Get Mom Ready Podcast

About Get Mom Ready Podcast

Four moms. Four stages. One mission: help you stay grounded in who you are while raising tiny humans. Expect real talk, expert insight, and zero judgement. www.getmomready.com (https://www.getmomready.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

The Ready Network

Category

kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2025

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Reflecting on One Year of Get Mom Ready

   Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) Somehow, it’s been almost a full year of Get Mom Ready. Forty-five episodes. More than 2,500 downloads. A lot of conversations about motherhood, identity, work, friendship, ambition, limits, and the strange things contractors say while standing in your kitchen. We started this because we wanted a place where moms could feel a little less alone. What we didn’t expect was how much we would need that space too. In this episode, we’re looking back at what this year has taught us, sharing our roses and thorns, and talking honestly about why we’re pressing pause on our weekly rhythm for a while. Community Can Show Up Where You Least Expect It One of the greatest gifts of Get Mom Ready has been the weekly community it created for the four of us. Entrepreneurship, private practice, remote work, and motherhood can all be isolating in their own ways. Having a place to show up every week, talk through what was happening, laugh, process, and occasionally admit that our children were annoying us became an anchor. It also reminded us that support doesn’t always have to look like someone giving you an answer. Sometimes it looks like being able to say the true thing without being fixed. Sometimes it’s hearing another mom’s story and quietly taking one sentence with you into the rest of your week. Sometimes it’s having people in your life who remind you that you’re allowed to be fully human. Take this with you: You may not need more advice right now. You may just need a place where you don’t have to perform, explain yourself, or have everything figured out. Pay attention to the relationships where you feel more like yourself after you leave. Those spaces matter. You’re Allowed to Try Something Before You Know Exactly What It Is We’ve spent a lot of time behind the scenes asking what Get Mom Ready really is. Is it a podcast? A community? A newsletter? A place for practical tools? A conversation about identity? A way to help moms build lives that reflect what they actually value? The answer may be all of those things, but figuring out how to communicate that clearly has been harder than we expected. And maybe that’s part of the lesson. You don’t always need a perfect strategy before beginning something meaningful. Sometimes you start because you believe there’s a need, then learn by paying attention. You try the course. You try the membership. You make it free. You change the format. You listen. You adjust. You admit what isn’t working. Trying something new doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it the same way forever. Take this with you: You’re allowed to experiment. You’re allowed to change your mind. You’re allowed to discover that the original plan isn’t the right plan. That doesn’t mean the effort was wasted. It means you learned something you couldn’t have learned from standing still. Changing Your Mind Is a Sign of Growth One of the most meaningful things about recording these conversations has been the ability to look back and hear how much we’ve changed. The podcast became a kind of video diary. It captured what we believed, what we were wrestling with, and how we were learning to build our lives around what matters to us. We often think strength means being certain, staying consistent, and never backing down. But real growth requires enough humility to say, “I see this differently now.” The goal was never to give moms one correct way to work, parent, rest, build a business, use technology, or structure their lives. The goal was to become more grounded in who we are, more honest about what we value, and more confident living from that place. Take this with you: You’re not failing because you’ve changed. You’re growing. The version of you who made a decision last year was working with what she knew then. You’re allowed to make a different decision with what you know now. Permission to Be Human A recurring rose from this year was the freedom to be a real person in a space that was still professional. We backtracked. We used too many filler words. Kids woke up in the middle of recordings. We changed our minds in real time. We said things imperfectly and clarified what we meant. And the world kept spinning. There is so much pressure to be polished before we’re visible, especially online. But being thoughtful and being human are not opposites. You can be credible and still be learning. You can be professional and still laugh too loudly. You can be good at your work and still have limits. You can care deeply about something and still need to pause. The Tension Between What Matters and What’s Possible This is the hard part. We still believe in Get Mom Ready. We still feel like there’s something here. We still believe moms need spaces that aren’t prescriptive, overly polished, or built around telling them how to do more. But there are also seasons when you have to be honest about your capacity. For Holly, the word for this year has been simplify. That has meant making difficult decisions about where her time, energy, and resources need to go right now. So we’re pausing the expectation of publishing a new podcast episode and article every week. This isn’t a dramatic goodbye. You may still hear from us when we have something we really want to say. But for now, we’re releasing ourselves from the pressure of maintaining the weekly cadence while we discern what the next version of Get Mom Ready could become. Take this with you: Pausing isn’t the same as quitting. Simplifying isn’t the same as giving up. Sometimes the most honest way to care for something is to stop forcing it to grow in a season when you don’t have the margin to tend it well. Help Us Shape What Comes Next If you’ve listened to Get Mom Ready, we would genuinely love to hear from you. * Who are you? * Why did you listen? * What conversations stayed with you? * What felt helpful? * What did you wish we did differently? * What would you want more of if Get Mom Ready returns in a new form? * Your voice matters more than you may realize, and your feedback will help us understand what this community could become next. Let’s Keep in Touch Subscribe to Get Mom ReadyVisit GetMomReady.com (https://getmomready.com/) to subscribe, read past show notes, leave a comment, and join the conversation. Follow us on InstagramFind us at @getmomready (https://www.instagram.com/getmomready) and send us a DM. Tell us who you are, why you listen, and what you want more of. Comment on the episodeLeave a comment wherever you’re listening, including Spotify or Substack. We read them. Email usSend your thoughts, feedback, questions, or future episode ideas to info@thereadynetwork.com (mailto:info@thereadynetwork.com). Catch up on past episodesListen to the full Get Mom Ready archive wherever you get your podcasts, or find every episode at GetMomReady.com. To every mom who listened, shared an episode, sent a message, left a comment, or quietly carried something from one of these conversations into her week, thank you. We’re deeply grateful you’re on this journey with us! Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) Get full access to Get Mom Ready at www.getmomready.com/subscribe (https://www.getmomready.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   23 Jul 2026

