Fearless Mom

Living Simply, Thriving Greatly: Season 3 Recap

When you feel like you've reached your limits, there is no end to God's strength and love. Let’s dive deep into the foundations we've built this season and explore the power of simplicity and intentional relationships. We believe that simplicity is the key to overcoming overwhelm and creating a happy home culture. In addition, we present an exciting challenge for the summer: a community group focusing on the book "How to Break Up With Your Phone" by Catherine Price. This 30-day challenge ...

God's Hope Never Runs Out

Julie's message from Lake Hill Church on Mother's Day 2023! Ready to take the next step of leading a group or using the Fearless Mom curriculum? Let us know! [email protected] CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en

Empowering Your Child Through Resourcefulness

As parents, it can be difficult to watch our children struggle. Our natural instinct is to protect them and solve their problems for them, but this can hinder their ability to develop resourcefulness. Instead, we must learn to step back and allow our children to find their own solutions, at an age-appropriate level. This helps them develop confidence and independence, and ultimately leads to greater resourcefulness. Remember this, our reflex is to protect, but we may remember that our respo...

Making Room for Happy Through Fostering Emotional Resilience

Are you concerned about the emotional wellbeing of children today? Do you worry about their lack of emotional regulation and resilience, and the rising rates of anxiety and depression? It's easy to feel discouraged when we see these troubling trends, but there is hope. In this podcast, we explore the choices and actions we can take to reverse these negative patterns and help our kids live their best lives. Tune in to learn how you can empower your kids to live happy, fulfilling lives, and to...

Internal Locus of Control

Do you believe that life happens to you or that you make life happen? We know that we can't control everything, but we can control how we approach and respond to everything. This is something we CAN take ownership of and embrace that responsibility of our mind and our actions. In this episode, listen as Julie teaches how through the lens of the power of choice, it can lead to the power of change. That you may feel frustrated now, but you won’t feel frustrated forever! It’s not easy, but yo...

A Fearless Mindset Changes Everything

Your MINDSET is not just WHAT you think about ONE thing, but HOW you think about EVERY thing. It's your belief system, impacting every choice you make and action you take. We can choose to set our minds, to embrace a fearless mindset, setting us and our kids up best to make room for happiness in our hearts and homes. Ready to take the next step of leading a group or using the Fearless Mom curriculum? Let us know! [email protected] CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram:...

Happy Marriage, Happy Home

God's design and desire is for marriages to flourish and for moms and dads to parent as a team. Building a strong and happy marriage takes intentional work, and our children benefit from the overflow of a happy, healthy marriage. Working on your marriage directly impacts your parenting in a positive way! Ready to take the next step of leading a group or using the Fearless Mom curriculum? Let us know! [email protected] CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www....

A Key Ingredient for the Soul

Laughter is good for the soul AND helps create connections, especially in the family. Connecting and building trust with our children builds a firm foundation of trust, which is key to effective discipline and teaching our children. Every parent - whether naturally funny or serious - can implement laughter and play in our homes! Ready to take the next step of leading a group or using the Fearless Mom curriculum? Let us know! [email protected] CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/...

When Life Is Hard, We Can Have Hope for Happiness

Julie interviews Cindy Thomas about how she held onto hope for happiness, even in her devastating grief after significant loss. Every mom responds differently to miscarriage or pregnancy loss, and Cindy and Julie discuss navigating grief and supporting friends who are navigating grief. Fearless Mom Conference On-Demand Access is NOW LIVE: https://courses.fearlessmom.com/fearless-mom-conference-2023 CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_m...

Two Simple Shifts That Help Make Room for Happy

Moms are excellent multitaskers, but we are terrible single-taskers! Prioritizing and practicing presence requires resolve and determination, and this foundation of relationship and trust with our children is vital to their physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual development. Fearless Mom Conference On-Demand Access is NOW LIVE: https://courses.fearlessmom.com/fearless-mom-conference-2023 CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/...

Own Your Happy: How Do You Create a Happy Home Culture?

We all want to be happy, and we want our kids to be happy, In this episode, Julie lists 3 key components that are present in happy homes. The good news is that these are all three components we can implement, no matter how old your kids are. We can all learn to ADD HAPPY to our hearts and homes. Fearless Mom Conference On-Demand Access is NOW LIVE: https://courses.fearlessmom.com/fearless-mom-conference-2023 CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

Own Your Happy: The Secret to Happiness

While there's been a lot of research about happiness and how to live a happy life, there's actually a key component that most people fail to see. The good news is that this key to happiness is available to everyone! CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom.com/2023conference/

BONUS: Andy Andrews

Fearless Mom Conference Week is finally here! Join Julie and Andrew for this special preview conversation leading into the weekend! CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom.com/2023conference/

BONUS: Dr. Chinwé U Williams

In our two part bonus series leading into the 2023 Fearless Mom conference, join Dr. Chinwé and Julie in this special conversation on the five tools for connecting with your child. CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom.com/2023conference/

Merry Simple Christmas

It really is possible to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year SIMPLY, but only if you are intentional about drawing boundaries based on your family's values. And you can be intentional about noticing and appreciating the good things in your life. The psychological term for this is "savoring" and choosing to stop, see and savor the good things in life increases happiness and fulfillment. CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?...

