My Cotton Patch Moment

Have you ever found love in an unexpected place? Was it after you decided that relationships weren't worth it? That happened to me after a man I had hoped to spend the rest of my life with told me he wanted "no strings attached." I pulled the dagger from my heart, walked out of his life, and swore off all men. But a new career in a new city led me to someone who, with one heartfelt question, changed my life forever.

Honorable Mentions

Maya Angelou

How Do You Keep the Music Playing by James Ingram and Patti Austin's

You Are the Love of My Life by George Benson and Roberta Flack

Look What You've Done to Me by Boz Scaggs

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This podcast is hosted by Mildred J. Mills. Mildred writes raw and poignant stories describing monumental highs and devastating lows as she takes her reader and listener on a journey of laughter and tears. Mildred survived a childhood of picking cotton on her strict, domineering father's farm and thrived in a male-dominant IT industry for forty years.

Mildred recently completed her manuscript, a memoir, Unbroken: My Journey of Defiance, Resilience, & Grace". You can be the first one to know when it is available for purchase by following her here.

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If you would love to connect with Mildred, join her in these following spaces:

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Have you been inspired by this Cotton Patch Moment? If so, Mildred encourages you to leave a review, comment, email and tell her about it! Also, share this episode with someone you love. You never know who needs to hear an inspiring word.

The music and sound effects for this episode came from Epidemic Sound, Soundstripe and/or Pixabay. Crackers In Soup is the audio editor and producer for this episode.

My Mama knew before I did that I was not meant to stay in Alabama. When I was 18, I was on my way to explore who I was becoming in Ohio. But before I left, my mother shared with me her dowry. It wasn't money or jewels. It was priceless. This episode is Chapter 1 of my memoir, "Unbroken: My Journey of Defiance, Resilience, & Grace," which is in submission. You can be the first to know when it is available for purchase by following me here.

Honorable Mentions

Proverbs 31:30

Southern Fried Chicken recipe

The 1960s - A Decade of Change

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This podcast is hosted by Mildred J. Mills. Mildred writes raw and poignant stories describing monumental highs and devastating lows as she takes her reader and listener on a journey of laughter and tears. Mildred survived a childhood of picking cotton on her strict, domineering father's farm and thrived in a male-dominant IT industry for forty years.

Mildred recently completed her manuscript, a memoir, Unbroken: My Journey of Defiance, Resilience, & Grace". You can be the first one to know when it is available for purchase by following her here.

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If you would love to connect with Mildred, join her in these following spaces:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

Have you been inspired by this Cotton Patch Moment? If so, Mildred encourages you to leave a review, comment, email and tell her about it! Also, share this episode with someone you love. You never know who needs to hear an inspiring word.

The music and sound effects for this episode came from Epidemic Sound, Soundstripe and/or Pixabay. Crackers In Soup is the audio editor and producer for this episode.

Three months after my divorce, I purchased my first home. Unaware of what a feat this was in 1976, looking back I am in awe of how life works in your favor if you just believe it will. Come join me as I share how an older woman's belief in me and a landlord who dismissed me, inspired this episode's Cotton Patch Moment.

Honorable Mentions

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act

A Bank of Her Own

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978

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This podcast is hosted by Mildred J. Mills. Mildred writes raw and poignant stories describing monumental highs and devastating lows as she takes her reader and listener on a journey of laughter and tears. Mildred survived a childhood of picking cotton on her strict, domineering father's farm and thrived in a male-dominant IT industry for forty years.

Mildred recently completed her manuscript, a memoir, Unbroken: My Journey of Defiance, Resilience, & Grace". You can be the first one to know when it is available for purchase by following her here.

📝👧🏽👩🏽🧓🏽📖

If you would love to connect with Mildred, join her in these following spaces:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

Have you been inspired by this Cotton Patch Moment? If so, Mildred encourages you to leave a review, comment, email and tell her about it! Also, share this episode with someone you love. You never know who needs to hear an inspiring word.

The music and sound effects for this episode came from Epidemic Sound, Soundstripe and/or Pixabay. Crackers In Soup is the audio editor and producer for this episode.

Welcome to My Cotton Patch Moment with Mildred J. Mills. Mildred is a writer, motivational speaker, wife, mother, grandmother, and the third of seventeen children, born and raised on a sixty-acre cotton farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. Drawing on her upbringing and forty years in a male-dominated IT industry, Mildred shares raw, poignant stories that take listeners on a journey of laughter, reflection, and tears.

Whether exploring the complexities of maternal love, family dynamics, breaking generational cycles, or rebuilding life after adversity, this podcast is a space for honest conversations and honest conversations, hard-earned insight, and encouragement. Join Mildred on this journey of self-discovery and resilience.

Join the conversation and share your own Cotton Patch Moments.

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This podcast is hosted by Mildred J. Mills. Mildred writes raw and poignant stories describing monumental highs and devastating lows as she takes her reader and listener on a journey of laughter and tears. Mildred survived a childhood of picking cotton on her strict, domineering father's farm and thrived in a male-dominant IT industry for forty years.

Mildred recently completed her manuscript, a memoir, Unbroken: My Journey of Defiance, Resilience, & Grace". You can be the first one to know when it is available for purchase by following her here.

📝👧🏽👩🏽🧓🏽📖

If you would love to connect with Mildred, join her in these following spaces:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

Have you been inspired by this Cotton Patch Moment? If so, Mildred encourages you to leave a review, comment, email and tell her about it! Also, share this episode with someone you love. You never know who needs to hear an inspiring word.

This is a Crackers In Soup production.