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Welcome to 3 in 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.

I talk a lot about journaling on this podcast, and that's because it's been a huge part of my life. In fact, I recently took a walk-down memory lane and revisited my middle school journal.

Let me 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 mean about something. 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 in 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 pre-teens 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 re-air this encore episode with three rockstar women who are working to make the middle school years a bit easier for our kids.

These ladies are the creators of one of this week's podcast sponsors, I believe in me, a monthly membership program that helps middle school-aged girls gain the confidence they need to grow and thrive.

For our episode today, these ladies are going to teach us the moms, three tools that they teach the middle schoolers in their program that we ourselves probably need to continue working on.

Though the I believe in me program is specifically focused on middle school-aged girls, these tools that they're going to teach in this episode today are every bit as applicable to boys as they are to girls.

So after listening, you can share these tools with your tween, boy or girl, and you can try to remember and embody them in your own life. Because you know what? I am still that same 13 year old girl who was writing in my journal all those years ago.

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