122. You’re Never Just a Mom (Mother’s Day Minisode)

Happy Mother’s Day, Accelerators. 💐

This bonus minisode is for every mama who’s ever wondered if she’s doing enough, contributing enough, or being enough—especially when the work she’s doing is quiet, unseen, and unpaid.

Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, working mom, part-time powerhouse, or doing a little of everything—you’re never just anything. The decisions, the coordination, the invisible load you carry? It matters more than you know.

In this short and soulful episode, I share:
 💛 A love letter to the moms who keep their families running
 📊 The real (and shocking!) dollar value of a stay-at-home mom's work
 🎯 A reminder that your legacy is built in the little things
 ✨ One value-driven action to help you show up with intention this week

This is your reminder that the work you do—seen or unseen—is building a legacy that lasts.

🎁 Share this episode with a mom you admire. Let her know: We see you. You’re doing amazing work.

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Transcript

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Hello, accelerators and Happy Mother's Day. This is just a quick little bonus episode that I wanted to send out to all of you that are doing your best and wondering if it's enough. Mothers carry a lot. Especially when they're trying to give everything to their kids. And some of these things we see, you know, we see doing the laundry, the cleaning, the driving, but some of them we don't see, like the decisions that we make on a daily basis. Keeping the calendars, the doctor's visits, planning everything, putting everything together and keeping them in order, being the emotional barometer of the home. A lot of times mothers come to me and say they feel like they're not contributing to their family because they're just a stay at home mom. Ugh, I hate that word, that four letter word. Just they say they aren't bringing anything in or they're working part-time and they do other things too. But look, no, you're never just a mom. I'm thinking of three very good friends in particular, I wanna send this out to them They've never said they're just a stay at home mom. But we are four peas in a pod. They are my best friends. After all. They are stay-at-home moms, and yet they're not June cleaver. They're not just staying home and doing the laundry and the cooking. They have other things that they do as well. My friend Emily, she's constantly giving back to her kids' school and volunteering. She's a room mom, and that being a room mom is a lot. She's added that to her plate on top of everything else that she's doing. The laundry, the cleaning, the driving she is part of a philanthropy program through her husband's business. And she also just agreed to lead a Bible study with me, so she's got a lot going on. On top of just being a mom. I think about my friend Larissa, who is also helping her husband with his business. He's an entrepreneur and she picks up the slack whenever it's laid down. Whether that's her perfect job title or. It's whatever it is she's doing, she's going to figure it out and get it done. She's gonna make sure that her family's operating, his business is operating at an optimal level. She always goes above and beyond, not only for her family, and sometimes she takes people in and cares for them more than they could ever have asked. She goes above and beyond for their business and also for her friends. I'm very thankful for her. I also think of my friend Jamie, and she has this wonderful little soccer star who excels at all things physical. She's played soccer, she's done gymnastics, she's been on different travel teams already for both of these things, and she's still so young. It's amazing to watch her. But the amount of effort and time and Finess that Jamie has to put into making that calendar work is astounding. On top of all of that, caring for her husband and her mom, who. Jamie has just taken over so many things for her mom and helping her mom succeed as well. My friends. They're amazing. And sometimes we forget. Sometimes we forget how amazing we are. So for those three in particular, I hope that you were listening to this and that you hear me say that I see how hard you're working, how wonderful you are. But to my other dear listeners, my accelerators. I may not know the ins and outs of everything that you're doing, but I'm so thankful that you continue to show up for yourself and for the people that you love. We forget to focus in on ourselves sometimes. These three women that I just talked about, they're stay at home moms, and none of that was just a mom. I. So I wanted to throw out very quickly. Yahoo Finance says that a stay-at-home mom this year, if you were to gather up all the jobs they were doing a stay-at-home mom should be paid an annual salary of$116,022 per year. However, if you go ahead and add in the job of COO, and that's the Chief Operations Officer and CFO, that's Chief Financial Officer, you're looking at closer to$184,820 per year. And friends. If you hear that number and you still think that you are just a stay-at-home mom, that you're not contributing, I'm here to tell you that you're contributing a whole lot, nearly$200,000 worth of time and effort. Think about this as a mom. You're on call 24 7. You work two eight hour shifts, and then when you go to bed, you are still on call. The second somebody cries, you are the one that hears it because your brain has been trained to be the one that hears it. It's not your husband's fault that he doesn't hear it in the middle of the night. His body is not designed to react. Your body is. You don't need to give your kids more stuff. You need to show them how to live on purpose and with a purpose. So mom, while you're juggling all the things, I want you to realize that your kids don't need more things. They just need to see you living life. Be intentional about your boundaries, because having boundaries in place is more generous than becoming a mom who's burnt out, touched out, and cranky all the time. Put those boundaries in place because you love yourself and you love your children. I want you to name one value that you want to embody for your family this week and then dive into that. For me, it's Joy. Joy's the one thing that I've been working on more and more every day, but a couple of nights ago I was done. I had hit my limit. I was frustrated and I came in my room. I was sitting at the computer just trying to give myself a minute of space, and one of my daughters came up to me. And she goes, mom, why does your computer say joy on it if you're just gonna be cranky every night? Oh man, that hit home, that hurt. And I've been praying more and more about finding joy. Joy is my word for 2025. That's why it's on my computer where she could read it. It's supposed to be a reminder, and I'm so thankful that she reminded me. She reminded me that I don't have to be cranky in the evening. And the reason I was getting cranky is because I was not holding those boundaries for myself. I was not taking care of myself. I was not being intentional at all. So mom, I want you to be intentional. We are talking all about these little things because the little things and the little moments, that's what adds up to make your legacy. The little moments, they're the things that feel like we're not making a difference. That's when your legacy is created, because that's when they're watching please share this episode with somebody that you love this week. Share it with a mom that's doing a great job and let them know that you see them, that we see them, and that you are thankful for everything they do. That's it. Go out and make a difference.