Mom2Mom MENTORING - Work/Life Harmony, Soul-Care, Kingdom Minded Moms

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.

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE

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👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

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Feeling ruled by your own clutter? Organizer Kristen Christian shares her 3 simple rules to trade chaos for real peace — no Pinterest-perfect required.

If you've ever pulled into your driveway at the end of a long day and felt your stomach drop instead of relax — because of what's waiting for you inside — this one's for you.

This week on Mom2Mom Mentoring, we're bringing back one of our most-loved conversations: professional organizer Kristen Christian, founder of the nationwide organizing company Bee Organized, joins Misty for an honest, funny, deeply relatable talk about clutter, chaos, and what it actually takes to feel like you can breathe in your own home again.

Kristen is quick to admit she isn't naturally organized — she calls herself a "hot mess" who built a thriving organizing business out of her own overflowing first home with a newborn.

That honesty is exactly why this conversation lands differently for the overwhelmed mom listening. Kristen and Misty talk through the idea of "organization profiles" — 🔎 are you a crammer jammer stacker, or a memory keeper? — and why understanding your own pattern matters more than any Pinterest board ever could.

Then Kristen lays out her three simple (not easy) rules for lasting order:

own less,

This isn't about a perfect house. It's about biblical peace in the middle of ordinary motherhood — the kind of faith-based guidance that helps Christian moms make room for what actually matters.

Whether you're a longtime listener or brand new here, you'll walk away with a practical next step and a little more grace for the pile on the counter.

📚RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

✦ Grab the free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide at https://mistyhughes.com/resources

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🌐 Website

👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

📸 Instagram

🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

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Feeling stuck in survival mode? Misty shares how God restores our imagination for what's still possible — and how to begin your own rhythm of renewal.

There's a version of you living underneath survival mode

🦋 — still hopes,

🦋 — still imagines a future worth walking toward.

She hasn't disappeared.

In this episode, Misty gets personal about the season she never expected to live — the end of her marriage, and the moment she realized she hadn't just lost a relationship, she'd lost her ability to picture anything beyond survival. If you've ever felt that same flatness, that same sense of just getting through instead of really living, this conversation is for you.

Misty walks through what it looks like to invite God back into your imagination — grounded in Isaiah 43 and Psalm 119 — and offers a simple, practical exercise for noticing the "wouldn't it be fun if" thoughts most of us have trained ourselves to dismiss.

This episode is also the start of something bigger: the Rhythms of Renewal series, built to help Christian moms move from overwhelm into a rhythm of life that actually holds up under real, changing seasons. Grab the free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide to keep going after the episode ends, and come share your own "wouldn't it be fun if" in the Christian Moms in Business and Ministry Facebook community.

📚RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Rhythms Of Renewal Mini-Guide

Why Are Moms So Tired and What Jesus Says About REST

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-moms-are-so-tired-and-what-jesus-says-about-rest/id1738069561?i=1000748359207

Soul Restoration for Moms Who Are Still Exhausted After Resting.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-restoration-for-moms-who-are-still-exhausted-after/id1738069561?i=1000749427159

Why Your Relationships Feel So Hard Right Now as a Christian Mom

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-your-relationships-feel-so-hard-right-now-as-a/id1738069561?i=1000750470981

Dr. Laura Le returns to name the real cost of control — and what it takes for a mom to open her hands and finally find peace.

Most of us don't call it control.

💥 We call it being responsible.

💥 Being prepared.

💥 Being a good mom.

But underneath all that gripping is a kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up on a to-do list — the tiring, invisible work of trying to hold outcomes that were never ours to hold.

In this conversation, Dr. Laura Le joins me again — this time with a different lens on a topic we've touched on before.

Dr. Laura is a chiropractor with over twenty-three years of experience in prenatal and pediatric care, the author of Postpartum Reimagined, and the host of her own podcast, You Are the Mom. She recently walked her own daughter through the college send-off, which became the seed for her book Words From Home for the College Bound Teen — and it's exactly the kind of letting-go season we dig into here.

We talk about

If you've ever wrestled with mom guilt over not doing enough, you'll recognize its quieter cousin here — the anxious grip of trying to control everything so nothing goes wrong.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

📲Contact Dr. Laura Le: https://drlaurale.com/

📖 Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide: https://mistyhughes.com/resources

✨ CONNECT WITH MISTY

Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.

