Prickly and Blooming

Episode 015: Eagle Sh*t | Jennie Herm

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Thriving in your role as a step-mom can be a real challenge even for the best of us. For Jennie Herm, hitting a wall in her attempts to help raise her two young stepsons set her off on a journey to the kind of breakthrough most stepmoms dream of.

Living and working off of a 1200 acre cotton farm in Texas with her husband and two stepchildren, Jennie followed conventional wisdom and poured herself into treating her two bonus kids the same way she had treated her daughter— like her own. However, she quickly learned that conventional wisdom isn't one size fits all.

Listen in as she shares her journey to defining her own role. Hear about how she's developed a relationship with the mother of her stepchildren and how stepping back helped her embrace who she was meant to be.

Episode Timeline:
  • [00:46] Intro
  • [1:26] Meet Jennie Herm
  • [03:19] Creating a denim business with her husband
  • [05:32] Her pivot point as a stepmom
  • [08:45] Hitting the bottom
  • [12:27] Why "treat them as your own" is a setup
  • [15:36] Developing a relationship with the mother of her stepchildren
  • [17:56] Letting go of a role that wasn't hers
  • [20:09] Her eagle moment and finally feeling seen
  • [32:13] Loving with more integrity
  • [34:24] Empowering her partner and avoiding creating an at-fault parent
  • [39:23] Eagle behavior
  • [42:59] The tools she uses to maintain
  • [45:03] Connecting with Jenny
  • [46:34] Her new step-mom slogan
  • [47:23] Outro
    • Resources Mentioned:
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    Standout Quotes:
    • "In all fairness to their mother, I'd taken on a role that wasn't mine and it wasn't fair to her." -Jennie Herm [14:51]
  • "I was making myself small in my relationship to them by thinking that I had to throw myself at them all of the time and that they needed to see me. And really, the big way to be an eagle in this situation is to step back and just be an eagle and nobody's not going to see you and your efforts are not going to go unnoticed." -Jennie Herm [31:45]
  • "Trying to be seen by other people just doesn't work. It's got to be a mirror. Who knew." -Jessie Browning [39:53]
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