{"podcast":{"title":"Get Mom Ready Podcast","slug":"get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224","podcast_index_feed_id":7501224,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5620416.rss","website_url":"https://www.getmomready.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5620416/e412bfb8b29862fa486bbc13e2929be4.jpg","author":"The Ready Network","episode_count":35,"summary":"Four moms. Four stages. One mission: help you stay grounded in who you are while raising kids. Expect real talk, expert insight, and zero judgement.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224"},"episode":{"title":"Why am I 39 and just now figuring this out?","slug":"why-am-i-39-and-just-now-figuring-this-out","published_at":"2026-04-06T01:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224/why-am-i-39-and-just-now-figuring-this-out","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224","url":"https://www.getmomready.com/p/why-am-i-39-and-just-now-figuring","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192020286/0c44db2e349ad7bba78bdafef539c392.mp3","summary":"Click above to listen on Apple or click HERE to listen on Spotify. Show Notes: What we Talked About + Coaching Link There are some parts of motherhood that aren’t necessarily hard because they’re huge. They’re hard because they happen every single day . Dinner. Bedtime. School pickup. Getting out the door. Managing expectations for a “fun” weekend. Thinking about the thing you have to do later… five hours before you actually have to do it. And the very real thing that happened to Holly 2 minutes into our recording…getting the dreaded call from school that your kid has a fever and needs to come home. Cue rescheduling the afternoon meetings, cancelling your productive afternoon, and embracing the call of motherhood. In this week’s episode, we ended up talking about all of it: meal planning, bedtime checklists, school pickup resets, Disney World expectations, and the mental pressure moms carry before anything has even happened yet. And honestly? That’s kind of the point. Because so often, the issue isn’t that we’re doing motherhood “wrong.”It’s that there’s too much friction built into the way we’re trying to do it. Sometimes the most helpful question isn’t: “How do I become better at this?” Sometimes it’s: “Why does this feel so hard in the first place?” This episode is full of the kinds of practical, real-life shifts that come from asking that question. A few of the things we talked through: * taking the pressure off the belief that you have to do something because “that mom” does it * creating a “bank” of meals instead of having to make the decision from scratch each week * noticing where the friction is in your routine and adjusting from there * stopping work 10–15 minutes before pickup to reset your brain before mom mode * preparing kids for what’s coming instead of…","meta_description":"Click above to listen on Apple or click HERE to listen on Spotify. Show Notes: What we Talked About + Coaching Link There are some parts of motherhood tha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2237,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224/episodes/why-am-i-39-and-just-now-figuring-this-out/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/get-mom-ready-podcast-7501224/why-am-i-39-and-just-now-figuring-this-out.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}