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May has the same chaotic energy as December and we're not talking about it enough.

The recitals. The field trips. The volunteer asks. The party you forgot to RSVP to. And somewhere underneath all of it: something of your own you're trying to protect.

This week I'm talking about how I'm actually navigating this season without losing my mind or my vision. It's a quick episode, like a voice note from a friend, because we're all busy.

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Crystal is 38, single, living in Southern France, and in the middle of her IVF journey. By choice and on her own terms. And she is so clear and so at peace with this decision it will make you question every time you've waited on someone else's timeline.

We talk about the breakup that started it all, 13 years of undiagnosed endometriosis, what French healthcare made possible that American healthcare never could, and why she's done outsourcing the thing she wants most in the world to someone else's emotional readiness.

We also get into woo, witchcraft, the suppression of the feminine, and why the village that used to raise our children has disappeared and what it's costing us.

Connect with Crystal:

To follow Crystal's motherhood journey, find her on Substack at thehonestsexologist.substack.com.

Instagram: instagram.com/thehonestsexologist

Website: YourBodyYourStory.com

Her Podcast, 50 Shades of Grey's: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/50-shades-of-greys/id1887869123

Referenced in this Episode:

Episode 10 Emily's IVF Journey: buzzsprout.com/2224026/episodes/15068019

Episode 88 What Happens When a Mom Quits Her Toxic Job With No Plan | Kimberly Scanlon: buzzsprout.com/2224026/episodes/19087379

All About Love by Bell Hooks: https://amzn.to/49qkmvO

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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You'll have a good day. Feel proud, capable, like yourself. And then something will happen. A number on a screen, a bill, a reminder of the reality you're living in. And just like that, the good feeling collapses.

This week I'm not pretending I have it figured out. I'm telling you what it actually looks like from inside of it: the whiplash, the spiral, and the small unglamorous things that pull me back from the edge.

Including the thing my therapist helped me realize that I keep coming back to: I have a 100% track record of surviving my worst days. And so do you.

This one is for the mother holding hope and despair in both hands right now. You're not alone. And this isn't forever.

Work with Shannon: Podcast Strategy Sessions → https://tidycal.com/resonantcollective/podcasting-power-hour

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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What do you do when your job is making you miserable, your gut is screaming, and you have no backup plan?

If you're Kimberly Scanlon, you quit. You take six months off to recover your nervous system. And then you take a part time job at a hair salon and you don't look back.

This week I'm sitting down with my friend and Minnesota mom of two Kimberly Scanlon, a storyteller and micro consultant with a background in mental health. We talk about what it actually looks like to walk away from a career that no longer fits, how to redefine success on your own terms, and why doing it differently might be the most aligned thing you ever do.

This one is for the mom who is quietly wondering if there's another way.

Connect with Kimberly:

Instagram: instagram.com/meaningful.mama

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kimberlyascanlon1982

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Drop me a note and tell me what you're reclaiming.

You may notice something different about this episode. It's dropping as Episode 86, not Episode 15. That's not a mistake.

When I relaunched Speak, Mother earlier this year I reset the episode count to one. But the more I sat with it, the more wrong it felt, because I didn't start over. I evolved. And the 70+ episodes behind this version of the show deserved to be counted.

This episode is my story: the teaching career, the operations job, the layoff, the grief, the postpartum fog, and the breadcrumbs that led me exactly here. And it's an invitation for you to look at your own path and ask: what have you been tempted to erase that actually counts?

Your pivot counts. Your pause counts. Your messy, nonlinear, nobody-could-have-planned-this path counts. All of it.

Help me build the Speak, Mother Summer Series. Voting is live now on Instagram and Threads.

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Life has been a lot lately. Not in a vague everything-is-fine kind of way, but in a just-trying-to-get-to-the-next-day kind of way. And in the middle of it, I've been paying attention to what's actually helping. Not the aspirational stuff. The real stuff. The accessible stuff.

This week I'm sharing the small, unglamorous, deeply nourishing things getting me through a hard season and making the case that they might actually be the medicine.

Plus I want to hear from you: what are YOU reaching for right now?

Things I'm Loving:

Ted Lasso

Pink Keyboard: https://amzn.to/3Odz1TV

Ashton Zager Fiber Arts: ashtonzagerfiberart.com/

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Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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Sadness isn't one of the seven deadly sins, so why does it get its own chapter in On Our Best Behavior? Because the same culture that turned human impulses into moral failures has spent centuries teaching us that grief is an inconvenience. That there's a timeline for falling apart, and you're already past it.

This week, we're exploring what it actually costs us to rush through grief — our own and everyone else's. From the losses that come with casseroles to the ones nobody names, this conversation makes space for sadness of every size and depth.

We also talk about why women so often end up metabolizing the feelings of everyone around them, what ambiguous loss actually is, and why grief isn't something you move on from — it's something you move forward with.

Your sadness is not a character defect. It's proof that something mattered.

Book mentioned: On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen. Get your copy here.

Work with Shannon: Podcast Strategy Sessions at https://tidycal.com/resonantcollective/podcasting-power-hour

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

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What happens when women get angry? We get called shrews, bitches, hags. We're labeled unstable, dangerous, dramatic. Meanwhile, men's anger gets results, respect, and recognition.

This week, we're exploring why women have been taught that anger is unfeminine and dangerous, and what it's costing us. From the physical health consequences of suppressed rage to the way we teach girls to turn their anger underground, this conversation examines why reclaiming our relationship with anger might be the most important work we can do.

We dive into anger as information about unmet needs, why "niceness" is literally making us sick, and how our fury might actually be pointing us toward our deepest values. If you've been feeling angry but don't know what to do about it, this episode is for you.

Book mentioned: On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen. Get your copy here.

Work with Shannon: Podcast Strategy Sessions at https://tidycal.com/resonantcollective/podcasting-power-hour

Email Shannon hello@rcollectivepodcasts.com

Speak, Mother is hosted by Shannon Warner, founder of Resonant Collective offering podcast launch, maintenance, and strategy services for truth-telling women.

Follow @ResonantCollective on IG: https://www.instagram.com/resonantcollective/

Connect with Shannon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/podcastwithshannon/