Motherhood is a Universal Language
Momnesia
Julie and Sarah are back for Season 3, Episode 3. Tween fashion, interfaith dynamics, raising kids during a pandemic, racial profiling. We nearly cover every topic in this discussion with some new friends, guests Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri from the podcast Mommying While Muslim. The Mommying While Muslim podcast seeks to support American Muslim moms and the unique issues they face in a post 9/11 world.
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Time to Pivot
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Julie and Sarah are back for Season 3, Episode 2 with guest Lisa Graft. Lisa Graft is an emotional, creative, insightful, and encouraging storyteller. She’s a writer, speaker, and podcast host! Lisa is the Founder of the movement that’s changing mom-culture, I Am Mother of the Year.com, where she’s equipping and encouraging moms to move from isolation, fear, and overwhelming chaos, to community, compassion, peace, and freedom.
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Time to Pivot
Momnesia
Julie and Sarah are back for Season 3, Episode 2 with guest Lisa Graft. Lisa Graft is an emotional, creative, insightful, and encouraging storyteller. She’s a writer, speaker, and podcast host! Lisa is the Founder of the movement that’s changing mom-culture, I Am Mother of the Year.com, where she’s equipping and encouraging moms to move from isolation, fear, and overwhelming chaos, to community, compassion, peace, and freedom.
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It's Hard Work, But It's Good Work
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Today’s guest is Mary Baker-Boudissa. Mary is an educator, speaker, and advocate, working with school districts, nonprofits, and churches to create environments that value diversity and are equipped for social justice and culturally relevant responses to communities. She currently works for PCG, Inc. in Indianapolis as a Project Specialist. In ministry and in her professional life, Mary continues to use her voice to promote anti-racism and equity, while coaching allies in social justice work.
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It's Like Someone Cleaned A Window
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Today’s episode wraps up season two of Momnesia. And what better way to end season two than with the queen of podcasting herself, Lindsay Tjepkema. Lindsay is the CEO and co-founder of Casted, the first and only marketing platform built around branded podcasts. Lindsay is also the mother of three boys, including twins. She and her husband are both from Michigan, but now embrace the chaos from their home in Fortville, IN. Learn more at casted.us and engage with Lindsay on Twitter @CastedLindsay.
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Am I Strong Enough For This?
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Today’s guest is Tasha Jun. Tasha is a melancholy daydreamer, a Korean girl, wife to Matt, and mama to three little warriors: two wild boys and one little lady. She loves French fries, world maps, coffee, spicy soup and wandering the world. As long as she can remember, she’s lived and stood in places where cultures collide, longing for home. Jesus found her in the middle of her lifelong homesickness and has been leading her towards wholeness ever since.
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Fear Causes You to Wish the Days Away
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Lindsay Hotmire is a master message coach and copy expert who loves to work with coaches and leaders who know there's nothing formulaic about authenticity. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and four kids, loves wine and bourbon, and occasionally dreams about what life will be like in 5 years when she is an official empty nester. In this episode, Lindsay shares a series of vignettes that have been collected over time; tiny, little stories that come together to represent something even bigger.
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There's Light At the End of the Tunnel
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Marisella Bodrero was in corporate recruiting for 10 years prior to her starting her private career coaching program for women. After the birth of her daughter, she struggled to find her new identity as a mother and a career-driven, high-achieving woman. With the help of her supportive husband, a therapist, and her own exploration in the world of personal development, she was able to establish a clear sense of self and purpose and is grateful to serve as a coach for other women on the same journey.
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Clearing Out the Noise
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Rachel Pritz is a corporate escapee turned certified Life Coach. She focuses on helping people get unstuck, maximize their potential and create more of the life they crave. Rachel is a mom of 2 living children, Austin (6) and Zoey (3) and the mom of 3 babies in heaven. Losing her daughter to stillbirth was a pivotal moment in her life. She turned her grief into post-traumatic growth and is now living her life with gratitude and presence and helping others do the same.
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Just The Little Things
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Rev. Shannon New Spangler shares candidly about her experience with postpartum depression. This all consuming darkness made her feel like she was failing in all areas of life, including in her role as mom, spouse and pastor. At the urging of her husband, Shannon got the medical attention she needed. She offers a message of hope and encourages others who may be in that same dark place to be bold in asking for help and take comfort in knowing that you are not alone.
info_outlineOn today’s catch up, Julie and Sarah talk about bucket lists. This fall, Julie was a guest on the Good Girl Gone Boss podcast (make sure to check it out) and the hosts completely caught her off guard when they asked her to share about her bucket list. Julie came to the startling realization that she doesn’t have one! As someone who leads with type 8 (Enneagram alert!), if Julie wants to do something, she doesn’t put it on a list . . . she just does it! But this question stuck with her long after the recording session ended. Julie started a list on her phone that afternoon, and has been adding to it ever since.
Sarah was chatting about this very same idea with friends, and our favorite type 4 was ready to put her own special twist on the bucket list concept. Wanderlust is her bestie, so like Julie, she has already done some pretty extensive traveling around the world. When Sarah dreams about the future, she has owning a bed and breakfast or retreat center at the top of her list; a place where people can come and rest, a place to host music camps and retreats, a place to create and grow. What if it wasn’t 30 years down the road, but now? Can we make those dreams come true during the hustle and bustle of raising our kids?
Today’s guest is another Sarah, a fellow dreamer and artist who leads with type 4. Sarah’s story is marked by both deep grief and unexpected grace, both of which have become a catalyst for her as a writer and a speaker. She invites women to lean in to God, right where they are, and to look for Him in everyday life—in the beautiful, the broken, and those seemingly mundane in-between spaces.
Sarah writes regularly at Sarahewestfall.com and her work has been featured on LifterToday, Kindred Mom, and Light from the Word. Sarah has also partnered with fellow writers to create a thirty-day devotional Be Still: Leaning into God When Everything Falls Apart—available for digital download on Amazon.
Sarah currently lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with Ben—her husband of fifteen years—and four sons: Cohen, Trace, Jamison, Mathis. In her limited spare time, Sarah enjoys traveling with Ben, eating Taco Bell alone, hiding in a coffee shop, and reading fiction during her nightly bubble bath. Be sure to connect with Sarah on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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