The Millennial Mama Memo Podcast

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix My baby turned THREE! 🥹 Nora got dressed all by herself for the first time, asked me to sing Sto Lat (the Polish birthday song I grew up with) right after Happy Birthday, and we let her birthday be easy: donuts, a park date with friends, and no big party.  💟 Favorites Folder The simplest hack ever: bring your kitchen scissors (in a giant Ziploc) to the Costco food court. W...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix Wrapping up my MATCH framework today with the last letter, H for Human, and here’s what that looks like for me… I get overstimulated fast, and my meltdowns aren't pretty. I also cannot function without buffer time between work and pickup, and I will die on the hill that prepping 20 freezer meals in one sitting is totally doable, but cooking dinner every single night is not....

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix Ease has gotten a bad reputation, and I'm here to reclaim it. Ease ≠ laziness. Ease is freedom from difficulty, but laziness is unwillingness to try. My kid can shimmy under my bed to grab something I can't reach, and that doesn't make her lazy; it means she's better equipped for that one task. Same logic applies to us as moms! 💟 Favorites Folder Tune in for a list of non-a...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix First podcast episode of September?! My brain’s already like, well that's basically a wrap on 2026, see you in October. 😅 This weekend was peak Millennial Mama Memo mode: I prepped 20 freezer meals, Harper and I went and cuddled baby green cheek conures, and more. 💟 Favorites Folder I am deep in a stickers-and-pins era. I finally bought myself a sticker book again, plus on...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix Asking for help is not weakness! It can be a gift to the person you're asking, especially when it's something they're good at. Example: My podcast editor Adrienne also does podcast management, so I texted her asking how soon we could switch to that. I was fully braced for a maybe, but she replied, “today!” All the tasks I was gritting my teeth over, she was thrilled to take...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix We survived our first few weeks back at school! My older daughter started her second year of TK (transitional kindergarten - a California thing, think preschool), and this year looked SO different than last year. Last year I cried dropping her off, and I was only about four months into my own ADHD diagnosis, deep in the process of figuring out what was me and what wasn't. Th...

Episode 23: You're Not Inconsistent. You Have a Cycle. (How Your Cycle Affects ADHD, Mood, and Energy) 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix Why tracking your entire monthly cycle (not just your period) tells you so much about your energy, mood, and ADHD symptoms, including the wild fact that some of us won't meet the criteria for ADHD when tested outside our luteal phase. 🤯🤯 Plus a PSA: you can still have a c...

Episode 22: What Actually Happens in an ART Intensive? 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix Back-to-school has me feeling like it's a brand new year, so I'm talking about focusing on how you want to FEEL this fall, plus my coach Tracy's idea of "covered space" and my friend Olivia Fam's reminder to live in alignment with your values. 💟 Favorites Folder Birds! I tell you all about Sunny (my 10-year-old parakeet...

The Millennial Mama Memo Podcast | Episode 21: How to Break Up With Your Therapist (The T in MATCH) 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix The T in MATCH is for Therapist, and this week I'm answering a question so many moms carry silently: how do you actually end things with your therapist? I cover why it feels so awkward, why you should genuinely like your therapist, and why their feelings are never yours to man...

The Millennial Mama Memo Podcast | Episode 20: Premeditated Disappointment (How to Set Goals as a Mom with ADHD) 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix It's the 20th episode lore drop. I get into why this podcast started (I'm a talk-to-think person who lives in voice memos), the visibility wound so many moms, neurodivergent folks, and therapists carry, and why goal-setting has always felt like premeditated disapp...

Episode 19: The A in MATCH – How I Help Moms Find the Right Support 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix A podcast update (I have an editor now, hi Adrienne !) and some honesty about where I get help, then a lore drop as I continue my MATCH Framework with the A: Advocate. I share growing up as a missionary kid in Europe, realizing as an adult that I'd been an immigrant the whole time, and how deconstructing all...

Episode 18: I Don't Have to Think About Dinner Until October (ADHD Meal Planning That Sticks) 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix 🎶 It's Christmas in July 🎶 and I'm the friend reminding you the holidays are five months out. I share my business coach's "cupboard space" trick for protecting your time before the season eats you alive. 💟 Favorites Folder The freezer meal system that saved my brain, my sanity, a...

