186: Join the 21 Day imagination to Impact Challenge (Uncover Your Next Idea & Your School-Aged Child's Interests)

You left a conventional career to create your own entrepreneurial path. It's part of your goal to be around and stay flexible enough to be present with your kids and to raise them yourself as the primary caregiver.   So you are at this crossroads at the beginning of your freelancing, coaching, and services business and you've been bombarded with things to do.   Your mental load today would require more than a Tonka truck to unload and in the Fall your kids will be in school full-time. However, even then your kids are on your mind and obviously in your heart. So how are you going to do this? Where do you start?   Is there a way to avoid the mom guilt? Are there boundaries you can build now to put your best ideas out there without imploded from overwhelm? Will you have to miss sleep to squeeze in your hopes and dreams?   Do you have more questions about how to approach your entrepreneurial journey and mom life than answers?   Remember, missing out on your kid's school-age journey is NOT why you intended when you left a conventional career.   In comes, the 21-day imagination to impact challenge.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   *It's free this summer of 2023.   It's specifically, for you if you have a school-aged child or kids all the way through middle school. A mom who wants to get ahead of the pull of the world to build big, fast, and continuously. It's for you if you rather secure your emotional well-being and that of your family along the way to your dreams. Imagine that? You pursuing your best ideas and tightening the bond between you and your kids. Imagine you working on your dreams side-by-side with your kids.   As a coach for over 12 years, I can't say I've seen any such challenge where I could BOTH clarify my next business offer or service and engage with my three sons who are 9,9, and 12 (yes, one year I birthed identical twins) in a meaningful way. NONE.   So I created my own because I launched my business 12 years ago with my firstborn strapped to my chest. I left advertising for the flexibility to watch my son(s) grow. The key to my success has been through the use of my fertile imagination. Watch this space for my book coming out in October! Throughout the last decade, I've been able to teach them entrepreneurial skills along the way and navigate my mental health along the way. In this challenge, you will immerse yourself in the same experiences that I leveraged to truly integrate my life and work in a sustainable way. I want the same for EVERY mom, especially you.   Sign-up for free this summer for the 21-day imagination to impact challenge to discover your next big idea and uncover your child's interests along the way through a series of mini-adventures proven to reawaken, play with, and stretch your family's fertile imagination.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   This 21-day imagination-to-impact challenge is inspired by my upcoming book entitled: Fertile Imagination: A Guide for Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact - you do not need to have read the book to benefit from this challenge today...because I'll email you daily exercises, meditations, and explanations every day that will be so easy a fourth-grader can follow along (and in some instances, they'll be asked to).   This challenge is designed to help you:   -Rediscover who you are and reconnect with your fertile imagination to begin applying tools from the book   -Explore how you want to use your newfound playmate to make an impact based on how you want to feel and of course market opportunities.   -Stretch your thinking about what's possible in life by joining forces with your little imagination experts at home so they can tap into their undiscovered interests too.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   Join this challenge if you:    -Want to lay the groundwork for a coaching, freelancing, creator online business that takes into account your school-age child(ren)'s needs   -Rather avoid mom guilt or feeling anxious about the childcare costs that can pile up while building your business because I'll teach you some things that can be done BEST with them by your side   -Want a guide who gets your priorities to uncover one fertile entrepreneurial idea (a fertile idea is a big idea that can grow along with your family's ever-changing needs)   -Wish to use your entrepreneurial journey as a path to teaching your kids key lessons and also expanding what's possible for them   -Want to create opportunities to see the wonder in your kid's eyes as they explore their interests and watch you explore yours   -Brighten up the mood of your house with playfulness which is a page straight from my book   Most importantly, you’ll also want to join the Imagination to Impact 21-Day Challenge (valued at $49, yours for free for now) to reawaken, play with, and stretch your imagination to uncover your next big fertile idea. This is where to start to experience first-hand what using your fertile imagination can look like in your daily life with your kids.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   Who is your Imagination Guide?   Hi there! I'm Melissa Llarena. I'd love to be your guide. Yes, I have oodles of credentials: a psychology degree from NYU, an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a Transformational Coaching Academy certificate, and my upcoming certification as a meditation practitioner. HOWEVER, my imagination grew out of a need to survive as a daughter to a single mom with Manic Depression and a choice to thrive and pursue impossible dreams when I became a mom. As a mom who now lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three sons (identical twins in that mix), I thought I lost my imagination! Yet, I hadn't. It was just hibernating until I enlisted my sons to help me wake it up. It turns out their experts. Did you realize that? You have master imagination experts under your nose! You might even be cleaning their nose! This 21-day challenge is a series of doable mom and child adventures that I personally went on with my three sons, where I reconnected with my fertile imagination "my ultimate business advantage and so can you!   Share this episode with a new entrepreneur, creator, or founder who has school-age kids (5 through middle school) and wants to be a mom first and a business owner second without missing these early precious years but still positioning her new business to make a maximum impact with her skills.    Subscribe and Review   Have you subscribed to my podcast for new moms who are entrepreneurs, founders, and creators?  I’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet.    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unimaginable-wellness-for-new-moms-who-are-founders/id1308269140?app=podcast&mt=2   I’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast for writer moms.    Book Launch Fall 2023! Join the Collective Of Moms Who Seek More Imaginative Solutions For Maximum Impact While Inspiring Their Kids To Do The Same   Introducing: Fertile Imagination: A Guide For Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact – Get on the list and grab your FREE Chapter today: https://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist   Join the waitlist for Fertile Imagination to be the first to   See the book cover and vote on your favorite Get a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes book-writing process Join my Imagination to Impact 21-Day challenge first to bring my three-stage method of reawakening your imagination, playing with your imagination, and stretching your imagination to your daily life and see what using your fertile imagination can look like and how this can turn around your relationship with your kids too – https://witty-thinker-2643.ck.page/b887cf40e2 Learn first-hand about playful and fun book launch events (online and offline) Snag a FREE chapter today and start your journey towards becoming the fun parent through a series of imagination warm-ups created for the most ambitious moms who feel like they lost a big piece of themselves (along with their placentas – literally or figuratively) – for the FREE chapter go to: http://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist

