We're Back! Season 2 Prelude

We are BACK, Ummas!

Season 1 was all about establishing our foundations and core pillars, introducing the world to what The Old Umma Club is all about. Season 2 is where we dive into the thick of it all.

Listen to the prelude to hear our life updates and what this upcoming season holds!

We want to get to know our Ummas! You can find Sophia and Joyce: 

Instagram: @theoldummaclub

Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com

Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Transcript

0:02

Hey Amaz, welcome to the Old Alma Club. I'm Joyce. And I'm Sophia. We are two friends in Los Angeles who had so many great coffee chats about our love for Jesus being Korean in biracial marriages and having kids mid-career, mid thirties. So we decided to turn it into a podcast. So grab a cup of coffee and join our conversations and by aching backs, motherhood, marriage, Jesus, and everything in between. You ready? Hannah? Two. Set. Set. Let's go. Let's go.

Joyce 0:36

We're back.

Sophia 0:36

back.

Joyce 0:40

Welcome back.

Sophia 0:41

OMA.

Joyce 0:42

Welcome back.

Sophia 0:43

or if you're new here. Hello. This is season two of the old Oma Club with Joyce and Sophia.

Joyce 0:51

We are super stoked about this upcoming season. Um, but before we talk about this incoming season, Sophia and I wanted to give you guys an update on just how we have been because it's been a minute. the last time we recorded was in October. Uh,

Sophia 1:08

You were, very pregnant and we actually recorded it at, um,

Joyce 1:12

In my hospital. Yeah.

Sophia 1:14

Yeah.

Joyce 1:15

On my hospital bed.

Sophia 1:17

I brought K Cook and Top Cook for you.

Joyce 1:19

I know. And I was like,

Sophia 1:20

where we did it. So it's been a while. It is 2026

Joyce 1:24

mm-hmm.

Sophia 1:24

Um, currently March, 2026. and so a lot has happened.

Joyce 1:30

Yes.

Sophia 1:30

Joyce, tell me what has changed

Joyce 1:33

Well now I have a third child, so that's a pretty big change. Uh,

Sophia 1:38

Congratulations.

Joyce 1:40

Thank you. And even that was really big change. 'cause it's like, not only was it just a big change in adding a third child, but it was also hard because Owen, uh, that's the name of my third kiddo. He had to stay in the NICU for about a month. So that was a really big dynamic shift 'cause we didn't really get to step into the season that we were expecting. Um, but then now that he's been home since December and we've all been really settling into the groove of what it means to be a family of five. So that's been good. Uh, Cian, my oldest is now four and a half, and we are getting him ready to transition to tk. He's currently in preschool right now. And then Taigh is two and a half, and I've been kind of keeping him at home for as long as possible. I know he's ready and he needs just a little more socialization. And I could tell he desires it, but I'm just like, oh, I just want it.

Sophia 2:38

He's your velcro baby.

Joyce 2:39

Know. And I realized, yeah. And I just like realized like it's. The reason why he is been so sweet is 'cause it's almost like a, I was just telling Tyler, I was like, it just feels like a redemption experience of like being able to re-experience having like my oldest at home. So I think that's why I'm also like, cherishing it a little bit more. Um, but also my oldest, he, the homie needed to go. He was like, he was, he's so extroverted. I was like, there's not enough energy in my life to be able to provide the extroverted that you need. Um.

Sophia 3:11

Yeah, he, he loves

Joyce 3:12

Yeah. He loves school and I think Taigh is gonna be great. And so we're getting him ready to transition to potty training soon. And, uh,

Sophia 3:22

the

Joyce 3:22

I know, and then also preschool,

Sophia 3:25

positive about party training,

Joyce 3:27

except not having to pay for diapers, like that much diapers. You still have to pay for night diapers, but I, I would love to not have to pay. Yeah. I would love to not have to pay for daytime diapers anymore. uh, and then we have Owen who's just chilling at home and he's, uh, about to hit his four month mark. So it's kind of crazy. We just celebrated his baekil.

Sophia 3:48

his Pega?

Joyce 3:49

Yeah,

Sophia 3:50

Amazing.

Joyce 3:51

I know. So that's kind of been it. I mean, and of course like our marriage has gone through its own evolution now that we have an added kid and a different dynamic. Um, but I think. Because it was the third roundabout, like it would, we were just a little bit more prepared and being able to understand and recognize the warning signs. So we're able to kind of just step in a little faster. And now was like, it's always that at month three, four is like really one, we've always hit a big collision in our marriage. Uh, nothing bad, it's just, I think all the changes tend to implode around that time. And so. We, we have the gift of being able to be retrospective and re retro, reflective and, uh,

Sophia 4:39

reflective.

