# The Business She Built Around the Life She Wanted

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Podcast: [Get Mom Ready Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224)
Published: 2026-05-28T01:09:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.getmomready.com/p/the-business-she-built-around-the
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## Resource

Jess Freeman spent years being pretty sure she wasn’t going to have kids. Not in a dramatic, announcement-to-the-world way. More like a quiet, steady conclusion she carried after losing her mom in a car accident at 24, two months into running her business full time, two weeks before Christmas. Her brain did what a lot of our brains would do. No mom. Can’t be a mom. Not happening. And for a long time, that felt like the answer. The Workbook That Changed Everything Years later, after a fostering experience that was equal parts meaningful and traumatic, after watching close friends have babies, after sitting in the tension of “I genuinely don’t know if I’m supposed to do this,” Jess did what any type-A woman would do. She found a workbook on Amazon. Somewhere around chapter eight, there was a prompt: Write a letter to the child you’re choosing not to have. (yes, we all got chills.) And she couldn’t do it. That was the answer. “You Could Just Have One” Jess brought this realization to a mentor, a friend about ten years older who knew she’d been wrestling with this. Jess told her she thought she was supposed to have kids, and that it was terrifying. Her friend said two things. First: I know you can do this. Second: You could just have one. And Jess said something on the podcast that stuck with us. She said she knew she didn’t need permission. But in that moment, the permission opened a door she didn’t know was available. She got pregnant a month later. “She Has the Best Advocate in Her Back Pocket” Jess is a type 1 diabetic, diagnosed at three. One of her biggest fears about having a baby was passing it on. There’s no guarantee either way, and the not-knowing is its own kind of weight. But when we asked how she navigated that surrender, she said something that wrecked us: “…

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