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, hello. Man, this has been a week.

So I'm recording on Friday. You're going to get this on Monday. And this today has felt like such a

Monday to me. I can't even tell you. Like all the things

that have gone wrong, I'm like, it feels like a Monday because usually it's Monday when

everything doesn't go quite how you plan. But yeah, that's how my day is today. And this week

has been kind of just a follow-up of the episode that was released this last Monday, episode 23, it's not all rainbows

and unicorns. It's kind of just continued in that vein. I was in L.A. on Monday, Tuesday,

and Wednesday for a meeting, which was really fun. And while I was gone, my husband had to go

to Washington, D.C. on a business trip. So we had business trips on opposite

coasts and a child at home. We've never been in that situation before. And I have to tell you,

it made me super nervous. So I've done a decent amount of traveling since Finney's been born.

And my husband's done some trips too, where we've done things separately. But we've only, he's only been home without us

a couple times. And primarily because we don't have family who can watch him for any extended

period of time. Trust me, I have no issue leaving my child. But like, you know, people who have

like their in-laws right near them, they're in the same town. They can get away for like long

weekends and stuff. And we just don't have people who can do child care for us for long weekends away. So the times

that we've done it, we've been like an hour from home and anyone, we could drive home that there

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