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Mother-daughter conversation on faith and belonging: Morgan asks Misty if there's a seat for her at their Puerto Rico women's retreat.

"Do you think it will be okay if I... like..."

Morgan asked me that halfway through our conversation. And I didn't see it coming. 

Last week we told you about Rooted & Reaching... seven women, five days, a house on the beach in Puerto Rico this January. This week we talk about WHY.

Why Puerto Rico (it's where Morgan and I found our way back to each other).

Morgan is coming to cook and to teach yoga in the mornings. And then she asked the honest question... would there really be room for her at that table?

We didn't rush past it. We stayed right there with it, a little tender and very honest, until we both found our way to something true.

We also talk about the strengths work on day one, long hours by the pool, a little rappelling 😉, Morgan turning 40, and why everybody in Puerto Rico claps when the plane lands. 🌊

And we talk about why this matters so much to us.

You can journal on your own, and that's good.

But something different happens when you're sitting across from someone who's curious about you... asking the questions you haven't thought to ask yourself yet.

✨ Rooted & Reaching · January 20–25, 2027 · Puerto Rico · just seven women

Next Thursday, October 22: where our love for hospitality started... my grandmother's table.

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This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌿 Rooted & Reaching (Jan 20–25, 2027 · Puerto Rico · 7 women)

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When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Mother-daughter conversation on involuntary change: Misty and Morgan both divorced at 36. What kept them standing and the hope they found on the other side.

"Wait... did we get divorced at the same age?"

36. Both of us. And neither of us had ever put that together until the mic was on. 🎙️

This week on Morgan & Mom, we talk about the change we never chose... the marriage that ends, the plan that falls apart, the future that disappears overnight.

Morgan's first instinct was to change EVERYTHING else (quit the job, sell the house, start over somewhere new) just to feel some control again. Instead, she made herself a rule: don't change anything that isn't already changing. And she stayed.

I was on my bedroom floor asking one question... what is still solid?

The answer was Jesus. And "I'm a mom. I'll get up tomorrow and still be a mom."

We talk about what kept each of us standing: a 12-week yoga teacher training that started the week Morgan's marriage ended, flower beds I dug by hand while praying "Lord, make something beautiful," and yes... good coffee and good hair product. ☕

Then the conversation turns. What if unchosen change is an invitation to discover who we really are?

Morgan shares the postcard she kept for years ("Leap and the net will appear"), and I share the words Jesus spoke to my heart in one of my darkest seasons: "As deep as the pain goes, my joy goes even deeper." 🌱

We didn't solve the world's problems. But we landed somewhere true.

A quick heads-up: we use some language we don't usually use on this podcast. It's in the title. You'll understand why.

✨ Stay to the end... From January 20–25, 2027, Morgan and I are inviting just seven women to sit around the table with us in Puerto Rico. It's called Rooted & Reaching: five days of honest conversation, rest, and getting real about who God is inviting you to BECOME in this next season. Find out more: https://mistyhughes.com/rooted-and-reaching

Next Thursday, October 15, we're sharing why we're doing this and what it means to us. Subscribe so it's waiting for you. And tell us what YOU want to talk about around the table: [email protected]

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌿 Rooted & Reaching (Jan 20–25, 2027 · Puerto Rico · 7 women)

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When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Why do I feel lonely when my life is full of people? Morgan asks her mom — and lands somewhere neither of them expected. An honest mother-daughter talk.

Morgan called it "the lighthearted topic of loneliness."

She was joking. Then she asked the question anyway. 

She has a job she loves. Friendships going back fourteen years. Neighbors who feed her dog without being asked. She cooks for people at her house four times a week. And she still feels lonely, often — and it still feels bad.

So she brought it to her mom.

Misty was single for twenty-two years after her divorce and didn't live alone until she was fifty, so she has her own version of the question.

What neither of them expected was for Morgan to talk her way into an answer partway through — a metaphor about hunger that reframed the whole thing. For both of them.

❌ There's no five-step plan here.

💖 Just a mother and a daughter in a small warm room, going after something that keeps them both up at night, and finding their way to hope instead of fear.

