Every Mom Needs a Friend

My gal pal Rach is on the pod today! How dang fun to have people in your life that just make you better as a person and are so multi-faceted that you just love to peel back the layers and learn more about them and from them. The pod is called Every Mom Needs a Friend, and I really think every mom does need a friend like Rachel.  But to be clear here, we could've talked about a hundred things...

Hey y’all! Hope today is not just a good day but a great day!  I am just so very excited to be back recording today with my sweet Christopher, because today we unpack his thoughts about the birth of our 3rd baby girl! Also I wanted to let y'all know that this episode is kind of the final installment of this plant series. I’ve just loved doing this and y’all have been really kind to let me kno...

Did you catch it? Postpartum Plant thoughts are being talked about today! Get excited for a very scary bug story where I got some natural lip fillers, why I called my doc Dr. Covid, and how my hair washing schedule is getting extremely disrupted. hehe! Lots to unpack today and I hope you enjoy it! Be sure to head over to the instagram (@everymomneedafriend) to see some sweet baby content and to co...

Too long!! It's been too long since we've talked!! I lived in this tension over the last month of being so thankful for slowness and sweetness as I snuggled my newest born, but also missing this and y'all! Thanks for sticking with me through this and hope you enjoy this mini-episode! Get pumped for next week's installment of PPP thoughts (post-partum-plant) hehe.  Love y'a...

A long awaited episode for me to record, it's felt like a year since we found out we were pregnant with our sweet baby plant. I know that it's truly a blessing for y'all to partner with us and be so excited with us, so thank you!!  Today's episode is with my cutie Christopher and we talk through the emotions and planning and excitement as we near our baby girls arrival!  And ju...

Part 2 is here! Just a soon to be mom of 3 working through some logistics, calendar planning, Braxton-hicks, and all the thoughts before welcoming a new babe! ---  I am so unbelievably overwhelmed with joy as I think about how soon I get to meet my sweet Plant. What will she look like? How good will she smell? Will I make it to Oct 1st? Be sure to be following the pod on insta (@everymomneedsafrie...

1/3 of a super fun mini-segment of EMNAF, a quick mid-season 2 pause, if you will. I am about to embark of becoming a mother of 3, and watch our family grow to a family of 5... wowie wow!!  Today's episode and next week's episode will dive into how I am preparing for this sweet babe, both physically and mentally! Remember my (almost every episode) rant about how this is a vehicle for doc...

Hey y'all - today I'm working through a 10-10-10 exercise with you... and y'all should do this too! Boy did I feel super refreshed and full of gratitude when I finished recording and editing this. What a dose of positivity even amongst a tough (but dang sweet) time of nearing the end of pregnancy with baby plant.  You'll have to let me know on instagram (@everymomneedsafriend)...

Y'all - this is about "on-brand" as it comes as this is the reason I've thought this podcast needed to be made and something that is such a big part of my story. But so please please hear me out that there is so many reasons why people do or don't move and this is just my story, and this is me trying my best combine how I've counseled others through this very heavy de...

Want to hear about my eye issues accompanied with some fun fluffy makeup talk? Today's episode is for you! Y'all, I could talk about makeup fooooooreeeverrr, but I intentionally dished out a mini episode because life is about consistency + building good habits (which I talk about in today's episode), but also about balance, so as I've seen the episode tracks get longer and long...

Yippieeee - a really fun episode ahead with a friend, entrepreneur and enneagram-lover, Elise from the Beaded Sheep! Somewhat of a longer episode, but I do declare that it does a great job at hitting all the numbers with enough info to help you if you are new, and not too much to make sure you want to explore more when you're done!  You know your number? I'd be so dang interested to hear...

Hey y'all!! For today’s episode, it felt like a great time to lean into the idea that was half of my origin of why I wanted to start this podcast - to be a sort of live diary for my daughters to be able to listen to one day... In this episode you'll hear a current pregnancy status, are we done having kids, how we handle stress + missing out, my current Zumba-obsession, and a lot about ho...

