Love Letters to Single Mamas

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This episode is a reckoning.

We’re breaking the silence on the invisible cost of survival, the toll it takes on a single mama’s body, spirit, and soul. This is not a productivity pep talk or a healing cliché. It’s a real conversation about what it means to live inside a loop of exhaustion… and begin to find the way out.

Marisa shares raw truths from her own journey: collapsing in the driveway, burning from the inside out, and still being told she was “so strong.” 

But strength isn’t supposed to destroy us.
Burnout isn’t a badge of honor.

This is a love letter to the version of you that forgot how to rest.
This is your permission slip to stop proving and start breathing.

Inside this episode:

• A mirror held to the culture of exhaustion
• What survival mode feels like in the body
• Why your nervous system deserves reverence
• The first small step out of the loop (and it’s not what you think)

With grace, grit, and full transparency, this one’s for you, Mama.

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You are not invisible.
 You are not forgotten.
 You are living inside someone else’s favorite story, even if you don't realize it.

In today’s episode, Marisa explores a simple, sacred truth that has the power to shift everything: 

You are the main character in someone’s memory of joy, laughter, and hope.

Maybe it was a kindness you forgot.
Maybe it was a laugh you didn’t know they still replay.
Maybe it was the way you stood up for yourself, and it inspired someone who never found the words to tell you.

Today, we practice pulling those memories forward.

We find safe ways to reconnect to our light, especially on the hard days, the 3 a.m. nights, the moments when it feels like the world forgot.

Because you were never invisible, Mama.

You’ve been living inside echoes of love this whole time.

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"You can buy lipstick.
 You can buy clothes.
 But you cannot buy the kind of beauty that’s built in the fire."

Welcome to Season Two.

We’re not just back.
 We’re reborn.

In this opening episode, Marisa takes you straight into the heart of real beauty.
The kind you don't find on a shelf or behind a filter.
The kind you earn through survival, through healing, through the quiet decision to smile when you had every reason not to.

Inspired by a powerful quote from Drew Barrymore.

This episode calls every single mama and every woman carrying unseen battles
to remember:

Your smile is a war medal.
Your laughter is a comeback.
Your life is the proof that beauty built from the ashes shines brighter than anything money can buy.

Inside:

• Why real beauty is rooted in survival, not perfection
• How your messy, radiant humanity is already changing the world
• An invitation to honor your journey right now, no filters, no permission needed

This isn’t just a new season.
This is a new era.

You are not a side character in someone else's story.

You are the main event.

Press play, Mama.
The fire is already waiting for you.

 

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"Behind every single mama who kept going, there was someone—seen or unseen—who stood in the gap."

Today marks the end of Season One of Love Letters to Single Mamas.

 Forty episodes.
 Forty moments of truth, healing, and rising.

And there’s no better way to close this chapter than by honoring the ones who made our survival—and our becoming—possible.

In this special tribute episode, Marisa shares a series of love letters:

• To her parents, celebrating 50 years of love and leadership
• To the families we are born into—and the families we build along the way
• To the volunteer aunties, uncles, spiritual grandparents, and soul sisters who chose to stay
• And to the advocates—the fierce hearts who use their voices when we can't find our own

This isn’t just a thank you.
 It’s a recognition.
 It’s a homecoming.

And because patience has never been her strong suit,  you won’t have to wait to step into the new season.

 Season Two kicks off today with a double episode drop.

Feel the shift.
 Join the new era.
 You are right where you’re meant to be.

Welcome home, Mama.

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You are not the supporting character in someone else's life. You are the main event, and it's time to live like it."

In the Season One finale of Love Letters to Single Mamas, Marisa delivers a soul-to-soul reflection on the revolutionary act of choosing yourself, without guilt, without apology, and without waiting for permission.

For every single mama who has ever been told her life is over…

For every woman who’s ever swallowed her dreams in the name of survival…

This episode is a call home.

Inside:

• Why society conditioned you to believe your role ended with sacrifice
• How reclaiming your dreams makes you a whole mother, not a selfish one
• A gentle, fierce invitation to begin again—with yourself at the center
• A personal reflection from Marisa about survival, sovereignty, and writing the next chapter

This is your line in the sand. Your moment in the mirror. Your first scene in the movie you were always meant to star in.

If you listen to just one episode today, let it be this one.

Because Mama...

Your story isn’t over. It’s just getting good.

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Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!

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You were never meant to be the background music to someone else’s breakthrough.”

In this soul-shaking episode, Marisa unpacks the quiet lie too many single mothers have been conditioned to believe: that they are supporting roles in their own lives. 

