BEYOND: The Podcast for Moms Called to Business

Ep. 214: Fear of Success: Why You're Afraid to Commit to Your Business

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you afraid of what the success of your business could mean for your life? We talk a lot about the fear of failure, but for ambitious moms who want...

Ep. 213: 4 Shocking Truths in Online Business You Need to Know About

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As open and transparent as the world of online business-building may seem, there's more to it than you might think. In my journey as an entrepreneur, ...

Ep. 212: #1 Reason Moms Building Businesses Online Burn Out and Want to Quit

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

#1 Reason Moms Building Businesses Online Burn Out and Want to Quit   What separates the businesses built by moms that thrive and grow, and those tha...

Ep. 211: 7 Signs it's Time for a Coach or Mentor in Your Business

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know when is the right time to invest in a mentor or coach for your business? Should you wait and keep trying to figure it out on your own?...

Ep. 210: Permission to Enjoy Life More

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's a fear many moms in business live with, and if we're honest, it looks like this: my life is slipping away. It's terrifying to think that you'r...

Ep. 209: 5 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience and Feel Better in Motherhood and Business

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's something I've found makes such a difference between my clients who are able to feel better, create momentum to move forward and create the kinds...

Ep. 208: Dreams and Problems: How to Acknowledge the Thing You Aren't Saying out Loud

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In lives that can feel stressful, rushed and overwhelming, our focus as moms and business owners is often on what needs our attention RIGHT NOW. Our d...

Ep. 207: Are You Setting Yourself Up to Win or Fail? 4 Ways to Know

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you holding yourself back in motherhood and business without even realizing it? So many of us are setting ourselves up to fail before we even get ...

Ep. 206: How to Stop Procrastination (in Life and Business) for Good

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Procrastination gets in the way of best utilizing our most valuable resource as a mom in business: our time. We put off and delay important tasks and ...

Ep. 205: Half-time Pep Talk: Encouragement for the Second Half of Your Year

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How is your year going? Summertime can generate all the feels... maybe it's a pause - a time to reflect and recalibrate. Maybe it's a celebration for ...

Ep. 204: 3 Keys to Cultivating a CEO Mindset as a Creative Entrepreneur

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's one thing to be an employee of your business. Becoming a successful CEO? It involves a whole set of skills that don't always come naturally to c...

Ep. 203: When Easy Feels Hard: Why We Overcomplicate Our Lives and Businesses

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We struggle with simplicity. When something in life or business seems too easy, too effortless, or even just manageable -- our brain freaks out -- a...

Ep. 202: Negative Thoughts Holding You Back? How to Stop Self-Sabotage

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever quit before you start? Do you kill an idea or goal or dream before it even has a chance to get off the ground? Self-sabotage is a key prob...

Ep. 201: How To Work Less And Have More Fun This Summer (Without Compromising Your Goals)

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does summertime feel like a choice between fun with family and growing your business? Does having both seem logistically impossible? Many business-bui...

Ep. 200: Grief, Grace and Gratitude: When Life Looks Different Than You Expected

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We tend to associate grief with the death of a loved one - the experience and sorrow of that painful goodbye. There is grief connected to this kind o...

Ep. 199: Two Truths and a Lie: a Tool to Gain Clarity and Get Unstuck

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The truth: we all believe lies. They impact every area of our lives: from our relationship with ourselves to our marriage relationships and friendshi...

Ep. 198: Garbage Thoughts to Trash Starting Right Now

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, you have thoughts that are taking up your time, energy and attention, and they are garbage. They are keeping you stuck, holding you back a...

Ep. 197: Stop Doing These 5 Things if You Want to Reclaim More Time Everyday

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to think you just need more time - to believe that "if only there were more hours", I'd get so much more done. The reality isn't that you ne...

Ep. 196: Power Hours: How To (Consistently) Get More Done in Less Time

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Want to leverage your time, energy and attention to get more done in less time as a business-building mom? Today I'm sharing my solution for this: I c...

Ep. 195: How to Reclaim Your Time as a Busy Mom and Creative Entrepreneur or Coach

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Want to reclaim your time as a busy mom and creative entrepreneur or coach?   On this episode, I'm sharing what that looks like - what it looks like ...

Ep. 194: How the Quality of Your Thoughts Impacts the Quality of Your Life

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We try to feel better by doing so many things. Sometimes it looks like buying ourselves a treat or having a drink at the end of a rough day. We might ...

Ep. 193: How to Find Freedom From Hurry and Get Your Life Back

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pastor John Ortberg shares, "We are so used to spiritually mediocre days, days lived in irritation and fear and self-preoccupation and frenzy - that w...

