#57 Your Sunday Night Scaries, Solved, with Melissa Regan

#57 Your Sunday Night Scaries, Solved, with Melissa Regan

From AI-Empowered Mom by AI-Empowered Mom | Sarah Dooley

June 12, 2026 · 19 min · Season 2 · Episode 18

About this episode

Melissa Regan shares how she uses AI to streamline her Sunday planning and reclaim time for her family.

Sunday evening used to mean a couple of hours of planning for Melissa Regan : cookbooks spread across the counter, kids' schedules stacked up, a running list of things to figure out before Monday arrived. Now that same setup takes a fraction of the time, and the hours she reclaims go straight back to her family. Melissa is an executive coach and consultant who works with leaders and sales teams on operations, communication, and business growth. She is also raising three boys at home, managing a household largely on her own during the weeks her husband travels for work. She did not come to AI with a tech background. She came to it as someone who needed to be efficient in the limited hours she works, and who wanted to actually be present when the workday ended. In this conversation, Melissa and host Sarah Dooley dig into what that shift looked like in real life: the Sunday setup meeting Melissa holds for herself, how AI handles the planning she would rather not do, and how she consciously redirected the time it freed up toward board games, swim meets, and being on the sideline. One idea from the conversation that may stick with you: Melissa draws on a concept from the book…

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Dooley

Guest: Melissa Regan

Topics covered

  • time management
  • AI in parenting
  • efficiency
  • work-life balance
  • meal planning

Keywords

  • Sunday Night Scaries
  • AI
  • parenting
  • efficiency
  • meal planning

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Books & works: Essentialism

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