Raising Boys who will be Ready to Launch {Episode 20 with my Husband, Dave}
I’m feeling a rather bittersweet as I share today’s podcast episode: We are finally covering the topic from the very last chapter of Boy Mom! I have so enjoyed going over these topics with you here, and hope you have too!
Today we get to talk about launching our boys into independence! And whether that is eighteen years or eight months away…the day is coming for all of us! (*quick pause to wipe tears.*) This chapter is so much of my heart– and really the heart of my book and this Podcast! I wrote the last chapter of Boy Mom on the airplane on the way home from dropping Josiah at college, and it was such a rewarding, happy, sentimental time for me.
This is also the 20th Episode of the Boy Mom Podcast!! (woot woot!)
For all of those reasons and more, I invited my HUSBAND to join me for today’s conversation! And I’m SO excited to share him with you!!
I loved having Dave on so much. In fact, at the end of the episode I share the truth that I had originally planned on wishfully imagined having Dave co-host a podcast with me…but once I decided to call it the “Boy Mom Podcast” I realized that wasn’t going to work. (Also: I hadn’t exactly consulted him with my grand idea, haha!)
But today he did amazing…and I surely hope to have him on many more episodes!
Dave and I talk about our experience launching Josiah, and Dave leads us through the main SEVEN points in the blog post I wrote shortly after we said goodbye to Josiah, titled: “How to Launch Well; 7 Things to DO NOW, to Successfully Launch Your Kids when it’s Time.” We chat through each one, and I hope you get a lot out of it!
Notes from our chat:
Chapter 14 of Boy Mom.
The Blog Post we are going through: How to Launch Well: 7 Things to Do Now, to Successfully Launch Your Kids when it’s Time
Dave’s instagram: @daveswan
You can find the Boy Mom Podcast on all of the podcast platforms…here are just a few of them:
iTunes (now called Apple Podcasts)
Or you can listen right here! 🙂
Hope you enjoy and please leave a comment if you have a question or experience to share on this topic! You are also welcome to email me episode/interview ideas at: [email protected].
**Now that we have covered the main topics in Boy Mom, we’ll be branching out into a whole bunch of topics related to raising boys! I can hardly wait! See you on Friday for another ALOHA FRIDAY EPISODE of the Boy Mom Podcast!!
Wow! I so needed this and soaked up every word of this podcast the day before we drove our oldest to University for the first time last weekend. Launching tips were spot on and I am grateful that I could pretty much mentally check most of them off as I listened. But, no matter how ready any of us were for this step, I never imagined the actual physical ache in my heart. A part of me is missing and it’s been a really tough week where I have wondered how on earth I will repeat it with child number two next year. 🥺
Hey Leonora!! So glad you listened and happy you could check things off the list but also very sorry for the ache in your heart…I get it. I still get it sometimes and maybe best to distract yourself with some thing really positive. Reminiscing is healthy but we as moms tend to overdo it sometimes. 😉 Blessings and big big hugs to you!! XO aloha