Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

Mom!

Up the stairs for something.

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

Mom, what's for dinner?

Chop, sizzle, done.

Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

So its phones down, forks up.

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress.

And this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short excerpt from my extensive

podcast archives, one carefully selected to give you the validation and or motivation

you need for the weekend.

So I've opened up a little bit about this, and I love my children dearly, and it's really hard to be vulnerable and share things like this.

But after I had my third baby, I had postpartum depression and really struggled with that. It was a very difficult time for me.

And I had completed one 70.3 race, one Iron Man 70.3 distance race.

And I had done that before I got pregnant with my third.

And I really enjoyed it.

And I thought, I want to do that again.

And then, like I said, I shortly to do that again and then like I said

shortly after got pregnant and so after I had this this sweet little baby I had postpartum

and it was it was really a struggle for me and there's a lot of a backstory to that that I won't get

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