Stay at home mom and Comedian, Hot Mess Heidi Robey, is on the podcast today to teach us how to simplify our lives, finding time to rest, and how to be kinder to ourselves. On this podcast episode, Heidi talks to us all about her New Years RESTolutions instead of resolutions.

She teaches us: Resolutions: goals to do more and they complicate life. RESTolutions: goals to do LESS and simplify life. You’ve got to tune in and hear how she focuses on the most important and lets go of the fluff!

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Show Notes:

Heidi Robey has dreamed of being a movie star her whole life. She tried out improv for awhile, but it just wasn’t the right fit. She threw herself into sketch comedy and skit writing and found her place.

Heidi dabbled in many different jobs and life experiences before she became a comedian. She got her bachelor’s degree, served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went to cosmetology school, worked as a flight attendant and even worked as a nanny.

Now she is a mama to 2 boys with one more on the way! She works as a comedian (with huge success on Tik Tok (find her here with more than 1/2 million subscribers!!) to help put her husband through dental school.

Fun fact: Grandpa Beck (as in Grandpa Beck Games) is her dad!! We love those games!! One of her favorite games to play with her kids is Nuts About Mutts (an UNO style game). Our kids love that one as well. Skull King Game has her picture featured as one of the pirates (how fun is that?!). Skull King is one of our family favorites as well as Cover Your Assets and Cover Your Kingdom. They are a big part of our family game nights!!

Another fun tidbit! Heidi’s favorite food is salad!! I was so excited to hear that that I put together 25 of our delicious salad recipes into a Salad Index for you to access in our Freebie Resource Library. Get access to that HERE!!

On this episode, Heidi talks to us all about her New Years RESTolutions instead of resolutions. Here is what she taught us:

Resolutions: goals to do more and they complicate life. Come from a place inside that tells us we aren’t good enough unless we achieve these things.

RESTolutions: goals to do LESS and simplify life. We are already good enough- we can do better It’s a place of self kindness.

The biggest way this has helped her is in her parenting. It has helped her free up time and energy to have quality time with her kids and let go of the mom guilt.

Here is how we set a RESTolution:

Take an inventory of your life and think of ways you could make it a little easier. Set goals for short cuts! For example: use paper plates, make an order for grocery deliver or pick up, hire some help for your housework, schedule rest on your calendar, look for busy work you can cut out.

She likes to apply the business rule of 80/20. 80% of your results come from 20% of your work. One way you can do this is to make a list of roles in your life. Examples might be parenting, marriage, work, church, etc. Pick 2-3 things in each category you want to be especially awesome at and let the rest go.

For Heidi, in her housework role, doing the dishes, and keeping the living room clean are especially important to her. But making her bed is on the very bottom of her list of importance, so she just lets it go. If for some reason she did get to making her bed that day- it’s just a bonus!

Where to find more from Heidi Robey:

Tik Tok - Hot Mess Heidi

Instagram - Hot Mess Heidi Robey

Facebook - Hot Mess Heidi

Home Hacks from Heidi:

Meal prep a big batch of breakfast and use it throughout the week
For those picky eaters!! Grab a story book and read one page per bite. BRILLIANT! This helps feed the kids but also fits in that goal of reading to your kids at the same time!