2 Broke Teen Moms Grew Up is hosted by Jess and Alice. A bi-weekly podcast where two teen moms that face challenges raising their children without the income of a reality TV show. They want to share their challenges and experiences of being a teen parent while comparing their lives to those shared on reality TV. As current thirty-something year old moms balancing motherhood, family, friendships and life, these two will dig into their busy lives, get input from other moms and guidance from reliable sources on how to make it all work.
Join us this week as Joe and I continue the discussion from the previous episode. This week isn't any less emotional, we continue on with our youngest's sons diagnosis and cancer treatment journey. We have welcomed all of our listeners into our lives in hopes to share our life's journey from our lows to our highs, but all of it in hopes you learn the difficult lessons through our stories and not through on your own. If you happen to be a parent going through the same or similar situations as we have, we hope you know you're not alone. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Joe
Join us this week as Joe and I continue the discussion and stay on track. This week is an emotional one, we will catch up on our current life and also continue on with the past. This podcast was started in hopes to show you what being a teen parent really is like, that TV teen moms really isn't reality, and this episode isn't any different. We want to paint you the picture of what our life has been like, raising a family and getting those curveballs thrown at us in the midst of it all. We hope you stick with us as we share our emotions and allow you into a time that was very difficult for us. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Joe
Join us this week as Joe steps in for Alice. We will catch up with him and get his take on all of our prior episodes. I will ask Joe for his perspective, what his "Village" was like, what were his thoughts on our weddings, what did he think about having more children, and of course his take on the "reality" of teen mom tv. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Alice
Join us this week as we continue discussing our lives as young moms. Alice will continue sharing what it was like having her daughter via a second cesarian. We also touch on what life appears to be like on the Teen Mom TV shows, freely having multiple kids with no worries or concerns about how they will care for the new addition. Hope you join us and realize it's ok to be where you are in life, don't compare yourselves to what appears to be reality. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Alice
Join us this week as we continue discussing our lives early on as young moms. This episode reminds you to never judge a book by its cover, and that we are truly meant to help. This week we struggle with some technical difficulties and had to cut it short, we'll be back in 2 weeks with a full episode, stay tuned! *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Alice
Join us this week as we discuss our current day-to-day life and get back on track where we left off last season. This week we talk about vaccines, anxiety, becoming mothers of 2, college, moving and once again how Teen Mom the show isn't "real" life. As always we try to remind our listeners how difficult it is to be a mom and try to do all the "right" things for your child. We want to encourage all moms to take it easy on themselves, parenting doesn't come with hundreds of thousands of dollars or a manual keep your head up. Look for the silver lining. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Alice
Welcome back listeners! Join us this week as we talk about what's been going on these last 9 months in the world around us as well as in our personal lives. We touch on the BLM movement, the election, the civil unrest, using your voice for good, and lastly the challenges in our families. We hope to give you more of an understanding as to why we had to prioritize our families during these difficult times. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG, or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review! Thank you - Jess and Alice
Join us this week as we talk about our different journeys as our .families develop. We'll talk about getting pregnant, pregnancy, having babies and breast feeding/or not breast feeding. Basically we get real about getting comfortable making decisions for your baby. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as well as any platform you listen on. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter. ***Don't forget to leave a review if you listen on Apple podcasts. Thank you - Jess and Alice
Join us this week as we introduce Luis, Alice's husband! This is such an important episode, when you're a teen mom or an unwed mom you may think you're never going to find "the one", Alice had come to terms with that possibility. But boy was she wrong, meeting Luis was so unexpected, but hey so was being a teen mom! In this episode we hear from Luis, what it was like meeting Alice, the baby and how he fell in love. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as well as any platform you listen on. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter.
Join us this week as we discuss how we're feeling during this time full of uncertainty. Yes we know everyone is talking about it. We are are not talking about statistics or symptoms we're talking about how we're dealing with this and hoping to make you feel a little bit normal and maybe make you laugh too. Yes we're all dealing with it differently, but we all have the same worries. We hope you are all staying home and staying healthy, this too shall pass. We'd love to hear what you're doing to stay sane ;eave a comment or send us a message. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as well as any platform you listen on. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter.
Join us this week as we continue sharing our stories. New beginnings, new apartments, and new commitments. We still have so much to share about our own journeys and continue to look for other moms to share their stories with us. No matter what path you chose, everyone struggles, we are sharing the stories how they happened and what it felt like in the moment while also explaining how we got through it. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as well as any platform you listen on. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter.
Join us this week as we continue sharing our stories where we left off. A marriage, a new house, a new relationship, a wedding, and an introduction. We are still in the early stages of discussing where these paths took us, and how having a baby as a teen has affected our lives. We hope you continue to join us every week as we share our parenting tips and encouragement. We promise, we have felt like we were drowning before, but we always had a little hand there to remind us of our purpose. *Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as well as any platform you listen to us on. **If you'd like to be a guest on our podcast or know someone we should talk to, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter.
Join us this week as we introduce our best friends, Angie and Julie. We will discuss some of our struggles as Angie and Julie share their personal views. This episode is very much a great conversation between 4 girlfriends that have had very similar stories. For Alice and I it was a moment to reflect and remember just how much it truly meant to us to have these friends by our side. Thank you to the both of you, we love you! Please subscribe, share and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and any podcast platform you listen to us on. *If you'd like to be a guest on our show or know someone we should have on, please send us a message on FB, IG or Twitter!
Join us this week as we introduce my husband to the podcast. He'll share his story through his perspective and share his insight on what it was like to be a teen dad. We'll talk about finding out, waiting for a decision, telling parents, school, friends and more. We hope you love it! Don't forget to share our podcast with your friends!
Join us this week as we compare our lives to the lives of the teen moms portrayed on "reality" TV. As fans of the shows we wanted to explain what you see isn't what happens in real life.
Join us this week as we talk about why we chose the path that we did after finding out we were pregnant and learning how to juggle our new baby, our family's, work, school and our relationships. For information on government assistance for childcare visit: https://www.childcare.gov/consumer-education/get-help-paying-for-child-care
Join us as we discuss the struggles of Senior year in high school as well as making adult decisions as a teen. Other topics we talk about will be: Finals Prom Graduation Relationships and giving birth... Helpful links: WIC (Women Infants and Children aid) https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic Medicaid: https://www.usa.gov/benefits
These are our first experiences of becoming teen moms. We share what it was like to tell our boyfriends, friends and parents.