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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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498: Gather the Good // The Back-to-School Check-In for Moms #5
What you look for, you will find. I have believed that about motherhood for a long time now, long enough that I built a whole journal around the idea, and I…
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497: Sanctify Your Soul-Care // The Back-to-School Check-In for Moms #4
I have a confession. Of the six principles I teach in Self-Assured Motherhood, soul-care is the one where I'm still not where I want to be. I've taken good…
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496: Balance Your Boundaries // The Back-to-School Check-In for Moms #3
After years and years of therapy, I have gotten pretty good at setting boundaries with almost everyone in my life. My weakest area, by far, is my own children…
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495: Celebrate Your Strengths // The Back-to-School Check-In for Moms #2
I have spent so much time, energy, and money over the years trying to get good at the things I am simply not good at. Routines are my big one. I am not great…
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494: Voice Your Values // The Back-to-School Check-In for Moms #1
It's back-to-school season, and our kids are about to be assessed on their reading, their math, and their writing. But what if we gave ourselves an assessment…
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493: How to Calm Your Nervous System in 60 Seconds (And Other Small, Practical Pauses) // Layne Burkette
I have never been much of a meditator. Sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, waiting for my brain to go quiet, has never once worked for me. I'm too in my…
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492: Why Abby Is Done Fighting Over Screen Time (and Other Back-to-School Shifts) // 3 in 30 Team
If the back-to-school season is already creeping up on you (the supply lists, the new routines, the mental math of who needs to be where and when), you are not…
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491: How to Change Someone's Life (Without Even Realizing It)
With back-to-school season right around the corner, I keep thinking about a moment from my own high school years – a moment so small I barely registered it at…
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490: 3 Things to Remember When Parenting is Difficult
Lately, my kids have been watching a lot of TV. More than I'd like to admit. And for a while, I let myself spiral about it. What kind of mom lets her kids zone…
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489: How My Mom Helped Me Know Myself
Grief has been close to my family lately, and in the weeks since losing my brother-in-law Logan, I've found myself returning again and again to the memories…
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488: A Letter to My Body (and Two Other Essays I Wrote in Recovery)
I have been a writer my whole life. Long before this podcast existed, writing was how I made sense of my hardest seasons, how I figured out what I actually…
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487: How to Raise Patriotic Kids When It Feels Complicated // Sharon McMahon
I'm a word person. (Occupational hazard of spending years as an English teacher, I suppose.) I notice when words shift — when something that used to feel…
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486: Let Go of the "Shoulds" That Don't Fit Your Family // Amy Marie Hann
For years, I had a vision in my head of the kind of mom I was going to be. I would be present and patient. I would have snacks ready after school and summers…
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485: The Resentment that Moms Don't Talk About // JoAnn Crohn
I have a friend named Laney who genuinely does not experience mom guilt. Not because she's a perfect mom, but because she's decided her kids are lucky to have…
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484: In Memory of Logan McKenna: A Conversation with my Beloved Brother-in-Law
I am recording the intro to this episode during one of the saddest weeks of my life. My beloved brother-in-law, Logan McKenna, died unexpectedly last Sunday…
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483: Types of Support that Every Mom Needs
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the word "self-assured" actually means in the context of motherhood. And I think somewhere along the way, a lot of…
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482: It's Never Too Late for a Fresh Start // Wendy Snyder
If you've ever worried that you've messed up your relationship with your kids — whether it happened this morning or years ago — this episode is going to bring…
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481: What to Do When Your Child Says "I'm Fat" // Steph Wood
Last week, Dr. Lexie Kite gave us tools for our own body image resilience. But there's a particular kind of helplessness that comes from watching your child…
