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Mom Wants MoreFarewell Episode with Amber & AlanaToday’s conversation is very special to us because it’s our final episode here at The Mom Wants More Podcast. One of our favorite lines from the MWM Manifesto is “We reserve the right to pivot”, and simultaneously this year we’ve both felt an internal pull towards some of our individual creative pursuits. Though this episode may feel like it’s coming out of left field to you, our listeners, it has not been a quick decision or one we’ve taken lightly. We absolutely adore working together here the on the podcast and this messa...2020-04-2131 minMom Wants MoreLoving the Body You Live InWe've never met a woman who doesn't care about her body, and we've also never met a woman who hasn't struggled in her relationship with it in SOME way or another. You might be wondering what Body Image has to do with a podcast that helps women pursue their passions, but truly, we believe it has everything to do with it. The way we feel in our bodies directly affects how we show up in the world. It affects our energy, our mood, our confidence, and certainly our creativity too. Ladies, you don't owe the world any...2020-04-0740 minMom Wants MoreMeet Our MastermindLast month on the podcast we explored the theme of Comparison and as we shift gears into this month's theme of Friendship, we can't think of a better transition than THIS week's conversation! Pursuing your passion can feel like lonely work at times but one of the best ways to combat comparison & competition is by finding your people, connecting with them, supporting them, and even collaborating with them. One way to do that is through a mastermind group. We've been blown away by the positive impact this has has in our own lives this year. ...2020-03-0349 minMom Wants MoreParenting with Confidence with Becky KeifeOne of the reasons we created this podcast is because we believe that leaning into our God given gifts and strengths truly helps us become better mothers. Today on the podcast we sat down with Becky Keife, author of No Better Mom for the Job to discuss how we can parent with confidence, avoid the pitfalls of comparison, celebrate our individual strengths as as a mom, and both find support and offer support to our fellow moms. Ladies, if you find yourself stuck in negativity, insecurity, or overwhelm, do not miss this one! You are the best...2020-02-1830 minMom Wants MoreLetting Go of ComparisonWe've all heard the famous quote, "Comparison is the thief of joy", and today on the podcast we're diving into this uncomfortable topic because as moms and creatives we're deeply aware of how true this statement is. If you're trying to improve your career, your mothering, your wellness, your marriage, your creative work, or just about any other area of your life, there's a good chance that you'll encounter a perceived disparity between your reality and the woman next to you. It's all too tempting to believe that she has it easier, or better, or that her "success" is...2020-02-1128 minMom Wants MoreStart Your Year Off Right Series: TAKE ACTIONToday's episode is our fourth and final installment of our Start Your Year off Right mini-series and we are so excited to dive in because this is where the rubber meets the road, y'all! All the reflecting, dreaming, and planning we've done this month has all been leading up to this: actually getting started. We know that starting is often the hardest part so this episode is the perfect mix of gentle encouragement, tough love, and practical help. We're sharing all of our best tips and tools in this episode, so be sure and tune in and...2020-01-2822 minMom Wants MoreStart Your Year Off Right Series: PLANWelcome to Week 3 of our Start Your Year off Right Mini-series! Here on the podcast we're spending the whole month of January focused on stepping into a brand new year (and a new decade!) with intention and joy. We know that expectations and pressure can feel high around this time of year so we've put together a plan to help you ditch overwhelm, get clarity, create a plan, and GET MOVING towards your dreams and goals this year. This week we're building on the last two weeks of reflection and dreaming and we're getting super practical about...2020-01-2138 minMom Wants MoreGoals vs. Intentions (Rerelease)We are rereleasing this episode as we prepare for our January Mini-Series. We love a clean slate and is there any cleaner of a slate than January 1? The whole year is stretched out before us, full of possibility and good intentions. So naturally everyone and their Aunt Millie is currently setting goals and thinking about how they want to show up in the world this year. Here at Mom Wants More we have some suggestions on how you can practice this gently with yourself. We are all about naming those things we hope for, for cal...2019-12-3137 minMom Wants MoreChoosing a Word of the YearWe are rereleasing this episode from last year about Choosing a Word of the Year as we lead up to our Mini-Series in January. Some might say it's cliche or even cheesy, but we have all the heart eyes for choosing a Word of the Year. We've both been doing it for years now and we've been surprised at how much this simple practice has impacted our lives. We don't use it as another way to put pressure and expectations on a year that still remains full of mystery and unknown- we use it