HeyJaredWe Weren't Told
Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow.
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Episode 26 - Time to Get Your Shit Together! (opens the original)
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A tattoo on the wrist of an 80-year-old woman I met in Wisconsin, some feedback from a faithful listener, and a book that finally convinced me to stop waiting for my ducks to get in a row. It's a short one this week, because I'm practising what I preach! Let's get our shit together, well -- TOGETHER! In this episode we're: Revisiting the woman over 80 I met in Wisconsin, and the "Stay curious" tattoo she got when she turned 80. Thanking Fran, my faithful listener and now pen pal, for feedback th
Episode 25 - Forty-Three (opens the original)
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I turned 43 yesterday, and it felt less like arriving somewhere and more like the moment on a sports massage table when a deep knot finally releases — painful, then unexpectedly lighter. In this episode we're: Revisiting what my 40th birthday looked like compared to yesterday, and what changed in between. Naming the ache of celebrating without my sisters there, and how joy and sadness sat in the same room all night. Unpacking why turning 43 feels like a knot releasing rather than everything clic
Episode 24 - The Second Job Millennials Never Interviewed For (opens the original)
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I haven't posted on Instagram in about two weeks — not because I decided to, but because my body decided for me. It all started with a weird afternoon nap and a headache that showed up the moment I thought about posting. In this episode we're: Unpacking the difference between being a memory maker and a content creator, and how easy it is to get the two confused. Paying attention to when your body flags that something is wrong emotionally and energetically. Revisiting what Instagram felt like for
Episode 23 - We're Failing Millennial Mothers (opens the original)
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** TW: Discussions of suicide and filicide. Please take care while listening ** I've been sitting with the Lindsay Clancy case — a mother who strangled her three children and then tried to take her own life after repeatedly telling doctors and family she was in mental crisis — and what it surfaced about the gap between the motherhood millennial women were promised, and the one nobody prepared us for. In this episode we're: Unpacking what the Lindsay Clancy case actually surfaced, and why this is
Episode 22 - Interrupting the Pattern (opens the original)
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I missed an episode last week because I was deep in the administration of my father's estate — and then I went to Wisconsin, to the writing workshop I'd impulsively booked, and let a wave of grief knock me over on an island with no memories of him waiting for me. In this episode we're: Naming why I missed last week, and choosing grace over discipline when I needed it Revisiting the impulse trip to Madeline Island and what it meant to make it there with my mother Sitting with the sobbing, snot-cr
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