305: How to Build Your Postpartum Village, Navigate Friendship Dynamics Throughout Motherhood and Set Boundaries with Family Members
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, I deep dive into the concept of building and maintaining a village - that crucial support system we all need, especially in motherhood. I share my personal experiences with my own village, from family and friends to hiring help, and offer practical advice on how to cultivate these relationships. I explore the challenges of friendship after having kids, setting boundaries with grandparents, and navigating different parenting styles within your circle. I emphasize the importance of showing up for others, giving grace, and accepting that everyone's busy looks different. This episode is packed with actionable tips for creating and nurturing your village, whether you're a new mom or looking to strengthen your existing support network.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- The importance of building a village brick by brick
- How to show up for others and be part of their village
- Navigating friendships after having kids
- Setting boundaries with grandparents and family members
- Accepting different parenting styles within your friend group
- How to build a village in a new place
- The value of low-key hangouts with mom friends
- Balancing expectations and reality in friendships
- How to approach conversations about boundaries
- The benefits of having a strong support system in motherhood
For more episodes on building your village, navigating motherhood, and setting boundaries with your family members as a new parent. Here’s some must listen to episodes of Conversations with Cam:
Episode 219: Friendship Series - Making Friends in Adulthood with my New Friend and Neighbor, Ashley
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.1 | Today we're going to chit chat about a topic that I feel is discussed a lot on my platform, not intentionally, but is like woven through a lot of my content. |
| 0:15.1 | And people ask about a lot. |
| 0:17.4 | And that is a village. |
| 0:19.3 | And like the postpartum village, how build it how to show up how to be |
| 0:22.9 | there for people what it looks like all of the things because for me I'm someone who feels so |
| 0:29.8 | fucking grateful that I have such an incredible village like I say this all the time I could |
| 0:34.1 | never in a million years do the things that I do without my village, |
| 0:39.5 | whether, and we'll get into what my village looks like, but like whether that be my family, |
| 0:43.8 | my friends are hired child care, like all of it. And I pride myself on the way that I show up for my |
| 0:52.9 | friends. And I think that that's a huge part of a village. |
| 0:56.7 | We think that, like, suddenly you're just going to have one. |
| 1:00.9 | Like, you have to build a village brick by brick. |
| 1:04.0 | You have to be the one that's showing up there for people. |
| 1:07.4 | You have to be the one that's also putting in the work so that those people can then |
| 1:11.0 | show up for you when you're in need of the help. So for me, I feel like the biggest thing when it |
| 1:17.3 | comes to the general village. And this is, I guess, mainly focused on postpartum, but like kind of |
| 1:24.6 | everything, because you rely on a village through many phases of your life, whether it's postpartum or you're going through everything because you rely on a village through many faces of |
| 1:28.3 | your life, whether it's postpartum or you're going through grief or you're just going through |
| 1:31.6 | a hard time or you just need support for whatever reason it may be. I find that as a society, |
| 1:40.0 | we have become so insular is maybe the word I'm looking for, and we veered away from many other |
| 1:49.3 | countries in this world of the village mentality. And it's become very much like, focus on yourself |
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