Episode 14: Ep 14: Living with an invisible illness + navigating working mom life + division of labour between spouses + lessons learned through motherhood

This week, Shannon chats with Laina Halberstadt who is a full time mom, full time house manager, full time wife, and full time business owner. She spends her free time being a mom, managing the house, being a wife, and building a business. She most recently left her eight year career in digital sales to start a career in construction recruiting, in the middle of Covid, with a toddler, and brand new Covid baby. She relies on instagram, Peloton, snacks, cannabis, and self-deprecating humour to guide her through motherhood and its everyday challenges with a smile on her face. She also lives with an invisible illness which she opens up about, and shares how it affects her life as well as her relationships and her children.

Topics discussed:

1. Navigating working mom life (especially through covid)
2. How using humour gets Laina through everyday life
3. Setting boundaries and rules for ourselves and our families
4. Lessons learned through motherhood, and how motherhood has changed us
5. Division of labour between spouses, and what our relationships with our husbands are like
6. Judgemental people, and how to nagivate them, as well as let go of shame and stop people pleasing
7. Laina's health struggles and how she deals with living with an invisible illness

Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.instagram.com/thesassysarcastic/ https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/