I remember a time when the Internet didn’t exist and for some of our viewers, that’s not their reality and for many of them, they also… They’re like, hey, I remember further back because we have such a nice diverse age range that watches the show and I do want to mention this for anyone who this is their first time being introduced to you and your work, this has been a real evolution for you. I’m really glad you’re in for the Experiment – I think you’ll find it familiar if you’ve been making space for grace all of these years already! It took a year for me to get the lesson but I ended up leaving the “good” career I didn’t love and went on a soul journey and found my creativity.

The follicular cells around the egg release progesterone, which actually gives the electric currents that drive the movements of the sperms’ tails a boost, and as the current increases in strength, the tails begin to move faster. I thought that was kind of brilliant and this goes into the theme of really being rooted and knowing what matters to you and it’s going to be different for me, for you, for you, for everyone. As an entrepreneur, best-selling author, mother, and activist, Kate Northrup supports ambitious, motivated, and successful women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. And I drilled this into my daughter’s head during her adolescence when she felt she needed to be everywhere and do everything and never miss a game or a concert or a party or whatever opportunity or pull presented. Then Rob and I signed up for a Birthing class and had “assigned reading,” so I set the book aside as I read the books for class.One, consider changing your side of the relationship dance, which is exactly what you just described, right? Through both my personal and professional life I’ve realized that help is something many women struggle with.

Kate Northrup's new book is a fabulous, paradigm-shifting guide for moms who are ready to bring rest and rhythms back into their lives - while thriving creatively and earning a living as well. Today on MarieTV, Kate Northrup shares the counterintuitive, science-backed productivity strategies she’s learned along with the time management myths you must stop believing if you want a less stressed, more energizing life. And focusing in on those catapults your results in ways that feel miraculous but turn out to be a logical result of giving what matters your attention.Marie: We both know the stats about this and most people feel it intuitively, they feel it in their hearts about loneliness is on the rise, people feel so socially isolated and this is a simple but unexpected way to combat some of that, to reach out. I’m still rewiring my addiction to rushing and the constant pursuit of more, but I’m making progress – and it’s working. It’s not about always receiving the help, it’s also about replenishing ourselves because there is this give and take and you will need and I will need and you will need and I will need and then the last thing is to ask for help kindly because when we ask early, before we need it, then we’re not in crisis. I understand this sounds like it could have just been a super-creepy line from a super-creepy guy, but my internal guidance is really strong and none of my warning bells were going off.

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect because as strange as it may sound, while parenting solo and working full time while also being a student to try to finish my undergraduate degree was a lot, and often incredibly stressful and lonely, I knew in my bones that there wasn’t enough of me to share with another and to have a healthy, meaningful relationship with both my daughter and a partner, no matter how much that person might have been able to lighten my load. My dad used to reassure me during some of my darkest moments, “trust me, one day you will be her best friend.Kate: Yeah, exactly because if we are trying to do six new initiatives or six new strategies at the same time, just because everyone else is doing them and we saw a webinar on Instagram ad or whatever, we don’t… I don’t care what the strategies are. In that moment, I stopped everything and made myself sit in a chair by the window, and I heard her say these words: “I really need to do less. With minimalism being so popular at the moment, I feel that a lot of people would be interested in this experiment! So, rather than approaching doing less as an entire life overhaul (which is overwhelming in and of itself), this book gives the reader bite-sized steps to try incorporating over 2 weeks! When you do less, you have more space to respond to situations in your life rather than reacting to them and saying things or doing things that you wish you hadn’t said or done.

Kate: Right but you know what, here’s the thing and I think a lot of people who watch your show are probably similar in terms of high achieving, they seem like they’ve got it all together, right? Kate: It is terrible and I think it’s so important to realize that our ability to stay grounded in our choices and conscious in our choices, that’s why I love the do less philosophy because it’s asking yourself these questions so you can truly own your choices and I could show up at that conference and be like, I chose this year to focus on other things and I’m really proud of it and then that sort of inoculates you from getting the icky vibe. Even if that looked like spending entire days in bed reading and napping when I found the space for that. Today’s guest will change everything you once believed about productivity, your worth, and the value of 40-hour-plus work weeks. What if you had a blueprint to make sure everything that matters on 2020 gets done and that you’re blissed out and satisfied as you work your plan?months (and it was joyful, not grueling), we grew our team to 9 amazing people I’m super proud to work with, and we’re routinely two weeks to one month ahead of our workflow after spending years scrambling and doing things at the 11th hour.