Why is Everyone Yelling?

Staci Drovdahl is the mom of 7 children and is on a mission to ditch the grocery store and improve the health of their family. Their family packed up and moved across the country and built their own home. One of the things that I love about this is that they had a bunch of projects along the way that their kids helped do. 

She calls herself the homesteading mama and they grow much of the food that they eat in their home. Their family has a pumpkin patch and their kids work and help with that part of their business. In this episode, she shares some tips about growing your own garden, raising chickens, involving their kids in the home building and farming, where to buy your food in bulk, and so much more!

What we talked about:

4:20- Being in a community with other people that have big families

8:15- Getting into a homesteading life

12:15- Raising chickens

14:50- Building their home from scratch as a family and involving the kids in the building process

25:30- Their pumpkin patch

26:55- Tips for starting your own garden

32:00- Winters in Wisconsin with the kids

35:10- Homemade gummy bears

36:45- Organization tools for pantries

38:45- Buying food in bulk

42:25- Snacks and meals with the kids

49:50- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

Staci on YouTube

Staci on Instagram

Azure Standard

Love Without Borders by Angela Braniff

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle book series 

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Kate Borsato is on the show today! Kate is a therapist and an educator for pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood. She has virtual therapy clinics for Canadian moms and she also has anxiety courses online for moms. The mission of her work is to support moms to live the best life that they possibly can.

In this episode, we talk about how things change when we become parents, intrusive thoughts and anxiety, finding joy in the little things, and giving ourselves the freedom to take care of ourselves and not feel guilty about that.

What we talked about:

3:40- Kate’s habits of waking up early before her kids

5:45- How her family sold everything and went on a yearlong trip

14:00- Missing the freedom that you had before kids and what to do with those feelings

24:40- What intrusive thoughts are

27:30- How intrusive thoughts show up 

37:10- How to reframe intrusive thoughts

44:30- Feeling anger as a parent and working to not act out on that

54:10- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

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Kate’s Website

Self Compassion Step by Step by Kristin Neff 

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Rachael Amarante is on the podcast today! Rachael is the mother of 4 boys and she has recently started The Awakening Motherhood Project. She created The Awakening Motherhood Project when she looked at social media and saw that we are all filled with noise, expectations, perfection and anxiety. She wanted to talk about motherhood in a way that felt real so through her newsletter and social media she shares ways to remind us of how to find ourselves again in motherhood and how to show up for our kids in the best way. 

In this episode, we talk about finding joy as a parent even when it is really hard. Rachael also really gives us some really great tips on transitioning into summertime with your kids, with the schedules changing and all of that. She has some tips that I am definitely going to try in my own life!

What we talked about:

3:05- Being the mom of 4 boys

11:10- What The Awakening Motherhood Project is

22:30- Tips for handling the summertime transition with kids

33:25- Finding joy even in the moments when your kids are fighting

40:30- Tip for taking your kids to the grocery store with you and giving them authority to cook meals

49:30- Showing up in motherhood as you want to and finding balance between routine and having fun throughout the summer

55:35- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola

The Awakening Motherhood Project Website

Sign up for The Awakening Motherhood Project newsletter

Rachael on Instagram

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Kevin Wolma recently retired as the Athletic Director at Hudsonville High School. During his tenure in the district, he also taught physical education and health and coached over 30 seasons of tennis, basketball, and golf.

Kevin recently published the book 30 Second Timeout about navigating through the challenges of youth sports. What I love about this book is that Kevin is a parent himself, he has been a coach, and he was an athletic director so he has seen all sides of youth and high school sports. He has some really valuable information for parents to help us navigate that and the way we can talk to our kids to help them have a positive experience.

I hope you get as much out of this conversation as I did!

What we talked about:

3:15- Kevin’s book, 30 Second Timeout

5:25- Supporting your child, their team, and the support team in sport

7:35- The importance of exposing your kids to a variety of sports and activities

13:55- The response to have when your child gets cut from a sports team

16:45- How to teach our kids how to care about the success of their team rather than just individual success

20:50- How we can help change the culture of parents being disrespectful to the officials and ways to show appreciation towards the officials

27:15- Releasing your kid to the game & letting the coach do their thing and not stepping between that

35:15- Best things to say to your kid after a game

38:20- Our biases towards our kids and their skills and wanting them to go into the game

42:05- How to raise hardworking kids

44:55- Kevin’s advice looking back now that his kids are older

47:25- What’s next for Kevin now that he has retired as the Hudsonville Athletic Director

50:35- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

30 Second Timeout

Above the Line by Urban Meyer

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Stacey Heiny is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who helps women increase their return on investment through lifestyle wellness. She’s a clean beauty advocate, abundance mindset mentor, and plant based eating inspirer who wants to show women that creating lifelong holistic habits is what will help them create their ultimate life.

Owner of her brand called The Herban Farmacy, Stacey believes that plants are truly medicine and when we feed our body with optimal fuel, every other aspect of life has the capacity to thrive even more. She also teaches the power of knowing your why and how creating a healthy optimized environment is critical to long term health and success. 

On Saturdays, Stacey’s family sells Organic Produce from their farm & Elderberry Syrup at the Farmers Markets.

In this episode, Stacey shares tips for reducing toxins in your home as well as shares some vegan recipes to get more plants on your kids plates.

What we talked about:

4:50- Introduction to Stacey and her business 

6:30- The benefits of elderberry syrup

9:40- Stacey’s journey to living a more holistic lifestyle

15:20- Stacey’s relationship with alcohol

21:45- Why it’s important to introduce low tox living strategies into your life and 10 tips to reduce toxins in your home

44:00- Message to people that feel overwhelmed by making lifestyle changes

45:50- Her routine to have healthier eyelashes and makeup removing routine

49:15- Simple vegan recipes that kids might enjoy

53:15- End of podcast questions

Show notes:

The Herban Farmacy Website

The Herban Farmacy Facebook Group

Food for Life Cooking Classes

The Herban Farmacy Instagram

Shop Low-Tox Beauty

The Herban Farmacy Podcast on Apple Podcast

The Herban Farmacy Podcast Website

Stacey Heiny Youtube

Stacey’s family farm business

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