Empowering More Balance and Less Stress in Our Everyday Lives and Leadership
Empowering
More Balance and Less Stress in Our Everyday Lives and Leadership
Your Balanced and Bold Life: Work Less, Live More, and Be Your Best
In a world with so many demands and expectations, balance is a strategic move.
Being busy, overwhelmed and working long hours, while sacrificing your well-being and family time, is simply not necessary and it is hurting your performance.
It's keeping you from being your best as a leader, as a parent, as a person.
Being busy, overwhelmed and working long hours, while sacrificing your well-being and family time, is simply not necessary and it is hurting your performance.
It's keeping you from being your best as a leader, as a parent, as a person.
I work with leaders and teams who want to go from being too busy and burning out to creating more balance, well-being and higher levels of performance.
You can work less and be more effective. You can feel happier and be your best at work and home even with all the demands and messiness of everyday life. You can lead by example by taking care of yourself and focusing on what really matters, creating a positive ripple effect for others around you.
This all starts with an understanding that our happiness and well-being fuel performance and success. Yet this is what's often sacrificed to "get the job done". The traditional thinking that if we just work harder, we will be successful and then we'll be happy, is backward and is undermining performance.
Because it is really hard to be your best when you are feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, scattered and pulled in so many directions, or sacrificing your values and what’s important to you.
Your complete step-by-step guide to being at your best, for more balance and less stress.
THE BALANCED LEADER™
Whether you want to learn how to say no, focus your time, or go all in to become the balanced leader you want to be, we have a next step right-sized for you.
VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON
Support your team or organization with an engaging keynote or workshop to help them be more balanced, stress less, and perform even better.
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Coaching
CONNECT. CLARIFY. CREATE.
Looking for a leadership or executive coach to help you become more balanced, less overwhelmed, focus on the right things, or something else? Book a call and we can see what's right for you!
Join Stacey L. Olson and a small group of like-minded professional women for an intimate, one-day workshop designed for clarity, connection, and inspired action.
The goal? To help you shift from being 'busy or burned-out' to stepping into being a Balanced Leader, leaving the day clear on what to focus on that will move you forward.
Your complete step-by-step guide to being at your best, for more balance and less stress.
THE BALANCED LEADER™
Whether you want to learn how to say no, focus your time, or go all in to become the balanced leader you want to be, we have a next step right-sized for you.
CONNECT VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON
Support your team or organization with a keynote or workshop on balance, focus on what really matters, resilience, well-being and positive leadership for greater satisfaction, engagement, mental health, relationships, performance, and more.
Private Coaching
CONNECT. CLARIFY. CREATE.
Looking for a leadership or executive coach to help you become more balanced, less overwhelmed, focus on the right things, or something else? Book a call and we can see what's right for you!
Join Stacey L. Olson and a small group of like-minded professional women for an intimate, one-day workshop designed for clarity, connection, and inspired action.
The goal? To help you shift from being 'busy or burned-out' to stepping into being a Balanced Leader, leaving the day clear on what to focus on that will move you forward.
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What's on my mind?
What if you confidently and firmly decided to make the change you’ve been wanting to make?
Let's dive into confidently and firmly deciding to make a change!
It’s been just over a year since I quit drinking alcohol. I didn’t have a problem with it and was already a light drinker (though I drank way too much in my younger years).
There were a few reasons—making healthier choices, being mindful of the example I wanted to set for my kids, and a family history of addiction. Mostly, though, alcohol just lost its joy for me.
It no longer served a purpose or aligned with who I wanted to be.
In the months leading up to quitting, I often found myself debating whether to have a drink when out with friends or at the end of the workweek. I’d overthink it and expend mental energy.
Most of the time, I didn’t really want one, but I felt the social pressure or was in the habit of having a drink.
Then, one day last September, I had a thought: What if I just stop altogether? In that moment, I confidently and firmly decided: I am no longer a drinker!
From then on, my choices became clear. Since I’m no longer a drinker, there was no more debating whether to have a drink.
This was an identity shift, like choosing a new badge to wear.
It freed up mental energy. I stressed less. I made quicker and easier choices—all from changing the starting place I was operating from.