Ep. 192: 5 Reasons Why Moms Make the Best Entrepreneurs

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are so many parallels between the roles of motherhood and business and the kind of growth that each of those is the catalyst for in our lives. O...

Ep. 191: How My Simple First Monday™ Method Helps You Get Things Done With Efficiency and Ease

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You sit down at your desk to work and start to dive into a project only to stop. You've just remembered the phone call you forgot to make, the appoint...

Ep. 190: Spring Cleaning Your Mind

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our minds can become so cluttered... kind of like our closets: overrun with items that are old and no longer useful, thoughts that no longer "fit" whe...

Ep. 189: The Problem with Positive Thinking

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having a positive outlook on life is valuable when it comes to your mental and emotional well-being. The problem? Life isn't always positive. There ar...

Ep. 188: High-Quality and Low-Quality Thoughts

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One reason that your mind is your most valuable asset in both motherhood and business? The quality of your thoughts creates the quality of your life. ...

Ep. 187: 7 Ways to Integrate Your Faith Into Your Business

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is there a disconnect between your faith, your personal life and the business you're building as a mom? Maybe you're uncertain about how much to sha...

Ep. 186: 3 Shifts to Make if You Want to Work Less

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Want to work less than you currently do as a business-building mom? Overworking is so easy to do when working from home with little division between w...

Ep. 185: Do The Hard Thing

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What change are you being called to make in your life or business that you're actively resisting or avoiding? If we're honest, we have a "hard thing" ...

Ep. 184: How to Build a Sustainable Life and Business That Won't Burn You Out

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last several years of working with dozens of moms building businesses on a very in-depth and personal level, I've seen two patterns emerge - ...

Ep. 183: 4 Things That are Stealing Your Time (and Joy) as a Mom in Business

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As moms, our ability to steward our time well is a game-changer in life and business. How you think about your time becomes how you build your busines...

Ep. 182: Why Pursuing Work-Life Balance is Making You Miserable

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you trying to figure out this work-life balance thing everyone seems to talk about as a working mom? It seems to be a worthy pursuit to reach fo...

Ep. 181: 3 Reasons You're Burned Out

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Moms are leaving the workforce, shutting down their businesses and pivoting professionally more than ever before. The cause? Burnout. Working moms exp...

Ep. 180: How Your Thoughts Run Your Life

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Proverbs 4:23 NCV says "Be careful what you think because your thoughts run your life." At an intellectual level, we understand the importance of our...

Ep 179: Busy is not the Boss of You

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Busy. Hurried. Rushed. Burned out. These are the words so many business-building moms use to describe their lives. Can you relate? You're putting out ...

Ep. 178: 3 Questions to Ask at The Start of Your Year

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we step into the new year, some of us will be all in on goals and intentions while others will still be recovering from the last year and trying to...

Ep. 177: 5 Ways to Keep Your Personal and Professional Life Organized in the New Year

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Would you love to gain some control over the chaos that is your life? As a mom building a business or growing a career while raising kids, there are ...

Ep. 176: Don't Let Starting Stop You

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever stop something before you even get started? So much of the meaningful change we want to create in our lives never even makes it out of the...

Ep. 175: How To Start Living Your Dream Life Right Now

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It can be so fun to think about what we want to create in a new year - a blank slate to consider what's possible, to think about where we could be, th...

Ep. 174: Doing it All vs. Doing it Well

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So many working moms are trying to do it all. Maybe you can relate. You're constantly hurried - trying to take care of one thing so that you can chec...

Ep. 173: You're Allowed to Rethink Everything

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you feel like something is off -- like the days you're living don't fully align with either who you are or the season of life you find yourself in ...

Ep. 172: Design Your Year

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The way I see it, we have two options available when it comes to the year ahead: evolve or repeat. We can choose to intentionally grow, evolve and cre...

Ep. 171: Why You Aren't Hitting Your Goals

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a goal-getter? Setting and working toward goals is a key component in creating intentional growth for ourselves both personally and profession...

Ep. 170: Stop Pretending Everything is Okay

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One thing that consistently holds us back from feeling better as ambitious moms called to meaningful work outside motherhood is that we're really good...

Ep. 169: How To Be A More Confident Decision-Maker

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's a skill set that influences your personal life, your business or career and every other role you're called to serve in: decision-making. The tru...

Ep. 168: 5 Simple Truths That Will Change Your Life

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a life that can feel so busy and hurried, sometimes what we need most are simple reminders of what is true, and what isn't. What is life-draining t...

