AP 719: A new school year at FIVE schools, our garden party, a new morning routine, my book title (!!!) and wondering if I can really do all of this.

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This monthly series features an episode sharing my recent highs and lows, how my habits are going, a Do Something List update, plus what I'm loving lately and my commitments for the upcoming month. I hope this glimpse into my life, my family, my work, and my own self development encourages you in your own journey. Around here the goal is never perfection, just to keep trying, even if in very simple ways. I think you'll see that with all of the big changes going on for me, taking the smallest of steps has helped to keep me afloat and feeling like myself. As always, I encourage you to get messy, too! Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! ⁠Get on the waitlist for Italy!⁠ Single traveler survey ⁠here⁠. More for Moms Conference Leave a rating and review Check out my ⁠workshops⁠! Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes This episode is brought to you by goPure Beauty, get 25% off @goPure with code PROGRESS at https://www.goPurebeauty.com/PROGRESS #goPurepod; and by Fearless Finance, chat with a planner for free to make sure it’s a good fit, and you’ll get $50 off your first planning meeting when you use the code PROGRESS at fearlessfinance.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Hey, I'm dating coach Tali Karan, host of Dating Intentionally, where I help listeners date with confidence and learn
0:38.1	to enjoy the process, whether you're new to the dating scene or you've been at it for a while.
0:43.0	Tune in every Tuesday and Friday for my no-nonsense advice on using dating apps and navigating new
0:47.8	relationships without letting your anxiety take over. You can find Dating Intentionally wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.1	Thank you. takeover. You can find dating intentionally wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, this is Monica Packer from About Progress and you're listening to The Messy Middle,
1:06.8	a monthly series where I share some of my own messy middle, so you can see what progress looks
1:11.7	like for a real woman in real time.
1:15.9	I always begin this episode with the What's Happening segment where I share what's been going
1:21.1	on in the Packer household.
1:23.4	The biggest thing is the start of school, and if you don't know, we have five kids. And this year,
1:29.9	each of those kids will be in their own school. So five kids, five schools, and that equals
1:34.3	total mayhem. I will say that the hardest part of the busyness is just keeping up on the school
1:40.2	information, like all the emails that come in, the calendars, who has off, who has on,
1:45.8	what time they start, what time they end, just getting the ongoing newsletters of different
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