Joyce 4:39

reflective girl. It's a new term,

Sophia 4:41

reflective is good,

Joyce 4:43

retro reflective. We're gonna make it a term, but uh,

Sophia 4:47

but Exactly makes no sense

Joyce 4:50

it does in my mind. Okay. It is retro reflective,

Sophia 4:55

looking

Joyce 4:55

vintage reflective. You know what I mean? So yeah, we're, we're doing that, uh, we had that in our back pocket. And the benefit of that and being able to say like, oh, we're hitting that spot. We're grinding it out. Okay, we gotta, let's nip this in the bud and talk it out. So it's kind of what we did now, so.

Sophia 5:16

Your pros at marital conflict resolution, though

Joyce 5:19

I wouldn't say pros, but it did help to be able to let look back three times and then be able to recognize a pattern. And I was like, Ooh. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, and so I think being able to have that it was better. Like, I didn't come with it with as much resentment 'cause I just realized this is just what it is. You know what I mean? So I was kind of able to like. Notes, storylines and all that stuff. So, we'll, we'll go into it more with the rest of our series when we go into it. But, um, but yeah, so that's just been kind of the changes that's been happening here. and I think me personally too, changes, I think is obviously becoming a mother of three kids, but, um, trying to figure out what it means now with. I think my body and work and kind of future stuff. Still trying to convince my husband with a vasectomy. Just I

Sophia 6:21

Just get it done, Tyler.

Joyce 6:23

just. I'm just Lord. Uh, if any of you would like to pray, by the time this launches, if I still don't have a husband with a vasectomy, I'll, I'll put it in the show notes and I just need prayer requests.

Sophia 6:36

We can send David and Tyler to go

Joyce 6:38

Yeah, they could go hand in hand like, you know, best buddies. We could drop 'em off at the same time, pick 'em up at the same time.

Sophia 6:44

on with, with all the stuff that women have to go through. Come on, man. it's just a snip snip.

Joyce 6:50

It's also laparoscopic. Like it's literally just like beep beep.

Sophia 6:55

and it's a quick

Joyce 6:56

Yeah. Two little stitches

Sophia 6:58

like postpartum where you've been stitched up and just like, basically it's just torn open. Come on.

Joyce 7:03

in more ways than one.

Sophia 7:05

from

Joyce 7:05

Yeah,

Sophia 7:06

none.

Joyce 7:07

I know. So, uh, if, if a heath stole has not got the snip snip, by the time this launches, we're gonna put in the show notes, I need a prayer request.

Sophia 7:17

Urgent prayer request. Please go on your hands and knees for fasting.

Joyce 7:30

Uh, so yes. So that's what's been going on with me. What about you, Sophia? Tell me, tell us, tell the Amma Club what's been going on.

Sophia 7:38

Okay, well mine is not as dramatic as your choice, but, um, so my first tov, his name is to, he's currently three and a half. Almost four. He turns four in May, my second Woori is now a year and a half. Um, so very, uh, wild stages right now. my days consists of just basically chasing them around with a vacuum and a rag and Woori's at a stage where she's climbing on kitchen counters, kitchen islands, dining tables, climbing everywhere. And then her. Her hobby is to open the drawers in the kitchen and dump everything out one by one with the cutest smile on her face. So you really can't get mad at her.

Joyce 8:23

I know the smile of happiness. You're like, oh.

Sophia 8:25

I know she's so delighted. Yeah. So Tov is currently in preschool twice a week and Woori's home with me, um, 24 7. So she's also my Velcro baby, except she's. She's actually quite an independent one. she does her own thing and kind of goes off by herself. So honestly, on the two days of week where I'm just home with her is kind of almost my reset day. That's when I get, try to get a lot of stuff

Joyce 8:57

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 8:57

like recording this podcast, doing research. Um. You know, cooking things, baking things, things like that. Yeah. also, I, I seem to be always about a year behind you, Joyce,

Joyce 9:13

true.

Sophia 9:13

but I'm also pregnant with my third

Joyce 9:15

Woo hoo.

Sophia 9:16

and

Joyce 9:16

think it's like almost six months. Every time It's like six months apart. Pretty much. It's almost pretty much six months apart, or a year, six months to a year, depending.

Sophia 9:25

six months to a

Joyce 9:26

Yeah.

