In this episode of What She Taught Me by Go Long, Jill Consor Beck talks to Danielle Hughes about how her mother's discipline and go-getterness shaped her into the reliable one. Danielle opens up about watching her mom finish a degree over twelve years, working nights and days to put herself through school while carrying the emotional load of the house alone. She talks about what she's had to unlearn as a business owner and single mom — that you don't have to do everything yourself — and how her mother, after 30 years of marriage, left her dad without telling a soul beforehand, not even her own sister. Tune in to hear what it took for Danielle to unlearn that pattern herself.

Resources mentioned:

• Blog — https://www.morethanwordscopy.com/blog

More about Danielle:

• Website — https://www.morethanwordscopy.com/

• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellehughes/

More about Jill & Go Long:

• Sign-up for Go Long's newsletter — https://golong.substack.com/subscribe

• Learn more about Go Long — https://www.golong.me/how-it-works

• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/justgolong/

• Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/justgolong

• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-long/

Jump to:

00:00 Intro: Danielle and Jill's Connection

02:06 Mom's Strict Parenting and the Disciplinarian Model

04:49 What Her Mom Carried Unacknowledged

08:16 Did Her Mom Ask for Help?

09:49 The Hidden Divorce: No Confiding, Even in Friends

11:47 Longest Thing to Unlearn: Doing It All Alone

13:29 The Fix-It Girl Pattern

16:11 Mom's Fitness at 77 vs. Dad's Passivity

17:57 Divide-and-Conquer on Parent Care