Shari Medini and Karissa Tunis are the coauthors of Parenting While Working from Home. A monthly guide to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids and establish their inner strength. They are also the co-owners of the popular parenting, adorethemparenting.com, with six kids between them and over a decade of work from home experience. They love sharing strategies that help fellow parents minimize the overwhelm while trying to juggle it all.

Miriam is former architect, turned software developer and programming teacher. As a result of her recent motherhood. She's passionate about making computers more accessible, friendly, and easy to understand for young children and encourages them to become curious about what technology is and how it works.

She's the author of Zerus & Ona, a book series designed to make learning about computers fun and motivating for the whole family.

Today, we are here with Miriam Tocino. I'm really, really excited to have this conversation. We're going to be talking all about cycle tracking and working with our natural menstrual cycle.

Sasha classes herself as a writer, doubter and doer, even though she's been writing in some form from the age of eight, she only started calling herself a writer last year and rebellious act against herself, doubting nature. She's an avid journaler and lover of words who wants to use them to challenge the negative narratives that women can have about themselves.

In this episode, we discussed how harnessing the power of self-expression and being a rebel journaler can help you be more inline with your own seasons and needs in life.

We are here today with Mel Wiggins. If you've been following me for any amount of time, you'll see that Mel and I's worlds are really intertwined. It started when I was working as a VA, she hired me as a virtual assistant and then I joined her community Assembly and since then we've gotten even more melded into each other's businesses and lives.

And I'm really excited because Mel just has such a wealth of wisdom. She's so soulful and peaceful in the way that she brings her information and her insights. So I'm really excited to dive in and have you guys hear all about setting boundaries, trusting ourselves and making space for rest.

Carla McGreevey is a yoga teacher who specializes in healing trauma through breath and movement. Carla is a former exercise addict who worked as an account manager for Bacardi who had a deep aversion to the idea of yoga, who then quit her full-time job with the mission to make the power of this ancient practice, widely known, accessible, and relatable to modern day people.

Yoga connects you to the deep intelligence of your breath and body whose depths of intelligence science is yet to fully understand by connecting to ourselves. We can live authentically with deep connection. And remember we belong, which empowers us to live happier, more fulfilled lives. When Carla started yoga at 28, she didn't know anything about herself or what made her happiest.

She didn't know about her passions. She hated her body. And couldn't feel any sensations in our body. She felt so disconnected from herself and second-guessed herself constantly. The yoga and meditation helped her with how she felt. And she learned to love and take care of herself.

Marsha Powell, is the founder of belly view UK, a London-based girls, charity that equips girls and young women with a support network skills and competence to make informed choices about their future, committed to the development and social mobility of young women. This HR professional uses all her transferable skills, knowledge and experience.

From her 15 year career and the city and her masters and personnel development to develop and sustain a platform that contributes to the female empowerment. And gender equality narrative in the UK belly gives girls and young women support guidance, education, confidence, self-esteem opportunities, positive solutions, and role models.

With eight years of experience, working with girls and young women, Marsha has developed and successfully facilitated the learning of over 5,000 girls aged eight to 19, contributing to their social mobility, improved educational outcomes and wellness. Believes outcomes are delivered through employability leadership workshops and career development support, a strong believer that every girl needs a mentor.

Cassie is a social media strategist, consultant and workshop facilitator, and she works with busy business owners to simplify their social media strategy. Cassie believes in creating sustainable strategies that work with your lifestyle, not ones that have you chained to your phone.

I loved recording this episode with Cassie because she shows us what's possible. She's created her entire business around. Her energy, her schedule, and wanting to spend more time with her husband doing the things she loves. And that's exactly why we're all in business for the freedom and flexibility, as well as the capacity to help people with our gifts and talents and skillsets.

So let's hear exactly how she does it.

I am so excited for you to listen to this episode. Rachel is just a fountain of calm and just the peacefulness of nature seems to emanate out of her. So I'll tell you a bit about her. Rachel is the founder of Rooted Wings, a nature based business that seeks to gather and connect people to themselves, each other and the land we live on through nature, connection, holistic living nature education forrest school and adventures.

She lives in Yorkshire, UK with her husband and four children, three of which are home educated and one is a recent convert to school. They spend a lot of free time on the moors, uphills, in the woods, and along the canals exploring.

Through this discussion, Rachel shared so much about what it means to live with nature, as opposed to living in this busy technological life that we have. To mirror the energy of the seasons and of our own rhythms. It's super important. And she's given us lots of really good tips. Ready? Let's hear it directly from her.

PS this particular episode is pretty echo-y on my audio! Sorry about that, we've got it fixed for other episodes.

What do you want more time and energy for?

This is something that in my previous life, as a tech virtual assistant, I dealt with all the time, it was one of the first questions I asked my clients when I was trying to figure out how I could assist them in making their lives easier. It's something I still ask members of The Capable Collective all the time.

What do you want more time and energy for?

I also asked this question in a recent workshop in the free Capable Collective Facebook group.

The answers I got included things like. Focused deep work to think about new products. Finding time for Headspace. Ensuring that I spend time on actually supporting my clients and less on faffing. Resting. Pleasure. Self-care. Being able to get up and go. Working from anywhere. Finding some balance between work and time to herself.

These are things that I see really commonly across my community and across my work. So I want to share with you some of my very best tips, tools and templates to streamline your business in a way that will feel like it's a lot less hard. You can make business easy.

Today we have one of my favorite entrepreneurs, Ashley Gartland.

Small business mentor and coach Ashley Gartland helps service based businesses streamline so that they can scale sustainably and build a business that makes the life and the lifestyle they desire possible. She runs her six figure business in 30 hours a week, leaving her plenty of time to enjoy the good stuff in life - like trail runs, reading and adventures with her family.

What I love about Ashley is that she's so honest. She is willing to break the mold. She has a brilliant mind and is all about creating simple and streamlined businesses that serve your life.

The funny thing is we didn't make an online connection until well after I'd moved to Belfast., but Ashley and her family are actually based back in Portland, Oregon, where I spent about seven years before moving here. So it's really cool to have that connection and I'm hoping that next time we get to go home, I'll actually get to meet her in real life.

That's why The Capable Collective was created.

Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us.

And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business.

Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the mechanical side of business. We are in this together.

That's why The Capable Collective was created.

Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us.

And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business.

Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the mechanical side of business. We are in this together.

That's why The Capable Collective was created.

Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us.

And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business.

Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the mechanical side of business. We are in this together.

That's why The Capable Collective was created.

Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us.

And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business.

Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the mechanical side of business. We are in this together.

That's why The Capable Collective was created.

Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us.

And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business.

Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the mechanical side of business. We are in this together.