Mom
Conference: For Moms By Moms
Do you have your favorite go to
blog for organization, cooking, encouragement, etc.? Hopefully by now,
Everything Stay At Home Mom is one of your favorites If
you’re anything like me, you probably can easily get lost for hours on end
reading post after post after post.
Do you ever wish you could get the
posts from your favorite mom blogs in audio or video version to watch as you
dice up the vegetables for dinner or fold laundry? Well now you can.
30 influential bloggers have
joined forces under a single on-line event this week (April 7-14th), The MomConference: For Moms By Moms. They will discuss a ton of topics ranging from
child discipline, fertility, spicing up your marriage, clean eating, starting a
home business, organizing your home, meal planning, and making your own
homemade cleaning items . . . . . and so much more! There’s even a 9 year
old blogger presenting!
How It
Works
You may be wondering how this
online conference works. Go directly to the Mom Conference or click on
the image below or on the side bars (these are affiliate links). You will
be taken to the conference page with an introduction video to what the conference
is about. There is a listing of all the presenters. You register by
entering your first name and email address.
You will receive an email each day
of the conference with a link to the online presentations available that day.
All presentations are available for a 24 hr period starting 10 A.M. EST
until 9:59 A.M. EST of the following day. these viewings are absolutely
FREE. If you missed presentations or just want to be able to download
them, there is a purchase option.
Last
week was a 3 day online conference to help busy moms in all aspects of
life appropriately named, The Mom Conference. There were
numerous presentations on everything from marital relationships, eating well,
fitness, money management, emotional well being and more. Each day 7
presentations were made available to view for a 24 hour period.
That makes 21 presentations in all. While I was not able to view
every presentation, I found the ones I did watch invaluable. The good
news is, today 5 of the top presentations will again be available for 24 hours.
So, if you missed the conference, you can still checkout some
amazing presentations forfree. There is also a package available for sale which I will get into at
the end of this post. In the meantime, let me tell you about some of the
presentations I did watch.
Jesse is the founder of You Need A Budget (YNAB), a website and budgeting software that allows you to take
control of your money. The best part of this presentation was the
discussion of mindset when creating a budget. Often we think of setting
budgets as limiting. We think of what we can not get if it doesn't fit
the budget. Instead, Jesse talks about budgeting as a plan. We plan
our day, our week, or work, our activities, so it makes sense to also plan how
we will spend our money. Budgeting is not meant to punish you, but allow
you to set aside money for the things you really want/need. Want to pay
off debt or take the family on a vacation, budgeting allows you to do that.
Another point that I really appreciated
is the idea is that your budget doesn't have to be perfect. Unexpected
things come up, and while we'd like to be prepared for them, this is not
always possible. It's important not to stress every time the budget
doesn't line up perfectly. Instead, learn from it and make any
adjustments necessary. Sometimes its just a one off and other times its
something you can account for in the future. What is important is adapt
and reassess.
RUTH SOUKUP: DECLUTTERING YOURHOME, MIND, AND SOUL
Ruth is a NYT bestselling author and
founder of Living Well, Spending Less. Her talk about decluttering your
life brought great perspective not only on physical decluttering but also
mental decluttering. Decluttering is an ongoing process, you don't just
declutter once and then everything is perfect forever more. Circumstanceschange, our needs and wants change, so we have to continue to work on this
throughout our lives. I liked her discussion on removing the guilt that
we moms often harbor when things aren't perfect. We can't expect picture perfect
Pinterest lives all the time. Some days your kids eat junk, some days are
a mess, but we can get back on track the next day.
I also appreciated the discussion of decluttering
your mind as well. You don't need to check your email every time the red
dot appears. Every text doesn't need immediate attention. Some of
us might need to to baby steps for this, but our need to immediately respond is
often in our own mind. We create our own stress. I might be picking
up her book on the subject for a more in depth study!
RAMONA ZABRISKIE: YOUR POWER TOSUCCEED IN MARRIAGE
Ramona is the author of Wife For Life: The Power
to Succeed in Marriage and the founder of Wife for Life University. Her
talk was by far my favorite presentation of the conference. I have a
good marriage. It's not that I had some big problem within our
relationship that needed solving. But the perspective that Ramona brings
to male - female dynamic is so insightful and relationship altering. She
talks about progressing from a good to a great and finally to a grand marriage.
I couldn't help but be swept up in her image of what a grand marriage can
be like. I also couldn't help but nod my head when she discusses the
little ways in which we but down or embarrass or belittle our husbands. Often
when we intend on drawing them closer, we are in fact pushing them away.
I already purchased and have started devouring
Ramona's book, Wife for Life. It
gives a whole new perspective on what drives men and how the little things that
women do can either build them up or tear them down. In the presentation Ramona
talks about the different types of behavior and how they affect a man, whether
intentional or not. She gives a few tips on how to adjust our behavior to
get the results we want. If you go to her website she also offer online
courses to help strengthen your marriage. I am still reading the book and
can already see how it is impacting our interactions.
Hopefully, this is one of the presentations
included in the encore day today. If not, definitely look into purchasing
the conference package, they have a special deal going on until Wednesday at
midnight where you can purchase unlimited access to all the presentations as
well as a ton of valuable freebies. Ramona gives a short marriagee-course that is worth $50 alone. There are also freebies from all of the
other presenters.
So, if you can't make it to Encore Day today or
if you've attended parts of the conference and it's left you wanting more, you
can get a steal of a deal on a Mom Conference Recording Package that will give
you LIFETIME access to the 20 presentations along with a whole lot of other
great material to help you be the mom you really want to be. Check it out here
