334: What Motherhood Taught Me About Business (The Business Mom Episode I Wish Someone Had Given Me)

About this episode

Elizabeth McCravy shares her experiences of balancing motherhood and running a business, reflecting on the challenges and lessons learned over the years.

About two or three months after my first son was born, I looked at my husband and said: "I literally cannot do my business and motherhood at the same time." I meant it. I was overwhelmed, so in love with this tiny human, and I genuinely just wanted to be a mom. I did not want to think about my business at all. That was almost five years ago. Since then, I've had three kids in four and a half years, never had full-time childcare, and I'm still running the same business I started a decade ago....

Topics covered

• motherhood
• business
• entrepreneurship
• personal development
• work-life balance

Keywords

• motherhood
• business challenges
• work-life balance
• entrepreneurship
• personal growth
• childcare
• overwhelm
• family
• time management

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