Episode 71: Conversations with Our Pre-Mom Selves
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're talking about all the things we didn't know that we didn't know before kids. From a false sense of control (surely good behavior is just a matter of consistent and firm boundaries ... right?) to the things we swore we'd never do only to end up doing them (we're looking at you, goldfish crackers for dinner and weekly baths), there's a lot about motherhood that's upended who we thought we were. But then there are also the parts of us that are unchanged or have only been brought into sharper focus as result of becoming a mom. Whether you're preparing for your first or you're three or four kids into motherhood, we hope this episode makes you laugh and helps you reflect on how raising our kids influences the people we become, too.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:05.0 | We believe it takes a village to raise our children and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:10.0 | Most of all, we believe that you are a great mom. |
| 0:13.0 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged and loved. |
| 0:18.0 | And we also want to make you laugh sometimes. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Coffee and Crumbs Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host Indiana Adams and today I'm joined by Ashley Gadd. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi friends and April Haas. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi guys. |
| 0:36.2 | Some of my favorite coffee and crumbs episodes |
| 0:39.1 | are the ones with moms who have older kids |
| 0:42.4 | like Sophie Hudson a couple weeks ago, Melanie Shinkle |
| 0:45.4 | last season and Krista Gilbert who did parenting for the long haul that |
| 0:48.5 | episode remains one of my favorite guest-centric episodes that we've done and at the end of those |
| 0:54.3 | episodes I asked those moms to leave us with a word of encouragement as being |
| 0:58.7 | moms who have little kids at home who are drinking cold coffee wiping up |
| 1:02.3 | the crumbs from the |
| 1:02.9 | countertops. But as we were planning this season out and going through some of |
| 1:06.7 | our dams and emails, we kept coming back to the theme of things we'd tell |
| 1:10.8 | our pre-kid selves. Oh if I could have coffee are pre-kid selves. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh, if I could have coffee with pre-kid Indiana, |
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