Ep. 108: You Bet Your Stretch Marks
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In our last show before we take a break for summer 2025, we chat about the final book in the M Is for Mama trilogy: You Bet Your Stretch Marks.
I reveal where the title came from, why it’s countercultural to the common narrative about “worth it” in motherhood and flesh out what it means to have a “tiger-striped soul.”
Be sure to pre-order You Bet Your Stretch Marks (link below) for all the stories, Scripture, and lessons learned. But in the meantime, enjoy this preview + pep talk all rolled into one!
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Mentions:
Podcast Episode With Jennifer Flanders
Tools Not Treasures Podcast Episode
The Truth About Honest Motherhood Series Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3
Pre-order You Bet Your Stretch Marks!
Bible References:
1 Corinthians 3:19
Philippians 2:6-11
Luke 9:23
Romans 6:6
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Galatians 6:9
Matthew 6:25-34
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Penny Reward System
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife, Mama de Ten, Bible Believing Christian. And this will be our last episode for several weeks as my son, Ezra, who does all of my editing and producing of my podcast is actually |
| 0:22.4 | going to a Christian camp in the city in Dallas as counselor. He did this last year as well. |
| 0:30.7 | And so he won't be around to edit for me because they're not allowed to take their laptops, |
| 0:35.3 | their smart watches, their phones, anything. So he will be doing that and |
| 0:40.9 | yelling himself hoarse and ministering to kids all day, every day. And I will be taking a |
| 0:47.2 | quite honestly much needed break, although I'm sure I will be recording content for you |
| 0:51.1 | while I am not actually posting it. And he'll start editing and getting all |
| 0:56.2 | that produced and posted starting August 1st. So just a heads up that we're taking a little |
| 1:03.7 | hiatus and we'll be back. Don't worry. Before we jump into today's podcast, I want to highlight for |
| 1:09.8 | you one more time. Our wonderful podcast sponsor, Voteberg Music Academy. |
| 1:14.1 | I know Elisha and Katie Voteberg personally. |
| 1:16.9 | I know they work so hard to give their customers an amazing experience. |
| 1:20.8 | And I know that the Voteberg method is different than many other music lessons. |
| 1:24.8 | They offer lessons for the whole family for one membership in Fiddle and |
| 1:29.7 | mandolin ukulele guitar piano. You can use the code at Ms. Romo 20 for 20% off each month and you're |
| 1:36.5 | enrolled. And if you're the kind of family who is motivated by prizes and challenges, you can jump |
| 1:42.2 | in on their six songs of summer challenge with |
| 1:44.4 | thousands of other Christian families who are loving Votberg as well. Don't forget to use |
| 1:49.0 | the code at Mr. Romo 20 at Vodbergmusicacademy.com. All righty so for our last podcast of this season, |
| 1:55.9 | what are we going to chat about? Well, I have to say that after the last, I think, three or four episodes, I was kicking |
| 2:03.9 | myself because I realized that as an author, I was doing a terrible job of letting you guys |
| 2:08.7 | know about some really exciting news, which is my third book. So we had MS for Roma first |
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