This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 53.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you

and other passionate, dedicated moms, the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood

and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless

every day because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of. What kind of

legacy are you building? So let's dive in. Hello, shameless moms. I'm extremely grateful to be

here today. I have to say that if we're going to do an episode on gratitude, right? So in all reality, though,

I am very grateful and I'm excited to talk about gratitude for a few different reasons. So first of all,

I got this incredible email from one of my shameless moms, one of you all, about a week ago. And I

want to share it with you all today because it really touched me. It also totally made me cry. So we'll see if I

can get through reading it without losing it. And then in addition to that, a friend of

mine, Scott Colby, is getting ready to launch his gratitude project, which I'm going to share

with you because I'm actually participating in this project with him. And then the third reason

is gratitude is just such a big part of my life right now with us going through everything with IVF.

We've had so many people reach out and just hold us in their thoughts and their prayers and

just be amazing caretakers of our hearts and our feelings. And that's been just, it's made what could be a really grueling,

horrible, frustrating, exhausting experience.

It's made it actually something that I will, I will never forget.

So I'm very grateful for those things today.

So I want to start off with the letter.

So this is the email I got a few weeks ago,

or I'm sorry, a week ago. This comes from Rachel. She's a listener, and I'm just going to dive

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