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🎙️ New Episode Alert! 🎙️

📚 Join us on the Mom &… Podcast as we chat with the amazing Dallas Woodburn, Author & Book Coach! Dallas is an award-winning author, podcast host, book coach, and a mom who helps women around the world write and publish the books inside their hearts. In this episode, she shares her journey, wisdom, tips on overcoming creative blocks, and a lot more! Don't miss out!

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✨ BONUS: Dallas is hosting a FREE summit for authors this week. Online, virtual, listen from anywhere, any time. Look for the link in the comments below, or google Thriving Authors Summit. ✨

This week's podcast guest, Dallas Woodburn, Author & Book Coach, is holding a free online summit for authors this week! Here's the scoop:

Thriving Authors Summit: Write Your Book, Grow Your Impact

>> A FREE Virtual Event for Women Entrepreneurs

Thriving Authors Summit Join best-selling author and book coach Dallas Woodburn for five days of authentic, insightful, nugget-filled conversations with 20 experts about everything from overcoming imposter syndrome, to effectively structuring your book, to developing your brand as an author, and much more!

🎙️ New Episode Alert: EP140 with Jennifer King Lindley! 🎉

Join us for a deep dive into emotions with the incredible . 🌟 We chat about her latest book, EMBRACE YOUR EMOTIONS: A SELF-CARE JOURNAL TO DISCOVER THE WISDOM OF YOUR FEELINGS, and Jennifer shares fascinating insights on understanding and managing the full range of our feelings. 😀😭😬

In this episode:
✨ Discover the importance of emotional diversity for well-being
✨ Learn practical journaling tips to navigate your emotions
✨ Hear about Jennifer's inspiring pivot to becoming a therapist

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P.S. Don't miss our Look, Listen, Learn segment for some fun recommendations! 🌸🎶📚

📣 New Episode Alert!

🌈 Ever wondered how to create a safe space for your LGBTQ+ teens? Join us for our latest episode with Heather Hester, Chrysalis Mama/Just Breathe, author of PARENTING WITH PRIDE, as she shares her heartfelt story and offers tips every parent or ally of LGBTQ+ teens needs to hear. 🏳️‍🌈💕

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Happy Father’s Day Weekend to our Mom &… Podcast family! The timing for this episode is perfect. Not only are we talking to a dad just in time for Father’s Day weekend, we are talking to an Olympian just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics! This week our guest is father, speaker, coach, and Olympian, . We talk about resiliency, growth mindset, and what it’s like raising three daughters.

🏊🏻‍♂️ There’s a fun bonus this week, too: you can listen to our episode with Brendan today, and then starting tomorrow, you can watch him co-host the USA Swimming 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials with , live from Indianapolis, June 15-23. Tune in on Peacock and the USA Network to watch some crazy fast swimming! 🥇

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Celebrate Crystal Mason The Fight's recent aquittal (see our post, below, for more details) with an encore listen of our episode with Crystal and Shellie Hayes McMahon.

This episode originally ran on March 25, 2022. Last month, Crystal was finally acquitted. In the words of her attorney:

“Crystal and her family have suffered for over six years as the target of a vanity project by Texas political leaders. We’re happy that the court saw this for the perversion of justice that it is, but the harm that this political prosecution has done to shake Americans’ confidence in their own franchise is incalculable.” --Defense Attorney, Alison Grinter Allen

🎧 Find this episode anywhere you get your podcasts, or click the link below.

We'll be back with a brand new episode next week. We have some exciting content ahead for May (can you believe it's MAY?!) and can't wait to share the episodes with you!

Ever wondered how acupuncture could enhance your health and wellbeing? Dive into our latest episode with Charleen, owner of The Point Wellness, to debunk some myths about acupuncture and talk about the benefits of Eastern medicine. 🌿✨

Charleen and her team at The Point Wellness have been a huge part of Missy's healing process this year. For listeners who are not in the Austin/Round Rock area, we also talk about how you can find a practitioner near you. 🎧 Anywhere you get your podcasts, or cliick the link in the comments.

