What The Fuck Is Happening?

Anger Expert and Neo-Emotional Coach, Ashley Frost, guides us through what it means to truly meet our emotions. We unpack anger, a rejected emotion in society, and how modern-day parenting, spiritual bypassing and disembodiment rejects anger and creates an unhealthy relationship with the full spectrum of our emotions. In this episode: Why is anger a rejected emotion in society? Parenting our child...

Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hildebrandt takes us through her wrestling journey from sitting in the stands of her brother's competition to winning a gold medal in the 2024 Olympics. We touch on how Sarah manages being competitive versus trusting her journey, her experience and overall health as a result of cutting weight and having to diet intensely, and how yoga specifically has positively im...

Sammy’s dear friend,  Aliza Mendiola, sits down to chat all things birth, NICU & circumcision. She shares her personal journey from working in hospitals, to being a birth assistant and now going back to nursing school to become a home birth midwife. She discusses the circumcision process in depth, medical kidnapping, and the dark side of the NICU. In this episode: Different kinds of birth work...

Sarah Spence sits down with Sammy to share how she stepped into the ownership role of Hot Asana Colorado Springs, and her other passions aside from yoga including proper dog care, training and food. She digs into the misconceptions about dog behavior and feeding dogs raw food and how dogs have evolved since being under the care of humans over the years. Overall an inspiration episode about manifes...

Andrea Haskins with Radical Moms Union is back on the show to get more specific about why predatory formula marketing is destroying breastfeeding relationships & undermining public health, specifically in the United States. Andrea gives us action items to disrupt Bobbie in their harmful marketing and joining the mission to preserve the mother-baby dyad. In this episode: How corporations attach...

Jenna shares her personal training journey from training clients solely focused on losing weight to helping women in their reproductive journey’s restore and build muscle and pelvic floor practices. Jenna zeroes in on breath work and pelvic floor activation, beyond kegels, and how her programming and new fitness app came to be. In this episode: Jenna’s journey from collegiate athlete to personal t...

Jordyn takes us through her two birth stories, one ending in an induction, hospital birth, and her second resulting in a beautiful homebirth. She takes us through her experience of leaking amniotic fluid in both pregnancies, and how she rewrote her story and trusted her physiology. In this episode: How Jordyn’s first desired home birth turned into a hospital birth Amniotic fluid leakage as a varia...

Rick and Sam check in about what they're working on in their marriage, when they plan to have another child, and how they're dipping their toes back into non-monogamy. They unpack marriage longevity and what the fuck is happening with the 50% divorce rate. In this episode: How to show up radically in your marriage Why is the divorce rate 50%? Sam & Rick's very first Hinge messag...

Hannah Nicholson shares how her own health journey and getting pregnant with her son, led her away from vaccines and conventional interventions to the world of homeopathy. Hannah and Sammy explain what exactly homeopathy is, and why it differs greatly from other natural & home remedies, why they have chosen homeopathy over allopathic and western medicine, and some of their favorite must-have r...

Sammy’s step-mom, Michelle Rigot, comes on the podcast to share her story of meeting the love of her life, grieving the love of her life, and now being with and learning to love differently with Sammy’s dad. She opens up about her love-at-first-sight experience with her late husband, Jonathan, and the process of creating life with him, and later, being bedside when he passed on. We talk about the...

Pregnancy after IVF, breastfeeding vs. formula, cribs vs. co-sleeping—Here’s a respectful, insightful conversation between two women who are confident in and comfortable with their own choices in parenting and life in general. *Produced by Mountain Valley Media In this episode: Pregnancy after IVF Intervention education: Know your shit before you commit! How to handle the triggers of social media...

Postpartum Doula, Montessori Educator, and forever student, Zaure Vuk, shares her journey from running Montessori daycares on the East Coast, to now bringing the importance of postpartum care and education to Colorado Springs. Sammy and Zaure highlight the importance of accepting help, staying home, and embracing tradition in the postpartum period and begin to unpack the Montessori concepts of tru...

Birthkeeper and cannabis advocate, Sydney Parlier, joins Sammy for a conversation about cannabis use for preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. She touches on the current conflating evidence about plant medicine & pregnancy, who may benefit from mindful use of cannabis, and her personal experience with marijuana during her current pregnancy. Sammy and Sydney also unpack the stigma surroundi...

