A Working Mom’s Breakthrough About Work-Life Balance (with Allison Costelow)
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Why does work‑life balance feel impossible without a personal definition?
If you've ever said you want balance, but secretly you have no idea what that actually means to you, you need to hear this conversation. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Allison, who just finished the latest cohort of Ambitious Imbalance, and what she shares is powerful. Her biggest aha, she realized that she'd been trying to live up to a set of expectations that She never consciously chose. Expectations about what a good mom looks like, what a successful professional looks like, and what balance was, you know, supposed to be. And she was exhausted trying to measure up to rules that she had never actually examined. You'll hear how defining balance in her own words changed everything. Why investing in herself wasn't selfish, it was necessary, why some simple planning tools became the most transformative part of the process, and what it was like to be coached by me, her friend.
If you've been chasing a version of balance that never quite feels attainable, then this episode is gonna be for you. Are you ready? Let's get to it. 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. You ready? Let's get to it! Well, hello there, working moms. I'm excited to be talking to you today. I have my friend and past client.
She was in Ambitious and Balanced in the Last Cohort. This is Alison Costello, and I'm so excited she's on the podcast to talk with us today. Thanks for being here, Allison. Yeah, thanks for having me. No, so Allison literally lives around the corner from me. So that is how close we are in both proximity and friendship. Um our kids go to the same school. And so it's just it's so fun to actually have a friend on this podcast. I I mean I I have had colleagues, but this is different. So I'm just I'm so delighted that you're here. You've like an insight into me that other people don't have an insight into, you know. So Yeah, as she leans in, she's like, Yes, I do. Look, I am an open book, so it's all good as we have a conversation here.
Um, but tell us a little bit about you. Give us give us your little spiel. Who are you? What do you do?
So Hi, I'm Alison Costello. I am a mom of two spicy little girls. Uh one just turned six, the other one is about to be four next week, which um still feels very unbelievable. Um, I uh run my own business. I am a real estate agent. I have been building this business for the last, well, I've I've been in the industry for a little over five years, but I've been a solo agent really building my business for the last year and a half. And I specialize in working with seniors in our community. And really um networking with other people in our community that helps seniors. And so that is a big part of who I am and what I do. And it runs all through All of me. All the things. I know. Which I
have a feeling is uh is gonna come up here because the the line the boundary lines are very blurry when we live in the entrepreneur world, uh as I know, and as I know you know. So um boundaries get hard. That is there's no joke about that. I was, I'm remembering back to when you joined Ambitious Imbalance, because you were in the September cohort of of last year. And so I think you came, I invited you like on a whim to a workshop I was giving, like a virtual workshop back to school, right? You know, like in August or something like that. And I was like, Allison, I don't know, do you want to show up? Like there's some space here. Do you want to come to this workshop thing? And you were like, yes. I'm like, cool.
It's like in 20 minutes. Or something? Can you come? I don't know it might might have even been like shorter than that. I don't know, but you showed up. And it was out of that conversation or that time that I was that I was like, do you do you feel like you need more support in what's going on in life and balancing life?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why does work‑life balance feel impossible without a personal definition?
0:00–4:41
2
What hidden expectations were driving Allison’s overwhelm?
4:41–15:23
3
How did Allison’s “aha” moment about undefined expectations change her outlook?
15:23–30:31
4
What does work‑life balance actually mean to Allison after she defined it?
30:31–37:52
5
Which simple planning tools helped Allison create more calm and control?
37:52–40:36
Speakers
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