Allow me to introduce myself!
Hey, welcome to moms at work a podcast for moms who work.
First off let’s clear the air. All moms work right!
We all have a house to make a home, kids to care for and dinner to cook. We all work.
Ok, now that is out of the way; this is a place for us to grow AS we work. Whether we are working in the house raising these wild babies or if we are hustling outside our home for that paycheck.
But really todays conversation is for us to get to know each other. I want to be your friend and to do that I need you to know who i am!
So, Hi, I am Jeanette. I am a mom raising 3 teens, well the 3rd one is ALMOST a teen, she thinks she’s in her 20s so ya know..there that!
Having 3 kids, we are teaching them how to drive, pick and pray about careers, colleges, how to control our feelings and bodies. Above all to love and serve Jesus.
Heres some facts to help you get to know me, trust me and hopefully know that we are friends here!
I am married to Jesse, we have been married for 17 years. I got married when i was 18 and a half. Just 5 months after graduating high school. It has been a long and windy road but we are happily married. Jesse is my best friend and biggest cheerleader.
Like said before we have three Teenagers! Our youngest is Zoe, she was adopted from Africa, she is also deaf, so as a family we use asl to communicate with her and her community.
I really love friendship and community. I believe that we all have a desire to be seen, heard and loved. That is part of why we find connection on platforms like this. We realize that we aren’t alone, other moms are struggling with working, finding all the hours to do all the things, guilt, shame for loving our jobs and much much more!
I really love Jesus. I have for as long as i can remember and I am thankful for the cross. I pray everyday that He would be more and I would be less. I love the church, as messy as it is, can feel or just be BUT I am a pastors kids, a missionaries grand daughter and my pastors wife is one of my best friends. I love Jesus, I love his people and I love those that give their lives to serve him and others.
I am an enneagram type 9 so I am a chronic peacemaker. I hate conflict and i believe a good nap can solve most of my problems. I am also a recovering people pleaser and while I want people to like me I mostly want to be known for making others feel loved and sometimes that means setting boundaries. That has also shown up in my working and I will share more on that later.
I am an entrepreneur now, but when the boys were little I worked at a coffee hut in Alaska ( oh yah I was born and raised in Alaska!). I wanted to work at a shop just to get out of the house a little more. It was THE most fun job and I really loved people I worked with. I loved the smells and knowing that people felt seen as we made their cups it was always such a joy. Now I am entrepreneur! I never thought I would start my own business. One of my first entrepreneurial endeavor was selling salmon fillets to an Austin-based meat protein company! It was a wild ride! its a fun back story!
As I have stepped into owning my own business, I have struggled with owning the fact that I am a working mom. I started a podcast production company where I take podcast audio and make it sound better, edit and help it get out into the world. I was introduced to this world with my other podcast It’s Time for Coffee and now I absolutely love it. I’ve felt silly, I’ve down played my role in our family finances and until a year ago or so when people asked me what I did I told them I was a stay at home mom.
Which I kinda am…except for the fact that when i am staying at home I am working!
I don’t know why I did this? I never down played in my business but rather afraid to show how proud I was of my business. I think it was fear, of what others would think or say or question me about “what a podcast producer do” or “how long do you think your business will last” but I am really embarrassed to admit how much I downplayed my role in our home and to my kids. I want them to be proud of what I do. I am excited that they do and my daughter comes and watch me speak at churches.
You may be an entrepreneur like me, you may have a regular 9-5 job, you may have a regular job where you now work from home, but as I talk to my friends I am realizing we all have so much in common. We desire to be known. We want to be acknowledge. We each long for this weird guilt to go away, and we want the best for our families. We know that by working, providing and caring for so many details we are giving our best for them.
So here we are…we are going there this together!
Being a working mom is so tough, but here in this space we are gonna make it a little better. We are going to get together and learn biblical truth, tips to make dinner time easier, how to set boundaries, re-asses those boundaries ever season and learn to ask for help.
I am excited for our time together!
I want this to be an interactive podcast, I want to serve you well SO to that I need you to chat with me! I need to know your thoughts on these topics, your wins and your struggles!
Email me at itstimeforcoffeepodcast@gmail.com. Click here if you want to join the email community!
