Episode 155: A Day In Her Life with Francesca Cervero - Yoga Teacher, Teacher Trainer, and Mom in VA

Episode 161: A Day In Her Life with Sabina Hitchen - Founder of Press for Success and Mom in Portland ME

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] This week, we're sitting down with Sabina Hitchen, founder of Press for Success and mom to a seven-year-old in Portland, Maine. Sabina shares what it's like to wake by 5am for a solo walk that doubles as her idea generator, run a PR company with her husband (who she hired away from his own media career), and touch an actual tree before she can stop being "PR Sabina" for the day. In this honest conversation, Sabina opens up about pivoting from a planned law career to teaching high school history to accidentally landing in PR after Googling "What is PR?" the week she got the job, and setting down her podcast dreams because they weren't the priority right now. We talk about finally letting her VA team triage 100-plus daily emails, the ChatGPT-scripted "Abra Pajama" game that gets her daughter dressed in ten seconds, and why every "too much" trait people once told her to tone down is what makes Press for Success work. What We Cover: * The 5am wake-up she never thought she’d want, the solo walk that doubles as her mental health check-in and idea machine, and the roll of 20-plus voice DMs she sends friends and clients before her family is up. * How she Googled "What is PR?" the week she landed her first publicity job and stumbled into repping the original "mompreneurs" almost 20 years ago, eventually building Press for Success for small business owners. * Why she hired her own husband away from his media consultancy, and the standing 10am and 3pm check-ins that keep the business from swallowing their marriage. * Setting down the podcast she'd planned to launch this year, and the half-trained Beach to Beacon 10K alongside it, because something had to give. * The parenting-advice ChatGPT bot she built herself, the "Abra Pajama" trick that gets her daughter dressed in ten seconds, and splitting chores into non-negotiables versus paid extras. * Letting her VA team fully run her inbox for the first time this year (hundreds of emails a day) and what convinced her to loosen her grip. * Working through her wedding week, and even a Zoom call on her honeymoon, before learning to actually unplug on vacation. * Why sunflowers took over her backyard from spilled squirrel feed, and the new birdwatching and tennis obsessions replacing New York energy with Maine mornings. Connect with Sabina: * Instagram: @SabinaKnows [https://www.instagram.com/sabinaknows/] * Website: pressforsuccess.com [http://pressforsuccess.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 160: A Day In Her Life with Barbara Mighdoll - Wellness Club CEO, Entrepreneur, and Mom of Two in San Francisco

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] This week, we're sitting down with Barbara Mighdoll, owner and CEO of MNT Studio — the first wellness social club combining Pilates, co-working, sauna, and childcare — who also runs the marketing agency behind her brand New Modern Mom and just co-founded Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company. Barbara shares what it's like to grow one Pilates studio into seven locations in two years. In this week’s conversation, Barbara opens up about leaving a job after panic attacks over her boss's emails, acquiring a Pilates studio three months after quitting corporate, and the nine-week trip to Portugal that turned into a total business pivot. We talk about selling out a six-week family trip to Spain in 28 minutes, why she doesn't eat dinner with her kids, running her household on five shared Google calendars, and why she's finally comfortable letting "urgent" things fall behind the important ones. What We Cover: * Why she describes her days as "structured yet chaotic, social yet isolated, fulfilled yet exhausted" — and the theory that two things can always be true at once * The system behind her mornings - 6:30am wake-up, movement, and walking to school with her husband before the workday starts * Acquiring a Pilates studio three months after quitting a toxic corporate job, the nine-week trip to Portugal that changed everything, and growing one studio into a wellness social club on track for seven locations by year's end * How a chance meeting in Nice turned into Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company that sold out its first program in San Sebastian in 28 minutes (and its August cohort in 18) * Why she doesn't eat dinner with her kids, the Trader Joe's haul and five sauces that make bowl night easy, her nightly movement practice, and the ChatGPT prompt she built to pull recipes from her favorite food blogs * The math behind choosing an au pair over a nanny or daycare and the built-in Thursday date night that requires zero planning * Running her household on five shared Google calendars, a dry-erase wall calendar, and a house manager who handles the chores no one wants to fight about * Managing an autoimmune disease with twice-monthly IV treatments, the "self-discovery zone" and twice-yearly off-sites with her husband that keep her from burning out, and why she hasn't taken a single day off in two years Connect with Barbara: * Instagram: @newmodernmom [https://www.instagram.com/newmodernmom/] * Substack: New Modern Mom [https://substack.com/@newmodernmom?utm_source=global-search] * Podcast: The New Modern Mom Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-modern-mom-podcast/id1743275208] (relaunching this summer) Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 159: A Day In Her Life with Lydia Fenet - World's Leading Charity Auctioneer, Founder, Author, and Mom of 3 in NYC

