Finding Purpose in the Empty Nest Years | With Rachael Carman
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
My fellow large-family-homeschool-mom friend Rachael Carman is joining me today and we’re talking through the transition to an empty nest and the emotions that come with it. We’re sharing advice for you guys preparing for the empty nest and encouraging you to find purpose and have a plan to pursue your own interests during what doesn’t have to be a challenging season of life.
Come back for Happy Hour where we’re getting the scoop on Rachael and Davis’ love story, some of their favorite family memories, and talking about some of our favorite ways to stay off the bench.
Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/finding-purpose-empty-nest-rachael-carman
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is Heidi St. John welcome to the off-the-bench podcast |
| 0:04.2 | you're in for a treat today because my friend author and speaker Rachel Carmen is |
| 0:08.6 | joining me to talk about something that I think needs to get a little more press in the evangelical community as it |
| 0:14.6 | relates to mothering. That is the season of the empty nest. Rachel's a |
| 0:19.5 | homeschool mom of six and all of her kids have flown the nest and she's here to give us some |
| 0:24.8 | encouragement today and if that's you if you're a mom with young children or maybe |
| 0:28.8 | you're at the jumping off place this show's going to be for you stick around I think you're going to be for you. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:34.0 | So Rachel, welcome back to the show from I haven't seen you in a hundred years. |
| 0:46.5 | Well it does feel like a hundred years. I know we haven't seen each other in about a |
| 0:49.6 | thousand years, but yeah it's been a long time. They say a day is as a thousand years to the lower but it does feel like a thousand years. |
| 0:56.0 | It does. |
| 0:58.0 | There's a lot of water under the bridge between what you've been through and what we've gone through. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, it's true. It's's really true I was thinking back a |
| 1:06.3 | couple weeks ago and I asked if you could come on the show to the first time I met you |
| 1:10.4 | and I was trying to think how old our kids were. Do you remember? I know that you had a baby. |
| 1:15.6 | I don't, were you... |
| 1:17.6 | Of course I always had a baby so... |
| 1:19.6 | Well, that's how I felt, but I think... I think, I can't remember if you were nursing sailor or not, but she was little when I first met you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she's 13 now. So I know. |
| 1:34.3 | So you had all of your kids at home. |
| 1:37.6 | Okay, so first of all, there's a lot of new people |
| 1:40.1 | to the show who maybe never heard you on my show before. |
| 1:42.4 | So let's talk all things Rachel |
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