In this New Year episode, Esme challenges the way we’ve been taught to think about goals and invites you to go deeper. If you’ve ever hit milestones and still felt empty or stopped setting goals altogether because disappointment felt inevitable, Esme reframes goal-setting through the lens of purpose, clarity, and personal accountability.

Drawing from personal experience as a Christian single mom and leadership coach, Esme unpacks why goals must be rooted in purpose to create fulfillment, joy, and peace. You’ll learn how misaligned goals quietly drain you, why both high and low performers struggle with clarity, and how purpose changes the way you pursue growth.

This episode will help you stop chasing what looks good and start choosing goals that actually matter, so you can build a life that feels aligned, meaningful, and worth sustaining.

🎯 Plus: an invitation to take your next step with intentionality.

🚀 Listen to the 2025 Goals setting episode Here

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Welcome back!

The holidays can be heavy when you’re a single mom, and if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or quietly carrying the weight of the world, this episode will meet you right where you are. In today’s episode, Esme Graff, Army veteran, author, speaker, and host of The Esme Graff Podcast, opens up about the real challenges single moms face during the holiday season: the pressure to provide, emotional burnout, and sleep deprivation.

This episode is part encouragement, part truth-telling, and 100% relatable for single moms, divorced moms, and anyone navigating the holidays while feeling stretched thin. With humor, honesty, and faith, Esme shares personal stories, practical wisdom, and a reminder that a “single-parent home” is not a broken home.

If you’ve been searching for a Christian single mom podcast, support for single motherhood, or real conversations about healing, confidence, and navigating the holidays as a single parent, this episode is for you. You’ll walk away feeling seen, grounded, and reminded that you are enough — exactly as God created you to be.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
• The pressure single moms feel to “provide” emotionally, financially, and socially
• Emotional triggers that resurface during the holidays and how to filter them
• Why sleep deprivation hits harder for single moms
• How to fight the lies the world tells single parents
• A faith-filled reminder that your story is not defined by statistics

If this episode encourages you, hit follow, leave a review, and share it with another mom who needs it. To connect with Esme, visit esmegraff.com or reach out on social media.

You’re not alone and you’re not behind.
You’re becoming exactly who God created you to be.

Podcat Website: The Esme Graff Podcast
Connect with me on social media (Instagram) or visit my website at www.esmegraff.com to stay updated on new episodes, book releases, and more!
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Welcome and Warning: I say "this sucks" a lot in this episode!

If you’re a single mom navigating the holidays, this episode is going to make you feel like someone finally gets you.

Today, Esme is pulling back the curtain on what the holiday season really feels like when you’re doing it solo and how to find strength, joy, and sanity when everything around you feels heavy.

In this honest, faith-filled episode, she shares three raw and unfiltered truths about being a single mom during the holidays:

• Feeling like an outsider
• Sharing the kids (alternating holidays)
• Being the only parent who enforces the rules

With real stories, practical guidance, and warm encouragement, you'll walk away feeling seen, supported, and equipped to create a season filled with peace and meaningful memories.

Whether you're newly divorced, co-parenting, raising kids on your own, or simply searching for a Christian single-mom community that gets it, this episode gives you hope you can hold onto.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The real reason the holidays feel so isolating for single moms, and how to find your people
• How to process the emotional punch of sharing or alternating holidays with your kids
• What to do when you’re the only parent enforcing rules, routines, and boundaries
• Why “making memories over making everything perfect” will change the way you mom
• How to stay grounded in faith and confidence in the mom you are called to be

You are not behind. You are not too much. And you’re not doing this wrong.
You’re a strong, resilient, faith-driven mom who is building a home filled with love, and this episode gives you the tools to do it with confidence.

If this conversation encouraged you, it would mean the world if you followed, rated, and left a review, and shared the link with someone who needs to hear it!

To connect with Esme, follow along on social or visit www.esmegraff.com.

Podcat Website: The Esme Graff Podcast
Connect with me on social media (Instagram) or visit my website at www.esmegraff.com to stay updated on new episodes, book releases, and more!
© 2024 Esme Graff LLC. All rights reserved.