How to Use AI with Your Ups and Downs as a Mompreneur

The more that I listen to podcasts and other trainings that are from guys, the more I think something needs to be different for moms, and not in a way of, oh, I can't believe them, they're so awful, but their reality might look a little bit different or a lot different from than yours. I've mentioned this before, but I was listening to a podcast by Alex Harmozi and he was talking about how the first six hours in his day are for deep work. So, like writing deep work, stuff like that. I don't know a single mom that is like, oh, yeah, I can spend the first six hours of my day doing that. Unless she's waking up at maybe 1am to work until 7 when her kids get up and then get them ready for school, do breakfast and stuff like that, and then come back and continue to work like it's just not for a lot of moms, that kind of schedule isn't a feasible business schedule. And when you think about that, and then you pair that with the ups and downs that can happen, let's say that you're also a mom that drops your kids off at school. The ups and downs that can happen when they wake up, getting them ready for school, getting them to school. There's a lot of emotions starting the day. There's emotions if they don't want to wake up, if they're still tired, they want to sleep a little bit longer. There's emotions if they don't want to go to school. There's some emotions if they do want to go to school, but they just earn a funk if you have a little one like I do, you know how sometimes you can give them a red cup and they wanted a blue cup and you didn't know that because you're not a mind reader. And then all of a sudden there's a meltdown. And so for a mom to think, or for a mom entrepreneur to think, okay, I can do things the same way that somebody like Alex Harmozi, for example, who not only doesn't have kids, but also has a team that can help with a lot of the other stuff that a lot of us are doing, especially moms that are entrepreneurs of the small team or that are solopreneurs. I think that it's setting us up for failure, trying to fit into a box that really was never ours to fit into to begin with. And the really cool thing about moms is be that we're really good problem solvers as we have to be, you know, with our kids and stuff. Like that. But not only are we good problem solvers, we can do a lot of things, and we can do a lot of things and multitask with the mental load that comes with some of dropping off at school and stuff like that. And so I'll give you an example from today. I. It was a weird morning. Like, my kiddo just wasn't happy about anything. And it seemed like there is nothing that I could do right that would help them. They didn't know it was wrong. I didn't know it was wrong. It was just. It felt like a dumpster fire. And so the thought of going from that to, okay, now I need to get work done. It just feels like my brain isn't quite ready for that. And so I think, as we look at how can we succeed in business, especially with how the business world is set up, like, it's just not set up for moms. It's not set up to stop in the middle of the day to go pick up your kid from school cause they threw up or it's not meant, you know, made for you after you've been up all night with them. It's not. Um, and I know that dads do this too. Please, if you're a dad listening, don't think that I'm like, oh, moms are the only ones doing this. I know that's the case for some families, but like, for mine, for example, my husband and I are partners. And so if I'm up, he's up. Or if vice versa, or sometimes I'll be up one night, he'll be up another night. And so I'm thankful and fortunate to have very much a partnership. But I know that's not the case for everyone. But even for people, that is the case for. If you're doing stuff like kid drop off, there's a lot of emotion that comes with that. And if you're trying to fit yourself into this box, it's just, if it hasn't been working for you, there might be a reason why. And it might be that it's just not a box that is made for you. And so then we look at, okay, so how do we create our own box? Or how do we even step out of a box completely? So when I think about entrepreneurship, I think of what a lot of guys that I hear talking on podcasts, I. What it sounds like a lot of them experience is more like a box with a wrapping paper and a pretty bow on it. And it's pretty straightforward. It's not. Yeah, it's Pretty straightforward. But for a woman, on the other hand, we have some experiences that they don't. So we have the experience of motherhood. So for prompts, we have the experience of motherhood where whether you have adopted a child or you have a biological child, if you have a biological child, you went through the process of giving birth, you went through the process of growing the child in your womb and all the hormone changes that go along with that. It took me, I think 18 months to feel like I was normal again, to feel like my old self. Not physically even, but just mentally feel like my old self. And, and then adoptee, adopted moms, you have different experiences as well. There's a lot of changes in emotions that you are going to experience. And then just in general in womanhood, we have a lot of experiences like our 28 day cycle, for example, which is not something that our friends of the other gender experience. And so we have a range of hormone, a range of hormone changes throughout the month. So not only are we managing the business and the changes there and other people, but we're also managing our family and their emotional ups and downs and getting people ready and stuff like that. And we're also all doing it while literally our body is changing and changing like every single day. And so something has to change is what I'm trying to say. So what I would recommend doing is going into ChatGPT or Claude and saying I'm a mom entrepreneur and that means that I need to do business different. I'm going to tell you what my normal day looks like, what I feel throughout the day, my fluctuation of emotions throughout the day, some of the other things that I need to manage, my other responsibilities, where I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall, where I feel like I can really thrive. For example, I might say something like in the morning is where I do my best work. 2 to 4pm Usually I'm not doing great work because I'm tired and my blood sugar is low. So those kinds of things are what I'm looking at. And then I'm gonna say, I want you to also take into consideration the fluctuations in my 28 day cycle, or however many days in your cycle and my cycle. And give me a suggestion on a schedule that would work for me, my responsibilities and also the fluctuations in my hormones, and then ask it to create a schedule for you based on that. And I'd be curious to hear for those of you that are doing it, I'd be curious to hear if you're finding better results doing that like I am than trying to just do what everybody else is doing, do it all, what every other guy is doing online. I would bet that you would. And I'm really curious to hear. So that's it for today. My name is Brittany Long. I am the host of this podcast, of course, the Doable with AI podcast, and the creator of AI 200K. I'll talk to you soon.