The Mission Mama
Welcome to The Mission Mama podcast where we share wellness tips & tricks for the everyday mom that has little time, supportive systems, and routines to prevent overwhelm while managing a busy household, implement strategies to discover a true identity, and how to support…
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Grief, Dreams, and Permission to Want More (opens the original)
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On her dad's birthday, Danielle slows down — and lets herself feel it. August 19 would have been Danielle's dad's 67th birthday. He died at 46, when she was in college, and this morning the weight of that number stopped her in her tracks. In this solo episode, Danielle lets herself remember him: the hardworking, complicated, entrepreneurial man who left overnight shifts and long commutes to chase a dream of his own and who, whether he knew it or not, showed her what it looks like to believe in y
Love From Lydia: A Mother's Journey After Loss (opens the original)
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Some conversations stay with you long after they end. This is one of them. In this episode of The Mission Mama Podcast , host Danielle Duffey sits down with Danielle Cristofano-Schwartz, mom to Lydia, who died unexpectedly on Christmas Day in 2022 at just 21 months old. Danielle shares who Lydia was, what those first days and months of unimaginable grief looked like, and how she has carried her daughter's legacy forward with purpose. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Danielle is the founder of
Ten Years: Gratitude and Grief at the Same Table (opens the original)
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Ten years. Almost a decade since Blake's heart stopped in his sleep. In this solo episode, Danielle sits with the number she still doesn't know how to hold and the truth she's learned in ten years of carrying it: gratitude and grief aren't opposites, and they don't take turns. They sit down at the same table, in the same moment. She shares what a decade of living after child loss has taught her — how you can ache for your son and laugh with your children on the same afternoon, miss him with your
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