Working Mom Overwhelm: How to decide what actually gets your time when everything feels important

You could list everything you're carrying in your sleep. Some nights you probably do.

The camp form due Friday. The work project that got bigger without anyone asking if you wanted it bigger. The birthday you're tracking, the appointment only you remember, the thing you keep meaning to hand off and never do. It all feels equally important, which is exactly why none of it ever gets to go.

So you keep carrying it. You tell yourself you'll sort it out when things calm down. They don't calm down. You just get better at carrying more.

Here's what nobody hands you along with the job, the kids and the calendar. A way to decide.

Episode 10 gave you language for what you're carrying. This one is about what comes after you can see it all laid out and still don't know what to do with it. Andi shares a question a client asked her that she didn't have a quick answer for, and the surprising place they started.

From there, she introduces four ways to sort what you're carrying: Keep, Drop, Delegate and Temper—the last one being the place many of us have never learned to recognize.

Before the episode ends, Andi walks you through a live sort of one thing you're carrying right now. Pick something small. You may know sooner than you think.

What is on your list right now that you've never asked whether it belongs there?

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