more a...2019-12-2438 minMom Wants MoreBehind the Scenes: NovemberIt's that time of the month again, y'all! Time to peel back the curtain and get REAL about what's working, what's not working, what's life giving VS life draining, and always... what we're loving this month. These episodes are a little more casual, a lot more personal, and just one more way to cultivate true community here at the podcast. In today's episode we dish on traveling to conferences, pushing through resistance on a particular project, what it means to go deep instead of wide, and a few ways we can receive our right-now lives without rushing...2019-11-2634 minMom Wants MoreBehind the Scenes: OctoberY'all know we put our heart and soul into ALL the episodes that we share here on the podcast, but these Behind The Scenes peeks into our personal lives at the end of each month are some of our favorite. They're near and dear to our hearts because we pull back the curtain and get real about what we're learning, where we're struggling with, what's working well, and what we're loving lately. We seriously miss those Friday Fave episodes we used to do, so this is a fun way to add that back in- because that's what friends do...2019-10-2938 minMom Wants More3 Ways to Take Ownership of Your TimeThe main heartbeat of this podcast is to encourage women (moms especially) to stop waiting for a convenient time that may never arrive and start actively uncovering & pursuing their creative passions in their right-now lives. We understand that in order to do that we must learn to be the boss of our own calendars. But that's easier said than done, right? Well don't worry sister, we've got you covered because today's episode is entirely devoted to simple & practical ways we can carve out time for our creative work and/or play. In this...2019-10-0134 minMom Wants MoreWhy Your Creative Work Matters with Emily P. FreemanIf you've listened to the this podcast for any length of time, then you've probably heard us mention the lovely Emily P. Freeman many times. We should probably just go ahead and give her a permanent line in our show notes right next to the topic of the enneagram. What can we say, we love what we love! And we truly love the work that Emily puts out into the world. She speaks, writes, and gently leads from the unique intersection of creativity & faith in a way speaks to us on a soul level. Having h...2019-09-2443 minMom Wants MoreBehind the Scenes of Our Summer BreakToday on the podcast we're welcoming y'all back to the podcast with a fresh new look, a slightly new sound (did ya like our new intro?), and an honest behind the scenes peak into what our summer break was like. As always we're including the good, the bad, the ugly, and the funny. We love the work we do here. We are so passionate about it that we often say it feels more like play than actual work. But after producing 86 consecutive podcast episodes, we decided to hit that pause button and carve out some intentional down...2019-09-1736 minMom Wants MoreMoms' Night Out Live EventWe did it! We held our first ever LIVE podcast event and it was so much fun we are still on a high weeks later. Meeting some of you gals from our Mom Wants More community in real life, hugging your necks, and connecting in the moment, it filled our cup in ways we didn't even expect. It was a chance for all of us mamas to hit pause in the middle of that hectic back-to-school season, throw on some lip gloss, and meet up for a ladies night out. We recorded this live interview...2019-09-1736 minMom Wants MoreSummer Series: Rebecca BenderY'all are in for a treat because Rebecca Bender is on the podcast today and she is bringing the heat. And the laughter. Rebecca is a passionate speaker with a powerful story but what we love so much about this episode is the pared down, super honest, practical encouragement that came out of this conversation. She's a mom to 4 kiddos (littles AND bigs), she's a leader, a dreamer, a preacher, an activist, a teacher, and that's not even all the hats she wears. Rebecca is someone who doesn't just dream big, she DOES big things. She feels the Lord's nudge a...2019-08-2038 min
WovenThe "Four" Keeps of Mothering: Keep CreatingContinuing in our "Four" Keeps of Mothering series, we talk with the women from the Mom Wants More podcast, Alana Dawson and Amber Salhus about how we can invest in our creative pursuits while "moming". We discuss barriers to being creative, misnomers about what it means to be creative, small steps to take to flex your creative muscle, why being creative is important to our well-being, and so much more. Alana and Amber do this topic so much justice on a weekly basis on their podcast, Mom Wants More. To learn more, visit The Mom Wants More...2019-08-2058 minMom Wants MoreSummer Series: How to Uncover Your CreativityEver feel like you don' t have a "thing"? We talk a lot here about pursuing your passions, acknowledging/ naming/getting after your dreams, and leaning in to your unique creative bent. Those are all lovely and powerful ideas- but what if you DON'T KNOW what those things are yet? Or maybe you have a sense of it but it still feels foggy and unclear and you aren't sure how it's supposed to fit into your actual right-now life. The last thing we ever want to do is make you feel like you...2019-08-1331 minMom Wants MoreHow to Make Time For YourselfOf allll the things that hold us back from uncovering what lights us up and cultivating more of it in our right-now life, TIME is most often at the top of that list. When we asked you guys what you wanted us to address here on the podcast, that was the resounding answer. Number 1 with a bullet. How do we fit it into our already busy schedules and mile-long to-do lists? