Sustainable CEO Mom: Productivity, Automation, AI and Marketing Strategies for Female Entrepreneurs + Service Providers (Formerly Moms Make Money Podcast)

Hosted by Jenny Suneson | Business Mentor and Visibility Strategist for Moms

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Are you a mom who is looking to build a profitable service- based business in part time hours? Then you've come to the right place. Many moms feel like we need to sacrifice our careers for our children but I wholeheartedly believe that we can have a thriving business and family at the same time. In this podcast, we’re going to be diving into the ins and outs of running a business as a mom in part time hours including how to get visible without relying on social media, how to generate consistent leads in your service-based business, how to use automations to get more time back, and so much more. This podcast will answer questions such as: - How do I start a business as a mom? - How can I run my business with my children at home? - How can I grow my business without relying on social media? - How can I meet my income goals in part time hours? - How can I thrive in business as a service provider? - and many more! If you're ready to grow a profitable service-based business in 20 hours a week or less, then join us every Wednesday for new episodes of the Sustainable CEO Mom (formerly Moms Make Money Podcast) where you can expect simple and sustainable business, marketing, automation, and AI strategies for mom entrepreneurs.

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October 14, 2026Episode 1415 min

141. The Planning Mistake That's Costing You Your Q4

Send us Fan Mail It’s the second week of October and most business owners are mapping out Q4 like it’s a normal 13 weeks: same output goals, same launch cadence, same “I’ll just push through” energy they’ve had all year. Then Thanksgiving week hits, December disappears into school concerts and holiday shopping and suddenly you’re three weeks behind on a plan that was never realistic to begin with. In this episode, I’m breaking down the one Q4 planning mistake that leaves so many moms totally depleted by the end of the year (and why it sneakily feels like ambition). Instead of asking “what do I want to accomplish this quarter?”, you’ll learn to ask a better question: given my real capacity, what’s actually worth protecting? In this episode, you’ll learn: Why planning Q4 like it’s Q2 sets you up for a December scramble The real reasons everyone’s capacity drops in Q4 (your clients, your kids, and your energy) How to map your low-capacity weeks first and plan around them, not through them Why picking ONE priority beats juggling three to five this quarter How to batch in October so late-November and December content is already done The question to ask before you finalize your plan: “Am I planning for the quarter I actually have, or the one I wish I had?” How CEO Moms who plan this way get to be present for the holidays instead of keeping a laptop open in the other room Mentioned in this episode: The CEO Mom Blueprint, my free guide to figuring out where to focus first >> https://www.momsmakemoneycollective.com/ceo-mom-blueprint/ The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

October 7, 2026Episode 1405 min

140. The Story You're Telling Yourself About Why You Can't Grow

Send us Fan Mail Quick game. How many of these have you said out loud, or thought quietly at 11 PM while scrolling a competitor's Instagram? "I need more hours." "I have to do everything myself." "I'm not ready yet." "Growth means sacrificing my family time." If you went four for four, you're in very good company. These stories keep moms stuck because they sound like wisdom and responsibility. Today I'm calling out all four and giving you the reframe for each one. You'll walk away knowing: Why growth is a design problem, not a time problem Why control isn't the same as quality, and what holding on really costs you Why "ready" is a feeling, not a checkpoint, and it shows up after you act Why growth vs. family time is a false trade-off, and what lasting businesses are built on instead I'm also sharing where each of these got me, including saying yes to growth in the middle of postpartum. They're stories, not facts. And the business on the other side of letting one go is closer than you think. Find your next step at https://momsmakemoneycollective.com/ceo-mom-blueprint/ The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

September 30, 2026Episode 1395 min

139. The Idea I Almost Talked Myself Out Of

Send us Fan Mail I almost didn't do it. In this quick, honest episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on the imposter syndrome that nearly stopped me from building the Moms Made for More Summit, my new event for moms who want more for themselves beyond motherhood. It's outside my usual lane, and that "who are you to do this?" voice showed up disguised as totally reasonable strategy. If you're sitting on an idea, offer, or pivot you keep talking yourself out of, this one's for you. In this episode, you'll hear: Why imposter syndrome disguises itself as logical, "reasonable" business decisions The excuses I had lined up (and why they sounded so convincing) The one question that flipped my decision from "Am I qualified?" to "Am I going to let fear write the ending to my year?" Why the decision got simpler, even though it didn't get easier What it means to choose the bold thing over the safe thing before 2026 wraps up A first look at the Moms Made for More Summit and how to get on the waitlist Links mentioned: Join the Moms Made for More Summit waitlist: https://www.momsmadeformoresummit.com Tell me about the idea you almost talked yourself out of: DM me on Instagram @jenny.suneson The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

