About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of sticking to routines and habits, particularly for busy moms, featuring insights from Monica Packer on perfectionism and practical strategies for change.

If you struggle to stick to your routines, create new habits, or find perfectionism running your life, this episode is for you. I'm sitting down with Monica Packer, host of the top-rated About Progress podcast and author of the upcoming book Sticky Habits, for a conversation that completely reframes why habits feel so hard for busy moms. Monica opens up about her own journey with perfectionism, and then walks us through something surprising: almost every popular habit book was written by and tested on lives that look nothing like a mother's. Most of us carry an insane amount of invisible labor every day. So when the standard advice doesn't stick, we blame ourselves, when really the method was never built for us. Here's what we get into: Why perfectionism is really a misplacement of identity, and what it quietly costs us The invisible labor research that explains why habit advice keeps failing women How to redefine consistency so it's actually possible on your worst days The four qualities that make a habit sticky Monica's simple WTA formula (When, Then, After) for habits that finally hold This is warm, validating, and full of the kind of slow, messy, sustainable growth we love…

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