In this episode, Chana Jenny Weisberg, mother of eight, Jerusalem resident, blogger and business owner, reflects on her "next good thing" philosophy and how she stays on track to live her values day by day, even when they differ from what she thought they would be. We go deep on the internal conflicts raised by devoting your full time to parenting in a world of "what do you do" focus on one's professional achievements, and what Chana Jenny does to accept her own choices and support others in theirs. Plus, hear how a mother of ten turned twenty-five years of counseling her kids into a new career counseling cancer patients, taking baby steps to make great leaps forward, removing that "last straw" to lighten your load (or your kid's), meditating to mend relationships, sibling combat and closeness, finding new fulfillment in a new business, consistency as a super power, and how a woman she never met inspired her to change her life.

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Argentine immigrant, activist, attorney, and adventurous mom to three daughters and twin sons, Mariela Markelis Dybner reflects on her priorities, choices, and how she turned a difficult episode into the memories of a lifetime by moving her troops to Disney for an entire month! Plus, delving into family history from Poland to Argentina via google and gravestones, forming a unique family identity, second thoughts at the urologist's office, attending work retreats with an entourage (ie toddler, baby, aupair), how attending Shabbat services builds your kids' community bonds, mothering as an ever evolving challenge, kids inspiring family change, and how your actions reveal your priorities in unexpected ways.

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Incisive, opinionated, unapologetic and brutally honest writer Bethany Mandel, co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, is both fierce and loving when it comes to her four sons and two daughters. Also very, very funny. With stories about attending rock concerts at age seven, navigating an over-sharing, doctor-avoiding mom, and needing intervention to understand her "obnoxiously normal" husband, Bethany offers a raw, honest take on how her past has influenced her approach to parenting, how she decided to homeschool her tribe, how that has been a source of both freedom and stability, how keeping kosher and Shabbat sets boundaries her kids (almost) never question, how Full House and the Brady Bunch mimic real life, how delaying pain only magnifies it, the intersection of privilege and mental health, and why six kids is not nearly six times the work of one kid. Plus, the joys of a perfect dentist visit, a messy home, cereal for dinner, blowout birthday parties at the height of covid, affordable Jewish education, and her tactics for sibling rivalry and supermarket tantrums.

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