Yahoo for this episode! Today I brought back my SIL Katy because she’s a great person to talk to about my upcoming scheduled c-section with baby plant!  But while I was planning up this episode I felt like it would be a nice pairing to bring up this topic of body love - where society and media wrongfully tells us to place a lot of importance on on pants size instead of the importance of being heal...

I think y'all will love this episode!! This episode is two things… it’s a catch up and reminiscing of two friends who once did life daily together, but who now live far apart, but it’s also this story of how strong Camille is to move several times in her marriage and through those moves figure out that her little family, her husband, and her extended family are the roots and grounding for her...

Today's episode is my big take aways from a book that Christopher and I just read through, "After Doubt" by AJ Swoboda. And I need y’all to buckle up for today’s episode! This was requested by a friend from NH, and it couldn’t have come at a better time… I go into this about how Christopher and I have been walking through some really tough questions this year and we do not know what...

Goodness I can't spoil it before you get a chance to listen to the episode!!! What's your guess? And head on over to the instagram (@everymomneedsafriend) for more insight on this sweet babe set to arrive at the very beginning of Oct! Oooooooffff... love y'all! xoxooxoxo As always, please join me over on instagram (@everymomneedsafriend) to talk with me in real time! Love y'all...

Hey yall, Happy season 2! Happy Summer - hope it's treated you well! I just can’t tell you how happy I am to be back recording for this new season of EMNAF! If you haven't gotten a chance to listen to last season, it'll always be there, but if this is your first episode, let me catch you up... Hi, I’m Anna, wife to Christopher, mom to Ellie, Kate and currently growing our third baby...

Can you believe it? One whole dang year of this EMNAF podcast, eeeeekkk!!! When there are times of birthdays, year marks, or big milestones in life do you go hard on the reminiscing train like me? I'm so full of gratitude and excitement for what has happened (even the bad stuff) in this last year and we (my trusty consistent co-host and hubby) talk through some of those moments today! Please...

Happy 4th Birthday to my oldest girl, Ellie! About a week ago we celebrated Ellie and I had "all the feels" as the kids say… It’s so easy to look back and take stock of who I was back then, who this current version of myself is, and all the crazy milestones along the way! I did my best today to celebrate the ways I’ve grown and identify the ways I still need some growth... and to poke fu...

Welcome to the first of the probably many installments of the EMNAF Quadcast with my sweet brother who I adore and his wife who I adore more and my cutie hubby! We had some direction today, like how to look for good suitors in the couple friend category, but also lots of tangental moments of giggling and quoting Tik Tok sounds (which ages us and both makes us sound super immature in the same breat...

Did anyone pay attention in middle school health class? I feel like I certainly didn't and even though I can say I've gone through 3 pregnancies and workin' on my 4th, I was shocked about the things I didn't know coming into today's episode. I'm proud and excited to bring on EMNAF an old, dear friend who is now a full blown OBGYN! Not only do we go way back and have a...

My 4th and final Sister-in-Law is on the podcast today! Lily has gone through so many super cool and inspiring things in the last couple years, from getting married to her high school sweetheart in the first couple months of COVID, to moving 3 times in the last 2 years, to being pregnant with her first baby - it's fun to hear her storytell us through all of that! She's so easy and adorab...

Hey hey!! Today’s episode is more of a “this is what I’ve found” or a “learn from my mistakes” episode… and this was born out of a place that I just feel like I have had so times in my life where I am improperly prioritizing things and giving my whole heart and energy to things that aren’t life giving. And over my last almost 9 years of marriage I can say I’ve had times where certain things sucked...

Get to know my friend Mal! She definitely has some things that are her I would say bread and butter - like thinking outside the box, running a company, being on top of it, being a great partner to her hubby Luke... and then on the other side she has a tiny few, but some things that she’s taken a crash course in the last couple months - and that’s being a mom!  She even admits that it wasn’t her &q...

Don't want to spill the beans before you get a chance to listen to the episode yourself - but we are so so pumped for this new exciting adventure! Thanks for being a part of the journey... love y'all deep!! As always, please join me over on instagram (@everymomneedsafriend) to talk with me in real time! Love y'all deeeeep xoxoxoxox