Episode 17: The M in MATCH – A Millennial Mama Lore Drop 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix The first MATCH Framework lore drop, starting with M for Mom. I'm sharing my full story: pandemic pregnancy, baby blues that blindsided me (even as a therapist), the path to licensure, and the moment I realized the "millennial mama" in Millennial Mama Therapy is me, not my clients. 💟 Favorites Folder Voicemails for Is...

The Millennial Mama Memo Podcast | Episode 16: You're Not a Bad Mom, You're Just New at This 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix What being a business owner taught me about being a mom, and why there's no way to be good at either one out the gate. 💟 Favorites Folder A book rec from my friend Heather Woodford that every ADHD mama (and honestly every mom) needs on her shelf. 🛋️ Pink Couch Post-Its Resourcing Ca...

Welcome friends! 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: The "18 summers" trend is everywhere and it's adding SO much pressure (shout out to Ash Brandin, @thegamereducator for inspiring this convo!) What if we flipped it? I'm talking about parenting with the future in mind, why good enough parents beat perfect parents every time, and a quick reminder about what secure attachment actually means. 💟 Favorites Folde...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself. I'm sharing four of my favorite self-discovery tools (including the Enneagram, Human Design, astrology, and a book that genuinely changed my life) plus asking you two big questions you might not be ready to answer yet (and that's ok!). 🛋️ Pink Couch Post-Its The Millennial Mama Memo is officially...

EPISODE 13: I Said It — ART Is Better Than EMDR (Here's Why) 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: May-cember is behind us, which means it's officially time to make the damn appointments — and actually go to them. Here's why taking care of yourself at a baseline level isn't selfish, plus two hacks for when scheduling feels impossible. 🛋️ Pink Couch Post-Its: A full breakdown of ART Intensives. What Accelerated...

EPISODE 12: Coming Back to Yourself After Becoming a Mom 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: May-cember is finally over and I feel like a Munchkin doing a little song and dance about it. The thing that got me through the chaos? My village — specifically all the classroom aunties who showed up for my kid this year. We are not meant to do this alone. 🛋️ Pink Couch Post-Its: I'm starting to feel like myself agai...

🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: Lauren opens with something a lot of business owners and moms know well — the death spiral. Last week she skipped the episode because she was deep in one, questioning everything about her practice and her offers. She didn't hit the big red button. She stepped back instead. And this episode is about why that matters, and why forcing something that isn't working is a recipe f...

This week on The Millennial Mama Memo: 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: This episode drops the day after Mother's Day, and Lauren opens by naming something that doesn't get said enough — that Mother's Day is complicated, and that's okay. From there she gets into matrescence: the developmental life stage of transitioning from being a person to being a person who is also a mother. Like adolescence, it's unco...

Millennial Mama Memo Episode 9: May-cember Survival Tips, ADHD Tax, and a $12 Toolkit You Need 🌸 Millennial Mama Mix: Lauren opens with a term that might just change how you think about this time of year — May-cember. It's basically December but in May. Mother's Day, teacher appreciation, graduations, summer break incoming, wardrobe overhauls, everyone off their normal. She breaks down why this m...

Lauren opens this episode with something she learned in grad school that has never left her: the Good Enough Mother. A concept created by British pediatrician Donald Winnicott in the 1950s, it's the idea that perfection is not the goal of motherhood — repair is. She gets into it honestly, including losing her marbles during potty training round two and what it actually looked like to repair with h...

This week Lauren opens with a question: when was your last dental cleaning? Your last pap? Your first colonoscopy? If you felt a little squirm of guilt — you're exactly who this episode is for. The Millennial Mama Mix this week is a full PSA about making appointments for yourself. Lauren shares her own experience (a first colonoscopy at 33), a checklist of appointments most moms are putting off, a...

We tried something new this week — Lauren pre-recorded the Memo from her office, which means no fumbling to turn off the live at the end. Progress. This episode covers a lot of ground. First up: the brand photoshoot recap, including what it's like to be perceived on camera when you really, really do not want to be perceived. Then The Break Room officially launched — Lauren breaks down what it is,...