The Mom's Got This... Mostly Podcast

Have you ever caught yourself white-knuckling your way through a season of life, just waiting for it to be over?

I spent years doing that with fall. I dreaded it — the end of summer, the return to routine, the goodbye to all the fun and lightness. Until a few years ago when something shifted and I started to see what the season was actually trying to teach me.

This one is reflections from my morning walk with my dog, Winston, leaves crunching underfoot and just sharing what's been on my heart. Because this fall, I'm learning the lesson more deeply than ever. My mom is sick and last week I moved her into assisted living — one of the hardest weeks I've walked through. And the thing that's carried me isn't fighting the season. It's accepting it for what it is and letting go of the resistance.

In this episode:

• Why resisting a hard season often makes it heavier and more painful than it has to be
• How small routines and rituals become an anchor when everything feels out of your control
• What the trees model so beautifully every fall about surrender and the grace of letting go
• The difference between a life season I resisted and one I accepted and what that taught me
• Why being "laid bare" isn't the end of the story, but the space where new life begins

Here's the heart of it: when we stop fighting what is, we lighten our load. Letting go can be painful... but it's also beautiful and deeply healing for the soul. And just like the trees, we let go not to lose ourselves, but to make room for what was meant for us all along.

Wherever you are this season, I hope this one meets you there. 🤍

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• The cozy decaf fall tea latte I mention in this episode: 
  • Boil water and prepare ¼ cup of roasted dandelion root tea. 
  • Then blend and froth 1 cup of oat milk plus 2 teaspoons coconut sugar + ½ teaspoon cinnamon + ½ teaspoon pumpkin spice. 
  • Top the tea with the frothed blend and enjoy!

That nagging voice telling you you're a bad mom? She's lying to you and she has a name.

In my last voice note about habits, I shared how I uncovered my mean inner critic and, since then, I haven’t stopped thinking about her. So I gave her a name (meet Bertha), and I went digging into all the sneaky places she's been running the show without me even noticing. What I found stopped me in my tracks: underneath almost every ounce of mom guilt I've ever felt... was Bertha.

This one's a real heart-to-heart chat about something that runs deep for every mom.

In this episode:

• How the inner critic hides in certain corners of your life and how to catch her in the areas you haven’t been looking
• My theory on the three levels of mom guilt (from the little tinge to the "I've scarred them for life" spiral)
• Two real stories of moms carrying guilt for years over things their kids don't even remember
• Why showing up imperfectly might be exactly what your kids need and what it's secretly teaching them
• The reminder I come back to again and again: you are the perfect mother for your children

Here's the heart of it: you are doing the best you can with the resources, information, and energy you have — and that is enough. The mean voice telling you otherwise? She doesn't get to decide what kind of mom you are anymore.

Come catch up with me, love. 🤍

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·       Instagram: @a.s.grantham  

Have you ever told yourself you have no follow-through? That you just can't stick to anything so why even bother starting again?

I believed that about myself for years... until one evening in the shower I stopped and asked: is that actually true?

This is my first episode in a new, more intimate format — think less-produced, more like the voice notes you get from your best friends. And I'm kicking it off with something I had to work through in real time: the mean inner critic who kept telling me I was terrible at habits, that I'd broken my own trust, that I didn't even love myself... and the two realizations that finally shut her up.

In this episode:

• How I caught my inner critic red-handed and the one question that dismantled her whole story
• The habits I'd actually been keeping for months, years even (that I never gave myself credit for)
• Why the habits that stuck were the ones I held loosely — no streaks, no pressure, no drama
• How adding weight and meaning to a habit is often the very thing that makes it collapse
• The gentler, "do it because it feels good" approach I'm bringing to waking at 5am and exercise
• Why missing a day (or a week or a month) doesn't mean you've failed — you just... pick it back up

Here's the heart of it: you probably have more follow-through than your inner critic gives you credit for. And the secret to habits that last might not be more discipline — it might be less pressure.

Come catch up with me, love. 🤍

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·       Instagram: @a.s.grantham  

Have you been quietly telling yourself you gave up?

That you're behind, you're lazy, you should be pushing harder all because you took your foot off the gas during a season that asked more of you than you had to give?

I want to suggest a different word for what you've actually been doing… retreating.

This episode came from a question someone recently asked me which was “when things get really hard, do you surrender and give up... or do you retreat?” Y’all, it stopped me in my tracks because for months I'd been white-knuckling through one curveball after another (revoked car registration, preschool waitlists, financial stress, hard news about my mom – to name a few) and I'd been judging myself for slowing down. But slowing down wasn't surrender... It was retreat.

In this episode, I share:

Here's the heart of it: retreating is not throwing in the towel. It's stepping back, letting the waters calm, and waiting for clarity before you choose your next move. And that? That's wisdom, not weakness.

Consider this your permission to retreat.

