Work Hard Mom Harder

Work Hard Mom Harder

57 episodes

Can I chase my dreams while also being present for my partner and kids? Does work-life balance exist? Can I really have it all? I’m Erica Walter, and I believe in my freakin' soul that yes, you CAN. After years of running businesses for other people, I decided to start my own business... when I was pregnant with our fourth kid. I've learned a few of my entrepreneur lessons the hard way. I'm learning even more about business (and life) from my kids. Every week, tune in for high-impact business strategies and marketing tips, pee-your-pants funny anecdotes and misadventures, and inspirational interviews with other kick ass parents who are bringing their best self to work without giving their families the shaft. If you’re a working parent who wants to live your best life both on and off the clock, the Work Hard Mom Harder podcast is for you.

Podcasts

Surprising Parallels Between Potty Training and Running a Business

Published: July 1, 2024, 1:06 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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The Latest Hire at My Business

Published: June 16, 2024, 8:46 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Six Lessons from Six Years in Business

Published: June 4, 2024, 4:23 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Your Mother's Day Pep Talk

Published: May 19, 2024, 9:31 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds

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Money Thoughts from my Kids

Published: May 5, 2024, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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What to do with all your extra time

Published: April 29, 2024, 3:27 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 9 seconds

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Erica Riffs: Words Matter

Published: April 21, 2024, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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Living My Best Life Right Now

Published: April 14, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds

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Vacation Lessons

Published: April 7, 2024, 9:40 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 55 seconds

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Consistency is Queen

Published: March 31, 2024, 7 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 34 seconds

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Making it fun is hard

Published: March 24, 2024, 8:43 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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Obstacles As Excuses, or Obstacles as To-Dos

Published: March 18, 2024, 4:11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

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School of Maddox: Be a Hero

Published: March 10, 2024, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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Impossible Goals

Published: March 2, 2024, 9:01 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds

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A dream FIVE YEARS in the making just came true

Published: Feb. 25, 2024, 9:53 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds

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A different way to do the mid-year check-in

Published: July 22, 2022, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds

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Hudson Month and a Reminder to Feel the Feels

Published: July 1, 2022, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 23 seconds

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Three Lessons from Four Years in Business

Published: June 1, 2022, 4:25 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 4 seconds

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Marketing Insights from Preschool Drop-off

Published: March 25, 2022, 10:14 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds

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Erica Riffs on International Women's Day

Published: March 8, 2022, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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What Mario Kart and List-Building Have In Common

Published: Feb. 28, 2022, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 55 seconds

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Productivity tips learned while breastfeeding

Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 8 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds

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Erica Riffs - You Need to Make a Highlight Reel

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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The Return

Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 11:55 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Erica Riffs - Mother's Day

Published: May 9, 2021, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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This simple marketing philosophy is changing my life

Published: April 20, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 5 seconds

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I made a bucket list. Here's what I learned.

Published: March 25, 2021, 9:52 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds

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Erica Riffs - The Power of the Countdown

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds

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Learning new things in your 30s

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 1 second

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School of Maddox - Lessons from Fashion

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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The Scrappy Mompreneur's Go-To Resources

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5:34 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds

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What an enthusiastic "Yes!" can do for your life and your business

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 12:40 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds

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Erica Riffs - Poop on the Patio

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 4:38 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 45 seconds

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Time and Life Management Tips from a Working Mother of TWINS

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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Bye, 2020

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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I got COVID-19. 5 Lessons from Isolation.

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 10 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds

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Let go. Do it.

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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Erica Riffs - Stay Ready

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Feel the Feels

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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Erica Riffs: Hudson's Month Update

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 4:02 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds

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Win by taking initiative

Published: July 31, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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School of Maddox: Red Means Go

Published: July 22, 2020, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 42 seconds

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What kind of life story are you writing?

Published: July 14, 2020, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds

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Bright spots everywhere

Published: July 10, 2020, 4:50 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds

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Conquer your fear

Published: July 2, 2020, 4:33 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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Hope in Dark Times

Published: June 24, 2020, 10:19 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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You are never 100% right.

Published: June 18, 2020, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds

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Good is the enemy

Published: June 4, 2020, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds

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Slow down to look up

Published: May 28, 2020, 4:29 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds

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Erica Riffs - 'Do Your Best' is Bulls***

Published: May 21, 2020, 9:25 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds

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What to do when wishing sounds like whining

Published: May 9, 2020, 8:40 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds

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Erica Riffs - The Best Choice You Can Make

Published: April 23, 2020, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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School of Maddox: How to get dirty like a toddler

Published: April 16, 2020, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds

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Interviews with the Experts: Perspective

Published: April 8, 2020, 3:21 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 22 seconds

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COVID-19: IT IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

Published: April 1, 2020, 5:01 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds

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Erica Riffs: What is essential?

Published: March 25, 2020, 5:03 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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How to keep positive when the world is going to s***

Published: March 17, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Erica Riffs - Problem Solving like a Toddler

Published: March 11, 2020, 4:20 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds

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Business Lessons from Frozen 2

Published: March 4, 2020, 6:10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds

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A Month without Alcohol (or mostly)

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 4:33 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds

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Erica Riffs: The importance of a schedule

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 5:35 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds

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How to start a business

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 5:54 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 13 seconds

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How lunchtime negotiations with my toddler made me decide to give up alcohol for a month

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 6:21 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds

I had that battle with my daughter this weekend, and I got so frustrated with her. All she had to do was take three bites of her sandwich to get a piece of gum.\\xa0

As I contemplated the ridiculous fact that Maddox could have already had her gum if she hadn\'t been dilly dallying so long, I realized that I do this myself.

I have a reward I\'m after, goals I\'m shooting for, and there are decisions I hesitate to make, or don\'t make, or put lower on my priorities, because those decisions are uncomfortable or weird or out of my comfort zone or I just don\'t want to do them, really.

In this episode, I get super personal with you and share how my lunchtime negotiation with my daughter ended up making me decide to give up alcohol for a month.

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Time Management Strategies for Working Parents

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 6:12 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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The School of Maddox: How to Fail Like a Three-Year-Old

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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Afraid of failure? I call bulls***.

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 6 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 17 seconds

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How to keep your kids from turning into screentime zombies

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds

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How to keep your New Year's Resolutions in the new decade

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 11:47 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds

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How losing touch with reality can help you create a better life

Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 5:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds

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Erica Riffs on Gifts

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 43 seconds

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You can't do everything

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds

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How to travel with kids (and other life lessons) with Kaleigh Vrapi

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 4:57 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds

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Erica Riffs: On Gratitude

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Learning to Walk

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 12:31 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 22 seconds

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How to live a more magical life

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 4:21 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 53 seconds

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Erica Riffs: Streaking

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 4:54 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds

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Becoming more mindful

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 12:23 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 9 seconds

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Work Life Balance: A new definition that won't make you feel like crap

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, noon
Duration: 25 minutes 46 seconds

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Want to get braver and stronger? Listen to this.

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds

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The three questions you MUST ask when faced with a problem

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds

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How being curious can build better relationships in life and business

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds

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Lessons in Persistence (taught to you by Maddox)

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds

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A Fitness Model Shares How Tiny Victories Add Up to Major Wins

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds

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The Pilot.

Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 3:31 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 23 seconds

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