Podcast Episode 367: 5 Awards Every Mom Deserves (but doesn’t get recognized for) Transcripts

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JoAnn Crohn (00:02)

My 11 year old marches out and he’s out there for two minutes and then he comes back. He’s like, I’m going to throw up. And I’m here being like, my gosh, can no one in my family do these situations? Like breathe through your mouth, people. I’m the one who cleans up bodily fluids.

Welcome to the No Guilt Mommies. This is a special episode of the No Guilt Mom podcast.

Brie Tucker (00:23)

Yes it is! Here’s our background music.

JoAnn Crohn (00:28)

It is awards season and here on the podcast we are giving out the awards that all moms deserve but never get. It is the No Guilt Mommies.

Brie Tucker (00:40)

It is, it’s the No Guilt Mommies, inspired by the Dundees from the office.

JoAnn Crohn (00:46)

I’m to leave this.

Brie Tucker (00:48)

Like when I came to you with this idea, I was like, okay, what if we do something where we’re like we come up with like the crazy awards like remember how Jenna Fisher won like the whitest sneakers award. So these are the awards that we should be getting every day of our lives, but we don’t because we’re moms.

JoAnn Crohn (01:11)

Yes. And like it went through a very strict and confidential award nomination process that was very serious, very serious. And our accounting firm, Waterston, Dundee, Triple Horn Inc. counted up everything and delivered us to us in a briefcase. So just know that we take these no guilt mommies incredibly seriously. yeah. So seriously under lock and key. So for everybody who nominated somebody through our Google form, thank you.

Brie Tucker (01:31)

SO SERIOUS.

JoAnn Crohn (01:42)

And for Mother’s Day, you probably deserve some of these awards that we’re going to mention. So let us know on social media, we’re going to post the winners of all these awards and comment below which award you think you deserve as well because ⁓ looking through this list, I swear you’ve probably been through all of them. I know I have Brie.

Brie Tucker (02:08)

Yes. And you know, we couldn’t think of a better time to do this than with Mother’s Day around the corner. So we have quite the little show here for you guys. Like we have a couple of amazing awards and they are different categories.

JoAnn Crohn (02:25)

All these skills that we have done and we have developed as moms are truly worth celebrating. And she’d go on every single resume as something worth celebrating. and I are gonna get into our personal stories and we are going to honor the people who won these awards. And let’s get on with the show.

You want mom life to be easier. That’s our goal too. Our mission is to raise more self-sufficient and independent kids. We’re going to have fun doing it. We’re going to help you delegate and step back. Each episode, we’ll tackle strategies for positive discipline, making our kids more responsible and making our lives better in the process. Welcome to the No Guilt Mom podcast.

Brie Tucker (02:56)

And to the first annual No-Guilt Mommies Awards.

JoAnn Crohn (03:33)

That music makes me want to have a British accent, but I don’t know how to have a good British accent.

Brie Tucker (03:39)

I can’t do that either. I need my daughter for that.

JoAnn Crohn (03:41)

She’s good. could do the Texan accent. My gosh, if I go to Texas and I hear like one person talk, I can mimic them extraordinarily. Like Camden was with me last time we went to Texas for a dance competition. And she’s like, this is scary. I had no idea you had the skill. And I’m like, yeah, I once talked this way for an entire summer at Girl Scout Camp, but pretended I was Southern. you just have to get me around the people. Like I can’t do it right now, but if I hear it, oh my gosh, I can immediately slip into it. Immediately slip into it.

Brie Tucker (04:09)

that’s crazy.

JoAnn Crohn (04:11)

That is one of the skills I had before I was a mom, but let’s talk about these superpowers that we developed as moms. have one, Bree. have one. Because I found out today on Joe with Joe, which is something that we do in our balance community every day. Amanda actually told me this that, ⁓ I didn’t know I had this skill. Here’s how it came about. This morning, I was looking out at our backyard and it had a lot of dog poop there.

Brie Tucker (04:21)

for me. Okay.

