50: What Your Mother Never Told You About Motherhood

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For our 50th episode I wanted to do something a little fun and a little special. I actually recorded this in the 30 minutes before my IVF egg retrieval. I’m not sure it reinforced the idea that I truly want to go for #2, haha… My mom has always done a great job of painting motherhood in a beautiful picture: “Your children will always be your proudest accomplishment.” “There is nothing like a mother’s love.” “I don’t remember you ever waking up at night.” “You are your sister were easy babies.” Moms have a knack for making it look like we just wake up every day and knock everything out of the freakin’ park. As our children age, that is how we remember it too. “You were the happiest baby in the world.” “The days just flew by.” “Nothing compares to being a mom.” You know what else nothing compares to? Sipping wine with my husband on a beach without a small child in site. Or spending a day all alone with no one needing a damn thing from me. As our children age, we idealize the past and it gets better and better. As NewbornLand becomes a distant memory, we find ourselves falling in love with the memories, rather than recalling the reality, which was survival, barely. This episode is dedicated to the first 50 episodes of the Shameless Mom Academy and the nearly 50,000 downloads of Shameless Moms listening in to learn and laugh together every week. Thank you for the love and support. You make my motherhood journey so much better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and
0:08.8	other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and
0:13.2	living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day,
0:18.4	because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily
0:20.8	proud of. What kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. This is the Shameless Mom
0:29.0	Academy, episode 50. What 50 episodes? Oh my gosh. Thank you, thank you for being with me for any length of time that you've
0:40.7	been with me, but especially if you've been listening since we launched on March 15th as the
0:45.8	Selfish Mom Academy because yes, we used to have a different name. There's a good story with that
0:50.3	whole thing. You can go back and listen to the bonus episode between episodes nine and
0:55.0	ten. And you can hear all about how we started out as the selfish mom academy and then changed to
1:00.8	the shameless mom academy. It involved a decent amount of diarrhea on my part. I will link to that episode
1:06.0	in today's show notes. So you can go over to shameless mom.com for episode 50 and get to the show notes for today.
1:11.7	And then you can get the link right to that bonus episode where I talk all about the drama,
1:15.8	the drama and the diarrhea. It was good times. Let me tell you. It was good times. It was expensive.
1:20.7	I had no bladder control, no bowel control. I was a disaster. But then we became the
1:24.7	Shameless Mom Academy after a few weeks. And since then, we've just been
1:28.9	rocking and rolling as the Shameless Mom Academy. Since March 5th, so five months ago, we have
1:35.0	released an episode every Monday and Wednesday since then. So I said, I'm a person of my word.
1:40.0	I said I wanted to do a show that would be two times a week every Monday and Wednesday.
1:44.2	And I have not missed an episode yet. So hopefully I will be wanted to do a show that would be two times a week every Monday and Wednesday, and I have not missed an episode yet.
1:46.2	So hopefully I will be able to continue this trend.
1:49.7	I have to tell you, I feel like I should be sitting here with a glass of champagne celebrating,
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