This isn’t just a message—it’s a wake-up call.

This one is for the mama who forgot she was the main character.

 The woman holding families together, building dreams in the dark, showing up over and over again—and yet still doubting if she matters.

Marisa shares a raw, unfiltered look at what it means to reclaim your place at the center of your own story. She weaves in personal truth, emotional exhale moments, and a direct challenge to the cultural narrative that tells women to shrink.

You’ll walk away from this episode:

• Recognizing how emotional exhaustion keeps you in the shadows
• Understanding the cost of downplaying your brilliance
• Feeling seen, called, and invited into your power
• Remembering that you don’t need permission to rise
• Holding the truth that reclaiming your spotlight isn’t selfish—it’s sacred

🔖 Listener Love Note:

 This episode is a hug, a nudge, and a rally cry. Share it with the mama who needs to remember she was never meant to play small.

Love, M.

Support the show

Please connect with Marisa and the team that makes Love Letters to Single Mamas possible.

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Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!

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Today is the day to reflect on the path of birth, but this isn’t a celebration. It’s a reflection.

Not a recounting of survival, but a powerful honoring of becoming.

In this deeply personal episode, Marisa takes you on a walk through memory, identity, and the quiet truths behind the podcast, the book, and this entire movement. From standing on the beach arguing with the Universe to building a platform for single mamas worldwide — this is the story behind the story.

You’ll hear:
 Why Marisa stopped waiting to be understood — and started speaking anyway.

 What it means to grow into your name and voice.

 How the movement was born out of silence, sickness, & sacred fire.

Today, Marisa wrote a love letter to herself and every mama at the beginning of her journey. Listen to this sacred moment and hold space for all mamas to heal. 

This episode is an invitation to pause, to honor, and to claim your path with pride.

Hit play. Reflect. And then share it with the mama who needs to know she’s not alone.

Support the show

Please connect with Marisa and the team that makes Love Letters to Single Mamas possible.

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Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!

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No one prepares you for the moment your life splits into a “before” and “after.”

This episode is a sacred return to that day — the one you may try not to remember but will never forget. Whether it came through heartbreak, loss, choice, or survival, this was the moment you became a single mama. And the world never gave you a guide for what would follow.

Marisa takes you through her own first night alone, the quiet unraveling, and the decision to rebuild not just a home — but a whole self. With tenderness and truth, she speaks directly to the woman still in the middle of her becoming, still wondering if she’s doing enough.

This is not a story about grief — it’s a story about reverence.
 About softness.
 About strength.
 And about the healing we create when we name the thing no one else will.

If this episode resonates, share it. Whisper it. Send it to the version of you who needs to remember — you are not broken. You are becoming.

Support the show

Please connect with Marisa and the team that makes Love Letters to Single Mamas possible.

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Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!

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In this episode, I give you a practice session — the real kind — for the moments when people ask the questions that sting.

“Why did you leave your marriage?” “Isn’t that selfish?” “Why would you do that to your kids?” Sound familiar?

You don’t owe anyone a novel about your survival.

You owe yourself peace.
 You owe your children safety.
 You owe your spirit freedom.

In this conversation, I’ll show you how I reframed the hardest question I was ever asked — and how I’ve learned to answer without defending, deflecting, or dimming my truth.

This one is for every woman who’s tired of explaining her worth.

And yes… there’s a surprise inside. 

We’re launching a new way to go deeper — together. 

Listen to the end and click the link!

Support the show

Please connect with Marisa and the team that makes Love Letters to Single Mamas possible.

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https://stan.store/loveletterstosinglemamas

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Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!

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This episode of Love Letters to Single Mamas is a return. A reckoning. A whisper to the little girl I left behind so many times just to survive.

“Missy” is more than a nickname. She’s the piece of me that watched it all — the fear, the silence, the endurance — and carried the weight when I couldn’t. This episode is me finally sitting beside her, listening to her grief, and offering her something I never knew how to give: permission to come home.

 If you’ve ever wondered why your body holds so much, why your voice sometimes shakes when you speak the truth, or why you can’t stop crying when you’re finally safe… this episode is for you. 

It’s not perfect. It’s not polished. But it’s real. This is a prayer. A memory. A retrieval. And maybe — just maybe — it’s yours too.

Support the show

Please connect with Marisa and the team that makes Love Letters to Single Mamas possible.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisakiley

https://stan.store/loveletterstosinglemamas

https://www.patreon.com/c/LoveLetterstoSingleMamas

Send us your love letter for single mamas today. We want to include you in the movement! Welcome home, mamas!