EP | 720 - Ambition and Motherhood Are Not Enemies: 7 Lessons of Parenting I've Learned This Year
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Before I had kids, I thought parenting was about teaching them.
Teaching them discipline.
Teaching them kindness.
Teaching them confidence.
Teaching them how to behave.
What I did not realize… Parenting is not about teaching.
It's about being exposed.
Motherhood exposed my impatience.
My control issues.
My nervous system.
My ego.
My marriage.
My priorities.
Today I want to share 7 of the biggest lessons parenting has taught me so far and please DM me if any or all resonate with you!
Time Stamps:
(0:45) What Motherhood Has Exposed In Me
(2:19) Lesson 1: Your Nervous System Is The Real Parent
(5:46) Lesson 2: You Cannot Control Everything
(7:52) Lesson #3: Ambition and Motherhood Are Not Enemies
(9:47) Lesson 4: Your Marriage Becomes The Foundation or The Fracture
(11:43) Lesson #5: Guilt Is Optional. Intention Is Not
(14:12) Lesson #6: Kids Don't Need Perfection. They Need Repair
(15:39) Lesson #7: The Small Moments Are The Real Ones
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think mothers are better people. There I said it. Like truly, motherhood has made me a better person. |
| 0:06.8 | If you don't shrink to your ambition, you can hold both. You just have to really grow and you have to |
| 0:13.8 | expand. You have to be willing to do this work. |
| 0:17.2 | Hi, guys. I'm going to do a little different of a podcast today. This is for my parents out there. |
| 0:22.9 | My parents who are growing a business specifically, but really any parent. What I've done is I've |
| 0:29.0 | taken seven lessons that I've learned over the last year and be honest and explain them to you. |
| 0:34.6 | And hopefully you can see yourself in them you can learn from them |
| 0:38.2 | and so for context i have a at the time of this recording a three and a half year old and a nine |
| 0:43.0 | month old and before i had kids if i'm being honest i thought parenting was really about teaching them |
| 0:49.5 | right you teach them discipline you teach them kindness you teach them confidence you teach kids how to |
| 0:53.5 | behave what i didn't realize is it's really not about teaching. It's so much more about |
| 0:59.1 | exposing parts of yourself. Boy, it's been, they've taught me so much more than I've ever taught |
| 1:05.8 | them. Motherhood has exposed my impatience. Boy, do I struggle with patience, my control issues, my nervous |
| 1:13.9 | system, my ego, it's exposed my marriage, it's exposed my priorities. And it, I wouldn't say |
| 1:20.8 | it's like built my character. It's revealed a lot of my character and broken things down for me to |
| 1:26.1 | rebuild from. So if you are building a business, |
| 1:30.0 | especially while raising kids, it just amplifies everything and you can't hide. So today I want |
| 1:34.8 | to share with you, like I said, these lessons that I've been taught so far, just like the real |
| 1:40.9 | stuff. I don't really know if I have it all together. I know for a fact I don't have it all together. So have grace and patience with me. I'm just going to share leadership lessons. It's taught me a lot of internal shifts, a lot of identity changes within myself, a lot of uncomfortable growth. Because parenting has made me better. It has made me a better person. It's made me a better business owner. |
| 2:02.5 | It's made me a more intentional person. |
| 2:06.3 | And it's, yeah, it's just amplified every area of my life. |
| 2:10.2 | So lesson one. |
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