Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,

The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,

habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available

on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and

audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the

conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now

on to our special session.

Thank you. on to our special session. Kristen Andres, thank you so much for joining us in the More for Mom's Conference.

It's so good to have you.

Thank you so much for having me.

I was honored.

I've been such a longtime follower of yours. And one of the things

that struck me from the very beginning was that even as a busy mom to six kids, I joined you

when you had just four and then you had six. So that shows how far back we went, right? But even as a

busy mom, you really exemplified what it looks like to prioritize your own interests, your own self-care,

the habits that we're going to help you thrive in ways that were pretty unique for even

the Internet age that we were on at the time. It's gotten a little bit better in some ways,

but not in others. I wanted to first hear about how this was not just a choice for you,

but also eventually became more of a practice.

Absolutely. And it was a choice and it was a necessity for me. Yeah. And absolutely a practice.

My mom really modeled this for me. So she got help. She volunteered around the community. She went on her run

every single morning. She did not miss that. You know, we woke ourselves up. We got ourselves ready for

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