A Day In Her Life

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Barbara Mighdoll, owner and CEO of MNT Studio — the first wellness social club combining Pilates, co-working, sauna, and childcare — who also runs the marketing agency behind her brand New Modern Mom and just co-founded Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company. Barbara shares what it's like to grow one Pilates studio into s...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Lydia Fenet, the world's leading charity auctioneer who has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits, founder of a talent agency for auctioneers, two-time author (her first book optioned by Hulu), and mom of three living in Tribeca. Lydia shares what it's like to spend 90 nights a year on stage, run a household where h...

Tell us what you think!!! Rachel Hochhauser was killing time on her phone in a hospital waiting room — her husband recovering from emergency brain surgery, her 18-month-old at home — when a meme of Cinderella's evil stepmother stopped her cold. "This isn't a villain. She's just trying to take care of her two daughters." That spark became "Lady Tremaine," her debu...

Tell us what you think!!! Emilie Dayan Hill got her start in finance by pure luck — a phone call that came as she was literally climbing into a moving truck, leaving Mississippi for Atlanta with no job and no connections. A decade later, she's a partner and high net worth investment advisor at a major investment firm, and the writer behind Finance That Feels, where she's reshaping the wa...

Tell us what you think!!! Melissa Hines never planned to own a business. She just refused to compromise on care — and that single non-negotiable turned a one-woman practice into Wellest Integrative Health, a Back Bay pelvic floor PT clinic with seven practitioners and an expansion already underway. In this episode, Melissa pulls back the curtain on building what she calls her "third baby&quot...

Tell us what you think!!! Francesca Cervero has been a full-time yoga teacher for 21 years — and she will tell you, this is her passion. Francesca has evolved her teaching from 40-50hr weeks in person in New York, to now teaching exactly when her son is in school virtually. In this week’s conversation, Francesca shares how a serious hip injury at 23 (she was walking with a cane while teaching full...

Tell us what you think!!! Jennifer Cook wakes up at five every morning — not because she has to, but because she's wired that way. A fashion buyer for a multi-brand store in Soho, a hot yoga teacher, and the writer behind the Mom Friend Substack, she's built a life in Brooklyn that holds a two-and-a-half-year-old, three jobs, a musician husband, and a self-imposed 8:45pm bedtime. The key...

Tell us what you think!!! Alison Hall doesn't know where her day will take her — and that's the point. As a correspondent for Inside Edition, she might get a call at 7am sending her to Long Island for a court hearing, spend the afternoon at the FaceTime set doing virtual interviews with sources in California, or hop on a flight to London. Her workday ends with show tape between 3 and 5pm...

Tell us what you think!!! Kathryn Humphries turned down a buying position at Bergdorf Goodman to bet on a one-woman PR agency run by someone she'd just met — and that gut instinct shaped everything. From interning in Ralph Lauren's celebrity dressing department to running social media at Gap, she built a career across New York's fashion world before moving home to Houston, meeting h...

Tell us what you think!!! Chassity Evans woke up one morning with a fully formed novel in her head. She hadn’t taken a single writing class, had never planned to write a book, and was about to board a flight to the Bahamas — but by January 6th she was writing chapter one, and a little over a year later, her debut rom-com Pink Sand Summer was finished. Now the Charleston-based content creator (form...

Tell us what you think!!! Rebecca Matchett co-founded Alice and Olivia at 23 with zero fashion experience, now she's building Synchrony, a social platform for neurodivergent adults, and navigating life as a mom of three in downtown Manhattan — including sending her oldest to college in California this fall. In this honest conversation, Rebecca opens up about the pattern that's defined he...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Hannah Pitner, a professor of Spanish Linguistics in Memphis and co-founder of Lingua Viva, an online language collective she launched with her business partner while juggling a full-time teaching load and a one-and-a-half-year-old son. Hannah shares what it's like to get in movement in between pour over coffee pours at 6am, te...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Kate Strickler, the creator behind Naptime Kitchen, author of "I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen," and mom of four kids ages 10, 9, 7, and 4 in Charleston, South Carolina. Kate shares what it's like to squeeze an entire content business into a four-hour window while her youngest is in preschool, work on a walking pad...

