Motherhood is Never Simple

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

Science, Social Sciences, Entertainment News, Health & Fitness, News

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a book about sex work, patriarchy, and motherhood collides with our own messy stories of choice, pregnancy, and parenting? Pure Real Talk and the reality: Motherhood is never simple. In this episode, Stacy and Daynah dive into *spoiler alert* Margo’s Got Money Trouble and end up everywhere from pottery-as-therapy and day drinking confessions to abortion stigma, single mom survival, and postpartum euphoria (yes, it’s real). They unpack the way beauty is currency, the patriarchy still shapes every decision, and how women just keep holding it all together. And because it’s us, we also detour through tramp stamps, 90s nostalgia, and the pop culture comfort food of Netflix binges. It’s sharp, heartfelt, occasionally irreverent, and exactly the kind of conversation your group text wishes it was having. Content Warning: This episode discusses topics related to pregnancy, including personal decisions around abortion. If these subjects feel overwhelming, please take care of yourself. Your well-being matters most. 0:09 | Pottery, Creativity, and Stress Relief 1:57 | Day Drunk vs Night Drunk 5:15 | Fiction Is Back on the Nightstand 6:07 | Sex Work, Stigma, and Owning It 13:20 | Beauty, Patriarchy, and Messy Choices 20:00 | Abortion in Books vs Abortion in Real Life 23:35 | Pregnancy Stories We Don’t Usually Tell 34:11 | Single Mom Energy (and the Support It Takes) 40:00 | Postpartum Euphoria Is a Thing 46:58 | Gen Z, Abortion, and Canceling the Subscription 50:00 | Policy, Protesters, and the Foster Care Reality Check 55:00 | Men Freak Out Too 58:33 | Raising Kids in a Changing World 1:13:08 | Identity, Nostalgia, and 90s Throwbacks 1:13:32 | Streaming, Escapism, and Pop Culture Bingeing Find Stacy: ⁠⁠⁠⁠realeverything.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/realstacytoth⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠missionmakersart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.5	I know. I know. I didn't even have time to like fully wash up. I know. I didn't even have
1:09.6	time to like fully wash up. I got a pottery wheel in the house. And so now it's just like any pocket of time I have. I'm like, I'm going to go do this thing. And then it always takes longer than. And then like time starts spinning. And I imagine that's that is. I I mean if I was in front of a pottery wheel
1:27.9	I feel like time would cease to matter like everything in life ceases to matter it's it's the
1:34.4	most calming thing for my nervous system just to be like so focused on the thing that's in front
1:40.4	of you both mind and body and there's no space for, like, anything else to worry about.
1:45.8	It's why I'm addicted.
1:48.5	Like, oh, that's the only place that stress just melts away.
1:53.7	That sounds so grounding.
1:55.2	I love that.
1:56.3	Yeah.
1:57.3	Do you have a kilniz around, too?
1:59.1	I do.
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