Ep 006: Taking A Break and What's Next

Well it was one of those weeks y'all. I felt the call to take a moment and update everyone on where we're headed over the next few months. I have some seriously exciting guests lined up for you!

We will kick things off next week with my friend Marie Armitage - talking about momming through chronic illness, staying connected and how she helps other professional moms through her own coaching biz too!
After that, March is going to be a 5 week series on ALL things Education!
We have psychologists, mentors, teachers, social workers and education strategists all lined up to give you the deets on how to shape your child's education according to their needs, your needs and what's best for your family.  There are so many options that many are unaware of and I can't wait for you all to get all the info for shaping a critical piece of your child's future.

After that, I've got childcare experts lined up from the medical field to holistic practices, to parents just like you talking about their journey and growth as they became parents and what they're doing now with their kiddos.

Sooooo many questions will be answered over the next few months! I can't wait!

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my little my little
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um introverted heart was exhausted and
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so I listened to my body I listened to
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myself and took the day off and decided
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instead to do a quick little recording
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to let you guys know what is coming up
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because we are
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we have a lot in the works and welcome
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to the relational parenting podcast I'm
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Jennifer Hayes a parent coach and
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20-year Child Care veteran each week I
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sit down with my own father Rick Hayes
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and discuss the complicated issues that
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parents face today as well as some of
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the oldest questions in the book from
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the latest research and the framework of
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my relational parenting method we offer
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thought-provoking solutions to your
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deepest parenting struggles or in other
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words how to parent your kids without
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losing your mind or traumatizing theirs
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added bonuses include intergenerational
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wounding discussions and guest Child
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Care Experts we will also start taking
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your parenting questions in episode five
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so be sure to comment with your biggest
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questions or email me directly at Jenny
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jennyb.com let's get started
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Hello everybody welcome back to week six
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of the relational parenting podcast
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um as you might notice if you are
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watching from YouTube I Am by myself and
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this is only about a 10 or 15 minute
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episode and that is because we are
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taking this week off
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uh was not something that I planned but
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I actually got to go to doing a live
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event I did um the family fest in Denver
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at the Wings Over the rocky Rockies
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museum
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and I was there all day and I was with
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my friend Noelle and we set up and um
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you know I was just spent I just spent
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Sunday reflecting and absorbing all of
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the emotions and all the interactions
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that I had with people and
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it was just such a beautiful wonderful
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day and it reminded me of how much I
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enjoy being around people being in front
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of people and teaching about what I do
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and so yesterday was
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just a day of reflection and the time
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came to record and I reached out to my
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dad and I was like I'm just not
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I'm not
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I don't have anything left
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I knew that I could muscle through and
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do our episode talking about boundaries
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um but I just didn't feel that it would
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be
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my best work and that I was going to be
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um
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not all there my little my little
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introverted heart was exhausted and so I
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listened to my body I listened to myself
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and took the day off and decided instead
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to do a quick little recording to let
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you guys know what is coming up because
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we are
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we have a lot in the works and I've
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gotten a lot of people who are
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interested in being on the show so I've
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put together a ton of guests we actually
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have a series that we're going to do in
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March and so yeah so I'm gonna hop right
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into that and tell you guys what's
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coming up so
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um on March 2nd our next episode will
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release and that will be with my friend
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and business woman
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uh Marie Armitage she is a coach for
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professional moms and women in general
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and she has also had her own very
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special journey through parenting she
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currently has twin teenagers a boy and a
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girl
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and she had some health scares as well
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as one of her children had some health
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troubles along the way and so we're
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bringing her on to talk about parenting
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through Health struggles
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um and also talk about how she helps
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moms and women in business and the
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professional world as well so that will
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be March 2nd and then for the rest of
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March and the first week of April we
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will have an education Series this
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series is going to include
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um professional psychologists child
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psychologists
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um my mom my own mom is going to be here
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um for the let's see she'll be here in
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March and so we're going to actually do
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an in-person podcast that week and she
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has been a school psychologist
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for about 30 years almost 30 years years
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now and she is an integral part of the
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shift some of the shifts that are
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happening inside of the public education
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system she is actively training
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um teachers and principals and other
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admin and schools how to be more
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relational how to be more in tune with
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children's emotional and mental Wellness
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needs and so that's really exciting for
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me she's going to come on here and let's
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see I also have a friend who
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actually started her own School in Egypt
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that was based on child-centered
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education so child LED some of the
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philosophies are similar to Montessori
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but she started her own school over
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there she was a preschool director
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before that and she has two degrees in
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education and now she will be coming on
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the podcast
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and talking about the work that she's
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doing now to she's writing a book that's
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getting released in March and she's also
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um
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starting to consult with schools that
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are already established in transitioning
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their
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um
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framework
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to a more child-centered approach
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let's see and then I have at the end of
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March we will have Lauren who works with
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families of teenagers in college
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applications and she naturally through
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that process ends up helping them with
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the transition process as well so
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children leaving the home going out on
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their own for the first time and all the
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excitement and heartbreak that can come
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with applying to different colleges
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and then the last part of the series
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will be my friend Samantha Who
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is a strategic education planner for
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families of many ages but she prefers to
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get in with
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um parents as young as possible because
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if you've ever tried to get into a
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preschool you know that it can be a
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years-long waiting list as well as
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private schools Charter Schools Etc
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um and then also navigating options that
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we may or may not be aware of in public
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school settings
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and otherwise so she's a strategic
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planner for families
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planning out their children's education
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and she's got lots of insights things
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that I never heard of when she and I
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talked that I didn't know resources that
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are available
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Etc so
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um a very well-rounded perspective of
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the current state of the education
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system the history of the education
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system and how it was developed and
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um the resources that are available now
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the planning and strategy that is
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available now as well as looking into
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the future of where education is going
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and how the school systems are changing
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along with the times and the needs of
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children today
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so that's going to be a really exciting
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one so make sure that you are all caught
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up of over the last five episodes
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um on the relational parenting topics
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because those are going to be interwoven
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into these episodes as well
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and then the last thing that I want to
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share with everybody is that we will be
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resuming episodes
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let's see the second week of April
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um so after the education series uh
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we'll have back-to-back guests during
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that and then we will resume a pattern
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of an episode with me and my dad
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discussing
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um the relational parenting points and
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framework and teaching continuing to
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teach that and discuss common parenting
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struggles and then every other episode I
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have um other guests lined up with a
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multitude of Topics in their child care
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expertise or their parenting Journey so
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I'm gonna start having parents on that
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have been either working with
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intentional parenting
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um or have had a very significant growth
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or
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um journey through their parenting
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experience
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and so yeah I'm really excited about all
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of that and I'm excited to start
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bringing other people in for you guys to
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listen to and we just have so many
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topics ahead of us
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so
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make sure you're all caught up on the
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first five episodes and episode six will
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be with Marie Armitage next week
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discussing let's see next week
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Yeah March 2nd that one will air and
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we'll be talking about mindful parenting
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through chronic illness through Health
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scares and how to stay connected through
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that and how Marie coaches professional
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moms or working moms or business moms
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with mindset self-worth and other topics
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all right so that is it for this week
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you guys thank you for tuning in
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um we're taking a mental health week
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this week I appreciate your patience and
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support so far
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we are so excited to keep this rolling
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and
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um yeah we've got guests lined up
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through August at this point so keep
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tuning in and I will see y'all next week
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