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Badass Basic Bitch

The Selfish Mom: Reclaiming Joy, Purpose, and Power with Vanessa Cornell

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

Self-improvement, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Career, Mom Boss, Mom, Working Mom, Parenting, Education

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Vanessa Cornell, a Harvard graduate, former Goldman Sachs professional, and founder of NUSHU, a transformative women’s community. Vanessa’s journey from high-achieving professional to mother of five and then to her own personal awakening has shaped her mission of empowering women to reconnect with their power, purpose, and joy. Vanessa dives into the concept of The Selfish Mom and why prioritizing yourself is not only necessary but transformative. We explore ...

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0:00.0

What's up, Badi Bees?

0:11.8

I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

0:19.2

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

0:24.8

and I get to share her story with you.

0:27.2

So let's go.

0:28.6

Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into the shit nobody talks about.

0:33.8

Welcome to the Batty B Club.

0:35.9

I am doing a good, messy job of this.

0:39.6

I believe in my heart that I'm doing a pretty good messy job of this.

0:45.0

We start to focus on the places where we're worried, we're not doing a good job, because we're not used to being in a messy place.

0:53.5

We don't like being in a messy place. We don't like being in a messy place.

0:55.7

We don't like being in a place where we don't know. And so the three things that I always come back

1:00.8

to in my parenting, and I speak a lot to people about, is when you look at it all, does your child feel

1:09.3

safe? Does your child feel love? And does your child feel seen?

1:13.9

And if you're doing a reasonable job at those three things, you're doing a great job.

1:19.9

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's show, we are joined by Vanessa

1:25.7

Cornell, who is a teacher and thought leader who, through

1:28.7

her groups, courses, and retreats unlock women's power and purpose. And today, we're going to be

1:35.9

talking all about what it means to be a selfish mom, and it's not what you think. So Vanessa,

1:41.4

thank you so much for being with us today. Oh, Such a pleasure. I can't wait for our conversation.

1:46.5

So before we get started, why don't you tell our listeners more about who you are and what you

1:51.1

do? Yeah. So I think it has to start at the beginning. I'm a mom of five. I had five kids in

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