In this episode, I’m joined by Kate Okello Tarrant (Mrs. OT), a mother of three boys whose words hold poetic honesty about motherhood and womanhood. We explore the ongoing identity shift of matrescence: how becoming a mother reshapes you in ways you don’t expect. Together, we dive into the reality of raising boys today, from tenderness and responsibility to questions around masculinity and role models. It’s a reflective, nuanced conversation about who we become while mothering.
This is one of those conversations that doesn’t really end, it just stays with you.
Today I’m joined by Kate Okello Tarrant (aka Mrs. OT): a mother of three boys, whose words carry a poetic kind of honesty. The kind that doesn’t try to fix or perform, but simply tells the truth of what motherhood and womanhood actually feel like from the inside.
We explore the identity shift that comes with becoming a mother: the ongoing process of meeting yourself again and again in new forms, in new seasons of matrescence.
And we also go deep into what it really means to raise boys in today’s world. The tenderness, the responsibility, the questions around masculinity, and the awareness it asks of us as mothers.
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