The School Run Strategy: How to Stop Your Business Bleeding Into Family Time

The hours between 3pm and bedtime can feel like absolute chaos.

You’re trying to finish work, cook dinner, manage homework, regulate everyone’s emotions… and somehow be present too.

If you’ve ever thought, “Why does it feel like I’m failing at everything between school pickup and bedtime?” this episode is for you.

You’re not bad at being present, your business just isn’t designed to let you leave.

In this episode of The Moxie Movement Podcast, I’m giving you what I call The School Run Strategy a simple and powerful way to contain your business so it stops bleeding into family time and draining your energy dry.

This isn’t about working less because you’re “not ambitious”.

It’s about designing a business that works with your real life not against it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

1. Why split attention is the real reason you feel guilty everywhere
2. What “Done By Three” actually means (and what it doesn’t)
3. How to create a hard stop that protects your energy and your evenings
4. Why decision-making after 3pm is costing you more than you think
5. The 4 non-negotiable rules that stop work spilling into parenting time
6. How buffers (not better time management) change everything

We also cover:

1. Why trying to do two full-time roles at once is exhausting you
2. How role separation leads to better business decisions and calmer evenings
3. Why “no new starts after 2pm” will instantly reduce mental load
4. How to start small without burning out or rebelling against your own rules

Your next step:

Pick one day this week and try a true hard stop.

Clock out. Shut it down. Leave the business where it belongs.

And if you want to go deeper into building a business that’s designed to be Done By Three this is exactly what we build inside my world.

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Love + Moxie,

Sarah

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