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The Reconnected Momma
by Meghan O'Brien
The podcast FOR moms, ABOUT moms. I'm bringing you a different kind of conversation that is all about YOU because putting yourself first is not selfish. Together, we'll work on leaning into your inner voice, ditching mom guilt for good, and being the best version of yourself in both motherhood and life. You don't have to sacrifice your family OR your dreams. We'll dig into mindset tips, wellness practices, motivation and behind the scenes conversations with other moms pursuing their dreams to help you step fully into who you are meant to be so you can live a fulfilling life without regrets.
Episodes
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039: Pushing Through or Pulling Back - How do You Know What to do When Life Happens
We’re back! And of course by ”we” I mean “I” because it’s just me but I’m so excited to be back chatting with you all! Life hit our family pretty hard the last several months and after lots of conversations recently with other women in my life it’s clear that a lot of us are feeling the same way...
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038: Creating the Life You Want Through Discipline
What comes up for you when you hear the word discipline? Does your body recoil, do you mentally start tuning out to what you hear next? I think that discipline often gets a negative connotation when it comes to understanding why it’s necessary in achieving any kind of success in our life.…
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037: Habit Stacking- Why this Concept is a Simple Way to Reach Your Goals without Feeling Overwhelmed
I know most of us wake up everyday wanting to feel our best. I certainly don’t remember a day I woke up wanting to feel mediocre. However, as a mom it can be increasingly more difficult to find time in the day to do all the things you want to do for yourself and your own personal goals. Something…
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036: How to Design Your Summer in a Way that Leaves you Feeling Present, Rested and Fulfilled instead of Overwhelmed and Exhausted
Summer is an incredible time of year. When I think of summer there’s an endless list of summertime memories- sunshine, suntans, picnics, boat days and ice cream. Honestly the list is endless. However, each passing summer there seems to be increasing amounts of societal pressure for parents to...
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035: How Exhaustion is Killing Your Potential
It’s a struggle we all face as moms, exhaustion. With motherhood comes a laundry list of responsibilities we blissfully think will get easier as our kids grow. The truth is that with each new stage of parenthood there are different challenges. There isn’t a time when there is magically less to…
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034: Laura Sinclair on Getting Clear on the Quality of Life you Want, Buying Back your Time and Entrepreneurship & Motherhood
Today’s show is a juicy one, friends and I know you’re going to love it! My guest, Laura Sinclair and I dive straight into a lot of the issues that moms face. Whether it’s making hard decisions in life to pursue the quality of life you want, investing in ways to take things off your plate so you...
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033: Recognizing and Honoring the Season You’re in (and I’m not talking about your Motherhood season)
It’s inevitable that if you live long enough you will go through lots of ups and downs in life. There are moments where we feel stuck, sad or lonely and then there are other periods where we can’t explain our energy and enthusiasm for life. What’s helped me navigate these different phases is...
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032: Michelle Purta on the Importance of Self-Care in Your Marriage and How to Have a Fulfilling, Satisfying & Healthy Partnership
I think it goes without saying that we all desire healthy, fulfilling and successful partnerships in our lives. Well when you throw kids into the mix, it’s really easy to put yourself and your relationship on the back burner if you aren’t intentional about maintaining connection and…
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031: How Are You Showing Up for Your Life?
Have you ever heard a quote or a saying that felt like a punch straight to the gut that instantly shifted your perspective on life? Well, I’ve heard several and today I’m sharing the question I first came across a few years ago that instantly changed how I was showing up for my life. It was like...
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030: Do This to Start Building Confidence Today
Last week I talked about the trick I use to take action on something I feel resistance around so if you haven’t listened to that go back and check it out, it’s a shorty but a goody. Today I’m piggybacking off of that conversation of taking action even when you don’t want to, feel like it, etc.…
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029: The Trick I Use When I Feel Resistance Around Getting Started on Something
Do you ever stare at your to-do list or your calendar at all the things you want to or need to accomplish that day but have a hard time just getting started on any of the items? Me too momma, me too! I don’t know if it’s because of getting older or just being pulled in so many different…
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028: Do You Feel Like You’re Putting in the Work But Just Spinning Your Wheels?
Do you ever feel like you’re taking action or putting in the work towards a goal and you just keep spinning your wheels? You are so not alone my friend, I’ve been feeling this way over the last several months. So what do we do when we feel like we’re not getting anywhere or moving at a snails…
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027: I See You Momma
Being a mom most of the time is a thankless job. Sure there are times where our families show appreciation for what we do but let’s be honest, most of the time our time and effort go unacknowledged. It’s just expected that we do the things we do because we’re mom. I know we all love our families...
