Work + Life Harmony | Time Management, Organization and Planning for Overwhelmed Women
Megan Sumrell: Time Management and Productivity Coach
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Work + Life Harmony is a weekly podcast hosted by Megan Sumrell, a time management expert with over 20 years of experience. The show offers a fresh approach to time management, weekly planning, and productivity specifically designed for overwhelmed women juggling work, family, and everything in between. Each episode covers strategies for daily routines, goal setting, organization, and handling unexpected curveballs. The podcast aims to help women break free from the cycle of overwhelm and guilt, providing practical advice to create more harmony in their lives.
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Three Systems for a Calmer Back to School 18.08.2026 17minIt's back to school season, and if you're the one in your house tracking every form, portal, email, and schedule change, you already know what's coming. All that information lands at once, and it turns into chaos fast. That first week or two back is overwhelming for two reasons: a huge amount of change hits all at once, and it's a total shift from your summer atmosphere to your school year atmosphere. In this episode, I'm sharing three systems I put into place every single year to get ahead o... -
Teaching Your Teen to Cook with Katie Kimball 11.08.2026 30minTime management, planning, cooking. These are fundamental life skills that we don't get taught in school, and if we're honest, not always at home either. Today I'm bringing back one of my favorite guests to talk about the one we haven't covered yet: teaching teens how to actually cook, not just survive on cereal and takeout. Katie Kimball has been teaching families how to cook for 17 years, and she just launched an entire new program built specifically for teens. I wanted her back on the show... -
The Four Levels of Planning That Actually Help You Accomplish Your Goals 04.08.2026 18minThink back to January. You set some goals for the year. Now be honest, have you made any real progress on them? If that question stings a little, you're not alone, and it's not because you picked the wrong goal or lost your motivation. It's because most of us were never taught the planning structure that actually holds a goal together past March. In this episode, I'm breaking down the four levels of planning that work together to carry your goals through the entire year, starting from the gro... -
Treat Your Bank Account Like Your Calendar with Mike Michalowicz 28.07.2026 30minYou've heard the dreaded B word. Budget. Maybe you've never found one that actually sticks or maybe you're the opposite, and you feel pretty on top of your money already. Either way, this episode is going to shift how you see it. I first found Mike Michalowicz back in 2019 when I read Profit First, and it completely changed how I manage the finances here at The Pink Bee. So when his newest book, The Money Habit, came out, I devoured it. This one applies those same principles to home finances,... -
What I Know Now at 53 That I Wish I Knew at 33 21.07.2026 22minLast week I turned 53, and I've found myself sitting with the lessons that took me decades and more than a few hard moments to truly understand. These aren't quick tips or things I read somewhere. They're the truths I learned by living them, the ones that eventually became the foundation for the work I do and everything I now teach women about their time and their capacity. This episode is a little different and a lot more personal than what I usually share. I'm opening up about five of these... -
Routines, Habits, and Why You've Been Getting Them Mixed Up 14.07.2026 17minMost people think the goal is to turn all their routines into habits. That belief is quietly wrecking a lot of good routines. I've been hearing this come up over and over in my community, and I finally had to address it head-on. So many women are beating themselves up over something that isn't even a real measure of success. In this episode, I'm clearing up the confusion between routines and habits once and for all, and sharing why the answer might completely change how you feel about the rou... -
The Truth About Following Someone Else's Morning Routine 07.07.2026 17minIf you have ever tried the 5 AM Club or the Miracle Morning and felt like you failed at it, this episode is going to feel like a deep breath. So many of us have downloaded the perfect morning routine, set the early alarm, committed to the exact sequence of activities, and then watched the whole thing fall apart within a week. And when it falls apart, we do not blame the routine. We blame ourselves. In this episode, I am breaking down the 5 AM Club, where it came from, and the one detail about... -
What Smart Women Get Wrong About Delegation with Emily Morgan 30.06.2026 27minMost of us have tried delegation. We've handed things off, watched it fall apart, and quietly decided it's more trouble than it's worth. Emily Morgan has spent nearly 20 years studying exactly why that happens and what the people who actually crack it are doing differently. Emily is the founder of Delegate Solutions, a fractional executive assistant company, and author of Let It Go (2nd Edition, out July 23rd). She brings real frameworks to this conversation, not just the mindset piece, but a... -
The Part of Productivity AI Can't Give You 23.06.2026 17minThe noise around productivity has gotten really loud lately, and I think a lot of it has to do with AI. There are apps, tools, and technology promising to 10X your output, and every corner of the internet is telling you how to squeeze more into your day. But what if that constant push to produce more, faster, is actually making you worse at the very thing it's claiming to help you with? In this episode, I'm breaking down why two of the most important types of productivity are being completely... -