Subscribe and Review

Have you subscribed to my podcast for new moms who are entrepreneurs, founders, and creators?  I’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unimaginable-wellness-for-new-moms-who-are-founders/id1308269140?app=podcast&mt=2

 

I’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast for writer moms. 

Book Launch Fall 2023! Join the Collective Of Moms Who Seek More Imaginative Solutions For Maximum Impact While Inspiring Their Kids To Do The Same

Introducing: Fertile Imagination: A Guide For Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact – Get on the list and grab your FREE Chapter today: https://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist 

Join the waitlist for Fertile Imagination to be the first to

See the book cover and vote on your favorite Get a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes book-writing process Join my Imagination to Impact 21-Day challenge first to bring my three-stage method of reawakening your imagination, playing with your imagination, and stretching your imagination to your daily life and see what using your fertile imagination can look like and how this can turn around your relationship with your kids too – https://witty-thinker-2643.ck.page/b887cf40e2 Learn first-hand about playful and fun book launch events (online and offline) Snag a FREE chapter today and start your journey towards becoming the fun parent through a series of imagination warm-ups created for the most ambitious moms who feel like they lost a big piece of themselves (along with their placentas – literally or figuratively) – for the FREE chapter go to: http://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist

Praise For Fertile Imagination

Both book participants and podcast guests are featured below

Melissa is an inspiring display of tenacity and motivation. Whenever you’re feeling stuck, peruse Melissa’s thoughtfully compiled tips and exercises and you’ll be creating magic in no time.” – Suzy Batiz, Chief Executive and Visionary Officer, ~Pourri, The Makers of Poo~Pourri, supernatural, Alive OS®.

