Alana Dawson

In Episode 007, we talked about how to find your passion. But what happens when you find yourself in a new season or different decade and find yourself wanting or needing to pursue a different passion than the one you first started? What if that thing that once lit you up inside, no longer holds a flame? What if it’s time to take your original passion in a different direction? What then? Read More »

I am so excited about today’s podcast, for the first time on the show I’m talking to fellow podcasters. The Minimalist Moms Podcast is a weekly show for moms who want to be more minimal and more mindful, but don’t want to get rid of all their stuff. Hosted by aspiring minimalists: Megan Ericson and Diane Boden. Their goal = Think more + Do with less. Diane is wife to Marty,Read More »

I was walking around her office space, taking it all in. I had seen lots of pictures of it before, ones from her blog and instagram, it was so much fun to be here, in person, in her white barn, and office. I was attending my first writing workshop, and the whole experience felt a bit surreal. I had spent the last eight months writing, editing, and creating a website. Reading, and learning everything I could to make myself successful.Read More »

Today on The Mom Wants More Podcast, I am so excited to have my friend, Meredith Wouters, from The Palette Muse. Meredith is an artist turned Designer and DIY Blogger. She is a wife and mom of two girls, and has trained the whole family to expect plenty of messes and projects going on at the house at any given time. She hopes to bring color and creativity to the world around her,Read More »

Probably the hardest part of pursuing my passion of writing/speaking/blogging/podcasting has been the waiting. The growing slow. I started writing, with the intent for actual people, like real life people, to read it in 2013. I relaunched my current blog in October of 2016, and most recently this podcast a little over a month ago. Five years, almost two years, and one month doesn’t seem like much time, unless of course you are me.Read More »

When I first started dreaming up the idea of this podcast, I knew I had to have my friend and fellow military spouse Christie Johnson on. Not only is Christie a bubbly, fun personality but a go-getter who literally started pursuing her passion in her living room in the midst of messy life, with two babies and a husband in the Navy. Christie Johnson dreamt of combining her gift for style with a greater purpose.Read More »

Since starting this podcast I’ve had one question asked more than any other:  “How do I know what my passion is?” It’s a question I’ve wondered many times in my own life. One, that at times, the answer has felt so distant and unreachable.  I want to help those of you who are searching and still unsure of what your passion is. And also help those of you who aren’t 100% sure that you are on the right path of pursuing your passion. Read More »

I am so happy to have Amanda Phillips joining me today!! Amanda Eileen Phillips is a survivor of many things: rejections from every Ivy League college, a condemning mental illness diagnosis, the death of her best friend, an emotionally abusive relationship, and sexual assault. Life is the hardest thing she can think of, and she has the rap sheet to prove it. Jesus, though, is the fiercest comforter and safest refuge through it all, and she has the evidence for that,Read More »

When it comes to pursuing dreams and passions, embracing their calling, I have found there are four main areas that typically hold women back: time money guilt fear Today were are going to talk about fear and how it can keep you from your calling. Just like the desire for more is that thing, that you feel deep within you. Fear is that thing that keeps you from it.Read More »

Today I’m chatting with, Kelly Beckley Shank. She encourages women to cultivate their passions in the midst of motherhood. Her journey from “dream job” to writer includes some very unlikely stops in Guatemala and grad school that have completely changed her family. Her blog inspires unapologetic motherhood where women are not ashamed to talk about their dreams beyond motherhood while also offering helpful tips to lessen the chaos in our homes. How it all started Kelly wanted to do something big with her life.Read More »

Welcome to Episode 003 of Mom Wants More! You know it well, that feeling of wanting a little more, perhaps it started for you when you were smack dab in the middle of raising babies, you found yourself daydreaming while changing diapers. Or maybe, for you, it was like me, when your kids went to school and you found yourself with a bit of free time. Or was it later in life, when your nest was empty and you had nothing but time to dream?Read More »

You guys are going to love this interview with Belinda from Happy Camper Cocktail Company out of Seattle, WA. I started following Belinda on “the Gram” and I love, love, love her adore mobile bar, ya’ll it’s an RV (said with cousin Eddie inflection).It’s so stinking cute. We hit so many topics in our conversation and I will warn you right now that this is a podcast for moms, you’re going to hear her sweet little guys in the background from time to time and that is A-okay by me and purposefully not edited out because as women,Read More »

Hey guys! Welcome to Episode 001 of Mom Wants More. If you haven’t already listened to the short Introduction Episode it’s a great place to start. It explains why I started Mom Wants More, the vision behind it, and what you can expect to hear. why you need to purse Your Passion I think many of us today, women, especially moms, feel like dreams or passions are silly and selfish. That’s why today I’m talking all about why you NEED- not why you should or should want to,Read More »

Hi there! I am so glad you are joining me. Welcome to Mom Wants More! This is the Introduction Episode. I wanted to take a few minutes and explain why I started Mom Wants More, the vision behind it, and what you can expect to hear. Mom wants more was created for women just like you and me. Women who have a dream in their heart and a passion they want to pursue.Read More »