Motherhood Uncut

You’re smart, you’re capable, and you know how to solve problems. So why does motherhood sometimes leave you feeling like you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing? Throughout my career, I’ve worked with thousands of mothers who are used to figuring things out. And I’ve noticed something fascinating: the very skills that help women succeed in their careers and other areas of life don’t always...

If you can give your child almost every possible advantage, how do you know when you’ve given them enough? In this episode, Kate looks at research on parenting across different income levels to ask a bigger question: What do children actually need from us? Families need financial stability. Money helps provide safe housing, food, healthcare, childcare, education and opportunities. This episode isn...

You’re sitting on the floor with your child, but your brain is thinking about the unanswered email, the laundry upstairs, the appointment you need to make and what everyone is going to eat for dinner. You want to be present. You love your child. So why is it so hard to stop thinking about everything that still needs to get done? In this episode of Motherhood Uncut , Kate explores why the to-do lis...

The Lindsay Clancy case has brought postpartum psychosis and severe perinatal mental illness into public conversation in a very big way. These conversations matter. We need better recognition of serious maternal mental illness, better treatment, better education for families, and systems that know how to respond when a mother is becoming dangerously unwell. But there is another part of the materna...

There is a huge space between never drinking and having the kind of alcohol problem we’ve traditionally been taught to recognize. And a lot of women are living somewhere inside that space. In this episode of Motherhood Uncut , I’m joined by Casey Davidson, host of the Hello Someday Podcast for Sober Curious Women , to talk about her experience as a high-achieving working mother whose nightly wine...

What if being more present with your kids didn’t require meditating for 30 minutes a day, becoming calmer, or learning to enjoy every moment of motherhood? In this episode of Motherhood Uncut, Kate sits down with psychotherapist and longtime mindfulness practitioner Dia Ralyea for a conversation about what mindfulness actually looks like in the middle of real life, especially when you’re raising k...

What if becoming a mother doesn’t make you less ambitious? What if it changes your ambition, expands your capacity, and develops strengths that actually make you a better leader? In this episode of Motherhood Uncut , I’m joined by Alexa Starks, founder of Mothered Media and Editor-in-Chief of Mothered Magazine, for a conversation about the systems that continue to make working motherhood unnecessa...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: https://www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call That mom who makes you feel like you're failing? The one who looks like she has it all together? She is white knuckling just as hard as you are. The reason you can't stop comparing yourself to her is not a confidence problem. It is your own sharp mind turning against you,...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call The witching hour is that cruel stretch between dinner and bedtime, when your kids fall apart right as your own tank hits empty. It is not bad parenting. It is not a bad kid. It is two nervous systems running on empty at the exact same time, and once you understand why this hour is so diffe...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your daughter reaches back for you crying. You hand her over and walk to the car. By the second red light, you are sobbing on your way to a meeting, wondering what kind of mother does this. That thought is a lie you have been carrying, and it is time to put it down. So many high achieving m...

What happens when the skills that helped you succeed professionally begin working against you in motherhood? In this honest conversation, Kate sits down with executive coach and former Fortune 500 executive Lori Pine to explore the hidden pressure so many high-achieving women carry into parenting. Lori shares her journey from ambitious small-town athlete to corporate leader at Anheuser-Busch and C...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Catch yourself in the mirror on a random Tuesday and for a second you do not recognize the woman looking back. You love your kids. That was never the question. But somewhere between the feedings, the drop offs, and the mental list that never ends, the woman you used to be got harder and har...

What if creativity isn’t about painting, writing, or making beautiful things? What if creativity is our ability to remain open when we don’t know the answer? In this conversation, Kate sits down with Jennifer Hinton, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Carve Designs, to explore creativity as a human capacity rather than an artistic talent. Together they discuss why creativity requires vulnera...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your toddler is on the floor screaming in the middle of the store. Everyone is watching. You try every trick you know and it only gets louder. There is one question that actually changes what happens next, and it has nothing to do with what you say to your kid. It has everything to do with...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You can run a meeting with 30 people watching. You can hit a deadline under pressure and hold everything together. Then your toddler refuses to put on his shoes, and you completely fall apart. If you have ever asked yourself what is wrong with me because you are capable everywhere else exce...

In October, 2011, Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working as a humanitarian aid worker in Somalia and held captive for 93 days. During that time, she discovered that even when her options were painfully limited, she could still make choices about how she cared for her body, where she placed her attention, and what she chose to believe. After being rescued by SEAL Team Six, Jessica returned ho...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Motherhood isn't hard because your child is hard. It's hard because of the beliefs you were never meant to carry. After 20 years and thousands of moms, I've found three truths that change everything, not by making motherhood easier on paper, but by changing how you experience...

Alexis has spent twenty years building an impressive career. She’s a senior executive at a global technology company, leading teams, influencing strategy, and working 60-70 hour weeks. From the outside, she’s incredibly successful. But beneath that success is a question she can no longer ignore: Is this sustainable? She joins Kate for a live coaching conversation expecting to explore whether she s...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Trying hard to be a good mom and actually connecting with your child use two completely different parts of your brain. The harder you push to get it right, the more disconnected your child can feel. You are not failing. You might just be stuck in the wrong brain. In this episode, I'm g...

Guests: Melissa Hampton, Founder, Hampton Wealth Management  | Kaitlyn Carlson, Founder & CEO, Theory Planning Partners Can women build ambitious careers without sacrificing their children? Kate sits down with financial advisors and entrepreneurs Melissa Hampton and Kaitlyn Carlson for an honest conversation about motherhood, leadership, and creating success on your own terms. Together they ex...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have done the therapy. The apps. The breathwork. The journaling. You have been consistent. And the anxiety is still there. You are not doing it wrong. But the effort itself might be exactly what is keeping it in place. When something goes wrong, high achievers work harder. That strategy...

In this episode of Motherhood Uncut, Kate sits down with psychotherapist, author, and Jungian teacher Satya Doyle Byock for a wide-ranging conversation about motherhood, identity, anxiety, and the deeper psychological and spiritual dimensions of becoming a parent. Together they explore: • Why motherhood often feels like a crisis for high-achieving women • The limitations of an achievement-based ap...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Everything you have been taught about good parenting is probably focused on the wrong thing. You have read the books. You know the scripts. You know what you are supposed to say when your toddler melts down. You are still anxious. Your child is still struggling. The problem is not your know...

Welcome to Motherhood Uncut . I’m your host, Kate Kripke. Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Melissa, a mother of two young boys who is moving through a deeply tender season: caring for her kids, showing up in a demanding career, and facing the possible loss of her own mother. Together, we talk about grief, old family patterns, the fear of repeating what we lived through as children, and...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been treating this like a hormone problem. So have your doctors. That is exactly why it is still here. The supplements, the breathing exercises, the 2 a.m. articles telling you to wait it out. None of it is touching the actual source. Your anxiety is not running on hormones. It is...