You're Doing Great Mom

It's been over 5 years since my last podcast episode. Now, after lots of time off from podcasting, my wonderful friend Julie Foubert is with me to re-launch my podcast! Julie Foubert is a certified ethical leadership consultant, parenting coach, speaker and trainer. She teaches and coaches in both English and in French. Based in Nice, France, she coaches parents worldwide thanks to the magic of on...

Chantal Challenger lives a different life from many of us, traveling around the world with her husband and two kids. She and her husband work in the hospitality/hotel industry, and have chosen a life as expats currently living in Jakarta. She shares about how they chose to move from their home in Australia, and how they've adapted to raising their family in a different culture. She had her childre...

Anyone who has written their own book deserves lots of congratulations. And lots of book sales. Especially if it took them ten years to research and write it. Well, that's what my husband Julian Wiseman has just completed. And it's now on sale.  It's called Port Vintages .  There's a lot of things that I didn't know about port wine. For example, I had no idea that it's not made every year. You'll...

Keith Wassung's got one of those stories. Ex-navy, super athlete, weightlifting champion, and on his way to fame, life was on a pretty extraordinary path. Then, at age 22, his body started to slowly break down, first with sinus headaches, then digestion problems, loss of hearing, and more, which eventually led him to be dependant on 18 different drugs. His health deteriorated so badly that he lost...

Tom's the kinda guy that you can hang out with, have a beer with, and chat about anything. His energy fuels you each and every minute. He's also the guy you could call up and ask his advice and he'd give you his 100% with a solid answer. And he's also the guy you'd see on a stage in front of thousands of people. He's unstoppable. In this episode, I'm speaking with Thomas Waller. He's a dynamic suc...

Craig Peterson is American who lives in Rome Italy. He's 35 years old and he's a Network Spinal Chiropractor. He is not a father, and he's in a relationship with a woman who doesn't want children. He's thought about having kids, and it was his current girlfriend who gave him the deeper thought of why he wants kids, and why not live life without having kids. Check out Dr Craig's website :    www.ch...

Brendan Waddington continues the conversation of fatherhood into the second episode of the series speaking to men. There are so many people on this planet, and it's always such a joy and so much fun to speak to someone who you know is making a difference in the world. I just met Brendan and to me, he is an all around great guy. Intelligent, interesting, fun, totally got his shit together, and he h...

This is the first episode in my 3rd series on my podcast, You're Doing Great Mom. I decided to include my husband and to have his episode kick off the series talking about fatherhood. This series is centered around the topic of fatherhood, where men from all walks of life share their views on the subject. My husband and I sat down together on a Saturday with our kids running around. It took us all...

Lillian Lartey is my guest in this last episode of 2017. She's a personal trainer, massage therapist, and I consider her a life coach for women because she is so grounded in her values and commitment to having an extraordinary life. She came over to record this episode, and it was wonderful to spend those 90-minutes together. So much of what she said was illuminating for me about womenhood, and mo...

"I like to think I lead a very intentional life. And that isn't that it's not open to surprises or spontaneity. But I very deliberately chosen … and I've been very lucky, I realize that when I say that. Not everyone gets to choose as much 'cause there's inherent struggle with being able to just to afford doing things like that. I get that. I love living by myself. I love setting my own hours. I lo...

Angie is a successful therapist, working with individuals as well as companies, big and small. This episode was awesome, with so many interesting and thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom, ideas, and stories about motherhood and how we can shift our perspectives about it in the context of applying it to roles of leadership and life in general. "That's part of my mission, really, in working with ever...

I don't think I've laughed so hard recording an episode. Michelle Dry is my guest today, continuing the series about women who are not mothers. Michelle is hilarious, multi-talented, creative, and full of life as she travels the world in her job as a communications director on a cruise-line. She is also a prolific writer/author of many books, already published by herself and available on Amazon . ...

