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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Friendship is Hard :: Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston [Ep 350]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We’ll just say it - friendship as an adult is hard. It’s hard to find friends, to keep friends, and to be a good friend amidst all the hustle and bustle of motherhood. And motherhood can be an extremely lonely place. On this episode, Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston, founders of Sister I am With You, share the good, the bad, and the awkward of making friends as a mom. They guide us through their own story of friendship (and encourage us to get out there and start the work of friendship) with candor and humor.  They talk about some pitfalls of making friends and share tips on how to be a good friend. 

Their book, I’ll be There, (But I’ll be Wearing Sweatpants), releases January 25, 2022. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.6

I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:16.2

and connect you with people and resources.

0:19.4

So you know that you don't mom alone.

0:23.6

And in this episode number 350, I like the way that sounds 350.

0:28.7

I've invited friends Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston on the show.

0:34.7

We're going to talk about friendship and these two moms met online and then co-founded Sister

0:41.4

I'm with you.

0:42.4

They just co-wrote the book I'll be there but I'll be wearing sweatpants.

0:47.9

I think that my real like break down moment for lack of a better word was when I was in

0:53.4

the thick of it with my little kid.

0:55.5

My friend always calls it the constant constant of motherhood.

0:59.3

What do you do all day?

1:00.3

I keep people alive.

1:01.3

I literally keep everyone alive all day and I don't know what I do because everything

1:06.3

I do just gets done done again.

1:08.0

It's just like this constant, it's like a vortex.

1:11.4

And I just had this moment after they were all in bed of sitting on the couch and I just

1:16.6

remember I started crying and I was just like I'm so lonely.

1:20.2

I am so lonely and I feel so isolated and I don't even know where.

1:25.4

I want people in my life to do life with but how do I even begin?

1:30.2

I don't know if you can relate to what Jess just shared.

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