Parenting Alone: Letting Go of Control, Anger, and Self-Pity
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is the iconic Cris Cavallari, owner of ICCON, a Philadelphia-based fashion studio and online boutique. Cris shares her story navigating motherhood for the second time, 16 years after giving birth to her first child when she was only 16-years-old. Cris expected the second time around to be much smoother because she was an adult and had a partner. But soon into her pregnancy she realized she was going to be alone in her journey. In this conversation, Cris discusses her co-parenting challenges, finding strength in hard times, and how cutting her son's long hair surprisiningly helped her let go of control, anger, and self-pity. Cris is a beacon of inspiration and we’re so excited for you to get to know her.
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| 0:00.0 | That's when everything changed. |
| 0:03.0 | I didn't take my power back. |
| 0:04.9 | I literally snatched, I yanked it up. |
| 0:07.4 | And I was like, yeah, no. |
| 0:08.7 | If this continues to go like this, there's going to be no more left in you because you're going to be driving on empty for the longest time and you have to stop. |
| 0:18.3 | The way I snatched it back, though. |
| 0:27.6 | Okay. have to stop. The way I snatched it back, though. Okay, today we've got our storyteller, |
| 0:33.8 | Chris Cavallari. She's a business owner. She's building her own fashion brand and mindset empire. |
| 0:39.0 | She's the founder of online boutique icon. It's a Philadelphia-based fashion studio. |
| 0:46.0 | So I've watched your kind of fashion sense and style. It just like changes a little bit throughout the years. And like back then was probably five years ago or something. I went to |
| 0:51.6 | your page and I was like, oh my God, like she looks like Erica Badu, |
| 0:55.7 | just looking really fucking cool. And I was like, I really have to up my game. Oh my God. |
| 1:01.8 | And now I feel like you're in kind of like basics everyday pieces, but like with flair and like |
| 1:07.3 | sexiness, but just like functional, but like really cool still. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.8 | I try to do. |
| 1:14.2 | I call it elevated basics. |
| 1:16.2 | So you're going to the grocery store or work or on a date or wherever with these damn |
| 1:20.8 | kids. |
| 1:21.2 | You're going to wear it and it's going to make you feel good. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.4 | You always look good. |
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