S5 40: Embracing the Beauty of Motherhood with Rachael Carman
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that increasingly devalues children and mothering, Rachael Carman challenges us to rediscover the profound beauty and value of motherhood, including the moments that feel tiring or even mundane. The vulnerability, sacrifice, and invisible acts of motherhood aren’t just duties to endure but sacred opportunities to meet Jesus and become more like Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:16.0 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 0:22.3 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm so glad you're here. Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. I'm so glad you guys are here today. |
| 0:36.8 | This is our Mother's Day episode, |
| 0:39.1 | and I just want to be the first to tell you, happy Mother's Day. And I have brought on one of my |
| 0:44.1 | good friends, Rachel Carmen, to talk with me about motherhood. You guys, this conversation is |
| 0:50.0 | going to be hopefully encouraging and challenging to you. And I hope you leave just thinking, |
| 0:56.0 | what a gift motherhood is. It's hard work. It's very self-sacrificing kind of work. But isn't that |
| 1:04.8 | where we really learn more about who God is? I'm so honored to be a mom and humbled by it. And also, |
| 1:14.9 | motherhood exposes all the sinfulness in myself. And so I'm grateful for the gift of |
| 1:20.5 | motherhood that also brings us along in our journey with Christ and in our journey with |
| 1:26.6 | maturity. So anyway, I'm excited to have my friend |
| 1:28.9 | Rachel on. Let me just give you a little bit of info about her before I bring her on. She and her |
| 1:32.8 | husband own Apologia, which if you guys are homeschool families, you've been around homeschool |
| 1:37.9 | families, you have probably heard of Apologya. Lots of science, Bible curriculum. What else do you guys have, Rachel? |
| 1:46.5 | Science, Bible, and math. That's what we're expanding to. Right. Yeah. That's what I forgot. |
| 1:51.5 | Okay, math. Yeah. Anyway, so they own that. They homeschooled their kids. They have seven kids, |
| 1:57.0 | and now they have grandbabies, which I'm sure we're going to get to hear about. And so |
| 2:02.0 | Rachel is like a 26-year veteran homeschool mama, which she was homeschooling before |
| 2:09.2 | homeschooling was cool. But I am so grateful that you've agreed to come on with me today, |
| 2:14.1 | Rachel, and just talk about this topic. Yeah, this is my heartbeat. So I was |
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