Identity, Motherhood and Finding Yourself Again with Susie Ferrier

<p>Susie Ferrier raised three kids in a house that ran at 150 mile an hour. A country woman from Roma, she built two businesses with babies in a playpen out the back of the shop, long before anyone called it a daycare problem, alongside her husband and a community that watched the Ferrier kids grow up free.</p><p>For most people, motherhood is the story of raising them. This is the story of what happens after.</p><p>In this episode, Sam sits down with his mother and walks back through the years that made her: the self-reliance that rural women in her era had no choice but to learn, and the honest reckoning of what running flat out for thirty years cost the people closest to her. </p><p>They talk about the identity that collapses when the children leave, the five years it took her to find herself again, and the morning she trained alone in the dark at 60 and discovered something she&#39;d been missing the whole time. They talk about the paradigms handed down through the lineage, the ones getting broken in the next generation, and what she&#39;s learned about presence as the thing that matters most, time as the one thing you never get back, and the patience it takes to become who you are after the work is done.</p><p>Run your race. Family&#39;s everything. Let your light shine.</p><p><strong>Connect:</strong>Instagram: @rural__bridgeWebsite: theruralbridge.com</p>