Ditch the Chaos

About Ditch the Chaos

The productivity podcast for burned out women entrepreneurs who are tired of holding their business together with duct tape and coffee. Your week fell apart by Tuesday. Again. You started Monday with a perfectly planned calendar, and by Wednesday you're drowning in "quick requests," rewriting the same to-do list for the third time, and rage-eating lunch at your desk because you're behind on everything. You've tried the productivity systems. The morning routines. The time-blocking. The apps that promise to fix everything. And they all assume your life goes according to plan—which it never does. Here's the truth: You're not bad at time management. You're exhausted from being everyone's backup plan. Your brain is running three parallel to-do lists during client calls. You're carrying the mental load for both your business and your family. And no planner app can fix that. You need weekly planning that bends when life doesn't cooperate. Boundaries that actually protect your capacity. And permission to stop apologizing for needing rest. That's what Ditch the Chaos: The Productivity Rebellion is for. I'm Cara Chace—entrepreneur since 2015, homeschooling mom of two, and recovering people-pleaser who learned the hard way that most productivity advice is built for people whose days are predictable. Mine aren't. Yours probably aren't either. This isn't another podcast telling you to wake up at 5am, batch your content, or hustle harder. This is where you learn to build your own systems instead of following everyone else's rules. Every week, you'll get strategies for entrepreneur burnout recovery, real talk about setting boundaries without guilt, and practical ways to create white space in your calendar and breathing room in your brain—before you hit the wall. You'll learn how to stop white-knuckling your way through every week, get your Fridays back, and run your business without sacrificing your sanity. No templates. No rigid time-blocking. No productivity guilt. Just relief that actually works when your Tuesday falls apart. Ready to stop being the failsafe for everything? Subscribe now and let's ditch the chaos together.

Publisher

Cara Chace

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 May 2025

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   The Social Media Burnout Cure Chapter 1: Before The Scroll

   Send in your question or leave me some love! She was sixteen, sitting across from her dad in a Denny's booth in San Diego, when she told him she wanted to be a writer — and he asked how she'd ever make a living doing that. That single lunch didn't just close the door on writing. It taught her that her own gut instinct couldn't be trusted, and that the only thing that mattered was external approval. It's not a story about one bad conversation with her dad. It's the origin story of every hoop s...

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   24 Sept 2026

   The Social Media Burnout Cure Introduction

   Send in your question or leave me some love! Two Meta verdicts landed in March 2026 — one over failing to protect kids from predators on Instagram and Facebook, one over designing products that damaged a teenager's mental health. Both came down to the same finding: the design itself caused the harm, and a jury called it intentional. If you've been showing up online every day trying to use it responsibly, wondering why it never quite feels like enough, this is the introduction to why. It's not...

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   18 Jun 2026

   The Social Media Burnout Cure Is Coming — See You in October

   Send in your question or leave me some love! I'm pausing the podcast. After 10 years running a digital marketing agency, managing social media for Megadeth, and a decade as a Special Agent before that, I've written the book I've been circling around for years — and to launch it well, I'm clearing space. In this short update episode, I'm sharing what's happening with Ditch the Chaos for the next few months, why I'm choosing to walk the walk on the boundary advice I give every week, and exactly...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

3,929

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

32

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