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026: Kelsey Smith on the Importance of Making Fulfillment a Priority
Today’s a juicy one, friends. If you’ve ever felt like your life was good and you had everything you wanted but still felt like something was missing, you are so not alone. My guest today, Kelsey Smith, speaks to the heart of why making fulfillment a priority is so important for the legacy we…
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025: Reframing the Idea of Self-Care
What if this year was the year you were authentically fulfilled and happy? If you’ve listened to this podcast at all then you’ve probably heard me talk about self-care. As we head into February the self-care/self-love month I really want to challenge the notion of what self-care actually looks...
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024: Jennifer Jakobsen on Breaking Down Limiting Beliefs and Creating Clarity and Confidence for Female Entrepreneurs
If you’ve ever felt pulled to start something of your own whether it be a passion project or a business idea then you’ll love today’s conversation with my guest Jennifer Jakobsen. After taking some time off to raise her three daughters Jennifer decided to pursue what was pulling at her heart and...
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023: Dr. Emily Jacobs on Taking Responsibility for How You Show Up, Living Your Life for You and How to Set Boundaries
With over 20 years of experience as a critical care nurse (40,000 clinical hours), Dr. Emily Jacobs became a clinical expert dedicated to personal and professional development, holistic nursing, and mentorship. She held a variety of positions in the hospital setting and completed that chapter as...
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022: Are You Living Your BEST Life?
This year has started off with a bang and it has been busy! As I was able to get some space and quiet this morning I came across a question I had written down a while ago that was exactly what I needed in order to gain clarity and direction on moving into this new year. The question was ‘Are you...
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021: The Mindset Trick I’ve Been Using Lately When I Start to Feel Overwhelmed
No matter what season of life you’re currently in, as moms we consistently have a million things on our to-do list and it can quickly feel overwhelming when we’re trying to navigate all the responsibilities. So today I want to share the one phrase I’ve been using everyday to help me stay focused…
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020: Spoiler Alert: There’s Never Going to be a Perfect Time to Take Action on Your Dreams
Welcome to 2023 my friends! I hope you all celebrated the New Year exactly how you wanted to whether that was at home in your sweats or out partying it up. As I was reflecting on the year that just ended and setting my intentions for the new year there was a topic that kept coming up that set my...
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019: How to empower yourself to accomplish your goals in 2023
There’s just something about the New Year that gets me so excited. As soon as Christmas is over I can’t wait to get out my planner and start mapping out my goals and dreams for the next year. It’s the idea of the clean slate, a fresh start that’s so hopeful. Setting goals and marking our progress...
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018: 5 Ways to Protect Your Peace Every Single Day
I think that we can all agree as moms that peace is sometimes hard to come by. Well I don’t know about you but I’m tired of trying to chase those “peaceful moments.” So I started to take responsibility for creating and protecting my own peace on a daily basis because when I feel at peace it…
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017: Jill Petersen on doing the work from the inside out, empowering the next generation and leaving a legacy
What makes this journey through motherhood even better is when you find women that will cheer you on no matter what, share the real stuff with you and who shows you what’s possible for yourself. My guest today does all of those things. She is helping to empower the next generation of women…
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016: Simple Health & Wellness Hacks to Keep You on Track During the Holidays
The Holidays are magical especially when you’re a mom watching your children experience everything the season brings. But for us moms that usually means lots of “extras” on top of our already full plates. I’m sure you’re no stranger to the messaging around staying healthy through the holidays and...
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015: 6 Ways to Reduce Decision Making Fatigue
If you’re a mom you not only make decisions for yourself but also your kids and your family. I don’t know about you but I know that I’ve felt exhausted and fatigued around making decisions by the end of the day more times than I can count. Whether you’re familiar with this concept or not I know...
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014: How to Embody Gratitude as a Way of Life
Over the last few years I’ve seen gratitude become more of a fad on social media than a way of life. Gratitude should not be something we’re just checking off our to-do list. I believe that living a life of gratitude is a feeling not an action and it is a choice we make even when things get hard....
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013: Sometimes Less is More When it comes to Personal Growth
Have you ever decluttered a room in your house and thought to yourself that the space looked bigger? At the beginning of 2022 I chose the word expansion as my word for the year. A word that embodied what I wanted my year to look like. What happened was the opposite of what you might think. I knew...