What a headline to end the week on!

"Texas Court Acquits Mom Given 5 Years' Jail Time For Voting Error"

We were honored to have Crystal share her story with us on the podcast and we are thrilled that she is victorious in this long, painful, TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR legal battle for voting rights.

Link to the episode below!

What's it like to be a woman navigating a male-dominated industry? This week we are talking to Allie Perez about her career path from NYU acting student to the founder of , and CMO/COO of

Her work helping women in the trades is inspiring!

🎧Tune in to our newest episode to hear her insightful journey. Anywhere you get your podcasts, or click the link in our bio.

We are thrilled to share our newest podcast episode featuring the dynamic Allie Perez! The journey of Allie Perez from an NYU acting student to the founder of Texas Women in Trades is nothing less than inspiring. Tune in for an inspiring discussion about the resilience and power of women in the skilled trades. Don't miss it!

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SOLD! 🎟🎟 Hey friends - Missy and I both have to cancel our trip to Nashville for the Mom 2.0 conference this year and have TWO early bird ($250) tickets to transfer. It's always our favorite weekend of the year so we're hoping someone else can use our tickets so we can live vicariously through you. 🎟🎟 Conference info below.

It's that time of year again! My favorite (FREE) summer (or any block of time) planning tool is from Worksheet Works. You can customize your dates and set up. Plus they have all kinds of puzzles, math worksheets, etc. Not an ad, just love these things!

Do you constantly feel overwhelmed as a working parent? Dr. Anne Welsh is here to help! Listen to our latest Mom &... Podcast episode, and you'll get helpful tips on how to create a balance between your career and family life.

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🎤 This week on the Mom &... Podcast: Discover how to turn your skills into a flexible career with Emily A. Hay, owner of Hay There Social Media. On our newest episode, she shares her journey from the corporate world to creating her own business, while also balancing motherhood. Can't be missed!

If listening to this episode has you wanting to explore social media management, Hay There Social Media is offering 20% off of their Core Training Lite box, plus free shipping! Order yours using the link in the comments and use the code haytheremomand.

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Happy birthday to the best podcast co-host ever! Welcome to the 50+ club, 🎉🎂🥳

The last few months of 2023 didn't go as planned, but guess what? Here we are, back behind our microphones, and ready for a new season! In the latest NEW episode, we explore updated paths, discuss the breast cancer curveball, and get into what's next for us. We're so excited to be back with all of you!

🎧 to see if you can hear me fighting tears while doing the intro. They were happy tears, because we love doing this show! The show can be found anywhere you get your podcasts, or click the link in the comments.

NOTE: If you subscribe/follow on Apple, you may need to go re-follow. They did some funky stuff with the podcast feeds and some of our regular listens got bumped out of rotation. 🤯

For the past 7 years I've had the honor of being part of the Texas Conference for Women "Street Team" - the group of women helping amplify the incredible messages from the sessions.

This is my first year with the Creative Noggin company name on my name badge. I'm proud to be representing an agency that values and empowers women at an event designed to celebrate everything that women bring to the workforce and to the world.

I hope y'all have an incredible day!

Texas Conference for Women Creative Noggin -- Marketing & Advertising Agency

One update and one silly thing:

Update: Missy is healing well after her surgery and we're excited to get back on schedule soon. We have two pre-recorded episodes we haven't released yet so we'll be launching those in the weeks ahead and are going to get back to recording new episodes for 2024. Yay!

Silly thing: We're doing some pod housekeeping during our down time. One task involves taking advantage of our editing software's new AI "episode description" feature to update all our You Tube video descriptions.

This description for Episode 128 with Briar Dougherty is about the most perfect summary of our podcast I've ever seen.

Nutshell: "Guest tries to impart valuable information while hosts go off on tangents about their favorite TVs shows."

A quick update on Missy. Her original surgery date had to be rescheduled since she came down with covid, so today is the day. Her husband sent me a note to let me know she went back to surgery at 3pm and it's supposed to take about 2.5 hours.

