Pandemic Perspectives: Church Leader + Café Manager + Daycare Owner

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Allison is a minister in a church, finding new ways to lead her congregation while awaiting her second baby; Alison deals with the guilt of laying off foodservice employees and permanently shutting down a location of her café business; Starlynn owns an in-home daycare serving front-line families while navigating changing rules and regulations. All three are also working moms with all the demands of mothering and living through a global pandemic. Find out what’s hard, what’s hopeful, and what life is like in our final (for now!) episode of Pandemic Perspectives.

This episode was recorded on April 30, 2020.

A NOTE ON EPISODES RELEASED DURING COVID-19: Things change so quickly these days–including recommendations for health and safety, as well as our own thoughts and feelings–so you may hear things that feel a bit dated if you’re catching up on older episodes. Just know that we’re experiencing this in real time just like you, and that we’re working hard to follow the latest recommendations for the safety of our families and our communities.

AND ALSO: Our Pandemic Perspective guests are moms just like you, doing their best with the resources they have. Their opinions do not necessarily represent those of the podcast, and the information they offer should not be taken as advice, medical or otherwise.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Sarah Powers and I'm Megan Francis and you're listening to a special
0:06.0	series from the Mom Hour Podcast called Pandemic Prospectives. In this series of
0:10.2	episodes we're talking to parents and people from around the world whose lives are
0:13.8	affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic in a way that might not make it into your social media
0:18.8	feeds quite as often.
0:20.3	You'll hear from families on the front lines experiencing an unprecedented time in a very specific way,
0:25.6	and you'll hear what's challenging as well as was hopeful. We can't wait to share their stories with you.
0:30.0	Welcome to Pandemic perspectives from the Mom Hour.
0:35.0	Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Powers and you are listening to Pandemic
0:38.0	perspectives on the Mom Hour.
0:40.0	Today I'm talking with Allison, a mom of a toddler with another one on the way from New Hampshire.
0:45.5	Allison, thank you for being here and tell us a little bit about your family and where you live and what you do for a living.
0:50.8	Sure. So I live in Nashua, New Hampshire, which is a it's the second biggest city in
0:56.0	New Hampshire but that still makes it pretty small but we're also about an hour outside
1:00.6	of the greater Boston area. And I am a Unitarian Universalist
1:06.4	Minister. I serve a congregation of about 270 adults as the only minister in that conversation.
1:15.0	And I live in Nashua with my husband and our daughter who is two.
1:21.0	And we have our second child is on the way it do in early October.
1:28.0	Oh my gosh so are you let's see like six months are you into the second trimester now? I am yes thank goodness yeah this is the fun
1:37.8	part for a lot of people pregnancy wise so I'd love to hear about what your work kind of looked like before the pandemic began because I think a lot of people may not be familiar with what a church leader or a faith leader does maybe just talk us through really the
1:55.4	functional aspects of your job your day-to-day and what that looked like before and
1:59.3	then of course we'll get into what's changed.
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