JoAnn Crohn (04:40)

And I asked my son, I’m like, Hey, can you go and clean up the backyard? And he’s like, okay, fine. So he goes out in the backyard and he comes back and he had texted me a picture and my dog had gotten into the garbage can again. And there was trash everywhere on the cement, like by the garbage can. And he’s like, mom, there’s not even a place in the garbage can to put the poop and look at also what Addie did. And so I’m like, okay, just go and clean it up.

And he’s like, ⁓ yeah, I’m like, who else would clean it up? Me. If you found it, go clean it up. And so my 11 year old marches out and he’s out there for two minutes. And then he comes back. He’s like, mom, I can’t do it. Every time I try to pick up a piece of trash, I gagged and I’m going to throw up and I’m here being like, my gosh, can no one in my family like.

do these situations. Like breathe through your mouth, people. I am the only one who cleans up bodily fluids. I clean up poop. I clean up everything. And what I found is that strong stomachs are actually very rare. But a lot of people get grossed out by these situations. And I nominate myself for this Strong Stomach Award. So that’s a skill I think I’ve developed very, very well as a mom after cleaning up. Thank you.

award for the strong stomach award for cleaning up all the puke, all of the accidents, all of the blood, all the things. So there we go. Bri, what about you? What skills have you?

Brie Tucker (06:19)

Okay, I would say that my award recently would be the resistor award. Ooh! I deserve the resistor award because that means that I had the ability to resist my anxiety-filled urge to know exactly where my kids are at every given moment.

JoAnn Crohn (06:41)

That’s a hard one. That’s a hard one. That’s a hard one. Thank you.

Brie Tucker (06:47)

Yes, thank you. Thank you. That was a tough one. I have been trying to wean myself off of the life 360

JoAnn Crohn (06:54)

Life through 60 addiction, it’s really-

Brie Tucker (06:57)

It hurts it but that was one of mine.

JoAnn Crohn (07:02)

It’s hard as moms like we especially with technology nowadays. I mean, life through 60 actually helps me. I feel not be as anxious because I could see where my child is. Like when I was having this discussion with her about where she is at night, she’s like, Mom, literally pull out your phone. You know where I am. I know.

Brie Tucker (07:20)

My kid says the same thing and I’m like, you don’t know what you’re saying. When you say that to an anxious mother, a diagnosed anxious mother, like you’re opening Pandora’s box that you don’t want opened. Cause then I’m going to be like, why were you next to the school and not at the school during lunchtime? Did you leave campus to go somewhere as a closed campus? You’re not supposed to do that. Yeah, whatever it is. I will go crazy. Crazy.

JoAnn Crohn (07:46)

my gosh, I do not do those things with life 360. Like I’ve never had a like even if I see like my daughter somewhere like for instance, she’s in a house in a neighborhood. I’m like, ⁓ she went probably to so and so’s house for like some student government stuff and everything’s okay. She’s safe. She’s nearby. It’s all good. She’s moving has the life 360 moved. How long has she been in this location? Let me check the number of cracks. So it does get very, tricky. does get very, depending on your level of anxiety.

Brie Tucker (08:14)

It does. Okay, wait. I have another award. Okay. I think you and I both can get and I bet a lot of our listeners can as well. How about the Creative Cook Award?

JoAnn Crohn (08:25)

The creative cook of work.

Brie Tucker (08:26)

Yes, that is an award where somebody has the ability to make a dinner that everybody will eat some of even though you have picky eaters.

JoAnn Crohn (08:37)

I don’t know if I get this. I don’t know if I get it though

Brie Tucker (08:41)

I think you do, you work hard at it and like it’s the ability to like basically, so you might not be able to make a meal that like everybody loves. Note that I’m just saying something that everybody will eat some.

JoAnn Crohn (08:54)

So like.

Brie Tucker (08:55)

A famous one in my house that I’m very proud of is a burrito bowl we make with sweet potatoes. It’s a Whole30 recipe. So for those of you guys that don’t know my whole obsession with Whole30, the whole like no sugar, no additive ingredients, no starches, you know, blah, blah,

JoAnn Crohn (09:14)

No flavor. No, I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. I know there’s flavor. know. I know.

