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3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms
A podcast with 3 actionable takeaways in every 30-minute episode because you are a busy mom with a full schedule and an even fuller brain. Listen in to feel encouraged and inspired, as we learn together how to overcome overwhelm and find more peace and magic in motherhood. Hosted by Rachel Nielson, a mother, teacher, and writer.
Episodes
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438: How Soul-Care Can Help You Enjoy Motherhood More: Real Stories from Moms Like You // SAM Sisters
This conversation is full of gentle reminders and practical ideas for building rhythms of care into your everyday life... so you’re not just making it through…
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437: Surviving Summer Chaos with Emotional Resilience + Boundaries // Dr. Jen Riday
Emotional resilience is one of the most powerful skills you can develop as a mom - and let’s be honest, it’s also one of the hardest to master. From toddler…
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436: Embrace the Mom You Are—Not the One You Think You Should Be // Julie Bastedo
Ever catch yourself comparing your motherhood to someone else’s? In this heartfelt episode, my friend and motherhood mentor, Julie Bastedo, shares how a simple…
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435: How to Make Decisions Without Overthinking // Kendra Adachi
If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by a decision–spinning in circles, overanalyzing every possible outcome, and feeling like you can’t move forward until you get it…
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434: How to Actually Enjoy Summer as a Mom
Summer can be such a gift—but it can also feel like a lot. Whether you're a few days in or several weeks deep, this season tends to stretch us in new ways as…
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433: Making Friends as a Mom: Why It’s Hard—and How to Do It Anyway // Dr. Marisa G. Franco
Making new friends as an adult is challenging—and motherhood often makes it even harder. Between family responsibilities, full schedules, and emotional…
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432: Teach Your Kids About Money and Life Skills This Summer—No Nagging Needed // Saren Loosli
We want to raise kids who are responsible, capable, and financially wise—but it’s hard to know where to start. It can feel especially tricky to teach life…
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431: 3 Road Trip Hacks for Traveling with Kids // Brittney Hanks
Summer is almost here… which means it’s road trip season! If you’re gearing up for some long drives with your kids in tow, this episode is packed with…
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430: Plan Meaningful Family Travel Without the Stress // Meggie Busath
What if your next family trip wasn’t about packing in more—but about slowing down, connecting, and actually enjoying your time together? This week, I'm joined…
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429: How Ordinary Moms Can Make a Difference // Sharon McMahon
If you’ve ever felt like the problems of the world are too big, and your influence is too small to matter, this conversation with Sharon McMahon will help you…
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428: What Fashion Taught Me About Motherhood (Yes, Really!) // Julie Allen
I've never considered myself a person who cares about fashion or "style" so when I first stumbled across Julie Allen on Instagram, I didn’t expect to stick…
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427: A Simple Framework for a "Balanced" Summer // Jenny Layton
As moms, summer can feel like both a dream and a juggling act. We want to make magical memories for our families… but we also crave order, rest, and a little…
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426: What to Do When You Don't Like Your Kid (Even Though You Love Them!)
This is one of those episodes I felt called to record because I know so many of us have been here. You love your child with your whole heart, and yet, in…
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425: When PARENTING Doesn't Turn Out As Planned // Michelle Barrow
What happens when your child's story looks nothing like the one you had imagined? This heartfelt encore episode features my dear friend, Michelle Barrow—a…
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424: When LIFE Doesn't Turn Out As Planned // Jessica N. Turner
When you were younger, did you imagine your life turning out a certain way? Maybe you thought you’d have a house full of children, a forever kind of love, or a…
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423: How to Parent a Strong-Willed Child Without Losing Your Mind // Kirk Martin
If you have a strong-willed child, you know that traditional parenting strategies just don’t work. No amount of reasoning, bribing, or threatening seems to…
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422: How to Become a Supercommunicator // Charles Duhigg
Have you ever asked your kids about their day, only to get one-word answers in return? Or sat across from your spouse on a long-awaited date night and…
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421: Feeling Overwhelmed by Housework? You’re Not Alone. // KC Davis
If you’ve ever looked around at a sink full of dishes or a pile of unfolded laundry and felt like you were drowning, you’re in good company. I know that…
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420: How to Best Support a Neurodivergent Child // Kim Gameroz
Are you raising a neurodivergent child? If so, you know the journey can often feel isolating, exhausting, and uncertain. How can you teach them the essential…
