What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Hello, everyone. I am so thrilled to have Dr. Morgan Cutlet back on the show. If you've been a

listener for a while, you may remember episode

171 where we dove into how to manage the invisible load of motherhood. I got so much response,

DMs, emails from women and moms just feeling so validated from our conversation with Dr.

Morgan and who found it so helpful. So whether you've listened to that one or not,

go back and listen to it again or for a first time. It is so good. Since then, Dr. Morgan has a book

deal. She's been on Good Morning America and her message is spreading like wildfire and transforming

lives of moms and families all over the world. And in her new book, Love Your Kids Without

Losing Yourself, which I am super humbled to have gotten an early edition of. Dr. Morgan shares a

step-by-step plan that any mom cannot follow to find practical and feasible ways to take care

of themselves, find joy in motherhood, and enrich their relationship with their kids.

And as I say that, I got like full body

tingles because, oh my gosh, it's amazing. So welcome back to the show. Morgan. I always love

sitting and chatting with you. Thank you for having me. So let's start off. I want to ask this

because this is a conversation, an ongoing conversation I have with a lot of my mom friends. And the question

is this, why do you think mother hard, like, feels so hard today? And what are a lot of the

core conflicts that we are facing? You're a mom, you're a PhD, you know, all the things. So you see it

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