LIVING IN SYNC | Lifestyle & Wellness for Women in their 30s · Joelle Suess | Podcast Producer & Entrepreneur

GIRL CHAT: 10K Race Recap, Why I’m Done With ‘Mom Cracks’ Productivity, Mid Year Reset, & More

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Joelle says she is “done with the mom cracks of the day” as a productivity strategy.

1. LIVING IN SYNC’s “GIRL CHAT” episode centers on a 10K race recap, a mid-year reset, and Joelle Seas’s decision to reject “mom cracks of the day” productivity. 2. Joelle Seas hosts the episode as a mom of two in the Midwest, and she treats the conversation as an informal “girl chat” with practical takeaways. 3. The episode asks what it means to run, work, and parent with realistic capacity instead of trying to do everything at once. 4. Joelle says Instagram Stories can feel like “white noise” because attention spans there are “five to ten seconds long,” while podcast feedback feels more meaningful. 5. She revisits listener responses to earlier episodes with Courtney, a “bad day” theme, and summer hacks like the car kit and morning meetings. 6. She describes the “morning meetings” routine as a simple breakfast check-in where she tells her two boys what the day will look like. 7. The 10K recap covers her start with friend Katie, an easy first mile and a half, and a race strategy shaped by ChatGPT and running podcasts. 8. Joelle says she used an audio-only guided run called the “Kesha run” on Peloton with Robin Arzón during the middle portion of the race. 9. She then switched to a custom playlist that included songs chosen by her husband and two sons, including “Steve’s Love a Chicken” and an Imagine Dragons track. 10. Joelle finishes the race in 1:06:06 and says her next goal is a sub-one-hour 10K by the end of the summer. 11. She says the race felt “perfect” in weather, vibe, and energy, but mile four still required hard effort to keep going. 12. Joelle connects the race to a broader theme: being “proud to be a beginner” and sharing chapter one instead of only chapter ten. 13. She says she could have felt embarrassed about not being under an hour, but she prefers to show the five-month training arc from January to June. 14. The “mom cracks of the day” segment comes from her work in network marketing, where she says the message often implied moms should do everything themselves. 15. Joelle gives Lauren Ricks as a concrete example: a doula, homeschooling mom, and grad student whose life shows the limits of squeezing work into small gaps. 16. She says support can mean childcare, cleaning, meal delivery kits, or grocery delivery, because “working in the mom cracks” can become “working in the mom overlap.” 17. Joelle also says she learned from Chalene Johnson that multitasking can create a stress signal in the brain, and she now prefers single-task focus. 18. The tone stays conversational, self-reflective, and practical, with Joelle moving between race details, business lessons, and personal health goals. 19. Listeners who like motherhood, wellness, running, and online-business reflections will likely get the most from this. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly edited interview or a purely fitness-focused episode may skip it.

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A candid reset on training, productivity guilt, and what moms are asked to do in the cracks.

Joelle Seas uses this girl-chat episode to move from a training recap into a broader reset around what it means to keep going on personal goals inside a packed family schedule. The best part is her refusal to dress up imperfect follow-through.

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For a candid reset that pushes back on "mom cracks" productivity and favors imperfect follow-through.

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