Episode 37: Splitting the Parenting Load with Betsi Flint @betsiflint

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Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 37: Splitting the Parenting Load with Betsi Flint @betsiflint This week Rachael has on Professional beach volleyball player, Betsi Flint to talk about juggling motherhood and her demanding athletic career. Betsi discusses the challenges of balancing training and parenting, the importance of sleep for both her and her toddler, and the support she receives from her husband and family. Find out how splitting the parenting load has been beneficial to her and her family and how she splits parenting duties with her husband. Betsi shares all about the need for self-care and mental health in order to be a better parent. She also highlights the lessons she has learned as a mom athlete and the importance of pelvic floor therapy in her recovery. Betsi's story serves as an inspiration for other women to pursue their dreams after becoming mothers. Betsi is a professional beach volleyball player, wife and toddler mom. She is a 6-time AVP Champion, 2-time AVCA All-American and is currently in the race toward the 2024 Paris Olympics while also balancing motherhood. Betsi is passionate about empowering women and mothers to follow their goals. Mentioned in this episode: Betsi’s IG page: https://www.instagram.com/betsiflint/ If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram | Tiktok | Website Episode Sponsored By: Mysteries About True Histories Podcast: Tune in every Thursday for a brand new episode of Mysteries About True Histories! This series is perfect for kids ages six and up. Even if your child hasn’t learned some of these concepts yet in school, the storytelling seamlessly plants the seeds for all kinds of math, history, geography and science lessons that will keep your little ones curious and excited to learn. Listen to the podcast here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Rachel Shepard Ota, and today I'm talking with
0:07.9	professional beach volleyball player, wife, and toddler mom, Betsy Flint. Betsy is a six-time
0:14.6	AVP champion, two-time AVCA, All-American and is currently in the race towards the 2024 Paris Olympics, while also
0:23.5	somehow balancing motherhood. Betsy is passionate about empowering women to follow their goals,
0:29.6	and I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. Welcome. I'm excited to be here. Thank you.
0:34.5	I just have to ask, because I'm not an athletic person at all. I would love to hear
0:39.8	about, like, just your journey with juggling this intensely physical job and also the
0:46.4	physicality of being a mom, because just parenting my kids on a day-to-day basis is enough to
0:52.1	make my body completely break down. How do you do that?
0:55.9	It's very challenging.
0:57.2	I feel like each stage has been hard.
0:59.7	My daughter is turning three in a couple weeks and it's been different every year.
1:04.9	I finally, we're finally sleeping as of like a couple weeks ago.
1:09.2	We're sleeping through the night, which is a big win for us. And that makes all the difference for training.
1:16.0	Um, is it, you know, it's really hard to wake up when you're up a couple times in the night or
1:20.5	awake for two or three hours just playing. Um, but yeah, I'm very fortunate. My husband helps out a ton. He is, I would consider I'm one of
1:33.1	the primary taker for my daughter, which I know your husband recently. Yeah, I love that.
1:40.1	Yeah, primary caretaker. So it's very challenging too. He does work a full-time job,
1:45.8	but he gives me a lot of flexibility and I'm able to train all morning. And then I come home and
1:51.9	I'm a mom. And I have found that I am conditioning way less in the gym because I need the energy
1:57.7	to condition with my toddler. We're always outside on the bike running around.
2:04.1	And so I feel really good on the court, even cutting out some of that conditioning.
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