Truly Innate

Happy summer! It's been a few months but today Emily is back with cute friend & boy mom Kennedy! We chat about summer bucket list items both with the kids and without, as well as laugh about our attempt at being accountability partners for a health challenge. Getting in nutritious foods and solid exercise can feel hard as a mom, so we make sure to chat about that a little bit too. Enjoy!!

Happy Holy Week! In this episode we talk about a few ways we can make our lives the story of Jesus, as well as recap some favorite traditions we did last easter and general conference and some things we will be doing this week to celebrate!

Happy (belated) New Year! We are back and excited for a new season of Truly Innate. This episode is all about reflecting on this past year and looking forward to 2026. We hope you can relate to our goals for the year and since it’s now mid February hopefully you can recommit to some of those New Year’s resolutions!

Chatting about all things CHRISTMAS! From christmas lists, to christ centered christmas traditions and everything in between, we're so excited to make memories with our families this christmas season and hope this episode gets you excited too!

Our thoughts for this week's episode come from the talk "The Book of Mormon- an Immeasurable Treasure on Our Journey" by Elder Ozani Farias. We loved chatting about realistic/doable ways to make our scripture study more meaningful without it feeling so overwhelming. We hope you feel inspired to set some new scripture habits like we have felt!

In this weeks episode we chat about submissions you sent in as well as our own ideas on things we can do to help instill gratitude in our children from a young age. We hope this gives you inspiration on things you can do with your own kids to help them to recognize and be thankful for the things they are blessed with. Especially with the holidays coming up!

In this episode, Emily shares how labor and delivery went with baby #3 and how things have been postpartum. After a failed epidural for baby #1, and a medically necessary C section for baby #2, the hope for baby #3 was an unmedicated vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC). And to make things even more exciting, she waited til delivery to find out the gender! If you love chatting with your fri...

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we as parents can give our children is the gift of a strong relationship between each other and hope to be able to do that for my children! In this episode Katie and her sisters discuss the things their parents did growing up that they felt like played a part in their relationships today as adults!

In this episode Katie and her husband Josh chat about all things homeschool, what inspired us to go this route, what curriculums and methods we're using, and what we're loving about it so far!

TW: This is a heavier episode than we usually have for you but such a good one. In this episode, Emily and her friend Bri have a heartfelt conversation about Bri's oldest son who was born with some particularly difficult physical trials. Her faith through being his mother and eventually mourning his passing within a week of losing her own mother, is inspiring and you will love hearing what she...

In this episode we reference Elder Neil L. Andersons talk, "We Talk of Christ"! We share different ways we can make Christ the center of our homes and conversations. We chat about how we have been doing come follow me, some ideas for family home evening and reasons we have felt a desire to make this a focus in our homes! We hope you feel inspired to do the same!

Fall is in the air and we are so excited for everything that comes with that! Especially getting back into routines after a fun and busy summer. In this episode we chat about what routines we are excited to start with our families and how "routines" look different during different stages of motherhood!

In this episode preschool teacher Haley Imlay shares with us ways we as parents can help our children be ready for preschool, what's important when looking for a preschool for your child, and lots of other insights on helping your child adjust to this new stage of life! We're so excited to share this conversation with you all!

It seems like we can all relate on the fact that sacrament meeting and church looks a lot different as a mom than it did before! It can be hard to feel like there are times throughout your day that you can really feel the spirit even though we so badly crave it! In this episode we read your submissions to how you are finding ways to feel the spirit amidst the business of motherhood!

If you're anything like us and you enjoy talking about all things birth, you're in the right place! Emily gives all the details on what she has done to prep for baby #3's labor and delivery. After a rough induction with her oldest, and placenta previa making a Cesarean section the only safe option for her second, she is hoping for a different experience this time around. Take a listen...

We're back!! After a busy summer we're so excited to be back! In this episode we chat about our favorite summer memories, summer trends, favorite books we've read and podcasts we've listened to and summer traditions we love and started this summer with our own families! We can't wait to catch up with you all!

In this weeks episode we give our best tips for encouraging kids to play independently. We both struggled to find a way to help our oldest kids be comfortable with this and hope to give you some knowledge and encouragement that might help YOU! We hope you enjoy!

Do you ever catch yourself rushing your kids through the day? We've been there, so todays episode is all about remembering to slow down and connect with them. It can be hard to be patient and go at the pace of young kids, but these connections are far more important than rushing to complete our never ending to do list! Isn't that the whole point?

Happy mothers day to some of our very favorite mothers! We love you and feel so grateful to get to experience motherhood together, with YOU! In this episode we talked about some of the lessons we've learned from our mothers and grandmothers that have shaped our motherhood journey!

This episode covers a bit more heavy topics than we usually do but sometimes it's important to talk about the hard. We hope that sharing our experiences might help someone feel less lonely experiencing something similar. You are not alone!

We had such a blast having med school wife Sav Swenson on with us this for this weeks episode! We chatted about all the things from pregnancy and unmedicated childbirth, making sure we take the time to fill our own bucket and how that can look different for each person each day, living away from family and being intentional in our relationships.

anyone else feeling that spring cleaning bug creeping in? We sure are! In this episode we chat about why we feel that having a house of order can help us and our families to feel the spirit more in our homes! We talk about some systems that are working in our home and some things we are going to start implementing in our home to help things run more smoothly!

It's been a minute since we chatted about what's been going on in our lives, so here's an update! We also wanted to give an recap of how our plans went for General Conference weekend and share some of our thoughts from our favorite talks!

In this episode we chatted about what our experiences were like transitioning from 0-1 kid and then 1-2. Adding a baby to the family can be a hard adjustment but we wanted to share our tips now that we have each done it a couple of times and Emily is preparing for the transition from 2-3. We believe you are stronger than you think, and know that God is there to help you!

If you've been looking for some Christ centered Easter ideas, we've got you covered! Our inspiration for this episode comes from Elder Gary E. Stevenson's talk called "The Greatest Easter Story Ever Told". He encourages all of us to approach Easter with the same intentionality, excitement and anticipation that we do for Christmas.