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325. How To Be Awesome At Low Cost & High Impact Party Ideas

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

Release Date: 06/10/2025

339. How To Be Awesome At Normalizing What Should Be Normal show art 339. How To Be Awesome At Normalizing What Should Be Normal

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

I have lots of thoughts to share today of things I think we should normalize.    Things that aren’t considered normal in general in the world we live in and I’m going to argue my point of why I think they should be.   For us and for our families and for the people around us.   Because our goal is to always strive for fulfillment and joy and health and longevity and peace of mind and all of these ideas I’m going to present to you today support all of that.   I’m going to get heat for some of these and I love it because its against the grain and thinking for...

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338. 10 Minute A Day Habits That Make Your Life More Awesome show art 338. 10 Minute A Day Habits That Make Your Life More Awesome

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

My goal in this podcast episode is to give you LOTS of ideas of things you can do, that each only take 10 minutes, that will level up your life in some way.  I think most of us feel like we want less time on our phones and more time doing things that make us feel fulfilled or have more energy or stronger relationships or make more money or whatever it is.  But, it’s just so much easier to default to scrolling rather than adding in a consistent 10 minute habit that really stacks up over time.  Well, that’s no longer because I’ve compiled a massive list of 10 minute habit...

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337. How To Be Awesome At Being A Wife Who Says Yes show art 337. How To Be Awesome At Being A Wife Who Says Yes

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

I hesitate to give any awesome tips on marriage or parenting because just when I think I have something fully figured out it flips!  But this one is good I promise.    How To Be Awesome At Being A Wife Who Says Yes    Can I go golfing mid day tomorrow?  Yes Can I go to a movie last minute with the boys tonight? Yes    If it’s not potentially dangerous or disrespectful, my answer is yes!       I even say yes if its irritating… and I think you should too. Boys night tonight when you weren’t expecting it and you’re tired and you’ll...

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336. How To Be Awesome When Someone Is A Jerk To You show art 336. How To Be Awesome When Someone Is A Jerk To You

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

You’re going to love this podcast episode so much that you’re going to look forward to the next time someone is a jerk to you.    Because we are programming ourselves to be ready for it today!  The next time someone says something rude or belittles you… you’re ready for it with the best ever responses.   Let’s use an example of something that was said to me last weekend… I was at a party and a girl came up to me with the oddest tone and said…  "I like your dress.  My favorite look is a desperate housewife"   Ready for the response?  You...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

I’m not sure about you but the heaviness of the world right now has me needing more time for calm and reflection and planning… and in that process of really prioritizing this… I realized the importance of a personal fortress.     A space where you can retreat and be alone and do whatever you need to do to reset your mind, revisit your priorities and how you spend your time and mental energy… all of it.    I wanted to do a podcast episode on this topic because I think changing our environment changes our headspace and in this way it can be so fulfilling.   ...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

It’s back to school and back to routines and for me that means a new season of podcasting and starting this one off with how to maximize our time while our kids are in school.   Insane to say but I now have a high schooler and in my many years of having school age children I’ve learned so much about how to use this time to have time for yourself, get the things done that you need to, catch up with people that you love, fitness & nutrition, take care of appointments and errands… without wasting any time.    My goal of this podcast is to give you a really helpful...

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333. How To Be Awesome At Not Having FOMO show art 333. How To Be Awesome At Not Having FOMO

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How To Be Awesome At Not Having FOMO   This is one huge deep dive into FOMO.   The fear of missing out and why I think it can quietly steal your peace, confidence and joy if you don’t have a plan for how to think about it.    Lots of things I talk about on this podcast, I’m currently also working on becoming awesome at the thing.    This is one of those things that I’ve got down.  I don’t have FOMO ever and I don’t get my feelings hurt if I wasn’t invited somewhere.    Not that either of these things are bad feelings - I don't actually...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

We just officially passed the 1 million download mark on this podcast and I’m so crazy grateful for it.    What an incredible time to be alive and have so many ways to connect with people that you would never connect with otherwise.    To celebrate- I wanted to share things I know for sure.  Some of the lessons and thoughts that feel like the most valuable right now from books and interviews and conversations with really interesting people.    We were renewing our passports yesterday and I asked the girl helping us how her day was going and she looked at...

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What if disappearing for 30 days felt like a rocket ship toward the goals you’ve been thinking about… the habits you’ve wanted to build, the changes you’ve wanted to make.  In this episode, I’m showing you how to hit pause on your normal life, go all in on what actually moves the needle, and come out with results that would’ve taken years.. or never happened at all. This episode is about changing up your routine and getting quiet for a certain period of time so that you can be laser focused on doing things differently.  It will mean passing up things you normally do and...

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In this episode, I’m sharing the best tips for maximizing your budget when it comes to party planning - especially kids parties.
 
I have this way of doing it that’s efficient and organized and easy to decide what’s worth paying for and what’s better to do yourself. 
 
I’m sharing specific examples from the Party I just threw for Parker because I think it will give you lots and lots of ideas for the parties you plan in the future.
 
This one was a baseball and ice cream theme so I definitely needed ice cream cones.  I got two quotes for companies to scoop fresh ice cream and make ice cream sandwiches and both came in around $850. Instead, I bought the mini ice cream cones from Trader Joe’s for $.46 each - brushed them with a little water and dip them in sprinkles and the kids were so happy.  I took what would have been something like $12 per kid and made it $.46 and if they had two cones, I made it one dollar.  And it had the same feeling as doing the expensive vendor, and nobody knew the difference!
 
There are so many ways to plan your parties so you spend the money in the most strategic ways and and figure out ways to keep things low in cost, but have a big impact. 

 

 
Tips! 
 
-spread out your spend 
 
-get multiple quotes 
 
-start early if you can 
 
-set max budgets for some of the creative people 
 
-do half vendor, half yourself (balloons and treats) 
 
-hat vendor - $450 - DIY would have been similar plus helper time to do it 
 
-caricature - $300 for 3 hours - best deal in town 
 
-pizzas & taco guy- sometimes make it pretty and sometimes just to feed people 
 
-snack table is so easy and so useful and ads to decor 
 
-print signs at a store like FEDEX - then I had my sign girl just do 2 main signs 
 
-print tags, papers and “stickers” yourself 
 
-pizza boxes had our logo on it - just paper cut and taped 
 
-Etsy has great resources 
 
-before you rent - see what you would spend buying and do you have a place to store?  This time I spent too much on a wood wall - but I decided I needed it too late 
 
-you either have to spend lots of time or lots of money!  But you dont have to do both 
 
-use the school of YouTube 
 
 
***Here’s the link to my new party book!!***
 
 
CHEERS to your next awesome party!!