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Jessica Leigh

How to Save Time & Money Fast With A No Spend Challenge for the Whole Family

When I first discovered the concept of a “no spend challenge,” admittedly, I was apprehensive. All I saw was deprivation, Ramen Noodles, and boredom, but that was FAR from the truth of our reality during our first no spend month back in 2014. Maybe that’s your current view too. But stick around, because a no spend challenge, or “spending freeze” as some call it, is SO powerful and can change your life really fast. Choosing

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July 14, 2020 No Comments
Jessica Leigh

7 Strategies for Efficient Grocery Shopping

If quarantine this year taught us anything about our food shopping habits, it’s that efficient grocery shopping is completely possible and within our reach! NO, we don’t actually need to hit the grocery store more than once a week, even if it’s “on the way home from work” or “just a quick stop.” Not even for perishables. Those short trips never felt like an inconvenience before. But once they were eliminated, we realized clearly that

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July 8, 2020 No Comments
Jessica Leigh

How to Simplify Meal Planning When You’re Tired of the Process

You never thought you’d be making THIS many meals at home in your entire life. But here we are and I’ll just cut to the chase: it’s time to simplify meal planning, friend! If you’ve never done the math to calculate how many meals one person eats in a year, it’s over 1,000. Not including snacks. No wonder meal planning under quarantine (or even under “normal” just-trying-to-eat-more-at-home circumstances) is so difficult. The grocery bill is

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May 26, 2020 No Comments
Jessica Leigh

Create an Easy Summer Meal Plan for 90 Days in Less Than 2 Hours

Imagine if you spent just 2 hours today building an easy summer meal plan that led you to 90 full days of meals on the calendar … A meal plan that prioritized flavor, excitement & simplicity all-in-one. One that easily fit within your busy weekly schedule? Don’t believe it can be done (for free, no less)? Hear me out. Before we created our own quarterly meal plan in the fall of 2019, I had no

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May 19, 2020 No Comments
Jessica Leigh

Why You Might Want to Kickstart a Healthy Lifestyle Today

You’re doing an amazing job! Right now. In this moment. Whatever brought you here to find out how to kickstart a healthy lifestyle, be gentle on yourself before anything (I’m sure you ARE, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it!) You’re juggling the responsibilities of motherhood right alongside your career during this wild emotional rollercoaster that is our current world. You’re waking up early, staying up late, and fitting all the rest of your tasks

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May 12, 2020 No Comments
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Jessica Leigh

13 Ways to Maintain a Clutter-Free Home (for Longer Than 5 Minutes)

So you think it might be impossible to maintain a clutter-free home for more than 5 minutes? You’ve worked diligently to declutter & clean your home (fit into an already busy schedule), felt proud of the work you accomplished, then the family dove in and lost their minds in the tidiness. Hurricane Toddler & Tropical Storm Husband strikes again … Solidarity, sister. Been there … done that! Take a deep breath, mama. It’s not impossible!

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May 5, 2020 No Comments
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Jessica Leigh

How to Declutter Your Home (Even When You’re Overwhelmed)

In this post, you’ll learn how to declutter your home with a simplified method when you’re paralyzed by overwhelm, stuck on inaction, or just want to declutter the easy way! Does one of those cases sound like you? Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here! If you read last week’s post, I briefly introduced this 30% Room-By-Room Declutter Method. The concept isn’t completely new, as I’m sure you’re familiar with the idea of navigating through your

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April 21, 2020 No Comments
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Jessica Leigh

Declutter 101 | What You Need to Know About Tidying Your Home

You’ve been wondering lately if now’s the time to finally declutter your home. Things are bursting at the seams and you’re constantly trying to re-organize your home, only to see it rebound quickly the next day. This happens more often than you’d like to admit, right? It’s exhausting! And I can totally relate. Growing up, organization was FUN for me. Color-coding and label-making were my jam. It was something to occupy my time and feel

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April 14, 2020 No Comments

Hey, mama! Welcome.

Home Sweet Work Life exists to help you achieve your career ambitions without missing the best moments of motherhood at every stage.

I’m Jessica ~ Director of Life Operations, equipping ambitious working moms to take their time back and reverse the burnout track.

Grab a (hot) coffee & stay awhile.

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