S1E19: It's Not All Joy, w/ Margie Thirlby DuBois

Can We Say That Out Loud? · Oct 29, 2026 · 49m

You can love being a mom without loving every part of motherhood.

In this episode, we talk with Margie Thirlby, leadership trainer, facilitator, confidence coach, and mother, about the pressure women feel to experience motherhood as endlessly joyful and the guilt that can show up when it isn’t. Margie shares why she believes we need to make more room for the days and seasons that feel frustrating, exhausting, lonely, or simply not enjoyable without turning those feelings into evidence that we’re doing motherhood wrong.

We also talk about becoming a mother later than she expected, the grief…