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012: Megan Kincaid on Creating an Intentional Business to Compliment Motherhood, Advancing Women and Their Families through Real Estate and Starting her own Moms Group
If you’ve ever returned to work after having a baby and felt misaligned in that position you are so not alone. My guest today Megan Kincaid shares how after she returned to a business she spent over 10 years building and growing she no longer felt that it was a good fit for her and her new role…
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011: Why Now is the Perfect Time to Start Thinking About the Holidays
I don’t know about you but for me the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are usually a blur. My already busy schedule and mental load becomes even more jam packed with to-do items which leads to stress, overwhelm and burnout during a time that is supposed to be filled with joy and love. The...
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010: Suzi Freeman on being a present parent, creating open conversation with your children and finding clarity through knowing what you don’t want
Knowing how to have hard conversations with our children is one of the toughest (I think) parts of parenthood. My guest today, Suzi Freeman, shares how to have open, age appropriate, communication with your children and the importance of non-reactive listening. We also discuss her journey as a...
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009: If You’re Not Where You Want to Be
If you’re not where you want to be in life, or achieving the goals you have for yourself or have the things in life you want to acquire then it’s time to take a hard look at the reason why. Most of us wait for ‘someday’ or the ‘right time’ to start working towards the things we want in life. But...
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008: Dr. Laura DeCesaris on Taking an Individual Approach to Wellness, Streamlining Your Health Journey and Understanding the Phases of Your Cycle to Set Yourself up for Success
Our health is arguably the most important component in our lives. Without it we can’t function in life or show up for our loved ones the way we want. Everyone’s health journey is different and there’s no one size fits all when it comes to wellness so why do we approach it as if that’s the case?…
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007: Ditch Mom Guilt for Good (well mostly)
If you’re a mom there’s no doubt you’ve felt that dreaded mom guilt at some point in your motherhood journey. It can be crippling feeling like no matter what we do we are never enough. I believe that mom guilt is a self-imposed sentence built by comparison, unmet expectations and negative...
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006: Rachel Joy on mental health in motherhood, mompreneurship and being the person you want to be before you become that person
So many women struggle with mental health in motherhood. My guest today Rachel Joy shares her journey through navigating depression and anxiety in the fourth trimester and what steps to take to focus on your own needs. We also talk about the evolution of ourselves through motherhood, choosing the...
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005: Breaking Down the Idea of Balance
Balance is a word or idea that comes up a lot in my conversations with other moms. We are constantly juggling so many things on a day to day basis that most of us never feel like we have balance in our life or we are on a constant quest to reach this elusive idea of balance. Today I’m breaking…
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EP004: Jen Boyle on becoming an authentic leader in any area of your life especially if your inverted or quiet and defining your own personal success when it comes to your family
If you are a fellow introvert or naturally quiet person at heart then this episode is for you! Today I’m joined by my friend Jen Boyle who is a master at helping quiet women find their voice in an authentic way. In a world where you can get lost in the shuffle if you are not aggressive or...
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EP003: 3 ways to create more ease and reduce overwhelm, starting today
I don’t know about you but I’m all about finding ways to create more ease in my life and reduce overwhelm. I will never pretend to know it all or have it all together but there are some things that I have learned over my 10.5 years of motherhood that have really helped me to focus on the things I...
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EP:002 Gillean Barkyoumb on navigating motherhood and pursuing your passions
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to navigate starting a family, working in the corporate world and starting a side hustle? Do you question how ambitious women seem to get it all done? What about taking the leap into entrepreneurship while raising tiny humans? Then you’ll love this...
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EP001: The Secret Struggle of Motherhood
The journey into motherhood is ALL the things- beautiful, exciting, nerve wracking, uncertain, joyous, abundant, worrisome and the list goes on. But what happens when we start to lose who we are in the process. I’ve heard it referred to as the Motherhood Identity Crisis but I call it the secret...
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Trailer
Welcome to The Reconnected Momma podcast! If you ever find yourself asking questions like, "Who am I outside of being a mom?!" then this podcast is for you. Whether you're a mom of one, of multiples, a stay-at-home mom, working in the corporate world, or somewhere in between... everyone is…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast FOR moms, ABOUT moms. I'm bringing you a different kind of conversation that is all about YOU because putting yourself first is not selfish. Together, we'll work on leaning into your inner voice, ditching mom guilt for good, and being the best version of yourself in both motherhood and life. You don't have to sacrifice your family OR your dreams. We'll dig into mindset tips, wellness practices, motivation and behind the scenes conversations with other moms pursuing their dreams to help you step fully into who you are meant to be so you can live a fulfilling life without regrets.
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Meghan O'Brien
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The podcast FOR moms, ABOUT moms. I'm bringing you a different kind of conversation that is all about YOU because putting yourself first is not selfish. Together, we'll work on leaning into your inner voice, ditching mom guilt for good, and being the best version of yourself in both motherhood and...
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