This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 185.

Show notes for this episode can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 185.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.

I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms

the tools you need to

bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be

a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily

proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in.

Hello, shamelesseless Moms.

Happy December.

I'm so excited to be here and I'm so excited that it's December, but I'm going to be

honest.

I'm not so excited that I'm totally sick.

I thought that I got off Scott Free with the awful cold and cough that everyone else in my family

had. And nope, I didn't. So I'm just coughing my life away over here with, I think, like, some sort of

like rib issue from coughing so much. I think I strained a muscle between my ribs, which I've

done at other times in my life.

I'm also trying to not pee myself every time I cough because we all know I have a very fragile mommy bladder. So it's been really fun. And this is what I get for not being sympathetic when my

husband was sick and thinking that he was just kind of milking it a little bit. And now here I am

coughing my life away. And I'm recording on Friday.

I have to do a six mile run tomorrow. Now I'll clarify and be really open and honest. It's a pub

run. So it's not like super hardcore. Basically, I have to run a mile and then drink a beer

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