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Can You Be a Great Mom and an Entrepreneur? Coach Nar Smart Proves It’s Possible
Cut The Tie Podcast with Thomas Helfrich
Coach Nar Smart joins Thomas for a raw, empowering conversation about motherhood, entrepreneurship, and purpose. With her baby daughter Emma joining as the first infant guest on the show, Nar shares how she reshaped her identity, challenged social norms, and created impact through coaching and homeschooling.
About Nar Smart:
Nar is a transformational coach, pod leader, and founder of Bad Moms Media and the Women's Portal. She helps women shift from making excuses to stepping into their purpose, often while balancing motherhood and leadership. Her coaching group, Purpose Over Excuses, empowers women to find clarity, faith, and community.
In this episode, Thomas and Nar discuss:
- Rewriting the Mom Narrative
Nar explains how she went from "bad mom" to "badass mom," showing others that motherhood and ambition can coexist. - Cutting the Excuse-Fear Cycle
She unpacks the mindset patterns that hold people back and emphasizes the importance of trading comfort for clarity. - Finding Faith & Inner Resources
Nar shares her personal journey from atheism to faith, and how reconnecting with God helped her find direction and self-belief. - Building a Micro-School Movement
Through her homeschool pods and advocacy work, Nar has impacted dozens of families by providing alternative education rooted in values and freedom.
Key Takeaways:
- Excuses Steal Time
Every excuse delays growth; action is always the better investment. - Your Path Starts with You
No one else can validate your worth—self-awareness is your starting point. - Faith Replaces Fear
Trusting in a higher purpose gives strength when external support is lacking. - Lead by Example
Nar’s journey shows that doing the hard, messy work as your authentic self inspires others to step up too.
"Be exactly who you're supposed to be. Don't cover. Don't mask yourself. Just do the work." — Nar Smart
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Cut the tie to anything holding you back from success. Welcome to the Cut the Tie podcast. Hi. I'm your host, Thomas Helfrich. And in each episode, we bring you real entrepreneurs that really overcame challenges on their journey to become successful. We look at the impact, the moment, how it affected everything in their lives. Follow us on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Now let's meet our guest on Cut the Tide podcast.
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Hey. Welcome to another episode of Never Been Promoted. Hi. I'm your host, Thomas Helfrich. We are on a mission to help you cut the tie, all that crap holding you back so you can unleash not only the best entrepreneur version of yourself, just the best version of yourself. We do this through bringing some guests on today, and today's gonna be a fun one about how you can break the stereotype that is often associated with being a mom. We're we're gonna be joined by, coach Nar Smart, and she's gonna actually have a special guest with her as well that may steal the show. So you'll you'll see this here in a minute. So, listen. I really wanna help you get better entrepreneurship, and I want you to learn from the journeys of these other entrepreneurs. So get on, you know, the the show here. If you'd like to even come tell your story, you could do that through neverbeenpromoted.com. And if you're just listening to it, you know, hit the follow button on the Apple or Spotify. That really helps, helps our guests get their message out there, but also you get alerted when the new shows come out, and we come out with quite a few shows. Right now, though, it's time to bring on coach Nar to the stage and
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the plus one. Plus one. Yeah. What
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you wanna introduce plus one?
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The plus one, her name is Emma. She's nine months old, and, yeah, that's her. Hi.
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Emma, is this this can't be your first podcast, Emma.
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No. She's answering.
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No. Yeah. I've been on it before. Emma, if you're if you're listening to this, is adorable with more hair than most men in their fifties, just to be clear, at nine months old. Fresh life. Coach Nard, nice nice to, you know, get some time with you. I know you're super busy, and and you you you're, you're on a mission to, help change the mom stereotype. So do you wanna do just kind of a brief introduction of yourself and, you know, who what's your business? Who who's it for, and what's it all about?
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So, before I was a mom, I was always entrepreneurial minded and spirited. And and it's only after I became a mom that I realized my shift has to happen for myself and my children and my family that, I can't just be an entrepreneur for myself. I gotta be an entrepreneur for my family. And so, without compromising my family, without compromising time spent with them, and working from home, actually. And it only really got deeper and as deeper in working from home after I had, my pregnancy with Emma. I'm I had her at 40, so I'm, like, a little bit older than most folks. But, she just really tied up tied in everything for me as far as perspective of motherhood and being a mom, but also being just a, you know, bad mom as as I call it. We talked about this earlier, but, like, bad mom would, I don't know, think of herself as a bad mom. But, really, what she's doing is she's a badass mom, and she's doing everything in her power, in her abilities, and to provide for her family in many ways than one. And I decided to start a support group for those kinds of women. It's a coaching group. It's a I started a podcast. And it's not just for moms, but it's you know, moms can resonate, dads can resonate. These are just life principles that I try to teach people, through my own experiences and through my own challenges that I overcome. So it's just pretty much a honest conversation about life, and people are listening.