Brie Tucker (09:21)

no, no apologies. But anyway, my daughter doesn’t care for that. It’s a little bit too much for her. So what I have learned to do is I make the burrito bowls where I know all the stuff she won’t eat, which is like, she’ll eat the sweet potatoes, but she won’t eat like the peppers and the onions and all that. like, instead of making it all in one dish, like the recipe calls for, I’ll make all of the vegetables in one dish, and then I’ll make the sweet potatoes and chicken in a different dish. So that way I’m still getting my burrito bowl.

That is what I made for dinner, but she gets to pick what she puts in her bowl. And you might think I’m talking about a six year old. Nope. I’m talking about a 16 year old, but it’s still, consider that a win. That is a creative cook award right there.

JoAnn Crohn (10:05)

is things that need assembly, think is the key to creative cookery because then they could like put in what they want. It’s not mixed together. I know a lot of things that I’ve mixed together for my kids. They pick stuff out of.

Brie Tucker (10:18)

hurts a little. It hurts a little.

JoAnn Crohn (10:21)

It does. And I’m frankly at like the point where I make so much stuff and I think I’m a pretty good cook. And I say you are.

Brie Tucker (10:30)

taste that you’re cooking. good. they don’t

JoAnn Crohn (10:32)

Want to eat it, that’s on them. Like, I’m just at the point where I’m tired. I mean, when you have little kids, you are really trying to pick their palates and help them. But when they get older and you see the junk they eat, you’re like, hmm, this is a you problem.

Brie Tucker (10:47)

Yeah, So, all right guys that was just a little taste of some of the things coming up But we actually do have awards that are no guilt mom community Did nominate and submit stories for and we have those coming for you right after this

Welcome back to the first annual No Guilt Mommies. ⁓

JoAnn Crohn (11:14)

⁓ yes, we here at the mommy’s. Everybody’s looking so chic in their tops and sweatpants.

Brie Tucker (11:22)

and messy hair that is flying everywhere because that is what a mom is like naturally.

JoAnn Crohn (11:28)

My hair is back in a chic ponytail today because I am on day five. I’m on day five of no hair washing and I was like, even dry shampoo can’t save it today, which is fine.

Brie Tucker (11:38)

You know what? I do the same thing. Like when it gets that bad, we go for the sleeked back ponytail. Today though, I have a hair appointment in an hour. So I’m going to look fresh and beautiful in about five hours.

JoAnn Crohn (11:49)

Well, you already look fresh and beautiful.

spent your time for the award show. Fire us for your next award show. No guilt mommies.

Brie Tucker (11:59)

Thank you. guys, these awards come with no monetary prize, no actual trophy, but I am holding a trophy as JoAnn and I are recording this. I do have a little trophy we will share on social media for this. And often there’s no verbal acknowledgement for these awards, but they are ones that we have earned through skills and necessity for being a mom and recognition is long overdue people.

JoAnn Crohn (12:13)

Yes.

Brie Tucker (12:30)

We are due for some recognition.

JoAnn Crohn (12:32)

Yes, yes. And our first award is the Untangler Supreme Award.

Brie Tucker (12:41)

Yes, yes, the Untagler Supreme Award. That is the ability of somebody to unknot anything from shoelaces to necklaces to earbuds. Those things have been there for forever. It is someone that can demonstrate supernatural patience because I get pissed and I throw it out. did that. gosh.

JoAnn Crohn (13:04)

I’m every time I’m asked to untangle something. Like I can do it. I’m actually pretty darn good at it, but ⁓ my goodness. It is a lesson in patience for me every time. Like my daughter like hands me a necklace. Mom, can you help me? I’m like, sure. I take it on. It actually is kind of meditative. So I could see how people could get good at this.

Brie Tucker (13:27)

Yeah, I lose my patience. I lose it a lot. So a description for this award would be somebody whose fingers can navigate those microscopic knots that would require specialized equipment in any other profession than motherhood.

