I'm a young hardworking mom with two fur babies and a two and a half year old daughter.

I'm Tanya and I'm a Mariah Caretz mama.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Miraculous Mamas podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy

and we are a podcast that believes in empowering women through storytelling and education

and we are so glad that you are here today. Guys, March is an amazing month because it is

women's history month and at the end of the episode I'm going to share some information with you

guys but it's an awesome time just to kind of look back and see where women have come,

how far that they've come and all that they have accomplished it has definitely been a battle

just for equality, for equal rights, everything like that. So I'm going to be sharing some stories

and a little bit of that at the end and pay tribute to the first doctor, the first female doctor

in the United States and the amazing work that she did. Today's episode I'm having Katie Crenshaw

on and I'm super excited to talk to her. She is an awesome, awesome woman and she's a storyteller

and activist and author. She has a podcast herself and she is just a light in this world and it's so

much fun talking to her and her sharing her story and the example that she is setting for her

daughter and for future generations to come and what her book is doing as well. She wrote a children's

book and I'll let her tell you guys all about it but talking to her was really nice because I feel

like as women we just naturally deal with a lot of shame and some body image issues and there's

almost everyone at one point in their life isn't happy with the way that they've looked or maybe the

way that you feel and I just want you guys to know that it doesn't matter what society says. I think

that it has we have come a very long way in what people looked like in magazines and in movies

when I was a kid versus now because I remember growing up only seeing really thin women

in the movies and crazy when I was younger I used to do some acting and I remember being

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