Episode 351: Stop Letting ‘Busy’ Steal Your Goals: Beating the Back-to-School Slump

Women Inspiring Women

Melanie Mitro

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Feeling overwhelmed and stretched too thin this August? You’re not alone. In this episode of The Melanie Mitro Show, Melanie speaks directly to busy moms and women in direct sales who are juggling endless to-do lists, family demands, and business goals — all while trying to keep their sanity. If August has you feeling drained, scattered, or like you’re constantly falling behind, this episode is your lifeline. Melanie gets real about the struggles of overwhelm and shares down-to-earth, practic...

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0:00.0	Well, hey everybody, welcome back to the Melanie Mitro show. It's your host, Melanie Mitro, and we're
0:06.2	here for another episode. And today, I'm actually a little spicy and we're going to have a spicy
0:13.6	conversation. So I hope you're ready for it. If you don't love tough love, then this might not be
0:19.6	the episode for you.
0:21.4	But if you're serious about growing your direct sales business, whether you want to make a lot of money or a little bit of money, but you're showing up and you want to see results, then this is the place to be.
0:33.3	This is the show to be listening to and tuned into every single week. And today, we are talking
0:40.4	about August. The month of August, the back to school month. And I know that some of us,
0:52.4	we all, depending on where we live in the country,
0:55.1	in the world, we all go back to school at different times. But there's this feeling as we move
1:01.0	into August, this sort of everybody holds their breath. Everybody pauses and is paralyzed.
1:08.8	And I see it in people that own businesses, that don't own businesses.
1:13.3	I see this in moms as they're getting their kids to get ready to go back to school or off to
1:17.6	college. Fall sports are kicking up. I just see this look in women's eyes of just absolute
1:25.9	paralyzation and freeze. this like functional freeze that is
1:31.6	happening across the board. And it's affecting so many different areas. It has a ripple effect on
1:38.0	whether it's health and wellness, it's businesses that people are running. It's the cadence and the calmness inside of a household.
1:47.8	And I see how it just takes people back. And it really can be defeating in so many ways from a
1:56.7	confidence level, from an income level. And today we're going to talk about it because,
2:00.9	you know, I did an Instagram story on Monday where I was like, okay, who here on my Instagram
2:08.2	is feeling overwhelmed? Who here is feeling, I was like, who is feeling paralyzed and
2:14.3	fearful right now? Who is feeling like bloated and tired. I just asked all of these
2:19.0	questions and the number one response that people are feeling right now is overwhelmed.
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