Unmuted by Nola

What Motherhood Taught Me About Work That No Leadership Book Did

People often talk about motherhood as something women have to manage around work. Or as the thing that somehow turns us into magical multitaskers. Honestly? Neither story has ever felt completely true to me. In this season two finale, I unpack eight ways motherhood has quietly made me better at my job… not because it “fixed” me, but because it exposed me. My urgency. My perfectionism. My over-functioning. My tendency to mistake friction for failure. From daycare pickup and time entry… to clingy soccer practices, gray blankets in family pictures, emails I wisely never sent, and a little girl stopping to blow flowers while I was mentally three meetings ahead… This episode is about what motherhood taught me about: • Time • Focus • Emotional regulation • Invisible labor • Worth • Perfectionism • Triage • And what success actually feels like And while motherhood is my lens… The lessons are much bigger than parenting. If you’ve ever chased squirrels professionally, confused busy with effective, or mistaken a hard moment for a verdict on your competence… This one’s for you. ⸻ Music Credits Tuesday Vibes by Snoozy Beats https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gd5msntuOng.

Who’s the Daddy? And Other Questions We’re Still Answering

Some conversations don’t end when the mic turns off. They keep going in group chats. On sister calls. At the kitchen table. This was one of those. After my last episode sparked bigger conversations, I invited my sisters Tiffany and Kara back to keep it going. We talked about motherhood, faith, judgment, respectability, and the questions women can get tired of answering, even when life doesn’t unfold the way they were taught it should. About the question underneath the question. About grace. About church. About family that may not fit neat boxes, but can be whole all the same. There is laughter in this one. There is honesty in this one. And there may be a few things said that could get us kicked out of somebody’s Bible study. Pull up a chair. This one feels like the kitchen table. 🎧 Listen, share, and send it to a sister or friend if it resonates. Tuesday Vibes by Snoozy Beats https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats [https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats] Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes [https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes] Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gd5msntuOng

Doing It Out of Order (And Still Getting It Right)

I thought my life would follow a certain order. Marriage. Then family. Then everything else falling into place. But at some point, life stopped feeling theoretical… and started feeling real. In this episode of Unmuted by Nola, I’m talking about what happens when your life doesn’t follow the blueprint you were given—and the decisions you’re left to make when everything doesn’t line up the way you thought it would. We get into: • the moment timing becomes real • what shifts when you’ve built a full life on your own • the tension between what you were taught and what you’re actually living • and what it looks like to choose differently… on purpose This isn’t a how-to. And it’s not a perfect answer. It’s a real conversation about navigating life when the plan changes— and learning to trust yourself anyway. ⸻ 🎵 Tuesday Vibes by Snoozy Beats https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gd5msntuOng.

There Is No Version of This That Works

What if the problem isn’t you? What if it’s not your time management, your discipline, or your ability to “handle it all”? What if the math just… doesn’t work? In this episode, I sit with something I’ve been trying not to fix—and start asking a different question: What if this isn’t something that can be done better? From the invisible mental load to the expectations we carry (and the ones we place on ourselves), this is an honest conversation about what it actually feels like to hold everything at once. No quick fixes. No perfect system. Just the truth. If you’ve ever felt like everything needs you—and you still don’t have enough to give—this one is for you. 🎶Music Credits🎶 Tuesday Vibes by Snoozy Beats https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gd5msntuOng.

Too Close to See It

This wasn’t supposed to be a deep moment. I came home from a girls’ day and my garage was clean. Not “a little better” clean… but completely rearranged in a way I hadn’t been able to do for months. And I couldn’t stop thinking about why. Why it took me so long… why it felt so hard… and how someone else could walk in and see exactly what needed to move. This episode isn’t really about a garage. It’s about what happens when you’re too close to your own life to see it clearly… and what it looks like to start paying attention before things pile up. ⸻ Tuesday Vibes by Snoozy Beats https://soundcloud.com/snoozybeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/snoozybeats/tuesday-vibes Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Gd5msntuOng