Why Stepmoms Take Everything Personally and the Shift That Changes Your Relationship With Your Stepchildren with Laurie Oakes
The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast
Jamie Scrimgeour
4.9 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Intuitive coach and stepmom Laurie Oakes joins Jamie on The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast to discuss the positive changes she's experienced in her stepmom life through her coaching work with Jamie.
Laurie will share how shifts in her perspectives and expectations led her to less stress, more harmony in her home, and stronger relationships with her stepkids and her husband. Plus, she'll share about her work as a medium and intuitive coach.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Women might hate me for this. |
| 0:03.0 | We are meant to support each other as partners, |
| 0:05.3 | but we can't put the weight of our safety and our happiness on our partner. |
| 0:11.2 | I stopped needing my husband to validate 100% of my emotions. |
| 0:15.2 | Like, that was way too much for me to be putting on him. |
| 0:25.4 | Oh, oh, oh Scrimgear. |
| 0:27.1 | When I became a stepmom, I quickly realized that while moms are encouraged to keep it real, |
| 0:31.5 | there's a big double standard when it comes to stepmoms. |
| 0:34.3 | So, I decided to start the conversation myself. |
| 0:39.4 | Thriving as a stepmom doesn't just come from conversations about being a stepmom now. Here we dive into marriage, relationships, |
| 0:44.5 | personal growth, and more. My mission? Inspire you to live a kick-ass life while bringing you |
| 0:49.8 | along as I create my own. This is the kick-ass stepmom podcast. |
| 1:04.5 | Lori, welcome to the kick-ass step-mom podcast. Thank you for having me, Jamie. I am so excited. |
| 1:08.6 | We've been talking so much, I feel like. How long have we been working together for now? |
| 1:13.0 | It's been, I think, like, a year and a quarter or so. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, that's crazy. |
| 1:15.6 | Life has been flying. |
| 1:18.6 | Okay, so I feel like the best place to start. |
| 1:27.1 | I want you just to kind of give us a bit of a rundown on who you are, a little bit about your story, your stepmom, you're an entrepreneur, your coach. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, lots of hats. So I'm an intuitive coach and medium back in 2020 when COVID was happening and lockdowns were happening. I decided that it was a good opportunity for me to |
| 1:42.6 | really get to practice what it was that I wanted to move into. |
| 1:47.0 | I was working professionally in kitchens for almost 10 years at that point. I was extremely |
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