You've heard it a thousand times: work-life balance. But what if that phrase is actually working against you?
In this episode, Marie Hanson sits down with Carolyn Espinoza, co-founder of Sole Atelier, to have the honest conversation about what it actually looks like to live an integrated life as a Catholic woman; one where your work, your faith, your family, and your interior life aren't competing, they're unified.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why "work-life balance" is a myth and the more life-giving framework Catholic women should embrace instead
- The critical difference between a distraction and an interruption and how knowing the difference will transform your focus and your peace
- How to build a realistic daily schedule that actually works, even in the exhausting seasons of motherhood with little ones
- The power of choosing just three priorities for your week and why more goals actually means less gets done
- How to set concrete, positive goals in areas that are hard to measure like virtue, patience, and prayer
- Why women who work outside the home shouldn't carry shame, and what the saints show us about women, vocation, and work
- How to find meaning and spiritual value in tasks that no one sees or celebrates: the laundry, the diapers, the invisible work
- The role of goal-setting in sanctity and why Pope Francis says dreaming is a deeply human and spiritual act
- Why starting and ending on time is actually a virtue (and the beautiful example of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo at Vatican II)
- The one thing Carolyn says to do first when you feel like peace and order are completely out of reach
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