Bare Naked Moms

Did you know the new average age for girls to begin puberty is 9?! Or that if you don’t talk to your kids about porn by the age of 12, it might be too late? In this week’s episode, Alanna and Milano are joined by puberty expert Vanessa Kroll Bennett, co-host of the chart-topping podcast This is So Awkward and co-author of the newly released book by the same title. Vanessa, who is known for flippin...

When actress Jordana Brewster rocketed to fame in The Fast and the Furious franchise in her 20s, she says she second-guessed every move she made. Over the years, as she continued to land major roles in movies and on TV, she became a mom to two sons, and these days, she finally knows what she values – as a person and a parent.  On the show, Jordana opens up about her Mom wins and woes: unexpected i...

Big Time Adulting’s Caitlin Murray is the Nora Ephron slash Larry David of today’s mom culture. The not-to-be-messed-with mom of three (whose oldest is a cancer survivor) points out the nonsense in everything from Daylight Savings to palate expanders. The only thing missing from her side-splitting insights on the absurdities of modern mom life are flying f*cks.  In addition to her ninja kitchen da...

Lydia Fenet is one of the world’s top auctioneers, having raised over one billion dollars for charity organizations. Her success is fueled by an abundance of confidence. She joins us to talk about how she’s now trying to build confidence in her three kids and how she maintains her confidence as a mom despite all the demands of her career.  Lydia is the author of two bestselling books, The Most Pow...

What the hell happened to Youth Sports? What happened to the days of a couple practices a week and one game on the weekends? These days, it feels like sports have become careers for our kids—and full time jobs for us parents to manage those careers. When and how did it get: so serious, so nonstop, so expensive?  We get into the nitty gritty with Predators Lacrosse founder, Mike McCall. McCall brea...

If you’ve been listening, you may have heard Milano talk a little about her complicated childhood. But in this episode, she takes the mic to tell much more of her story. Born to a mentally ill woman who was living in her car, Milano was raised throughout Manhattan by a motley crew of amazing parent figures and family units—including her biological mom, a family from Ghana from the neighborhood, he...

Kids on professional paths….How did they get those paths? How much is the parent and how much is the child? How do you know if they’ve got the goods? And, if they do, where do you go from there?  In this episode, we talk to Broadway star Melissa Errico and gentle parenting coach Susan Nason about raising “prodigies.” Melissa and her husband, former tennis champ Patrick McEnroe, have three teenage...

Are you a parent with ADHD? Or are you married to one? Do you struggle with the executive function that raising kids and running a household requires? We hear so much these days about kids with ADHD, but in our conversation with social media stars and bestselling authors, Penn and Kim Holderness, we get a real sense of what it means to be a parent with ADHD. Penn was diagnosed back in high school,...

Deborah Norville is a TV legend, the longest serving anchor on American television. She’s also the proud mom of two sons and one daughter, and she’s so transparent about what she’s learned along the road of parenting them from infants to adults. We asked her to be our fortune teller mom from the future - to give us pearls of wisdom on the chapter we’re in right now—call it Chapter 5: Chaos Reigns:...

We – just like you – have known from print and TV who Andrew Ross Sorkin the financial journalist and storyteller is. But today we get to know who Andrew Ross Sorkin the Dad is: What he wants to replicate from his own childhood and what he hopes to do differently His thoughts on tooth fairy inflation and the challenges of giving his kids an allowance in the age of Apple Pay Andrew’s “dad portfolio...

As a parent, do you ever feel bare and naked? Totally unsure of what’s right or wrong, loaded up with experts’ tips and tricks yet still feeling lost, misunderstood, and (worst of all) alone? We do. Let’s talk. We are Milano Buckley and Alanna Leavell, hosts of Bare Naked Moms, a weekly parenting roundtable where celebs, influencers, experts, and everyday parents discuss the uncomfortable moments...