Show Notes
When was a time when you felt disqualified? The CEO of the MomCo, Mandy Arioto, wants women to understand how Jesus calls and uses people and especially moms who feel disqualified. Mandy has cast her vision for creating honest, healing community for moms while developing them as leaders. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they talk about a mom’s influence in families, faith, and society, and address why many moms still feel insignificant. You don’t want to miss this encouraging and powerful Mother’s Day conversation on God Hears Her.
Guest Bio: Mandy Arioto is the President and CEO of The MomCo and is widely known for her unique takes on parenting, relationships, spiritual and cultural issues. Through MomCo, which influences millions of moms through thousands of groups internationally, Mandy serves as the voice of one of the most influential mothering organizations in the United States and around the world. She and her husband, Joe, live in Denver, Colorado, where they love rock climbing and adventuring with their three kids. Mandy’s most recent book, Have More Fun: How to Be Remarkable, Stop Feeling Stuck, and Start Enjoying Life, is available wherever books are sold.
Notes and Quotes: “There’s this secret society of moms that nobody actually knows about. It happens underground. And there are sacred conversations that we have as moms that are very rarely brought to light. They happen on the sidelines of soccer practice. They happen at kids drop off after the kids have all gone into class. They’re honest, vulnerable conversations where you’re thinking . . . ‘I should never have said that out loud.’ And someone else says ‘me too.’” —Mandy Arioto
“That’s what MomCo is about: having honest conversations that we’re afraid to have as women, bringing them to light and recognizing that this is a holy space where God swoops in to heal the parts of our lives, fear, trauma, or inadequacy that we feel.” —Mandy Arioto
“I think that motherhood is incredibly rad, a sisterhood unparalleled, and the place that God uses to form us in ways that we could never have imagined beforehand.” —Mandy Arioto
“There is something unique that God does in moms that makes them influential in the kingdom.” —Mandy Arioto
“Our identity is in how faithful we are to what God asks us to do, how faithful we are to listening and knowing God’s voice, being trustworthy in what He’s entrusted us with, and recognizing that the outcomes of that can look all kinds of different ways.” —Mandy Arioto
“Our worth is not measured by how well our kids turn out.” —Mandy Arioto
“We don’t have to qualify our wants; we can put our needs before God.” —Mandy Arioto
Verses:
Matthew 1:1-17
Related Episodes: GHH Ep 124 – Celebrating Mother’s Day with Mary Jo Clark: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/celebrating-mothers-day/ GHH Ep 156 – Felt Needs for Moms: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/felt-needs-for-moms/ GHH Ep 187 – Building Community as a Mom with Tara Edelschick and Kathy Tuan-MacLean: https://godhearsher.org/podcast/building-community-as-a-mom/
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