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-ass step-mom podcast.

Hi. the kick-ass stepmom podcast. Hello, hello, welcome to the kick-ass step-mom podcast. Okay, guys, I am here with another episode that I recorded, I think about a year ago now, before I press pause

on the podcast. So it never made it onto the show.

And how I have let this just be sitting here in my Google Drive, I do not know, but I'm making

up for it now because I am sharing this very powerful conversation. So I interviewed Dr. Amanda Hansen.

She is author, speaker, Dr. Psychology. She really

is a leading voice in the world of psychology among women. And she says, until a woman questions

everything she's been told about being a woman, she will keep living her life within the same

unfulfilling cycles. So obviously we dive into that in this episode. She's definitely going to make

you question some things. So we really dive into embracing your feminine. And this is something that I have

been really trying to do in the last, I would say, year or so, maybe a couple years. And as someone

who's always been quite in my masculine, especially when it comes to my emotions and not

allowing anyone to care for me and, you know, all of those old childhood wounds coming up,

those defense mechanisms, but you're like, I don't need anything from anyone.

Amanda really brought in a whole new perspective for me in terms of what it truly means to embrace your feminine. So trust me,

this conversation is going to bring up some things for you too. So we dive into the current

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