JoAnn Crohn (13:42)

Because we don’t have it. a natural proclivity to it too. Who enjoys the work. volunteers for the work.

Brie Tucker (13:50)

and why others such as me would scream, cry, rip things apart, and abandon the entire tangled mess, this person will persist until order is restored.

JoAnn Crohn (14:03)

So drum roll please as Bre opens the envelope from our accounting firm, Goldenstein.

Christina is actually a member of our No Guilt Mom team, but she was nominated numerous times for this award, probably by our Lola’s in the balance community. And they have seen her work her magic before at previous No Guilt Mom retreats. ⁓

Brie Tucker (14:38)

We’ve seen her do her work before for us. Like whenever we have gone somewhere together and we’re in a hotel room, if I have a necklace I brought, because I always bring jewelry that I aspire to wear, ⁓ but I don’t take good care of it. So there are more than one occasion where I have handed her something and been like, here you go, can you fix this for me? And she can get it going. I have to tell you, not only does she, like you said, enjoy untangling them,

When I emailed her to let her know that she was nominated for this award, she laughed and was like, okay. And I’m like, do you have a funny story? She’s like, that’s every day of my life. And then like, ever since she sent me a couple of pictures of like another day of hard work and she sent me a tangled necklace picture. She’s like, just another day on the job of being a mom.

JoAnn Crohn (15:27)

especially if girl, she has two girls, lots of necklaces.

Brie Tucker (15:30)

I know, right? Like I just, yeah, I can’t do it. I do not have the ability to continue with that kind of attention or care. No. undo it. just doesn’t, it just, no, it don’t work for me. It don’t work for me. Not at all.

JoAnn Crohn (15:46)

say I am the same. So congratulations, Christina. Well earned untangler supreme.

Brie Tucker (15:52)

Yes, the winner of the first no guilt mommy at the first no guilt mommies. We are very very proud of you Let’s give her a round of applause people a round of applause ⁓

JoAnn Crohn (16:09)

Our next award is called the Human GPS Award. This is to the ability to find anything in the house within seconds that no one else can locate for extraordinary item location services. This one, I feel like as a mom, you are asked so many times a day, mom, where’s my shoe? Mom, where’s my sock? Mom, where’s my backpack?

Brie Tucker (16:38)

Where’s my car keys? That’s my husband, ask for stuff.

JoAnn Crohn (16:40)

Where’s my car keys?

So for this Human GPS Award, despite having never moved the item in question, you can locate it with uncanny accuracy after everyone else has quote unquote looked everywhere. Which if you have had this Human GPS Award, you know they haven’t looked everywhere because obviously you can find it.

Brie Tucker (17:01)

No, no, they never do. They never do. So.

JoAnn Crohn (17:06)

No, your ability to translate vague descriptions like that blue thing from that time. It’s a precise object identification defies explanation. And even scientists remain baffled by your ability to mentally catalog the position of every item in a household of four while also simultaneously remembering dentist appointments from six months ago.

Brie Tucker (17:31)

Yes, it is amazing what this person can do. Now, this person was nominated and also shared a story with us. She is in our balance community. We are so happy to have her there. She’s a Lola. So I’m going to do a drum roll and then open the open the envelope. Go.

JoAnn Crohn (17:53)

Here we go our winner is

Brie Tucker (17:58)

What’s it say JoAnn? Two?

JoAnn Crohn (18:01)

Yay! Congratulations, Brittany!

Because she goes around the house, she tends to notice all of the items that are randomly placed in different locations. She then makes a mental note where the item is located. Sometimes she moves the item where it should go, but most times she just leaves it where it is. Several members in my family have ADHD and are constantly placing items in random places. Sometimes when said item is needed, the person who needs it will look for it, but most of the time,

She is just asked where it is located. She usually knows exactly where it is and doesn’t get any clues where it was located. No clues are given because a person doesn’t even remember moving the item. It’s a daily occurrence that something gets lost in our house. So Brittany, yes, I think so many of us can identify with your story and congratulations for winning.

