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Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short excerpt from my extensive podcast archives.

One carefully selected to give you the validation and or motivation you need for the weekend.

I was so blessed to have five kids really fast, but I just wasn't, it wasn't all of me. I was ignoring this really important part of me that, you know, allowed me to express myself fully and create and connect with other people outside of my own

house and play group and school groups.

Yeah, it was a much richer life for me.

And then five years ago, I had, you know, I was momming still.

I had seven kids.

Five years ago, I had seven kids and was sending my youngest

off to school finally full time. All my kids are going to be in school. I have all my days to

myself, which I have been yearning, longing for, dreaming of that day. Not that I don't love my kids,

but you know, to have all that. No, it's refreshing to

hear this. No, this is good to hear. I'm sure many moms are like, thank you, because this is how

I feel. I love them, but I'm also so ready for this time. So ready for me time. Yeah. Well, at that same

time, I had an idea for a business that I wanted my husband to start.

My husband is a serial entrepreneur.

He had just sold another business and was, you know, starting to tinker around with ideas for the next business.

And I gave him an idea, which turned, you know, with all the tests and things that he had done,

we knew it was going to be

something big. And it was software to help people print their photos to get them off of their

phone and off of social media. And it started taking off. And I was like, yay, yay for my idea. Good

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