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Cally had her Christmas baby (!!), and while she’s off snuggling a newborn, Emily is here with a New Year’s mic drop: your constraints aren’t the enemy—your “someday” mindset is.

If you’re a mom drowning in “once this season passes…” thinking, this episode is your permission slip to stop waiting for a future where you magically have time/energy/peace/a personality again.

We’re flipping the script:
What if your limited time is the exact tool you need to get clear, get honest, and get moving?

Inside this quick solo epi:

• The sneaky mom-talk-track that sounds wise but actually steals your life
• How constraints (yes, the kids, the naps, the chaos) can be jet fuel
• Why Emily is treating her 2026 priorities like a sacred, don’t-you-dare-add-to-this list
• A reframe you’ll want to text to every mom in the trenches

If you’re exhausted, stretched thin, or accidentally living on pause—hit play.

If you love a mom in this season—send this to her immediately.

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Hosted by: Cally & Emily O’Leary

About the Hosts: We’re real moms and real sisters. We may look and sound alike, but our motherhood journeys are uniquely ours. We all do Motherhood differently, and thank goodness for that. Let’s learn and grow together.

Podcast Website: https://therealmomhub.com/

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If you’ve ever wished you could quiet the noise, trust yourself more deeply, or make motherhood decisions from a place of power… this episode is going to shift something in you. In the final installment of our Maternal Compass series, we go somewhere we’ve never gone before: we show you what it actually feels like to let your own inner wisdom lead — not in theory, but in real time. And what comes through for each of us is surprising, emotional, sometimes hilarious, and wildly clarifying.

This is not a conversation about being more disciplined, more spiritual, or more perfect. It’s a conversation about discovering what guidance has been there all along… waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear it.

What Happens When You Actually Tap Into Your Maternal Compass

Each of us brings a real dilemma and lets the Maternal Compass speak. For some, it shows up as wise, ancestral love. For others, as blunt clarity. For others still, as grounding reassurance that cuts through fear. We all have this inner resource — and it can be accessed without overthinking, performing, or forcing.

Unburying Intuition in Real Time

We work through real pressures that drown out a mother’s instincts: fear of being “crazy,” medical gaslighting, mom guilt, perfectionism, and the belief that you need a detailed plan before you can move. As we work through real scenarios, you’ll hear how inner wisdom cuts through noise and reveals the actual next right step.

The Smallest, Lowest-Lift Can Change Your Life

We practice moving from insight to action using the single most important question moms should be asking: What is the lowest-energy step I can take?

Resources & Next Steps

Download the Worksheet: Practice identifying your own internal voices. FREE resource from Caitlin.

Learn more about Caitlin: [Website/Instagram]

This podcast is educational only and not a substitute for professional mental health care.

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Hosted by: Cally & Emily O’Leary

About the Hosts: We’re real moms and real sisters. We may look and sound alike, but our motherhood journeys are uniquely ours. We all do Motherhood differently, and thank goodness for that. Let’s learn and grow together.

Podcast Website: https://therealmomhub.com/

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Emily's live from the postpartum trenches with a plot twist no one saw coming—including her. After a first birth that left her feeling broken for nearly two years, her second postpartum experience is shockingly... good? We're diving into everything from waistbands to mom guilt with two kids, plus why we need to talk about difficult births without the toxic positivity filter (but also, let's celebrate with some actual positivity).

Postpartum Recovery: When Your Second Birth Rewrites Everything You Thought You Knew

Anyone else remember thinking all those moms who 'bounced back' quickly were lying to themselves? Emily did. But now, seven weeks postpartum with baby number two, she's wearing jeans, feeling like herself, noticing her pelvic floor healing daily, and swimming in gratitude. This isn't toxic positivity—it's the uncomfortable truth that birth trauma and difficult deliveries can genuinely impact your postpartum recovery for months or years. Emily opens up about spending 18 months after her first pregnancy feeling broken, and the stark contrast of actually feeling functional this time. For moms wondering if recovery should be this hard—your experience matters, your birth story affects your healing, and there's zero shame in admitting when things aren't okay.

The Reality of Two Kids: Mom Guilt, Survival Mode, and Toddler Boundary Testing

Transitioning from one to two isn't just doubling the workload—it's watching your firstborn test every boundary while feeling guilty your newborn has to wait. Emily gets real about the Velcro baby who can't always be held immediately, toddler meltdowns in public, and mom guilt that hits hard. We explore what's been working: leaving the house by 10:30 AM, separate bedrooms for sleep-deprived parents, surviving the witching hour, nursing jealousy, and why those "special activity bags" fail. This is the honest conversation about life with two littles that skips Instagram perfection.

For more honest conversations about motherhood without the filter, subscribe and leave us a review. And hey—if you're in the postpartum trenches right now and things feel hard, you're not whining. You're a human growing humans, and that deserves respect.

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Host & Show Info

Hosted by: Cally & Emily O’Leary

About the Hosts: We’re real moms and real sisters. We may look and sound alike, but our motherhood journeys are uniquely ours. We all do Motherhood differently, and thank goodness for that. Let’s learn and grow together.

Podcast Website: https://therealmomhub.com/

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