“Melissa’s words are authentic and important. She is a great listener and now shares reality-based strategies for imagining your own imperfect, fulfilling life.” – Martha Hennessey, Former New Hampshire State Senator / House of Representative

“This is the book for a mom who wants a second jet engine to embark on her own journey from thinking she will have to wait another lifetime to dream big to knowing she can take steps right now to uncover and do what she would find more fulfilling at this life stage. Melissa writes both intimately and conversationally about topics that many moms around the world can relate to (some dads too). She invites the reader into a personal and deep journey about topics that are crucially important to uncover what would make a mom truly happy to work on…even after the kids are in bed. It was an honor and a pleasure to speak with her for an interview, which she has included excerpts of in this book, too!” – Ken Honda, Japan’s best selling zen millionaire, author of Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money

Moms like us with big dreams and school-age kids:

For moms like me, the pandemic was an opportunity to re-evaluate and course-correct things in our lives we weren’t thrilled with. Coming out of this period, sluggish yet motivated, so many of us can use this book to help us wake up! If you’re looking to refresh, reenergize, and yes, reimagine a better version of your life, this book is for you. I loved the hilarious, yet poignant stories about motherhood today and the window into the world of those who’ve gone for it – and did it. – Macollvie Neel, Brooklyn, NY

“The words: imagination, play and fun are not the usual things we as mothers think of when wondering how to get a grip back on our career and I believe it provides a really fresh take and lots of food for thought for mothers reading it. Its tone is so energetic and fresh!” – Alejandra Molina, Coach, Miami, Florida

“Melissa is a mom of three with big dreams who tells it like it is. She draws on her own experiences and the experiences of professionals she’s interviewed for her podcast to reflect on the plight of the mother. How do women conform to or challenge the traditional “mom script”? If you’re a mom, what can you do to break the “cultural glass ceiling” to be yourself and a great parent, all without having to force yourself into a mom mold that doesn’t fit you? Melissa is like a great friend, honest and wise and funny, telling you about her life and asking you to reflect on yours. This book is a great purchase for moms in every stage of life.” – Maureen Turner Carey, Librarian, Austin, Texas

“In her book, Melissa shows us that motherhood does not have to be a pause or an end to your pre-child self. With guidance from her podcast guests, she encourages us to think big, find what lights us up, think big, and move towards our goals with the steps that fit the reality of our lives as they are today. In doing so we honor and inspire our child(ren), and our own inner child.” – Katherine Dzierzynski, Museum Group Sales, Forest Hills, NY 