September 23, 2026Episode 13811 min

138. The Holiday-Proof Business: 4 Systems to Set Up Before November

Send us Fan Mail Your business doesn't fall apart in December, it falls apart in October. You just don't feel it until you're answering client emails from your mother-in-law's kitchen while something burns in the oven. Every January we tell ourselves the same lie: "I just need to be more disciplined next year." Nope. You need to be less necessary. In this episode, Jenny breaks down the four systems (not habits, not mindset shifts) to build before November so your business keeps breathing while you're not touching it: The Revenue Runway — one thing that sells without a conversation, so money can come in while you're asleep The Buffer — the FAQ, out of office, and heads-up email that stop your inbox from running your holidays The Content Cushion — staying visible in December without staying online, so January doesn't start cold The Re-Entry Ramp — making your January decisions in October while you still have the energy and the data to make them well This one's for the service-based CEO Mom who wants an actual break this year, not a slightly-more-efficient version of working through it. Ready to build these instead of just nodding along? The CEO Mom Q4 Reset Cohort is open now at momsmakemoneycollective.com/q4-reset/ The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

September 16, 2026Episode 13711 min

137. Behind the Scenes: How I'm Planning My Own Q4 in 20 Hours a Week

Send us Fan Mail Most Q4 plans don't fail because you got lazy in November. They fail because the plan was mathematically impossible in October. In this behind-the-scenes episode, I walk through my actual Q4 planning session, including the moment I realized I had mentally committed to 300 hours of plans with only 160 hours to spend. Instead of starting with goals, I started with my calendar and it changed everything I said yes to. I break down the exact 4-step framework I used to build a Q4 plan I actually believe I will finish: Count — how to find your real working hours (hint: it's way fewer than you think) Cut — the one question that makes prioritizing painless, even when everything feels important Commit — why picking one revenue driver beats juggling three Cushion — the counterintuitive reason you should never plan to 100% capacity Plus, why she moved her book launch to spring 2027, what "maintenance mode" actually means for a podcast, and why a smaller plan you finish beats a bigger plan you abandon by week six. If this episode makes you want to open your calendar right now, good. That's the whole point. Want to go deeper? Grab the free CEO Mom Q4 Reset private podcast series at q4reset.com and build your own Q4 plan in a week. The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

September 9, 2026Episode 13612 min

136. What 90 Days of Focus Actually Changes

Send us Fan Mail You didn't fail your last 90-day goal because you lack discipline. You failed it because you tried to be five kinds of ambitious at once and five priorities split across a 20-hour work week means each one gets about four hours. That's not a launch. That's not a nurture sequence. That's not anything. In this episode, we break down why your quarterly plans keep falling apart and it's not a you problem. It's a design problem. I walk through the real math on why concentrating your hours on one thing beats spreading them across five, gives you full permission to drop what isn't working and maps out exactly what changes month by month once you commit to a single 90-day focus (including the rough part in month one nobody warns you about). In this episode: Why 20% progress on five things equals zero progress on anything The real math: 65 focused hours on one project vs. 13 hours each on five Why "I'll find the time" is a wish, not a plan Your permission slip to drop the platform, pause the offer, and stop polishing what already works The month-by-month breakdown of what actually happens when you focus The one question to ask yourself this week to lock in your Q4 focus Free resource: The CEO Mom Q4 Reset private podcast series at https://www.q4reset.com The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

September 2, 2026Episode 13511 min

135. The Q4 Trap: Why Most CEO Moms Lose the Last Quarter Before It Even Starts

Send us Fan Mail By the time you sit down on October 1st with your fresh planner and your very ambitious color-coded plan, Q4 is already over. Not literally — structurally. The moms who have a great fourth quarter didn't have more discipline than you. They made a handful of decisions in August and September that you're about to make in November, when it's far too late for those decisions to do anything. This isn't a "get more disciplined for the last stretch" episode. It's a design problem, not a discipline problem and Jenny walks through the four Q4 traps that stack on top of each other every year, plus the three moves that fix all four in about 90 minutes this week. In this episode: Why September is actually the first month of Q4 and what happens to your revenue when you don't treat it that way The capacity math that turns 13 weeks into 8 (Halloween, Thanksgiving, winter break, and the flu week you don't get to schedule) Why year-end revenue panic is the most expensive revenue there is, and the better question to ask instead How to front-load your quarter so December stops feeling like a failure and starts feeling like the reward The Count → Cut → Commit process to build a Q4 plan against your real capacity, not the fantasy version Eight good weeks spent on the right thing will do more for your business than 13 frantic ones. Let's design this Q4 instead of surviving it. Grab free access to the CEO Mom Q4 Reset private podcast series at q4reset.com. The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

