476: The State of Motherhood Address | Part 1 (RE AIR)
Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs
Karen Stubbs
4.9 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As July comes to an end, many moms are turning their eyes toward the school year ahead. That’s why we’re bringing back one of our most-loved mini-series: the State of Motherhood. This honest two part conversation dives into the good, the hard, and the unfair parts of motherhood and offers the loving kick in the pants we all need to reset our perspective. Whether you’re wrapping up summer or bracing for new routines this fall, we hope this episode helps you gear up for what lies ahead!
Episode Recap:
- Check out all our new curriculums (6:30)
- Join our private Facebook group this year (9:20)
- The amount of complaining we do doesn’t change how hard motherhood is (19:21)
- Life is not fair (24:02)
- You are doing a good job and you are going to get through this (38:42)
Resources:
- Find all Karen’s FREE curricula in the BOAW Moms app: https://store.birdsonawiremoms.com/collections/free-curriculum
- Purchase brand-new curricula in the store: https://store.birdsonawiremoms.com/collections/available-for-purchase-1
- Reach out to https://birdsonawiremoms.com/book-karen-to-speak to have Karen come speak in your community!
- Join our private FB group, BOAW Moms: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BOAWmoms
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to Wire Talk. |
| 0:01.8 | If you're new to our July series, we are re-airing the best of best wiretops, and we have saved the best for the last two weeks of July, and that is the State of the Union of Motherhood, Part 1 and 2. I remember when we were planning this session out, and I was like, oh, this is going to be so good. You do lay down some good truths. They are hard, but they are good. |
| 0:22.8 | And I think every once in a while, moms, including me, mostly including me, we need to put |
| 0:29.0 | on our clothes-toed shoes and we need some hard truths because being a mom is the best job |
| 0:34.2 | in the world, but it is very hard. |
| 0:36.5 | And sometimes you just need some truth |
| 0:38.7 | and encouragement to go along with it and you bake us a beautiful humble pie of that in the state |
| 0:43.8 | of union of motherhood. Well, how it came about is back whenever I used to have classes and Katie, |
| 0:50.6 | Leprint, who is our producer for Wire Talk. Which shout out to Katie because this would not happen without her. |
| 0:57.0 | So if you love Wiretok, thank you, Katie. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah, because we wouldn't be doing it without Katie. |
| 1:02.4 | Because she's amazing. |
| 1:03.4 | Yes. |
| 1:03.9 | But she was just saying, Karen, like one thing I used to love about your classes when you did |
| 1:08.5 | them live was you just gave the hard truth. |
| 1:11.3 | And you didn't, you know, skirt around it. |
| 1:14.3 | You were just like hardcore. |
| 1:16.2 | This is what you got to do. |
| 1:17.8 | I know it's hard, but just stop complaining and do it. |
| 1:21.1 | And I was like, you're right. |
| 1:22.5 | You know, it does get softened whenever you are in a large audience and you're not seeing really the faces. |
| 1:30.0 | And I don't know, there's just something that's lost there. |
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