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419: 3 Things Moms of Children with Disabilities Want You To Know // Katie Blackburn
When someone we love has a child with intellectual or physical disabilities, we want to be there for them—but sometimes, we’re unsure how. What should we say?…
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418: Staying Home for Spring Break? 3 Ways to Make it Memorable (and Manageable!) // 3 in 30 Team
Spring Break is coming up, and if travel isn’t an option this year, don’t worry—you can still make it a fun and memorable week for your kids and yourself at…
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417: The Sneaky Ways Comparison Creeps Into Conversations (and How to Stop It) // Kathie Gwilliam
It’s amazing how just one small word can shift an entire conversation—for better or worse. Without realizing it, we often invite comparison into our…
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416: When Someone You Love Is Struggling with Mental Health // Logan McKenna
If you ever feel at a loss for how to support your partner, friend, or family member who struggles with mental illness, this special episode is for you. My…
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415: How to Get Help for Mental Illness // Sarah McKenna
After my daughter Sally was born, I stopped sleeping. During the day, I had a hard time looking at my baby because I didn’t feel like I could take care of…
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414: Feeling Low Right Now? 3 Tools to Help You Cope // Sarah McKenna
This time of year, I struggle more with depression. The winter months can be a really hard time - and I know it’s just not me! That’s why I truly feel like…
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413: What to Do When You're Juggling Too Much // Amy Wilson
Feeling maxed out? But also feeling like it’s YOUR fault you feel that way? You’re not alone! If you're caught in a cycle of overcommitment, self-criticism…
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412: How to Overcome Overwhelm
As we enter this time of year, I find myself reflecting on clutter—both the physical clutter in my home and the mental clutter in my mind. I'm especially…
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411: Decluttering That Sticks: 3 Mindset Changes for Lasting Impact // Erica Layne
With the new year comes a new surge of energy for me to GET MY LIFE IN ORDER! My kids always laugh at me when I get these bursts of motivation because they…
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410: Align Your Goal-Setting with Your Menstrual Cycle // April Davis of Haus of Vagina
As we dive into the season of goal-setting and resolutions, I want to start with an episode focused on honoring and understanding our female bodies and how…
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409: 3 Highs and 3 Lows of My 2024
Happy Monday, my friends! I am truly so grateful to be with you on this final Monday of 2024. Today's episode is going to be a bit more personal than usual, as…
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408: How to Reflect on the Year as a Family // Vanessa Quigley of Chatbooks
As we wrap up another year, it’s the perfect moment to reflect as a family and set intentions for the upcoming year. In this episode, I’m thrilled to welcome…
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407: A Two-Minute Daily Practice to Transform your Mental Health
Feeling overwhelmed and in need of a mental health boost? Join me as I share a simple daily practice that takes just two minutes! In this episode, I’ll explore…
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Introducing... Help Me Be Me with Sarah May Bates
Do you feel stuck? With the New Year coming, we're hearing a lot about goals, but maybe for you, the idea of goals feels discouraging or daunting. You want to…
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406: Navigating Holiday Melancholy // Dr. Tanmeet Sethi
It’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for some of us, it doesn’t necessarily feel like it. I know not everyone relates to this confusing angst during…
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405: 3 Tips to Manage Your Mental Load During the Holidays // 3 in 30 Team
Feeling overwhelmed by the jingling chaos of the holiday season? You're not alone! The holidays can add a huge load on us moms. Recently, I found myself…
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404: 3 Ways to Teach Children Gratitude
Wouldn’t it be nice if our kids innately felt grateful for all we (and others) do for them? That they naturally expressed gratitude and could see how blessed…
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403: Brain Science Simplified: How to Be a More Effective Parent // Dr. Dan Siegel
Our children's reactions are often NOT logical. Their outbursts of emotion sometimes seem ridiculous and outsized, and when we try to "talk some sense into…
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402: How to Travel More as a Family without Breaking the Bank // Amber Paul
Do you enjoy traveling, but financial constraints prevent you from visiting some places on your bucket list? If this sounds like you, I’d like to share a…
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401: How Radical Gratitude Can Change Your Life // Dr. Tanmeet Sethi
Radical gratitude is a powerful practice to help you through difficult times. But if you’re in the thick of difficult times (which I know many of you are!)…
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400: 3 Modern Manners for Friendship // Brooke Romney
Brooke Romney is the queen of modern manners for teens. If you missed it, our last episode was an interview I did with Brooke about friendship problems in the…
