Episode 36: Moms for Shared Parenting with Emma Johnson
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week I am excited to bring you a conversation with Emma Johnson. Emma is a business journalist, gender equality activist and a bestselling author of, The Kick-Ass Single Mom. She's also the founder of WealthySingleMommy.com, the world's largest platform for single moms and Moms for Shared Parenting, an activist organization aimed at making shared parenting the norm.
And today, shared parenting is the topic up for discussion. We tackle how equally shared parenting is the ticket to gender equality, the gender pay gap, and empowering men to parent in a 50/50 shared parenting arrangement. Plus, we talk about letting go of your identity of being "just" a mom and embracing every aspect of being a woman. If you take anything away from this episode, I hope it's this: anyone can be an activist for gender equality and shared parenting, it all starts by having one honest and open conversation about gender and parenting.
Show Highlights
- Shared parenting is the ticket to gender equality (6:17)
- Why dependency is not a good look (11:21)
- The gender pay gap and why it is not going to be solved unless women are in places of power (12:18)
- Children need to have 50% equal time with their parents...period. (17:57)
- How shared parenting allows for a mental recharge (22:30)
- Empowering men to parent on their own (without the help of a partner or spouse) (25:08)
- Being scared to give 50% parenting over to a partner who is narcissistic and abusive (26:48)
- Authentically grieving your divorce and the importance of working through it (30:04)
- Everyone can be an activist for gender equality, challenge people around you or take steps to equalize parenting (30:53)
- Emma brings up the question, "Do we really need child support if childcare is split 50/50?" (33:30)
Learn More About Emma:
Emma Johnson is a business journalist, gender equality activist, #1 best-selling author of The Kickass Single Mom (Penguin), and founder of Wealthysinglemommy.com, the world's largest platform for single moms.
A former Associated Press reporter, Emma has been featured on New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Headline News, CNBC, NPR, TIME, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Doctors, and many more. She was named Parents magazine's "Best of the Web," "Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts" by U.S. News, and "9 Overachieving New Yorkers You Must Date" by New York Observer.
Emma frequently speaks on women's issues, including at the United Nations Summit for Gender Equality. She is the founder of Moms for Shared Parenting, an activist organization aimed at making equally shared parenting the norm.
Emma grew up in Sycamore, Ill., and live in Astoria, N.Y., with her kids, Helena and Lucas
Links:
Emma's websites:
http://momsforsharedparenting.org
https://www.wealthysinglemommy.com
Emma on Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/momsforsharedparenting/
https://instagram.com/wealthysinglemommy/?hl=en
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have real, honest, smart, |
| 0:11.6 | and sometimes even hilarious conversations about co-parenting, separation, and divorce, and all that goes along with that. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, certified |
| 0:22.0 | life and relationship coach, and happily divorced mom who helps women decide if they should |
| 0:26.8 | stay in or leave their marriages and then guides them through the process one step at a time. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey everyone. Thanks so much for tuning in. I hope everyone had a really good Father's Day. I know it was |
| 0:44.8 | challenging for many of you. I heard from a lot of the women in my Facebook group who were |
| 0:50.5 | struggling throughout the day. And so I just want to say that if you found it challenging, |
| 0:55.1 | just know that you are not alone. These holidays are hard for those of us who aren't in |
| 1:01.4 | traditional or nuclear families. And they're especially hard for people who are in the middle |
| 1:07.3 | of separating or divorcing or just having a rough time in their marriages. |
| 1:12.5 | So if that was you, my heart goes out to you. And good news, no more holidays for a few |
| 1:18.9 | months. Aren't we lucky? So I just wanted to do a little plug for you to get on my email list. |
| 1:26.1 | If you're not already on there, you really need to be. |
| 1:30.3 | I've even put a sign up form in the show notes. So if you fill that out, it's just your first |
| 1:37.2 | name and your email address, then you'll get on my newsletter list. And when you sign up, |
| 1:42.7 | you'll get a series of emails that will answer some |
| 1:45.8 | super hard questions and tell you a little bit more about my personal journey through marriage, |
| 1:51.2 | separation, and divorce, and provide valuable, invaluable resources. So be sure that you |
| 1:58.2 | use a sign up form in the show notes and you will get on the list right |
| 2:02.8 | away. So today, I am super excited to bring you a conversation with Emma Johnson. Emma is a business |
| 2:11.9 | journalist, a gender equality activist, and a number one bestselling author of the kickass single mom, which is |
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