Life Hacks for Busy Moms with Mia Northrop

January 20, 2022

Does the mental and emotional load of family life leave you exhausted? Mia Northrop joins us on today’s episode to talk about life admin–think those personal and household administrative tasks–and life hacks for busy moms. She knows the overwhelm of trying to manage all the things. Now, she helps families and employees streamline their life admin so they can win back more free time and mental space, save money, and nurture household harmony.

Mia Northrop is a trained coach, cohost of the Life Admin Life Hacks podcast and co-author of the brand new book Life Admin Hacks. After a diverse and dynamic career in Melbourne, London and New York, she was on the cusp of burnout and partnered with a longtime school friend, also juggling work and home, to find a better way for themselves and other working parents. She’s a co-parent of two primary school-aged kids, who values living authentically and inspiring others to do so, too.

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Show Notes: Life Hacks for Busy Moms

Hey, hey friend! Welcome to Episode #48 of The Secrets of Supermom Show!

When I was looking over the notes for today’s show, I was a little bit blown away by the fact that we are almost 50 episodes in! If you have been with me from the very start, I adore you. And if you are jumping in new, I am so happy you are here!

Today we are continuing our supermom guest episodes. and joining us today is Mia Northrop. In her day job Mia is an expert in pain points and improving user experience. As a mom, she realized that other moms were struggling with all of these life admin tasks. Essentially, personal and household administrative tasks were taking time and effort and really stressing moms out. And she realized that there were very few resources out there for people, parents or otherwise. So, she and an old school friend started a podcast. And they wrote a book.

Y’all this is really the perfect time in your year to think about managing life admin, so I think you really are going to love the tips in this episode.

I am thrilled to have Mia Northrop join us today.

Today we discuss…

How life admin is simply out of control for so many moms!
Personal and household administrative tasks: how to manage them, minimize them and share them
The difference between life admin and simple housework
Gender inequities in the management of life admin within our households
Why many of us don’t talk about or plan for life admin
Parents do about 33% more life admin tasks than households without children…whoa!!!
How can you use a weekly “hour of power” to actually schedule these tasks
How to use the “two minutes, too easy” trick
Using strategies to save money with life admin
Life admin causes household friction in 80% of households (so likely yours!) and how to share tasks with your partner
A shared email trick to eliminate mine vs. yours
The impact of over-functioning and under-functioning in relationship patterns on life admin
Releasing control to gain time…and how this can be super hard for successful, busy moms
The reality that we underestimate the abilities of our school age children
Tips and tricks to involving your children in life admin