Friendships in Motherhood, Part One (Redefining “Ride Or Die”): Episode 307

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a year that changed nearly everything about how humans connect and communicate, it’s no surprise that friendships in motherhood have changed. Some deepened over the past year, as the pandemic gave us new ways to bond (and hard stuff to get real about). Some fell away, strained by distance or differences. And pandemic or no pandemic, not every close friendship is created equal, and they all go through seasons of change. In today’s episode, part one of two all about friendships in motherhood, Meagan and Sarah look at “ride or die” friendships (including a critical look at what that even means). We talk about ways close friends can show up for each other when things are hard, how close friendships have adapted over the past year, and what to keep in mind if you’re missing or grieving close friendships in your life right now. Join us!

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Listen to Meagan’s new interview show Mother of Reinvention wherever you get your podcasts
You can see all the public comments from which we drew our community feedback on this Instagram post and (if you’re in the group) this Facebook Group conversation
You might like this episode: The Myth Of The Mom Tribe
And this one: Female Friendships & Women We Admire

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Mom Hour.
0:23.0	Hey everyone and welcome to episode 307 of the Mom Hour. I am Sarah Powers here
0:28.1	as always with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. So we're talking about
0:33.0	friendship this week and next week. It's a really big topic, but I'm excited for
0:38.0	this. I am too. I think it's a it's a big topic. Like you said, it's a really
0:43.1	important topic. And I think it's one of those things that comes up a lot in
0:46.0	our community is just this like where are my people? How do I find my people? And
0:50.6	right now we're in such a weird time for like even hanging on to the people you
0:53.6	maybe we're starting to collect in your life. So it's like it feels like it's
0:58.2	more needed now than ever really. I agree. And as often happens, I felt like we'd
1:04.6	talked about friendship on the Mom Hour several times, but I looked back and
1:08.2	it's definitely been a while. And then of course pandemic life has changed so
1:12.0	much. So we're gonna take two weeks. We're gonna do it this week and next week.
1:15.7	So we have a little time to settle into this conversation. This week we're
1:19.8	gonna focus more on showing up and being shown up for with our closest our
1:24.5	ride or die friends. And we're also going to kind of talk about what that
1:27.4	actually means those close friendships. And then next week we're going to kind
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