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Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Getting Past perfect with Kate Wicker #060

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9810 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m sharing an inspiring conversation I had with the awesome Kate Wicker, author of the newly-published Getting Past Perfect: How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood. Kate shares beautifully about her own struggles in motherhood, along with what ultimately inspired her to write this important book. Find complete shownotes at www.daniellebean.com

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0:00.0

Girlfriends, episode number 60, getting past perfect with Kate Wicker.

0:09.2

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends.

0:12.0

I'm Danielle Bean.

0:13.2

I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman

0:17.3

so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living.

0:21.7

This week we're talking about how to begin the conversation about family finances. More on banishing the

0:26.5

winter blues, and we're chatting with Kate Wicker about motherhood in the real world and how we

0:31.2

can all get past perfect. I'm so glad you're here. Let's get started.

0:42.5

Hey, girlfriends. Welcome to another week, another episode of the Girlfriends podcast. I'm so glad that you are here. So glad you're joining me. I'm always happy

0:47.0

to have you here with me. I'm always happy to share with you again for another week.

0:51.7

This time I'm recording on Sunday. I just got back from LA, the Los Angeles

0:56.0

Religious Ed Congress late, late last night, but I was thrilled to be home with my own family

1:01.6

today. And the biggest news that I have to share with you all since last time is I have an instant

1:09.0

pot. It happened, okay? I shared with my husband this desire from my heart

1:14.6

and the ways in which I thought it would be useful to our family. And he agreed. And so we did get it.

1:21.3

It arrived on Friday while I was gone. And I've already made chicken soup in it. That's my first

1:25.5

thing that I made today. And I thought it came

1:27.9

out great and I'm pretty excited. Now I'm researching recipes. So now is the time. If you have instant

1:33.5

pot recipes that you love, ways that you use it that you love, send me all the links. Send me all the

1:39.2

recipes. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to experiment with this thing. So that's my newest appliance, my newest love in my

1:46.0

kitchen. And I'm planning like a week's worth of meals all using the instant pot just so I can get

1:51.0

accustomed to it, learn these new skills with the instant pot. So very excited about that. For sure,

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