Episode 73: Motherhood + FOMO
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode is airing in tandem with Sarah and Meagan from The Mom Hour podcast—we're both talking about motherhood and the fear of missing out (FOMO). Sometimes we avoid talking about FOMO at the risk of sounding ungrateful, but the truth is there's an opportunity cost with every big decision in life ... and motherhood is no exception. From the temptation to compare ourselves with what we see on social media to actually missing out on things because we couldn't line up childcare or the toddler is sick (again), we open up honestly about where we struggle with FOMO and how we work to shift our perspective from one of lacking to one of gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. 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. |
| 0:14.0 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:19.0 | 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. I'm your host Indiana Adams and today I'm joined by |
| 0:32.0 | Ashley Gad. Hello and April Haas. Hi guys. And today we are |
| 0:37.6 | doing something fun and a little different. We are teaming up with Megan |
| 0:42.4 | and Sarah from the mom hour to tackle the same topic. |
| 0:46.5 | I was able to meet Sarah from the mom hour in Austin at Mom 2.0 last spring, but Ashley, you know them from before that right I do we had been I |
| 0:56.4 | think friends on the internet for a little while I hope I'm not misremembering |
| 1:00.3 | this but I really met Megan and Sarah for the first time at a podcasting |
| 1:04.2 | conference that we went to a few summers ago and they were just a real delight. |
| 1:08.6 | I had dinner with them and we actually talked at that time about potentially doing a show together or |
| 1:15.2 | finding some kind of way to work together and it has taken several years to |
| 1:19.4 | actually make it come into fruition, but we're here now and really excited about it. Yes today on both of our |
| 1:26.6 | shows we are covering the topic of FOMO. FOMO FOMO is an acronymO-M-O-M-O-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-M-O-O-M-O-M-O is an acronym for the Fear of missing out. And I think it can apply to anything. Most of, seeing social media photos of all your friends at a party |
| 1:42.8 | you weren't invited to or you couldn't go to, |
| 1:45.2 | but I think it could go much deeper in other areas. |
| 1:48.2 | What do you all think? |
| 1:50.4 | Definitely. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah, I had always thought about it solely in the context of missing out socially, but yeah, I think it could definitely be broader. |
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