Dearest listeners, today is the finale episode where I share with you my experience of the podcast, answer your questions and sum up the takeaways I hope you have had from listening to the podcast. 

Episode topics and related links

the start of the blog

My C-Section & The Feelings I Was Ashamed to Admit

my two main goals with the podcast

how the podcast has changed me

How To Find Your Enneagram Type (and how it has changed my life)

Enneagram 101 (what is it and what are the nine types)

anchor words (Bless It and Release It came from Stef Gass)

Making life adjustments 

looking at decisions through the lens of our resources

You Can Simplify Your Life Series

our relationship with time

Don’t wait for the Golden Years (seeing gold in the every day)

growing through turning off the autopilot and taking an opposite action

175. What will your future be? More of the same? Or will you turn off the autopilot?

79. Six signs you are living your life on autopilot (and what to do about it)

listening to your life

Listening To Your Life

Show Up For Your Life [series]

What I hope listeners take away from the podcast (my wishes for you)

It is ok to feel your feelings

all episodes on feelings are in this playlist 

if you can’t access that playlist, start here with 156. 3 things to know about feeling negative emotions

everything is hard AND awesome

162. Think the best of me, or not. Allowing the hard and awesome in ourselves and in our lives.

207. Our judgements and assumptions of others (fundamental attribution bias and how it impacts our relationships)

201. Overcoming negative self-talk and to moving towards positive self-talk

you are not alone

145. You aren’t alone mama, I go through that too

76. Why it matters what you think (limiting mindsets in motherhood)

address conflict, rather than avoid it

139. Are you TOO comfortable? And what is it costing you?

take care of yourself

The Meeting Your Needs Series

own your life

I was a Mom Martyr, here’s how to tell if you are too and what to do about it

Build a life based on your own definition of success, not everyone else’s definition

small things matter

78. Small things that can change your whole life (the compound effect)

enjoy your life

When Did I Stop Enjoying My Kids? (and my journey back to enjoying them)

203. Being a mom who enjoys her life

Enjoying the simple pleasures (why it is hard and how to do it)

163. Have fun with your kids, on purpose + reasons we don’t have fun

Ways to stay connected

Sign up for the Simple Saturdays email 

Save the Spotify playlists, grouped by theme

Email or DM me the topic you are looking for, I’m sure there is an episode on it and I will send it your way

Of course, 1:1 coaching and counselling is available 

 

Listener Faves

This a list of episodes that listeners sent to me, as being their fave episode of the Simple on Purpose podcast

The ‘mom martyr’ episode

67. Making motherhood harder than it needs to be (Mom Martyr)

The most common search term, of late 

When Did I Stop Enjoying My Kids? (and my journey back to enjoying them)

Mindset for new moms 

74. Show up for momlife with these empowering mindsets

73. How to deal with the emotional struggles of being a mom of babies and toddlers

Letting go of our ego

162. Think the best of me, or not. Allowing the hard and awesome in ourselves and in our lives.

Building a sense of capability vs a sense of control

115. A Controlling mom, or a capable mom?

Hearing from moms of each enneagram type

The Enneagram + Motherhood Series

Various conversations around self-care

The Meeting Your Needs Series

Living on autopilot

139. Are you TOO comfortable? And what is it costing you?

Framing your experience of motherhood

53. Change your motherhood experience by changing how you make memories

Full transcript (unedited)

