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Meet Karen Gruber of The Inspired Mama in Southeast

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Karen Gruber.

FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS
Karen has studied parenting, leadership, and feminine spirituality; through formal instruction, mastermind groups, insatiable reading, self-study, webinars, and numerous seminars.

Over the past 10 years, she has facilitated and contributed to multiple groups for women and provided innovative individualized coaching. Formally, she has trained with The Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Coach Training Program, as a facilitator of Parenting the Love and Logic Way®, The Art of Feminine Presence™ Level II Teacher, and The Desire Map Instructor. She is the founder of The Inspired Mama, a company located in gorgeous Denver, Colorado that focuses on the inspiration and well-being of moms.

» Karen is borderline psychotic about Christmas lights
» She has read the Top 100 novels of all time
» And her cute exercise clothes are way out of proportion for the amount of exercise she does

Has it been a smooth road?
I felt like a crummy mom for several years after my daughter was born.
I was lacking the inner confidence to override and manage all the negative messages I was receiving internally and externally.

I was so overwhelmed with everyone’s demands on my time–I wasn’t making the right choices for me or my family.

I was so lost as to where I fit in this great big picture of being a wife, a mother and a woman that I didn’t have a clue what I really needed or wanted to bring meaning and fulfillment, and ultimately a joy to my life.
And there are still days that I feel like a crummy mom, but they are now few and far between.

I was in a great deal of emotional pain most of my life. Being a new mom only amplified what I was feeling. And it manifested itself in the shape of drinking way too much and way too often and in 70 + pounds.

Strategies—we all have them, drinking, eating, shopping, all forms of numbing out so we don’t have to feel the pain.

This pain was costing me my marriage, my health, my sanity.

I remember feeling so ashamed for not being the mom, the wife, the woman I knew I was meant to be. I could no longer ignore this, and I needed to find out for myself how to be a great business owner, a great woman, a great wife, and a great mom. And I did!

I worked with an array of coaches, I read personal development books nonstop. I attended webinars, I attended workshops, training, weekend intensives, week-long intensives. I developed a deep spiritual practice. I spent thousands of dollars and untold hours on this quest.

Let me tell you what I know for sure:
Until you can tune out the outside noise and tune-into the whispers of your Soul, you will never have the life you dream of.
Our home has gone from complete chaos to a calm and peaceful, supportive environment. A home that was once impacted emotionally and visually by my inner chaos, is now a reflection of all the beautiful changes in my life.
I faced my inner demons and lost 70+ pounds and chose an alcohol-free life in the process (and inspired my husband to do the same).

I have a career that lights me up and fulfills me creatively, emotionally, financially and spiritually.
I am raising a remarkable young lady and we have created an amazing relationship of respect, trust, support and love.
Bottom line—I am living a life that turns me on.
I became certified as a coach by the top coaching institute in the world, I took everything I learned and experienced and condensed this learning into the most practical and effective practices and teach moms how to do the same in my signature step-by-step process.

I am so adamant about working with moms because even though we all have struggles in life—it is amplified to the Nth degree when you are a mom. You now have this major life-dependent responsibility and it’s like everyone’s watching you see how you’re going to mess it up.

AND there is no one on this planet that understands what it’s like to be a mom—except another mom.

We’d love to hear more about your work.
I work with career and leadership driven moms who want to find new ways to deal with stress, who struggle with being exhausted, depleted, while trying to juggle a busy household, a career, and their own interests; I take them through a pretty unconventional approach to personal development so they can reduce conflict with their loved ones and at work, have better health, increased income and experience the joy of being a mom.

I am impassioned about helping moms excel in their career, have time for all that they desire, ignite their intimate relationships, enjoy and kick-ass at being the mom they know they are!

I specialize in teaching moms how to:
» Command their relationship with stress so they can attain inner peace knowing they will have time for all that is important to them and their family.
» Enhance their performance and impact at work so they can create wealth and fulfillment in their career.
» Overcome any guilt they have about having (and actually enjoying) their career so they can delight in the time they spend with their kids.
» Wake each morning energized and inspired for the experiences and interactions they are going to encounter that day.
» Relieve the struggle to manage a busy household, have a successful career, be an inspired woman and a masterful mom—all on their terms.

My work is different than most because the usual methods are solving the wrong problem. They are teaching moms only strategies for change when the real change happens within. My method incorporates both an unconventional system for integration of the changes moms desire while supporting effective strategies. Most parent coaches focus on the children’s behavior, I focus on mom. Finally, the concept that people teach of achieving work + life balance is dangerous; it implies that moms still need to do it all, they are just doing it wrong.
So far in 2019, I am most proud of collaborating on a book and am now a #1 International Best Selling Author.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Although coaching can be done from anywhere and thanks to technology you can coach remotely, I personally prefer to coach in person and be with my moms when we are working together. Denver is a great city for this type of business. There are tons of live speaking opportunities and events for a business like this.

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Moriah Riona, LLC

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