One Single Mom’s Child Care Journey (with Waukecha Wilkerson)

No One is Coming to Save Us

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family

4.7 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Gloria has a heart-to-heart conversation with Waukecha Wilkerson, a student parent advocate and single mom of three, about how her years-long struggle with child care ultimately put her on the path to earning her college degree. Waukecha talks about growing up as a gifted child in Compton, falling in with the wrong crowd, and getting pregnant in her early 20s. Her journey takes her through toxic relationships, job losses, battles with depression, and desperate searches for child care. She tells Gloria how she made it through, and how her family’s doing now. Plus, Waukecha shares the emotional story of a 20-mile walk that changed her life forever. This podcast is presented by Neighborhood Villages, and is brought to you with generous support from Imaginable Futures, Care For All Children by the David and Laura Merage Foundation, and Spring Point Partners. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/. Laugh, cry, be outraged, and hear solutions! Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nooneiscomingtosaveus. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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1:50.4	RSV Thanksgiving. Yep, everyone in my house was down for the count except wait for it.
1:59.2	Me. Mom was still standing amidst a cacophony of snorts and snorfles and fevers and pretty horrible
2:08.0	coughs. Who knows how that is possible. As it turns out, I love a quiet Thanksgiving and that is what we had.
2:17.0	Now it is off to the races to finish 2022. This is no one is coming to save us, presented by and created with neighborhood villages.
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