Your listening to 3-30 takeaways from moms episode 160.

Three tools for growth for middle school girls and their moms.

Welcome to 3-30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home

with your family this week. I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

This past week I took a walk down memory lane and revisited my middle school journal.

Let me just tell you, it is something. I was texting my sister screenshots of various dramatic

entries and we got a good laugh. Every other day I had an angsty entry about my parents

not understanding me or being so mean with plenty of entries about friend drama and gossip

and my latest crush of the week. I was so boy crazy and I desperately wanted to be grown up.

It's all pretty humorous and retrospect but it was so very real to me at the time.

And I can see in the words of that 13-year-old girl the self-actualization that was just starting

to grow. I was starting to figure out who I was, who I wanted to be and how I wanted to fit into

this big world. Of course it felt tumultuous to me. It was tumultuous and that continues to be

true for preteen girls today, perhaps even more so as they face added media pressure and technology

that I didn't have to deal with when I was their age. For our episode this week I'm honored to

interview three rock star women who are working to make the middle school years a bit easier for our

girls. These ladies are the creators of this month's podcast sponsor I believe in me, a monthly

membership program that helps middle school-age girls gain the confidence they need to grow and thrive.

Within the program these women teach a weekly 15-20-minute lesson about an essential life skill

or mindset tool for preteen girls and they've also created a library of short tutorials for the

girls on some fun topics such as crafts, hairstyles, healthy living, skincare, holiday traditions,

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