Do you put everyone else first before yourself? Are you stressed and disconnected on most days? Do you want to live a life that's empowered and unapologetic?

In This Podcast SUMMARY

In this podcast episode, Veronica shares an introduction to her story and steps to become empowered as a woman, wife, and mother.

THIS USED TO BE MY LIFE

So it's 615am, we're late! Really late. I wake up in a rush to get the kids up. My husband is still asleep as today's his day off.

I'm running around like a madwoman trying to wake them all up. Making breakfast, prepping lunch, negotiating with the kids what they should wear and trying to get everything ready. I'm alone getting the kids ready, did I mention that? It's an entire checklist that's running through my head and I'm trying to get through it as quickly as possible. I run back downstairs, yelling at everyone, let's go, let's go!

Guess who meets me downstairs. My husband, who is showered, dressed and has his coffee in hand. Meanwhile, I look like the hired help, and I don't even have a bra on!

I say to him, "It must be nice taking that shower and getting dressed." He replied, "Why didn't you wake me up, I would have helped?" Yes, sure! If you wanted to help then you would have helped!

Well, there goes the start of everyone's day. It wasn't a good one. But at no point did I stop and think, girl, put your bra on first.

I lived my life like this for so long because, well everyone else was doing it too. We're slaves to the checklist and we don't do anything about it. We shouldn't have to do everything on our own and resent our families for it.

No woman should suffer silently, losing herself while trying to make a perfect life for her family.

But why didn't I just let them do it? Well, because they wouldn't do it the way I liked it or I'd have to redo it. So instead, for years I would do everything and anything for them, and they knew it. They had the luxury of doing nothing for themselves because they knew mom had their back.

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