August 26, 2026Episode 1349 min

134. The 90-Minute Fall Planning Session Every CEO Mom Needs

Send us Fan Mail September is coming whether you're ready or not and right now you've got two options: let fall sneak up on you the same way summer did — good intentions, no real plan, a Notes app full of voice memos from July or spend 90 minutes getting crystal clear on what you actually want these next three months to look like. 90 minutes. That's one nap time. One school drop-off window. One Saturday morning before the house wakes up. In this episode, I'm walking you through the exact structure of a fall reset planning session, broken into three thirty-minute blocks: The Look Back — your revenue reality check, an honest time audit, and what actually worked (versus what just felt busy) The Look Ahead — mapping your real capacity, choosing your ONE big focus, and setting a revenue goal rooted in math instead of vibes The CEO Week Design — the block most people skip and the reason most plans die by week two Because you can have the most beautiful 90 day plan in the world but if your actual week isn't built to support it, it's just a pretty document living in a folder you never open. Your challenge before next week: open your calendar and block the ninety minutes. Not think about it. Block it. Mentioned in this episode: The 20-Hour CEO Mom Starter Kit — $17, instant access The CEO Mom Blueprint Quiz — free, takes 2–3 minutes The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

August 19, 2026Episode 13314 min

133. Your Business Doesn't Need a Reinvention—It Needs a Reset

Send us Fan Mail That itch to blow it all up and start over? It's not strategy. It's usually burnout, comparison, or a plateau in a really convincing costume. Reinvention feels like freedom. In practice, it looks like months of research mode, rewriting your bio, questioning every decision you've ever made and coming out the other side with something suspiciously similar to what you already had. Meanwhile, you haven't made a dollar or shown up for your audience. This week we're separating reinvention from a reset and why nine times out of ten, the reset is what you actually need. Inside this episode: The four reasons reinvention is so tempting (and why the sneakiest one feels productive) The RESET framework — Results, Energy, Systems, Execution, Timeline — to diagnose what's actually broken before you touch anything The three phases of a real reset: clarity, simplification, recommitment Why most strategies need 3-6 months, not 4 weeks, before you call them a failure Your business isn't broken. It's tired and cluttered and it needs focused attention — not a funeral. Doors are open for the CEO Mom Fall Reset, a four-week live program starting August 25th. The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website

August 12, 2026Episode 13215 min

132. Why You Feel Behind Every September (And How to Fix It)

Send us Fan Mail Feeling behind in September isn't a discipline problem. It's a structure problem and no amount of pretty planners or 5am routines is going to fix it. Every fall, mom entrepreneurs hit the same wall: back-to-school chaos, brand-new schedules, emotionally wrecked kids at 3pm, and a business that never paused for summer. Then everyone around you starts talking fall launches and Q4 planning while you're still trying to remember what you were even working on in June. Jenny unpacks why September hits mom entrepreneurs so hard (spoiler: it's not a transition, it's a collision), shares the kindergarten year that completely changed how she builds, and gives you the one move to make before you plan, batch, or launch anything: stabilize. Inside this episode: Why "just get more disciplined" is the wrong diagnosis entirely The difference between a productivity problem and a capacity problem The three parts of stabilizing — getting honest about your real capacity, naming your non-negotiables, and letting everything else wait without guilt Why sprinting through a transition doesn't slow you down, it makes you crash If you're walking into Q4 already running on fumes, this one hands you a way forward built for your actual life — not the imaginary version with unlimited hours. Mentioned in this episode: 20-Hour Workweek Blueprint → momsmakemoneycollective.com/blueprint CEO Mom Fall Reset → https://www.momsmakemoneycolletive.com/ceo-mom-fall-reset/ The MOMentum Hub is a free community for mom entrepreneurs who want clarity, consistency, and momentum without burnout. Inside, you’ll find weekly momentum resets, short audios you can actually finish, simple prompts, and supportive conversations that fit real life. Join for free and build momentum one focused week at a time. Connect with Us: Instagram Website