Ep. 167: Purpose, Happiness and Work-Life Balance

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking for purpose in your life, trying to do what makes you happy, or maybe trying to figure out this work-life balance thing everyone seem...

Ep. 166: Permission to Say No

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of things vying for our time and attention at any given moment. It can be hard to say no. But just because we can say yes to somethi...

Ep. 165: How to Protect Your Peace

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a mom called to meaningful work beyond motherhood, it can feel like your attention is being pulled in ten different directions at any given moment....

Ep. 164: The Last 90 Days

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As we enter the last quarter of the year, I want to check in with you. How are you doing? How are you feeling about your year so far? What comes up ...

Ep. 163: Busy is the Enemy of Peace

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Busy is a reality of life for many working moms. Days are hurried, rushing from one thing to the next. We wake up in a hurry to get everyone out the d...

Ep. 162: 5 Reasons You're Busy but not Productive

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever get to the end of a busy day or week and feel like you got nothing done? How is that even possible? For moms building businesses and caree...

Ep. 161: Just Going Through the Motions

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever feel like you're just going through the motions in your days? Stuck on the hamster wheel, doing what needs to be done to get through the d...

Ep. 160: A Conversation With 75-Year-Old You

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever fear that you're missing out on your own life? Maybe you imagine that near the end of your days, you'll look back and realize you were fo...

Ep. 159: How to Trust Yourself

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are the promises you make to yourself some of the first ones you break? We value trust in our relationships, but what happens when we don't trust ours...

Ep. 158: Anxiety and the Best Case Scenario

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you worry? Many moms do. Maybe you experience anxiety about your kids, your parenting, your marriage or uncertain life circumstances. Or for you, ...

Ep. 157: You Have Nothing to Prove

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are you trying to prove? As women, moms, wives, professionals and human beings - there is something within that tells us our value, our worth, mu...

Ep. 156: The 3 Most Important Things in Your Life

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How you spend your days is how you spend your life. How are you spending yours? In a life that can feel so busy, and so hurried, it often seems like w...

Ep. 155: 5 Tips To Stay Committed and Follow Through (Even When You Don't Feel Like It)

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is following through so hard? You decide you're going to set a goal or make some meaningful changes in your life, and then, when the time comes to...

Ep. 154: 10 Ways To Build Rest Into Your Busy Week

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For working moms, the idea of rest can seem like a luxury reserved for "someday". We're exhausted - physically, mentally and emotionally - but we just...

Ep. 153: Thoughts About Time That Make You Feel Sad

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a coach for moms called to building business and careers, I coach a lot on the topic of time - specifically, our desire for more of it (and to be b...

Ep. 152: Stop Waiting for Someday

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are you waiting for "someday" to feel better? Are you placing your hope in future circumstances that look different than your current reality and beli...

Special Announcement: RESET Your Year

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ep. 151: How to Accept Your Humanness

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Being a human is hard. But it's even harder when we live in a way that resists the reality of what it is to be human. When we learn to accept ourselve...

Ep. 150: Your Inner Critic

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Call it negative self-talk, call it your inner mean girl, we all have that voice inside our head that criticizes and judges. And as we continue to exp...

Ep. 149: How to Cultivate Confidence

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are you confident? Some of us think confidence means arrogance, so it's a word we shy away from. Others believe confidence is either something we're b...

Ep. 148: Liking Yourself

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is kicking off a series we're going to be doing over the next few weeks about your relationship with yourself. This is some of the most i...

Ep. 147: Where Are You Stuck?

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel stuck in your life? It's a term that so many of us can relate to, but what does it even mean? As a coach supporting moms building busines...

Ep. 146: High-Quality Thinking

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your thoughts matter. The quality of your thoughts creates the quality of your life. They are THAT powerful. In this episode, we're talking about high...

Ep. 145: How The Pursuit of Happiness is Making You Miserable

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a life coach working with moms called to meaningful work beyond parenting - women who are building businesses and careers while raising kids -  th...

Ep. 144: 10 Myths About Motherhood and Work

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of things we believe about being working moms - and not all of them are useful. Whether you're building a business or growing a career...

Ep. 143: Where Are You Invested?

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your time, energy and thoughts are your most valuable resources in your life. How and where you're investing them matters. So many moms building busi...

Ep. 142: 10 Things That You Can Control

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a life and world that can feel crazy, overwhelming and completely out of control, sometimes, we need reminded. Reminded of what we can control in o...

