How I Deal With Mom Guilt
The Kelly Roach Show
Kelly Roach
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If you are a working mom, you may have felt guilty while away from your child. So often, I am asked, "how do I deal with mom guilt?", since the majority of my time is spent running companies and raising my eight-year-old daughter. On today's episode, I am giving some food for thought on how I can run my company successfully while being a fantastic mom, and not have mom guilt.
Also in this episode:
- What role are you meant to play in your child's life?
- Balancing the demands of being a great parent and entrepreneur
- How my husband and I play different roles in our daughter's life
- How can we have an impact the next generation by leading by example
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Kelly Roach Show, the place for no fluff easy to implement 20 minute or |
| 0:10.8 | less business and leadership lessons to help you build sustainable business that scales. |
| 0:17.6 | Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive turned 8 figure entrepreneur. |
| 0:28.1 | Let's get started. |
| 0:30.9 | I get the question very often from different people in different ways asking me how I deal with |
| 0:38.3 | mom guilt and how I feel about the fact that I'm so busy and have so much attention and focus |
| 0:46.1 | on running my companies knowing that I have an eight year old daughter. And I always share the |
| 0:52.8 | question and the answer in a way that I think is something that gives us some food for thought. |
| 1:02.0 | And that is what role do you believe that you're meant to play in your child's life? |
| 1:09.4 | And I think that's a really important question to ask. Not just parent, not just mom or dad, |
| 1:16.4 | what role are you meant to play? I share for myself that I believe that Madison is destined for |
| 1:23.2 | greatness. And I believe one of my primary functions in her life is to allow her to see and believe |
| 1:33.6 | that anything is possible. I see one of my most important roles in her life as being someone |
| 1:41.2 | that every single day wakes up and chases my dreams and believes that I am capable of achieving them. |
| 1:50.0 | And how has this impacted Madison? Well Madison is eight years old. And the thing that we hear |
| 1:56.8 | from her friends parents all the time and that we hear when she goes on play dates and goes to parties |
| 2:02.8 | and spends time even from her teachers at school is that she's a leader and that she sets the example |
| 2:10.4 | that she speaks articulately that she has a very strong sense of self and confidence and self-worth. |
| 2:20.7 | That's at eight. Madison came home last week and I was on a call and she was waiting so patiently |
| 2:28.8 | for me to get off a call and I was trying to wrap up and she's standing there and she didn't tell |
| 2:33.6 | me she was just waiting and waiting by my side for me to wrap up the call. And I finally |
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