Engineer Your Success, Leadership, & Life Harmony #likeamother
Episodes
41 episodes
The cost of the confidence gap in mothers in demanding careers, and what to do about it!
“Think about when you enter a room and you talk with different people who have conviction and confidence within their work. It’s very magnetic to work with these people, and for you to harness this power is so important to not only your earn...
Eliminating your mental B.S. to break out of living a mediocre lifestyle
“The acronym, BOLD, is being a brave, outgoing leader deciding. This means that you decide on the legacy that you want to leave behind, both in your career and with your children. This takes being outgoing, having strength in your core value...
Use project management to focus on your family priorities
“As with companies, it’s important for your family to have their mission statement and core values to drive decisions. When I started thinking about this for my family, it helped us and our kids to have a guiding principle to go off of when ...
Maternal mental health and looking stylish while being comfortable in maternity clothes
“When I started my maternity clothing store, I really wanted to go back to my roots and use my creative side. And this journey to make my vision a reality connected me with amazing people in my life, made me figure out who I was beyond being...
How to be an investor in local businesses: Opportunities for wealth-building while empowering those
“It’s so important to get women into investing because it gives women the confidence to persevere. This will help with the next step in their journeys and they will be able to use this to carry them info other places and have the confidence ...
Make your return to work smooth and confident by bringing support, resilience and structure
In this episode, lawyer and working-parent advocate Lori Mihalich-Levin joins Kinia Romanowska to discuss the rituals and key conversations that can bring support, resilience, and structure into the delicate transition back to work after matern...
How our careers affect our children
“Our careers definitely affect our children. Seeing us go to work sets a precedent for your children of showing that we have a skill and we are choosing to use this skill to impact our community positively.”In this episode, Pros&a...
We shall never pump milk in a toilet stall again! And other reasons why we’re changing the world
“The world needs us to embrace our differences and create a better world. Women bring so many new perspectives such as being nurturing and being more inclusive, which the STEM field can use in the community.”In this episode, Women...
Making the deliberate choice to feel good can boost your confidence
“You need to be deliberate in what you want, otherwise life will give you whatever it wants to and you won’t have a choice. So using affirmations like writing down your goals and creating steps towards them is the best thing to being deliber...
Becoming a goddess in your business by building wealth in a way that’s aligned with your values
“I want to remind the women listening to really connect with their inner ambitions. If you want to make more money or spend more time with your children, go for it! Fully open up to that desire that you have inside first, then worry about a ...
How to have your career fit your new identity as a mother
“We need to look at your new criteria for happiness. To find this, we start at what you really want to contribute with your skills and what you want a workplace to look like. From these we start to look at jobs outside the box, outside of wh...
Figuring out parenting in the 21st Century
“In today’s age, every time there is a problem, we will look up the solution to it, look at how others dealt with it, and follow that rather than trusting ourselves. Most of the time, if you take the time to navigate it yourself you will get...
Create family harmony amidst the challenges of fly-in-fly-out work
“Some of the shifts that I had to go through when I became a mom with a fly-in-fly-out career was to see what other moms were doing to make their careers and family lives become harmonious. Using other mother’s answers and seeing which ones ...
Addressing good habits and ergonomics to improve your posture and physical health
“When new mothers come in, they haven’t been given direction on how to practice proper ergonomics post-birth or post-maternity leave. So I would highly suggest that you talk to your employer to get an ergonomic assessment at work so that you...
Digging deep into the root causes of the exhaustion
“With exhaustion or chronic exhaustion, you really need to think about the why’s. Doing this allows us to explore the difference between when you need to do the five why’s and take action or when you just need a couple of days of rest. They ...
Non-negotiables vs boundaries: Do you have your priorities set for 2022?
“We always talk about mindset before mechanics, and it starts with your inner thoughts and the power of what is in your mind. And this mindset will guide your non-negotiables, as they will reflect your values and what's important to you. Thi...
Sanity-preserving strategies for working moms, dropping the ball, outsourcing, and getting expert help
“The biggest mistake that I made, before I started working at Kepler Academy, was that I didn’t trust the process. Now that I work there, I can see how well it is managed and handled, and I wish that I trusted them sooner as my life would ha...
Fitness for the busy mom, how to find a routine that works for you - and stick to it, and exercising
“When we are exercising while we are pregnant, postpartum, or at any stage, we have to think of it as if we were training for a marathon. There are a lot of shifts which will change our energy levels. So we need to have a training plan for t...
Thriving as a STEM mom of two kiddos
“Without a comprehensive program like the MoMBA, I would have been left to figure out critical areas of my work and family life alone, wasting time and energy. As a mom, it’s already hard enough!”“Being part of the community ha...
Budgets, prices, salaries: How to make sense of it all
“I truly believe that everyone needs to be financially self-sufficient in their life so that they can be spending their money in ways that align with them. Especially for women and girls, we need to help them see that although society has in...
More of us in the arena: how women can grow their numbers, influence, and careers in STEM
“When it comes to crises of confidence, it doesn't matter how powerful or confident or educated or high up you are in the food chain. So many moms who look like they have it all together still feel scared and confused and wonder if this is s...
Managing emotions at work, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and territory after mat leave
“When you're when we're talking about emotional intelligence, the foundation is recognizing your emotions and understanding how they show up. More and more science is showing how important it is to acknowledge and feel our emotions. So becau...
How to attract opportunities for meaningful work
“One of the ways that I find provides more successful outcomes in negotiations is when people have stopped thinking of themselves as having the possibility of losing. In negotiation, there is no winning or losing, it’s more like a team overcomi...
3 ways to build your personal brand using LinkedIn
“If you want to get started towards your goals, you first need to see what those goals are. Many people come to me after years of working 70 hours a week with no direction in life. And once they add up the number of hours they work, it’s eas...
HPV and Cancers: Why you and your children are at risk
“Back in the day, having breast cancer was stigmatized to be a shameful thing. Fast forward to today, you can’t even pump gas without seeing a campaign about preventing it. We need to destigmatize HPV because it is a form of cancer as well, ...