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Yeah. So so the group's focus, let's say, is is targeted to moms, but is it around entrepreneurship and being a mom or just being just kind of the badass, the bad mom, the, you know, so to speak that that Well trying to
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Both. You know? It's it's if you are more content and more, aligned with who you are, then entrepreneurialism just comes to you more naturally. It's more aligned. You know? And you can make entrepreneurial decisions as a mother because now you're you've eliminated these, mindset challenges. Like, hey. I can't do this because I'm a mom. That was her. She dropped something. But, no, you actually can do whatever you put your mind to as a mom with the kids that you have. So entrepreneurialism doesn't necessarily mean out there working. It can be all different of your own home.
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You well, you know what's interesting? There's a there's a saying. Right? They if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. Yeah. Yeah. And and and it really is. And so I I find in life, like, you know, certain perspectives kick you into a different gear. For example, getting laid off can get you refocused and working on your business tighter. Having a kid gives you purpose around why you're doing or why you're working or what you're doing for you. And if you have a kid, it's just the thing the divorce refocuses what really matters in their life. I know. And loss and other things, and and these are all things that come and go. It's all part of life. It's not all happy. It's sometimes it's, you know, it's it's wonderful with the children, you know, and when they hit 15, 16 and they start talking back, it's not so wonderful sometimes. Just saying, possibly, that might be part of your path. It may happen. But but, you know, with with the stereotype of moms that I'm a mom I can't, I have this idea that, you know, that I talk about cutting the tie that there's this excuse fear excuse cycle that people get caught into their oh, I can't do that because. I can't do this because. If I do that, then this. I am this, so I can't do that. I disagree fundamentally with lots of those things, and I struggle with my own. But maybe do you do does that resonate with you and your audience a little bit with no. You can, and here's why. So you gotta be more grateful, and you gotta be more mindful and more vulnerable and and just accept that you're just making an excuse. So so do you do some kind of these types of coaching and self realization mindfulness pieces as part of yours?
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Yes. And with the baby on top of it all, she's she's so sleepy. So sorry. We ran into her sleep time, but she's gonna have to pry it out a little bit. Little bit. Definitely
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don't do that with your kid when they're crying, but I just need to It's okay to walk away. They won't remember. That's the best part at nine months old. They'll have no idea you walked away to go do a podcast.
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No idea. So you can always give yourself excuses to stay comfortable, or you can break through those excuses and work on the thing that you want to do. So, like, you either make excuses or you work. You have to decide what you're gonna do. And either way, times time is fine. Either way, time is passing. Either way, you're getting older. Either way, rainbows are happening. Nothing is nothing is stopping just because you're giving yourself excuses. So
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Agreed. Yeah. And you're not accomplishing things that you could have done as well. I mean, that's the other thing too. Right? Is you could be accomplishing more than you set out to do or your dreams are.
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100%. And and, you know, the dreams your dreams are supposed to be grand. They're supposed to be big. They're supposed to make you want to go after them. Because if your dreams are just, like, realistic, you know, you're gonna give yourself excuses as to why you're not gonna do it today, why you're not gonna do it tomorrow. It's easier to get rid of realistic dreams than it is to, like, go after bigger dreams because when you go after the bigger dream, it goes it goes back to the same shoot for the moon, land among the stars. Because what is a dream if it's not gonna be big? It's just another task you're doing. You know? And then it doesn't feel like anything when you accomplish something towards your dream when it's not big, in my opinion.
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Yeah. Well, and and I think sometimes, though, right, when people will make us excuses, that dream's too big. Well, then chunk it down. And and sometimes, you know, it doesn't you don't have this, you know, we live in a world of kind of immediate, you know, instant gratification, and and it depends on your personality type too if if that's you need that as part of a way to get motivated or not. But sometimes you gotta chunk it down of, like, alright. You wanna be this. What are the 10 things that you think are in your way, and what's the one that really gets in your way right now? Go work on it till it's gone. And don't be relentless in getting through that because what you'll discover is the path you should have been on anyway because it's you know, you may have said, I'm gonna go over here. And as you work through problems, you're like, actually, I think it's probably better this way. But at least it's a different direction, and it's towards something that where you say you're not happy we are today, as well. That takes action. That takes you getting off your ass and doing something, honestly, not making excuses and giving up Netflix. That's a big one. I'll tell you that. You're a video game player. I'm not saying the guy on this channel may or may not have a small addiction to video games. Sometimes you just can't play them.
