Girls Night #186: Can You Still Have Big Dreams And Have Kids? — with Lindsey Roman

Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson

Stephanie May Wilson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health

4.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night! I’m so excited about today’s episode. Backing up a little bit… Before Carl and I had kids, one of the most common things people would say to us is, “Travel now before you have kids, because once you have them, you won’t be able to!” The first time I heard that, I sort of brushed it off. Travel was (and IS!) such a huge, important part of my life, surely that wasn’t true. Right? But eventually, I’d heard that same phrase enough times from enough different people that I started to get scared. Did I have to turn in my Passport the day I became a mom? It felt like the answer was yes! And what would becoming a mom mean for the other dreams I had for my life? Would I have to give those up too? Friends — I wrestled with this question for YEARS. No joke, YEARS. In so many ways, I felt like I had to choose between being myself and being a mom. It was NOT an easy decision to make. Finally, I learned that this isn’t actually true — you CAN still be yourself and pursue your dreams and YES, even travel, after you have kids. And the way I found this out was through the example of other women who were going before me. That’s why I’m so excited to share this episode with you. Our guest for today’s episode is my new friend, Lindsey Roman. Lindsey is an educator, speaker, photographer, wife and a mom of two, with one more on the way! And she actually had a LOT of the same fears about motherhood that I did. We talk about all of that in this episode. And we also talk about how we both got through those fears. As we recorded this episode, Lindsey was actually in Spain with her family, and we spend a ton of time talking about how to travel with your family and what that’s looked like for her. This was such a fun conversation, but it’s also one that would have brought me SO MUCH peace and encouragement if I’d been able to hear it a few years ago, and so if any of y’all are wrestling with the same things I was, I hope it does exactly that for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywielson and I'm so happy that you're here.
0:10.1	Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have about
0:13.6	our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence.
0:19.2	About our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the full.
0:23.5	Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as
0:28.0	girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So I'm super super excited about this episode.
0:34.0	Backing up a little bit, before Karlin I had kids, one of the most common things that people would
0:38.5	say to us is travel now before you have kids because once you have them you won't be able to.
0:43.6	The first time I heard that I sort of brushed it off. Travel was and is such a huge important part
0:49.4	of my life and who I am. And so I thought surely that's not true, right? But eventually I'd
0:55.0	heard that same phrase enough times from enough different people that I started to get scared.
1:00.0	I thought did I really have to turn it my passport in the day I became a mom? I felt like the answer
1:04.3	was yes. And then what would becoming a mom mean for the other dreams I had for my life? But I have
1:09.1	to give those up too. Friends, I wrestled with this question for no joke years, years, actual years.
1:17.3	And in so many ways I felt like I had to choose between being myself and being a mom and I just
1:22.1	did not know how to make that decision. Well finally, I learned that this isn't actually true.
1:28.5	You can still be yourself and pursue your dreams and yes, even travel after you have kids.
1:33.8	And the way that I found this out was through the example of other women who are going before me.
1:38.0	That's why I'm so excited to share this episode with you.
1:41.6	Our guest for today's episode is my new friend, Lindsay Roman. Lindsay is an educator, a speaker,
1:46.6	a photographer, a wife, and a mom of two with one more on the way. And she actually had a lot of
1:52.0	the same fears about motherhood that I did. We talk about all of that in this episode and we talk
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