Thrive Like a Mother Podcast
I'm Ebony and I'm a mama to 3 beautiful souls. I'm learning how navigate my trauma healing while building the life I never dreamed was possible. I'm a survivor of childhood abuse and for the longest time, I believed that if anyone knew my story, I wouldn't be worthy of love. Many years later and now I know that it far from the truth.
On the Thrive Like a Mother podcast, I'll share the resources and tools I use on the daily to cultivate a healthy mindset break the wheel of survival. Here we're about honesty and transparency. Because at the root of it all, my purpose in creating this podcast is so that you know you are never alone in your journey.
There may be laughter, there may be tears and we'll do it all by linking arms and learning to thrive together.
Thrive Like a Mother Podcast
Season Finale - This version of me was worth fighting for
Have you ever stopped to notice your own transformation? In this vulnerable season finale, I open my heart about the journey we've taken together through Season 3 of Thrive Like a Mother.
When I returned to podcasting after taking time away for my son's first year, I questioned whether I could handle everything emotionally, spiritually, and physically. There were tear-filled moments and near-breakdowns that made me wonder: Is this still my path? Yet these very challenges shaped not just the podcast but my growth as a mother, wife, friend, and community builder.
The version of me speaking to you now is softer yet stronger, clearer and more authentic—and I've earned her. By setting boundaries and choosing rest over the familiar hustle mindset I grew up with, I discovered something revolutionary: there's no deadline on our becoming. This healing journey wasn't always pretty. It involved tears, anger, and grief, but ultimately led to a peace I never thought possible growing up.
If you're in a season of transformation where some days nothing makes sense, know this: your version of you is worth fighting for. The work you're doing—both seen and unseen—matters profoundly. Becoming your fullest self isn't selfish; it's holy work. Although the path can feel lonely at times, you're never truly alone.
As we pause for reflection this July, take time to acknowledge how far you've come. Season 4 returns with "the brakes off," focused on bringing our community closer together, because no mother should feel isolated in her growth journey.
Share what you're proud of from these past six months by sending me a DM—I genuinely want to celebrate with you. Remember: you are already enough, you are becoming, and in this community, you are never alone.
Need some help reflecting on your growth these past 6 months? Listen to this previous episode where I talk about reflecting on the first few months of 2025 and taking messy action to reach your goals.
Halfway through the year -- the power of just doing it
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Hey, love, I'm Ebony and welcome to Thrive Like a Mother On this podcast. We're scared for our truth, but that fear is what fuels us to truly live in it. You're in the right place if you feel like you're stuck in survivor mode and you're ready to step into who you were truly meant to be. I'll share resources and tools I use daily to help you in your journey towards a healthier mindset and to break the wheel of survival. The journey may not be easy, but you won't have to face it alone. I'm a mama of three, healing day by day from past trauma, and I'm on a mission to build a life I've always dreamed of but never thought was possible. So, love, if you're ready to believe in what's possible, let's link arms and thrive together. Hey, loves, welcome to another episode, the final episode of season three of the Thrive Like A Mother podcast. Y'all, this episode is one that has been sitting on my heart for a while now, with the new mamas, a love letter to the new mamas and helping them through what I think is one of the most intense, beautiful, earth-shattering transformations on this earth. If I'm being honest, becoming a mother is just just that, but today's episode is a love letter to the women that you have become and to the women that I've become throughout this season. Y'all, this is the moment of reflection and, honestly, celebration which we do a lot of that here on Thrive Like a Mother this season, like just so that you know what we've built up to and what we are building in the future. And y'all, if I'm being honest, I didn't know how this season was going to go because, if you remember, I took a little break. I took a little break when Henry was born and I really made sure that my main focus was going to be him for that very first year. And so I put out a few episodes, you guys, you know, you saw that, my Mama's Quiet Moments series, which were really just like my raw voice notes that I was sharing with you.
Speaker 1:And so, when I knew that I was going to start season three, I wasn't sure that version of me then was going to be able to handle everything emotionally, spiritually, physically. I had some doubts, I had some fears because, to be honest, the podcast, we are still very new, right, we are still growing, we are still learning and, honestly, we will continue to do such. But I, you know, thrive Like a Mother is two years old and in these two years y'all have seen I don't even know how many versions of me you've seen, but you've seen. A few of me you've seen, but you've seen, you've seen a few. And so the version of me that started this season I wasn't sure at that point, coming out of a season where I was very much intentionally slowing down, I wasn't sure how much, you know, I could hold on my plate, and there were a lot of moments where I was like, okay, are we, are we really? We're really doing this right? We're really doing this. We're going to keep going.
Speaker 1:There was some pull your hair out moments, there were some tears where sometimes I wanted to get out an episode and realized that I needed to shift. I think there was one episode where I could not get it out. On Tuesday I just almost about had a breakdown about man. Can I handle this Right? Is this for me? Is this my path? You know I got sad but I also got curious challenges. They truly like in real time, shaped how this podcast and how myself transformed it, shaped my growth throughout this entire season, not just in the podcast, but as a mother, as a wife, as a friend, showing up and building my community. It truly, truly had an impact this season and sometimes, y'all, we don't really even notice that we're transforming, until we stop for a minute and we take a long enough time to take a look back at the progress that we've had, we don't realize that, whoa, who am I now Like? What is going on right? This version of me, this version of Ebony, this version of the Thrive Like a Mother podcast, is softer. I'm stronger, clearer, more honest and honestly being more authentic to myself as I shift through different seasons and through just different phases of my life. Y'all, this version of me, oh, this episode is gonna make me emotional. This version of me, I've earned her. I want that to sit for a minute. I've earned her.