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480: How to Stop Letting Your Body Image Steal Your Summer // Lexie Kite
I have spent so many summers halfway out. Physically present at the lake, the pool, the family barbecue — but mentally somewhere else entirely, cataloguing how…
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479: Teaching Kids Life Skills This Summer // Katie Kimball
My kids are 11 and 14, and I will be the first to tell you that teaching them practical life skills is not my strongest suit. I am genuinely good at the…
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478: What Every Mom of a Teenager Needs to Hear // Emily Ricks
There comes a point in parenting where you realize the approach that worked when your kids were little just doesn't work anymore. The rules, the structure, the…
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477: How to Process Your Emotions (Even When You Don't Know Where to Start) // Kim Christensen
All of us have hard feelings that need somewhere to go — frustration, resentment, grief, the anxiety that just sits there and won't quite leave. And if you're…
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476: How to Deal with Your Stuff So Your Kids Don't Have To // Eli Harwood
There is a specific kind of worry that lives in the back of most mothers' minds —the worry that we're not doing it right. That somewhere in the gap between who…
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475: Release, Rest, Remain: Three Rs to Help You Feel Present // Yvette Henry
I have been a striver my entire life — the kind of person who color-coded her notes, lost sleep to get straight A's, and genuinely believed that doing more and…
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474: 3 in 30 Day: Your Voices, Your Favorite Episodes, and the Heart Behind the Show
Happy 3 in 30 Day, my friends! Today is March 30th — which, numerically, is 3/30 — and years ago I dubbed this our national holiday. When I started 3 in 30, I…
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473: Three Things That Help Me Stay Sane During Busy, Overwhelming Seasons
Spring is a season I genuinely love, but it also has a way of sneaking up on me. One minute I'm enjoying the slower pace of winter, and the next I'm looking at…
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472: When the World Feels Heavy, Try This // Shannan Martin
Last week, I found out that one of my kids' teachers unexpectedly lost her husband in a car accident. She's in her early 30s with a toddler, and when I was…
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471: How Understanding Your Cycle Deepens Your Relationships // Shara Jackson Harper
I didn't learn until I was 40 years old that my body moves through four distinct phases every single month — and that each one of those phases affects my mood…
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470: Take the Trip — Even When It Feels Too Hard, Too Expensive, or Too Much // Tiffany Rosenhan
A year ago this month, the travel and motherhood world lost Elise Caffee — blogger, adventurer, mother of three, and the woman behind the hashtag "take the…
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469: How to Lighten the Load of Motherhood // Greg McKeown
A few years ago, I read a book that made me think it was reading my mind. In the introduction, the author asks: Do you ever feel like you're running faster but…
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468: Stop the Runaway Train: How to Get Back to What Actually Matters
Right now I am definitely feeling the pull to simplify things in my life. I even said to my husband the other day, "I feel a bit like I'm on a runaway train!"…
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467: How to Become a Better Partner // Dr Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
It's easy to notice when your marriage feels disconnected, but it's much harder to know what to actually do about it. And it's even harder to look at your own…
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466: You Have Permission to Pause
Six weeks before I recorded this episode, I woke up early with my heart pounding so hard I couldn't ignore it. The house was dark, everything was quiet, and as…
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465: When Your Spicy Child Takes All Your Energy (And What That Means for Their Siblings) // Mary Van Geffen
If you have a strong-willed child, you know how much energy they require—and if you have other kids too, you've probably wondered what this dynamic is doing to…
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464: What If Your Home Could Be Your Parenting Partner? // Jan Odesanya
I stood at the stove the other night, and in the span of ten minutes, I was asked where the charger was, where the batteries are kept, and where the headphones…
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463: What If Your Only New Year Goal Was to Let Go of the Shoulds?
