You Don’t Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks

ByMarianne
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You Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks

She released fourteen albums. Raised four daughters. And never had to choose between the two.

If you're in the empty nest season asking yourself “who am I now,” or you're standing at the edge of it wondering how you're supposed to want anything for yourself again, this conversation is for you. Hilary Weeks, singer-songwriter, mom of four, and now grandmother of five, joins me to talk about how she built a real music career using thirty minutes a day, right in the middle of bedtime, homework, and everything else motherhood demanded of her.

We talk about the moments she felt torn between her family and her gift. What having her own identity outside of “mom” gave her that she thinks she would've lost otherwise. And her answer to every woman who feels like she has to disappear into her kids to be a good mom, or who already built her own thing and still feels the empty nest ache anyway.

In this episode you'll learn:

  • How Hilary balanced a real music career and four daughters using just thirty minutes a day
  • What kept her showing up, even on the days nothing came out
  • The moments she felt torn between her family and her gift, and how she made peace with it
  • What having her own identity outside of “mom” gave her
  • Her answer to the woman who feels like she has to disappear into her kids to be a good mom
  • Why the empty nest ache can show up even for the woman who already built her own thing

This is part one of a two part conversation, and it's the perfect place to start if you're navigating identity after kids leave home, rediscovering purpose in midlife, or just trying to figure out what your next chapter looks like.

🌿 READY TO STOP CIRCLING AND ACTUALLY START?

If the kids have left and you're sitting with that quiet “now what,” you've probably thought about this call more than once already.

On a free Next Chapter Jumpstart Call, we'll find the one place the empty nest has you feeling stuck, and you'll walk away with one small shift you can start today. Not someday. Today.

You don't need to have it figured out first. That's what the call is for.

👉 marianneiverson.com/call

Find Hilary Weeks:

  • Website + her book, Discovering Purpose: hilaryweeks.com
  • Instagram: @hilaryweeksmusic
  • YouTube + Facebook: Hilary Weeks

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