Happy Mother's Day, friends. I decided to drop the second episode three days early this month to catch the holiday. In all of the podcasts and episodes I've done, I've never had my mom on, and this year, I decided to remedy that. I wasn't sure what I was going to have going into this one, and mom was very candid and honest about her life. I really gained a new appreciation for her. It was a great discussion with two different generations, and I was gifted a wonderful new perspective on how she handled obstacles in her life, and I realized how short I've fallen in wanting to achieve that attitude.

We talked about a host of topics from her career in healthcare, her childhood, the loss of her brother at such a young age, the loss of my father in law, how I wasn't good in school but was in college, how she deals with stress at work, what makes her the most proud about her children, how she found out about and handled the divorce, how she turned her career around and became a nurse, and what makes her happy. She asked me about how I got into acting and I asked her why she always comes to see me in these plays.

If you can, call your mother. If you have a toxic relationship with your mother, fuck your mother. But for those who do celebrate it, happy mother's day y'all.