MOMS OFF MUTE

Send us Fan Mail Four generations in one conversation. Jordan is joined by Jana, Deja, and a first for the show: Miss Andrea, mother of producer Leslie, HR director, grandmother, and the second Mentor archetype in the group. They start with first phones, and the timeline tells its own story. Miss Andrea’s oldest got one at 14 or 15, back when he graduated in 2002. Her youngest, around 12. Deja got...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone has a camera at the front door now. Almost nobody has thought about the person standing in front of it. Jordan is back with Dara and Jana for a conversation about where safety ends and surveillance begins, starting at home and working outward. Jordan admits the thing most of us skip past. She feels bad for her mailman, who never signed a consent form to be recorded doing...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was supposed to be about surveilling our kids. It became something else entirely, and nobody is sorry about it. Except maybe Jana, who walked away with the most homework. Jordan is joined by Jana Folmert, the Mentor, and Dara, our mom-fluencer and the Co-Pilot, for an honest conversation about dating and connection in the digital world. It starts with Snap. Jana expla...

Send us Fan Mail Leslie came in having never considered it. She leaves mostly sold. Jordan plays digital parenting mentor this week on tracking the small humans in your life. Her oldest has AirTags in his shoes, and her reason isn’t the worst-case scenario most people assume. It’s the opposite. Tracking is how she gives her kids room to roam without hovering. Let them cross to the trampoline. Noti...

Send us Fan Mail Jordan has a bone to pick with consent, and she brought backup. Producer Leslie Pedder and FOSI’s Deja Fowler join for a three-way conversation about camera glasses and what happens when recording stops being something you can see. Jordan’s core worry is simple: her kids are at the park, and she has no way of knowing who is recording them. Leslie, who wears glasses to actually see...

Send us Fan Mail Some parents are uploading their entire photo libraries into AI, morphing the images, deleting the originals, and posting the results. Not lighting adjustments. Full reconstruction, from newborn photos to graduation pictures, to the point where you can't tell what the kid actually looks like. Jordan and Jana get into why that matters more than it might seem. Jordan, the Firew...

Send us Fan Mail A parent posted on Social Media asking for help: her nine-year-old had built an AI agent to bypass the family's parental controls, and she only just found out. Jordan and Jana take the story apart from both sides of the archetype divide. Jana, the Mentor, starts with curiosity. Find out how she did it, because assigning an agent access to every program is genuinely impressive...

Send us Fan Mail Moms Off Mute is back from summer break, and Season 3 kicks off with a thank you. The baby monitor episode has now reached nearly 5 million listens on TikTok, which is a lot more than the ten listeners Jordan was expecting. Jordan and returning guest Jana Folmert reflect on why that conversation struck such a nerve, and why the baby monitor is often a family's very first digi...

Send us Fan Mail A compilation of highlights from Jordan's earliest Moms Off Mute conversations. This one moves through several topics, so here is what to expect. Could you quantify the time you spend with your kids? Jordan heard a wildly successful CEO describe herself as a three-hour-a-week mom, and it stopped her in her tracks. Not with judgment, with genuine curiosity. She unpacks why she...

Send us Fan Mail Two kids, two tablets, one exhausted parent. Jordan's kids are 15 months apart, which means two different developmental stages and two different sets of interests. She explains why sitting between them, monitoring two screens, stopped making sense, and the turn-taking system that replaced it. No TVs in the bedrooms, one screen in the family room, and a simple question that se...

Send us Fan Mail For the Season 2 finale, Jordan brings on her most reluctant guest yet: her husband Evan Glover. Producer Leslie Pedder takes over as game host for a round of the Digital Parenting Newlywed Game, and the answers are honest, funny, and occasionally a little too honest. They cover the household tech rules (no screens during the week), what they are each too strict about, and the tec...

Send us Fan Mail Amy Bartko joins with her 19-year-old son Nathan, who just finished his first year of college, for a rare Moms Off Mute perspective: an actual young adult explaining how sports betting works among his friends. Last week Cindy and Jana started a conversation about betting apps and teens. This week Jordan hears from someone living it. Nathan talks about money lines, why betting make...

Send us Fan Mail This week she is joined by returning guest Jana Folmert, who brought a friend: Cindy Smith, a mom of a 15- and 13-year-old who is not an expert, just figuring it out like everyone else. Cindy shares the rules that actually hold in her house: no face ID or thumbprint on the kids' phones, parents keep every password, and trust that gets extended as the years go by rather than h...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jordan is joined by Dara Whitley, a mom creator based in the Dallas area, alongside returning guest Jana Folmert. Both are single moms raising boys, and both have very different answers to the same questions. The conversation opens on mom content: why Dara creates, how she keeps her identity while parenting out loud, and the way she asks her almost-ten-year-old for permi...

Send us Fan Mail Dating used to mean someone picked you up at the door and your parents knew what movie you were seeing. Now it happens in group chats, private Snaps, and apps that change the rules every few months. This week Jordan is joined by two returning guests for a three-perspective conversation: Jana Folmert, FOSI's marketing and creative lead, single mom to a nearly-16-year-old, and...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jordan sits down with Deja Fowler, FOSI's spring intern and recent college graduate, for a generational look at what it was really like to come of age during COVID. Deja opens up about a high school graduation that never quite happened, learning through work packets before the school had laptops, and how Snapchat, Instagram, and FaceTime became the entire social wor...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jordan is joined by Leslie Pedder, Moms Off Mute's very own podcast producer, mom to a nearly-two-year-old, and the rogue friend who saw Bruno Mars without her. Jordan brings receipts. The real conversation gets into baby monitors, video cams, and the digital tools that give new parents the peace of mind they need to, you know, actually sleep. Leslie shares her expe...

Send us Fan Mail This week Moms Off Mute welcomes its first dad, and it's the one who started it all. FOSI Founder and CEO Stephen Balkam joins Jordan for a full-circle conversation about raising two daughters through the dawn of the digital age, and now watching his one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter interact with phones. From dial-up childhood and hours spent building cities on Sims, to...

Send us Fan Mail Jana Folmert is back for round two, and this conversation goes deeper into the reality of raising a teenager in a culture where everything gets filmed. Jordan and Jana get into the promposal problem (yes, some kids only accept if the post gets enough likes), the tricky territory of digital consent when your kid isn't the one posting, and what to do when someone else's ph...

Send us Fan Mail A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan gets real about the assumptions we make when we see a mom handing her kid a screen in public. From a stressed-out mom of three at the nail salon trying to get through the weekend, to the 10-year-old whose only friends live inside his favorite game, Jordan shares the moments that changed how she thinks about scre...

Send us Fan Mail A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan gets honest about the daily balancing act of digital parenting when you have two little ones with very different tablet habits. From the potty training years to the tablet as a last resort, Jordan reflects on how she thinks about screen time not as good or bad, but as a tool. Just like AI, tablets work best when...

Send us Fan Mail A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan digs into one of the most common (and most overlooked) moments of digital parenting: the sonogram post. From the moment a pregnancy is announced, a child's digital footprint begins. Jordan unpacks why so many parents-to-be reach for Instagram before the group chat, what your sonogram actually reveals about...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2 of Moms Off Mute! New format, same honest, fun, unfiltered conversations. This season, Jordan is joined each week by a different parent to talk about what digital parenting actually looks like at their stage of life. First up: Jana Folmert, FOSI's marketing and creative lead, single mom to a nearly-16-year-old, and one of the most no-nonsense humans you&ap...