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So I wanna even challenge, and I agree with you, but I wanna even challenge that and say, what if you are already on the path and all you have to do is take action? You know, it's not not necessarily wrong path, right path. If you're on a path, take action and see where that action leads you, you know, on the path. Because you're again, you're already on the way. Time is already flying. Time is already passing. You know, don't be a don't be a sitter on the side of your own path.
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Well, I mean, you you really you know, you trade when you trade your time, you you're trading your life. Like, just to be clear. I mean, like, you only have some of some of it is a limited resource that not even the richest people in the world can really extend more than more not that much more. Let's say it that way. And you it's all there's a you know, some stuff's out of your control, some stuff not. But at the end of the day, you have what you have. In that idea, that's where this kind of the idea of cut the tie comes from. And and I I always ask guests, like, you know, kinda what was that biggest challenge or false belief that you had to just get over, you know, like a habit, a person, a situation. What was holding you back? What was the tie that you had to cut?
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My own mental my own mindset, to be honest with you. I've always hey, baby. I'll be right there. Don't don't worry. You're good. It was on my own mindset because I've never felt like I couldn't do things. I just didn't know how to do them, and I gave myself excuses as to why I couldn't do them. I would give myself excuses as to what resources I had. Sorry. I'm just gonna go to another room. What? Run run it away from the basement.
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She's safe in her playpen. She's good. Like like, she's fine. Like, she just wants mom. It it you know what? It's gratifying because, like because eventually, they don't want you. They actually want you to leave their room. Yeah. And and you know what what happens? Like, our brain actually is wired to respond to the cry. So now I can't, like, even hear what you're saying and hear what I'm saying, so I I gotta not hear it. That's just an excuse. It's actually a primal one. It's a pretty good one. It's a pretty good primal excuse. What I was asking, like, you know, you said you had you had a what tie you had to cut. And so I I'll help you come back to it because you were saying, like, I had to change my own mindset on something. What was the kind of the mindset thing that was really kind of pulling you back? That I didn't have the resources.
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Ah. Yeah. I mean, that's just and that could be a lot of things, but how define that a little bit. Like, I'm sure there's layers of that too. Sure. I didn't have the support system. I didn't have someone saying, oh, good job, or I didn't have someone telling me this could work. This could I was looking for external validation, so to say, to know that I'm on the right path. But, you know, what what is the right path? When you don't know yourself, you're never gonna know if you're on the right path or not. So my own resource, me, was not being, built, was not being built up, so to say. I was not tapping into my own resource of who I am, what I know, what kind of confidence I move with. And I just needed to, like, really get good with God as well. I was an atheist. I was a liberal. I was a feminist. I was going to college. I was For those listening, those are not always. Those are mutually exclusive things.
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But look Like, you drift them up. Like, listen. I lived in California. I I drove I'm in LA. Oh my god.
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The works. And I went to UCLA. I mean, I was very free minded and not very I didn't look to God for guidance, and I looked to other people who had no guidance in their lives for guidance. So my own natural resource was tapping into the God energy. And I only understood that in 2022, really, when I decided, you know, I'm I'm not an atheist. I never really was an atheist. I was just looking for an organization to belong to. I was looking for someone to validate my, life. You know? My mom passed away. My, you know, family abandoned us, and it's like, well, no. Now I need other people to tell me I'm good enough. No. I just needed to believe that God got me.
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Yeah. Well, it's a it's a that's a beautiful thing. And, you know, God versus faith versus religion, maybe different topics slightly. But the idea that there's some purpose you've been put here to do some and it could be it doesn't have to be grandiose. It can just be it's the mindfulness to know that I'm here for a reason. Stop looking for it. The reason's probably right here. And Yeah. And when you believe in something bigger I I I have a similar time line frame from a I'll call it faith journey. I wanna say atheist, but just not institutionalized. Yeah. Religion is probably the the way to say that. So I applaud that you did that because that truly is, that's enough. Because once you once you stop looking for external validation of people who, by the way, are gonna lie to you. Your friends lie to you. They're gonna want you to feel better and not be like, hey. You're being an idiot. Like, the one that does that is the friend you probably should talk to the most that really keeps it real with a path forward, but no one ever does that. Everyone's in kind of what's in it for me, and they just want you to be happy and leave them alone with your problems. Right? And so when you start internalizing, at least for me at least for how I get how most people get through this when they start bleeding themselves, then the world there's nobody you gotta go to for the answer. You could just go do what you wanna go do, and you can do some checks. So good for you. That's it. Did you have an moment, like, where you did you you did some you, like, you recognized I didn't see like, you'd done something and then realized retroly, oh, I never I would have definitely have sought sought out, you know, you know, some type of validation or or whatever it is. And you didn't it didn't didn't even come to you. You just did it, and it and it worked out in some way. Did you do you have that moment?
