Harmony at Home: Aimee Greczmiel’s Self-Care Tips for Busy Parents

If you feel overwhelmed and guilty juggling work and family responsibilities, you’re not alone. Many women entrepreneurs and corporate professionals find themselves neglecting their own self-care as they navigate the demands of parenthood. Aimee Greczmiel has been there and has some tips to help you create harmony at home and in the workplace. Show Notes | Transcript ."I see so many women give their power away... many women make excuses or blame the lack of time, or blame their boss, or blame their husband, or blame their kids. But the reality is we are responsible for our own well being and we are also responsible for our own healing and so nobody else can do those things for us." - Aimee Greczmiel Aimee Greczmiel is a former Fortune 500 vice president turned mental and emotional wellness coach for working parents. With 18 years of corporate experience under her belt, Aimee understands the challenges faced by working parents in managing their personal and professional lives. After becoming a parent herself, she realized the need for a mindset shift to find balance and fulfillment. Aimee guides parents to prioritize self-care and cultivate a more patient, present, and feminine energy to navigate the demands of parenthood. Through her own journey and working with multiple coaches, Aimee has developed a wealth of knowledge and tools to help working parents overcome the "terror barrier" and create a more harmonious life. Her passion lies in empowering parents to leave a lasting legacy for their families while making an impact in their careers. In this episode, you will be able to: Discover practical strategies for achieving balance and fulfillment as a working parent. Shift your mindset as a working parent to prioritize self-care and create harmony between your personal and professional life. Explore the powerful benefits of meditation specifically enhancing focus, reducing stress, and finding a sense of calm in the midst of a busy workday. Overcome the guilt associated with motherhood and find confidence in your choices. Embark on a personal development journey to become the best parent you can be. Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: Spiritual Parenting with Randy Rolfe Renaye Thornborrow’s Movement to Bring Life Coaching to Kids How to Prioritize Well-Being and Find Harmony in Business with Christine Franklyn From Heartbreak to Healing: Embracing Self-Love in the Journey Resources: Connect with Aimee here Join the Soulful Women's Network here Send me a message here ☕ Support the podcast here ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating here Connect with Gloria: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand Namaste. I'm so glad that you are joining us for another episode of Live Love Engage. And whether you are a first timer or you're a regular subscriber, just know that I am delighted to be with you. I am Gloria Grace, the light messenger and spiritual business coach, and women entrepreneurs hire me to help them leverage their intuition, wish in to break through their revenue ceilings and achieve sustainable business growth. And I'm looking forward to a wonderful discussion today. I'm just setting the intention right now that it's going to be a wonderful discussion with our guest today. Her name is Aimee Greczmiel and she is a former Fortune 500 vice president who now helps working parents manage their mental and emotional wellness in their daily lives. And Aimee guides parents to get clear on their desired outcomes so they may leave a lasting legacy for their family and make an impact in their career. And so I want to now officially bring Aimee on and welcome you to Live Love Engage. Aimee Greczmiel Hi, Gloria. Thanks so much for having me. Gloria Grace Rand I'm glad to have you because I was going to say I'm a working parent. Well, I'm a parent who works, but my kids are not at home anymore, so I guess I'm now into that empty nester phase of life. But I know that I'm sure there are still quite a few people who are subscribers of this podcast who are in that vein, whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are working for somebody else, but that you do have kids at home no matter how old they are. And I love that this is your focus because we do need support from time to time. But I'm curious to know if you well, I know a little bit because I've researched you, but for those in our audience who don't know about you, can you share with them a little bit about what prompted your pivot, if you will, from being working in a Fortune 500 environment to now working with parents? Aimee Greczmiel Yeah, great question, and it's one I love answering. So I spent 18 years in the corporate space, kind of working my way up the ladder, and I really enjoyed it. I really love my career and I was very much goal oriented and achievement focused, like I think most men and women in corporate are, right. And so I was always kind of looking for the next thing, the next promotion, what's the new certification I could get or the new thing I could learn. And it served me very well up until a point I say it served me well until it didn't. And for me, that point was when I became a parent at the age of 35. So that's kind of I mean, they consider that like on the older end, I guess, the advanced maternal age. But at that point, I had a pretty established career and now I was entering into this new role as a mother. And I felt like the pace and the energy and everything that goes with it was completely opposite. Right. I was very much addicted to the achievement and the go-go mentality. That worked well for me in corporate, but I found that as a parent, that model didn't really work. And so I knew there had to be a different way. Right. And so I didn't know it at the time. I know now, though, but I was very much in this masculine energy, this masculine corporate energy that women can find themselves in and almost to a point where it can be very toxic, right, where you're putting yourself last. You're doing all the things. You're staying up till 11:00 p.m., sending emails like I was one of those people and then pivoting into motherhood. And it kind of requires a different energy, which is a more patient, a more present, more feminine energy that I really had to cultivate. I had to cultivate that at the age of 35. And so that's when I started working with coaches myself. A friend had recommended general life coach for women that she had worked with, and so I started working with her. I was learning some mindset tools. I found them to be really impactful. And then I signed up with another coach and another coach, and another coach, and the next thing I know, I was like, hooked on coaching because I was having just tremendous results in my own life. I was feeling better. I felt like I was managing both my work life and my home life. They were much more balanced, and that's really what I set out to achieve. And so it became obvious to me that not many people were aware of the tools, the mindset tools that I was learning. And then I just started casually speaking about them to other people, friends, colleagues, coworkers. And then I just realized, you know what? I think I really want to do this as a profession. I'm being called into doing this. And so I decided to leave my corporate career and become a life coach for working mothers. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I'm glad that you did that, and there's a couple of points in there that I just want to highlight that I think are really important for our listeners to notice. And certainly I picked up on when I was reading your bio was the fact that you didn't just work with one coach, you worked with several coaches. And I know I've done that myself. And I would love for you to share your perspective about why you decided to do that and what were the benefits of that. Aimee Greczmiel Yeah, I think I'm a lifelong learner, and when I dive into a topic, particularly one that I wasn't that well versed in, I wanted to just learn everything I could about it. And so coaching is a lot of mindset work, and unless you have a background in psychology or human behavior or maybe even like competitive sports, you don't really talk about or learn about mindset and the importance of it and how it all works and how to use it to benefit yourself and your family and all these things. And so when I started learning about it, I was just really fascinated by it and I wanted to learn as much as I could. And so I started diving deeper and each coach kind of offered something different, like a different lens or a deeper perspective. And so that was something that I really valued and I just dove into learning as much as I could about it and how I could then apply this mindset work to working motherhood. Gloria Grace Rand Yeah. Because I know for me this has been my experience is that each person is unique. And especially if you do find people who maybe approach, maybe they've got a different modality that they teach or a different focus. And so it really does help you then to be able to get as much information as you can and apply different things and even possibly somebody might even teach something, but you don't pick it up the first time, but then maybe you hear it from somebody else and then how it sinks in. I don't know if you've experienced that exactly. Aimee Greczmiel Yeah, that's how we learn through repetition. So we do have to hear things more than once right, to truly master them. Absolutely. Gloria Grace Rand Yeah. Now, when you were submitting your, we were talking about having you on the show, one of the things you talked about is the topic you wanted to focus on today was something called overcoming the terror barrier as a working parent. And I was struck by that phrase. So I wanted to see if you could, first off,...