631: Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson, are comedians, mothers, and hosts of the podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. What Fresh Hell regularly ranks at the top of the Parenting and Kids and Family charts on Apple Podcasts, and has over five million lifetime downloads. In each episode Margaret and Amy discuss a parenting topic from their usually-completely opposite perspectives. Amy Wilson is the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, The Worrier, The Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be (HarperCollins) and of Mother Load, a one-woman show which she toured to 16 cities after its hit off-Broadway run. She also appeared as a series regular in two sitcoms (Daddio on NBC and Norm on ABC). She and her husband live in New York City with their three kids. Margaret Ables is a comedian and writer whose work has appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and PBS. Margaret created television shows for Klasky Csupo (creators of Rugrats) and was the head of video production for Nickelodeon’s mom-centric channel NickMom. Margaret also teaches improv and public speaking in correctional facilities for the non-profit organization Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She and her husband live in Westchester, NY with their three kids. I met Amy and Margaret via our mutual podcast editing team (SHOUT OUT to Christy and Allison!) Christy had a sense we might hit it off and, of course, she was spot on. Listen in to hear Margaret and Amy share: How they came together to create WFH and how each bring their unique strengths to create support for parents how parenting changes and evolves us over the years why we don’t need to fear or resist the constant growth that parenting provides Why new ventures and unchartered territory feel so big and daunting as we approach them, but then so much smaller in hindsight How parenting problems over the years. IE: little kids = lots of problems/easy to solve, big kids = fewer problems, harder to solve The difference between “easy” parenting and satisfying parenting What satisfying parenting looks like and how it can look sooo different than what you expected Links mentioned: Connect with Margaret and Amy: whatfresshhellpodcast.com Podcast: What Fresh Hell WFH on IG WFH FB Group Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 631 with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.
0:06.3	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going
0:10.3	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 631.
0:18.5	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:24.1	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:30.2	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:35.6	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to
0:38.1	join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you.
0:43.2	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's
0:49.6	episode. Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson are comedians, mothers, and the hosts of the podcast, What Fresh Hell,
1:00.9	laughing in the face of motherhood. What Fresh Hell regularly ranks at the top of the parenting
1:05.9	and kids and family charts on Apple podcast and has over 5 million lifetime downloads. I am chasing them down
1:12.7	to hit my 5 million. In each episode, Margaret and Amy discuss a parenting topic from their
1:17.5	usually completely opposite perspectives. I'm going to tell you about them a little bit individually,
1:22.6	starting with Amy. So Amy Wilson is the author of, When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Wurrier, The Dinosaur Chicken Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swear I'd Never Be, and of Motherload, a one-woman show which she toured to 16 cities after its hit off Broadway run.
1:39.3	She also appeared as a series regular in two sitcoms, Daddy-O and Norm. She and her husband live in New
1:46.0	York City with their three kids. Margaret Ables is a comedian and writer whose work has appeared on
1:51.5	MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and PBS. Margaret created television shows for Class
1:57.6	Geek, Supo, the creators of Rugrats, and was the head of video production for Nickelodeon's
2:02.1	mom-centric channel, Nick Mom. Margaret also teaches improv and public speaking at correctional
2:07.4	facilities for the nonprofit rehabilitation through the arts. She and her husband live in
2:11.9	Westchester, New York, with their three kids. I met Amy and Margaret via our mutual podcast editing team. Shoutouts to Christy and Allison.
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