Like A Mother with Katie McGrady
Loving, Learning, Laughing and (lots of) Laundry....Meet some women who have been in your shoes – or the one you could find this morning – and have something to say about it. Whether it is over a stack of laundry, homeschooling lessons, or office paperwork, take a break with award-winning Catholic author, international speaker, and Sirius XM radio host Katie Prejean McGrady for honest conversations and about navigating the joys, struggles, and well-earned wrinkles that come from the beautiful, messy vocation of mothering. Like a Mother is a OSV Podcasts partner.
Episodes
72 episodes
Homesteading, Homeschooling, and Homemaking with Alexis K. Love
Join Katie as she interviews Alexis K. Love!From homeschooling to farm life, Alexis shares her story of faith and life as a mother, wife, friend, and child of God. Learn more about Alexis at:
Hope Stories with Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN
Join Katie for this special episode of Like A Mother featuring Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN. Katie and Sister Josephine discuss Sister's new podcast and upcoming book release, Hope: An Invitation, and much more! Subscribe, listen and sha...
Serving Our Families & the Church with Deanna M. Johnston
Deanna Johnston is a wife, mom of 5, and an employee of a growing, vibrant diocese, so she understands balance, integration of family life, work life, and how to keep a marriage happy and healthy, and offers insights and challenges about how to...
Honoring the Big Moments with Kathryn Whitaker
Life moves fast, and kids' lives seem to move even faster. Moms are often the cruise director, party planner, event coordinator, and spreadsheet manager all at once. Kathryn Whitaker shares how to both manage and honor the big moments, creating...
Making the Best Decisions with Rachel Harkins Ullmann
After years working in various ministries within the Church, Rachel Ullmann took a job in politics. Figuring out how to make this career switch, at a moment when she was thriving in ministry, was an exercise in discernment, trust, and faith.&nb...
Forming Principles with Integrity with Sharon McMahon of @SharonSaysSo
As Sharon McMahon became painfully aware of how dramatically uninformed people were about basic principles of civics and government, she took to Instagram and began sharing facts. And it went viral. She became a sensation, and her friendly, app...
Trusting the Spirit as moms with Heather Khym
In the early days of motherhood, we think about to-do lists and what must happen to run a home and keep kids happy and healthy. In the later days of motherhood, we’re concerned more about the future our children will find and create for themsel...
Humility in Hope with Erica Tighe Campbell of BeAHeart
Motherhood requires sacrifice, adaptability, patience, but perhaps most of all, healthy measures of hopefulness and humility. Designer, CEO of BeAHeart, and wife and mom, Erica Tighe Campbell, shares her story of sobriety, mental health diagnos...
Being Available with Curiosity
Over the course of a dozen episodes, Katie has heard how other moms have tackled various issues, handled significant (and mundane) moments, and listened to stories about mom-life. In today’s solo episode, she reflects on how curiosity is a virt...
Embracing Circumstantial Joy with Eileen Perez
What happens when your marriage, and your motherhood, doesn’t look like you expected? Elieen Perez, a single mom of two young girls, shares her story of divorce, single motherhood, and finding joy, even in the moments that are unexpected and ha...
Mothering the Unique Kids with Haley Stewart
Each of our kids has a unique, specific, beautiful particularity, and our job as moms is to help that grow. Haley Stewart, mom of four, wife of a whiskey distiller, and editor of Word on Fire Spark, a children’s imprint, is a mom who celebrates...
Holding Lightly with Sister Josephine Garrett, CSFN
Motherhood is a lifetime lesson in detachment, a constant recognition that we only have so much control. Moms tend gardens where the Lord grows something remarkable, and religious sisters tend those gardens in beautiful, humble, and often unsee...
Creativity from Grief with Laura K. Fanucci
When loss seems to be the theme of your life, and when grief sits heavy in your heart, how do you pick up the pieces and not only carry on, but continue to create beautiful things? After years of infertility, a miscarriage, and then the death o...
Big Decisions & Daily Discernment with Elizabeth Nava
There’s a temptation to “declare absolutes” in motherhood. “I’ll never do that” or “I’ll always do this.” But those absolute statements don’t take the realities and nuance of life, and Elizabeth Nava’s experiences in discerning and making big d...
Marriage, NFP, & the Cross with Emily Frase
Marriage is not a walk in the park, NFP does not mean nonstop sex (or no sex), and the Cross we carry as moms can be heavy. But all of that, even in its heaviness, can bring us to some sort of new life in Christ. Emily Frase, founder of FamBase...
Motherhood & Finding Witnesses with Sarah Hoyoung Ku
What happens when you look around your Church and realize something is missing? That representation is not there? You do something about it. At least, that’s what Sarah Ku did. She sought to build, rather than simply criticize. To create a mini...
Motherhood: Managing the Full Moments with Emily Stimpson Chapman
Motherhood is full - full hands, full diapers, full fridges that hopefully lead to full tummies. In that fullness, a certain amount of juggling has to occur, and how the plates spin and the balls stay up in the air will look different for every...
Motherhood: Expectations and Reality with Elizabeth Foss
Moms begin and end each day pondering what they will do and what they perhaps didn’t get done, and weigh the expectations against reality moment by moment. Elizabeth Foss, author, speaker, wife, and mom, shares how the years of raising many kid...
The Mother’s sacrifice and gift with Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P.
The words “this is my body, given up for you” are said at every Mass, and are spoken by every mother, day in and day out, as we wipe and wean and walk with our children through the mess and grime and joy and delight of daily life. How a mother ...
The Mother mothers for Eternity with Rachel Bulman
Mom of 6, Rachel Bulman, reflects on the heavy weight of motherhood, in that we are planting seeds for eternity with the hearts and minds of our children, and how even in the midst of that weighty responsibility, we are called to be intimate wi...
The Mother’s Heart is a Refuge with Sister Mary Grace Langrell, S.V.
The ins and outs of motherhood must be rooted in Jesus and his love for us, and Sister Mary Grace Langrell of the Sisters of Life explores the idea that our motherhood, and living like moms in the day to day, is a refuge for a weary and tired w...
