Rebecca Olson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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If you've ever felt like balance only works when life is calm, this episode is gonna change the way you see it. You ready to talk about forever balance? Let's get to it.
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Welcome to the Ambitious and Balanced Working Moms Podcast, your go-to resource for integrating your career ambitions with life as a mom. I'm distilling down thousands of coaching conversations I've had with working moms just like you, along with my own personal experience as a mom of two, and sharing the most effective tools and strategies to help you quickly feel calm, confident, and in control of your ambitious working mom life.
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You ready? Let's get to it!
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Working moms, I have such a treat for you today. On the podcast today, I have a client who went through ambitious and balanced last year. This is Kelly Marr. I'm so excited that she's here. I'm going to have her introduce herself here in a moment, but I'm really excited to hear not just about her experience within this group and where she's at. I mean, at this point,
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She and I spoke together about a year ago. So we kind of get, we get like a year glimpse into her life. But I also am really excited to just hear her insights into what she's learned about work-life balance and how she can apply some of the things that she's learned in this program into her life. And she's just going to give us so many amazing tidbits and her story. And so I'm just grateful she's here. Thanks for being here, Kelly. Thanks, Rebecca.
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Yeah. Yeah. And, and if you could, I would imagine like, can I really make this work? Right. Yeah. I think that's really true. A lot of women that I speak with that are, I mean, cause we're all like mid career here, right? That's a lot of who listens to this podcast. A lot of my clients were like, we're in that mid level in our career or midway through where
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where opportunities like this should be coming your way, right? Like you've put in a lot of the groundwork into your career at this point. And if you want to be moving forward and getting promoted and reaching some of those next levels, it also happens to coincide with some of the hardest times of parenting. And we don't, I think people get really worried about going to the next level in their career because of the impact that they fear it would have on their personal life, right? Is that where you were sort of at as well?
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having the other person drop out. I would not, I don't think I would have thought I could do it. Oh, interesting. So this is like somebody else that in the work front, that would have been another partner with you essentially as you took on ownership. So, so, okay. So then let's go back a year from today, because that's kind of what you're telling me is like, you kind of hint, there was a hint at this and you knew that you weren't
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going to be able, or you didn't think you were going to be able, or at least where you were not equipped at the time to figure out how you were going to be able to balance life and take on added responsibility in your work. That's what you're saying. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And a lot of guilt about it. Oh yeah. Tell us about that. I think what I learned through ambitious imbalance was how to set the parameters and the boundaries and, and really like put all of that to paper.
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I think that's so true of a lot of women when we think about up-leveling our career. Like we really are flooded with so much guilt, either direction, right? Yeah. And feeling like I can't win, really. I'm gonna feel guilty no matter what because I'm not gonna somehow be living up to some invisible expectation. I'm setting on myself on some level, right? Yeah, yeah. And I think even...
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at a place where I could believe that fully. Interesting. Yeah. So you started with telling us a bit about putting pen to paper in terms of what you wanted and why. Tell us a little bit about that process and what you kind of gained from that. I think a lot of reflecting on what I really enjoyed in life and what I really...
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I think I experienced the same type of kind of confirmation, I would say, is what you're saying, right? Like a level of certainty on some level, because our brain does question things all the time, right? We are inundated with everything from social media and culture and familial expectations and all these things out there, right, that are inputs to us.
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that are telling us this is what should matter to you. And this is what being a good mom looks like. And this is what being a good partner and doing good in your job looks like. And, and so without your own version of that, like written down somewhere on some level, your, your brain keeps like wondering, and it keeps in the cycle of like, maybe I should, maybe that is really the most important thing to me. Maybe I should be spending more time with my kids doing that. Or maybe I should, you know, shouldn't be focused on this promotion right now or whatever it is. Right.
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And so, so then when you put pen to paper though, and you have these moments of decision-making in little ways in life, like how, what you're prioritizing in your day to day or what you're prioritizing in big things in life, right? Then you have something to come back to that says,
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no, no, this is what's important to me. Like this is, I've put words to this like inner part of me that matters and it feels very aligned with that. So I don't need to question that. Yeah. Right. It kind of calms down your brain, doesn't it? Yes, it really does. And I also think to your point of like social media and things, having gone through the process of, you know, boundaries and affirmations and more positive internal thinking, I've also found myself
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doing a better job of like filtering out some of that messaging too. Like, like I don't need to listen to this. Like this is not helpful. This is not. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If it doesn't fit into your like matrix that you created for yourself, it's you're easier to like dismiss it and say, I don't even, that doesn't even matter to me. Right. Like that matters to you. Great. Yeah. Yeah.
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Figuring it out for you and committing to that. You know, that's so much of what this program is about. It's like a container of space for you to sort of figure out what matters to you, why, what your goals are for you, you know, what you value, and then learning how to get that into your calendar. Like literally make, it's not even making space. It's deciding, it's like priority first calendaring, right? It goes in your calendar first and then you learn how to protect it. Yep.
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definitely been very helpful for me. Yeah. And this is not a rigid process by any means, right? You're a human being that I'm giving you the principles behind this on many levels, teaching you why that principle matters and why we have to have some elements of that. And then, yeah, we'll figure out, I mean, I'll, I'll give you a suggested way, but we got to figure it out for you, right? What works for you. And, and in this case,
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The reason it goes in your calendar is because then it becomes a commitment, right? You actually can see if there's actually time for it, right? Because sometimes we put all of our priorities into our calendar and we're like, literally, there's no time to sleep. I can't do this all. And we need that level of like,
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of clarity to see that literally we can't get this all done and then having to strip out of it. And sometimes, you know, putting it into the calendar just means something to your brain. Like I'm telling myself that this matters so much so that I'm willing to take a chunk of my free space in my calendar to...
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