Bringing little humans into the world bears with it the heavy realization that we're responsible for making sure they grow up with the right skills, values, and lessons to be good adults. It's a thought that can literally keep us up at night. 

Over the years, Lara's learned that while we do need to teach our young ones, we're also still humans living a human experience. In today's episode, she shares three powerful, yet subtle, mindset shifts of motherhood that will hopefully bring things back to center and bring a little peace to your heart.

This Episode is For You If: 

• You've ever felt an urgency to fill your kids up with all the important lessons as soon as you can 
• You feel burdened by the responsibility of ensuring they become good humans in the world 
• You feel a lot of guilt about not being good enough, making mistakes, or not showing up the way you intend  

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Mental health carries a lot of weight, stigma, and embarrassment that prevents many from reaching out for the help they need. In today's special episode, Lara opens up about her own life of anxiety and depression. 

Drawing on her experiences as a child, mom, and wife, Lara is candid about the tools she's leaned into: therapy, medication, and life coaching (to name a few). And what began as thinking her faith wasn't strong enough has now turned into a deeper faith and a gratitude to God for the bounty of help. Maybe Lara's story can help you uncover the tools you need.

This episode is for you if ...

• You've ever wondered about the difference between therapy and coaching
• You're not sure if you should see a therapist or if you should get a coach
• You've had questions about whether or not you should take medicine
• You've had the thought, "Well, I've done therapy"
• Or the thought, "I don't feel like it's the right next step for me" 
• You also may be contemplating, "What should I do
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Join Lara as she interviews a very special guest, Jenni Vicknair, about the challenges, a-ha moments, and effects that coaching has had on her life.  Through laughter and shared stories from their sessions, Lara and Jenni exemplify the beauty of coaching, of opening to Jesus’s guidance, and of becoming the best version of who you want to be. Listen in and find out just how powerful working with a coach can be.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The part of Jenni that she hadn't connected with in a long time and how Lara brought it into the open
• Why coaching is one of the best self-investments a mom can make
• Some of the advice and analogies that Lara used to help Jenni see the trickle-down effect that her growth was having on the family

Featured in this episode:

• Dave Ramsey / Financial Peace University
• Christy Whitaker Business Boutique

About Jenni:
Jenni Vicknair is a mom of three, a Christian, an entrepreneur, and a wife with a huge heart for helping families SIMPLIF...

Talent isn't the answer. Effort is! In this month's book club pick, Grit by Angela Duckworth, we're learning about the true grit, real follow-through, and aligning with your core purpose. You don't have to be the smartest, savviest, or most talented in the room to achieve amazing things for your life. Join Lara in this month's Busy Moms' Book Club Bonus Episode and find out how to develop your grit and improve your future.

 Every month, The Busy Moms' Book Club meets virtually over Zoom. You do not have to read the book to join. I read the book, then will teach it to you and how to apply it.

It's the best because you can get ALL the goodness books have to offer in an hour. Because we all know you loved Cliff Notes for your book reports as a kid.

You'll know this episode is for you if ...

• You don’t consider yourself to be a very smart person
• You wonder what you should be doing with your life
• You worry how you’re going to teach your kids how to “work hard,” to get them moving an
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Are you a mom who goes all-in on what you love, but you don't have the systems built within your home and then before you know it, things get really cluttered and out of control?

If you find yourself getting so overwhelmed to the point where it actually stops you from progressing forward, listen in as Lara shares a process that will help you put a plan into place, say good-bye to clutter and overwhelm, and hello to a happy, harmonious home.

This episode is for you if …

• The messes in your house are yelling at you
• The more you try to juggle, the messier and more disorganized things get
• You yell at and shame your parter and kids for not "helping" 
• You think you need to reorganize everything before working on a goal

When you think of your home like the zones of a sprinkler, you can figure it out based on the time you choose or have to give to it, not what needs to be done, but the time you choose to spend doing it. Then you can decide which zones in your home need to be "water...

Are you waiting to achieve a goal before you feel good about yourself? Chances are you have a lot of strong thoughts and feelings about goals, internalizing them in so many negative ways that you've lost sight of the direction you want to go. It's time to erase all that background chatter around goals and get back to basics. 

In today's episode, Lara Johnson walks you through the simple act of creating your own Goals Rulebook. Once you understand that you get to create the rules around your goals, suddenly, everything you want to achieve becomes clear as a bell.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why feeling good about yourself has nothing to do with achieving goals
• How to tap into your body to uncover how you really feel about goals
• Ways to uncover why you want to achieve a specific goal
• How to put together your own Goal Rulebook
• Why letting go of what you should do gets you closer to what you want to do

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As moms, we love to teach our children the gift of giving. Moms are the best at giving, serving their children, family, and community. But … how are you with receiving? How about asking for or accepting help? That's a level of discomfort that can make even the strongest of us squirm. In today's episode of the Mom on Purpose Podcast, Lara Johnson takes us deep into the gifts we can receive when we let ourselves be vulnerable. 

 What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why being like Jesus Christ means receiving like Jesus Christ
• How asking for and accepting help are real acts of love
• Some resources to help you learn about and work with your vulnerability
• Why our relationships really matter

So many of us think we're failing or weak if we accept help, but Lara is here to remind us that it's not selfish or weak … it's self-love.

Featured in this episode: 

• Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction
• Brené Brown 

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After a few weeks of maternity leave, Lara Johnson is back with an all-new episode for the Mom on Purpose Podcast and boy, does she have a story to tell. Lara shares the intimate details of her son's birth and the powerful lessons that came from it; lessons that are going to help you, today, make progress on your goals. 

 What you'll learn in this episode:

• Lara's birth story and how it followed the same cycle as goal setting
• How to handle stagnation in your goal progress
• What roadblocks and challenges really mean
• How to adjust expectations
• Just how close greatness is when you think all is lost

Chasing down dreams is a wild, challenging, painful process, but in the end, when you're looking at the wonder you created, it's all worth it. 

Listen now to learn how to put it all together. 

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How to Connect with Lara:

Web: www.larajohnsoncoaching.com

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Join Lara Johnson in the bonus audio replay of the Busy Mom's Book Club, where she talks about the self-help book, Atomic Habits by James Clear. Creating new habits is a challenge for many of us and as we make our goals for a new year, this timely book has plenty of advice and practical solutions you can implement right away. Together, we'll go over what it means to change our identity and Clear's four powerful laws to build new habits. Best of all, it ties beautifully into our calling as moms.

Every month, The Busy Moms' Book Club meets virtually over Zoom. You do not have to read the book to join. I read the book, share all the highlights with you, and then teach you how to apply it to your own life. It's the best because you can get ALL the goodness books offer in an hour (because we all know you loved Cliff Notes for your book reports as a kid).

 What you'll learn in this episode:

• The difference between outcomes and processes
• How our beliefs drive our identity
• The "habit
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Join Lara Johnson in this bonus audio replay of the Busy Moms' Book Club, where she discusses the book The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

If you've ever felt like goals seem like a lot of work, or if everyone else seems to have the secret sauce to reach their goals, then this book club is the one for you. Together, we'll explore Sullivan & Hardy's concept about standing in the gap vs living in the gain. We all have something we're striving for, but our ideals of success come from how where we measure from. 

Every month, The Busy Moms' Book Club meets virtually over Zoom. You do not have to read the book to join. I read the book, share all the highlights with you, and then teach you how to apply it to your own life. It's the best because you can get ALL the goodness books offer in an hour (because we all know you loved Cliff Notes for your book reports as a kid. 😉). 

 What you'll learn in thi...