You Don’t Need More Patience - You Need This Mindset Strategy | Natalie Bacon (EP431)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What if a more joyful motherhood didn’t come from better routines, but from better thoughts? In this episode, Natalie Bacon of Mom On Purpose shares how learning to manage your mind can transform the way you experience motherhood.
Natalie opens up about her journey from attorney to life coach and explains why mindset—not perfection or productivity—is the foundation for emotional well-being. We talk about practical ways to manage thoughts and emotions, navigate sibling rivalry, make peace with worst-case scenarios, and separate achievement from happiness.
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Natalie Bacon is a former lawyer turned boy mom of three and the founder of Mom On Purpose, where she helps high-achieving moms create calmer, more meaningful lives. She’s helped more than 2,000 moms transform their motherhood experience and hosts a top-rated podcast, Mom On Purpose With Natalie Bacon. Natalie lives in Chicago with her husband, their three boys, and two dogs.
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| 0:00.0 | I have done so much work on what I call expanding my capacity to feel calm in the chaos. |
| 0:07.1 | So do I still have a capacity? |
| 0:09.2 | Yes. |
| 0:10.0 | Is it greater than most people's? |
| 0:13.2 | Most people's relative, right? |
| 0:14.5 | But I think so. |
| 0:15.3 | Like I've gone to that gym before. |
| 0:18.0 | And so what I do out of the moment is I imagine that exact scenario and I |
| 0:23.0 | imagine myself calm. So what most people do is out of the moment they think, gosh, I hope there |
| 0:28.7 | are no tantrums today. Gosh, I hope there's not chaos today. Gosh, I just really hope they listen to me |
| 0:33.7 | today. And those thoughts seem so loving, but you're sort of like, like bracing yourself |
| 0:39.2 | for impact and the thought underlying that is like, I don't want this to happen. Please don't happen, |
| 0:44.5 | right? And instead, it's like, okay, I'm not going to do that because it's not helpful because it does |
| 0:49.6 | happen, right? Instead, I'm going to actually do the opposite with my thoughts and I'm going to think |
| 0:53.7 | out of the moment. This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the minimalist mom's podcast. What if a more |
| 0:59.3 | joyful motherhood didn't come from better routines, but from better thoughts? In today's episode, |
| 1:06.0 | Natalie Bacon of Mom on Purpose shares how learning to manage your mind can transform the way you experience |
| 1:12.3 | motherhood. Natalie explains why mindset, not perfection, or productivity is the foundation for |
| 1:18.6 | emotional well-being. We talk about practical ways to manage thoughts and emotions, navigate sibling |
| 1:24.1 | rivalry, make peace with worst- case scenarios, and separate achievement from |
| 1:29.0 | happiness. But before we get there, I quickly want to share a minimalist resource with all of you. |
| 1:33.9 | And this is a substack by author Plum Pits called Simply Just Do the Thing. |
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