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The moment of coming to coming to God? Or
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Just where you're like, I no longer like, you did something, and in retrospect, you look back and go, hey. I would have known you thought out validation there, and I and I didn't even do it. Like, I have confidence. Like, it's there. I studied myself,
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and I studied the word the teachings of Jesus. And I understood that, hey. I need to behave in ways that make me feel not make me feel. I have to behave in ways that I know I'm good. I'm and then we're all bad. Right? We're all bad, but you gotta, like, try to be good. You have to actually work on being good. Bad comes naturally. So the moment for me was realizing that, hey. I'm actually a good person despite, like, all these ideas I have about myself on my hair. And and it was didn't happen natural it didn't happen like that. It was a series of events. It was a series of events that made, me make decisions where I would normally wouldn't have made. So, for example, pulling my kids out of school. I was I was always public school student. I went all the way to UCLA. It was public education. Part of my kid went to it for two years. I was PTA president, parliamentarian, treasurer. I was so involved. I was in and out of the I was in and out of the principal's office, like, freely. You know? But then then when they started masking our kids up and doing telling our kids to behave in ways that they didn't wanna behave, they they were trying to control our children. And that's when I realized, like, hey. Wait a minute. Like, I gotta I gotta do something better for my kids. I can't have them be going to these places and getting bombarded and berated by t the people who are supposed to be teaching them. So I pulled them out. I started homeschooling them. And at that moment, I realized, like maybe it was. Yeah. Before I pulled them out. But when I started homeschooling them, I realized, like, this is what I have to be doing for my kids, for other people, giving them a way to, to serve each other without relying on the people who are trying to subdue us. Give me one second, please. Baby. Sorry.
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You you're doing it all. So this is the point. You didn't cancel a podcast today. You I have a nine month old. I'm gonna do this podcast, and there's gonna be some crying, and then there's gonna be a lot of spoiling and overfeeding later and a burp and probably a diaper change. It's pretty simple. Right? They they eat. They sleep. They're cold. They're hot. Or they poop. Even they go to bed. Yeah. That's fine. Yes. Oh, Emma's got look. For those listening, Emma's coming back on. Adorable.
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Emma Emma's trying to sleep.
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Oh. Emma, do you wanna melt?
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She may have she may have,
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spoiled this podcast a little bit. But Not at all. Not at all. You're by the way, first baby ever to be on the podcast. I'm gonna give you full rights and credits for that. And and the fact that you're you're thinking about breaking the mom's stereotype in your own business and and working through and doing this is core. This is like, nothing could be more real. Right? This is core to what you do. It's like, hey. You gotta sometimes do stuff. And here's here's the thing good example. Some corporations will never accept you having a baby on a meeting. Even during Zoom, people are getting pissed about it. It's like, people are laughing at home together. And LA, nice area. Some of the people are questionable, but the houses aren't exactly, like, you know, 25,000 square feet like in the Midwest or something where you can Yeah. Easily disappear. They're generally smaller because it's so damn expensive to live there. You gotta expect there's some kids and dogs running around. I mean, like, people like, dogs couldn't go outside. They'd get they'd get the vid. Anyway, we'll go, I wanna know something, though. So let's move forward here on the impact. So so what does that impact, You know, kind of describe what it's done for your personal life relationships business, like, for for this transition, this cut the time moment, the moment. Like, what what's what's been the impact?
