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Habit Stacking Mom | Routines, Consistency, Planning, Overwhelm, Organization, Declutter, Healthy Habits, Balance, Goals, SAH
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Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and stuck in mommy survival mode? Maybe you know what would help, but you struggle to stay consistent long enough to see any results. Do you feel guilty when you prioritize yourself instead of maintaining everyone else's expectations?
You're not alone.
Welcome to Habit Stacking Mom, the podcast that helps overwhelmed moms create consistency and confidence by organizing their habits, routines, and responsibilities more intentionally.
Hi, I'm Jess, a wife, stay-at-home mom of three girls, and creator of the Habit Stacked Life.
For years I lived in a cycle of burnout, frustration, and constantly feeling behind. I wasted time, struggled to follow through on routines, carried the mental load alone, and felt like I was always reacting to life instead of leading it.
Everything changed when I stopped trying to fix everything at once and started focusing on consistently stacking simple habits together each day. Because small habits repeated consistently create bigger results than big plans that never get implemented.
This podcast will help you create simple routines, build consistency in the areas that matter most, prioritize your health and well-being, reduce overwhelm, manage your home more intentionally, and create systems that balance the life you actually want to live.
Each week you'll learn practical strategies, habit-stacking experiments, simple planning systems, and realistic routines designed specifically for busy moms.
The goal isn't perfection. It's creating habits that help you show up with more energy, more balance, more confidence, and more consistency in the areas that matter most.
So grab your earbuds and let's get stacking.
- How To chart
- #81
- Episodes
- 237
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Typical length
- 21 min
- On air since
- 2024
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
237 episodes, newest first
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21 min
Ep 236 // Messy Kitchen Again? 3 Ways to Simplify Your Cleaning Routine
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Momma, does it feel like no matter how many times you clean your kitchen, the mess just keeps coming back? Between breakfast dishes, afternoon snacks, and dinner cleanup, keeping up with it all can feel like a never-ending chore.
But what if your messy kitchen isn't actually a cleaning problem? What if something about your daily routine is making it harder than it needs to be?
In today's episode, we're looking at three ways to simplify your kitchen cleaning routine by identifying where things start falling apart, making your space work better for your family, and rethinking how everyday tasks fit into your schedule. Because sometimes the solution isn't cleaning more. It's changing how we approach the things we're already doing.
Remember, Momma, motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will keep you moving forward. ❤️
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21 min
Ep 235 // Stop Procrastinating on Laundry! Build a Simple Routine that Works
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Does laundry seem to pile up faster than you can keep up with it? Between washing, drying, folding, and putting everything away, it's easy to keep putting it off until those overflowing baskets become one more overwhelming thing on your to-do list.
But what if the reason you're procrastinating on laundry has less to do with motivation and more to do with how you're managing it? Sometimes it's the little things we overlook that make everyday household responsibilities feel harder than they need to be.
In today's episode, we're taking a closer look at why laundry routines break down and how a few simple adjustments can make it easier to stay on top of this never-ending chore. Because managing your home shouldn't require constantly reminding yourself of everything that needs to get done!
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
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22 min
Ep 234 // Overwhelmed by your To-Do List? Where your Schedule Stress Really Begins
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Have you ever looked at your to-do list and wondered how in the world you're supposed to get it all done? Between managing your family's schedule, keeping up with the house, and juggling everyday responsibilities, it can feel like EVERYTHING needs your attention right now.
But what if some of that pressure started long before you became a mom? What if the way you grew up, the expectations you developed, and the different chapters of your life are influencing how you manage your responsibilities today?
In today's episode, we're digging into the surprising connection between your past and your present-day overwhelm, and why even the most organized moms can struggle to feel caught up. You might just discover that your schedule isn't the only thing creating stress.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
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21 min
Ep 233 // Can't Stick to your Routines? Here's what your Plan is missing
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Hey Momma!
Have you ever made a plan for the week, felt completely confident about your new routines, and then found yourself wondering by Wednesday how everything fell apart AGAIN?
You know what you want to accomplish. You've made the plan. You might even have the motivation to get started. So why does following through feel so difficult when motherhood gets busy?
In today's episode of Habit Stacking Mom, we're talking about why having a great plan isn't always enough to build consistent routines and how accountability might be the missing piece you've been overlooking.
Because Momma, the goal isn't to create a perfect plan. It's to learn how to keep coming back to it when life doesn't cooperate.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
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22 min
Ep 232 // The Truth About Building Healthy Habits When Your Already Overwhelmed
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Hey Momma!
