I'm a mama of one. I'm a Spanish teacher. My name is Taylor and I'm a Maraculous Mama.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Maraculous Mama's podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth Joy,

and we believe in empowering women through storytelling and education, which is exactly what we

plan on doing is telling stories and educating ourselves. This month is going to be packed with

all of those things. Today I'm super excited about our guest Jess Gronis. She is part of our Maraculous

Mama's community. So I'm so excited that she was able to come on and she's going to share her

experience with us dealing with preeclampsia, because May is preeclampsia awareness month. So

if you guys haven't noticed by now, I love trying to do all the different awarenesses.

I keep a calendar of them, but I've noticed since I've been pregnant that I've missed quite a few.

I feel like my pregnancy brain set in a while ago. And so I've missed a few of them. And I'm like,

oh my gosh, I can't believe that I forgot to do an episode on this. So next year, we'll have more

episodes. Also, when it comes to specific things, it's really important for me to get the right

guest on to speak to it. So I know that there was a couple of things back in February that I wanted

to get somebody on for it. And it was just with scheduling, we weren't able to make it work.

But the guest should be coming on soon. And it's really important for me with certain topics to

try to, like I said, get the right person to come on to educate us and make us more aware and

be able to continue the conversations and help us learn and grow as a community. So I don't even

remember how Jess and I started talking, but she's a certified personal trainer. She helps

future and new mamas balance the transition to motherhood through fitness, faith, and a healthy

lifestyle. She also has a podcast of her own. And I got to go on her podcast, which was so much

fun. Her podcast is called Fit and Faithful podcast. So if you guys go there, I talk with her about

my role as a doula, how I became one. I never really dove like super deep into the story on

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