Lead Like a Mother: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms
From the author of Boldly Both, Lead Like a Mother: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms is the podcast for working moms who look “put together” but feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and one more email away from snapping. If you’re a high-achieving working mom juggling meetings, school drop-offs, deadlines, and the endless mental load while secretly Googling “working mom burnout,” “how to balance work and motherhood,” or “time management for high-performing moms,” this show will feel like you’ve finally been seen.
Each week, you get practical strategies to balance motherhood, career, and leadership without burning out, so you can stop living in survival mode and start feeling like yourself again. You’ll learn realistic work-life balance habits, time management for busy working moms, burnout recovery tools, and simple boundary-setting scripts for work and home that help you protect your energy, reduce stress, and calm the constant mental chatter.
Episodes dive into leadership skills for high-achieving moms, communication, delegation, decision-making, and confidence, so you can lead well at work and lead well at home without feeling guilty or stretched too thin. You’ll hear honest conversations about invisible labor, emotional load, mom guilt, perfectionism, and maternal burnout, plus coaching-style episodes with small, doable steps you can implement in one week to create more peace, margin, and clarity.
Hosted by Christina Runnels, a licensed therapist, author of Boldly Both: A Mom’s Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt, and sought-after speaker on working mom burnout and leadership, this podcast blends evidence-informed strategies with real-life mom wisdom you can use right away. If you’ve ever thought, “No one really understands how much I’m carrying,” this is your space for validation, practical tools, and long-term burnout prevention designed specifically for ambitious, high-achieving working moms.
Next Steps:
Get Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt: https://bit.ly/BoldlyBoth
Visit the website: https://www.ChristinaRunnels.com
Connect with Me: Hello@ChristinaRunnels.com
Lead Like a Mother: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms
Burnout Recovery for Working Moms: How to Start Coming Back to Yourself
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You finally get a quiet moment—shower, car, parking lot and instead of feeling relief, you feel… nothing. Not excited, not inspired, just flat and tired in your bones. If you’ve wondered, “Is this just my life now?” this episode is for you.
Connect & work with Christina:
- Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hello@christinarunnels.com
- Buy Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt
- Follow on Facebook
👉 If you want a simple way to see your burnout on paper, monitoring your energy, sleep, snapping, joy, start with the FREE Working Mom Burnout Check-In PDF
In this episode you’ll hear:
- The subtle difference between being “tired” and being truly burned out
- Christina’s quiet burnout breaking point: “If life looks like this for 10 more years…”
- How over‑functioning at work and home numbs you out instead of fulfilling you
- Three gentle moves for burnout recovery in the life you already have:
- Notice: telling the truth about how depleted you really are
- Nurture: adding tiny, non‑performative care into your day
- Negotiate: changing the terms of how you’re living (at work, at home, with yourself)
Episode roadmap
- 0:00 – “Flat and numb” hook in the shower/car/parking lot
- 3:54 – The quiet thought that changed everything: “I don’t know if I can do this for 10 more years”
- 6:29 – Notice: honest burnout check-in (using energy, sleep, irritability, joy)
- 7:58 – Nurture: 5-minute practices that don’t require a whole life overhaul
- 9:55 – Negotiate: small but real changes in workload and expectations
- 10:55 – This week’s recovery experiment + invitation to share your story via email
Visit www.ChristinaRunnels.com