477: The State of Motherhood Address | Part 2 (RE AIR)
Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs
Karen Stubbs
4.9 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As we turn the corner into a new school year, we’re bringing back part two of one of our most-loved mini-series: the State of Motherhood. In this candid conversation, Karen doesn’t hold back! She challenges us to take ownership of our world, root out laziness, and remember that all the hard work of motherhood is worth it. Whether you're clinging to the last days of summer or knee-deep in school prep, we hope this episode reminds you that everything we do, including being a mom, is to be done unto the Lord.
Episode Recap:
- Focus on progress over perfection as a mom (3:45)
- Go back and listen to part 1 for Truths 1 & 2 (5:00)
- Truth #3 - Take ownership for your mom life (6:30)
- Stop playing the blame game (12:50)
- Truth #4 - Stop being lazy (18:05)
- It’s all worth it (31:51)
Resources:
- Want Karen to come deliver some tough love and major encouragement to the moms in your community? Reach out: https://birdsonawiremoms.com/book-karen-to-speak
- Grab Peace for the Anxious Mom as your Bible study for the new school year: www.boaw.mom/peace
- Need a devotional for the school year? Grab Karen’s devotional: https://store.birdsonawiremoms.com/collections/books/products/copy-of-moments-with-god-for-moms-daily-devotional-faux-leather
- Join our private FB group, BOAW Moms: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BOAWmoms
- Follow BOAW Moms everywhere: @birdsonawiremoms
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to Wire Talk. |
| 0:02.1 | Whether you are starting out summer at the end of July or you're finishing up, getting ready for back to school. We are so excited you are here. This is the last week of our re-air of our best-of-best Wire Talk. It's kind of like a mumble-jumble to put that together, but I think I did that pretty well. You did it really well, Emily. It's only taken me four or five weeks to do that. But you know what, here we are. |
| 0:01.5 | So last week we started part one with state of |
| 0:25.6 | motherhood and mom kind of laid the foundation and kind of gave it to us of the hard truth, but the |
| 0:30.9 | good truth. And you're going to finish up that state of the motherhood union. And I think it's |
| 0:35.2 | wherever you are in your summer series, like whether you are, you know, just starting it or you're three weeks in or you're about to wrap up summer and you're about to start school, this is going to be beneficial for you. And we are so glad you're here and so glad you can listen to it. It is a good way to kind of reset. You know, I feel like in moms, we have in the world, you have your working calendar, and then in moms you have a different calendar. Yeah. You have your May. Yeah. You have August, well, at least in Georgia. And it just kind of like restarts your year in a different way. Yeah. Oh, totally. I always think that the beginning of the school year is the beginning of the year. Yeah. I mean, everybody else celebrates it January 1st. |
| 1:12.0 | Mom celebrate it at the beginning of the school year because that really is what defines our years. |
| 1:17.1 | That's right. So yeah. But this has been a fun series. I'd really enjoyed it. I've really enjoyed it and I've really enjoyed kind of taking a breath of wire talk, but also we've been re-recorded, pre-recording for the rest of |
| 1:28.4 | August and September. So it's going to be a great course of us. And y'all need to stay tuned because |
| 1:32.9 | in August we've got a great series coming up, how to prepare your child and you for back to school. |
| 1:39.5 | And we've interviewed directors of preschool. We interviewed principals of elementary, middle and high, and |
| 1:46.7 | we even interviewed a homeschool mom, Katie, and just setting moms up for doing the homeschooling |
| 1:52.9 | thing, because that's a beast in and of itself. Yes. So, beast in a good way. That's right. So |
| 1:58.3 | even if you've already listened to the state of the motherhood union, I had someone say the other day, I love WIRE talk because every single time |
| 2:04.9 | I listen to it, I've learned something new. So hopefully you've got your cup of coffee, your AirPods |
| 2:09.8 | in, or you're watching on YouTube, and you are ready to get some wisdom for mom for the next |
| 2:14.5 | couple of weeks. Let's do it. Yes. |
| 2:24.3 | Well, hey moms and thank you so much for coming back to part two of State of the Union for motherhood. |
| 2:25.4 | If you came back, good for you because it was hard. |
| 2:28.6 | There's some tough love that you kind of spilled out to these moms, but they needed it. |
| 2:32.6 | I needed it. |
| 2:34.1 | And I did put, I kept my boots on, |
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