Midlife Moms Podcast

In this conversation, Brenda interviews leader & kingdom influencer Jamelle Godlewski. Jamelle is a youth advocate, a midlife mom to a Gen Z-er, and a Masters Graduate of Leadership & Evangelism from Wheaton College. She and Brenda talk about several facets of understanding Generation Z. Discover how to: ✅ Understand the culture of Generation Z. ✅ Communicate with our Gen Z kids. ✅ Be m...

In this conversation, Brenda and Midlife Mindset Coach Pamela Henkleman talk about: ✅ The sunny side and opportunities of an empty nest. ✅ Encouragement for women who feel lost in midlife. ✅ The prodigal child and how to love a child who has walked away from Christianity. ✅ New ways to engage with your spouse in the empty nest. 📌 Resources Mentioned: Grab Pamela’s free guide, “Your Kids Are G...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about several facets of midlife mental health. Discover how to: ✅ Recognize signs of mental health issues. ✅ Be proactive rather than reactive to your mental health needs. ✅ Be a friend to others who may struggle in ways you do not regarding mental health. ✅ Be more gentle with yourself as a midlife mom who was socialized to do everything for others...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia continue the conversation about what’s on the horizon and how to focus on staying in the present. Discover how to: ✅ Set aside your neverending busyness to be present with your family’s current needs. ✅ Handle your changing emotions and uncertainties in midlife. ✅ Develop a deeper walk with God amidst stress and unknowns in your children’s lives. ✅ Pract...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about the new life experiences facing high school seniors, college students, and young adults. Discover how to: ✅ take a guiding role, rather than controling role, in your child’s college, career, and life choices. ✅ dispel anxiety your child (and you) may have over life decisions significant life decisions. ✅ encourage your young adult if they are u...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about changing families and holiday expectations in midlife. Discover how to: ✅ let go of expectations as your kids grow and change. ✅ build a family culture your children want to come home to. ✅ communicate with your teens, young adult, and adult kids about their holiday needs. ✅ great new traditions and activities. ✅ involve prayer as a primary s...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about the tension of living in a season of both sorrow and joy, emptiness and fullness. Discover how to: ✅ Surrender expectations and your children to God. ✅ Implement practical resources to handle emotions. ✅ Be a steward of this season of life. ✅ Use Genesis 22:1-19 as a practice of laying down your children to God. Join the Midlife Moms Community...

In this episode, we talk about ✅ letting go and welcoming in. ✅ every relationship your child is in is an opportunity to make an impact on that life. ✅ how we can write into that person’s story and model Jesus. ✅ making hospitality a personal trait as you care for the person your child cares for. ✅ what’s yours to own and what is not. Join the Midlife Moms Community on Facebook:  https:/...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia discuss body image and caring for your body in midlife. Be empowered to: ✅ Be unapologetically who you are. ✅ Not compare yourself, but feel comfortable in your own skin. ✅ Say, “I’ve earned this.” ✅ Do what is best for your physical, emotional, and mental health. 💯 Join the Midlife Moms Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fledgeparen...

In this conversation Brenda and Amelia chat about being available for your teens and adult kids, and how this is different as we age. Join us in the chat about: ✅ Your kids need you in different ways than when they were young. ✅ Becoming a student of your child. ✅ The role of prayer in your relationship with growing kids. ✅ Taking each season and year as it comes, and adapting to what your fam...

Midlife Moms Podcast Season 3 Episode 4 In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia discuss how to begin letting go and releasing your teen and young adult, especially as they are seniors, new graduates, or moving on in a new season of life. Learn how to: ✅ Handle various emotions like grief, and disappointment, while also celebrating milestones. ✅ Help yourself grow as your teen/young adult grows....

In this conversation Brenda and Amelia discuss right-sizing your life as it changes in various midlife seasons, Learn how to: ✅ Say yes to your kids, but no to other things. ✅ Ask yourself what is most important in your current season. ✅ Let go of things that are not the best fit for your life currently. ✅ Be content. 💯 Share with us what’s making you laugh and your laughing matter could be f...

In this episode, Amelia and Brenda chat about major milestones that happen in midlife. They discuss: ✅ The mix of emotions with milestones. ✅ Rapid changes occurring in midlife and your family. ✅ Milestones during the pandemic. ✅ How to mark big and little milestones. ✅ How to give yourself time to adjust to major milestones. Join the Midlife Moms Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...