ASAP: Values

Taking the time to articulate your family's core values can simplify and clarify the overwhelming task of parenting. Your family’s core values will impact every decision you make - from where to buy a home to when to let your child have a device. The boundaries you set in your home with daily routine, technology, activities, and environment are based on your family’s core values. This episode explains how you can be intentional about articulating your family’s values. CONNECT: Website: ht...

ASAP: Boundaries

Boundaries are simply lines that show limits, and we embrace the responsibility as parents to draw boundaries in our lives and in our homes. In this episode, we discuss several areas where we must implement boundaries in our homes, in order to create homes that facilitate healthy growth and development for our children. HOLIDAY SALE! Visit https://fearlessmom.com/ and use the code "TOOMUCHTURKEY" from Nov 21-28 for $30 OFF your 2023 Fearless Mom Conference Ticket! CONNECT: Website: https:...

ASAP: Responsibility

Parenting is overwhelming, but we are going to break it down and make it ASAP - As SIMPLE As Possible. In this episode, we learn what our responsibility as a parent IS, as well as what it IS NOT. HOLIDAY SALE! Visit https://fearlessmom.com/ and use the code "TOOMUCHTURKEY" from Nov 21-28 for $30 OFF your 2023 Fearless Mom Conference Ticket! CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom.com/2023confere...

Lighten Your Load: Dr. Thurman, Part 2

Dr. Chris Thurman is a clinical psychologist, author, speaker, husband, dad and granddad. His book THE LIES WE BELIEVE addresses the role our minds and thought processes impact our lives. Dr. Thurman talks about how events trigger responses - physiological, emotional, and behavioral and how we can better understand what’s going on in our hearts and minds. In Part 2, Dr. Thurman dives into how critical accurate thinking is and how the ability to see things accurately is rare. CONNECT: Websi...

Lighten Your Load: Dr. Thurman, Part 1

Dr. Chris Thurman is a clinical psychologist, author, speaker, husband, dad and granddad. His book THE LIES WE BELIEVE addresses the role our minds and thought processes impact our lives. Dr. Thurman talks about how events trigger responses - physiological, emotional, and behavioral and how we can better understand what’s going on in our hearts and minds. In Part 1, Dr. Thurman explains the fight-or-flight response and how aversive events trigger feelings and behaviors. CONNECT: Website: h...

Lighten Your Load: Overwhelm

Living life in a technology-saturated, hyper-scheduled and, therefore, over-stimulated world leads to overwhelm. Moms have always felt overwhelmed with the responsibilities of parenting, but now EVERYONE, those with children and without, are operating in overwhelm. The mental state of overwhelm has become so common that we assume this is normal. But we know that God’s design is for our hearts and homes to be full of peace, hope, and joy. Together we can do the work to recognize, respond to,...

Lighten Your Load: Assumed Mom Guilt of a Working Mom

Sometimes we feel mom guilt about circumstances beyond our control, or about choices that are not necessarily mistakes or misses. We fantasize or catastrophize, which simply intensifies the mom guilt. Many moms who work outside the home experience this assumed mom guilt. One of the keys to managing assumed mom guilt is making decisions and choices based on your family’s values. CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference:...

Lighten Your Load: Accurate Mom Guilt

There’s no such thing as a perfect parent - we ALL make parenting mistakes. But, if we aren’t careful, the guilt we feel about those mistakes can keep us from moving forward and parenting in a healthy and productive way. When we make a parenting mistake, we can learn to respond to guilt by giving ourselves grace and using those experiences to learn and grow. CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom...

Lighten Your Load: Mom Guilt

Mom Guilt is real and present in every mom’s life, but it doesn’t have to dominate our thoughts or dictate our decisions. We can learn to manage mom guilt, so that it doesn’t negatively impact how we parent moving forward. In this episode, we look at the difference between ACCURATE and ASSUMED guilt, helping us recognize accurate guilt from an actual mistake and assumed guilt from a situation or circumstance that isn’t an actual mistake.

Lighten Your Load: Worry

Worry is part of motherhood, but it doesn’t have to weigh you down. It doesn’t have to dominate your thoughts or dictate your decisions. God’s design and desire is for you to live a life of peace and joy and hope, to parent with peace and joy and hope! Together, we can do the work to manage our worry, so that we can parent with peace and hope and joy. CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en Conference: https://fearlessmom.com/20...