   Chasing big dreams while raising little kids

   Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) The Life You Were Dreaming About This week, we got to talk with writer, consultant, and working mom Hilary Sutton, and the whole conversation kept coming back to one question: What did you really want before life got so loud? The dream list from 14 years ago Hilary recently found a list of dreams she had written 14 years ago, before marriage, before kids, before so many of the responsibilities that now fill her days. And the beautiful thing was that the list wasn’t full of job titles or income goals or some hyper-specific version of success. It was about building a life. A home. A safe place for her kids. A family that felt loved. Creative work. Meaningful work. Vacations. Church. Living near people she loves. You can read Hilary’s full piece here (warning, you’ll want to start journaling your own reflections and dreams after readying it!) : I found a list of dreams I made 14 years ago (https://hilarysutton.substack.com/p/i-found-a-list-of-dreams-i-made-14?r=2hk3au&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true). Maybe you’re not behind For the moms who are wired to keep moving, keep building, keep improving, keep asking what’s next, it can be hard to stop long enough to notice what’s already here. Hilary described herself as someone who is always thinking ahead. There is always another thing to do, another version of ourselves we’re trying to become, another goal that feels like it should already be further along. But sometimes looking back gives us a better reality check than looking forward. Maybe the life you’re living right now has pieces of the life you used to dream about. Maybe the ordinary things that feel so heavy in this season are also evidence of prayers answered, work invested, and dreams slowly taking shape. Not perfectly and not without chaos, but still very much happening. The middle years are loud One thing said in the conversation really stuck with us: in these middle years, it’s easy to forget what we really want because there are so many tiny responsibilities that actually do matter. The mortgage matters. The camp schedule matters. The food on the table matters. The work deadlines matter. The kids’ hearts matter. It ALL matters. But when everything matters, it can be hard to remember what matters most. That’s why this conversation was an important invitation to pause for a second and ask: * What am I actually building here? * What do I want this season to feel like? * What am I trying to protect, not just produce? Imagination is not just for our kids We also talked about imagination, and not in a Pinterest-perfect playroom kind of way. Hilary shared that when kids feel safe, they are free to dream, play, create, and imagine. And that felt like one of those parenting truths that also applies to us. When we feel safe, we can dream too. When we’re not constantly bracing, proving, managing, and over-functioning, we can remember that the future is not just a list of responsibilities. It can still hold possibility. And sometimes, the most grounded thing we can do as moms is make space to imagine again. Listen to the full conversation In this episode, we talk with Hilary Sutton about working motherhood, planning without trying to control everything, choosing what deserves your yes, raising imaginative kids, and remembering that this season is not a reflection of your worth as a mom. You can follow Hilary’s writing on The Motherload (https://hilarysutton.substack.com/), where she writes about work, motherhood, creativity, and the honest middle of it all. For the mom asking, “What do I actually want?” If this episode stirred something in you, especially around what you really want in this season of motherhood, we’d love to support you. Get Mom Ready coaching is for the mom who is carrying a lot and needs space to sort through what’s working, what’s not, and what she actually needs next. You can learn more about coaching by booking a call with Meredith (https://calendly.com/meredithmayo/quick-reset-coaching-session-with-meredith-1-s-clone-1) or send us a DM on Instagram @getmomready (https://www.instagram.com/getmomready/). Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) Get full access to Get Mom Ready at www.getmomready.com/subscribe (https://www.getmomready.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   15 Jul 2026

