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Habits and Hustle

Episode 224: Tips On How To Be a Present, Working Parent

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.5 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Habits & Hustle podcast, Jennifer discusses the challenges that come with being a working parent. Being a present parent with a thriving career is difficult, and many people don’t know how hard it is to do both well. Luckily, having a great support team and being efficient with your time can make balancing the two a little easier.  What’s discussed: 01:39 Balancing work obligations and your kids’ schedule 02:19 Why you need a great support team  04:53 How to be more available and present  06:50 Why you need to be more efficient with your time  07:34 Why you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself  Key Takeaways: Being a working parent is a work in progress, and it’s important to remember to not be too hard on yourself. It’s important to be more efficient with your time so you can accomplish the things that you need to do for yourself and accommodate your kids schedule.  Nobody is self-made in this world, so it is important to have a great support team around you. Find more from Jennifer: Jen's Bigger, Better, Bolder Mastermind starts in March! Apply now to be considered: https://www.jennifercohen.com/bigger-better-bolder-mastermind Join Jen’s new Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/662921105381902/ Find out Jen’s secret to getting anything you want out of life: https://www.jennifercohen.com/the-secret-to-getting-anything-you-want-in-life Follow Jennifer: Instagram: http://instagram.com/therealjencohen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealjencohen/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealjencohen Jennifer’s Website: https://jennifercohen.com/ Did you learn something from tuning in today? Please pay it forward and write us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. If you have feedback for the show, please email habitsandhustlepod@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.

0:10.0

All right. Okay, we're going to talk about something. We just changed topics of what we're going to talk about because it was happening in real time, which is working and being a mom, working and being a parent that is a present parent. That's what I

0:24.2

want to talk about. Wait, this hat looks so cute on you, by the way. Thanks. I just had to say that.

0:27.8

You look great. I feel like because I haven't seen your face all day. This is wonderful.

0:32.8

This is great. Thank you. The only reason why we're talking about this one today is because,

0:38.9

so let me just give you a backstory. Seanana comes over and she's like, let's, we've got to like do some solos and I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it in my kitchen. And she's like, don't do it in the kitchen. We can't do in the kitchen because if we do in the kitchen, the kids are going to come home. We're going to have to do this. We're going to have to do that. It's going to take five hours to do like three, 10 minute episodes.

0:55.5

And I'm like giving her a hard time.

0:57.4

I'm like, don't be ridiculous. It'll take like no time. We're going to knock it out. We fine. And this went on for a bit. And lo and behold, what happens? My kids come home from school. And it is like becomes may becomes mayhem mom I want to watch the iPad

1:13.8

mom I want to like do this ma'am and it was really like kind of like it was like not World War

1:21.7

three but it was like a it was like a whole thing in the house where like where the kids are going

1:27.3

to go if I can watch an iPad about like where the kids are going to go,

1:27.9

if I can watch an iPad, about the sports, when they're going to go to the sports, the timing

1:32.9

of everything, how I'm going to like fit in certain things that I need to get done for work,

1:39.4

then balance that out with when I'm going to have to do with my kids for their schedule.

1:45.2

Let me tell you,

1:54.0

it is, this is not an easy job. If you want to be a good parent and have a thriving career,

2:00.0

it is hard. That is all I'm going to say. This is not really for it, for, I'm not going to like go and, and philosophize all the other

2:02.8

stuff, but I just want to say for people who are listening, if you are somebody who is a working

2:07.8

parent, God bless you, it is not easy. I am with you. It is hard. And I think people who don't

2:14.6

know, don't know how hard it is to do both well.

2:19.3

And you need a real great support team, which is kind of what I really want to talk about,

2:24.9

which is I'm amazed that more people don't give credit where credits do.

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