In our first guest conversation of Season 8, Tyece Wilkins-Amadi gives us a unique view into her inner landscape as a mom to toddler twins — plus how her experience intertwines with themes of identity, ambition, and creativity.
Hear us discuss:
- How Tyece shifted from absolutely not wanting kids to becoming a mom to twins (1:16)
- The early days of caring for two newborns — and how she managed the juggle (16:30)
- The lessons she learned from making the wrong childcare decision (27:41)
- How Tyece makes space for her writing — and why motherhood and creativity go hand in hand (31:27)
- The unique challenges and joys of raising twins (49:10)
About Tyece
Tyece Wilkins-Amadi is a mother of toddler twins, a wife to a Dodgers-loving Californian and a writer exploring motherhood, ambition, and the quiet negotiations of a creative life. Her work sits at the intersection of care and becoming, where questions of identity, meaning, and worth are continually rewritten. Drawing from her background in workplace culture and well-being, she writes essays that linger in the liminal spaces between striving and rest, clarity and confusion, and the life we planned versus the one we're living. Her writing is an ongoing attempt to name what often goes unsaid, and to imagine more spacious, human ways of living, working, and creating.
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Find Tyece on Substack, at Ampersand Motherhood: substack.com/@ampersandmotherhood
Her Instagram handle is @tyunscripted
Read the piece that inspired this podcast conversation: Tyece's tending "Toward a Truer Life" essay: ampersandmotherhood.substack.com/p/tending-toward-a-truer-life
Read Cheryl Strayed's The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us
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