It’s another perfect day for the Everything Always podcast with Mike and Summer! Today we’re going to talk about something we all go through: Change! Although things are always changing, we’ve got some bigger-than-normal changes happening in our life right now that make this the perfect topic for today’s episode. So, how do we deal? […]
Overcoming the Feeling of Overwhelm
When I get overwhelmed… I’ve always been someone who can get overwhelmed easily. It’s why I perform so much better when things are in order. Physical clutter leads to a mind cluttered for me. I like drawers to be organized, rooms to be tidy, bills taken care of and a list every day of what […]
Everything Always: Our Daughters Share What It’s Like Being In a Blended Family
Hello everyone! Mike and Summer here, and welcome back to the Everything Always podcast! Today, we got our daughters together to talk about their blended family experience. Before the show, they gave us some topics they wanted to talk about so we parents could learn from their perspective. Our kids went through their own set […]
Blended Family House Rules
Welcome to the Everything Always podcast! Summer here, and today we’ve got a special guest on the show. Samantha Waltz is the author of a book I recently read called “Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience”. It calls on her experience as a stepparent, family therapist, and teacher of classes and workshops on parenting and […]
How Blending My Family Made Me Better in Business and Vice Versa
In a few weeks, Mike and I are going to be filmed for a documentary. Recently, we did a preliminary interview during which I suddenly became aware of a clear parallel between raising a blended family and growing a business. You might not think the two are related, but it became very obvious to me […]
Everything Always Episode 7: Prioritizing, Managing Expectations and Communication
Welcome to the Everything Always podcast! Summer here, and today we’ve got a special guest on the show. Samantha Waltz is the author of a book I recently read called “Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience”. It calls on her experience as a stepparent, family therapist, and teacher of classes and workshops on parenting and […]