Whether you're seeing this during her surgery, or in the days, and weeks of healing that follow, please send a good thought her way. 💟

📣 New episode!

When was the last time you felt anxious? Did just reading that question bring up some uncomfortable feelings? For many of us, anxiety is more than just a buzzword.

This week, we are talking with Dr. Lauren Cook, a clinical psychologist and the author of GENERATION ANXIETY (available now!), about anxiety and mental health. Dr. Lauren’s expertise lies in helping people understand what anxiety is, where it lives in our bodies, and how we can manage it.

📝 Topics From This Episode:

‣ Feeling anxious vs. anxiety disorder
‣ The Four Ds: Distressed, Deviance, Dysfunction, Danger
‣ Normalizing anxiety without minimizing it
‣ The biology behind anxiety
‣ Brain-gut connection and inflammation
‣ Accessibility to healthcare
‣ Raising kids with healthy brains and bodies
‣ Empowering our children to take action
‣ The negative side of “positive thinking”
‣ The power of community
‣ Having real conversations with friends
‣ Setting boundaries
‣ Ghosting

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Bonus Picture from this week's LLL: Susanne's trip to Vintage Framing Studio

🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧

We're back from our Summer Sabbatical (kind of - more about that in the episode.)

Our guest this week, Keely Pierce, helps us learn how to move from chaos to calm, no matter how you define your "norm" level of chaos. She also teaches us about matrescence: the physical, psychological and emotional changes you go through after the birth of your child.

As a perfect demonstration of blending chaos and matrescence, we recorded this episode while Keely's sister was in labor and likely wondering where her birthing partner was. (Spoiler alert: she made it - and look at precious baby Jack!)

In the spirit of Look, Listen, Learns, 👀 look below for ways to 🎧 listen to the episode and 💡 learn more about Keely!

Hello, Mom &… Podcast friends, I wanted to share a life update with you. (This is Missy, btw.) During our podcast summer break I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. It was not quite the end to summer vacation I had in mind!

My cancer was found during a routine mammogram. They noticed a spot that was not there a year ago, and I feel so much gratitude for everyone at who took it seriously. I am thankful this was caught early, and is very treatable. I am having a double mastectomy next week, and that will likely be the end of my treatment. Things won't be fun & games for a little while, but everything will be okay. I have a lot of peace about the plan, and have excellent doctors on my team.

I know it’s not October yet, and we’re a month away from your socials turning pink, but… please schedule your annual mammogram. If you do it now, you’ll beat the rush of people calling during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 🍒

As for the show, we know we’re just coming off a one-month break, but this curveball means we aren’t quite back to our regular schedule. We do have some new episodes lined up, and we’ll release them every other week for a while. Once I’m on the other side of surgery and get through the first couple weeks of recovery, we will reassess our schedule and let you know when to expect the next new batch of episodes.

Now, go schedule your mammogram! 🍈🍈

🕰️ Did you get to take off any time this summer? Tell us about your favorite vacation activity or memory!

😎 Did you read everything on your TBR list, learn a new skill, nap like it was your job, visit a place on your bucket list, clean out your junk drawer, catch up with friends and family?

⛱️ Another blast from the past year while we're on vacation. Check out this episode with Addie Swartz, CEO of reacHIRE.

🙋🏻‍♀️ What is reacHIRE? It's an organization dedicated to getting extraordinary women back into the workforce. If you've been on a career break, or are thinking about taking one, this is a perfect episode for a re-listen!

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We're on vacation this month, so it's the perfect time to catch up on episodes you missed, or re-listen to your favorites! We'll post some suggestions throughout the month, like this episode with Shellie Hayes McMahon and Crystal Mason The Fight. Find all of our episodes at the link in the comments.

🎶 Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away. ← Sing it with us!

🥰 We are so lucky to do what we do, and still pinch ourselves every week when we interview our amazing guests. Even when you love what you do, though, it’s important to take breaks. We are giving ourselves a little vacation, with a month off while Susanne takes her daughter to college, and we both take some trips with family and friends.

