57. Mother's Day Episode: Inspiring Mom, Valli Gideons
Marriage and Martinis
Adam Silverstein
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Valli Gideons joins us to talk all about being the wife of someone in the military who has been deployed ten times throughout their marriage. She's also raising her two children, both of whom are deaf, and uses her blog, My Battle Call, to educate as many people as possible about the hard of hearing. As moms, we are stronger than we often believe and more capable than we often give ourselves credit. Valli is one example of just how tough and unstoppable moms are. We are so grateful that she took the time to speak with us and answer all of our questions on Marriage and Martinis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello dears, Ufichinaia Doubtfire here. |
| 0:05.0 | Interrupting your beloved podcast to remind you to do the right thing for your family this Christmas. |
| 0:10.0 | Buy them tickets to my hit Western comedy musical Mrs Doubtfire. |
| 0:14.6 | Remember, there are some things you can't buy in a department store like the magic of theatre. |
| 0:21.0 | Book now at Mrs Doubtfire Musical dot-co. UK and Merry Christmas Poppets. You're not going to. W Yeah, Welcome back guys to Marager Martini's and I'm Adam and here's Danielle. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello. |
| 1:11.0 | We have a pretty cool story for you guys to listen to. Well, not story interview with Valley, right? |
| 1:17.0 | From My Battle Call? |
| 1:18.0 | Yep, uh-huh. Her blog is My Battle Call. She and I have been friends, again, like blogger friends, we online. |
| 1:24.1 | We had never even, this was the first time we had even spoken in real life and that's kind of cool. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, but you knew her story. |
| 1:30.2 | I had no idea about anything that she was talking about and whoa like I'm blown away because |
| 1:37.6 | it's it's there's lives out there that we just don't know don't understand and when you hear them for the first time, it's like, |
| 1:44.7 | holy shit, this does exist. It's not just like in the movies or stories that you hear about |
| 1:49.3 | from people you don't know or this is real and holy shit yeah I mean I wanted to in honor of |
| 1:55.8 | Mother's Day I mean there are millions of women we could have spoken to and I |
| 2:00.0 | wanted to talk to Valley because I've known her story for a while. |
| 2:04.0 | She is, you know, she's raising kids who have hearing loss and cochlear implants |
| 2:11.0 | while she's also in a military family and has a husband who's gone a lot of the time. |
| 2:16.8 | And she has to do a lot on her own. |
| 2:19.6 | And I always say, as moms, we're so hard on ourselves and sometimes we you know we don't |
| 2:26.1 | give ourselves enough credit for what we do but my God we are stronger than we |
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