading with Light, choosing conscious

leadership when you're ready for more.

Jennifer's work focuses on cultivating presence and rediscovering the light within, and she's

here to talk about how we can

bring that business principle into our lives as mothers and how it can change the world for us

and around us. Let's have a listen. Jennifer, thank you for joining me on Live Happy Now. Thank you.

It's so wonderful to be here today, Paula. We have a big day coming up, and that's Mother's Day. And so that's the perfect time to talk about something that you call mindful mothering. And I was really taken by that phrase. I may have heard it before, but it landed with me differently when I received that email about you talking about that. So I wondered to start

things if you could explain what it means to be a mindful mother. Lovely. Yeah, you know, I think,

well, first of all, being a mother is such a gift that we've been given for those of us that have

children or mothering our pets or mothering our parents. It comes in many

different forms, but I really feel like we've just been given such an incredible gift to be in that

role. And being a mindful mother really means being more aware, aligned, and intentional in how we nurture those we care for

and how we nurture and care for ourselves. It's all too easy to be the givers and the doers and the

coordinators and the schedulers and the lovers and, you know,

the band-aiders and all the roles that mother incomes. And we kind of, it's too easy to leave

ourselves out of that equation. And so being a mindful mother is really slowing down to be present

with your way and how you care for others and how you care for yourself.

And that sounds amazing. And we know that would have incredible results. You can tell just from

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