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FLU Podcast

Laughter, Resources, Inspiration, And Parenting Tips  

Family Looking Up Podcast

Support for the hardest, lowest paid job… MOTHERHOOD

When we created the Family Looking Up Podcast, we were driven by three ambitions:

  1. There had to be MUCH laughter, but still clean enough for kids in the room to listen in.
  2.  Make it informative so our listeners could grow along with us.
  3. If it isn’t real, we aren’t doing it—no unrealistic perfection here!

The last thing moms need to hear are more “experts” declaring unrealistic realities to them as they change leaky diapers and look deeply into their dirty microwaves.  Keeping it real is the key to connection and hope.  We truly feel like we are all in this messy job of motherhood together.  This is the fantastic, mundane, amazing, slightly depressing, fulfilling, truly messy, crucial and HILARIOUS job of being a mom!  We hope you’ll join us as we laugh and learn together!

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 Our Newest Episode

Setting Goals Like an Olympian – Guest Noelle Pikus Pace. Episode 166.

 
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As the new year is only a few days away, humanity is turning its fickle head toward the timeless tradition of resolutions and goal making.  Though these resolutions are made with high hopes (by the positive thinkers among us), they are also laced with fear (by the realists) that they will just be another “good idea”, inexplicably impossible to achieve … for even two weeks.  As we lay in bed, feeling the heaviness of darkness and the warmth of the blankets around us, we all wonder why getting up at an unearthly hour to exercise had ever seemed to be anything less than sadistic and idiotic?  In that moment, we become the world’s best lawyer, explaining away all of our reasons for a healthier body as ridiculous and futile.  Thus ends that resolution in less than 5 days…again.  Sound familiar to anyone?

If I were to choose a guru to help me turn a goal into an accomplishment (rather than just another example of my lack of ability to do hard things), I think I would choose an olympian.  There isn’t one person who participates in the olympics who got a free ride.  All of them have spent years setting ridiculously high goals and actually achieving them.  Not only have they each mastered their sport, but each of them have also mastered the lawyer in their minds arguing against personal success.  Truly, I can’t think of a better group of people in the world who really understand the grit that it takes to do hard things, and how to find that grit.  …