Have you ever committed to a new healthy routine, followed through for an entire week, and then felt discouraged because you weren't seeing the results you hoped for?
What if the problem isn't that you're incapable of being consistent? What if the way you've come to see yourself as overwhelmed, behind, or always struggling is making it harder to become the woman you want to be?
In today's episode, we're having a conversation about what consistency REALLY looks like, why building healthy habits can feel so difficult in motherhood, and the mindset shift that might change how you approach your goals.
Because Momma, you're not failing at consistency. You're learning how to become consistent.
🎉 LAST CHANCE! Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop
Join me October 20th at 10:30 AM Central for my Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop!
We're taking ONE health goal that matters to you and turning it into a realistic plan that fits your actual life.
👉 Register using the link below!
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
🎉REGISTERHERE: Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop — October 20th @ 10:30 CST
Come build your 90-day habit stacking health plan with me and let's get a head start BEFORE January.
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21 min
Ep 231 // 5 Reasons to Prioritize Healthy Habits When You're Overwhelmed
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When the laundry is piling up, the dishes never stop, and your schedule is bursting at the seams, prioritizing your health doesn't exactly feel like the most logical place to start.
Momma, I GET IT!
After having my babies, I struggled to find myself in the middle of motherhood. With every child, I felt further away from the woman I used to be, and taking care of myself always seemed less urgent than everything happening around me.
But what if we've been looking at this backward?
What if prioritizing ONE small healthy habit could actually help you build the energy, confidence, and consistency you need to tackle everything else?
In today's episode, I'm sharing five reasons why your health deserves a place in your daily routines, even when life feels overwhelming.
Because building healthy habits isn't just about improving your health. It's about learning how to follow through on something that matters to YOU.
🎉 JOIN ME LIVE OCTOBER 20TH!
Ready to stop putting your health goals on the back burner? Join me for my Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop, where we'll take ONE health goal and turn it into a realistic plan using my five-step GUIDE planning process and habit stacking.
👉 Register using the link below!
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
🎉REGISTERHERE: Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop — October 20th @ 10:30 CST
Come build your 90-day habit stacking health plan with me and let's get a head start BEFORE January.
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22 min
Ep 230 // Struggling to Stay Organized?? Your Daily Habits are the Missing Routine
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How many times have you said, "I just need to get organized!"?
We spend hours decluttering our homes, planning our schedules, and trying to get our lives back in order. But somehow, a week later, we're right back where we started. So what are we missing?
Momma, getting organized and STAYING organized are two completely different things!
Today, I'm sharing a recent experience with my bonus room that reminded me why organization isn't just about creating order. It's about building the daily habits that help us maintain it.
Whether you're trying to organize your home, improve your health, or get control of your schedule, there are three important pieces to making lasting progress: awareness, planning, and maintenance.
Because the goal isn't to create a life that never gets messy. It's to build routines that help you get back on track when life happens.
🎉 JOIN ME LIVE OCTOBER 20TH!
Ready to stop starting over with your health goals? Join me for my Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop, where I'll teach you how to take ONE health goal and organize it into realistic daily habits using my five-step GUIDE planning process.
👉 Register using the link below!
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
🎉REGISTERHERE: Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop — October 20th @ 10:30 CST
Come build your 90-day habit stacking health plan with me and let's get a head start BEFORE January.
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21 min
Ep 229 // Start Habit Stacking Self Care Into Your Daily Routines
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Have you ever looked around at another load of laundry, another sink full of dishes, another day of taking care of everyone else and wondered… when is there going to be room for me again?
Motherhood may not suddenly get less demanding. The responsibilities aren't going anywhere. But that doesn't mean you have to keep waiting for life to make room for you.
In this episode, I'm sharing how I started habit stacking small acts of self-care into my daily routines long before I had the capacity for bigger changes. What started with one incredibly simple health habit eventually became the foundation for taking better care of myself and making room for the woman I am outside of motherhood.
You don't have to change your entire life to start getting yourself back. You just need somewhere small enough to begin.
Plus, I'm sharing how you can take this work even deeper with me inside my upcoming Organize Your Health workshop.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
🎉REGISTERHERE: Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop — October 20th @ 10:30 CST
Come build your 90-day habit stacking health plan with me and let's get a head start BEFORE January.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
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20 min
Ep 228 // It’s Time To Organize Your Health Goals Even As A Busy Mom
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I know you've heard of organizing your home...
But have you ever considered that the reason you keep struggling to prioritize your health might actually be an organization problem?
Think about it.
You know you need to take care of yourself. You probably even know some of the things you want to change.
So why does your health keep getting pushed to the bottom of the list???