If you've ever looked around at a full life and wondered why you still feel alone... come sit in on this one. ✨

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

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"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." ✦

Misty's daughter finally asks the question she's never asked before — and gets the whole story, hard parts and all.

🤔 What happens when your daughter finally asks for the whole story? 

In this episode of Morgan & Mom, Morgan sits down with her mother, Misty, and asks the question most of us never quite get around to: where did you actually come from?

Misty answers — really answers — going back to a small town in Indiana, a hard childhood, and the grandparents who stepped in when she needed them most.

From there the conversation moves through unplanned motherhood in college, a marriage that felt like a rollercoaster, and the moment a stranger's comment about her daughters broke something open in her.

Misty and Morgan talk honestly about faith, about a spiritual community Misty still isn't sure how to name, and about the decision — twice — to leave everything behind and start over.

It's not a lesson, and it's not polished — just an honest, real conversation between a mother and her adult daughter about the moments that shaped a life.

If you've ever wondered about your own mom's story — the parts before you, the parts she doesn't usually tell — this one might be the nudge to go ask.

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me. 

🌐 Website — https://mistyhughes.com/

When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Morgan tells her whole story in one sitting — India, an unexpected divorce, a fast career rise, and how she kept choosing herself along the way.

👏🏽 "Ready? One, two, three, clap." That's how this one starts — because that's how we start every recording. This week, it's just Morgan, telling her whole story, start to finish, in her own words. She gave herself ten minutes. It took forty. 😄

She takes us through a barefoot, sun-and-sweat childhood in small-town Kentucky.

A move to Kansas City at fifteen.

A year in India at eighteen that she'll tell you, emphatically, was not a "missionary trip" — she went to live with people, not save them.

A community college scholarship, her face on a city bus, and the kind of confidence that only shows up after you've been tested a few times.

📖 One chapter of her story is a relationship in India that nearly cost her everything, and a decision — with someone else's help — to choose herself instead. It's one of the harder parts of this episode. It's also just one part of a much bigger one.

From there: grad school, a marriage, a career that went from an entry-level nonprofit job to VP of HR at a fast-growing company, and a divorce that came out of nowhere — one she handled entirely on her own terms.

As you listen to her journey, there is a thread I'd like to invite you to discover. 

Not the version anyone else expected.

💖 Hers. 

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me: 

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When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Misty looks her daughter in the eye and says the words she's owed her for years: I'm sorry. A real apology — not a lesson, not polished. For a wound she didn't know was there. ❤️‍🩹

Last week, Morgan told her me something I hadn't let herself fully sit with.

I asked for a week before responding — I didn't want to rush past it.

▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| | This episode is that week.

In the little 4 X 4 podcast cubicle,  I take a moment to look my daughter in the eye and tell the words she's owed her for a long time: I'm sorry. Not a general apology — a specific one, for something that cost Morgan real time and real closeness with her dad. 🤍

What comes back isn't what you'd expect. Morgan talks about the difference between a hurt that's twenty years old and one that's still fresh — "that cake is baked," she says — and how she's already grieved it, already made her peace, without pretending it didn't cost her anything.

Then there's the story behind a piece of hand-stitched fabric a much younger Morgan made for her mom — misspelled and all — that's been a family joke for twenty years. Except it was never really a joke. It's part of why the two of them can have a conversation like this one at all.

🤎🍪🔗 They close the way they've been closing lately — with something true, a little levity, and the promise of a cookie. 

Mother-daughter relationships.

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌐 Website — mistyhughes.com

"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." 

Misty and her daughter Morgan talk honestly about growing up in a single-parent home — what it took, what it cost, and what's still unfinished. 

Morgan is 39 now. She was 11 or 12 when her parents divorced — one of four kids growing up in what was, at the time, a pretty unusual thing among the families around her. In this episode, she and Misty sit down and just talk about it.

What it was actually like.

What's different about how divorce and single parenting look today versus 25 years ago.

What nobody really explained to her as a kid.

What she's learned...AND

What is still very hard. 