My guest this week is Rachael Talbot-Frank. Rachael doesn't have children of her own and is not a mother. These last few weeks and in the next few episodes, the topic has been about women who do not have children. I'll be speaking to women who share their story of not becoming a mother. It's something I think people should hear about. There's always that uncomfortable, politically correct awkwardn...

Noreen Sumpter is a personal life coach who lives in Brooklyn. She and I have been close friends for nearly 20 years. She talks about how, since the age of 13, she knew she did not want to have children. I wanted to open up this conversation because it's just not something people often talk about. Maybe because it's not a very comfortable subject. Maybe because people just don't know what to say....

"I think subconsciously I was looking for an outlet. I think I wanted a way out, and I wanted something more in my life, a creative outlet because I knew I wasn't getting that from my career. So I was happy to take that time away, and then I had Noah and then it was just me at home with Noah and Yasmin. And I look back at that time and oh my gosh, it was so special." Samina Courtin is the creator...

[This episode is about miscarriage. Please understand that it may trigger sensitive emotions while listening, although the purpose of this episode is to spread the information about this topic so more women can learn about how common miscarriage is.] Lara Martins is a principle in the London production of "The Phantom of the Opera". Lara is from Portugal, and studied theatre in the UK, and has bee...

If you have wondered what chiropractic care is, and how it can benefit you and your family, this is a great episode to listen to. Dr Sarah: "Self-responsibility [in regards to their health]: the allopathic health approach, as it's starting to implode on itself, more people are looking for that level of self-care which coincides with self-responsibility like, I'm going to take my health back into m...

This is Part 1 of 2 with Dr Kelly McLaughlin and Dr Sarah Farrant, who are both chiropractors and mothers. Dr Kelly McLaughlin is from Reading UK, she has 3 boys, all home births, and she home-schools them as well. You can reach her at kjtchiro@hotmail.com. Dr Sarah Farrant is also a chiropractor, and lives in Wiaheke New Zealand (which is an island just east of Auckland). She has 2 boys and a gir...

I love recording an episode in person. It's always fun. Plus, guests can bring their adorable puppies.  Harriet Waley-Cohen came in with her little adorable puppy, who ended up sitting right in between us gnawing on her bone (which is what the sporadic faint clicking noises are in the background). We had a wonderful time talking about motherhood, adversity, learning to love life, being at the fore...

For the first time ever, and after a long period of discussing this, my husband (Julian) sits down with me and we record ourselves having one of our many conversations.  My husband is an intelligent dude. He went to Cambridge. He's a self-professed geek. He's good at math. And he also knows about a lot of things. People who know about a lot of things almost always think they are right. Trouble is,...

"It's coming from an approach of really trusting what's really right for us, and hence the work that I'm standing in is allowing women to find their own unique voice, and the more that we stand in that as individuals then we become this collective awakened force of the feminine." Mandy Adams is a menstruality educator. What the hell is that, you ask. Well, I seriously believe that if every woman a...

I've loved Wonder Woman all my life. And for most of that time, especially since Lynda Carter stopped being Diana Prince and Wonder Woman, I never stopped wondering and waiting for the next time we'd see another production of Wonder Woman. Well, finally, the movie is here. And I saw it last weekend. This is my review of it.

" Growing up I had a lot of problems with period pain and things like that every month. I ended up going and seeing a specialist and  was diagnosed with quite severe endometriosis. So from that I had operations such as laparoscopies, and things like that, and was told at 15 point blank by an OBY-GYN that I would not be able to have kids. And at 15, that's not something you take on very well. I was...

When I was a kid growing up, my mother used to always say to me one of Nietzsche's phrase, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." For the most part, I think that's definitely true.  When I have these conversations with these women for my podcast, resilience and determination are what I think about. And something about Maryellen felt so close to me, even though I never experienced much of what...

Sarah Keen had no idea her first pregnancy would end up being one of the most challenging experiences in her life. Her son was born premature at 33 weeks. "Having had a cesarean and, you know, an emergency cesarean, without any labor because a lot of people said, 'oh, did your waters break? and did this happen, and how often were your contractions,' and I didn't have any labor at all. I was litera...