You left a conventional career to create your own entrepreneurial path. It's part of your goal to be around and stay flexible enough to be present with your kids and to raise them yourself as the primary caregiver.   So you are at this crossroads at the beginning of your freelancing, coaching, and services business and you've been bombarded with things to do.   Your mental load today would require more than a Tonka truck to unload and in the Fall your kids will be in school full-time. However, even then your kids are on your mind and obviously in your heart. So how are you going to do this? Where do you start?   Is there a way to avoid the mom guilt? Are there boundaries you can build now to put your best ideas out there without imploded from overwhelm? Will you have to miss sleep to squeeze in your hopes and dreams?   Do you have more questions about how to approach your entrepreneurial journey and mom life than answers?   Remember, missing out on your kid's school-age journey is NOT why you intended when you left a conventional career.   In comes, the 21-day imagination to impact challenge.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   *It's free this summer of 2023.   It's specifically, for you if you have a school-aged child or kids all the way through middle school. A mom who wants to get ahead of the pull of the world to build big, fast, and continuously. It's for you if you rather secure your emotional well-being and that of your family along the way to your dreams. Imagine that? You pursuing your best ideas and tightening the bond between you and your kids. Imagine you working on your dreams side-by-side with your kids.   As a coach for over 12 years, I can't say I've seen any such challenge where I could BOTH clarify my next business offer or service and engage with my three sons who are 9,9, and 12 (yes, one year I birthed identical twins) in a meaningful way. NONE.   So I created my own because I launched my business 12 years ago with my firstborn strapped to my chest. I left advertising for the flexibility to watch my son(s) grow. The key to my success has been through the use of my fertile imagination. Watch this space for my book coming out in October! Throughout the last decade, I've been able to teach them entrepreneurial skills along the way and navigate my mental health along the way. In this challenge, you will immerse yourself in the same experiences that I leveraged to truly integrate my life and work in a sustainable way. I want the same for EVERY mom, especially you.   Sign-up for free this summer for the 21-day imagination to impact challenge to discover your next big idea and uncover your child's interests along the way through a series of mini-adventures proven to reawaken, play with, and stretch your family's fertile imagination.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   This 21-day imagination-to-impact challenge is inspired by my upcoming book entitled: Fertile Imagination: A Guide for Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact - you do not need to have read the book to benefit from this challenge today...because I'll email you daily exercises, meditations, and explanations every day that will be so easy a fourth-grader can follow along (and in some instances, they'll be asked to).   This challenge is designed to help you:   -Rediscover who you are and reconnect with your fertile imagination to begin applying tools from the book   -Explore how you want to use your newfound playmate to make an impact based on how you want to feel and of course market opportunities.   -Stretch your thinking about what's possible in life by joining forces with your little imagination experts at home so they can tap into their undiscovered interests too.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   Join this challenge if you:    -Want to lay the groundwork for a coaching, freelancing, creator online business that takes into account your school-age child(ren)'s needs   -Rather avoid mom guilt or feeling anxious about the childcare costs that can pile up while building your business because I'll teach you some things that can be done BEST with them by your side   -Want a guide who gets your priorities to uncover one fertile entrepreneurial idea (a fertile idea is a big idea that can grow along with your family's ever-changing needs)   -Wish to use your entrepreneurial journey as a path to teaching your kids key lessons and also expanding what's possible for them   -Want to create opportunities to see the wonder in your kid's eyes as they explore their interests and watch you explore yours   -Brighten up the mood of your house with playfulness which is a page straight from my book   Most importantly, you’ll also want to join the Imagination to Impact 21-Day Challenge (valued at $49, yours for free for now) to reawaken, play with, and stretch your imagination to uncover your next big fertile idea. This is where to start to experience first-hand what using your fertile imagination can look like in your daily life with your kids.   Sign-up: https://www.melissallarena.com/fertileideas   Who is your Imagination Guide?   Hi there! I'm Melissa Llarena. I'd love to be your guide. Yes, I have oodles of credentials: a psychology degree from NYU, an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a Transformational Coaching Academy certificate, and my upcoming certification as a meditation practitioner. HOWEVER, my imagination grew out of a need to survive as a daughter to a single mom with Manic Depression and a choice to thrive and pursue impossible dreams when I became a mom. As a mom who now lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three sons (identical twins in that mix), I thought I lost my imagination! Yet, I hadn't. It was just hibernating until I enlisted my sons to help me wake it up. It turns out their experts. Did you realize that? You have master imagination experts under your nose! You might even be cleaning their nose! This 21-day challenge is a series of doable mom and child adventures that I personally went on with my three sons, where I reconnected with my fertile imagination "my ultimate business advantage and so can you!   Share this episode with a new entrepreneur, creator, or founder who has school-age kids (5 through middle school) and wants to be a mom first and a business owner second without missing these early precious years but still positioning her new business to make a maximum impact with her skills.    Subscribe and Review   Have you subscribed to my podcast for new moms who are entrepreneurs, founders, and creators?  I’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet.    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unimaginable-wellness-for-new-moms-who-are-founders/id1308269140?app=podcast&mt=2   I’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast for writer moms.    Book Launch Fall 2023! Join the Collective Of Moms Who Seek More Imaginative Solutions For Maximum Impact While Inspiring Their Kids To Do The Same   Introducing: Fertile Imagination: A Guide For Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact – Get on the list and grab your FREE Chapter today: https://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist   Join the waitlist for Fertile Imagination to be the first to   See the book cover and vote on your favorite Get a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes book-writing process Join my Imagination to Impact 21-Day challenge first to bring my three-stage method of reawakening your imagination, playing with your imagination, and stretching your imagination to your daily life and see what using your fertile imagination can look like and how this can turn around your relationship with your kids too – https://witty-thinker-2643.ck.page/b887cf40e2 Learn first-hand about playful and fun book launch events (online and offline) Snag a FREE chapter today and start your journey towards becoming the fun parent through a series of imagination warm-ups created for the most ambitious moms who feel like they lost a big piece of themselves (along with their placentas – literally or figuratively) – for the FREE chapter go to: http://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist

Subscribe and Review

Have you subscribed to my podcast for new moms who are entrepreneurs, founders, and creators?  I’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unimaginable-wellness-for-new-moms-who-are-founders/id1308269140?app=podcast&mt=2

 

I’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast for writer moms. 