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] This week, we're sitting down with Lydia Fenet, the world's leading charity auctioneer who has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits, founder of a talent agency for auctioneers, two-time author (her first book optioned by Hulu), and mom of three living in Tribeca. Lydia shares what it's like to spend 90 nights a year on stage, run a household where her day "starts at 7pm," and red-eye home from California just to make the morning school drop-off. In this week’s conversation, Lydia opens up about leaving Christie's after 23 years to bet on herself, the partnership rules that keep her marriage and travel schedule from breaking, and learning to hold life together "with duct tape and Popsicle sticks." We talk about the hangover that changed her career, treating every work trip as a vacation, parenting three very different kids in the city, and why she's letting perfection drop on purpose. What We Cover: * How a brand-new puppy turned her whole life into "a 24-hour clock" — including the English Springer Spaniel who rides the NYC subway to school drop-off every morning * The margarita-hangover night, eight years in, when she dropped the "strict British auctioneer" persona, just joked with the crowd, and realized "comedy is what makes people pay attention and bid" * How she travels as a working mom — first flight out, red-eye home after night auctions, and treating every trip as a vacation so the beautiful hotel rooms never feel lonely * The "big red X" calendar system that protects family dates years out, the trade offs that sometimes need to happen * Why her day "starts at 7pm," and the rule that saved her marriage to her husband (also her company's CFO): "when I'm gone, I slide out" — no quarterbacking from afar * Being Type A about work but refusing to be at home, holding things together "with duct tape and Popsicle sticks," and the one ball she's dropping on purpose: perfection * The Greenlight allowance system (a dollar per year of age), why praise notes work on her youngest where punishment backfires, and why the kids pack their own bags — one sock and all * Why she won't let her 13-year-old have social media even though she lives on Instagram, and how they’ve approached screens and devices for the family Connect with Lydia: * Instagram: @lydiafenet [https://www.instagram.com/lydiafenet/] * LinkedIn: Lydia Fenet [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-fenet-839a413/] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 158: A Day In Her Life with Rachel Hochhauser - Hectic, At Home, Multitasking - NYT Bestselling Novelist & Design Company Founder

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Rachel Hochhauser was killing time on her phone in a hospital waiting room — her husband recovering from emergency brain surgery, her 18-month-old at home — when a meme of Cinderella's evil stepmother stopped her cold. "This isn't a villain. She's just trying to take care of her two daughters." That spark became "Lady Tremaine," her debut novel, a Reese's Book Club pick and instant New York Times bestseller. And that's only one of her jobs. In this week's conversation, Rachel walks us through a day split between two full careers — novelist and founder of the design company Piecework (which just acquired Areaware) — all run inside the hours her childcare allows. She's refreshingly candid about the half-premade dinners, the outsourcing that's keeping the train on the tracks, and why she's stopped apologizing for any of it. What We Cover: * How a meme spotted during her husband's recovery became a New York Times bestselling novel * How she runs two careers — author and design-company founder — entirely within childcare hours, and calls the system "designed so no one will thrive" * Her honest take on dinner: Trader Joe's goat cheese ravioli, roast vegetables, and zero guilt * Why lunch is non-negotiable, and what it means on the rare day she skips it * Reframing outsourcing from "luxury" to "mental health" — the nanny who comes early, the cleaner, the handyman * The analog notebook sorted by role, her inbox-zero system, and the $5 recipe app that holds it together * Why "forced" creativity inside tight constraints is just as valuable as the lightning-strike kind * Her most middle-aged joys: fancy grocery runs, pickled beans, and collecting 19th-century Blue Flow pottery Connect with Rachel: * Instagram: @hochhauser [https://www.instagram.com/hochhauser/] * Piecework [https://www.instagram.com/pieceworkpuzzles/] * Substack: Great Fanfare [https://greatfanfare.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search] * Read her debut novel: Lady Tremaine [https://bookshop.org/p/books/lady-tremaine-rachel-hochhauser/22515233?ean=9781250396341&next=t] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 157: A Day In Her Life with Emilie Dayan Hill - High Net Worth Investment Advisor & Creator of Finance That Feels

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Emilie Dayan Hill got her start in finance by pure luck — a phone call that came as she was literally climbing into a moving truck, leaving Mississippi for Atlanta with no job and no connections. A decade later, she's a partner and high net worth investment advisor at a major investment firm, and the writer behind Finance That Feels, where she's reshaping the way women relate to money. In this week’s conversation, Emilie traces a wildly non-linear path — a violin scholarship, a theater-kid past, a dream grad program in Paris she walked away from — and the identity crisis that came with not having it all figured out. She's refreshingly open about the anxiety and postpartum depression she's lived with, the introversion most people never guess, and why she describes her days, only half-jokingly, as a "snowball." What We Cover: * The 5:00 AM "nook" — a converted-attic nest with a lamp and a rocking chair — where she writes before her daughter arrives "fully dressed in sequins and sparkly boots" to announce the day has started * How a single phone call, mid-move from Oxford to Atlanta, turned a 24-year-old executive assistant into a CFA charterholder and firm partner * The dream Paris grad program she dropped out of — "one of the lowest points in my life" — and why she trusted her gut anyway * Why she started Finance That Feels: women weren't showing up to their own money meetings, and the statistics on who outlives whom * Her case that money is "just a tool" — and why the finance industry is completely unprepared for how personal and psychological the work really is * The standing Monday-night babysitter, BeltLine bike rides, and bar-hopping that brought "so much lightness" back to her marriage * Her anti-snowball toolkit: hot yoga twice a week, a 45-minute infrared sauna, tennis, and 15 rose bushes that drop her cortisol on contact * Her take-every-day PTO philosophy — she refuses to roll over vacation — and how it mirrors the way she thinks about money Connect with Emilie: * Substack: Finance That Feels [https://financethatfeels.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search] * Instagram: @emiliedayanhill [https://www.instagram.com/emiliedayanhill/] * Website: https://www.emiliedayanhill.com/ [https://www.emiliedayanhill.com/] Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock