Last Day Presents: “A Stay-At-Home Mom Breaks the Cycle” (Squeezed Ep 2)

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hey listeners, we’re back with Episode 2 of Squeezed. This episode features another person who is feeling very Squeezed. Jessica is a stay-at-home mom with three kids under six. She is a former daycare worker who didn’t plan to be a full-time mom, but since money is tight and childcare is expensive, she has no other choice. Jessica fell through the cracks of our system that does not support care workers — but she’s discovered profound meaning in her life as a stay-at-home mom and is using this time to break generational cycles.

Squeezed is a Lemonada Media original. Yvette Nicole Brown is the host of this show. Chrystal Genesis is our senior producer. Giulia Hjort, Tess Novotny, and Hannah Boomershine are our producers. Field production by Beth Wallis. Ivan Kuraev is our engineer. Our theme music is by Andi Kristinsdottir, with additional music by APM music. Jackie Danziger is our VP of Narrative Content. Executive producers are Yvette Nicole Brown, Jessica Cordova Kramer, and Stephanie Wittels Wachs.

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0:45.8	Girls Who Code. Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful adult woman. I've written books,
0:51.6	founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two incredible kids.
0:56.3	But here's the thing. I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best years are yet to come, when's that going to start?
1:06.3	Join me on my so-called midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media, where we're building a playbook
1:12.9	for navigating midlife, one episode at a time. Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests
1:19.6	who've transformed their midlife crisis into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose.
1:26.6	At some point, we all ask ourselves,
1:29.7	is there a mortal life?
1:31.4	I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act,
1:35.4	right alongside you.
1:37.5	My so-called midlife is out now,
1:39.9	wherever you get your podcasts.
1:44.8	Lemonada.
1:49.4	So in the garden season, the only produce that we'll buy is fruit, but everything else we don't have to buy.
1:59.1	They love to run all around the garden.
2:02.7	That's Jessica.
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