Sophia 9:27

Um, so yeah, I, I'm just like holding onto coattails. so the baby is due in September and I am just about to hit second trimester, so it's pretty early

Joyce 9:39

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 9:40

we don't know the gender yet, but, um,

Joyce 9:43

What do you have a feeling? Do you have a feeling

Sophia 9:46

Absolutely none. I don't have any kind of those kind of maternal woowoo instincts.

Joyce 9:51

haven't had a dream yet? No Dreams? No.

Sophia 9:54

I thought Tov was a girl. He was a boy. I thought Woori was a boy. She was a girl. So I don't trust my guts.

Joyce 10:00

Well, then we could also just say, have you make a guess, and then maybe assume it's gonna be the opposite. You've been consistent in being opposite, so

Sophia 10:09

Uh, well, I think it's a girl and we, we, we should see there, there'll be updates.

Joyce 10:17

feel like it's a girl. David and I, we talked about it. He was like, I was like, I feel like it's a girl. He is like, yeah, probably. So I feel like, yeah.

Sophia 10:24

said that. Huh?

Joyce 10:25

So, I mean,

Sophia 10:26

just, a hope just for things that are a little calmer though you can, you can it. I don't know. That's such a gender stereotype. You can never know. You never know.

Joyce 10:36

there's just a different level. The noises are different, but also girls can be just as feral as boys, so.

Sophia 10:45

Yeah. I mean, yeah, you should see what is tantrums. quite, quite a spectacle. she also loves to drink puddles that she just finds outside in the backyard. I, I, I literally, I just, I just give up. I can't have my eyes on you 24 7 kid. Like I can't. So yeah, the things that have gone into her mouth, but then she's so healthy, she rarely gets sick. So you know what? There's Something about that immunity thing. Building immunity,

Joyce 11:16

Yeah. I mean, yeah, and both of our, both of our first kids were born during COVID, so it was like so much more. They didn't really have a chance to like really build any level of immune system until they were like one and a half.

Sophia 11:29

Yeah, by then, yeah. And then queuing all

Joyce 11:33

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 11:33

everything. Hema, food disease, everything. Right? Stomach flu.

Joyce 11:38

Yeah.

Sophia 11:39

speaking of all illnesses and pregnancies and newborns and, um, resolving marital conflicts and sending kids to preschool and all of that, theme for season two is the thick of it. are very much in the thick of it, and meaning like having multiple young kids under five. Where there's not that much autonomy or independence yet. there's a lot of noise. There's a lot of overstimulation. There's just, Hmm. I, I don't think I need to really describe it to

Joyce 12:17

Everybody gets it. You say they're under five. Everyone's like, we know we get it.

Sophia 12:22

Unless they're much older, then they forget.

Joyce 12:25

True. Unless, I don't know. I think they forget or they choose to forget.

Sophia 12:32

Oh, it's like trauma,

Joyce 12:34

Yeah.

Sophia 12:34

Just block it. Mental block. I just know it was hard, but I don't feel, I don't remember the details because I was in the thick of

Joyce 12:41

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 12:42

I was living in a brain fog. I think that that's what my mother would say, that she was just in this fog.

Joyce 12:47

I feel like my mom live remembers it with clarity and likes to remind me, uh,

Sophia 12:53

She probably took notes for later on

Joyce 12:56

Her as,

Sophia 12:56

to remind you

Joyce 12:57

as much as she claims her memory is not good. Her ability to do like memory recall, I was like, wow, it's quite sharp

Sophia 13:06

for, for the sake of

Joyce 13:07

for this. I mean, it's quite Korean, right? Just anything to just laden on the guilt measure. Yeah. So our season is gonna be, it's about the thick, it's, the theme is the thick of it. So we have different episode, um, lined up. So it's the same format as last time where we're gonna just do a season. I think we have about six to 12, somewhere ranging eight to

Sophia 13:32

that's,

Joyce 13:32

eight.

Sophia 13:33

a wide

Joyce 13:33

Eight to 10.

Sophia 13:34

eight to 10. Eight to 10 maybe. uh, an episode gets long, then we'll cut it into part one, part

Joyce 13:41

Yeah.

Sophia 13:42

um. To be decided.

Joyce 13:45

Yeah, but it's gonna be just like last time where we'll, we'll launch a on a weekly or biweekly basis and we're have just a certain number of, um, episodes out, uh, ranging from the topics of. Transitions. Right. Especially now that I have a third kid transitioning from two to three or one to two. And Sophia's upcoming transition. Yeah. Just covering all of that. Talking about what does self-care even mean that's a whole thing for us. I think the whole, the term of self-care is a whole thing.