Book Launch Fall 2023! Join the Collective Of Moms Who Seek More Imaginative Solutions For Maximum Impact While Inspiring Their Kids To Do The Same

Introducing: Fertile Imagination: A Guide For Stretching Every Mom’s Superpower for Maximum Impact – Get on the list and grab your FREE Chapter today: https://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist 

Join the waitlist for Fertile Imagination to be the first to

See the book cover and vote on your favorite Get a sneak peek at the behind-the-scenes book-writing process Join my Imagination to Impact 21-Day challenge first to bring my three-stage method of reawakening your imagination, playing with your imagination, and stretching your imagination to your daily life and see what using your fertile imagination can look like and how this can turn around your relationship with your kids too – https://witty-thinker-2643.ck.page/b887cf40e2 Learn first-hand about playful and fun book launch events (online and offline) Snag a FREE chapter today and start your journey towards becoming the fun parent through a series of imagination warm-ups created for the most ambitious moms who feel like they lost a big piece of themselves (along with their placentas – literally or figuratively) – for the FREE chapter go to: http://www.melissallarena.com/waitlist

Praise For Fertile Imagination

Both book participants and podcast guests are featured below

Melissa is an inspiring display of tenacity and motivation. Whenever you’re feeling stuck, peruse Melissa’s thoughtfully compiled tips and exercises and you’ll be creating magic in no time.” – Suzy Batiz, Chief Executive and Visionary Officer, ~Pourri, The Makers of Poo~Pourri, supernatural, Alive OS®.

“Melissa’s words are authentic and important. She is a great listener and now shares reality-based strategies for imagining your own imperfect, fulfilling life.” – Martha Hennessey, Former New Hampshire State Senator / House of Representative

“This is the book for a mom who wants a second jet engine to embark on her own journey from thinking she will have to wait another lifetime to dream big to knowing she can take steps right now to uncover and do what she would find more fulfilling at this life stage. Melissa writes both intimately and conversationally about topics that many moms around the world can relate to (some dads too). She invites the reader into a personal and deep journey about topics that are crucially important to uncover what would make a mom truly happy to work on…even after the kids are in bed. It was an honor and a pleasure to speak with her for an interview, which she has included excerpts of in this book, too!” – Ken Honda, Japan’s best selling zen millionaire, author of Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money

Moms like us with big dreams and school-age kids:

For moms like me, the pandemic was an opportunity to re-evaluate and course-correct things in our lives we weren’t thrilled with. Coming out of this period, sluggish yet motivated, so many of us can use this book to help us wake up! If you’re looking to refresh, reenergize, and yes, reimagine a better version of your life, this book is for you. I loved the hilarious, yet poignant stories about motherhood today and the window into the world of those who’ve gone for it – and did it. – Macollvie Neel, Brooklyn, NY

“The words: imagination, play and fun are not the usual things we as mothers think of when wondering how to get a grip back on our career and I believe it provides a really fresh take and lots of food for thought for mothers reading it. Its tone is so energetic and fresh!” – Alejandra Molina, Coach, Miami, Florida

“Melissa is a mom of three with big dreams who tells it like it is. She draws on her own experiences and the experiences of professionals she’s interviewed for her podcast to reflect on the plight of the mother. How do women conform to or challenge the traditional “mom script”? If you’re a mom, what can you do to break the “cultural glass ceiling” to be yourself and a great parent, all without having to force yourself into a mom mold that doesn’t fit you? Melissa is like a great friend, honest and wise and funny, telling you about her life and asking you to reflect on yours. This book is a great purchase for moms in every stage of life.” – Maureen Turner Carey, Librarian, Austin, Texas

“In her book, Melissa shows us that motherhood does not have to be a pause or an end to your pre-child self. With guidance from her podcast guests, she encourages us to think big, find what lights us up, think big, and move towards our goals with the steps that fit the reality of our lives as they are today. In doing so we honor and inspire our child(ren), and our own inner child.” – Katherine Dzierzynski, Museum Group Sales, Forest Hills, NY