Hey y'all welcome back to the don't mom alone podcast I'm your host Heather Mcfadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and

connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone and in this

episode it is number 435 and it's another compilation episode this time I've taken liberties

with the concept from Saturday Night Live I don't know if you know the show

S&L but when they have someone host five times, they get a special jacket and sometimes they do a skit about all of the five timers in the club hanging out.

Well, we have a five timers club and the five shows that I'm sharing today all come from guests

that have been on the show more than five times, some of them up to ten times.

And one aspect of making the podcast that you may not be aware of,

sometimes people will reach out to me and say,

man, how do you keep finding content each week?

Well, the challenge isn't finding content.

The challenge is sifting through the different options. So I

would kept track just so I wouldn't be lying and daily I will get five to six

different pitches of people who want to be on the podcast and if you

calculate that out for the year that's thousands of options available to me and I

can only have one a week so I'm super picky and I know that your time is

valuable. I also don't want to add to the burden and the load you feel as a

mom and so I want to choose people that will extend grace who will

equip you and so these guests the five timers club you can know that they are

ones I trust wholeheartedly and the first inductees into the Don't Mom Alone Five Timers Club are two of my faves, David Thomas and Sissy Gough of Raising Boys and Girls. This is episode 160 on emotional milestones. Here we go.

I shared this great line in a movie that I saw years ago that I thought was so on

target about hitting that good middle space that emotions are like children

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