Amelia and Brenda are excited to join you for Season 3 of the Midlife Moms podcast. In this first episode, Amelia and Brenda chat about changes in their lives in recent months and how midlife is a season where you often feel like you’re just above the water. In this episode, they discuss: ✅ Changes in life with kids, careers, and expectations. ✅ How to own your emotions, not the feelings or expe...

In this conversation, Brenda and Amelia chat about their most recent experiences of midlife living and how the unpredictability and chaos of it all has taught them to trust more in God’s sovereign provision and care.  During this busy season and every season, remember to take time to: ✅ Cherish. ✅ Self Care. ✅ Create. ✅ Be at Peace. 💯 Share with us what’s making you laugh and your l...

In the second part of this conversation, Amelia and guest Robin Dewitt Edwards continue to talk about God’s amazing provision and love that played out after Robin’s family suffered a tragic loss. What a wonderful testimony of how God can bring beauty from ashes! Here are some takeaways: ✅ Give yourself space, grace, and time to move through grief into healing. ✅ God cares for the details of your...

In part one of this dynamic conversation, Amelia interviews her friend and mentor Robin Dewitt Edwards about her life journey and how God has provided and cared for her as a wife, a mother, and His child in joys and trials, even in tragedy and heartache. Here are some takeaways: ✅ God is Trustworthy in all circumstances. ✅ God Provides before we even know what we need. ✅ God is Sovereign over e...

In part two of this candid conversation, Brenda and guests Mark and Jill Savage talk about marriage gaps that can occur specifically in the midlife and empty nest years and how couples can work together to close those gaps. Learn about: ✅ The Having Fun Together Gap. ✅ The Communication Gap. ✅ The Assumption Gap. ✅ Resources to heal, deepen, and strengthen your marriage. 💯 Share with us...

In part one of this conversation, Brenda invites guests Mark and Jill Savage to share honestly how their own marital crisis brought them closer together as they sought to understand why the crisis happened in the first place. Through their experience, discover how to: ✅ Identify the slow fades (cracks) in your marriage. ✅ Recognize unrealistic expectations. ✅ Refuse to take a defensive posture....

In this conversation Brenda and guest Kathy Howard discuss the important and delicate topic of caring for our aging parents as well as our children and ourselves. Topics include: ✅ Battling the tensions of various needs. ✅ Struggling with resentment or guilt. ✅ Hurting amidst the care taking. ✅ Caring for yourself so you can care for others. ✅ Having advance conversations and planning if able...

In this packed full conversation, Brenda and guest Meredith Terpeluk Schoeller discuss the perks and challenges of being an older mom of infants/toddlers as well as wisdom for women struggling with infertility, blended family dynamics, or aging parents. Discover how to: ✅ Trust God. ✅ Extend grace to yourself. ✅ Let others help. ✅ Find your confidence. ✅ Engage with others in different s...

In this conversation Brenda and Amelia chat about balancing a full life while remaining involved with your teens and young adults in healthy, practical ways. Learn how to: ✅ Listen to what your kids are not saying. ✅ Be emotional and mentally present. ✅ Carve out space to refuel. ✅ Care for yourself so you can care for others. ✅ Find low pressure ways to check in on a regular basis. ✅ S...

In this conversation, Brenda and guest Kim Mishler share advice they would give their younger selves about how to prepare for the shock, disappointment, and grief experienced in mothering and midlife. Discover the importance of recognizing: ✅ The cause and effect of unrealistic expectations on our kids. ✅ The individuality of each child. ✅ Our children will disappoint us and we will disappoint...

In part two of this conversation, Brenda talks with author and speaker Jill Savage about the value of struggle and how it has the possibility of producing problem solving skills, perseverance, and resilience in our adult children if we can resist the temptation to jump in. Learn how to: ✅  Recognize a good habit gone bad. ✅  Resist the urge to run to their rescue every time. ✅  C...

In this conversation, Brenda talks with author and speaker, Jill Savage, about the difficult transitions that midlife moms commonly face and the struggle of knowing when and how to let go. Discover how to: ✅ Discern when to let go and when to hold on. ✅ Recognize and deal with idols of parenthood (Worry, Stress, Kids, etc.) ✅ Give room for your child to grow, even if that means letting them str...