Goodbye, Classically Abby
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about where my priorities have shifted and what my time looks like right now, and why I'm launching a community for First Generation Stay-at-Home Mommas. I'm so excited to be launching this community and I can't wait to see where it goes from here!
Transcript
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it's time to say goodbye to classically abby it has been about five years since i started my youtube
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channel i think it's about five years and i have loved every second of making content for you all
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i think any creator of a youtube channel of a brand believes in everything that they've done
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but also changes over time and i know that that's true for me and i know that you constantly see
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on youtube channels like you've changed so much from when you started and you know i don't hear
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that all the time which is nice but i have been thinking for a long time about how much i i have
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changed and how my priorities have shifted when i first started my youtube channel i was a new wife
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and i really wanted to share advice about dating i wanted to share advice about being a wife and
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how to embrace femininity and womanhood in this crazy world that we live in that kind of rejects
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traditional values and classic living and that was really my passion and i loved sharing that
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with you guys and i talked a lot about cultural commentary and i sometimes delved into politics
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but then i had my children and all those things still matter to me don't get me wrong and i still
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really enjoy talking about them but the thing that matters most is being a mother to my children when
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people ask me what i do the first thing i say is i'm a stay-at-home mom because that is my full-time
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role i am a mother and caretaker for my boys and hopefully with god's help we have many more children
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so that i can continue to to be a homemaker and on top of that i want to homeschool my kids so i'm not
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going to have that much time to sit down and make a bunch of content for all of you guys and even
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though i love doing classically abby and even though it feels like a mission in many ways i think
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it's a distraction sometimes from my greater mission which is being present and there for my boys and i
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never want to take away from them by doing things here on my channel or for my brand and so even though
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i'm not going to be posting on my youtube channel anymore i have some exciting news so i have been
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thinking a lot about where my priorities have shifted and what my time looks like right now and it
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became incredibly clear to me that the thing that i think is the most important for me to put out there
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like what my mission is right now is to create a community for first generation stay-at-home moms
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i consider myself a first generation stay-at-home mom it has been a very long time since someone in
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my family a woman in my family has been at home with her kids my mom worked my grandmother worked
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and so i didn't have those really important lessons of how to be a homemaker how to be a stay-at-home mom
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and how to be a homeschooler but that's in parentheses because that's not as common
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like passed down to me so i have had to learn all of this stuff through friends through books and
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through experience and i think that that is something that is sorely lacking in our culture
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is how to equip women who want to be stay-at-home moms with the tools to do so and i'm really excited
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to be launching the first generation stay-at-home mom on instagram and on substack what i have time for
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right now is writing i can sit down and write like three articles in an hour because the ideas
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i can't even tell you they're pouring out of me all of the things i want to talk about with you guys
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all the things i want to share with you all of the things i want to hear from you about are just
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coming out of my fingertips and so i want to share that stuff with you i don't have time to put on
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makeup do my hair set up my filming station record edit every week i just don't but i do have time
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to sit at my computer for discrete amounts of time write and edit that is something i can do and
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one of the things i prefer about that medium right now is that i can take the time to write exactly
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what i mean and edit it and not worry about okay when i'm sitting here and recording and talking to
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you guys i might say something in the moment that i can't edit something in later without it looking
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weird it's it's a very weird medium in that way when you work on youtube is that what you record
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at the time is what you've recorded and you can't change or edit or add something to what you've
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already recorded because everything's gonna look different your hair your makeup the lighting like
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where you're sitting what you're wearing all of that's gonna look different whereas an article
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something you write i can edit it i can add things i can take things out that's all part of the process
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it's all part of the natural process which when i'm talking about big ideas like motherhood and
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homeschooling i want the opportunity to be able to be really clear and specific about what i mean
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so what is the first generation stay-at-home mom and where can you find it so it's going to be on
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instagram it's also going to be on substack but i'm going to keep it free for a while i want anybody
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who's interested to be able to see what i'm writing what i'm talking about and i would love
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for you to join my community over there so please head over to my substack the first generation stay
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at home mom i'll have it linked in the description box below and it'll be on the screen here so that
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you guys can go ahead and check it out because it's so exciting i'm like so i just cannot wait to share
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all of the thoughts i've been having with you well the first generation stay-at-home mom is for all stay
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at home moms but particularly for those who are the first in their families to take on the role of
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mother homemaker and homeschooler as a full-time vocation i'm going to be writing about mother from
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a philosophical perspective like how did we get here and why is it that being a stay-at-home mom
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is so uncommon these days that kind of thing to practical tips like how to structure your day
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and talking to other women that i know who do it and kind of getting bolstering advice from them
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and some more kind of fun content like book reviews and modest outfits of the week and just
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being able to share with you a little bit of my day-to-day as well as all of these things i think
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that are so beneficial for us this community of stay-at-home moms this generation of stay-at-home
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moms needs to have some guidance like we didn't have there's no such thing as a college degree in
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homemaking home economics by the time we were in high school was gone like it didn't exist and so we
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weren't equipped with all of the all of the ways that this is a completely sustainable and attainable
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lifestyle i know so many women who wanted to be stay-at-home moms who wanted to be homeschoolers
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and just didn't know how to do it and ended up kind of dumping out quitting and going to back to
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work and putting their kids in school just because they didn't know how to do it and there are ways
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there are ways to do it and i want to share my experience with you guys and i want to hear from
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you too so i'm so excited please go ahead and follow me on substack it's completely free i just want
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to build a community over there and please follow me on instagram i really think you guys are going
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to love it i'm going to take a break from classically abby and focus my energies on something i think is
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more important right now the culture is where the change begins and we as stay-at-home moms are the
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beginning of that like if we invest our time and energy into our children if we make our children our
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life instead of a part of our life then i think our society is going to improve exponentially over time
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and that is something we can do as moms so even though classically abby is still incredibly
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important all of my videos will still be available you can still find them for your daughters for your
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friends who are dating or early in marriage i want to put my mission at the forefront and that is to
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support and educate and share and learn about being a first generation stay-at-home mom alongside all
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of you so thank you so much for watching today's video i can't wait to have you join me