Hi friend, to celebrate the fifth birthday of the podcast we are doing something extra special this week.

Every day I'm airing a mini episode with a throwback to an early episode of 3 in 30 that has deeply impacted my life and been part of my journey of learning how to love.

For this series I'm only going to share one takeaway from the original episode so it will be quick and easy for you to think about or even put into practice today.

And then if you're interested in hearing the full episode I'll link the original in the show notes.

As part of this birthday series I'm also giving away $500 as a thank you for sharing the podcast with your friends, family and neighbors.

We're calling this the 5 Days 5 Ways Challenge because you'll have a chance each day to enter the giveaway for $500 by sharing the podcast in a different unique way.

There will be one grand prize winner at the end of the week who will get $500 and there will also be four runner-up winners who will get a care package for me.

So enter each day if you can. For today's 5 Days 5 Ways Challenge do you have a group text with your mom friends or maybe a group me or a Marco Polo for Book Club Bible Study or something similar.

Tell your group about the podcast and why you love it.

Sharing a link to one of our Spotify playlists that applies to the ages of the children of the women in your group would be an excellent recommendation.

We'll link those in the show notes.

Then go to the link 330podcast.com slash 5 and fill out the form to be entered in the giveaway. We would love to see a screenshot of what you shared with your friends.

Okay for today's mini episode I'm airing an excerpt from a conversation I had with one of my biggest motherhood mentors April Perry co-founder of the website Power of Moms and Learned Do Become.

When I was a discouraged new mom I became a part-time copy editor for Power of Moms and April took me under her wing and encouraged me professionally and personally.

She's actually the person who first mentioned to me that I would be a great podcast host. I'm not sure 330 would exist if it weren't for that encouragement and I'm just so grateful.

A few years ago I was honored to get to edit the book that April wrote about her mother's though who passed away several years ago from Alzheimer's.

And in this mini episode you'll hear April share a story about her mom and what it taught her about mothering with love and intention.

Here's that story from April.

Okay so we're going to talk about celebrating with our children and the story is that it's my senior year in high school and we were applying for college and I of course waited till the last minute to send in my application and it was a joint application scholarship and getting into the school.

And my mom overnighted it for me because I waited till the very last minute totally procrastinated and I was sure that I wasn't going to get the scholarship I was like mom I sent it in the last minute I'm sure it wasn't very good I don't think I'm really competing that well with the other students.

And I was just sure that it hadn't been as good as she thought it was but she was like no April you're going to get the scholarship she was just totally believed in me the whole process.

And I was a musical rehearsal we heard school musical my senior year and there's this little tapping at the choir room door and there's probably 30 students there plus the teachers and we're in the middle of these rehearsals and it's my mom and I'm like what is my mom doing here so I got to little staircase and I'm like mom what are you doing is she's jumping up and down and she's holding this big envelope she's like April.

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