Lead Like A Mother
Lead Like A Mother, is the podcast for conscious mothers and leaders who are ready to align with their purpose, embrace feminine leadership, and create prosperity with ease and grace.
Hosted by Tara Preston, a Feminine Leadership Mentor and Akashic Teacher, each episode dives into the unique challenges and opportunities mothers face as they step into leadership roles at home, in their communities, and beyond.
Through soulful conversations, practical tools, and transformational insights, you’ll learn how to:
🌸 Anchor into motherhood and leadership with authenticity, embodied feminine power and flow to create more freedom, flow and impact
🌸 Heal generational patterns and embody your feminine power.
🌸 Access Akashic wisdom to gain clarity, align with your soul’s purpose, and guide your decisions.
🌸 Create prosperity that nourishes your family, your work, and your soul.
If you’re ready to lead with intention, create meaningful impact, and thrive as a mother and leader, this is the space for you. Let’s redefine leadership—together.
Lead Like A Mother
Why Mothers are the Leaders the World Needs
Join myself, Tara Preston on the NEW Podcast rebrand of Lead Like A Mother!
Unleash the transformative power of feminine leadership as we embark on a journey filled with purpose and authenticity in "Lead Like a Mother."
Imagine stepping into a paradigm where prosperity and purpose align, all while nurturing the essence of conscious motherhood.
This episode isn't just for mothers; it's a call to all leaders eager to embody a leadership style that's true to their inner values and authentic aspirations.
Together, we tackle the complexities and opportunities facing women today, supported by resources like the Akashic 21 Day Womb Activation Journal.
Sink into the Akashic Field as you explore your own leadership style through the perspective of your soul, and embody the wisdom with a guided womb journey!
Get ready to rediscover what it means to lead with sovereignty and connection, prioritizing your visions and desires in the process.
Through soulful discussions and practical exercises in journaling and meditation, we delve into the significance of grounding ourselves in the wisdom of the womb.
We share stories and insights that inspire reflection on living a life fueled with passion and purpose.
Plus, I'm thrilled to introduce "Anchored," a year-long program designed to enhance your radiant leadership abilities with shamanic wisdom journeys.
Join us as we cultivate a vibrant ecosystem where authentic leadership flourishes, not just for ourselves but for the generations to come.
Check out the upcoming ANCHORED: From Chaos to Calm Through the Power of the Womb here: https://akashicwomenschool.com/anchored/. Don't forget to take advantage of the 3 day sliding scale savings!
FREE: The Radiant Morning Power Hour (Come home to the power of presence, and recalibration to your most powerful, radiant self):
https://www.akashicwomenschool.com/free-gift
Reach out to tara@tarapreston.com to learn more about ways to work with her through your life reinvention.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Hi and welcome back or should I welcome myself back to this podcast. It's been a little while and I'm so excited to introduce to you my rebrand. For the last little bit it felt like there was an evolution at the tip of my tongue. Almost I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
Speaker 1:I love Naturally Prosperous Woman. I think that it is the core, the heart of my work in the world. But I felt a need to speak directly to the heart and soul of conscious mothers, of leaders, of way showers. And then, all of a sudden, this name came rolling through my conscious awareness lead like a mother. It almost jolted me for a moment Lead like a mother. And so I have to apologize. I don't have official intro music or any of the fancy bells and whistles, yet it is coming. I'm somebody who kind of likes to roll with things and allow it to organically evolve rather than getting gridlocked in that kind of final perfect product. So here we are, we're just going to drop into the authenticity of it all and I want to introduce to you Lead Like a Mother. And there's so many waves of wisdom and consciousness that I can speak to around this title of Lead Like a Mother, and I think my biggest and deepest invitation is for you to explore and to open to what it means to you to lead like a mother right To lead like a mother. So I want to talk a little bit today about a few things and I'm going to share a little bit about the intro, what some things I'm going to be diving into.