As moms, we spend so much time organizing everything around us—the house, the schedules, the routines, the appointments, the kids—that it's incredibly easy to leave the woman responsible for holding all of it together completely off the plan.
Today, I want to change that.
We're kicking off a brand-new conversation about your health, your capacity and what happens when we take the same planning and Habit Stacking principles I've been teaching you and apply them directly to YOU.
And I'm officially opening the doors to my brand-new Organize Your Health Workshop!
This isn't about giving you another list of healthy things you should be doing. It's about taking the health goal that's been sitting on your heart and learning how to actually make room for it inside the life you're already living.
Because knowing what you want to do and knowing how to consistently make room to do it are two very different things.
And that second part?
That's my lane.
🎉REGISTERHERE: Organize Your Health LIVE Workshop — October 20th @ 10:30 CST
Come build your 90-day health plan with me and let's get a head start BEFORE January.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will help you keep moving forward.
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21 min
Ep 227 // Time Management For Busy Moms: Stop Guessing How Long Routines Take
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How long does it actually take your family to get out the door?
What about making dinner, resetting the kitchen, getting through bedtime—or completing that "45-minute" workout?
You probably have an answer. But is it accurate?
As moms, we're constantly building our schedules around how long we THINK things should take. Then we're frustrated when we're rushing, running late, or can't fit in the habits we said we wanted to prioritize.
Today we're going to stop planning with imaginary minutes.
I'll show you a simple way to figure out what your routines and habits actually cost so you can start building plans around your real life—not the version of your life that somehow always runs perfectly on time.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will keep you moving forward.
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21 min
Ep 226 // Struggle With Consistency? It's Because Your Habits Cost Minutes
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What if the reason you struggle to stay consistent isn't because you need more discipline but because you keep trying to add habits without making room for them?
Every habit costs something: minutes.
And when your days already feel full, starting a new habit means those minutes have to come from somewhere.
In today's episode, we're changing the way you think about building habits by looking at what you're actually willing to trade for them. Because you don't need to magically find more time, you need to decide which habits are worth making room for.
If you've been setting goals, starting strong, and then wondering why you can't keep up with them, this episode will help you see consistency very differently.
Motherhood will change the plan, but learning to stack will keep you moving forward.
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18 min
Ep 225 // How Busy Moms Stop Setting Goals They Never Follow Through On
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Have you ever set the exact same goal three months in a row and still not gotten any closer to it?
It's not that you want it any less. Wanting was never the missing piece.
On Monday, we talked about why your goals need an actual place on your calendar, not just a place in your head. Today we're taking that a step further and walking through exactly how to find that place, together.
Because closing what I call "the goal gap" isn't about more willpower, more motivation, or trying harder next week.
It's about seeing your real week, finding the fifteen minutes already hiding in it, and giving your one goal a specific time and place to happen.
Your goal doesn't need you to want it more. Your goal needs a place on your calendar it can actually call home.
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20 min
Ep 224 // Why Busy Moms Need To Put Their Goals On The Actual Planner
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Have you ever set the exact same goal three months in a row and still not gotten any closer to it?
It's not that you want it any less. Wanting was never the missing piece.
On Monday, we talked about why your goals need an actual place on your calendar, not just a place in your head. Today we're taking that a step further and walking through exactly how to find that place, together.
Because closing what I call "the goal gap" isn't about more willpower, more motivation, or trying harder next week.
It's about seeing your real week, finding the fifteen minutes already hiding in it, and giving your one goal a specific time and place to happen.
Your goal doesn't need you to want it more. Your goal needs a place on your calendar it can actually call home.
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20 min
Ep 223 // Stop Repeating Yourself: A Simple Communication System Every Mom Needs
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Do you feel like you're the only one who knows where anything goes in your house: the shoes, the schedule, the last roll of toilet paper? Like no matter how many times you explain it, you're still the one repeating yourself?
Today I'm giving you the exact steps I use to figure out whether a repeating problem in your home is actually a routine problem or a communication problem and a simple framework to fix it for good.
You don't need a system for every square inch of your house. You just need one for the things that keep costing you time, energy, and patience. The stuff you're constantly repeating, constantly looking for, constantly reminding somebody about.
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21 min
Ep 222 // Why Family Routines Break Down Without Intentional Communication
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Have you ever wondered why stepping away from your family, even for a few days, requires so much work before you ever leave?
After traveling to Florida for a five-day business conference, I came home realizing just how much information is constantly running underneath our everyday family routines. My husband did an amazing job with our girls, but being away made it incredibly obvious how much of what keeps our household moving normally lives inside my head.