Why Eat the Frog Is Setting You Up to Fail 16.06.2026 17minYou've probably heard the productivity advice that says you should tackle your hardest task first thing in the morning. Eat the frog, they call it. Get the big, heavy, ugly thing done before you do anything else, and the rest of your day is downhill from there. Sounds great. Except... what happens when life lands in your lap before you ever get to the frog? If you've been trying this method and quietly wondering why it's not working for you, this episode is going to be a relief. I couldn't ma... -
Breaking the Busyness Cycle Before You Pass It to Your Kids 09.06.2026 28minI know we've talked about boundaries on this show before. But this conversation? It went somewhere I really wasn't expecting. My guest today is Alex Lianne Carter, a master certified neurocoach, educator, and children's author who burned out, rebuilt her life one small decision at a time, and eventually packed up her family and moved to Panama. When Alex reached out to me about coming on to talk about boundaries, I sat with it for a minute because the angle she brought was one I hadn't heard ... -
4 Hidden Costs of AI That Are Stealing Your Time 02.06.2026 20minEverybody's telling you AI is going to save you time, but nobody's handing you the full picture. I'll be upfront: I use AI every single day. It is a real, genuine part of how we run The Pink Bee. This is not a "AI is bad" episode. But I have been watching the conversation around AI get louder and louder, and something critical keeps getting left out of it. Because everything on this podcast is about time management, organization, and productivity, I felt like I had to say something. In this e... -
Ditch Money Overwhelm with Linda Grizely 26.05.2026 33minIf you've been hanging around here for a while, you know we talk a lot about time. But here's something I've noticed over and over again with the women I work with: once they start getting out of overwhelm with their time and their physical space, a third area starts showing up. Money. That's why in this episode, I brought personal finance expert and financial wellness speaker Linda Grizely onto the show. Because money overwhelm is real, it's connected to everything else on your plate, ... -
Teaching Your Kids Time Management Before the Next School Year 19.05.2026 25minIf the end of the school year is feeling like a highlight reel of forgotten deadlines, last-minute store runs, and late-night stress in your house, it's worth asking why this keeps happening, because it's probably not the first time, and without the right tools in place, it won't be the last. We drop kids into a system that goes from one teacher and one classroom straight to seven different teachers, seven different styles, and seven different ways of assigning work, and then wonder why every... -
How I Plan My Entire Summer Around Two Types of Days 12.05.2026 20minSummer is coming, and if you've got kids at home, you already know the tension: you want the lazy pool days AND you need to get things done. This episode is the system that makes both possible. I'm revisiting one of my all-time favorite summer planning tools: A days, B days, and C days, and this year I'm going deeper than I have before. I'm also sharing the extra layer that business owners especially need to hear: how to figure out your true "have-tos" before summer hits so you're not scrambl... -
A 3-Stage Plan for Moms to Stop Dreading Summer with Erin Port 05.05.2026 28minI have a total love-hate relationship with summer. I am always so ready for it to come, ready to ditch the alarm clocks and the get-ready-for-school morning routine, ready for more freedom and less structure. And then halfway through I find myself craving the structure back, caught in this endless tug of war between still having a company to run, wanting time for myself, and also actually enjoying summer with my daughter. I brought Erin Port on the show because she has a framework for summer ... -
The Technology Shift That Quietly Created a New Kind of Mental Load for Default Parents 28.04.2026 16minThere was a time when staying on top of your family's schedule was actually pretty straightforward. A paper packet came home from school, the activity coordinator called the phone tree, and if you needed your partner to know something, you handed them the paper. Done. Information found you, and you could pass it along just as easily. Then came the apps, the portals, and the online enrollment systems, all with the promise that they would make things simpler, that you'd have everything right th... -
How to Stop Managing Everyone When Your Family Has ADHD with Brooke Schnittman 21.04.2026 31minManaging a household where brains work differently is genuinely one of the hardest things to navigate, and most families are figuring it out in real time without a lot of guidance. The systems that work for one person don't always work for another, the communication styles that feel natural to one family member can feel completely foreign to someone else, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, someone usually ends up carrying more than their share. In this episode, I'm joined by ADHD coach... -
Planning Will Finally Work for Your Life After You Do This First 14.04.2026 15minToday's topic is not sexy. It is not glamorous. But I promise you this... if you do this one thing, it is going to be what makes any planning strategy you want to implement actually work. The chances are you have been avoiding this one thing because you misunderstand the intent of it. And once you understand why you're doing it, everything changes. In this episode, I'm breaking down the one foundational step I have every single person start with inside the TOP Program, and why it is the thing... -
The Difference Between Planning and Decision Making on Big Projects 07.04.2026 25minYou've got a big project on your plate, maybe more than one, and the stress is already building before you've even taken the first step. You're researching, overthinking, trying to map out every possible outcome and contingency plan. And the more you try to figure it all out upfront, the more paralyzed you feel. What if the reason you're so stressed isn't the project itself? What if it's because you're treating planning and decision making as the same thing, when they're actually two complete...
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