Speaker 1:So, if you don't already know me, my name's Tara Preston and I'm kind of in this metamorphosis right now. To be completely honest, I don't actually really know what to call myself. Right now. I'm the founder of the Akashic Women's School that school existed for a good five years the creator of the Flower of Life Akashic Certification. I've been doing this work for a long time in the online space almost 14 years and have helped hundreds of women from around the globe move through pivotal embodied soul level transformation from around the world. And as of now, I'm planning to close out the Akashic Women's School and I'll just be simplifying some of my offers and my message and my work in the world under my original brand, taraprestoncom. So that's going to be kind of a massive undertaking for 2025, because the Akashic Women's School has been around for so long.
Speaker 1:I've got so many bodies of work tucked underneath that, but it's time to simplify, it's time for a new direction. It's time to solidify and align and simplify and amplify and all of the juiciness that comes with embodied feminine leadership. We get aligned, we get anchored, we get activated, and that's just some of the process that I'm moving through right now. I just want to share that with you. So that's a little bit about who I am. And two, for those of you who are listening to the podcast and some of you have been listening for a little while and I know because I see the podcast, the numbers, the downloads growing you know, feel free to reach out Tara at taraprestoncom and just share a little bit about how this has touched you. I have so many tools and resources. If there's things that are touching you in some way, sparking some awareness, pulling you to go deeper, please reach out. Please reach out because I do have so many, so many free tools and actually I've got so many tools coming, so many tools coming. I have a Akashic 21 Day Womb Activation Journal coming, which I'm super excited about. I've got a lot of resources and tools coming. So just stay tuned. And so I digress.
Speaker 1:So let's go ahead and jump into Lead Like a Mother. I'm going to be working on the intro and the music and all the fun pieces. But here we go. Welcome to Lead Like a Mother. I of course am your host, tara Preston ha and all the fun pieces. But here we go, welcome to Lead Like a Mother. I of course am your host, tara Preston, hailing all the way from the great Canadian North. We're just getting out of the very cold deep freeze.
Speaker 1:This is a podcast for conscious mothers and leaders, really, who are ready to align with their embodied feminine leadership. All right, you want to embrace feminine leadership for these new times. You want to create prosperity? You want to really be congruent to your deeper purpose? Right, because you know that you're here to live from a very rooted, very full, very radiant place of mother right, of being the mother. Right, which is a complete paradigm shift for so many of us, where we've seen our mothers operating from push go, do, hustle, contraction, disconnect, depletion, depression, right, we don't typically live in a world that values the archetype of the mother on a lot of different levels and yet a mother who is connected and robust and in her power, activated, awakened in her turn on, connected in her leadership right, like that soulful wisdom, that soulful vision that guides her path, is a powerhouse Is a powerhouse. Oh, I just had. Okay, here we go. I had a little tight glitch. I'm still recording Beautiful.
Speaker 1:So every episode we'll be diving into things that touch in on what it means to lead like a mother, so that mothers can contribute to the evolution right, to the freedom, to the collective healing, to the financial liberation of themselves, of their families, communities, the planet right, and what it really means to dive into these unique challenges and opportunities that mothers often face, conscious mothers, leaders often face when they're called to way show right Into this new paradigm. I think it's important that we have these resources and that we stay connected, because the challenges are definitely there, because we push up against so much, collectively really, some of the outdated consciousness and structures that exist within the family unit, in our communities, through things that run even through the sisterhood wound, even through the mother wound. It's there and these challenges around parenting right, what it means to instill authentic leadership in our children. So these are really important discussions to have right, so that we don't stay stuck, so we don't stay isolated, so that we continue to move and grow and expand and find freedom right and take up space and really be the leaders that the world needs. Right, mothers do have a unique perspective because they are so tapped in, tuned into the next generation. Right, they're listening and often conscious. Mothers are seers. They see, right, they're very empathic, they see and they feel. And they see and they feel not just the structures and systems of oppression that they push up against, whether it's internalized or external. Right, they can see it within their children as well, what they're pushing up, and so they get a bigger, broader framework of what it is that we're navigating, and so we often we need mothers to be able to trust their instincts, their intuition, their impulses. Right that soulful knowing and clarity, because they're not just way showing for others, right who they're in community with, they're way showing for their children, advocating for their children. So trusting your own leadership becomes crucial. So we're going to have soulful conversations, practical tools, transformational insights. We're going to talk about anchoring into motherhood and leadership with authenticity, embodied feminine power from our flow, from our freedom, from our prosperity and impact. We will be talking about healing generational patterns right, generational patterns rooted in scarcity. Right and pushing and going in depletion and disconnect, in survival, right, we'll be talking about all that.