There have been times this past year when I wanted a drink, but I came back to: I am not a drinker, so what would I do?
When you shift the place you operate from, these everyday choices become easier.
You make quicker, meaningful change—because you're deciding upfront what's right for you. It puts you back in the driver's seat, in control of your choices and direction.
You free up mental energy you used to spend debating and overthinking what to do. And you'll feel less stressed and more confident in how to move forward.
The key is this internal decision must be aligned with what you truly want and value—not what you think you ‘should’ do.
A bigger shift like this isn’t about huge, sweeping changes—it’s about making an internal decision about who you want to be and how you want to operate.
Think about it:
Are you a busy, burned-out leader or a balanced leader?
An impatient, distracted parent or a kind, present parent?
Someone who doesn’t have enough time for everything, or someone who makes time for what really matters?
When you change your starting point, your choices become clearer.
Looking back on any meaningful change in my life, it never truly happened until I made an internal, firm decision.
What if you confidently and firmly decided to make a change you’ve wanted to make—big or small? Be bold!
Put your line in the sand and trust you'll figure it out.
And when you need to make a choice or get off track, ask yourself, ‘If I am being _______________, what would I do?’
Stop overthinking it and make choices from THAT place! Your future self will thank you.
What’s next? Get your copy of Your Balanced and Bold Life: Work Less, Live More, and Be Your Best, available on Amazon and other major online retailers, or visit www.staceyolson.ca/book.
This book will guide you to be happier, balanced, and successful—whatever that looks like for YOU!
What if you confidently and firmly decided to make the change you’ve been wanting to make?
Let's dive into confidently and firmly deciding to make a change!
It’s been just over a year since I quit drinking alcohol. I didn’t have a problem with it and was already a light drinker (though I drank way too much in my younger years).
There were a few reasons—making healthier choices, being mindful of the example I wanted to set for my kids, and a family history of addiction. Mostly, though, alcohol just lost its joy for me.
It no longer served a purpose or aligned with who I wanted to be.
In the months leading up to quitting, I often found myself debating whether to have a drink when out with friends or at the end of the workweek. I’d overthink it and expend mental energy.
Most of the time, I didn’t really want one, but I felt the social pressure or was in the habit of having a drink.
Then, one day last September, I had a thought: What if I just stop altogether? In that moment, I confidently and firmly decided: I am no longer a drinker!
From then on, my choices became clear. Since I’m no longer a drinker, there was no more debating whether to have a drink.
This was an identity shift, like choosing a new badge to wear.
It freed up mental energy. I stressed less. I made quicker and easier choices—all from changing the starting place I was operating from.
There have been times this past year when I wanted a drink, but I came back to: I am not a drinker, so what would I do?
When you shift the place you operate from, these everyday choices become easier.
You make quicker, meaningful change—because you're deciding upfront what's right for you. It puts you back in the driver's seat, in control of your choices and direction.
You free up mental energy you used to spend debating and overthinking what to do. And you'll feel less stressed and more confident in how to move forward.
The key is this internal decision must be aligned with what you truly want and value—not what you think you ‘should’ do.
A bigger shift like this isn’t about huge, sweeping changes—it’s about making an internal decision about who you want to be and how you want to operate.
Think about it:
Are you a busy, burned-out leader or a balanced leader?
An impatient, distracted parent or a kind, present parent?
Someone who doesn’t have enough time for everything, or someone who makes time for what really matters?
When you change your starting point, your choices become clearer.
Looking back on any meaningful change in my life, it never truly happened until I made an internal, firm decision.
What if you confidently and firmly decided to make a change you’ve wanted to make—big or small? Be bold!
Put your line in the sand and trust you'll figure it out.
And when you need to make a choice or get off track, ask yourself, ‘If I am being _______________, what would I do?’
Stop overthinking it and make choices from THAT place! Your future self will thank you.
What’s next? Get your copy of Your Balanced and Bold Life: Work Less, Live More, and Be Your Best, available on Amazon and other major online retailers, or visit www.staceyolson.ca/book.
This book will guide you to be happier, balanced, and successful—whatever that looks like for YOU!
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