🌐 Website

https://mistyhughes.com/

👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

📸 Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/the_mistyhughes

🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

✉️ Contact Misty

https://mistyhughes.com/inquire

📞 Book a Call with Misty

https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

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

This episode kicks off week two of the Best-Of Re-Release Series with something a little different — a remix. Misty sat down with communication and executive-presence coach Laura Camacho in two separate conversations, and this episode pulls the very best moments from both into one.

Laura has spent twenty years coaching senior leaders to communicate under pressure, and in this remix she brings those same tools home — literally.

She and Misty talk about

🗯️💭 the single phrase that reframes almost any hard conversation ("what I understand you're saying is..."),

🗯️💭 why assuming positive intent changes the whole tone of a disagreement,

🗯️💭 and how sincerely building people up — noticing what's easy to overlook — makes people more receptive to everything else you have to say.

They also dig into what it looks like to be proactive instead of reactive as a mom: weekly family meetings, clear expectations, chores with real consequences, and raising kids who grow into contributors, not just people who are told what to do.

📖 Laura shares her favorite "mean mom" story — knocking on her daughters' doors at 5am to ask who left a glass in the sink — and what it taught her girls about consequences without anger.

Toward the end, Misty asks Laura the question she asks every seasoned mom: if you could leave your daughters with one piece of wisdom, what would it be? Laura's answer is a tender, honest word about grace in marriage — appreciating the good in your husband, and spending less time cataloging the opportunities for improvement.

Want more from Laura?

Misty and her husband Craig get honest about how they communicate differently — and the daily choice to assume the best instead of the worst.

🎙️Misty's husband Craig is back at the mic — and this time, he's not just a guest. He's the launch point for something new: over the next several weeks, Misty is re-releasing some of the most-loved conversations from Mom2Mom Mentoring, and this honest, unscripted talk about communication is where it all begins.

Craig and Misty get real about the small stuff that becomes big stuff:

💡 a light left on downstairs,

🪏 They dig into the real difference between a verbal processor and an internal processor — what it feels like on both sides, why interrupting isn't always about disrespect, and how Craig went from "performance listening" to actually listening to 💖 Misty's heart, not just her words.

Craig and Misty want to be honest with you: they're not counselors, and after six years of marriage, they're still learning what real connection looks like — for themselves and for each other.

That's exactly why this conversation matters, no matter how long you've been married. There's always room to grow in the way you communicate — and always room to shine a little brighter in how you love the people closest to you.

Ready to keep growing?

👉🏼 Grab the free Rhythms of Renewal mini-guide

https://mistyhughes/resources

👉🏼 Get on the waitlist for the next BECOMING Cohort

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

🌹 And if you're curious about the journaling app Misty mentions, Rosebud, you can find it at rosebud.app.

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What does it actually look like to love a difficult person? Katina Wilkins shares a biblical framework that will change the way you see the hard relationships in your life.

Is there someone in your life right now who is hard to love? A child who pushes every button. A parent who never seems satisfied. A marriage that has grown painfully complicated. If you've ever wondered how you're supposed to keep loving when it's this hard — this conversation is for you.

Katina Wilkins is a Christian life coach, Bible teacher, and speaker who has spent over 20 years helping women navigate the hardest relationships of their lives. But her message didn't start in a classroom — it started at 3:00 AM in a prayer room, with a journal labeled "Battle Plans," asking God the same question many of us have asked: Lord, how do I do this?

In this episode, Katina walks us through 1 Corinthians 13 not as a familiar passage we've heard a hundred times, but as a lived framework for the relationships that are testing us most. She breaks down what love actually is, what it isn't — and what it always does. And she offers a reframe on boundaries that may change the way you see every hard relationship in your life: a boundary is not about self-protection. It's about loving the other person too much to let them continue to sin.

This conversation also opens with a direct word for any woman in an abusive relationship — because loving someone and staying somewhere unsafe are not the same thing. If that's you, please listen to the first few minutes before anything else.

You'll walk away from this episode with a clearer picture of what God-shaped love actually looks like — and the quiet confidence that you don't have to manufacture it on your own.

📖 WHAT WE COVER

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Morning by Morning Life Coaching — Katina's website

Episode 108 — The Word Moms Need to Stop Saying (with Mary Gallagher)

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What if "should" is the word keeping you from the life God actually has for you? Mary Gallagher helps moms trade striving for open-handed faith.

