Mommy Issues
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gretchen opens up about motherhood without a mother of her own, and the complicated mix of grief, love, anger, and healing that comes with it.
She talks about breaking generational cycles, parenting yourself while raising a child, and learning to lead with presence over perfection. Raw, vulnerable, and deeply human, this episode is for anyone navigating motherhood, complicated family relationships, or the quiet work of choosing peace, consistency, and love, even when it didn’t model itself for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Is there a book called Breaking the Cycle of Ficked Up Relationships with Your Mother? |
| 0:04.1 | If you don't have a relationship with your mom, it is not your fault. |
| 0:09.0 | My daughter could do terrible things, and I would still love her to the depths of my soul. |
| 0:16.4 | That is a mother's love. |
| 0:18.6 | Wow, this is turning into... Sorry, I'm glad I didn't wear a lot of makeup. |
| 0:26.2 | D-bad, baby. That stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. And we're not sugar-coating |
| 0:30.5 | shit. So let's get into it, shall we? |
| 0:43.6 | Hi, guys. Welcome back. Happy Monday. I see that we loved last week's episode. That makes me so fucking happy. The amount of DMs that I, happy, why do I say it like that? The amount of |
| 0:47.5 | DMs that I got saying that they're dating a dusty motherfucker. This was the sign that they needed |
| 0:51.5 | to break up with them or they're so glad that they haven't settled or x y and z just makes me so happy and i have missed doing this podcast so much i'm going to |
| 1:00.5 | be totally transparent sometimes it stresses me out because i feel saying i feel a lot of pressure |
| 1:06.8 | is is not what i mean it's like i feel a lot of pressure to myself that I always want it to add |
| 1:13.3 | value and I feel like my brain works a lot faster than my mouth. And sometimes I have like really |
| 1:18.9 | great thoughts here and then I forget it like 10 minutes later. So I just always want to make |
| 1:22.9 | sure that I'm adding value to y'all. So thank you so much for the feedback. I greatly appreciate it. |
| 1:28.2 | And, you know, I don't know if I said this on the last episode because when my producer sends them to me, I very rarely listen to them because it's like listening to your own voice. I just don't really want to do that. I just fully trust her that she puts it together and it's beautiful and perfect. So if there's ever something where it's not my fault. I'm just kidding. It's always my fault. |
| 2:01.4 | What was I going to say? What was I just saying? I honestly don't know. We leave at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning for a trip to Portland to be with my five best friends. We've been best friends for like 16 years. I'm obsessed with all of them and now all of our babies. One of them is pregnant, getting married in a couple months. |
| 2:02.8 | So fucking excited. |
| 2:04.1 | But we haven't all been together with our kids and our kids. and now all of our babies, one of them is pregnant, getting married in a couple months. |
| 2:01.7 | So fucking excited. |
| 2:02.9 | But we haven't all been together with our kids and our husbands. |
| 2:05.5 | I don't think ever. |
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