MOMENT | Why it's ok to get it wrong 70% of the time, with Josh Connolly

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Today we're joined by mental health expert Josh Connelly who discusses the importance of self-compassion in parenting. He explains why getting it right even 30% of the time is good enough and the importance of validating and accepting feelings. Listen to the full episode with Josh Connelly here: ⁠How addiction gets passed down the generations⁠ Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	Hi everyone. Welcome to this week's Motherkind moment. Your place on a Monday for calm,, and maybe even a shift in perspective before the
1:30.4	crazy week ahead. Thank you for being here. Thank you for pressing that play button. This week's
1:37.0	moment is with Josh Conley, a mental health expert that I spoke to back in November 2020, Josh shares why we only need to get it right
1:48.5	30% of the time and what getting it right looks like to him. Here is the moment. I hope you
1:55.7	enjoy it. If you get it right 30% of the time, I think you're doing well.
2:01.7	I get it wrong a lot.
2:03.3	I might be, again, I'm going to quote Gabon Matte here.
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