Fearless Mindset

We are more likely to make positive changes in our lives, especially when it comes to parenting, when we choose to have a FEARLESS MINDSET. Mindset isn’t just WHAT we think about ONE thing, but HOW we think about EVERY thing. It’s a belief system, the lens through which you view everything. Therefore, choosing a Fearless Mindset literally impacts every choice you make and action you take! CONNECT: Website: https://fearlessmom.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/?hl=en ...

Parenting in a Technology-saturated Hyper-scheduled World

Teachers, counselors, and parents are all talking about the changes we are seeing in children and teens today. Lack of impulse control and emotional regulation, increase in anxiety and depression and other mental health struggles - the trends are scary. But we at Fearless Mom are not hopeless! The good news is that there ARE things that moms and dads can do to raise courageous and hopeful kids, who become courageous and hopeful adults!

Episode #114 - All the Feels: Sadness

Every mom wants her child to be HAPPY, but we know that sadness is a part of life. Instead of teaching our kids to AVOID sadness, we want to teach them how to HANDLE sadness successfully. If you’d like to download the ALL THE FEELS feelings chart, you can find it here: https://fearlessmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/All-The-Feels-Chart-and-Questions-1.pdf Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagr...

Episode #113 - All the Feels: Fear

Fear is a part of life, a feeling that everyone feels at one point or another. Fear quickly becomes anxiety when our brains take us for a ride on the worry wheel! Our job as moms is to help our kids choose BRAVE and successful when facing FEAR. If you’d like to download the ALL THE FEELS feelings chart, you can find it here: https://fearlessmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/All-The-Feels-Chart-and-Questions-1.pdf Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://w...

Episode #112 - All the Feels: Anger

If you have a child with big feelings, then tantrums and meltdowns may be a part of your life! We LOVE big feelings, but it’s our job to teach our kids how to identify, process, and express those feelings in a healthy and productive way. We want to create homes in which ANY feeling is okay to feel, but how you express it matters. It’s okay to feel ANGRY, but kids can learn to regulate feelings and respond with wisdom. If you’d like to download the ALL THE FEELS feelings chart, you can find ...

Episode #110 - Cognitive Behavioral Parenting

This is the first episode of a series about big feelings called ALL THE FEELS. We explain COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL PARENTING and the importance of helping kids embrace the responsibility for understanding the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fearless_mom F...

Episode #111 - Cognitive Behavioral Parenting

Cognitive Behavioral Parenting involves proactive strategies and discipline to help our kids understand their thoughts and feelings and how those thoughts and feelings affect their actions. We want to help our kids take responsibility for noticing their thoughts and feelings and use self-control to choose their actions and behaviors. Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagra...

Episode #109 - Contentment + Comfort

Understanding what fuels you and what drains you, what calms you and what stresses you out is critical to living a healthy life. Developing SELF-AWARENESS leads to OTHERS AWARENESS and helps every relationship, including those in your family. SIGN UP FOR THE CONFERENCE: https://fearlessmom.com/2022conference/ Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/ Fo...

Episode #108 - Steps of Awareness

Emily and Julie talk more about SELF-AWARENESS and the 4-A process, including the important step of ACCEPTANCE. This process helps us deal with any loss, disappointment, hurt, and any mistakes or “mom misses” that bring on the mom guilt. SIGN UP FOR THE CONFERENCE: https://fearlessmom.com/2022conference/ Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fearless_mom/ Follow u...

Episode #107 - Communication Styles

Emily joins Julie, discussing SELF-AWARENESS and COMMUNICATION STYLES. Understanding different communication styles helps every relationship, especially in the family. Appreciating and respecting different levels of comfort when it comes to CONFLICT changes everything! SIGN UP FOR THE CONFERENCE: https://fearlessmom.com/2022conference/ Find us online: https://fearlessmom.com/ Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessMomCommunity/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.insta...

Episode #106 - Developing Self-Awareness

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Episode #105 - Discipline Basics with Emily and Joe

Episode #104 - Discipline Basics with Mac

Episode #103 - Discipline Basics

Episode #102 - It's Almost Christmas!

Episode #101 - It's Almost Christmas!

Episode #100 - It's Almost Christmas!

Episode #99 - Julie Richard & Dr. Thurman

Episode #98 - Julie Richard & Dr. Thurman

Episode #98 - Julie Richard & Heather Palacios

Episode #97 - Parenting Out of a Pandemic - Part 3

Episode #96 - Parenting Out of a Pandemic - Part 2

Episode #95 - Parenting Out of a Pandemic - Part 1

Episode #94 - Mindful Thinking Session 3

Episode #93 - Mindful Thinking Session 2