   For the mom building her career and leading her family with intention

   Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) You know that feeling when your work brain is carrying layoffs, strategy shifts, inbox fires, team decisions, and approximately 47 tabs of pressure…and then you’re supposed to close your laptop and immediately become the calm, joyful bedtime mom? Same. In this episode, Holly sits down with Lindsey Swedick, a startup executive, brand marketer, and mom of two, for a conversation about work, motherhood, burnout, identity, marriage, and the strange emotional whiplash of leading at work and leading at home. Lindsey’s career has taken her from an anti-trafficking NGO in India to brands like FEED, LOLA, Coterie, Calibrate, and now Perelel Health (https://perelelhealth.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJv-tGY-ZVCi8QxziOzAkxYsu4MJtRDwlcpeaUcYvBm7aQ8Qpu). But this conversation isn’t just about an impressive resume. It’s about what happens when your work has always been tied to purpose, and then motherhood changes the way you understand ambition, capacity, and what actually matters. When the Work That Once Lit You Up Starts Burning You Out Lindsey shared about the season that finally pushed her to step away from corporate life and start consulting. It wasn’t because she stopped loving work. It was because the pace, pressure, constant pivots, and emotional weight of leadership became too much. She was leading brand and communications during a volatile season, navigating layoffs, shifting market demands, and internal messaging while also raising two little kids. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the spark that had always driven her work started to fade. That part felt so relatable. Because sometimes burnout doesn’t look like quitting on your ambition. Sometimes it looks like realizing you can’t keep giving every part of yourself to a job and still have anything left for your actual life. You Can Try Something New Without It Being Forever One of the most refreshing parts of Lindsey’s story was how she talked about career pivots. Earlier in her career, every move felt massive. Like each decision was somehow deciding the entire rest of her life. But with time, motherhood, and a few hard seasons behind her, she started to see it differently. You can try something.You can change your mind.You can do something for six months and reassess.You can make a move because it’s what you need for this season, not because it has to define every season after it. Honestly, that feels like a word for so many moms who are trying to figure out what work is supposed to look like now. This Is Just a Hard Season When Holly asked Lindsey what she does differently now as a working mom, Lindsey didn’t offer a perfect six-step system or a magical productivity hack. She said it’s more of a mental reframe. This is a hard season. Not forever. Not her whole identity. Not proof that she’s failing. Just a hard season. And whew. That’ll preach. Because some days you feel like you’re failing as a mom, a leader, a wife, a friend, and a human person who would maybe enjoy drinking water at some point. And then the next day, you feel like maybe you’re doing okay. Both can be true. The season can be hard, and you can still be doing a really good job. Your Job Is Not Your Whole Identity Lindsey also named something that so many high-achieving moms know deep down but still have to relearn over and over again: It’s just a job. That doesn’t mean the work doesn’t matter. It doesn’t mean you don’t care. It doesn’t mean you don’t give your best. But it does mean your company is not your identity. Your performance review is not your worth.Your title is not your whole story.The thing keeping you up tonight probably won’t be the thing you remember in ten years. Motherhood has a way of forcing that reordering. Not because work stops mattering, but because suddenly your life is bigger than what happens in a meeting. The Sunday Meeting That Might Save Your Week One of the most practical takeaways from this episode was Lindsey and her husband Nick’s Sunday