Announcement: Embracing Change - A Summer Pause
Jul 26, 2025
Just a quick message to let you know that I'm taking a short summer break. My son and I are embarking on a new journey and I need to step back from the podcast temporarily.
BUT over the next few weeks, we'll be releasing encores of my most popular episodes. Be sure to tune in for episodes you may have missed OR for a refresher on the challenges of co-parenting.
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Full Episode Transcript:
Hi there. Welcome back to the podcast. So it's summer of 2025 if you are listening to this live. And I am just coming on for a very quick episode to check in to say a short See you soon. But I'm going to be taking a break for the remainder of the summer and I'll get into it more later as it feels like it's come together a little bit more. I'm going to be totally frank and honest. Our lives, my son and I are flipping upside down in beautiful ways, but he is starting a journey towards his dreams and I am supporting him through those, which includes a move. So for 10 months we are relocating. And so it was a decision that was made kind of not rash, but it all happened quickly. And in that came a lot of overwhelm and a lot of uncertainty for me.
And I have really been kind of working through it struggling. And the podcast is one of those things. As much as I love being here, I'm at a place right now that I need a little break. I need to really go inward and focus on what's next on how I need to support him and how I need to support me in moving forward into this next chapter. And so to do that, I'm giving myself permission to step back from everything that isn't right in front of us. And that's really scary because if I'm being honest, I don't want to disappoint anybody. I don't want to miss out on anything, and I don't want to disappoint you or not give you the resources that you need. And for those of you who listen regularly and love this podcast, I'm so, so grateful. And I just want to say thank you.
Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here with me and I'm coming back. I will certainly be coming back a little bit different because actually tomorrow I am also running a group for women who are married and really in the struggle of what that marriage looks like and going through a six month journey of repairing, re-imagining, or releasing their marriage, whatever it is for them. And I'm super excited about this, about how this is going to evolve and unfold and inform the next conversations. And so with all of those things marinating and me physically picking up and moving, I'm taking a brief pause and I just wanted to say in the meantime, I'm always here. If you need anything, you can always send me an [email protected]. You can send me a DM on Instagram and I'm happy to support you in any way that you need, whether that's coaching, whether that's a quick breakthrough call to just get a little bit of clarity, or if that's wanting to know about sort of groups coming up, whatever it might be, you let me know.
I'm here for you. And in the meantime, we're going to still be putting out a few episodes here and there, some encore and some of the most popular episodes. And I hope you enjoy those. And most importantly, I hope that you give yourself permission for whatever it is that you need right now. Our lives come and go in seasons, and the season that I'm in requires a little bit more rest. It requires a little bit more reflection going inward so that I can really choose a path forward. And so whatever that might look like for you, I hope you give yourself permission, especially in these slower months of summer when it's a beautiful time to kind of sit back and take stock of what's working, of the beauty, of the bounty, of what isn't working, what needs shifting, and set yourself up for that. So I look forward to seeing you in the fall. I wish you all the very best, and I will see you soon. In the meantime, sending you much love than many blessings.