I'm here with Leslie. Mea
tv anchor and you're the
community known as her Vi
you're coming out with a
kinda tell us how you got
short, the short version
background, I've always b
ever since I was a little
in 2010 and I actually st
our local Chamber of Comm
business side of the busi
was in the chamber, I rea
telling piece of tv and t
her view from home. I wan
started as um it was goin
talk show that we started
show at our tv station wh
people in the Nebraska ar
to do that online. It was
stories, it's now stories
the globe and we focus on
and relationships, Grief
is like the very shortene
Harvey from homeless. So
started the launch of the
from a home 2012. So it's
Yes, and it has changed d
was it like when you firs
Like what advice do you h
biggest piece for me with
starting my business. I m
you work outside of the h
the biggest piece for me
My husband is very suppor
and family are very suppo
a lot of writers in our c
mothers to, they'll say t
struggling with something
them they need to find at
one person who can be the
that person is, who can b
for them, who can be ther
who will just listen to y
a village. What would you
get this question a lot a
your work life? You have,
thriving and you have thr
How do you do both? I don
thinks that they are all
social media, does that a
you feel like everyone's
not true for me, somethin
to fall behind. Obviously
come first. And so what I
my 13.5 years of parentin
let some of those things
things in your life. That
balance and make a priori
there's dishes in the sin
haven't been clean into t
You know, those things ju
matter. And I think when
that's kind of how the ba
little bit, then your new
a mother. Was there a spe
moment in your life where
to write this book, yep.
made up of contributors f
and they, they send in co
that I mentioned earlier
relationships, motherhood
vulnerable, raw, beautifu
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piece called God gave me
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we had a God gave me a mo
a mother or so God gave m
articles went just nuts o
because everybody could r
actually during Covid I'm
all the best ideas come,
be such a good title for
book is actually made up
of the herb you from home
new content, and and I wi
through and um it's it's
beautiful, vulnerable mom
and I just it's going to
good. Do you have like a
motherhood? That was just
you do, do you want to wa
You know, I find myself e
all the time. It's this b
of watching them grow up
to grow up obviously, you
so cool to to watch them
going to be and yet you r
older, that means they're
And you know, there's tha
around that it's been aro
you know, you know, you'v
when they can leave for y
the ultimate goal of moth
this bittersweet journey
go to newly wedded couple
struggling, especially wi
on with this pandemic. A
losing their jobs and the
to how would you, when it
pressures, what what woul
piece of advice you could
a hard one, You know, for
thing for our marriage an
have been married for 17
the early years with Herv
making any money and he r
us so much and I was work
at that time and really I
he, is is people think it
it's really not sometimes
90 and the other one can
versa. And um you know, I
to remember when you're g
that it depends on the se
you can handle, right? An
partner is there to pick
hey I got this and then a
road, you might have to d
your partner. So that is
in my marriage is that it
and as long as you rememb
always put Always try to
Um I think that is that c
a relationship. It's what
all about being selfless
And those are always the
most popular pieces on he
our facebook pages when y
little things in marriage
will fill the coffee make
water and then that means
it and those little momen
that I wouldn't have know
now I'm like, oh he spill
pot for me, and it it rea
little things in marriage
way. So I did have a few
like it comes to the spou
women and they asked thei
stages and you did talk a
Hayley, just be selfless,
is the best way to commun
you cannot talk to one an
biggest piece of advice t
hard as it is, don't um d
spouse. I know that's har
want your spouse to do th
I think you have to be op
right away for me and and
because my husband and I
he likes to, he'll say bu
the shovel, He does not w
things, he does not, and
told me not long ago he's
know that about you and n
not gonna be able to move
it out and I think we've
figure out that balance a
our marriage, but I I alw
to talk about it and if y
about it, seek help to be
But yeah, I would not, I
talk to other people abou
to be interesting because
tend to do sometimes beca
to when it comes like, oh
like you need your close
you're so right about tha
kind of take a step back
sure to just not run your
is so hard in anything, r
So your book is coming ou
pre sale in the fall and
it this fall and then um
be able to have it early
but thank you Leslie for
of giving us a few tips.
the book and yeah, no pro
a great day