Rick and Sam begin by checking in about the past 11 months with their daughter, Dorthy Rose, and speak on what the journey of stepping into parenthood has meant for them and both their personal evolutions, and collective evolution as a couple. They talk about their perspective on having children early on in their relationship, and why they choose not to prioritize date nights, but rather allow Dor...

Today’s very special episode features Sam & Rick’s previous marriage therapist, now rebranded as the ‘Ego Coach,’ Zay. He opens up about his philosophy background, his own marriage that recently ended in divorce, and ultimately why he moved from therapy to Health & Life Empowerment Coaching. The conversation evolves into one about the psyche and unpacking our parts: the id, the ego and the...

Women’s Yoga Health Coach and Sammy’s good friend, Sophie Lea, shares her journey that led her to freebirthing her son, Obi, in her power. Sammy and Sophie touch on conditioning and deconditioning surrounding birth, how to examine when you’re giving your power away, sitting with true discomfort, and why women everywhere are built to give birth. In this episode: Can you give birth for free? Wild pr...

Musician and Sammy’s sexy husband, Richard Raymond II, talks all about his latest album release, Glimmers. He talks about how he takes advantage of inspiring moments alongside his role as a father, his perspective on creativity at large, and his hopes for who this album will reach. In this episode: The process of creating Glimmers The anxiety of missing inspiration Acting as a vessel for our art O...

Holistic Sleep Specialist and Mama, Gillian Harrison, joins in on a conversation with Rick and Sam all about one of the things parents seem to be super stressed out about: sleep! Gillian shares her mission in normalizing infant sleep, how she approaches naps and nighttime sleep with her own daughter, and why sleep training not only doesn’t work in the way many parents think it does, but how it may...

This week’s episode with your hosts, Rick and Sam, dives head first into the vaccine debate. Whether you are in line with the hosts’ opinions that vaccines are not optimal, or you are a pro-vaccine human, this episode is worth a listen. They dive into some stats about why vaccines do not actually work, the lack of data that exists about the safety of vaccines, and why they have chosen to not vacci...

In this episode, Sammy is joined by Lactation Counselor and mama of two, Andrea Gaskins. She shares her journey, from a new breastfeeding mother who suffered from anxiety surrounding sleep, to eventually tuning into her instincts and becoming her own “expert” in all things parenting. Andrea gives tips for how new Moms can set themselves up for a positive, successful breastfeeding experience and ge...

In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Nicole Cheever, Mama of three and Certified Go Diaper Free Coach. Nicole and Sammy share their experiences with elimination communication and how pottying babies from birth is a form of tuning into our intuition as parents. Nicole explains why our country differs from others in the way that we use diapers, and how the narrative that we should wait until our chi...

On today’s podcast, Sam and Rick are joined by business partners, founders of JV Studios and Belladonna Studios, and brothers, John and Vince Pinto. They share the origin story of their business, their differing mindsets surrounding money and abundance, what their individual roles are within their business and their family, and why you should take an ice bath. In this episode: Relocating their bus...

In this episode, you can expect a check-in with Rick and Sam about all things postpartum. They share their thoughts on the inappropriate marketing strategies of SSRI’s and formula companies and how mental health diagnoses can be limiting. Sam then opens up about the dark corners of postpartum, intrusive thoughts, the importance of communal support, and Rick shares his side of the PP experience. In...

Sam and Rick are joined by mama and co-founder of Kitts & Co., Sienna McGinnis. Sienna shares all about what it’s like to co-own a company, and raise a child, with her partner McKinley. She opens up about her postpartum experience with her partner being away on tour just two weeks after giving birth, and why that actually strengthened their relationship in the long run. Sammy and Sienna also c...

Your host, and full-spectrum fertility doula, Samantha Conrad, does a deep dive on the Fertility Awareness Method and explains why tracking your cycle is not only the most empowering, but the most accurate form of birth control. She explains the role of our menstrual cycles in the larger context of our overall health, and how to use FAM effectively to both prevent pregnancy and become pregnant. Tu...