Mother’s Day wasn’t always a holiday I could genuinely celebrate.

For much of my life, my relationship with my mom carried a lot of hurt, anger, and unresolved emotions. And for years, I viewed my story through that pain. But over the last decade of therapy, healing, and personal growth, I slowly began to realize something: healing didn’t mean rewriting my story—it meant learning how to stop living trapped inside of it.

In this episode, I’m sharing my honest journey with motherhood, forgiveness, healing, and what it has looked like to rebuild my relationship with my mom over time.

We talk about:

• Healing from childhood pain
• Letting go of anger while still honoring your truth
• The complicated emotions surrounding Mother’s Day
• Guilt, expectations, and wanting peace as a mom
• The women who become “mothers” to us even when they aren’t biologically ours
• Learning to lead with love instead of staying stuck in resentment

This episode is for:

• the daughters still healing
• the moms carrying guilt
• the women longing to become mothers
• and anyone learning how to move from hurt toward healing

Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do… is choose to love anyway.

Happy Mother’s Day to every woman who nurtures, guides, supports, and shows up for others in ways the world may never fully see.

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I had a moment recently as a mom that I’m not proud of.

I lost my temper in a way I never have before—and the guilt that followed really made me stop and reflect.

In this episode, I’m sharing what happened, how I handled it, and what it revealed to me about managing emotions—not just in parenting, but in leadership and everyday life.

This is the final episode in our series inspired by Start With Yourself by Emma Grede, where we’ve been exploring how emotions like anger, fear, guilt, sadness, and joy show up in the way we lead.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• What guilt is actually telling you
• Why reacting in the moment can create long-term impact
• The difference between being a thermometer vs. a thermostat
• How to course-correct when you don’t show up the way you intended
• The connection between leadership at work and leadership at home

Because the truth is—
you can care deeply, be self-aware, and still have moments you wish you could take back.

What matters is what you do next.

If this episode resonated, share it with someone who needs the reminder that they’re not alone in this.

📬 PO Box: 457 Green, Ohio 44232

If you want next, I’d recommend your following episode shifts slightly into:
👉 “how to rebuild trust after you don’t show up well”

In this episode, we’re continuing our series on emotions in leadership, inspired by Start With Yourself by Emma Grede—and today, we’re talking about fear.

Fear is something every leader experiences, but most of us don’t fully understand how it’s showing up or how much it’s actually influencing the way we lead.

In this episode, I share a real story from my time as a food service director where fear impacted not just me—but my team as well. And looking back, I can clearly see how past experiences shaped my decisions and created hesitation moving forward.

We talk about:

• How fear shows up in leadership (even when you don’t realize it)
• Why past experiences can create hesitation in present decisions
• The difference between healthy fear and fear that holds you back
• How fear impacts your confidence, communication, and team dynamics
• A simple way to start working through fear instead of avoiding it

Fear isn’t something you eliminate—it’s something you learn to lead through.

If you’ve ever hesitated to make a decision, avoided a hard conversation, or second-guessed yourself as a leader, this episode will help you better understand why.

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If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who could use the reminder.

📬 PO Box: 457 Green, Ohio 44232

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Next in the series: Guilt in Leadership