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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Deep Dive with Alexa Arnold and Kate Cockrill on Mom Rage

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What's underneath mom rage and why does it keep happening? In this second episode of The Tryhards—a 3-part series for ambitious parents trying to be the best version of themselves day by day—Kelly talks with Alexa Arnold and Kate Cockrill about the impossible expectations we set, the tasks we hoard, and what our rage is really trying to tell us. This is a conversation about suppression, resentment, love and the moments when mercy appears from the most unexpected places. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:24.5

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:28.0

Thanks, Canva.

0:34.3

Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

0:36.2

I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about mom rage and what's underneath it,

0:41.5

like impossible expectations and true exhaustion.

0:45.8

I'm joined again by my fellow tryhards, Alexa Arnold, a social impact entrepreneur,

0:51.4

currently working with Jonathan Haidt on The Anxious Generation and

0:54.9

Kate Cockrell, a leadership coach and improv comedian. In this second installment of our three-part

1:00.7

series on parenting and ambition, we are getting brutally honest about the moments we lose it

1:07.1

and what our rage is really trying to tell us. Kate jumps right in with a confession

1:12.7

about a day when everything fell spectacularly apart when she was juggling too much, trying to be

1:19.3

everything to everyone and said the worst possible thing to her pretty darling five-year-old.

1:26.3

Alexa opens up about a fight with her husband,

1:28.6

and I'll confess to some of my worst moments.

1:31.0

Together, we're doing a deep dive

1:32.6

into where this rage comes from,

1:35.0

why we continually set impossible standards for ourselves,

1:39.3

and whether we're accidentally creating our own misery

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