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we do have a lot of super practical ways you can recognize, carve out, and utilize the...2019-07-3037 minMom Wants MoreSummer Series: Motherhood & Your Creative WorkWe talk a lot here about going after our dreams, pursuing our passions, and showing up wholeheartedly to our right-now season of life. For most of us here at the MWM community, that means doing all of this in the middle of motherhood. Can we just make a little room here for the fact that it's not always easy? Is that okay? We'll be the first to admit that it's a complicated, fluid, and fine line to walk between fully honoring the gift of motherhood while actively uncovering and cultivating our other gifts...2019-07-1646 minMom Wants MoreBehind the Scenes: JuneIt's time to dish, ladies. Once a month here on the podcast, we like to get super real with you listeners and give y'all a behind-the-scenes look into our actual lives as we navigate the pursuit of our creative passions in the middle of motherhood and our right-now lives. We'll be the first to tell you it's not always easy or simple. But we will also be the first to tell you that it's possible. So pop in some earbuds, refill your favorite bevvie, and tune in for this month's Behind the Scenes peek! We're...2019-06-2516 minMom Wants MoreInterview with Karen StottY'ALL! WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS EPISODE WITH YOU! Today on the podcast we got to sit down with Karen Stott, and the conversation was so rich and full of sage advice from a work at home mom who's learned quite a few things along her entrepreneurial career. We chatted with Karen all about: Balancing being a mom and a business owner Filtering your Yeses through the question of: "Can I do this with both excellence and joy?" How to be the boss of your own schedule Including your kids in what...2019-06-0432 minMom Wants MoreInterview with Jenn CollinsThis month on the podcast we’re deep diving into the concept of self-care: what it means, what it looks like, and how to prioritize it in a realistic and helpful way, because let’s all be real here- as moms it can be really tricky to navigate everyone else’s needs along with our own in a ... Read More about Interview with Jenn Collins2019-05-0739 min
Kindred Mom Podcast058 // Creativity, Passion & Purpose – Alex Davies, Robin Chapman, Alana Dawson & Amber SalhusClosing out the Healthy Mom series, Episode 58 is all about creativity, purpose, and passion. In the first half, host Emily Sue Allen talks with team member Robin Chapman and writer in residence Alex Davies about how moms can find time in the midst of motherhood to feed their souls with creativity. In the second segment, Emily talks with Alana Dawson and Amber Salhaus of the Mom Wants More podcast about pursuing passion during the mama years.
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Subscribe to Kindred Mom and get the free resources we have...2019-04-2259 minMom Wants MoreHow to Make Time for YourselfOf allll the things that hold us back from uncovering what lights us up and cultivating more of it in our right-now life, TIME is most often at the top of that list. When we asked you guys what you wanted us to address here on the podcast, that was the resounding answer. Number 1 ... Read More about How to Make Time for Yourself2019-04-0932 minMom Wants MoreMWM: Guest Interview with Susanna RisserY’all are in for a treat because today we have Susanna Risser on the podcast. She’s a brilliant natural light, lifestyle/ wedding photographer (seriously, her work is bonkers- go find her on IG @ladycascades and see for yourself) which means she’s a full time stay-at-home AND work-at-home mom. Susie and her husband dealt with the ... Read More about MWM: Guest Interview with Susanna Risser2019-04-0231 minMom Wants MoreMWM #060: Rebecca BenderY’all are in for a treat because Rebecca Bender is on the podcast today and she is bringing the heat. And the laughter. Rebecca is a passionate speaker with a powerful story but what we love so much about this episode is the pared down, super honest, practical encouragement that came out of this conversation. ... Read More about MWM #060: Rebecca Bender2019-01-0833 minMom Wants MoreMWM 048: How to Wait WellToday on the podcast we’re re-thinking the definition of the word “wait”. We think Waiting has gotten a bit of a bad rep, a stigma, a negative connotation that it doesn’t necessarily deserve. In our modern society of instant information, instant access, and even instaGRAM we’ve become so accustomed to high-speed information and instant gratification ... Read More about MWM 048: How to Wait Well2018-11-2017 minMom Wants MoreMWM 036: Choosing Our Yeses & NosWe ask the same question of all the guests who come on the podcast: “What have you had to say NO to in order to say YES to pursuing your passion?” We dedicated a whole line of our manifesto to this idea of intentionally choosing our Yeses & Nos because if there’s one thing we’re ... Read More about MWM 036: Choosing Our Yeses & Nos2018-10-0937 min