morning routine

Episode 189: Following our Instinct, Finding Community & Prioritizing Self-Care with Zoila Darton

 
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This week on the show, we have Zoila Darton- NY native turned LA resident and Head Dot Connector of WORD Creative. Zoila is a born connecter and believes fostering community creatively will save the world- basically, an incredible human. We talk all about her birthing story and the grueling aftermath, her journey in finding community in LA as an outsider, how she practices self care and her other baby, her thriving business.

Our Conversation with Zoila Darton

What was your birthing experience like?

How did you find community when you moved to LA ? Who helps you?

What inspired you to start WORD? What does it stand for?

What is your morning routine/ritual that helps you stay grounded & present?

What is the one thing that you told you yourself that you wouldn’t do as a mom that you’re doing now?

You can follow Zoila on IG at @ZoilaDarton, her agency at @word.agency and check out her new podcast, The Women I Know.

Pick or Tip of the Week

If you would also like to pull a card, pick up Zoila’s first pick-Sacred Symbols Oracle Deck by Marcella Kroll and find clarity and guidance through divination. While you’re at it, book yourself an 80-min massage at the very trendy the NOW Massage boutique. Take a minute for yourself.

Bricia’s pick this week is the Fighting with my Family movie. It’s all the things you want in a family-friendly movie: funny, empowering and incredibly inspirational. It’s now playing in theaters.

If you’ve been following Paulina on IG (which you totally should be!) she' recently organized her pantry. She used leftover glass containers and these cute chalkboard stickers to label everything. Check out her post about it here.

 

Episode 170: Getting a hold on our relationship with Time with Life & Business Coach Wendy Amara

 
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Happy Holidays! It’s finally November, Thanksgiving is two weeks away and the year is almost over. Where did the time go?! Well, returning guest and life coach Wendy Amara will help you answer that question. Today we talk all about time management, strategies we can apply to our own lives to increase productivity, how we can change our perspective of time to create and build a healthier relationship with it, how everyone should start their day, the difference between urgent & important, & more.

Before the episode, Bricia and Paulina gives us an update. Bricia with Eduardo and Paulina with sleep training all the girls, especially Zixta.

Get in contact with Wendy by visiting her website and schedule your free introductory call at WendyAmara.com or give her a call at (818) 395-2645. ALSO she’s having an amazing event on November 11th, for more information check out manifestday,com & @manifest_day on IG.

Our Conversation with Wendy Amara

(9:00) What is a life & business coach? Check out our last episode with Wendy, here

(11:50): What is time management

(14:07): What are some productivity strategies that we can apply to our lives? Some of the questions we must ask ourselves:

  • How am I spending my time? Where is my time going?

  • What are my priorities? What do I want to spend my time doing?

  • What is the experience/feeling I want to have?

  • Do I respect my time? Do others respect my time? What is my relationship with my time?

(17:25): Being 100% in control of my time BUT how do I with 3 kids?

(19:21): A mom’s relationship with time

(28:00): How should someone start their day? 

(30:00): What millionaires do at the beginning of their day?

(30:48): How far in advance can we plan our lives?

(33:45): Should we be writing all these things down?

(35:00): How do we eliminate distractions?

(44:55): What is the difference between things that are urgent and things that are important?

(47:35): Why do you think it’s so hard for us to delegate tasks to other people? 

(51:10): How can we motivate ourselves? What are some examples of motivation?

Pick or Tip of the Week

(56:35): Wendy suggests naming your calendar. It’ll help you learn how to own your time and start building a relationship with it.

(58:10): After building her workspace, Paulina’s tip is for you to do that same. Clean out your clutter, get yourself a happy light and get to work.

(59:55): Bricia’s this week is Target’s new service, Drive Up. You basically, go into the Target app, place your order and then drive up to your Target and the items will be brought out to your car! You can get baby food, snacks, diapers and basically everything that is non-perishable & it’s super quick and super easy.

 

EPISODE 154: KEEPING UP WITH THE SUPER MAMÁS- OUR VERY DIFFERENT LIVES

 
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This week on the show, we answer YOUR questions! Inspired by Instagram’s new “questions” feature, we open up and give advice on so many different topics:

"Ask us Anything" Questions

( 7:27 ) : Why it's never okay to ask when someone is planning on having a baby 

(14:22) : What do you recommend a young educated Latina do before she has a family? 

(20:10) : What are Paulina’s best tips for traveling with kids?

(21:55) : How do make time to work out, take care of beauty and be a good mom?

(31:54) : Favorite herbs?

(33:31) : If you had the opportunity to run our government for a week, what would you do?

(35:36) : Do you ever plan on having a fan on the show as a guest? 

(36:19) : Any advice for fellow mom bloggers? 

  • Stacie episode coming soon!

(39:39) : What is the biggest misconceptions about Oaxacans that you want to dispel? 

(43:46) : Where are your husbands from? 

(49:05) : What are some of your morning routines favorites

Pick or Tip of the Week 

(1:04:07) : Paulina - Ergo Baby 360 All Positions Baby Carrier

(1:05:27) : Bricia- Milk Frother