What's the most dangerous word in a Christian mom's vocabulary? It might not be what you think.

In Episode 108 of Mom2Mom Mentoring, Misty sits down with writer and spiritual guide Mary Gallagher — founder of the Promised Land Mindset — for one of the most honest conversations this podcast has ever had about perfectionism, shame, and what it really means to parent from faith instead of fear.

Mary spent years living by the "should" list: what a good Christian wife should do, what a good mom shouldn't be, what a good woman of faith should look like. But after a pastor literally told her to "fit the mold," her perfectionism went into overdrive — and she didn't find her way out until she discovered that the striving was rooted in something deeper: shame.

In this conversation, Mary shares the moment God gave her a clear choice between faith and fear when her teenage son went down a hard road — and what happened when she chose faith. She opens up about the shooting star story that changed the way she looks at imperfection. And she introduces the simple, powerful practice of releasing the "shoulds" that are quietly keeping you from your promised land.

Here's what you'll take away from this episode:

🔗‍️ Resources Mentioned In The Episode

Grab Mary's free guide on shedding the "should" at promisedlandmindset.com/shouldleadmagnet

Download Misty's free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide at mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

Ready to go deeper?

Come to the Table is Misty's four-day women's retreat for moms who are ready to stop striving and start receiving.

Registration is open at mistyhughes.com/cometothetable

✨ CONNECT WITH MISTY

Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.

🌐 Website

https://mistyhughes.com/

👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

📸 Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/the_mistyhughes

🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

✉️ Contact Misty

https://mistyhughes.com/inquire

📞 Book a Call with Misty

https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

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

Christian sex educator Mary Whitman Ortiz joins Misty to talk about shame, God’s design for intimacy, and the freedom waiting on the other side.

There are conversations the church has been slow to have — and sexual intimacy is one of them.

In this episode, I sit down with Mary Whitman Ortiz, a Christian sex educator and certified relationship coach, to talk about what God actually intended when he designed intimacy between husband and wife. This is a conversation about shame, freedom, and what it looks like to come alive in places that have been quiet for a long time.

Mary shares her own story — a 26-year marriage that ended in divorce, the discovery of pornography’s long shadow, and the slow, intentional journey back to wholeness. She walks through what emotional safety in marriage really means, why women need to give their “mental yes” long before 10:30 at night, and how studying the original (God’s design) is always more powerful than focusing on the counterfeit.

Whether you grew up in purity culture, have never had a safe conversation about this, or just sense there is more joy available in your marriage than you’ve been living in — this episode was made for you.

Mary’s freedom is contagious.

And it is absolutely possible.

🔗 Resources from this episode:

🌊 Come to the Table Retreat — Registration Open:

🔗Connect with Misty:

Financial coach Foluke Olayele reveals what managing money God's way actually looks like — and why it has everything to do with trust, not just budgets.

💸 Most of us never had a real conversation about money.

We inherited fear, silence, or survival mode — and somewhere along the way, we decided God was too holy for our bank account. Financial coach, author, and founder of Hand In Hand Consulting Foluke Olayele is here to tell you that's exactly backwards.

In this conversation, Foluke shares how a divorce, a digital book, and a Valentine's Day download from God put her on a path from debt to a paid-off home, a thriving career — and eventually, a calling to help women steward money God's way.

Her story is part miracle, part obedience, and completely relevant to the woman who has ever felt like her finances were too far gone, too complicated, or too embarrassing to bring to the Lord.

Misty and Foluke explore what it actually means to manage money with God as your provider — not just as a nice idea, but as a daily, practical reality for both single women and married ones.

🎯 They unpack the biblical distinction between debt and bondage,

💸🤑💰 If you have been surviving financially instead of stewarding — or if money has felt like a subject you carry alone — this episode is for you.

Foluke's free resource — The 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making with Inconsistent Income — is linked below. And if this conversation stirred something in you, come find us in the Christian Moms in Business and Ministry Facebook community, where the conversation is continuing this week.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

🎁 Foluke's Free Resource: https://handinhandconsulting.net/3day-moneyresetguide

✨ CONNECT WITH MISTY

Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.

🌐 Website

https://mistyhughes.com/

👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

📸 Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/the_mistyhughes

🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

✉️ Contact Misty

https://mistyhughes.com/inquire

📞 Book a Call with Misty

https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

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