Becoming the Fit Triplet Mom with Marta Spirk ⋆ Meg Brunson

[Episode 54] She was born in Brazil and lived there her whole life until marrying an American and moving to the US. She has a background in teaching, translating and tutoring and is now helping moms prioritize their physical and mental health as well as grow their business stress-free, by following their passion and joy! She is a triplet mom, health & success coach, and a host of the Mom Does It All podcast – Marta Spirk!

The Notes

Which came first, your kids or your business?
- Her kids, but she already had entrepreneurship in her life and didn’t realize it.
- She taught English to her friends in school when she was 14 years old.
- She started coaching when her kids were 9 months old.

Did you ever imagine you would have triplets?
- She wanted to have a boy first but then had two boys and a girl.
- She was just happy to get pregnant because she struggled a little bit.
- In Brazil, there is a lot more hired help and smaller families.

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What were you doing before having kids and working from home?
- She got her bachelor’s and then moved to the U.S. to start her master’s in linguistics.
  - Everything was geared toward teaching.
- She worked as a teacher after her master’s and then helped Brazilian students with the application process to U.S. schools.

Talk about your difficulties with starting a family.
- She had irregular cycles and started taking birth control.
- When she stopped taking birth control they tried to get pregnant for over a year unsuccessfully.
- She went to a fertility specialist and had to go under a minor procedure for endometriosis and PCOS.
- She then found out she was pregnant with spontaneous triplets.
- She took her maternity leave a month before the triplets were born because she didn’t want to deal with work at the end of her pregnancy.
- She came back to work part-time.

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How far along were you when the babies decided to arrive?
- For triplets, full-term is practically impossible.
- They came early and spent time in the NICU.

How did you start out in the entrepreneurial world?
- She started in MLM in the fitness industry to do something for herself.
- She was staying in the path of the motivational teacher in her.
- When the kids were smaller, it was easier to run the business because they slept more.
- She wants to help moms be healthy, but it’s more about mindset and emotions.
- Moms need to find a way to look for themselves again.

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Give us a tip for moms who need to focus on themselves and not feel guilty.
- It depends on how you identify yourself.
- Some moms find identity in fitness and some find it in entrepreneurship.
- You need to acknowledge your feelings and talk to someone.

Share about your mompreneurship course.
- She wants to help moms grow their business without feeling guilt or stress.
- The energy she was putting into her business was affecting what she was getting out of it.
- You need to ask yourself lots of questions.
- You can learn to be a better mom and grow as an entrepreneur at the same time.

Meet Marta Spirk

Marta is a triplet mom, health & success coach, and a host of the Mom Does It All podcast. She was born in Brazil and lived there her whole life until marrying an American and moving to the US. She has a background in teaching, translating and tutoring and is now helping moms prioritize their physical and mental health as well as grow their business stress-free, by following their passion and joy!

Find Marta Spirk

Last Show

We meet Shelbi Moore, a self proclaimed multi-passionate entrepreneur and mom to Two under Two. In 2011, Shelbi met her husband while working at Walt Disney World they bonded over their love for entrepreneurship and all things Disney. Shortly after they launched their Travel Planning Agency where they help families plan magical vacations to Disney Destinations all over the world. Shelbi has also successfully launched an Event Planning Business, wrote a vacation planning guidebook, and now coaches business owners and influencers on how to use Instagram to grow their business!

Next Show

January is bringing some changes to FamilyPreneur!! We're going to test a major bump up to 3 days a week! That's right!! Mondays are all about Marketing your business, Wednesdays will be our mid-week mastermind (the interview-style episodes you already love), and Friday will be family-focused business content (stuff you can listen to with the kids, or to spark entrepreneurial discussions among your family)! I hope you are as excited about this as I am!!

About The Host

Meg Brunson has been marketing to moms for nearly a decade. After leaving her corporate job at Facebook in 2017 to be a more present mom to her 4 daughters, she founded EIEIO Marketing; a digital marketing agency focused on Facebook Marketing for family-first businesses.

Through highly targeted, results-driven, Facebook Ads she's delivered results for her clients that include: doubling their lead volume, generating 62% more sales than the in-house team, attaining a 16x return on ad spend, and reducing the cost per lead by 99%!

After helping her daughter launch her first business, Storytime With Kiki, at the age of 10, Meg began hosting the FamilyPreneur Podcast: an interview-style podcast for parent entrepreneurs, raising entrepreneurial children.

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