Welcome to the Selfish Mom Academy, the podcast from moms who want to learn how to be a little more

selfish and a lot more happy in all aspects of their life. I'm your host, Sarah Dean,

and I can't wait to get started. Today we're going to talk about why I put my kid in daycare and why I don't even feel a tiny bit guilty about it.

Yes, it's true.

I know moms are supposed to feel guilty about this, but I don't, and I'm going to tell you why.

So stay tuned to hear about how this all transpired for me and how you can work on making choices

for your family without any guilt that actually allow you to maximize other areas of your life

and improve the quality of your family life. Okay, so let's dive in. This crazy thing happened

long before I was pregnant, and it happened

multiple times. So I would love to know if you've had this happen to you because it's an

interesting thing, and I definitely created some tension for me in this area. So I went to multiple

entrepreneur events, and they were all fitness related because that was my full career at the time,

but this was before I was pregnant, and I would go to these events, and they were all fitness related because that was my full career at the time. But this was

before I was pregnant and I would go to these events. And multiple men stood up on stage and they

talked about how they had built the life of their dreams and they had all this financial

freedom and financial independence because they had built this amazing profession.

And that the great thing was that because they had built such kind of a financial empire

that their wives didn't have to work, and this is the big thing.

Their children never had to see the inside of a daycare center.

And I heard multiple men say this.

And at the time, I was like, oh my gosh, that's what I want.

I don't want my child to ever see the inside of a daycare

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