#30: Orphan Care and the Hunt for the Dreamy Mom Job with Rachel Baxter
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Rachel is a daughter of the King, wife to a pastor, mother to five (almost six) children, underdog cheerleader, special needs parent, adoption advocate, hope-spreader, writer and lover of a good party. Â Simply said, she is a messy mama being made beautiful by a good God.
What we chat about:Â
Curly hair trauma Mom guilt vs. mom conviction Caring for orphans in ways other than adoption Discontent in motherhood and how she overcomes it
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| 0:00.0 | Phillips presents one blade crown jewels as a prince it's important my moustache |
| 0:06.8 | some magnific and my crown jewels are how you say free from fluff? For this I need a blade much safer than a guillotine. |
| 0:17.0 | Are you pretending to be French royalty again? |
| 0:20.0 | No, no. |
| 0:21.0 | No. |
| 0:22.0 | Trim, edge and shave with confidence. |
| 0:24.0 | Even down there. |
| 0:25.0 | Such one plate 360. |
| 0:27.0 | Innovation and You, Phillips. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi and welcome to the Mom Struggling Well podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective. |
| 0:41.0 | Y'all I am not proud of it, but I spent far too long waiting for my daily |
| 0:45.1 | irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just |
| 0:50.4 | going to keep coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we |
| 0:54.5 | persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up |
| 0:58.6 | with a hope that doesn't disappoint and I don't know about you but my hardest days happen when I've lost sight of that hope. |
| 1:05.0 | So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just |
| 1:09.6 | struggling to struggling well. Hey guys, you've got episode 30 here and I am talking to my friend Rachel Baxter. |
| 1:19.0 | She is a mom to five with one on the way through adoption. |
| 1:22.0 | Just saying that sentence made me a little bit stressed out. with one on the way through adoption. |
| 1:22.7 | Just saying that sentence made me a little bit stressed out. |
| 1:25.7 | I wish I was someone who would have thrived having tons of kids, but I'm not. |
| 1:31.1 | And actually what we were reminded of last week from Lauren Pinkston was |
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