Shut Up + Listen Ep. 9: A Mother’s Day Chat with Mama Joyce | Show Transcript + Notes

Shut Up and Listen hosted by Hope Alcocer. A 15-minute (ish) podcast with your weekly dose of inspiration + insight.

In this episode, Hope sits down and interviews her mom, Joyce (AKA Mama Joyce), for Mother’s Day. Mama Joyce weighs in on all things motherhood in your 20s and 30s, balancing parenting + career, and practicing self-care as a mother.

HOPE:
Hey, everybody. This is Shut Up and Listen, I’m your host, Hope Alcocer. Shut Up and Listen is at 15-ish minute podcast with your weekly dose of inspiration and insights Morning, everybody happy Mother’s Day weekend. I am so excited because this week’s episode is very special to me. I get to talk to my mama. Yeah. Her name is Joyce, but my friends call her Mama Joyce, Mama J, I call her Mom, my iPhone, it’s been this way since after college, it’s Mommy Mommy. I don’t know why it’s duplicated, and it has an upside down emoji, because usually that’s the emoji she sends me when she isn’t the happiest with what I’m saying or doing, but she’s going to try not to give her 2 cents.

HOPE:
So that’s my mom and that’s my mom, that’s mama J. And I’m very excited to have her with us before she joins us, I did want to touch on something. So I was sitting here thinking about mother’s day, what it looks like for my friends that have kids and friends that don’t have kids, my friends that have grown up with some not so great family situations. I was thinking of those I love that maybe have lost a child…