Harvesting U is a podcast and a community of mommas striving to live big and love bigger. It's a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger.

Friends Aubrey and Theresa created Harvesting U as a supportive and judgment-free network of mommas who help each other to assess and develop our interests, talents, and goals.

The podcast is unscripted and unfiltered, and each episode contains a topic that is relatable for today's busy mommas. During this episode, Theresa and Aubrey discuss how Harvesting U developed, how it has affected their lives, and how it can connect with other mommas.

We hope you will listen and subscribe to the podcast. And please share your thoughts with us. Learn more about Harvesting U. http://linktr.ee/harvestingu

Feeling under pressure from family, work, friends, home, and community? Yeah, we got that. 

Today we're talking about feeling like we're swimming upstream, and how we get through these periods in our adult lives without completely stressing out and hiding under the covers (everyday). 

Find out a few techniques for dealing with the overwhelming stress, and find comfort from relatable momma stories about parenting, working, and trying to carve out time for ourselves so we don't lose our sanity and energy to keep on keeping on. 

Harvesting U is a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger.

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Have you ever thought about your love language? How do you show love? How do you best receive love? Is it through words of affirmation, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch, or acts of kindess?

Knowing your love language helps build a stronger bridge of communication with others, and knowing your partner’s love language can help build trust and connectedness. 

In this episode, Aubrey and Theresa discuss love languages, how to use that knowlegde to better communicate with kids, and how we can find ways to support them as they grow up. It can be tough to navigate parenthood with teens, as everyone matures at different rates, and not equally in all areas. So what are some of our strategies for helping our kids?

Plus, they talk about how the weather affects our moods, heated jackets, and more mom tips. 

 

Harvesting U is a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger.

Find out more about Harvesting U with Aubrey and Theresa here.

Our kids are growing up, and asserting independence appropriately and inappropriately (at times). It takes patience and understanding, plus a whole pile of parenting tools and teamwork to get through this challenging years. 

As our kids feel like they are grown-up 'enough' to know it all, they also need us in so many ways, too. It's a struggle on both sides. 

In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa talk about a few ways they are dealing with this transition and strategies that are helping make it easier for their kids and themselves as parents. 

How are you dealing with your teens? Any advice for parents who haven't started on this 'adventure'? 

Harvesting U is a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger.

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Some days life can feel like our own personal 'Groundhog Day.' When life becomes mundane, it's time for a change. 

How do we bring ourselves back from the mundane? On this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey and Theresa talk about a few ways they shake off the habitual and create little changes to set a different mood in the everyday. Making easy small changes like what we wear and where we sit everyday, can disrupt the monotony of routine and help bring new inspiration and energy into our worlds. 

We also talk about how to set the mood in our homes to reflect those favorite moments and memories, why the sunrise and sunset move humans to wide-eyed silence, and what we can learn from music to design calmer spaces at home.

When you feel like you are on the treadmill of the mundane, what do you do to break it up? Talk to us.

Have you started questioning your hard-worn habits? Trying to figure out how to get closer to your goal life? This conversation is for you. 

During this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey shares the meaning and motivation behind writing 'Broken Open.' It's a guide book to assessing habits, choices, and relationships. While it's not about her life, she includes some examples throughout to keep her readers knowing that she is on the path with them. She even includes a six-week soul self challenge that can help anyone achieve a goal, whether big or small. 

Written in a respectful and reflective manner, Aubrey wants this book to be a blueprint for humanity. After years of gathering insights, she found the soul self space that provides her with ease and calmness to get through any challenge set in her path. And she discovered the biggest relationship is her friendship with herself.

Listen to this episode to gather a few strategies and insights to help you with your personal challenges, and check out the free Audible sample of 'Broken Open.'

Are you finding it harder to avoid the drama lately?

Seems like it's everywhere--at the grocery store, on airplanes, at school meetings, on social media, within extended families, and even with our own kids.

How can we protect our good mood and stay centered when there is so much conflict and drama out there?

Aubrey and Theresa share a few strategies to dealing with the drama, and ways to navigate the tension surrounding hyped-up conflict. And they discuss how they are defusing the teenager drama and connecting with their teen boys even when there is resistance.

How do you deal with the drama? What keeps you centered when encountering conflict? Share with us in the comments below.

Live big and love bigger,

💫 Aubrey & Theresa

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Being a supportive partner isn't always easy. It takes patience, effort, intention, and action to be supportive and allow our loved ones the space to support us back, too. 

In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa are talking about how we've learned lessons along the way of becoming supportive partners through many years of changes and evolutions of our needs, our family structures, and our quirks. Becoming a good partner means giving our loved one the space to become who they desire and supporting their goals. From dump trucks to dance studios and kids to chaos, we've had many large and small challenges and new experiences along the way in our relationships. We share what we've learned with honesty and humor, and we hope what we share helps you. 

We talk with another busy momma, Diane Korman Numark, who owns a barre studio in Rodondo Beach, California, about how she and her husband support each other through their adventures. Her husband is running for mayor, they have two school-aged children, and she is an Emmy-Award-Winning producer from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Volunteerism and community service are a big part of who they are as a family, too. 

What are ways you support your partner? How do you communicate your needs and share your goals? We'd love to learn from your experiences, too. Share with us.

Meet Rebecca. She is an extraordinary Momma. We're spotlighting her as a momma who goes way beyond the ordinary in her day-to-day momming. 

As a mom of three, it may look like she is doing the typical momma work that we all are familiar. But, she has a big extra on her plate as one of her children has special needs. With Autism, ADHD, and Sturge-Weber syndrome, her daughter also experiences regular seizures which caused her to drown in a pool. She was revived and Rebecca's mission for a service dog has just been made a reality with a dog from 4 Paws for Ability. 

Join us to meet Rebecca, learn her story, get inspired from how she makes it all happen, and meet the family's new service dog during this Harvesting U conversation.

Digging in is all about finding the patience and courage to make ‘it’ happen. 

But how can we trudge through the tough stuff? 

In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa get real about the challenges they face and how they dig in to find strength, understanding, and commitment to try their best to flourish through the rough spots of being a momma, a partner, and a friend. 

How do we deal with those 5 seconds of shame when we are at our worst? Whether no one is looking or if it's caught on camera, how do we navigate those unsettling feelings of being caught short of who we want to be?

Instead of taking an easy road, we're digging in and dealing with the tough stuff that life is throwing at us. 

Theresa takes us through some real-life challenges of raising a child with ODD (oppositional defiant disorder). While it's been a struggle at times, she has learned so much about giving the gift of understanding, and being able to put herself in her son's shoes to see the world in a very different way than what's natural to her. And today, she's grateful that he's thriving. 

We find strength in our bonds with our tribe, and we are better because of your support. 

We'd love to hear your thoughts about this Harvesting U conversation. 

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Aubrey and Theresa share a new conversation about real momma life every Wednesday at 8pmET.