Speaker 1:I'm going to weave in Akashic wisdom, kind of mini, bite-sized, two or three little prompts. So I invite you to bring your journal, a pen light, a candle. So I invite you to bring your journal, a pen, light, a candle. Right To receive, but also to show up as a student, right, reach out the Flower of Life. Akashic Certification is such a beautiful pathway really for all of these pieces.
Speaker 1:And I want to also drop us into a little bit of embodiment work. Specifically, today we're going to be talking about the womb. So if you're ready to lead from that soulful, embodied place of feminine leadership, of intention, right To create meaningful impact and to thrive as a mother and a leader, this is the place we're going to redefine leadership together, right Together, to really open the way to this new paradigm of motherhood. Okay, so today we're talking about like why conscious mothers are the leaders the world needs, which I already really touched in on and why we need mothers to take themselves out of places of distraction, out of that swirling energy and out of chaos, and why it becomes so important to come back into a place of connection, to cultivate sacred space to claim space to tend to your own autonomy, your own sovereignty, your own connection to self right. And so part of you know dismantling and kind of breaking down this idea of mother right and what it means to lead like a mother is by coming into this deeper relationship to self and this place of robust, radiant, expansive energy as a mother, as a leader, right Becomes very important so that we can anchor this frequency of nourishment right, so that we can really start to mirror for our children what it means to show up with two feet on the ground, centered, anchor in our radiant feminine power right, heart open, connected, clear on who we are and who we're being called to be.
Speaker 1:These are things they don't learn in school. These are things even if you're a homeschooling mother, right, and you've taken the courageous steps of pursuing that. And again, side note, homeschooling doesn't work for every mother and that is perfectly fine. It didn't work for me, but we found a pretty happy balance. But, more than anything, I truly believe that the authenticity and sovereignty and being rooted in our power and being able to hold and manage our own energy in really powerful ways that don't take us outside of ourselves right Become one of the most instrumental things that we can embody for our children. Right, because if you can teach your child how to anchor into sovereignty and to hold that energy in our relationships, in our communities, in the world. Right, advocating for our own voice, our own needs, our own dreams, what better teacher right Is there than embodying that as a mother? Right?
Speaker 1:Embodiment means that we understand deeply what it means to be these things and we are it. So our children learn through transmission and then we also understand how to build that within our children, to build that within our children. So part of this leadership as mothers is looking at and noticing where and when we get taken out of our sovereignty and our leadership. What systems, what old relationship dynamics, what communities, what environments right take us out of that and then being able to establish boundaries and then also pivot our life experience in a way that honors our values and our truth as mothers, women, as leaders. That honors our values and our truth as mothers, women, as leaders. Right. That becomes very pivotal and important for you, for your leadership, for who you are as a mother and also for the next generation.
Speaker 1:So often when I'm talking to mothers, you know they are like. They put the emphasis on the children and I think that's really beautiful. But when we're talking about mothers as leaders right, and being in our sovereign creative power we have to have a creative vision that actually aligns to what we want. Aligns to what we want, prioritizing the mother's vision, needs, wants, desires, almost to the point that it's first right, so that the mother's nourishment, expression and freedom takes precedence, so that her vision includes that expansiveness of her radiance and her nourishment and it's anchored in the scope of the vision that she's being called to birth, because that truly is such a gift for the family, for the children and for herself.
Speaker 1:So one of the invitations that I want to make today is what do you value? Who are you being called to be? What does the vision that you want to birth for yourself look like? And then, where does your family, where do the children fit into that? And two, because our creative, our divine, creational energy ignites through a deep space of our unique wants, needs, desires, as sacred women. So it's like how do we get to design the life that we're being called to live in a way that really really ignites us, turns us on, moves us into joyful, co-creative energy?