0:07

Hey, it’s Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and counselor from simple on purpose.ca Welcome to the finale episode of Simple on purpose. Yes, I am retiring. But the podcast episodes, they’re all gonna stay here for you to use the archives. And all the different topics we’ve covered over the years are gonna stay here. But this is our retirement party episode, I want to sprinkle in some input from you listeners that you’ve sent in. I want to toast to what I’ve learned during the podcast, and I want to make some retirement wishes to send along with you. Yep, it’s the retirement speech you didn’t ask for but you’re gonna get it. And we’re going to start of course, with some twinkling flashback music, to where it all began. You’ve heard me share this, maybe I started blogging in 2011. After my first child was born by emergency C section, it was a difficult delivery was a difficult experience. And I felt like nobody really got what I went through because my circle of moms didn’t have that experience. I was feeling really overwhelmed with these emotions and what to do with them and who to talk to. And my postnatal nurse recommended I write about it. And that was dovetail blog dovetail blog was born from that place. It was a place I shared about motherhood on the regular. And then it shifted into the simple on purpose blog. In 2016, I made a new change and I had at home a two year old a four year old five year old and after consistent blogging for many years, I decided I needed to take it off my plate for a bit. And I was just going to send out a regular newsletter a bi weekly email called simple Saturdays. That was the birth of simple Saturdays that’s still happening that bi weekly email and I just love that place. Also, during this time, I had been listening to podcasts, some of those oh geez like the happy hour with Jamie Ivey cat Lee’s podcast, she had one about motherhood. And what about blogging? Jeff Goins was another voice that I was listening to a lot. These days, there’s, I don’t know, 1000s Millions. I don’t know how many podcasts there are. But those were some OG ones. And I was just soaking them up. I was loving them. I could just listen to them on the go and get that motivation, inspiration, interesting stories, interesting people. And I really fell in love with podcasts as a way to communicate and create a community. So in 2018, I started making an audio version of the simple Saturday’s email. If you go back to those first episodes of The Simple on purpose podcast, that’s what they are. They’re kind of recaps of the simple Saturday’s email, I realized that there were people like me who preferred to just listen on the go. And I really wanted to keep spreading the simple on purpose community. Quickly, I found that I had a chance to say things and I wanted to do more than just recap the simple letters email. So it turned into episodes about a single topic from there. That was six years ago. As the podcast has grown over the years, you listeners have helped it rank over the years in the past, in the top 20 for parenting podcast with Apple, Canada, and in the top seven need for self improvement podcasts with Apple, Canada. That felt like a huge win. One of my leading goals with the podcast was first and foremost that episodes be tight, a tight 2020 minutes or less. Because in my opinion, which is very biased unless you’re doing an entertainment podcast, and people are coming to you for entertainment. Unless you’re interviewing someone. Or maybe you’re human and you have just like four hours of research you want to share though I think it’s still way too long. I think it’s unnecessary to have such long episodes. I feel like 20 minutes is important. It forces me the podcaster and you the listener to come into this really efficient and focused time. I don’t want fluff. I don’t want chatter, usually unless you’re here to entertain me. So I just assumed other Altair would want the same. And I’ve heard that from many of your moms that you appreciate a quick episode. You’re listening to me on your drives on your walks while folding the neverending laundry while making dinner. To prepare for this episode, I emailed you guys I put it on Instagram, and I asked for your favorite episodes or questions that you had for me about the podcast. And first of all, thank you for all of your messages back. You guys have given me some really kind and supportive and sweet words. And I’ve been reading them all I might not email back just yet, but I’m reading them. And I want to thank you all for that I have shared on the podcast and I think this is something that anyone is a listener or a consumer of content on the other end. I think it’s helpful to understand that for someone who’s putting something out there it can feel really one sided sometimes to put out my stories and thoughts and ideas out into the interwebs it’s kind of like tossing a rock down a well and waiting for the plunk. You want to hear the plunk You want to know, the rock has reached the water, the plunk tells you it’s been received. So hearing back, hearing back from you has been the feedback that kept me feeling like I was on the right track, and I’m doing something of value for you. So I hope you feel my adoration of you listeners who have made this feel like a conversation. And let me know that I was helping you live more simple and more on purpose, which, of course, was my other goal in all of this, and I would anchor this idea with the word that I would say to myself over the years, and that word was freedom. It has been my mission to bring women freedom, it has been it still is it will be freedom from being overwhelmed by your motions, freedom from the autopilot, living freedom from the all or nothing thinking and the belief that you don’t actually have a choice, freedom from all of the checklists on who you should be and how your life should look and how your kids should act and what your husband to do. Freedom from all the clutter in your space in your brain and

Episode ID: 1000660228048

GUID: https://simpleonpurpose.ca/?p=14064

Release Date: 26/06/2024, 02:56:49