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So the impact has been that I've been able to also transition other moms and their children to homeschooling pod pods. We actually created a micro school, within the last two years. We have 40 kids now in the micro school, and we're operating under our church. And these are all people that, you know, I was able to market to. I was able to display through my own actions, that it's possible. And so from that, I was able to convert multiple families right now, like, because of because of me, like, 15 kids are, in our homeschool operative. And I feel like that's a great success, especially since now I'm working on this initiative with the organization to get children's educational opportunity act on the ballot for 2026, which will afford $17,000 a year per student to go to any school that they want. So, like, the funds will be transferred to the school of choice by the parents. And, therefore, it will immediately impact the education of children and families, and school performance would, improve as well because then they'd have to, fight for the students to come to their schools. Yeah. I mean, if your tax dollars followed where people wanted to go,
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the the whole economic it's like free economics. And at that point, you can get better teachers in, and you can you can make bets on, hey. We had some of the best teachers to start drawing people in. And, yeah, I don't disagree with that. Some areas would be more challenging than others, but they'd still get kids and money, and it would still work. Right? And, I I'm a big fan of that. The the impact on your on your on your community, it sounds pretty big. Like, you brought people in. You've gotten other people to buy in the idea. What would be, like, your advice to anybody listening? Like, so what's what's something like just takeaway advice you'd wanna give to one of the listeners just based on your journey?
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No one is gonna approve or disapprove bet better than you are on your own journey. So stop asking people's opinions of yourself, and get to know yourself. So you're never gonna make the right decision if you don't know who you are and why you're doing it. Right.
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No. You're I mean, I I love this. This is like I love imposter syndrome when I feel that way because I know that I've stepped out of bounds of what I am, but I don't know what to do with it. I actually love that. And sometimes for us adult ADHD types, it's a dangerous space because you do need to come back to reality and get some shit done occasionally. So sorry, Emma. Cussed. Hope you didn't hear it.
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She's good. Don't worry. Let's,
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let's do I want some rapid fire questions with you. Are you ready? Ready. What's your favorite quote?
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Mean what you say and say what you mean.
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Oh, I like that one. That's a hard one. Sometimes you know, I just a side note on that one. Sometimes in relationships, the intent Yeah. Is not communicated or you assume what the person's intent is. So I I wanna elaborate on that. You say what you mean, you do what you say. Like, you know, make sure people are clear on your intent. And there's you see things possibly in good light first as opposed to negative. Right? So I'm speaking a little bit more. Intention
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is intention is scary. I'll tell you why. Because the road to hell is paved with good intentions. So your intentions are great, but if you don't have the if you're not firing correctly, then it doesn't matter if you're good at, if you have good intentions.
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Agreed. So you're you're spot on with that. So what what's, maybe some of the best business advice you've ever received?
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Best business advice I've ever received. Wow. I never even thought about that, actually. I can't answer that. What was the best advice you've ever received? Maybe it'll dominate your Believe it or not. Yeah. I mean, that all all life is that. All life is believing in It is. It it it's sometimes, you know, it's, you can't have delusional
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belief at times without success without markers of success. But believe in yourself is some of the best advice. It it's it's around that. There's different versions of that, but I think it's spot on. That's why I like this conversation a lot because it's like, yeah. I'm sign me up. Do you have a favorite book or, like, resource you like to you you lean into besides the bible?
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You're hilarious. But, yeah, bible's number one. I I will read it more often, but it's still very good resource. Five Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell, think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. I like leadership books, books that help me learn about myself and how to help people learn about themselves because I am a coach. I do I do have a coaching group called the women's portal where I apply these leadership strategies to to the women who come to get served by me. And so
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what other book? I mean, those books are I mean, that's a great list. I mean, if you the, Psychic vampirism. For those listening to your giggles in the background, we're laughing because she has a little baby in her arms, and the baby the Emma will reach up and grab her hair and cover her face. So that's what's going on in the background here. It's hilarious. So listen to this, it's actually very funny because there's like an arm comes up. I'm actually feeding her right now, so she's Well chilling. I mean, like, the but it looks like, basically, I'm good. Like, currently, this is what I'm doing. If you had to start over today or I'll say it differently. If you were talking to your 21 year old self, what would you tell yourself to do? Stop wearing eye shadow. Okay. Wait. We've had a deep conversation here. Can you elaborate into that one a little bit? Yes. It sounds like a metaphor, to be fair. It is. It is.
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Be exactly who you're supposed to be. And, yeah, you can color yourself up. You can, like, dress yourself up, but don't change who you are unless it's for the better or for yourself. Yeah. Change change things about yourself, but don't change who you are. Don't cover. Don't mask yourself. Don't, try to look like something else than you are. Really come at it like, look at my hair. I didn't even not that it matters. But what I'm trying to say is I came to deliver a message. I didn't care how my hair looks, what I was wearing, if my baby was gonna be screaming at me or not. So just do the work. Yeah. Do the work. Show up. Be yourself. Don't mask yourself. Don't give yourself BS excuses as to why not, you know, why you can't do it. Just do it. Just do the thing and come as yourself.