Brie Tucker (18:59)

think it’s worth noting that Brittany has six kids.

JoAnn Crohn (19:02)

Yes, that is a lot of people. a lot to mentally catalog and take care of.

Brie Tucker (19:08)

It is a lot of people asking questions there for sure.

JoAnn Crohn (19:13)

We have three more awards coming right after this for our no-guilt mommies.

Welcome back to the No-Hilt Mommies, where we have three more awards to give to deserving moms to get acknowledgement for these things that every mom should get acknowledgement for.

Brie Tucker (19:37)

Yes, for those everyday tasks that we do for the skills that we have earned for being a no guilt mommy and for knowing all the crap we know. Like seriously.

JoAnn Crohn (19:51)

Yes, our next award is the Multitasking Maestro Award. It’s for simultaneous management of impossible task combinations.

Brie Tucker (19:55)

Yes.

Yes, this person has the ability to conduct work calls ⁓ simultaneously, signing permission slips without looking at them and preventing the dog from eating the homework or yacking on the carpet.

JoAnn Crohn (20:05)

So what?

or eating the other dog’s food as Brie has a puppy right now. She just had to go through that this morning.

Brie Tucker (20:21)

It’s been a fun morning of recording because I’m constantly like, is that little sucker at?

JoAnn Crohn (20:26)

No, The no-guilt mommies are going on and they really need to let us do our work.

Brie Tucker (20:30)

I know, I know it’s so difficult. We do take it seriously people. Okay, the multitasking maestro award. This is somebody that while others are priding themselves on focusing on one task at a time, this person can routinely juggle complex professional responsibilities alongside household management, emotional support, and crisis prevention and crisis intervention.

JoAnn Crohn (20:34)

important jobs here. We do!

Brie Tucker (21:00)

Their brain operates on a proprietary, multi-threading system that allows them to cook dinner, help with homework, schedule doctor’s appointments, and mentally plan for the next week’s all while appearing to simply stir the pasta.

JoAnn Crohn (21:16)

⁓ my gosh, I bet like, are you listening right now? Do you deserve this award? I think like all of us moms have really, really demonstrated these abilities throughout time. This person is also very deserving. So let’s find out who. You would think I know who won it, but I don’t know it until Bre opens up the envelope.

Brie Tucker (21:29)

Yes.

Okay, here we go. Drum roll.

And our winner is…

JoAnn Crohn (21:45)

Donna Gibson. Congratulations. You win the multitasking maestro. And here’s what Donna says about it. So Donna’s a mom of two and she spent her days juggling school schedules, family commitments, dinner prep and a never ending to do list all

Brie Tucker (21:47)

CHECK IT OUT!

JoAnn Crohn (22:04)

while trying to keep things light and meaningful. Isn’t that what we do? my gosh. She’s the go-to finder of that thing from that place, the last minute permission slip signer, and the one who remembers its library day, usually in the nick of time. And somehow she also manages to show up in spaces that feed her passion while giving back. And I can say I’ve seen this about Donna too. She is a Lola. Whether I’m supporting families to calm the chaos with decluttering and organizing strategies through Refresh Inside, which is her business.

She’s caring for her sweet pups through doodle divas, boarding in her homes, which is also her business. And she’s encouraging moms in the No Guilt Mom community as well, or working with Langley Literacy, supporting adult learners with improving their English or basic literacy skills. I mean, she has four jobs outside the home as well. She’s constantly weaving together work purpose and the people she cares about.

Brie Tucker (22:58)

Yeah, I mean, like she’s got two kids that she’s got going on at home, all of those dogs. And doesn’t her mother-in-law live like in their basement apartment as well? mean, girl is a master juggler. She’s got her.

JoAnn Crohn (23:08)

I believe so.

We’re so deserving of this award and we are thankful that you are in our balance community too and can teach us all your ways.

Brie Tucker (23:19)

Yes, congratulations, John, for winning the multitasking maestro award. Fanta, we’ll one more quick round of applause with this one.