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Have you ever looked up from the school pickups, the to-do lists, and the endless roles you fill only to realize you weren't sure who you were anymore? 

If that ache is familiar, then this episode is for you.

I've been hearing it from so many moms — "I don't even know what I like anymore," "everything I do is for work or my family," "now that the kids are in school, I don't know what to do with myself." And I've been living my own version of it, too. This past summer I hit a real low point and it drove me to start looking honestly at the gap between the life I want and the life I actually have.

In this episode, I share what I've been sitting with:

Here's the heart of it: you are not stuck and you are not too far gone. The version of you that feels a little lost right now is not a problem to fix. She's a woman in the middle of becoming.

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I have been away for about a month and I want to be honest about why.

I’ve been navigating a really tough season. I did not want to create from an empty cup or force content just to keep a schedule, so I rested. That is the exact thing I ask you to do and it felt important to actually do it myself.

Now I am easing back in gently with something a little lighter than usual. Today I am sharing my summer reading list (so far).

None of these books are about surviving a hard season. That is what makes them worth talking about. Each one carried me through in a different way, whether by making me laugh, lighting a fire under me, giving me somewhere else to go for a few hours, or making space for me to dream again.

The books I share:

No homework, no notes, no pressure. Just one reader talking to another.

And I would love to hear what you have been reading. Send me a DM on Instagram and tell me what is on your nightstand.

It is so good to be back in your ears.

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If you've ever swallowed your hurt to keep the peace — told yourself it wasn't a big deal, hoped the feeling would just go away on its own — this episode is for you.

A while back, a close friend left me a voice note that brushed right past something vulnerable I'd shared. It stung. And instead of saying anything, I did what so many of us do: I went quiet. I tried to logic my feelings away. I started avoiding her, all while really just avoiding myself.

Then she sent me another voice note asking for my advice on something and as I listened, I realized the exact wisdom I had for her was the wisdom I needed to follow myself. So I finally spoke up and the most surprising thing happened… in the speaking my truth, the hurt dissolved. By the end of that message, I genuinely wasn't upset anymore. It was that easy.

In this episode, I share:

This one is a permission slip. To speak your truth. To set the boundary. To stop carrying the weight of everyone else's comfort at the expense of your own.

Because speaking up is a muscle. The more you use it, the easier it gets — and the more you become the woman you were placed on this earth to be.

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If you've ever felt like you're pouring yourself out and getting almost nothing back, then this conversation is the exhale you've been needing.

I sat down with Adhana McCarthy — physician associate, certified yoga therapist, somatic educator, and Army Lieutenant Colonel with over 20 years of service — and she said something I haven't been able to stop thinking about: you cannot strategy your way out of a regulation problem.

As a young yogi newly deployed to Iraq, she started teaching soldiers yoga in a corner of their base. Then midway through deployment, they lost their First Sergeant and the memorial service was held in that very same spot. That was the moment she understood what they'd really been practicing all along: how to stay steady when the floor falls away. She's spent the years since translating those tools for burned out founders, exhausted moms, and any woman whose body is bracing like she's under fire, even when nothing is actually chasing her.

In this episode, we dig into:

Adhana's story is a powerful reminder that regulation isn't a luxury for when life slows down. It's the thing that carries you through when life is at its loudest.

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If you've been carrying everything and calling it strength — this one's for you.

One ordinary Sunday, the universe handed me the same message three times in under an hour. I almost missed it — in fact, I did miss it at first, recognizing it as a limiting belief in everyone but myself. It took one gentle question from a friend to crack it open. First came grief. Then rage. And underneath it all was a belief I've quietly carried my whole adult life: no one is coming to save me, so I have to save myself.

In this episode, I share:

Here's the heart of it: releasing limiting beliefs doesn't have to be hard. It's about staying curious — the breadcrumbs are always there.

If you've been carrying way more than you were ever meant to, calling it strength when really it's been exhaustion — hear this: you don't have to do it alone.

And if your soul's been craving space to set it all down, come join me inside Come Back to Yourself, a 90-minute virtual experience for women who've cared for everyone else so long they've lost touch with themselves. Details in the show notes. 🤍

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If you've ever felt like ambition and motherhood are pulling you in opposite directions — this episode is going to change something in you.

I sat down with Beth and Victoria, the powerhouse duo behind Female Mavericks, and I walked away from this conversation feeling both fired up and deeply seen. Between them, they've founded three companies, successfully exited two for seven plus figures, and raised nine kids while doing it. And they did it without pretending the mom part didn't exist.

What struck me most? They're not here to tell you that you can do it. They're here to show you how.

In this episode, we dig into:

This is the conversation I wish I'd had years ago. And if you're a mom who's been quietly wondering whether the dream is still possible — it is. You just need the right framework.

Entrepreneur Like a Mother by Beth and Victoria publishes September 22nd with John Wiley. Links to their course, newsletter, and a special discount code for listeners are in the show notes below.

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