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Liz speaks about parenting, small business, and *gasp* how to do both at the same time.

Her talks are research-based but humor-fueled, providing parents with the information they want interspersed between the laughs they desperately need.

People Are Saying

Liz is an AMAZING Mentor and Speaker! Liz finds creative ways to make her presentations engaging and filled with life changing strategies. She is able to lift your spirits and enrich your life with much needed information and resources.
Leslie Mueller , Mental Health Counselor (Talk Attendee)
I had Liz as a guest on my podcast "This Is Woman's Work" to talk about parenting (and all the pressures that working Moms place on themselves) and she was excellent! She tackles difficult topics (as Moms can be very senstive) with humor, intellegence, and empathy. She's an engaging speaker with excellent content... what more could you want? P.S. Her book "Clean Your Plate" is a life saver!
Nicole Kalil , Founder (Organizer)
Liz is an ideal speaker to work with. She stayed in communication and met all deadlines, even submitting assets early, which is a dream come true in this space. Her session was a favorite among attendees who sang praises about the immense value offered through her presentation and supporting materials - which were perfectly tailored to our event/audience. It was an absolute pleasure working with Liz. I recommend her highly, and look forward to having an opportunity to collaborate with her again in the future!
Meg Brunson , FamilyPrenuer® Summit Host (Organizer)
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Chief Parental Officer (CPO)
I Used to Be a Real Human
Be Your Own Mother

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Chief Parental Officer (CPO)

Parenting Secrets from the World of Business Psychology: How the strategies used to run the world's most successful companies can make you a better and more sane parent.


What It's About

A common inside joke in the field of psychology is that childhood or educational psychologists often have the most messed up kids.  Similarly, many parenting books may tell you what meconium is or the specific hormones that get released in puberty, yet leave you utterly unprepared to actually raise a child.

This talk introduces the concept of framework-based parenting, leveraging the strategies that top executives and business psychologists use to run Fortune 500 companies to help you raise your mischievous progeny. 

You will leave with a set of overarching principles that can be applied to almost any parenting situation, a few specific examples (that almost every parent has faced), and a renewed hope that you might survive until bedtime without shame-eating Oreos in the back of your closet.

Take-Home Points

Parent for the long-term, not the short-term

Parent for skills, not outcomes

Parent as if you and your kid are on the same team

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I Used to Be a Real Human

How to balance being a parent with your work demands, household chaos, and actual adult life.


What It's About

The hardest part about being a parent isn't the midnight feedings, the potty training accidents, or the teenage hormones.  It's the instantaneous transformation from being your own person to being "so-and-so's mom".

Even though parenting is the most important job we do, it's rarely the only thing on our plates.  We have jobs, marriages, houses to manage, finances to maintain, careers, and ambitions that don't involve finding your kid's shoes before the schoolbus gets there.

This talk helps parents find that balance where they know they're showing up 100% for their children, but they don't have to sacrifice everything that made them an individual before their name was "mom".

Take-Home Points

Find a conceptual balance that makes you proud and happy (at the same time).

Develop realistic short-term and long-term plans.

Create a daily routine that isn't impossible.

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Be Your Own Mother

The need for parenting doesn't go away as you get older. Regardless of who your parents are, the need to parent yourself is more and more important with age.


What It's About

Even though we moms are usually focused on mothering our own children, the need to be "parented" never actually goes away.  Just like tying your shoes, remembering a jacket, or remembering to put the car in park before you get out, mothering is one of those skills that people eventually need to learn to do for themselves to qualify as healthy, functional adults (regardless of our relationship with our actual mothers).

 

Whether they had the best mom in the world, came from a dysfunctional parent-child relationship, or practically raised themselves, everyone in the audience is a mom and knows the importance of mothering and being mothered.

 

This talk goes into the importance of turning one's mothering skills inwards.  Being your own mother helps you know how to set boundaries, how to provide yourself with unconditional love (both tough love and the overindulgent spoiling kind, as situation dictates), and how to express compassion and tolerance for our mistakes, even while holding ourselves to maternally-high standards.

Take-Home Points

Sometimes you need to give yourself discipline

Sometimes you need to take care of yourself

To experience happiness, functionality, and success (all at the same time) you need to know when and how to do each one

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Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic
Parent-isms That Backfire

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Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic

The skills needed to parent in this quarantined, Zoom-dependent, coronavirus-driven "new normal".


What It's About

Parenting has always been a challenge.

Under normal circumstances, the average parent is over-worked, under-slept, perpetually worried, and stressed to the point of visible aging. This was true long before we ever heard of the coronavirus.

We now refer to that life as “the good old days”.

Courtesy of the pandemic, parents now have to navigate a wide variety of different responsibilities, trading our “parent” hat for ones that say “teacher”, “bouncer”, “triage nurse”, and more. This talk helps you prepare to perform each of these roles without having a teacher’s license, years of self-defense training, or a medical degree. For each role, you’ll get the wisdom of experts who are actually in that field, a guide for how to apply this knowledge to parenting, and a quick list of tips and tricks of the trade that will help you and your kids survive the pandemic as smoothly as possible.

Take-Home Points

You are still a parent more than anything else.

Give your kid(s) a long leash.

Give yourself a long leash.

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Parent-isms That Backfire

Sometimes what we say to kids doesn't have the impact we intend.


What It's About

Parents mean well, we really do.

We want our kids to get good grades, stop hitting their siblings, and, yes, clean their plate at dinnertime. It shouldn't be that hard, right?

Wrong. Sometimes these harmless sounding statements don't work. Even worse, they often backfire to cause unexpected and unwelcome side effects for us and for our kids. (Just like your prescription for headache medicine may accidentally cause vomiting or make you spontaneously sprout a leathery tail.)

Liz discusses some of the most common parent-isms and walks you through the ways they can go wrong, why they could negatively impact your kids, and what you should say instead.

Common Parent-isms Include:

  • Get Straight A's
  • Don't Be a Quitter
  • Do You Need Any Money?
  • Finish Your Homework
  • Give Your Aunt a Hug
  • Waste Not, Want Not
  • Win Your Game Today
  • Clean Your Plate
  • Be Nice To Your Friends
  • Don't Talk Back (to Your Elders)
  • Don't Hit
  • Sit Still
  • Don't Watch TV

Take-Home Points

Parent for the long term more than the short term.

Aim for skills more than results.

You and your kid are not on opposing teams (no matter what they say or how they act).

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Balancing Parenthood and Work Life

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Balancing Parenthood and Work Life

How to juggle all the tasks of parenthood with the demands of business without losing your mind.


What It's About

Gone are the days when one parent brought home the bacon and the other sat at home working on their needlepoint. 

(I'm honestly pretty skeptical those days ever existed in the first place.)

Modern day parents have a normal job, a few side hustles, some volunteer work...all on top of their actual parental responsibilities.

This has resulted in an immense amount of stress for parents and kids alike, an unprecedented level of complexity in the lives of parenting, and a giant heap of mom guilt no matter which way you allocate your priorities.

This seminar teaches parents how to balance all the key areas in their life in a realistic, practical, and actually-feasible way.  Parents will learn how to stop feeling guilty for not being everything all at once and start intentionally making a path that they will find fulfilling, liveable, and enjoyable, no matter what other moms post on Facebook.

Take-Home Points

There are only 24 hours in the day (and this rule does apply to you).

Parenting is not forever...at least not in the same way.

What is right for you (and your kids) and what you think you "should" do are often very different things.

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