Tell us what you think!!! From Googling to Building Skills, Markdown Files, and Scheduled Workflows I uploaded my son's entire baseball schedule into Google Calendar in under two minutes this morning. No manual entry, no typos, no cross-referencing dates. I pasted a link into Claude, hit enter, and 18 games appeared on my calendar. Then I did the same thing with soccer. This is the kind of st...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Rachel Dillon, co-founder of Mary and Jane (a hemp-derived edibles company) and mom of two boys who splits her time between Minneapolis and Costa Rica as a "millennial snowbird." Rachel shares what it's like to train for the Boston Marathon in Costa Rican heat, run a startup with just two full-time employees, and simp...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Adriana Mastronardi, a high school math teacher, mom of three teenagers, and online fitness and nutrition coach for midlife women. Adriana shares what it's like to wake up at 4:50am every single morning (no snooze button allowed), front-load two liters of water before work, and record podcast episodes while driving to the gym i...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Kaylee Brown, an associate attorney in toxic tort litigation who's navigating the unique experience of having two kids as an associate rather than waiting until partnership. Kaylee shares what it's like to bill your time in six-minute increments, work from home while managing depositions and drafting motions, and squeeze i...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Megan Henken, co-founder of My UTI and healthcare consultant, who's juggling multiple businesses, a 14-year-old daughter, and learning to unwind a decade-long hustle mindset. Megan shares what it's like to leave the corporate ladder at Quest Diagnostics to build a consulting business in Colorado, how COVID created the perf...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we’re sitting down with Ashley Kang, a former fashion executive who made the intentional decision to pause her career almost a year ago to invest in herself and her family. Ashley shares what it’s like to leave a job she loved at a fashion company after five years, move to New Jersey to live near her family (yes, literally in the same building complex), and bui...

Tell us what you think!!! Welcome to my first solo episode of 2025! After 140 episodes of talking with incredible women about their days, I'm turning the mic on myself to share what my life looks like right now as a working mom of two in the Boston area. In this quick check-in episode, I'm opening up about how my days have shifted over the past year, what's working, and what I'...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we’re sitting down with Afoma Umesi, a writer and content creator who left a career in medicine to build a life centered around books, creativity, and human connection. Afoma runs Reading Middle Grade , a website and newsletter that helps parents find the perfect books for kids ages 8-14, and she’s doing it all while navigating profound grief, three moves in th...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Sofi Madison, a former shop owner turned independent consultant who's redefining what work-life balance looks like in the North Shore. Sofi shares her journey from running Olives and Grace—a beloved retail destination—to consulting for independent retailers and hospitality teams, all while raising two boys (ages 3 and 5) in Man...

Tell us what you think!!! A Day In Her Life with Layla Shaikley – Efficient, Full, Emotionally Regulated Days as a Founder and Mom of Three What does it look like to build a venture-backed tech company, raise three young kids, recover from a major injury, and stay emotionally steady through it all? In this episode of A Day In Her Life , Ellie sits down with Layla Shaikley , co-founder of Wise Syst...

Tell us what you think!!! A Day In Her Life with Dahlia Stroud – Crazy, Stressed, Well-Dressed Days as a Founder and Mom of Two What does it really look like when you’re building something new, parenting school-aged kids, and trying to keep yourself intact in the process? In this episode of A Day In Her Life , Ellie chats with Dahlia Stroud , a UK-based consultant and host of Stressed But Well-Dre...

Tell us what you think!!! On today’s episode of A Day In Her Life , Ellie sits down with Mary James, who leads an analytics group at Real Chemistry (a pharmaceutical marketing and communications company) and is raising two little ones, a 9-month-old and a 2.5-year-old. Mary is the primary earner in her household, while her husband is a stay-at-home parent, and she gives an honest look at what it a...