Speaker 1:I set some boundaries, not just with other people, not just with work, but boundaries within myself. I've chosen, instead of sticking to the hustle that I've always known, the hustle that I've grown up with, the you have to be 10 times better to be successful hustle. You have to be 10 times better to be successful hustle. I've exchanged that for rest, like chosen rest. Y'all, you don't understand how chosen rest can impact not only your brain but your growth. When you choose rest. You are saying there is no deadline on what I'm creating. There's no deadline on what I'm building right. I don't have to force myself to go at a speed that does not feel authentic, that does not feel right.
Speaker 1:This like healing that I've leaned into during this season of the podcast like I can't even truly, truly describe how much it was needed, how much I didn't know that I needed it. The type of healing that I went through a lot of the times. It was not pretty right. There were some tears, there was some anger, there was some grief, but it was necessary. All of it was necessary.
Speaker 1:The reason that I've worked so hard for the piece that I have now, for my voice, for my rhythm, the reason that I did that was because I didn't grow up having that and I didn't grow up knowing that that was a possibility for me. I think, you know, during my childhood I thought that this is the way it is I don't have peace, I don't get to share my voice, I don't get to have my own rhythm. And if anything this season has taught me is that, yes, you do. You choose your piece, you choose to share your voice, own your voice, you choose your own rhythm. Y'all, this version of me today, this version was worth fighting for. This version was worth fighting for you.
Speaker 1:If you are in that season, your version of you is worth fighting for. The one that you are in that season, your version of you is worth fighting for. The one that you are working on right now, the one where some days you just like you don't know, you don't know what's going on, it is worth fighting for. And so all of y'all who are walking this road with me, we're here, right, we're here and we're here. The work that you've been doing, the one, the work that is seen, and the work that a lot of the times because no one has no one, but God has that inside look on our lives A lot of the work that is unseen, all the things that you've been going through, the tears, the tantrums, the decisions that no one understands or knows that you are making, I just want to hold space for you. I just want to hold space for you and let you know that it is worth every single second. It is worth fighting for, it is worth it, you are worth it, you are worthy, you are, and y'all.
Speaker 1:Sometimes that road, it can be a little lonely, right? Because, like I said, the only person that gets an inside look at every second of your life is God. If no one else knows what you're going through, right? You may feel like, is this a waste of time? No, no, it's not. No, it is not, because becoming your fullest self is not selfish. It's not selfish, don't you think for a second that it is Becoming your fullest, highest version of yourself. All that you're putting into it, that is holy work, my love like, and I just, I, really, I really want to. I really want this episode for y'all to understand that, if you are in that season where you are in the trenches, believe me, I'm still in the trenches with y'all. Right, the work does not end. But who we were at the beginning of this season and who we are now, can we give ourselves some permission to be proud of the growth that has happened in that span of time? Yeah, I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Give yourself the permission to be proud of what you've done these past few months, because you've been doing the thing. You've been doing it. You've been showing up regardless of all the obstacles and the challenges that you have gone through to become this version of yourself. Be proud, I am proud of you. If no one has said that to you recently. You have gone through to become this version of yourself. Be proud, I am proud of you. If no one has said that to you recently, I am so proud of you. And so, as we close out season three, I really want to leave you with this.
Speaker 1:Season four, y'all. Season four, we are coming through. I can't even. I can't even explain to you the catapult that y'all are about to see. July is definitely going to be a moment of pause for me. I hope that you have that this summer at some point, taking a moment of pause, especially at this point in the year. We're halfway through the year, y'all. This is a perfect time to pause and reflect. And if you need some help just doing that, go back and listen to the episode I'm going to link it in the show notes to listen to the episode about reflecting on the halfway point of the year, because it is important. It is important. But season four, y'all, we are coming. It is important. But season four, y'all, we are coming. We are coming with the brakes off.
Speaker 1:Honestly, we are coming at you really just acknowledging that the transformation is going to continue, the growth is going to continue, and not only your life, but, honestly, in this community that we've built. And I think season four I want to really hone in on bringing us all together. I think we sometimes can feel so siloed and you can see one mama doing one thing and another mama doing something else, but we need to all be cheering for each other Because, like I said, it can be lonely that transformation, that growth can be lonely. And so, while we are on our break here in this quiet season for a moment, while I pause and reflect, I want you to basically take a moment to lock in with me, join in on the community. If you're not on my email list, go ahead and get on that so that you can stay up to date and, honestly, y'all, when season four drops, you will know that it's coming, you will know that it's coming. You will know, because I want to make sure that when I come back from rest and reflection, that I'm coming back to continue the trend of letting you know that you are already enough, you are already becoming and you are never, never alone in this community.
Speaker 1:So thank you for season three, thank you for my listeners for always showing up episode after episode. Y'all are listening in and tuning in, and it means so much to me to have you walking alongside me, to know that we're not on this journey alone. So in this month, if you've missed any episodes, go ahead and re-listen or share any episodes that really spoke to your heart, and really I want to hear your reflections for these past six months. So go ahead and send me a DM of what you're proud of for these past six months of growth. Send me a DM of what you're proud of for these past six months of growth. Y'all. Until next time, keep healing, keep growing and let's keep thriving together. Bye, y'all. Thank you so much for listening. Love. If anything in today's episode resonated with you, share it with your bestie or share it on social media and tag me so we can chat about it. As always, sending you light and love, and remember you are worthy, you are enough and you deserve to thrive.
