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
From Burned Out to "Boldly Both": 5 Practical Changes to Feel Like Yourself Again in 90 Days
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You’ve listened to the episodes, done the check-ins, named the anger, set some boundaries, and rediscovered bits of yourself, but you’re still exhausted and wondering, “Okay, but what do I change in my actual day‑to‑day?” If you’re ready for practical shifts that move you from burned out to “Boldly Both,” 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—monitoring your energy, sleep, snapping, joy, start with the FREE Working Mom Burnout Check-In PDF
In this episode you’ll hear:
- Why knowing you’re burned out isn’t enough—high-achieving working moms need practical changes
- Christina’s “90-day line in the sand” moment: staring at her full calendar and realizing something had to break
- How to go from burned out to “Boldly Both” without quitting your job or abandoning your family
- 5 practical changes to feel like yourself again in 90 days:
- Weekly margin block you protect like an appointment
- Daily “enough” list instead of a never-ending to-do
- One area you intentionally do at B-minus
- One boundary script you use on repeat
- One small “future self” action that honors who you’re becoming
Episode roadmap
0:00 – Stuck between burnout awareness and knowing what to actually change
2:45 – The car moment staring at a 3-month calendar with no white space
7:15 – Change 1: One weekly margin block (60-90 min, non-negotiable)
9:40 – Change 2: Daily “enough” list (3 work + 1 home = done)
11:25 – Change 3: Pick one B-minus area on purpose
13:50 – Change 4: One boundary script you actually use
16:20 – Change 5: One consistent “future self” action
21:30 – Pick your first 30-day experiment + share it via email
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