In today's episode, we're talking about the connection between family routines and intentional communication and why a routine that looks like it's no longer working may not actually be a routine problem at all.
We'll talk about the invisible information moms are constantly collecting, why other people can't automatically anticipate what we know, and how missed communication can show up as rushing, forgotten tasks, frustration and routines that suddenly seem to fall apart.
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16 min
Ep 221 // How Moms Can Prioritize Which Routines Need To Be Rebuilt First
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When several routines in your life feel like they aren't working, it can be tempting to sit down and try to reorganize everything at once.
Your morning routine. Dinner. Laundry. Workouts. Bedtime. The kids' responsibilities.
But everything might need attention without everything needing to be the priority.
In today's episode, I'm showing you how to identify which routine is creating the most friction in your life right now so you know where to start.
You'll learn how to use a simple Impact Score to evaluate the stress, frequency, and impact of a struggling routine, why transition windows are often where the biggest friction shows up, and how looking one stack earlier can help you uncover what's actually creating the problem.
Instead of rebuilding your entire routine, you'll choose one small change to practice this week so you can create more predictability without adding more pressure.
✨ Grab the FREE Weekly Focus Guide: Use the brain dump space to identify your friction points, choose which routine you will prioritize first and choose one small change to practice this week.
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24 min
Ep 220 // Why Routines That Worked Before Motherhood Don't Work Anymore
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Motherhood changes more than your schedule... It changes how predictable your life is.
The routines that once felt easy to maintain can suddenly feel impossible when you're managing school mornings, activities, meals, changing schedules, interruptions, and everyone else's needs alongside your own.
In today's episode, we're talking about why that loss of predictability creates so much mental pressure, how constantly “recalculating” increases your cognitive load, and why even small disruptions can leave you feeling rushed, reactive, and exhausted.
You'll also learn why predictable routines are so valuable for both you and your kids and why struggling with a routine doesn't mean you're inconsistent. Sometimes your life has simply changed, and your routines need time to change with it.
Your goal isn't to make motherhood perfectly predictable. It's to create enough predictable rhythm around the things you CAN anticipate so you have more capacity for the things you can't.
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17 min
Ep 219 // How To Plan A Busy Schedule To Reduce Stress And Pressure
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A busy schedule doesn't always feel stressful because you have too much to do. Sometimes it's stressful because certain parts of your day leave you with very little flexibility.
School pickup. A doctor's appointment. A meeting. Practice at 5:30. The moment something has to happen at a specific time, it creates pressure around everything that has to happen before and after it.
And if you don't recognize those pressure points ahead of time, you can end up rushing, frustrated, and wondering why a day that didn't look that busy on paper felt so overwhelming.
In today's episode, we're getting practical about how to plan a busy schedule differently. You'll learn how to identify the parts of your week that require more from you, anticipate what might become harder because of them, and make small adjustments before the pressure arrives.
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19 min
Ep 218 // Why Managing Everyone Else's Routines Leaves Moms Overwhelmed
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Have you ever wondered how you can remember exactly which cup your child wants, when the gymnastics leotard needs to be washed, what snack needs to be packed, and where everyone left their shoes but completely forget to eat?
Motherhood gives us thousands of opportunities to practice anticipating everyone else. We notice the hunger before the meltdown, prepare for what’s coming next, and learn all the tiny details that keep our families running smoothly. Eventually, we get so good at it that we don't even realize how much information we're carrying.
But somewhere along the way, we can lose the habit of anticipating ourselves.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about why putting yourself last may not be the conscious act of self-sacrifice we often make it out to be. It may be a pattern you've practiced so many times that your attention automatically goes outward instead of inward.
If you've been wondering why “just prioritize yourself” never seems to work, this episode will help you see the problem differently and start rebuilding the habit of noticing what you need, too.
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19 min
Ep 217 // 4 Healthy Habits That Increase Your Capacity For Motherhood
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Mama, what if the reason you're struggling to keep up isn't because you need a better schedule but because you don't have enough capacity for the schedule you're trying to keep?
Motherhood requires an incredible amount of physical, mental, and emotional energy. And while we spend a lot of time talking about organizing our schedules, planning our weeks, and creating better routines, there's another piece we can't ignore: the health of the person carrying the plan.
In today's episode, we're talking about four simple health habits that can help support your capacity for motherhood.
Your health isn't just another thing to squeeze onto your to-do list.
It influences how much of YOU is available for everything already on it.
Instead of trying to overhaul your health, start by choosing one small habit you can consistently support and build from there.
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