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
Losing Yourself as a Working Mom? 3 Steps to Reclaim Your Identity and Ambition
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You look successful on paper—career, kids, calendar full, but inside you feel strangely blank. You can answer who you are as “mom” and what you do at work, but if someone asks, “What do you want? What do you enjoy?” your mind goes quiet. If you’ve wondered, “Have I completely lost myself in work and motherhood?” 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
👉 If you want a simple way to see your burnout on paper—energy, sleep, snapping, joy, start with the FREE Working Mom Burnout Check-In PDF
In this episode you’ll hear:
- Why high-achieving working moms often feel like they’ve lost themselves in their roles
- The quiet “Who am I, really?” moment when you’re asked what you want for the next few years
- How being everybody’s go‑to person buries your own desires and dreams
- 3 practical steps to reclaim your identity and ambition as a working mom:
- Remember: who you are beyond “employee,” “leader,” and “mom”
- Reconnect: with what actually gives you energy and joy in this season
- Rebuild: your ambition with small, aligned steps that fit your real life
Episode roadmap
0:00 – Feeling like you’ve disappeared inside work and motherhood
2:30 – The moment someone asks, “What do you want?” and your mind goes blank
6:45 – Step 1: Remember – separating who you are from what you do
11:30 – Step 2: Reconnect – using an Energy List to notice what makes you feel like yourself
16:40 – Step 3: Rebuild – letting your ambition back in one small step at a time
22:00 – This week’s identity + ambition experiment + invitation to share your sentence via email
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