Misty looks her daughter in the eye and says the words she's owed her for years: I'm sorry. A real apology — not a lesson, not polished. For a wound she didn't know was there. ❤️‍🩹

Last week, Morgan told her me something I hadn't let herself fully sit with.

I asked for a week before responding — I didn't want to rush past it.

▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| | This episode is that week.

In the little 4 X 4 podcast cubicle, I take a moment to look my daughter in the eye and tell the words she's owed her for a long time: I'm sorry. Not a general apology — a specific one, for something that cost Morgan real time and real closeness with her dad. 🤍

What comes back isn't what you'd expect. Morgan talks about the difference between a hurt that's twenty years old and one that's still fresh — "that cake is baked," she says — and how she's already grieved it, already made her peace, without pretending it didn't cost her anything.

Then there's the story behind a piece of hand-stitched fabric a much younger Morgan made for her mom — misspelled and all — that's been a family joke for twenty years. Except it was never really a joke. It's part of why the two of them can have a conversation like this one at all.

🤎🍪🔗 They close the way they've been closing lately — with something true, a little levity, and the promise of a cookie.

Mother-daughter relationships. Reconciliation. Saying I'm sorry and meaning it. This is what that actually sounds like.

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌐 Website — mistyhughes.com 👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry 📸 Instagram — @the_mistyhughes 🌱 BECOMING Cohort — mistyhughes.com/cohort ✨ Free Resource (Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide) — https://mistyhughes.com/resources 📞 Book a Call with Misty — https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too."

Misty and her daughter Morgan talk honestly about growing up in a single-parent home — what it took, what it cost, and what's still unfinished.

Morgan is 39 now. She was 11 or 12 when her parents divorced — one of four kids growing up in what was, at the time, a pretty unusual thing among the families around her. In this episode, she and Misty sit down and just talk about it.

What it was actually like.

What's different about how divorce and single parenting look today versus 25 years ago.

What nobody really explained to her as a kid.

What she's learned...AND

What is still very hard.

This isn't a teaching episode. It's Misty and Morgan, on mic instead of on the phone, having the kind of conversation they've been having for years — the real one, not the polished one.

⚡ Somewhere in the middle of it, something shifted.

Misty found herself sitting in real sorrow about what her kids went through — not trying to fix it, not explaining it away.

And Morgan, on the other side of that, admitted it made her uncomfortable to watch.

-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈ That's where this episode ends — not because the conversation was over, but because it wasn't.

Misty comes back next week to respond to Morgan more fully.

❤️‍🩹 Mother-daughter relationships. 💜 Adult children. 🩶 Honest motherhood. ❤️‍🔥 Real conversations. ᝰ.ᐟ This is what that actually sounds like. 🎙️ Be sure to subscribe and hear Misty's response and more of Morgan's story next week.

Misty and her daughter Morgan sit down for their first-ever episode — nervous, honest, and hopeful. A real mother-daughter conversation, unscripted.

"Okay, we're actually doing this.

Three,

two,

one,

GO."

That's how it starts — and if you listen closely, you can hear exactly how nervous we both were.

This is the very first Morgan & Mom episode.

❌ No framework,

❌ no three steps,

❌ no takeaway at the end

— just a mother and a daughter, in a room together, talking the way we already talk on the phone every week. Except this time, you get to listen in.

We spent the first few minutes just naming what we were nervous about — the technology, being honest on tape, the things we haven't said out loud yet. And somewhere in there, we made up a safe word for when a conversation gets to be too much. (It's cookie. You'll understand why once you hear it.)

But underneath the nerves, there's something we both believe: ours is a story of hope, and a story of two people who love each other and are committed to continuing to grow.

We're not experts on reconciliation. We're just living it, and we wanted to let you sit at the table with us while we do.

💖 If you've ever wondered what it looks like to rebuild closeness with your mom or your daughter after a hard season, we hope this becomes a place that feels a little less lonely.

And if things are easy for you right now, we hope it's a place that makes you grateful. 💖

This is just us, talking. If you want to go deeper into any of it, here's where to find me.

🌐 Website — mistyhughes.com 👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry 📸 Instagram — @the_mistyhughes 🌱 BECOMING Cohort — mistyhughes.com/cohort ✨ Free Resource (Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide) — https://mistyhughes.com/resources 📞 Book a Call with Misty — https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." ✦