night meeting. After the kids go to bed, they sit down with calendars, laptops, mail, invites, schedules, and anything else they need to sort through. They talk through the week ahead, the month ahead, and even the next six months. They also use that time to talk about their kids, family rhythms, childcare, school, work travel, and anything that could otherwise become resentment by Thursday. Is this wildly glamorous? No. Could snacks improve it? Absolutely. But the point is this: they have a rhythm that helps them enter Monday with less chaos and fewer assumptions. And for moms, fewer assumptions can be a love language. Maybe It’s Not Mom Guilt This was one of the biggest moments in the conversation. Lindsey shared a reframe she heard from Dr. Becky: guilt is when your actions don’t align with your values. So when we call everything “mom guilt,” it’s worth pausing to ask: is this actually guilt? Because for Lindsey, working hard, leading well, and modeling ambition for her kids does align with her values. She wants her kids to see a mom who can do hard things, lead in business, and lead in her family. So maybe the feeling isn’t guilt. Maybe it’s stress.Maybe it’s exhaustion.Maybe it’s anxiety.Maybe it’s sadness.Maybe it’s taking on emotions that were never yours to carry. That distinction matters. Because if something aligns with your values, you may not need to shame yourself for it. You may just need to name what you’re actually feeling and give yourself a little compassion. You’re Not the Only One Holding Two Worlds There’s a loneliness that can come with being a mom in leadership. You can make big decisions all day, carry the emotional weight of your team, disagree with a decision and still have to execute it, write the layoff messaging, lead with confidence, and then somehow be expected to walk into bath time like your nervous system is totally fine. It’s a lot. And sometimes, it feels like no one fully understands the pressure of both worlds. But that’s part of why this conversation matters. Because if you’ve ever closed your laptop and thought, “No one will ever know how hard this day was,” this episode is your reminder: You’re not doing it wrong.You’re not the only one.And you really are doing something impressive. One day at a time. Links from This Episode Connect with Lindsey Swedick on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-swedick-25b6a221/). Learn more about Perelel Health (https://perelelhealth.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJv-tGY-ZVCi8QxziOzAkxYsu4MJtRDwlcpeaUcYvBm7aQ8Qpu) or follow along on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/perelelhealth/?hl=en). Check out Perelel’s Summer Glo hydration powder (https://perelelhealth.com/products/watermelon-mint-cellular-hydration-powder) and protein powder (https://perelelhealth.com/products/triple-support-protein-powder), both mentioned in this episode. Subscribe to Get Mom Ready at GetMomReady.com so you never miss an episode or our Sunday Reset, our newsletter helping you avoid the Sunday Scaries and start the week fresh instead. If You’re in a Season of Burnout If this conversation hit close to home and you’re in a season of burnout, overwhelm, or “I cannot keep doing it like this,” you don’t have to sort through it alone. Get Mom Ready coaching is here to help you take a breath, name what’s actually going on, and figure out what support, boundaries, or next steps might help you move forward with more clarity. You can learn more about coaching by booking a call with Meredith (https://calendly.com/meredithmayo/quick-reset-coaching-session-with-meredith-1-s-clone-1) or send us a DM on Instagram @getmomready (https://www.instagram.com/getmomready/). Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast/id1837769459) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/78u0daNuEPYnc5Q11WA5Lm?si=526e6e84ed634645) | GetMomReady.com (http://getmomready.com/) Get full access to Get Mom Ready at www.getmomready.com/subscribe (https://www.getmomready.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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