63. The Magic Is in the Hard Parts

People ask Emily this question everywhere she goes. At the coffee shop, from friends, from friends of friends. How do you do it all with five kids, two businesses, homeschooling, and a travel schedule most families would call insane? For a long time she had a version of the answer. This weekend, the real one finally clicked. In this episode, Emily shares the epiphany that stopped her in her tracks at her son's baseball championship and the one mindset shift that has quietly been holding her steady through what is, right now, a genuinely hard season in her business.This episode is for the ambitious mom who is currently in a hard part of motherhood, a hard part of business, or both at the same time, and is tired of being told to grit her teeth and white-knuckle her way through it. Emily walks through why the hard parts of both motherhood and entrepreneurship are not in the way of the woman you are becoming, they are what is actually building her. She names what hard seasons actually do for you that the easy stretches never can, why the resilience you build in one part of your life pours straight into the other, and the question she is asking herself right now instead of "should I just burn it all down." She also shares the specific year that broke her wide open as a mom and built the exact CEO she is today, the difference between morning-routine questions and the question that actually matters in a hard season, and an invitation to lean into your current hard part instead of waiting it out.Questions Answered in This Episode:What is the epiphany Emily had this weekend at her son's baseball championship?Why are the hard parts of motherhood and business not in the way of the woman you are becoming, but actually what is building her?What can you only learn about yourself in a hard season that you can never learn in an easy stretch?Why does leaning into a hard part of motherhood make you a stronger CEO, and how does the same work in reverse?What is the specific year that broke Emily wide open as a mom and built the exact CEO she is now?Why is the morning-routine question the wrong question, and what should you be asking instead?What is the one question Emily is asking herself right now in a hard business season instead of "should I just burn it all down?"THE CEO BESTIES MEMBERSHIP:A Membership For Ambitious Women Building Profitable Businesses Alongside CEO Besties Who Get It.Join the membership: https://theceobesties.com/membership/CONNECT WITH EMILY:✨ Website: www.emilycollins.com✨ Instagram: @heyemilycollins