251: Katie Wells | The Wellness Mama

"We were made to do hard things," is Katie Wells family motto. Her popular website "Wellness Mama" features simple answers for healthier families. Mama to six children, she has found ways to bring lessons from the workplace to the management of her home. She systematizes her household (spreadsheets are one of her "love languages"). All this to empower her children- who by the way, have to start their own business before being given a cell phone or car! Joe De Sena and the Spartan Up team really learned a lot in this one and as Katie says, "if you want to change the trajectory of society… HELP THE MOMS!" LESSONS Systematize your house Siloing: everything has a time & a place Raise adults not children: identify & align common goals Recognize the workflow & natural consequences Cold water helps with singleness of focus Define long-term priorities & core objectives Creating "white space" for kids creativity LINKS https://wellnessmama.com Listen to the newest Spartan Podcast Trail Talk with Luis & Charlie on your favorite podcast app, or find a link at spartan.com/trail TIME STAMPS 0:00 Intro with Colonel Nye, Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Guest host Lonnie Mayne 1:45 Academics as a family culture 3:00 Walking across the country & meeting her husband 4:00 How she is raising her six children as entrepreneurs 5:00 Starting an incubator in her home: a 12-year-olds podcast 6:00 Getting really sick 7:30 Uniting a community of mothers 9:15 The core concerns of moms 10:15 Systematizing the house 11:45 TRAIL TALK with Luis Escobar & Charlie Engle! 13:00 Interview continues: Finland with Four Sigmatic in ice water 14:30 Kids as employees? 15:45 Managing & ownership in the household 17:45 A new app concept … The Spartan Mama 18:25 Defining long-term priorities 19:45 Pole vaulting- a sport her kids can do together 20:45 The Colonel, Dr. Johnny, The Seed Huntress & Guest Lonnie Mayne discuss lessons learned SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Nye, Johnny Waite & Guest host Lonnie Mayne Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty © 2019 Spartan