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Make a Deposit: A Guide to Rebuilding Your Identity and Finding Fulfillment After Having Kids

Being a mother is A LOT… Everyone depends on you. Everyone wants your time and attention.
But what about what you want and need? What about YOU? If you don’t know what you want for yourself yet, that’s okay. In fact, it’s ideal! This is an opportunity to relearn yourself, redefine who you are, and LEAN IN to who you want to become.
Lifestyle content creator and mom of four, Danielle LaShawn McKnight was there—a mom who loved her family endlessly but didn’t recognize who she was outside of the “mom” title. From endless chores to always investing in family first, Danielle had to do something different or stay miserable.
Make a Deposit is the step-by-step guide for women who’ve lost their identity in motherhood to redefine themselves using their current situation as a stepping stone. Packed with insights into how making small deposits daily can add up to drastic life improvements, this is the pathway that will help you create your best life centered on who you are now. With easy-to-use exercises, Make a Deposit teaches you to use daily choices, no matter how insignificant they seem, to increase your rewards.
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been searching for the best affordable duvet covers available in 2023. I was on the hunt for affordable, good quality duvet covers for my king-sized Amazon duvet. If you’re looking for a beyond affordable (we’re talking under $40) duvet that’s not too hot for summer, keeps you warm in winter, and is still fluffy enough to look luxurious on your bed… this is it! Amazon for the win… yet again. But back to the...
How TikTok’s 12-Hour Blackout Boosted Creator Productivity
For 12 hours, TikTok—the app that has revolutionized short-form video content—went dark, leaving millions of creators wondering, what now? While the outage didn’t last long, it sent a clear message: relying on a single platform can be risky. Here’s how creators turned the downtime into an opportunity to build stronger, more resilient content strategies—and how you can do the same.
Lessons From the TikTok Shutdown: Why Creators Must Diversify Now
Learn how creators adapted during the TikTok outage and why diversifying your content strategy is essential for long-term success.
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Meet the Author
Danielle LaShawn McKnight is a lifestyle content creator and mother of four. She is passionate about helping women achieve their goals and dreams by making daily deposits in themselves. While raising four healthy, well-adjusted children, Danielle has adapted daily methods to pursue her own dreams and live life on her terms.
In her book and on social media, Danielle shares her struggles and strategy for creating an actionable life plan. Danielle’s YouTube channel has over 50 thousand subscribers who follow her budget-friendly grocery hauls, meal planning, and creative kitchen hacks. Danielle gives insights into her family’s life and the small deposits she makes in herself daily.
A devoted mother and wife, she is a homemaker, interior designer, chauffeur, and homeschooler. Born in Washington, DC, and raised in Maryland, she now lives in Virginia with her family.
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