More Than Mom: The Internet Made Us Better

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Internet gets a bad rap – and sometimes (okay, a lot of the time), it’s justified. But as with most of the “controversial” topics we discuss, we think there’s room for complexity. In this More Than Mom episode, Meagan and Sarah share some of the positive outcomes from our online experiences, and how we’ve evolved as grownups and moms as the Internet itself has changed. We talk about the skills we’ve learned, the real-life friends we’ve met, and the things we never would have discovered otherwise! Plus, Meagan shares a screenshot of a wackadoo product with Sarah in real-time–and her reaction will have you clicking that link in our show notes at warp speed. This reflective episode is a little bit sweet (thanks to a lovely listener voicemail!) and a little bit funny. Enjoy!

LINKS MENTIONED:

In our episode on #Influenced, we share some of the online-inspired stuff we’ve tried.
A cat tongue for humans actually exists. It’s called: Licki
Read Sarah’s PSL-essay that was the impetus to connecting her with now-close friend Kelsey Wharton of the Girl Next Door Podcast
Check out the blog post Baby Steps by our Contributor Sarah Limberg.
Listener Sarah (the one who left that sweet voicesmail) has a podcast coming out soon. Check it out! Bloom Box: Growing Deeper

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hi everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Megan
0:26.4	Francis here with Sarah Powers. Hey Sarah. Hey Megan I'm talking to you on the
0:30.8	internet. You are. Oh wow. What a great way that you just set up our
0:36.0	conversation today. Well it's a Sunday and we're in your ears on a Sunday that
0:40.0	always means it's a more than mom episode which is where we I don't know we kind
0:43.6	of get away from like necessarily parenting topics and just talk about fun
0:47.2	fluffy things and today we're going to talk about how the internet made us
0:52.1	better. Yeah well brought us together. It did and I feel like this is a
0:56.9	controversial topic because the internet and specifically these days social
1:00.2	media get kind of a bad rap as being like an overall negative influence in our
1:04.9	lives and I agree they definitely can be like there's some really big trade-offs
1:09.1	we've taken with having this digital life that we all have but the internet can
1:15.5	also be massively powerful in a really good way and and in particular like you
1:20.4	know let's just acknowledge that you and I would not know each other if it
1:24.1	wasn't for the internet this podcast would not exist because podcasts would
1:28.2	not exist right if not for the internet. I'm just picture I did anyone in your
1:33.4	life ever like order tapes cassette tapes so my parents like my dad in business
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