I’m very, very excited to be doling this one out. This one is the Midnight Magician Award. And what is that, you may ask?

JoAnn Crohn (23:43)

extraordinary accomplishments during hours when others sleep.

Brie Tucker (23:48)

Yes, this person has the ability to accomplish impossible amounts of work after everybody else has gone to sleep.

JoAnn Crohn (23:55)

So, Brie, this is something I would not get because I love my sleep so much and I go to sleep hardcore. Hit the pillow. Everyone’s down, I’m down. I’m down.

Brie Tucker (24:04)

I do hear you on that. I’m becoming that more now. You know, like famously, I’ve always been the one that likes to stay up late out of the two of us, but I am definitely realizing that there is a definite benefit to getting in bed at night.

JoAnn Crohn (24:19)

you definitely feel more alert the next day.

Brie Tucker (24:21)

Yeah, yeah, you’re like actually awake for work. It’s amazing.

JoAnn Crohn (24:25)

Do you deserve this Midnight Magician Award? Here’s how to tell. When the household finally quiets and others rest, your second shift begins. Holiday decorations appear, gifts get wrapped, projects get finished, and preparations for tomorrow materialize as if by magic. Your capacity to function on minimal sleep while maintaining enthusiasm for your child’s fourth retelling of a YouTube video plot defies medical understanding of human endurance. I think if anyone in our family, that would be my husband. He could do this.

He is able to survive on minimal amounts of sleep.

Brie Tucker (24:58)

my God, I’m trying to think. I do do that on Christmas morning, that is it. And it is only because my kids have to be over at their dad’s house by like 8 a.m. So I get up at like, I set the alarm to get up at five, because we have a tradition of like cinnamon rolls in the morning and hot cocoa bar and stuff. But that is it. That is it. That is the only time I am willing to get up and do something at a crazy hour. I used to do it when they were little. Thank God I don’t have to anymore. Okay, enough of Brie.

Let’s get ready for this one! Drum roll please to see who the Midnight Magician Award goes to and…

The winner is…

JoAnn Crohn (25:38)

And it is… ⁓

Brie Tucker (25:42)

Congratulations!

JoAnn Crohn (25:50)

off work very late. Amanda is a resident CSI, by the way, 4am. Instead of sleeping, she had to blow up a room full of balloons, hang a banner and streamers for her 10 year old’s birthday. She had wanted to surprise him with decorations since he was turning double digits. And they were supposed to do it before bed, but that didn’t work out. So she decorated while they slept. And because that’s not enough, her husband also left her money to play Tooth Fairy with her other child.

He doesn’t trust his stealth skills and didn’t want the child to feel poorly or forgotten. It was at least 6.30 before she finally got to bed and then she did get up. So congratulations, Amanda. You definitely deserve this award.

Brie Tucker (26:34)

Congratulations, that is a rough one for sure and I do not miss those days. ⁓ Nope, nope, nope, nope. I don’t even think I would have done it. You know what? I think I would have dragged my husband out of bed.

JoAnn Crohn (26:49)

Yeah, I would have too. I would have too. It’s funny she mentions the tooth fairy because both me and my husband were horrible with the tooth fairy and my kids would wake up and they’d be like, the tooth fairy forgot me again. I mean, seriously all the time. So like the second day in a row, we forgot the tooth fairy. I was like, my gosh, what’s that blue, blue glittering down the hallway? They’re like, where? ⁓ I think the tooth fairy just came. And obviously like two minutes before I had gone in there and slipped it under the pillow finally.

Brie Tucker (27:15)

Yep. God, I remember those days trying to slide the money in underneath there they didn’t move their heads. was crazy.

JoAnn Crohn (27:22)

It was hard. My daughter knew I was faking too, and she’s called me on it multiple times.

Brie Tucker (27:27)

The stories you hear later as they get older. gosh. Okay. We have our last award of this episode, but it is by far not the last award that somebody should be getting. This is our emotional alchemist award. This is for transforming emotional stressful states through applied empathy.

