Why Being a Mom Makes You a Better Leader – Season 3, Episode 3 Selma on Leadership

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3 of the Selma on Leadership podcast. In this episode my co-host Kristen McCall and I discuss many reasons how being a mom makes you a better leader.

In this episode you will learn:

• How being a parent helps you learn a variety of leadership lessons
• God didn’t give us a spirit of fear in parenting or in leadership
• Funny examples of how there are leadership lessons in both toddlers and the workplace

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A huge leadership principle that you’re learning in the middle of being a mom is perfection is absolutely impossible and you need to lay that down.

Being a mom is one of the best things to happen for your own leadership development. I am a champion of moms, and it is wonderful, beautiful, hard and exhausting. It is every emotion in the books. I’m telling you there are so many leadership principles and truths that you’re learning right in the middle of being a mom.

Parenting is a wonderful thing. Your children are beautiful, and we celebrate them as a gift from God. Don’t underestimate all that you are learning from your children. It’s a wonderful season of life. It’s crazy that you’re packing up some leadership lessons that will serve you throughout the seasons of your life. Enjoy them. Soak them up and know you’re in the graduate school of all graduate schools.

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