Life Unboxed Blog

Nov 17 2024 198 ep. 16 mins 6

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Empowering moms to work from home and homeschool. Life Unboxed is a momtrepreneur's guide to raising kids, running a business, and keeping your sanity. So you can work at home and homeschool confidently. For more great momtrepreneur content check out lifeunboxed.blog. New episodes posted weekly.[Some of the links in the show notes are affiliate links. If you purchase using one of these links, I make a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps me keeps things free for you, and who doesn’t love free stuff.]

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Chasing Your Dream (Part 2): Let's Change What It Means

Nov 17 2024 13 mins

I am all for dreams and goals that you want to pursue. These are necessary to help give direction and purpose for to your life. But I want to broaden the scope of what these dreams look like and what it means to be chasing them and pursuing your passion. Sometimes what you are passionate about just won't pay the bills. So it is time to rethink what we've always been told about drea

How To Set Personal Boundaries For A Better Work Life Balance

Nov 10 2024 14 mins

Personal boundaries is always a hot topic amongst work from home moms. But it doesn’t mean it is easy to do. One of my biggest peeves is posts that suggest an idea without giving practical steps on how to do it. This post is going to give you all the actionable steps on how to set personal boundaries for your work from home and homeschool life. We are going to explore the idea, a

Chasing Your Dreams (Part 1): Challenging the Accepted Idea

Nov 03 2024 11 mins

This is going to be one of those posts that breaks with conventional wisdom and what you've always heard about chasing your dreams. This is a show that explores outside of the box, so we need to do this every once in a while. This is part 1 in a two part series exploring what it means to be chasing your dreams.Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/chasing-your-dreams-part-

Avoid To Do List Overwhelm And Still Get It All Done

Oct 28 2024 11 mins

The to do list is like the life-blood of your day. You can’t move or plan without it. At least it is for me. I live by my to do list. You write it all out so you can see what needs to be done and check those boxes when it does get done. I love that part. The downside of writing it all out is it is visually overwhelming. You want to cry when you see everything that you need to do.

10 Tips Working from Home: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting

Oct 20 2024 19 mins

We need to upend all our ideas on the right way to work and school. If you want to break from the 9-5, be your own boss, raise your kids, and enjoy your life. Then you need to start a business working from home.The struggle against these cultural norms is real. But you can be a rebel mom and create a different legacy for you and your kids. Yes, I know what you are thinking (because

Work from Home Mom Jobs: What Moms Do

Oct 13 2024 18 mins

It is hard not to have two incomes. Yes, you can be really frugal, but it helps to have that second income coming it. Work from home mom jobs expanded in the last few years, making it possible to make money from home and homeschool. While there are many work from home mom jobs, there are also several scams. Or things that you end up spending way too much time on for very little ret

How to Get Clients: 5 Ways to Get Clients as a Virtual Assistant

Oct 06 2024 14 mins

This isn't going to be the typical advice on how to get clients. We are once again going to explore outside of the box . This is going to offer an alternative to the standard lists. Many times when you read posts on how to get clients, the writer offers a prescriptive step-by-step how-to. And it always comes with the promise that if you just follow the steps in order you are guaran

Discover the Secret Sauce to Create Motivated Learners

Sep 29 2024 14 mins

One question I see asked a lot from homeschool moms is how do I create motivated learners? This is one of the biggest struggles in homeschool. Or at least it can feel like it. I confess, I’ve never struggled with motivating my kids to learn. And I am going to let you in on the secret sauce. This post is all about creating motivated learners. So let’s talk about how to create mo

How to Find Work Life Balance with Family and Career

Sep 22 2024 19 mins

Work life balance is a topic that has been on my mind a lot. But it is an idea that I want to challenge as a rebel mom. This is a pain point and a major frustration for moms. Especially, if you are working from home. You would expect to be perfectly zen every day, right? I find it is actually harder to find this perfect balance as a work from home mom because you no longer have the

What A Homeschool Day Looks Like For A Work From Home Mom

Sep 15 2024 14 mins

Mom, we are the unicorns in the homeschool world, or maybe not so much anymore. But it can feel like no one else knows what our homeschool day is like. The key to a successful homeschool day is to plan in such a way that you can set your day on autopilot, and it doesn't require too much intervention from you. Yes, it is possible. Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/homes