105 When your kids control your time
Published on: 20/05/2026
A grounded episode for working moms on how to love their kids deeply without letting guilt, over-functioning, and constant availability run their day.
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The Great Leader Great Mom Podcast
Stay grounded at work, present at home, and true to yourself.
Hosted by Liz Jolley, founder of The School of Courage™, this podcast helps ambitious women navigate leadership, motherhood, overwhelm, confidence, relationships, and emotional resilience without losing themselves in the process.
Each episode helps women create more space, reclaim their power, and become Your Grounded Self with more clarity, courage, and self-trust in real life.
Start Here
New here? Begin with these listener favorites.
These are some of the best first episodes if you are new to The Great Leader Great Mom Podcast. Start here for grounded conversations on leadership, motherhood, overwhelm, confidence, and emotional well-being.
Episode 1
Why Being a Great Leader and a Great Mom Feels So Hard
A strong place to begin if you feel torn between ambition, motherhood, pressure, and the desire to feel more grounded in your real life.
Episode 2
How to Stop Talking to Yourself Like Your Worst Critic
Start here if your inner dialogue is harsh, exhausting, and quietly undermining your confidence at work and at home.
Episode 77
The Myth of Balance
A favorite for women who are tired of chasing balance and want a more honest, grounded way to think about work, home, and self.
Episode 95
How to Lead Yourself in a Confusing Culture
Learn to use the Power Question Framework to define success and lead yourself when your company’s expectations are constantly shifting.
Episode 78
The Myth of the Perfect Job
Start here if you keep thinking the right role, boss, or workplace will finally make you feel secure, valued, or enough.
Episode 48
Embracing the Duality of Life
A beautiful episode for women who want more emotional steadiness and a more compassionate relationship with real life.
The Three Pillars
The work underneath the podcast
These conversations are rooted in three core ideas that help women feel more grounded, more present, and more powerful in real life.
Pillar 1
The Power of Conscious Presence
Learn to notice what is happening in your mind, emotions, and relationships so you can respond with more awareness instead of living on autopilot.
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The Power of Creating Space
Create space between what happens and how you react so you can stop spiraling, stop people-pleasing, and make decisions from self-trust instead of pressure.
Go DeeperPillar 3
Your Grounded Self
Become the version of you who can lead at work, love at home, and stay rooted in who you are without losing yourself in the process.
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This is the deeper thread running through the podcast — helping women lead, live, and love
with more courage, clarity, and grounded self-trust.
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Choose the area where you want support most right now — belonging to yourself, staying grounded at work, or being more present at home. You can also search for a specific challenge, feeling, or conversation below.
Below you’ll find the full list of episodes in this category. Start with the one that best matches what you’re facing right now, or scroll to explore them all.
104 How to stop living in fear of dropping a glass ball
Published on: 19/05/2026
A grounded episode for overwhelmed women on why the fear of “dropping a glass ball” creates burnout, and how to replace fear and self-judgment with self-compassion, conscious thinking, and love.
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103 Stop Surviving, Start Thriving: Using Your Prefrontal Cortex to End Overwhelm
Published on: 18/05/2026
Instead of wishing your terrible week away, learn how to move from your reactive "lizard brain" into your planning prefrontal cortex so you can stop just surviving your life and confidently take back the driver's seat.
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102 Ending Overwhelm Why Successful Women Feel Miserable and How to Reclaim Agency
Published on: 17/05/2026
High-achieving women often live in the "Success Contradiction"—winning at work but drowning at home. Liz Jolley explores how the thought "I have too much to do" creates a cycle of reactivity and how to use the Space Method.
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101 The Perfectionist Police: Why Perfectionism Keeps You Stuck
Published on: 17/05/2026
In this episode of The Great Leader, Great Mom Podcast, Liz Jolley unpacks the hidden cost of perfectionism and why it keeps so many women confused, overthinking, and stuck. If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by a job decision, afraid of making the wrong
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98 Barely Holding It Together? How to Feel More Grounded at Work and at Home
Published on: 23/03/2026
Names the hidden survival mode working moms live in every day and teaches how to stop white-knuckling and make grounded decisions.
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If these conversations are helping you feel more grounded, more present, and more powerful in your real life, there are a few ways to keep going. Listen on your favorite platform, start with the featured episodes above, or explore deeper support through The School of Courage.
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