📝 While we’re away, we have some homework for you: catch up with any episodes you’ve missed so far this year, or go back and re-listen to some of your favorites. We listen to every episode several times over before releasing them, and we still sometimes forget things. Over the next month we'll post links to the episodes we mention in THIS episode, but you can find all of our episodes in the link below.

☕️ Speaking of forgetting things… we have an opportunity for you to WIN A MOM &... PODCAST MUG: Can you find the episode where our guest recommends going back through all of your past job roles to identify what you liked or didn’t like about each? We are struggling to remember which episode that was, and we’d really like to thank the guest. Her advice helped Susanne find clarity and… a job!

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👀 Your eyes are not playing tricks on you: Briar Dougherty from Career Organic is back!

This time is all about interviews. Briar covers trends in interviewing, including tips for answering one of our most dreaded interview moments: Tell me about yourself. We talk about looking at your experience in terms of stories that you can apply to a variety of interview questions, and Briar walks us through ways to answer even the toughest questions. As with last time, Briar’s knowledge of hiring processes makes this a must-listen, whether you’re currently job-searching or just thinking about it.

Topics From This Episode:

🪜 Stages of the interview process
🗣️ Talking with recruiters
❓ Types of interview questions
💼 Prepping stories about your work experience
🤔 Talking about problem solving and process during interviews
🔑 Key words and phrases to use in an interview
🙀 How to handle the “tell me about yourself” portion of the interview
🧵 Finding a common thread in your career path
🎭 Imposter syndrome
⏸️ How to address a career pause
⚠️ When, and how, to address liabilities
🤷‍♀️ What to do when you don’t know how to answer an interview question
🕰️ Tips for giving yourself time to think about your answer
⭐️ Understand your value and learning to tell others about it

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A life coach and a financial expert walk into a bar… uh, a podcast. But wait! They’re the same person!

Shannon Lee Simmons is the founder of The New School of Finance (New School of Finance), a life coach, and author of three books, including her latest, NO-REGRET DECISIONS, MAKING GOOD CHOICES DURING DIFFICULT TIMES.

Shannon talked with us about how to make decisions when you feel the weight of the world sitting right on your head. We also covered sharing financial decisions with your children. If you’re prone to regret, or have trouble moving forward, or just wish you felt more confident when making big decisions, this episode is for you!

Topics From This Episode:

🦠 Pandemic struggles [04:23]
⏳ Feeling like you can’t do it all [05:05]
🙀 Panic decisions [06:09]
⁉️ Decision crisis [08:48]
3️⃣ Three phases of a decision crisis [11:23]
🙅🏼‍♀️ Good decisions with bad outcomes vs bad decisions [13:15]
🧘🏻‍♀️ How to make regret-free decisions [15:35]
🌟 Values [15:50]
🍀 Failure and luck [22:01]
⏎ Pivot points and guardrails to help you make decisions [27:01]
💵 Sharing financial information and decisions with kids [32:49]

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This week’s guest, Estelle Erasmus, pivoted several times before taking on her current roles as professor, podcast host, and author. Estelle coaches writers, helping them get published and get noticed. She told us all about her life, and how she parlayed her skillset into a fulfilling career.

Topics From This Episode:

⏎ Pivoting from a first career [3:04]
👓Magazine publishing [3:39]
🧐 Curiosity + Bravery = New roles [6:30]
👩‍🏫 Teaching Learning Annex classes [9:28]
👶🏼 Deciding to have children [11:11]
🧘🏻‍♀️ Finding flexible work [13:04]
🌛 Starting over after a career break [16:24]
🫨 Ah-ha moments [19:36]
📣 Listen To Your Mother [23:15]
👩🏽‍💻 Blogging [24:49]
🤰🏻 Unpaid work of mothering [26:59]
👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾 BlogHer [27:39]
🗺️ How to not lose yourself in mothering [30:06]
🎙️ Freelance Writing Direct podcast [32:46]
🌟 Know your skillset [37:24]
⏲ TikTok [40:43]

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