What is one lesson that I've taught you to be fierce?

Oh, fierce is such a word.

If you want something, go for it.

Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here bringing you the final installment of this week's

Infocus on Motherhood series.

Today, for hurdle, I am bringing on a very special guest.

And that is my mama, Nina.

It's, it was a special conversation.

It's interesting as I listen back to the conversation because as I do every

week, I'm always a little analytical and I'm wondering, what else should I have asked?

What else should we have gone into?

I think what I loved was going to know a little bit more about life before she had

both me and my brother Matt.

And also just more about her perspective and what life was like for her on her

end when I was going through different stages in my life.

In today's episode, she shares what it was like for her to kind of play ping pong

between the two coasts growing up in Long Island, moving to California,

moving back to the east coast to get married to my dad,

how she felt about going back to school after having me and finding a great

sense of purpose after she became a nurse.

She also shares some of her proudest moments as a mom, perhaps some of her

least proud.

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