Hey Mama, I'm Jenna, and you're listening to the Joy-Filled Podcast. I'm here to help stay-at-home moms

thrive by equipping you with tools to help you acknowledge and embrace your season and encourage

you to bring joy back into your motherhood. You'll walk away with everything you need to truly

experience the fullness of joy in this beautiful season

of raising babies at home. So reheat or refill wherever you're at in your day, your coffee,

and let's live joy-filled together.

Hello, hello, welcome back to the podcast. I know you are expecting season two today. I know that that's what I said was going to be happening, but I guess I have some explaining to do.

So let's get into it.

I decided to change up the format of the podcast and switch to seasons really as an experiment

because if I'm just being honest, I have felt really for the last year, very overwhelmed,

trying to keep up with being a mom and hosting a podcast and feeling like I'm not doing

enough and I'm always falling behind while simultaneously

feeling like there's so much more that I could be doing. And so seasons, doing a seasons format,

it was a total experiment for me. And it was just, I really went into it like, okay, we'll see.

We'll see what happens. And from the outside, it looked, it was awesome from the outside looking

in. I know so many of you loved it and loved. I think that talking about, you know,

cultivating a thriving home, that was such a great series and thing to do as, you know, cultivating a thriving home, that was such a great series

and thing to do as, you know, a multi-part subject because it is so, there's so much to talk about

and there's so many layers to it. But if I'm honest, on the back end, it really, it just added a lot more stress to me and was

overall just something that at the end of the day when I really got honest with myself, I could not

really see being sustainable for me long term. And that's my goal in this is to be able to show up

for you on this podcast for as long

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