Hey, it's Jamie Scrimgear. When I became a stepmom, I quickly realized that while

moms are encouraged to keep it real, there's a big double standard when it comes to stepmoms.

So, I decided to start the conversation myself. Thriving as a stepmom doesn't just come from conversations about being a stepmom now.

Here we dive into marriage, relationships, personal growth, and more.

My mission?

Inspire you to live a kick-ass life while bringing you along as I create my own.

This is the kick-assass Stepmom podcast.

This week I am bringing you a conversation I had with Erica Wright, who is a codependency counselor, a straight shooter with a Boston accent, and you are just going to love her.

So Erica helps people untangle the patterns that keep them stuck overgiving, over functioning, and losing themselves in relationships. Stepmums, does that

sound like you? She brings her own lived experience to the table and pairs it directly with that

Boston energy, with real compassion, as she guides people back to self-trust and

integrity in the moment. Her work is about letting go of control, which we all need, and

obligation so that you can build relationships that are actually rooted in truth and authenticity.

This is a good one. Let's dive in.

All right. Erica, welcome to the kick-ass stepmom. Very excited to have you here.

Very excited to be here. Amazing. Now, you know what? Let's start. If you could share a little bit about

your story and how you started to do the work that you're doing.

I always find women have the best stories in terms of what got us to creating the work that we do, right?

Yeah.

Well, and the thing that, like, I'm just putting the pieces together for now, basically the origin of all of this work that I'm doing

is because of my stepdad. Okay. Which is crazy. So I very quickly had a biological dad who,

you know, my parents were sort of teenagers and they broke up and when I was three and then I had

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