Ep. 141: 7 Reasons You Don't Feel Better

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When we want to feel better in our lives, it can be difficult to imagine getting to the other side of it and living beyond where we feel stuck. One re...

Ep. 140: Faith, Mindset and Feeling Better As A Working Mom (Part 2)

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we're sharing the second half of the interview that first aired earlier this week in Episode 139. If you haven't listened to Episode ...

Ep. 139: Faith, Mindset and Feeling Better As A Working Mom (Part 1)

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're doing something a little different here on today's episode. I was recently interviewed by faith-based radio station WCIC, and they've made that ...

Ep. 138: 3 Ways We Invent Problems

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One thing we're REALLY good at as humans? Inventing problems. Our amazing brains are, in part, on a mission to keep us safe and alive. So looking out ...

Ep. 137: It's Complicated: Our Relationship With Change

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us dislike change. And at the same time, we want it. Which puts us in kind of a predicament, don't you think!?! This internal struggle is one ...

Ep. 136: 3 Myths About Money

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're diving into a topic we've never discussed yet on the podcast - money. For moms called to building businesses and careers while raising kid...

Ep. 135: How Your Thoughts Run Your Life

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Proverbs 4:23 NCV says "Be careful what you think because your thoughts run your life." At an intellectual level, we understand the importance of our...

Ep. 134: Pandemic Fatigue (with Dr. Jeff Hoschek)

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's been one year since the global pandemic changed the world as we knew it. We're not yet on the other side of COVID, and as we continue to navigate...

Ep. 133: How to Stop Being a Busy Mom

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Life as a busy mom - it feels like it's something that just happens to us. That busy is something that just goes with the territory in this season. I...

Ep. 132: Resenting Motherhood

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Something working moms don't openly talk about? Resenting motherhood. Having thoughts about your life as a mom sometimes that you wish you didn't have...

Ep. 131: How to Reverse Engineer Your Life

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

So many working moms feel like they are missing out on the lives happening right in front of them. They spend their days putting out fires, tending t...

Ep. 130: Permission to Change

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ever feel like you're waiting on a sign, a green light, something that will tell you what you should do? Even as adults, we sometimes wait around fo...

Ep. 129: 3 Truths About Time That Will Set You Free

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

All personal change begins with truth. And as working moms building businesses and growing careers while raising kids, time is one part of life that m...

Ep. 128: 5 Blind Spots That Are Keeping You Stuck

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When learning to drive, we're told to be aware of blind spots - potential hazards that we may not be able to see because they're blocked from our vie...

Ep. 127: How to Take Your Thoughts Captive

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm sharing one of my favorite sweet spots to talk and teach about - and it's the place where thought work, mindset and faith interse...

Ep. 126: Why You Aren't Sleeping (And What You Can Do About It)

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sleep has been called our superpower. And for busy moms who are working and building businesses and doing ALL the things while raising kids, it can ea...

Ep. 125: Time Scarcity: Why it Feels Like There's Never Enough

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Does it feel like there's never enough time in your days? To focus. To be productive. To accomplish all that you want to? Time is the greatest struggl...

Ep. 124: The One Question You Need To Ask Right Now

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you carry last year's baggage (the mental and emotional kind that are weighing you down) into a new year, you're going to have the same kind of y...

Ep. 123: You Are the Mom for the Job

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's the start of a brand new year. A blank slate. How are you feeling? Are you ready to go and diving head first into the new year, or stuck in a ha...

Ep. 122: Hindsight is 2020

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of the year, we're looking back at all 2020 has taught us with the clarity that often comes from hindsight. We're talking about ...

Ep. 121: The Serenity Prayer and Control

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For me, the sweet spot in coaching and applying thought work to our lives is when psychology, neuroscience and faith collide. In this episode, we're t...

Ep. 120: Giving Yourself Grace

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Giving yourself grace is the ultimate gift. But as working moms doing all the things for all the people in our lives, we tend to be hard on ourselves....

Ep. 119: Cling to What is Good

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What are you holding tightly to, clinging to, as we near the last month of this year? How to do react when life gets hard? How do you handle stress? ...

Ep. 118: How To Get Things Done

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As we enter December and look ahead to the holidays, there is one month left in this year. As busy, working moms, many of us are feeling the urge to "...

Ep. 117: 3 Holiday Expectations That Are Making You Crazy

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you expect the holidays to be like this year? Are you excited about them? Dreading them? Wishing they were over already? Somewhere in between?...

Ep. 116: What Have You Been Doing?

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As this year winds down, our brains start to look backward and assess. We think about what we haven't gotten done that we'd hoped we would, what we di...