Speaker 1:So I'm making that invitation to just start to open up, because one thing that mothers often do is they take themselves out of the equation. Well, I want this and this and this for my child, I want this and this and this. Okay, well, what about you? Where's your nourishment in all of this? Because, truly, if we want to show up and be able to hold the vision that we have for our children in a way that actually feels nourishing for our systems, right, in a way where it creates expansion and recalibration for who we are as mothers, right, we'll always be using our own vital life force, energy and tending to the needs of others without fully tending to our own energetic resources and desires. When we can place precedence over that. It actually feeds and nourishes, it actually anchors in a whole different vibrational experience for who we are as mothers, and it feeds and it nurtures our children by osmosis. So it's important that we go first, that we start to explore what our dreams, what our vision for freedom is, and, by nature, it will include our children, it will include our families, it will often include our communities, so starting to understand what it is that we're being called into.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to kind of touch into I don't want to make. I didn't want this to be super long, but I want to give a few little nuggets and I also want to just take a couple minutes to tap into the Akashic field. I want to make that invitation and so if this speaks to you grabbing your journal or just hands over heart I'm going to guide you through a few processes. Journal or just hands over heart, I'm going to guide you through a few processes. If you want to hit pause and journal away, you can. We're going to very short method access the Akashic records, the Akashic field, which everyone has access to. Naturally. If this is something that you want to go deeper with, you can head over to the akashicwomenschoolcom slash free gift. There's a whole seven day journal there. You can access and explore that more fully. So go ahead and settle into a comfortable position.
Speaker 1:The Akashic records are a powerful tool for connecting to your soul's wisdom. We're going to reflect on what your leadership looks like when it's aligned to your higher purpose as a mother and as a leader. So the Akashic records are a beautiful, ancient spiritual healing tool that connect us to our soul both the beauty, the purpose of our soul and then also sometimes, where we've got deeply entrenched energetic patterns that keep us disconnected from the fuller expression of our purpose in the world. So I want you to go ahead and just start to take a deep breath, in through the mouth, down into the energetic womb space and then up and out through the mouth, and we'll do that two more times, bringing to the count of three beautiful. We're going to visualize your, ourselves, stepping into a sacred space.
Speaker 1:So closing your eyes, dropping your chin, visualizing yourself stepping into a sacred space, and this could be a golden library, it could be a beautiful garden or any space that just feels aligned with your soul's energy and just trusting, just allowing yourself to center into that space, to attuning to the peace, to the solitude, to the vibration, to the energy, to the color, to the texture, to the information that's present in that space. And once you're in there, you're just going to take a moment and attune to your soul. I'm going to go ahead and call down the temples of divine love, light, truth, abundance, wisdom and power to descend, grow, to be revealed now, and you're just going to stream of consciousness right. Here's your first question what does my unique leadership look like when it's aligned with my highest purpose as a mother and or a leader. So at this point you can go ahead and press pause, if that works for you, and you can continue journaling. And you can continue journaling. Here's the next question what strengths do I already have as a mother that make me a natural leader? And you can press pause and you're in a stream of consciousness, writing.
Speaker 1:You want to write down any words, any images or feelings that came through to you. All right, there are no right or wrong answers. You're just going to trust what you receive. And maybe it wasn't words that came through, maybe it was a visual, maybe it was an animal right, our intuition speaks in a lot of different languages and so, just allowing this to be a playful process of discovery and again, if this is something that you want to go deeper with, definitely check out the seven day journal. All right, we're going to go a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1:So, now that we've connected to your soul's perspective on leadership and your authentic leadership, we're going to move into just a very brief womb-centered meditation. We always want to feel in our leadership, our feminine, embodied leadership. We're anchored, we're aligned, we're activated. So the womb's not just a physical space, it's an energetic center of creation of wisdom, of intuition, of power of healing. So, of course, by grounding into the space, we can embody the leadership insights that we've just explored.
Speaker 1:So I want to get once again invite you to close your eyes and place one or both hands over your womb space, and this, if you have a physical womb or not, it does not matter, it does not matter. So you're just placing both your hands over your lower belly and you're going to take a deep inhale in through the nose, filling your belly with air, and then exhaling through your mouth, releasing any tension. And you'll do that a few more times, feeling your body begin to relax and your awareness settle into your womb space, and you can just notice what. You notice any feelings, any sensation. Begin to imagine a golden, glowing light in the womb space, and it is just glowing so softly. With each inhale you're going to see that light grow stronger and with each exhale, feel it radiating out into your entire body. As you focus on that light, ask yourself what am I ready to create? Or how am I ready to lead in this season of my life? What wisdom does my womb hold about my leadership journey?