This isn't a teaching episode. It's Misty and Morgan, on mic instead of on the phone, having the kind of conversation they've been having for years — the real one, not the polished one. 

⚡ Somewhere in the middle of it, something shifted.

Misty found herself sitting in real sorrow about what her kids went through — not trying to fix it, not explaining it away.

And Morgan, on the other side of that, admitted it made her uncomfortable to watch.

-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈ That's where this episode ends — not because the conversation was over, but because it wasn't.

Misty comes back next week to respond to Morgan more fully. 

❤️‍🩹 Mother-daughter relationships.

Misty and her daughter Morgan sit down for their first-ever episode — nervous, honest, and hopeful. A real mother-daughter conversation, unscripted.

"Okay, we're actually doing this.

Three,

two,

one,

GO."

That's how it starts — and if you listen closely, you can hear exactly how nervous we both were.

This is the very first Morgan & Mom episode.

❌ No framework,

❌ no three steps,

❌ no takeaway at the end

— just a mother and a daughter, in a room together, talking the way we already talk on the phone every week. Except this time, you get to listen in.

We spent the first few minutes just naming what we were nervous about — the technology, being honest on tape, the things we haven't said out loud yet. And somewhere in there, we made up a safe word for when a conversation gets to be too much. (It's cookie. You'll understand why once you hear it.)

But underneath the nerves, there's something we both believe: ours is a story of hope, and a story of two people who love each other and are committed to continuing to grow.

We're not experts on reconciliation. We're just living it, and we wanted to let you sit at the table with us while we do.

💖 If you've ever wondered what it looks like to rebuild closeness with your mom or your daughter after a hard season, we hope this becomes a place that feels a little less lonely.

And if things are easy for you right now, we hope it's a place that makes you grateful. 💖

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌐 Website — mistyhughes.com

"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." ✦

After a season of real distance, a mother and daughter found their way back. Morgan & Mom launches August 27 — listen to the trailer now.

For years, Misty Hughes has hosted Mom2Mom Mentoring alone. This season, that changes. Her daughter Morgan is joining as a permanent co-host — not a one-time guest — and this trailer is your introduction to why.

These conversations didn't start in a recording booth.

☎️ They started on the phone, in the calls Misty and Morgan already have — about dreams, joy, loneliness, why change is so hard, and the season of real distance it took them years to find their way back from.

🎧Starting August 27, you get to listen in.

❌ This isn't a polished, advice-driven show.

✅️ It's two women — a mother and a daughter — telling the truth about what it actually costs to rebuild a relationship that was once broken. Some of what's coming is light. Some of it cost them something to say out loud.

In the weeks ahead, you'll hear Morgan talk about what it was like growing up in a single-parent home, and you'll hear Misty own something out loud that she got wrong as a mother. It's real, it's unscripted, and it's for anyone who has ever wondered whether a relationship could survive real damage.

New episodes drop every Thursday starting August 27.

🔔 Subscribe now so you don't miss episode one.

Our most-listened-to episode returns — plus a brand-new update with Danica LaPorte on mother-daughter relationships, and a first look at what's next.

Somewhere between the toddler years and the grown-up years, most of us stop being just "mom" and "daughter" — and have to figure out who we are to each other now. That in-between space is where today's episode lives, and it's no accident it's the most-listened-to conversation in Mom2Mom Mentoring history.

Danica LaPorte joins Misty for an honest look at what makes mother-daughter relationships genuinely healthy — not performed, not strained into politeness, but real. Danica names something a lot of adult daughters feel and rarely say out loud: the quiet weight of still wanting to meet a parent's expectations, even fully grown. Misty and Danica talk through boundaries, communication, and what it actually takes to build a relationship that can hold the truth.

And because so much has changed since this conversation first aired, Misty brought Danica back for a fresh update. They talk about what it looks like to be the one who reaches out first, how to stay connected across real physical distance, and how Danica has learned to apologize to her own kids in the moment rather than letting hurt sit unaddressed.

Stick around to the very end — Misty has something new to share about what's coming next for this podcast.

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