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399: When Your Teen Struggles with Friends // Brooke Romney
Teenage friendship problems weigh heavily on us moms. 💔 Do you have a teenager who’s struggling with friends? It hurts the mama heart, doesn’t it? October was…
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398: How to Plan for an Energizing (not Exhausting) Holiday Season // Dr. Amber Price
Does holiday stress ever take the joy out of the holiday season for you? It's November 1st, friends, which, for many of you, might mean that you've officially…
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397: Honor Your Teen with a Coming-of-Age Celebration // Jennifer Brimhall
Coming-of-age celebrations are a powerful tool to use when raising teenagers. If you’re not sure what a coming-of-age celebration is, you are in for a treat! A…
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396: How to Help Your Teen Live a Better Story
Do you have a teenager who is struggling, floundering, or fighting with you constantly? My older sister Sarah had a few rough years in high school. My parents…
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395: What to Do if Your Teen is Exhausting You // Andee Martineau
I recently taught a free masterclass all about mom rage. Toward the beginning of the class, I asked the women in attendance to share something that makes them…
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394: Kids and Technology: Helping Children Develop an Internal Filter // Emily Jones
Protecting my kids from the dangers in the online world is a high priority for me. My son is 13, and I’m still holding off giving him a phone, even though he…
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393: How to Enjoy (Not Just Endure) the Teen Years // Amie Anger, Child & Family Therapist, LCSW
Are you feeling out of your depth as you navigate the teen years? My son, Noah, just turned 13, and I have noticed a definite shift in some of the dynamics of…
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392: How to Have Grace-Filled Political Conversations with Family & Friends // Sarah Stewart Holland & Beth Silvers of Pantsuit Politics
Are you wondering how to have political conversations with your friends and loved ones without things turning, well... hostile? Election time is here, and the…
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391: Parenting a Child with ADHD: How to Stay Calm and Connected // Rachel on The Childhood Collective
Parenting a child with big emotions, big reactions, and a neurodiverse brain can be a real challenge. 🫠 I know this firsthand because my son Noah has always…
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390: Living with Grief without Losing Yourself // Shelby Quinlan
Living with grief can feel heavy, dark, and confusing. It's a time when it's easy to lose ourselves. Grief looks different for everyone, and if you are in the…
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389: I'm a Seasoned Mom. Is SAM for me? // Wanda Opitz, SAM Alumni
I always get asked who my Self-Assured Motherhood program is designed for - young moms? moms with young kids? stay-at-home moms? My answer is always…
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388: What a Spaghetti Dinner Taught Me About Teaching // 3 Reasons the SAM Program REALLY Works
What does a spaghetti dinner have to do with my Self-Assured Motherhood program? Well, in this episode, I tell you! Come listen in! My Self-Assured Motherhood…
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387: Why Calming Yourself Helps Calm Your Child // Eli Harwood
This bonus excerpt is one I pulled from Eli's full episode that dropped earlier this week. (If you haven't had a chance to listen, I highly recommend it. It's…
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386: Raising Securely Attached Kids // Eli Harwood
We all know how important it is to raise securely attached kids, but how to do it can be the tricky part! It's true what they say about parenting: The days are…
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385: A Final Recap // Why Do These Nine Principles Even Matter? [The SAM Framework]
Here we are! It's the final day of our two-week-long series on how to become more peaceful, confident, and happy in motherhood. I have loved this series, and…
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384: Principle #9 // Support Their Struggles [The SAM Framework]
My kids are headed back to school soon, and they will be doing all sorts of assessments to see how they're doing in math and reading and writing. And this got…
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383: Principle #8 // Communicate for Connection [The SAM Framework]
My kids are headed back to school soon, and they will be doing all sorts of assessments to see how they're doing in math and reading and writing. And this got…
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382: Principle #7 // Gather the Good [The SAM Framework]
My kids are headed back to school soon, and they will be doing all sorts of assessments to see how they're doing in math and reading and writing. And this got…
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381: Principle #6 // Pursue Your Purpose [The SAM Framework]
My kids are headed back to school soon, and they will be doing all sorts of assessments to see how they're doing in math and reading and writing. And this got…
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380: Principle #5 // Sanctify Your Soul-Care [The SAM Framework]
My kids are headed back to school soon, and they will be doing all sorts of assessments to see how they're doing in math and reading and writing. And this got…