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I like that. Yeah. One one of the advice that I'd say go back to me. One question was, you you know, you gotta show up to win. So you could be the best sports player in the world, but if you don't show up to the tournament, you don't win. So you always have to show and I tell my kids, it's like, hey. That's great. You gotta show up and be present at school if you wanna go do the thing you told me you wanna do five years now. So I that's that's that's another one. I mean, the final question outside of the shameless plug question, so don't burn your question on this one. But if there's one question I should have asked you today, but I didn't, what is it, and how would you answer it?
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Why have you decided to put yourself out there under chopping blocks for the world to pick at?
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And how would you answer that?
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Because I want to show people that it can be done even under those extreme circumstances.
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Right. But Emma agrees. You you it sounds like you wanna be, thought of at least and and shown as and for your kids too, right, as a leader, as somebody you should look up to, someone you should I don't wanna say follow is the right word, but more of, be an example, a beacon of light, if you will. Is that
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fair? Fair. Yeah.
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Yeah. Is it too short? You wanna be, like, more of, like, a full ray of sun?
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Beacon of light is good enough. You know? I mean,
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I wanna be my own son. It would be, okay. Listen there, chief. Like, bring it down. Yeah. Let's start with, like, a lighthouse. Maybe a lamp. Because right now, it looks like a black mini black hole. Well, listen. You know, kind of closing out here. Who should get a hold of you? You know, how do they do that? And do you have any kind of offers or anything like you would you'd like to to ask people to come on, you know, to get a hold of you?
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Yes. So anyone? Okay. Alright, babe. We're almost done. Look. We understand. We understand. Anybody who wants to make changes in their lives and get to learn about themselves because they feel stuck. They feel like they are, at a place where they're not moving forward. They're actually just in a spiral, and and that they're making excuses for themselves. So whoever is finding themselves making excuses for themselves really needs to try to contact a new little sorry. This would have been a better plug if I wasn't being screamed at, but I have a coaching group called excuse purpose over excuses.
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Mhmm.
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Sorry.
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And I promise she'll be better by by then. She's gonna get older and She's not don't make excuses for your baby doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. But you can get a hold of your Instagram, obviously Yes. At bad moms media. And I think most of the information to get a hold of you or, hey. What do you have? I'd love to like, I wanna start you know, I'm a mom. I wanna make I wanna do more than I'm doing, you know, or whatever it is. What are the what are the use cases starting with I can do more. I'm a woman. I I would think it's a probably good enough use case to get a hold of you and say, I'm doing it, and here I struggle with it, but that's what this group's called. The group, coaching call and this group kind of activity is. Is that is that fair enough? Yes. Yes. Yes. So Bad Moms Media,
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Bad Moms podcast page, but it's, like, the page I use more often. And, of course, like, I'll I'll get better at I have another page. It's called the women's portal, which shows my, coaching group page. But the Bad Moms Media
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is my podcast. Yes. Best start to contact me. It's great. But and I mean, because if they wanna get ahold of you, they'll find you through that because you you'd listen to a podcast of hers. That might be a good way to get ahold of her. Exactly. Oh, look. Hey. Thank you, Nar, for joining me today. And and Emma, Emma, can you hear me, Emma? Good job, Emma. I got a smile out of Emma. Look at that. He's adorable little kid. He's so cute. What's your mouthpiece? Would go, like my wife from Slovakia, and she would go she'd make, like, little Slovak baby sounds. It's like the cutest thing, like, and and then
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Some kind but it's like words for real words, then I'm like, I don't know what to say, but the kids love it. They do. Thank you, thank you so much for joining us, both of you. And, I'm I'm gonna I thank you. I'm gonna put you in the, whatever color this room is, and, be right back. But thank you so much for joining today. Thank you so much. Thank you, Nora, for coming on today. And anybody's, you know, obviously listened and and participated in the in in the show here, you know, and get a hold of her at instagram.com, /badmomsmedia, and, you know, reach out if you'd like to, you know, join a group, learn more about how to be the best, you know, badass mom you can be. She's she's a great resource to start with, and and maybe you'll meet Emma because I was lucky enough to. For everybody out there, I appreciate you, hanging out. Get out there. Go unleash your, entrepreneur and, you know, give the get the podcast to follow if you can. It'd be great. Thank you so much for listening. Take care.
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