122. You’re Never Just a Mom (Mother’s Day Minisode)

Happy Mother’s Day, Accelerators. 💐

This bonus minisode is for every mama who’s ever wondered if she’s doing enough, contributing enough, or being enough—especially when the work she’s doing is quiet, unseen, and unpaid.

Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, working mom, part-time powerhouse, or doing a little of everything—you’re never just anything. The decisions, the coordination, the invisible load you carry? It matters more than you know.

In this short and soulful episode, I share:
 💛 A love letter to the moms who keep their families running
 📊 The real (and shocking!) dollar value of a stay-at-home mom's work
 🎯 A reminder that your legacy is built in the little things
 ✨ One value-driven action to help you show up with intention this week

This is your reminder that the work you do—seen or unseen—is building a legacy that lasts.

🎁 Share this episode with a mom you admire. Let her know: We see you. You’re doing amazing work.

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Episode Transcript

Laura (00:00):
Hello, accelerators and Happy Mother's Day.
This is just a quick littlebonus episode that I wanted to
send out to all of you that aredoing your best and wondering if
it's enough.
Mothers carry a lot.
Especially when they're tryingto give everything to their
kids.
And some of these things we see,you know, we see doing the

(00:21):
laundry, the cleaning, thedriving, but some of them we
don't see, like the decisionsthat we make on a daily basis.
Keeping the calendars, thedoctor's visits, planning
everything, putting everythingtogether and keeping them in
order, being the emotionalbarometer of the home.
A lot of times mothers come tome and say they feel like
they're not contributing totheir family because they're

(00:43):
just a stay at home mom.
Ugh, I hate that word, that fourletter word.
Just they say they aren'tbringing anything in or they're
working part-time and they doother things too.
But look, no, you're never justa mom.
I'm thinking of three very goodfriends in particular, I wanna
send this out to them They'venever said they're just a stay

(01:06):
at home mom.
But we are four peas in a pod.
They are my best friends.
After all.
They are stay-at-home moms, andyet they're not June cleaver.
They're not just staying homeand doing the laundry and the
cooking.
They have other things that theydo as well.
My friend Emily, she'sconstantly giving back to her

(01:27):
kids' school and volunteering.
She's a room mom, and that beinga room mom is a lot.
She's added that to her plate ontop of everything else that
she's doing.
The laundry, the cleaning, thedriving she is part of a
philanthropy program through herhusband's business.
And she also just agreed to leada Bible study with me, so she's

(01:49):
got a lot going on.
On top of just being a mom.
I think about my friend Larissa,who is also helping her husband
with his business.
He's an entrepreneur and shepicks up the slack whenever it's
laid down.
Whether that's her perfect jobtitle or.
It's whatever it is she's doing,she's going to figure it out and
get it done.
She's gonna make sure that herfamily's operating, his business

(02:11):
is operating at an optimallevel.
She always goes above andbeyond, not only for her family,
and sometimes she takes peoplein and cares for them more than
they could ever have asked.
She goes above and beyond fortheir business and also for her
friends.
I'm very thankful for her.
I also think of my friend Jamie,and she has this wonderful

(02:34):
little soccer star who excels atall things physical.
She's played soccer, she's donegymnastics, she's been on
different travel teams alreadyfor both of these things, and
she's still so young.
It's amazing to watch her.
But the amount of effort andtime and Finess that Jamie has
to put into making that calendarwork is astounding.
On top of all of that, caringfor her husband and her mom,

(02:57):
who.
Jamie has just taken over somany things for her mom and
helping her mom succeed as well.
My friends.
They're amazing.
And sometimes we forget.
Sometimes we forget how amazingwe are.
So for those three inparticular, I hope that you were
listening to this and that youhear me say that I see how hard

(03:17):
you're working, how wonderfulyou are.
But to my other dear listeners,my accelerators.
I may not know the ins and outsof everything that you're doing,
but I'm so thankful that youcontinue to show up for yourself
and for the people that youlove.
We forget to focus in onourselves sometimes.
These three women that I justtalked about, they're stay at

(03:37):
home moms, and none of that wasjust a mom.
I.
So I wanted to throw out veryquickly.
Yahoo Finance says that astay-at-home mom this year, if
you were to gather up all thejobs they were doing a
stay-at-home mom should be paidan annual salary of$116,022 per
year.
However, if you go ahead and addin the job of COO, and that's

(03:59):
the Chief Operations Officer andCFO, that's Chief Financial
Officer, you're looking atcloser to$184,820 per year.
And friends.
If you hear that number and youstill think that you are just a
stay-at-home mom, that you'renot contributing, I'm here to
tell you that you'recontributing a whole lot, nearly

(04:20):
$200,000 worth of time andeffort.
Think about this as a mom.
You're on call 24 7.
You work two eight hour shifts,and then when you go to bed, you
are still on call.
The second somebody cries, youare the one that hears it
because your brain has beentrained to be the one that hears
it.
It's not your husband's faultthat he doesn't hear it in the

(04:41):
middle of the night.
His body is not designed toreact.
Your body is.
You don't need to give your kidsmore stuff.
You need to show them how tolive on purpose and with a
purpose.
So mom, while you're jugglingall the things, I want you to
realize that your kids don'tneed more things.

(05:03):
They just need to see you livinglife.
Be intentional about yourboundaries, because having
boundaries in place is moregenerous than becoming a mom
who's burnt out, touched out,and cranky all the time.
Put those boundaries in placebecause you love yourself and
you love your children.
I want you to name one valuethat you want to embody for your

(05:25):
family this week and then diveinto that.
For me, it's Joy.
Joy's the one thing that I'vebeen working on more and more
every day, but a couple ofnights ago I was done.
I had hit my limit.
I was frustrated and I came inmy room.
I was sitting at the computerjust trying to give myself a
minute of space, and one of mydaughters came up to me.

(05:48):
And she goes, mom, why does yourcomputer say joy on it if you're
just gonna be cranky everynight?
Oh man, that hit home, thathurt.
And I've been praying more andmore about finding joy.
Joy is my word for 2025.
That's why it's on my computerwhere she could read it.
It's supposed to be a reminder,and I'm so thankful that she

(06:11):
reminded me.
She reminded me that I don'thave to be cranky in the
evening.
And the reason I was gettingcranky is because I was not
holding those boundaries formyself.
I was not taking care of myself.
I was not being intentional atall.
So mom, I want you to beintentional.
We are talking all about theselittle things because the little

(06:33):
things and the little moments,that's what adds up to make your
legacy.
The little moments, they're thethings that feel like we're not
making a difference.
That's when your legacy iscreated, because that's when
they're watching please sharethis episode with somebody that
you love this week.
Share it with a mom that's doinga great job and let them know

(06:53):
that you see them, that we seethem, and that you are thankful
for everything they do.
That's it.
Go out and make a difference.