Speaker 1:Okay, I just want you to trust whatever comes up. It could be sensations, it could be a word, it could be emotions. If it's emotions, I invite you to breathe into that. It could be emotions. If it's emotions, I invite you to breathe into that. You could even stand up and just kind of gently, like you know, shake your legs, shake your hips, just kind of shake it out and breathe. Connecting to the womb is actually so simple, but it does require devotion, requires, practicing, connecting, bringing our love, attention, focus, over and over again. It's like a relationship and it begins to speak and sometimes we have to heal some layers. We have to just bring that mindfulness, that intention, that listening, so just trusting.
Speaker 1:Maybe you have a visual, maybe it's sensations or a word. Whatever it is, you can just take a moment to write it down, take a few more cleansing breaths into the womb space. I did just get a visual. Actually, my visual is I'll have to sit with this one. It's actually a big gray rock, is what came through. Pretty big, I'd say, three feet long, four feet high, and I feel like I've met this rock somewhere.
Speaker 1:I was actually in the Rockies this summer and I love rocks. I'll often stop and spend time with them if I'm drawn to one and it's not uncommon for me to say hello. I love their presence, I love that ancient wisdom that they bring, I love the medicine of the elders that they bring, so I'm going to sit with that. I definitely have also been feeling, especially with this January, energy. I'm finding my flow because I've been tending to the cauldron of the womb space again and moving into my embodiment practices in the morning. So that's been really juicy and I'm finding flow again and I'm also noticing the melt come a little bit with the changing temperatures. But the rock also is kind of it's speaking to me about presence and power, but also sometimes feeling a little bit too present, too grounded, where I'm not necessarily getting the flow, which is actually not normal for me. That's something that I've noticed the last little bit.
Speaker 1:So just to give a share Now. If you would like to share with me, please come on over to the Facebook group which I'm going to be renaming renaming, but right now the name is matriarch Gosh. That's not the right name. Just give me one second, I'll know. We'll just look it up. I think I had to change it a few months back because there was already a Facebook group named under it. Or email me, tara, at Tara Prestoncom. I would love to. I would love to hear your journey, but I want to give you the name of the Facebook group. I will be changing the name. But I want to give you the name of the Facebook group. I will be changing the name Matriarchal Royal Rise. There you go, matriarchal Royal Rise.
Speaker 1:I also want you to just place your hand over your heart, over your womb, just taking a few breaths, just giving a gesture of gratitude for any insights that you've received. You know if this is new to you. Just thanking the womb, just bringing presence and letting the womb space know you'll be back. This is such an important wisdom center for women. So with that, I want to also share with you that I have a year-long program coming up and it is replacing the feminine prosperity new moon circles that I usually host once a year. Rather, I'm going to be hosting, anchored, a year-long embodied feminine leadership journey through the power of the womb, where we meet each new moon and I guide you through very deep, akashic, shamanic wisdom journeys to clear out any of those generational patterns that really can affect us when it comes to being in our radiance and our embodied, rooted, authentic leadership as way, showing mothers and leaders. I'll be guiding you through breath, work, through movement, giving you practices each month, and we meet every new moon, so it's like the ultimate invitation to sink into a space of presence, to really regroup and to pull your energy into yourself, right For that anchored, aligned and activation that will support you in birthing the vision that you're being called to birth for 2025. So if that speaks to you, please reach out Tara at TaraPrestoncom. We have a few more days left where you can save $2.50. So it's $9.97 for the year. Monthly payment plan available as well. Reach out on Facebook. If you follow me on Facebook, I'd be happy to give you more information.
Speaker 1:We start Tuesday, january 29th, at 10 am Mountain Time. Replays available. You'll have access to all the replays. I hope you enjoyed this. Please stay tuned for more. I can't wait to dive into this topic. I can't wait to journey with you. I would love to hear your first thoughts. I'm open to feedback. I'm sending you so much love. Thank you for listening. Bye for now.