Sophia 14:20

Um, our children.

Joyce 14:22

Yeah.

Sophia 14:24

yeah. Discipline our kids. What is our typical daily and weekly routine? I'm sure we are gonna talk about marital issues as well as it pops up.

Joyce 14:36

yeah, so I'm really excited about the season 'cause I think it's just topics that we've really been wanting to talk about, but we wanted to spend Season one to just ultimately build the foundation of what the old Ahma Club is, who we are, and for. Us and you guys to get to know each other. Um, and so now I think this is the fun where our fun gets to kick off, where we get to really talk about topics that we've want been wanting to talk about, really wanting to talk about. Yeah.

Sophia 15:05

Yeah, it'll be a fun episode and I mean, we are living in

Joyce 15:08

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 15:09

so that's a part of me too that is a little nervous about, of how, um, consistent we will be in being able to meet up and record this episode. things always pop up, right. Um, so we shall see it. should do our best.

Joyce 15:24

why the season is called being in the thick of it. And then by the time we get to season three, I think Sophia will be giving birth. So, or season four, season three or four is probably,

Sophia 15:36

then. Yeah,

Joyce 15:38

definitely finish before then. I think,

Sophia 15:42

goal.

Joyce 15:43

but also, we would love to continue getting feedback and like, just hearing from you guys, it's been so sweet and awesome hearing from just our friends and family and community members. a funny one that a friend of mine, a girlfriend of mine sent when we were talking. Because a couple of our episodes, a handful of our episodes from season one had quite technical difficulties. my friend, she texted me and she's like, um, if you mean by bad sound quality, you mean like, it just sounds like two girls talking to bathroom. She's like, that's perfect, because sometimes I hide in the bathroom from my kids, and that's exactly what I needed was like, she was like, it just sounded like as if when I was hiding in the bathroom and I'm just talking with friends in the bathroom. So I was like, all right, well, there you go then. Perfect.

Sophia 16:27

vibe. Yeah, that's exactly what we are going for. Where you know, and actually both, I think Joyce and I have personal experience this where I know I have, where I actually hid in the bathroom

Joyce 16:37

Oh, yeah,

Sophia 16:38

you a voice message about, 'cause I was about to lose

Joyce 16:41

yeah, yeah. With a closet.

Sophia 16:43

that is totally the vibe we're going for. We are not trying to be. experts on anything. We're still

Joyce 16:48

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 16:48

we are just surviving and we just wanna reach out with empathy saying we are in it

Joyce 16:55

Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's just really what it is, is our ultimate goal has been just to be a podcast that you can turn on and have it running while you're just kind of doing things and it just feels like chatter, like you're just listening to two friends talk. And that's really what we want.

Sophia 17:08

that's one of the, one of the feedback we got too, um, from a missionary in Peru actually. Um, she was saying that, um, she loves listening to her podcast while she's doing chores around the house, like washing the dishes, and she's just listening to us talking. It's just like having girlfriends over spilling tea.

Joyce 17:27

Always spilling the tea.

Sophia 17:29

also gotten an email from someone who doesn't have children, and she listened to a podcast, so that was amazing.

Joyce 17:35

that's right.

Sophia 17:36

Yeah,

Joyce 17:37

That was so cool. Got an email.

Sophia 17:41

I hope it does not scare her away from parenthood.

Joyce 17:45

Hmm. No, she's gonna be more prepared.

Sophia 17:51

Let's hope. Let's hope for that.

Joyce 17:53

A realistic, non curated expectations of parenthood.

Sophia 18:00

Yeah. my hope is also that when listening to this know that we know that parenthood is hard, but that also it is so beautiful for is

Joyce 18:10

Mm-hmm.

Sophia 18:10

Yeah. That there is so much beauty and we truly do enjoy being mothers.

Joyce 18:14

Yes, we really do. Even as for as much as we complain about it,

Sophia 18:18

Yeah. We love complaining about it and you know, it gives us a lot of good content to complain about, which makes us

Joyce 18:24

yes.

Sophia 18:26

Yeah.

Joyce 18:28

All right, amaz. Well, welcome to the start of season two. We're so glad that you're joining us again, and that we hope you continue to spread the word about the Amah Club and increase the members, uh, so that they could come join and listen to us spill the tea about our lives. Um,

Sophia 18:46

lots of tea to

Joyce 18:47

yeah, all of it, a whole teapot. All right. We'll see you next time. Okay. Bye

Sophia 18:56

Bye.

18:59

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