Beyond The balance is your no-BS, heart-forward podcast for working and entrepreneurial moms who are tired of burnout, guilt, and feeling torn between career, family, and self. Hosted like a conversation with your business bestie, this show delivers honest stories, tough-love truths, and actionable takeaways to help you reclaim confidence, set boundaries, and design a life that actually works for you. From imposter syndrome to redefining success on your own terms, every episode reminds you that you’re not alone - and that your dreams still matter. This is a place where purpose, passion and podcasting come together. Subscribe, exhale, and get ready to pursue purpose, courage, and zero apologies.
Beyond the balance- Episode 31 Teri Ann Hourihan & Angela Harrolle Mohan
In This Episode We Talk About
Jessica gets dozens of political texts. Almost none of them respond when you want to dig deeper. This is the first candidate who ever answered her back, so she did something she has never done on this show: she gave two women running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Arizona the mic. Teri Ann Hourihan and Angela Harrolle Mohan are running as independents, not left, not right, with no PAC money and no party script. They get into healthcare, childcare, housing, schools, and whether a regular mom can really move the needle. This is a conversation and an education, not an endorsement. Hear them out, then decide for yourself.
Key Takeaways
✨ You can make real change without ever holding office. Angela passed three pieces of legislation as a private citizen.
✨ Conviction over comfort. “I would rather lose than lose my integrity.”
✨ Less complaining, more action. Your voice is not noise, it counts, especially one week before you vote.
Who This Episode Is For
This episode is for the mom who is tired of being handed a label and told to pick a side. For the Arizona family doing the childcare and housing math at the kitchen table. For anyone who wants to hear people out and then make up her own mind.
A Note from Jessica
This is not an endorsement. It is a conversation. I believe in hearing everyone out and letting them stand for what they believe. Listen, learn, and vote your own conscience.
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting (https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting)
Connect with Teri Ann Hourihan & Angela Harrolle Mohan
Website: teriann4azgov.org (https://teriann4azgov.org/)
Resources to learn more:
Vote411 (League of Women Voters voter guide): vote411.org (https://www.vote411.org)
Ballotpedia (candidates and what’s on your ballot): ballotpedia.org (https://ballotpedia.org)
Arizona Secretary of State (register, check status, elections): azsos.gov (https://www.azsos.gov)
Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission (candidate debates): azcleanelections.gov/debate (https://www.azcleanelections.gov/debate)
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13 Oct 2026
Beyond the balance- Episode 30 (Sam Allen)
In This Episode We Talk About
Sam Allen and I met in financial services and spent a year trying to get this conversation on the calendar, which is its own working-mom punchline. She went from a town of 300 people and a dream of being the next Katie Couric to EVP of Marketing at Merit Financial Advisors. In this one we skip the highlight reel and get honest about the hardest season of working motherhood: the chronic illness, the sleep deprivation, pumping in meetings, and the postpartum wave no one warned her about. We also laugh, a lot, about bringing a laptop to the hospital, surprise pregnancies with impeccable timing, and why the best thing you can do for yourself might be to burn the baby schedule book. If you have ever felt like the world was not built for working moms, you are going to feel seen.
Key Takeaways
✨ Protect your mornings. Guard your focus time before the day grabs it, and save the draining tasks for when your energy is already low.
✨ Outsource what drains you. Knowing what you’re not good at is a strength, not a confession.
✨ Burn the schedule books. Car-seat naps count. Grace beats perfection, especially in the fourth trimester.
✨ Build the village on purpose. The women who cheer you on and remind you to refill your cup are not a luxury, they’re how you last.
✨ Choose presence over FOMO. When you know who you are, saying no to the room gets a whole lot easier.
Who This Episode Is For
This episode is for the working mom running on three hours of sleep who still showed up. For the first-time mom white-knuckling the baby schedule. For the achiever who needs to hear that the hardest job she’ll ever have is not a sign she’s failing. If you’ve ever whispered “is it just me?”, it isn’t. This one’s for you.
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LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting (https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting)
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/samantha-allen
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7 Oct 2026
Beyond the balance- Episode 29 (China Allen)
In This Episode We Talk About
China Allen walked into COVID almost 300 pounds, in a marriage she describes as abusive, and at the height of a corporate career she had built from a $25,000 recruiting job she took at nineteen. Then she did the thing most of us talk ourselves out of: she changed everything at once. In 30 days she filed for separation, left a seven-year career, and booked weight loss surgery. This episode is a real look at what it actually takes to stop abandoning yourself. China and Jessica get into the cost of being a working mom in a male-dominated industry, raising two sons on the autism spectrum, and why the fear of losing herself finally outweighed the fear of starting over. It is bold, it is tender, and it will make you look hard at the decisions you keep putting off.
Key Takeaways
✨ You do not have to lose yourself to be a good mom. Your kids are part of you, not all of you.
✨ Burnout and tolerating are not the same as trying. Sometimes the bravest move is burning it down and starting again.
✨ Confidence is not a personality. It is a skill you rebuild, on a stage, in a boardroom, or in your own mirror.
✨ The load is real. Moms still carry the majority of it, even when both partners work.
✨ You can be unapologetically feminine and formidable in the same breath.
Who This Episode Is For
This episode is for the mom who already knows what she needs to do and keeps finding reasons not to. For the woman quietly carrying most of the load and wondering if she is the only one. And for every mom raising a child the world was not built for, who needs to hear she is not alone in it.
Connect with Jessica Perez
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jessica (https://instagram.com/jessicaperez1123)perezandbeyond
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting (https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-perez-consulting)
Connect with China Allen
Instagram: https://instagram.com/ (https://instagram.com/)china.internationalmsusa26
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinaallen/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinaallen/)
Website: https://www.keyconsultingaz.com/ (https://www.keyconsultingaz.com/)
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