JoAnn Crohn (27:50)

It’s the ability to turn tears into laughter with a single hug or a silly face. This is a hard one. This is one that moms don’t get a lot of credit for. Like moms were able to really calm those tantrums.

Brie Tucker (28:01)

There’s a lot to this one. mean, this is somebody whose emotional intelligence allows them to detect the subtlest shifts in mood and respond with the exact right combination of words, hugs, space, or chocolate chip cookies. This person can transform catastrophic disappointments into valuable learning experiences, navigate the treacherous waters of playground politics, which we personally know can be rough.

and somehow maintain their composure all while being the emotional landing pad for everyone else’s feelings.

Right? This mom makes it look easy, but we want you to know that we see the intentional magic that you put into this work every single day.

JoAnn Crohn (28:53)

It is not easy to be the emotional landing pad. You are doing such great work and probably nobody, nobody tells you about.

Brie Tucker (29:02)

Yeah, and I can tell you that this person was nominated by several members of our No Guilt Mom community. without further ado, drum roll, please.

And the award goes to…

JoAnn Crohn (29:18)

Liz Hurst, congratulations Liz!

yesterday. It is truly an honor to be nominated for the emotional alchemist award for anyone raising a differently wild child. The most important thing you can do is simply be there both mentally and physically. Becoming a sounding board for your child listening with care and empathy is one of the most powerful ways to support them. Her son came home from school one day and was very upset. He told her about his day at school and after he finished his story.

she informed him the incident was not his fault and that if he had followed through on a certain action, it would have been worse. So she basically validated his feelings and told him that he did the right thing at the right time, which is, think is so important in being an emotional alchemist. So congratulations, Liz.

Brie Tucker (30:14)

congratulations again! gotta get around… soundboard… just play! oh it’s silent! that’s what it was okay hold on a second congratulations Liz! okay just forget it just forget it okay

JoAnn Crohn (30:31)

that we should include that in this episode because I mean all award shows have their technical difficulties and that’s what you talk about the next day.

Brie Tucker (30:37)

Okay, there we go. That is definitely my technical difficulty for sure. But I want to say like we have had Liz with us in the balance community for years and we have seen her grow so much with her journey of parenting her son, starting in school, having some like difficulties with the teaching staff and figuring out navigating that path of figuring out what was going on, what was motivating behaviors. She’s stuck with it.

the whole time and really, really works hard. Like also as a friend, we’ve seen her at our No Guilt Mom retreats. She is so supportive and loving. Honestly, Liz, I can’t think of a better person.

JoAnn Crohn (31:18)

That’s

a really important thing to say about all these awards. So if you heard one of these awards and you’re thinking, my gosh, I’m such a bad mom, I would never get that. I would never get that. I lose my patience with that. Just know that like these aren’t innate abilities that people have. Maybe with the untangler Supreme award, you have to really want that and work on that one. So Christina hats off to you. As far as like emotional alchemy, that is something that Liz has worked on and worked on and worked on.

Brie Tucker (31:40)

two on that one.

JoAnn Crohn (31:48)

And she’s seeing the results. So just know like you are not stuck in the path you are on right now. Whatever you want to be, if you want to be Alola and be that curious parent, you are one. Just embody that. We invite you to come and join us so we can help you make that happen.

Brie Tucker (32:06)

We can help honor your mom’s superpowers that you have, that don’t get recognized enough because there are a lot of times that invisible load that isn’t seen.

JoAnn Crohn (32:20)

We encourage you to and want to be. ⁓

Brie Tucker (32:22)

We encourage you to celebrate these skills with those in your life and come celebrate with us in balance. And most importantly, for you guys to have a fantastic Mother’s Day and every day going forward.

JoAnn Crohn (32:40)

Yep. So remember the best mom is a happy mom. Take care of you. We’ll talk to you later.

Brie Tucker (32:45)

Yes, we will talk to you later and thank you again for joining us at the first annual No Guilt Mommy Awards!