Lead Like a Mother: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms

About Lead Like a Mother: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms

From the author of Boldly Both, Lead Mama Lead: Work-Life Balance, Burnout Recovery & Leadership Skills for High-Achieving Moms is the podcast for working moms who look “put together” but feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and one more email away from snapping. If you’re a high-achieving working mom juggling meetings, school drop-offs, deadlines, and the endless mental load while secretly Googling “working mom burnout,” “how to balance work and motherhood,” or “time management for high-performing moms,” this show will feel like you’ve finally been seen. Each week, you get practical strategies to balance motherhood, career, and leadership without burning out, so you can stop living in survival mode and start feeling like yourself again. You’ll learn realistic work-life balance habits, time management for busy working moms, burnout recovery tools, and simple boundary-setting scripts for work and home that help you protect your energy, reduce stress, and calm the constant mental chatter. Episodes dive into leadership skills for high-achieving moms, communication, delegation, decision-making, and confidence, so you can lead well at work and lead well at home without feeling guilty or stretched too thin. You’ll hear honest conversations about invisible labor, emotional load, mom guilt, perfectionism, and maternal burnout, plus coaching-style episodes with small, doable steps you can implement in one week to create more peace, margin, and clarity. Hosted by Christina Runnels, a licensed therapist, author of Boldly Both: A Mom’s Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt, and sought-after speaker on working mom burnout and leadership, this podcast blends evidence-informed strategies with real-life mom wisdom you can use right away. If you’ve ever thought, “No one really understands how much I’m carrying,” this is your space for validation, practical tools, and long-term burnout prevention designed specifically for ambitious, high-achieving working moms. Next Steps: Get Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt: https://bit.ly/BoldlyBoth Visit the website: https://www.ChristinaRunnels.com Connect with Me: Hello@ChristinaRunnels.com

Publisher

Christina Runnels

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jan 2026

Latest episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jul 2026

   Perfectionism Is Burning Out Working Moms: 3 Ways to Stop Doing Everything Perfectly

   Download the Working Mom Guilt Breakthrough If you’re tired of overthinking, delaying, and carrying guilt like it’s your job, start here: Working Mom Guilt Breakthrough In this episode, we’re talking about how perfectionism quietly burns out working moms. I share a personal story about creating my first postpartum mothers group and getting stuck on every detail, the title, the length, the structure, all of it. When the group finally launched, the women who joined said it was exactly what they...

2. 

   3 Mar 2026

   From Burned Out to "Boldly Both": 5 Practical Changes to Feel Like Yourself Again in 90 Days

   You’ve listened to the episodes, done the check-ins, named the anger, set some boundaries, and rediscovered bits of yourself, but you’re still exhausted and wondering, “Okay, but what do I change in my actual day‑to‑day?” If you’re ready for practical shifts that move you from burned out to “Boldly Both,” this episode is for you. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hello@ChristinaRunnels.com Buy Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Wit...

3. 

   25 Feb 2026

   Losing Yourself as a Working Mom? 3 Steps to Reclaim Your Identity and Ambition

   You look successful on paper—career, kids, calendar full, but inside you feel strangely blank. You can answer who you are as “mom” and what you do at work, but if someone asks, “What do you want? What do you enjoy?” your mind goes quiet. If you’ve wondered, “Have I completely lost myself in work and motherhood?” this episode is for you. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hello@ChristinaRunnels.com Buy Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career a...

4. 

   17 Feb 2026

   Burnout Recovery for Working Moms: How to Start Coming Back to Yourself

   You finally get a quiet moment—shower, car, parking lot and instead of feeling relief, you feel… nothing. Not excited, not inspired, just flat and tired in your bones. If you’ve wondered, “Is this just my life now?” this episode is for you. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hello@christinarunnels.comBuy Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt Follow on Facebook👉 If you want a simple way to see your burnout on paper, monito...

5. 

   10 Feb 2026

   How to Set Boundaries as a Working Mom: Scripts to Say No at Work and at Home Without Guilt

   Feeling like the reliable one for everyone at work, at school, at home, and also the most exhausted person in every room? This episode is for you. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hello@christinarunnels.comBuy Boldly Both: A Mom's Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt Follow on FacebookFree burnout check-in (from Episode 1): Start tracking how depleted you really are and how often you’re saying yes from empty. 👉 Get the Burnout Check-In PDF...

6. 

   3 Feb 2026

   Working Mom Anger and Resentment: Why You’re So Irritable and What to Do About It

   In this episode of Lead Like a Mother, licensed therapist and author Christina Runnels dives into a topic that hits every overloaded working mom: anger and resentment. Christina shares her own story of snapping over small moments, like asking kids to put on shoes and explores why these reactions happen when we’re carrying too much. She breaks down why anger isn’t a character flaw but a signal of overload, and shares three practical scripts to help working moms name it, normalize it, and redir...

7. 

   27 Jan 2026

   Time Management for Busy Working Moms: Simple Daily Routine to Stop Rushing All Day

   Working Mom Time Management: End 8:57pm Dinners Forever Download your FREE Working Mom 3-Block Template ⬇ https://officialchristinarunnels.kit.com/1bc4f01ac1 You glance at the clock: 8:57pm. Cold dinner over laptop. Kid lunchbox in sink. Work phone buzzing. Tomorrow is looming. High-achieving working moms need a working mom time management system—not more discipline. Episode 5's 3-block routine (work/family/margin) stops rush days. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops,...

8. 

   20 Jan 2026

   Mental Load of Motherhood: Why You Remember Everything for Everyone and Still Feel Overwhelmed

   That grocery store receipt moment... Organic milk (dairy upset), gluten-free bread (headaches), exact yogurt she'll eat, Goldfish rotation, birthday wrapping paper (party Saturday), Tuesday-only sales. $187.43. Every item = one mental decision you made. If you disappeared tomorrow: Would they know her yogurt? Goldfish rotation? Science fair dates? Not because they don't care. Because that info lives only in *your* brain. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, cons...

9. 

   12 Jan 2026

   3 Keys to Surviving Working Mom Life: Burnout, Mental Load and Always Feeling Behind

   High-achieving working mom who’s always rushing and still feels behind? This episode will help you finally understand why and what to do about it. You’ll learn how each one is quietly draining you and walk away with one simple survival key you can start using this week so you’re not constantly living in catch-up mode. Download the FREE 3 Keys Survival Tracker so you can pick your key and actually follow through this week. Connect & work with Christina: Speaking, workshops, consulting: Hel...

10. 

    12 Jan 2026

    Why I Created Lead Like a Mother: My Burnout Story as a Working Mom Therapist

    You look “fine” on the outside, but inside you’re exhausted, snappy, and one more email away from losing it. In this first episode of Lead Like a Mother, Christina Runnels, licensed therapist, author of Boldly Both: A Mom’s Guide to Balancing Career and Family Without Guilt, and fellow high-achieving working mom shares her own burnout story and explains why this podcast exists. You’ll learn what working mom burnout actually looks like (beyond just being tired) and walk through a simple 3-Minu...

11. 

    12 Jan 2026

    Mom Guilt for High-Achieving Working Moms: 3 Shifts to Stop Feeling Like You’re Failing Everywhere

    You’re at work thinking you should be with your kids, and with your kids thinking about everything you’re dropping at work, so no matter where you are, you feel like you’re failing everyone. This episode is for the high-achieving working mom whose brain constantly says, “I’m not enough.” Christina Runnels, licensed therapist, author of Boldly Both, and host of Lead Like a Mother, breaks down mom guilt into three powerful mindset shifts so you can start releasing the shame and defining what “g...

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5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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