I recently sat down to reflect on 2025, and I was honestly shocked by how much lighter my life feels now compared to just a few years ago. I'm not talking…
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462: 3 Questions to Help You Grow This Year in Ways That Matter Most to You
A few years ago, I was sitting in a coffee shop feeling completely overwhelmed by all the things I thought I should be doing better—as a mom, as a wife, in my…
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461: "I Hate You, Mom" — How to Respond When Holiday Stress Brings Big Emotions
It's mid-December, everyone's running on fumes, and your child just screamed "I hate you." And even though you know it's the exhaustion talking, it still…
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460: Embracing Winter: How to Thrive through the Season // Jamie Gines
As the days get shorter and the cold settles in, I can feel the pull to just hunker down and survive until spring, and I have to consciously choose not to give…
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459: How to Feel Like Yourself During the Holidays (Instead of the Dysregulated Version You Don't Recognize) // Alyssa Blask Campbell
It's December, and if you've been feeling like you're running on fumes, snapping at your kids over the smallest things, or desperately craving a dark room…
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458: Three Simple Phrases Your Kids Need to Hear from You // Eli Harwood
You know that sting in your chest when one of your kids says "I hate you" or slams their door in anger? Every instinct in you wants to smooth it over, to fix…
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457: Three Ways to Recover from Mom Burnout
You know that feeling when you're completely tapped out—when you can't give one more ounce of yourself to anyone, including you? That's not just exhaustion…
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456: Your Brain Isn’t Broken. It’s Busy! ADHD Strategies for the Holidays // Amy Marie Hann
Managing ADHD during the holidays takes more than willpower—it takes understanding your brain and planning around it with compassion. When I started…
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455: How to Understand the Dad in Your House (and Yourself) a Little Better // Glen Henry
When I think about the kind of parent I want to be, I often think about my dad—steady, grounding, and always there. His quiet consistency has shaped so much of…
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454: A Calm-ish Approach to the Holidays // Niro Feliciano
The holidays often bring equal parts joy and exhaustion. Between school programs, family gatherings, and the endless to-do lists, it’s easy to feel like you’re…
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453: How to Travel for FREE with Your Family (Really!) // Amber Paul
With the holidays coming up, many moms wish they could visit family or plan a getaway—but the price of flights makes it feel impossible. That’s why I’m…
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452: You Yelled... Now What? How to Repair and Reconnect // Devon Kuntzman
We all lose our temper sometimes. That’s part of being human—and part of being a mom. But what happens next matters most. Because repair, not perfection, is…
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451: The Unexpected Email That Changed My Work (and Shaped Our Motherhoods) // Molly Alexander
This week marks the 8th birthday of 3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms 🎉, and I wanted to celebrate it in a way that feels true to the heart of this community. Instead…
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450: How to Be a Bold Decision Maker // Jessica Frew
Have you ever caught yourself second-guessing something as small as what to make for dinner or as big as how to respond to a struggling child and felt…
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449: 3 Simple Strategies to Prevent After-School Meltdowns // Alyssa Blask Campbell
Have you noticed that since school started, your afternoons feel more chaotic? Maybe your child walks in the door, drops their backpack, and bursts into…
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448: Join our Team! A Word from the SAM Sisters
Do the ups and downs of parenting ever feel like a solo sport? You may have friends who love you, but when it comes to really opening up about your struggles…
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447: What Parents in Disney Movies Got Wrong
Have you ever noticed that some of the parents in Disney movies…aren’t exactly the best role models? They love their kids deeply, but their fears…
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446: Is Perfectionism Good or Bad? // Katherine Morgan Schafler
Have you ever been told that your perfectionism is a problem? Maybe you’ve felt like it’s the reason you’re stressed, restless, or never satisfied with…
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445: How to Set Boundaries without Damaging Relationships // Rachel on Happy Mom Summit
Many moms hesitate to set boundaries because they don’t want to seem selfish or unkind. But what if boundaries are actually one of the most compassionate…
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444: The Four Tendencies in Motherhood // Sarah Joslin
Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to stick to goals that matter to you, but you can follow through easily when someone else is counting on you? Or why…
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443: Feeding Your Family without Losing Your Mind // Celeste Noland
As school routines settle back in, many moms start looking for a better rhythm with meals—something that feels less chaotic and more doable. But for many moms…
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442: Creating a Space you Love with Color and Confidence // Valerie Bradshaw
When you think about decorating your home, do you feel inspired... or just overwhelmed? Many moms dismiss design as something extra or unnecessary. But what if…
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441: The 4 Types of Self-Care Every Mom Needs // Mia Hemstad
We talk a lot about self-care as moms, but most of the time, the examples we’re given (bubble baths, massages, solo Target runs) only scratch the surface. The…
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440: Tools for Parenting a "Spicy" Child // Mary Van Geffen
Oh, the stories I could tell about raising a strong-willed child. But the truth is, if you have a spicy one of your own, you don’t need to hear my stories…
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439: 3 Secrets for Calmer, Happier Kids // Ralphie Jacobs
Ever found yourself stuck in a cycle of constant correction, nagging, lecturing, or repeating yourself while your kids seem to tune you out? It happens to…