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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.

I am so glad that I'm so glad that I decltered the shoulds from my life. Yes.

So that I could add in some stuff that really fit me that I really loved.

And it's made all the difference.

I'm so glad you spoke to that fear because I think we

all do that. It's not even just if we decided to go back to work or to go to school, even if it's

something as simple as taking a walk for ourselves, you know, not making a homemade lunch or a dinner

or leaving laundry unfolded and just

taking 10 minutes to read a book. Like even down to the small ways, I see this woman all the

time. We are afraid that if we thrive, that comes at the sacrifice of our families thriving.

And you've discovered the reverse is true. And so have I. And even though our

podcasts are for different purposes, yours are more about motherhood and mine are more about self-development.

We actually cross over in the same way of helping moms learn how to thrive so that everything

and everyone around them can also thrive too.

Yes, absolutely. And I think we both had a very similar experience where when we allowed this love

and gift for teaching that we both have back into our lives, it gave us so much back that was

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