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Our guest today is the AMAZING public speaker and published author known as @maryscupoftea on social media, Mary Jelkovsky! She has led thousands of women on their journey to healing body-image struggles and finding true, unconditional self-love - so basically she is a QUEEN!!!! But things weren’t always so sweet for Mary. All of this came from her 8-year battle with an eating disorder that left h...

Okay so our guest today is a mama of two boys, she’s an entrepreneur, life coach, former teacher, and former model. Her name is Nastasia and she is the founder of a movement called Cancel Snapback Culture. The movement calls to eliminate the pressure women feel to "snap back" to their pre-baby bodies, and instead prioritize mental health. She also does so much to help support black moms which is S...

This week on the podcast we are continuing with body image and body positivity, and we have a very special guest on to talk with us allll about our relationship with FOOD. Anna Sweeney is Certified Eating Disorder RD & Supervisor as well as an Intuitive Eating Counselor. She holds an INCREDIBLE space on Instagram and has an amazing business called Whole Life Nutrition where she holds counseling se...

Dani is a mom and a huge advocate for March of Dimes which has a very special place in Jamie’s heart at the moment because of her nephew Trevor who was born at 24 weeks. Dani’s story is ABSOLUTELY heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time. She is a powerhouse and SO inspiring so we are excited to share our chat with you!    8:45 - Special Guests, Doug and Bonnie Hehner, come share their...

We are super excited to share this raw and very vulnerable conversation we were able to have with Jeena Wilder. She’s not only a mama to 4 kiddos, but she is an ultimate boss babe! Her family is truly the modern all American family and it is so inspiring! She absolutely radiates positivity over on IG! Jeena and her hubby are an interracial couple with four beautiful children; one adopted and the o...

Today we are SO LUCKY to have the beautiful and insanely talented, Marcia Cross on the podcast! She is someone we are sure A LOT of you know...if you used to watch Desperate Housewives, or you’re into soap operas we are sure you know who she is! ;)   Marcia Cross is an Emmy Nominated Actress & a 2-Time Screen Actors Guild Award winner! Along with being an incredible actress, she is a mama to twins...

We are spending this entire episode sharing our BIG NEWS with you guys! Doug is starting a NEW KIDS YouTube channel - Hanging With The Hehner Kids! We are so happy to be able to have Doug stay at home with the kids and be present with them - something we all understand the importance of after such a difficult year!    We hope you guys have a very Merry Christmas and our next podcast episode where...

Here we go again! We are super excited to share Part 2 of our chat with Dr. Jessica and Jon! We hope you guys have LOVED this interview - we sure have!   3:50 - 1st Question: Did you volunteer to step down or was it a break of contract at all? 7:08 - 2nd Question: Jessica, what was Dr. Pepper’s reaction? 9:15 - 3rd Question: Jon, what was it about Jessica that changed for you to settle down? 12:55...

Is this seriously our 100th episode?!? OH MY GOODNESS! Time has flown by! And we think this episode is absolutely perfect to air for our 100th episode!    Today we have a highly requested guest couple from our married at first sight world! This isn’t a typical couple...uhh..let’s just say they weren’t matched together. This couple is truly one that is a great example of finding love in an extraord...

We are really eager to share our chat with Rachel Cruze with you guys! Do you ever feel like no matter what you do, you never have any extra money? Well then this episode is for you!    Rachel Cruze is a 2-time #1 national bestselling author, a financial EXPERT, and the host of the Rachel Cruze show. Since 2010 Rachel has served at Ramsey Solutions where she teaches people to avoid debt, save mone...

Today we are super excited to have Kenzie Brenna, self love advocate, host of the podcast Conversations with Kenzie, fierce millennial speaker & influencer on Hot Marriage. Cool Parents! Kenzie’s podcast is all about mental health and self love! The reason we fell in love with her page on Instagram is because she radiates positivity particularly concerning self love and body positivity and as you...

Today we are super excited to share a chat with you that we got to have with Danielle Schaffer (City Girl Gone Mom). Danielle is a momma and a podcaster of Mom Confidential. She is a wife and a boss BABE and her son is boss babe Brody. Her podcast is all about the realities about being a mom, all the truths and personal anecdotes! She is all about letting her kids personalities shine through no ma...

We are SUPER excited to have Crystal Fairbanks, momma of a 6 year old, 3 year old, and triplets on the podcast today! She totally amazes us how she has been able to take care of all of her kiddos and during COVID! WHOA! She comes on and shares some struggles she has had with postpartum depression/anxiety, and she shares some ways that she has overcome it.    We hope you are encouraged that you are...

Gonna share this vulnerable chat with you guys about our marriage relationship because we KNOW that other people will benefit :) We have gotten kind of in the “thick” of life and just have struggled because we are SO busy!    We have Jennifer Lehr, she’s a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of WeConcile, an online program for committed couples seeking help. She’s an educator on...

We are SO excited to finally get to have Greg and Deonna on Hot Marriage. Cool Parents. You guys have been BEGGING us to have them on and here they are! :) Greg Okotie and Deonna McNeill Okotie were on Season 9 of Married at First Sight and became INSTANT fan favorites!    They are adorable and we are excited to hear what they are up to, all about their pregnancy, and chat ALL things Married at Fi...

Today we have a very very special guest on the podcast, Lolah Mupotaringa, from Girl Pride Africa. Girl Pride Africa not only rescues girls from child marriages, but it also supports pregnant teens and orphans. This organization has rescued more than 2300 girls and provided accomodation, food, and mentoring to at least 3000 girls around Africa! We are so humbled and thankful to have Lolah on the p...

Andrew East, a college athlete, turned NFL player turned successful entrepreneur and host of the podcast Redirected, and his wife, Shawn Johnson East an Olympic Gold medal gymnast and DWTS champ are our awesome guests on this week’s podcast! Shawn and Andrew are Youtube STARS, athletes, podcasters and parents to an adorable baby girl! This power couples truly does it all!!!!! They got engaged in 2...

It’s definitely been a busy few weeks including a quick family trip out to L.A.! We are back now and hope that our sharing the parenting struggles we have will help someone out there. We love you guys! We know we say it ALL the time, but you guys genuinely are the best ever!   So long story short, Henley was born with a piece of skin over her private area. The doctors told us it was fine and that...

Brooke & Bridget, sisters, speech therapists, and mommies to their own kiddos are our guests today! In 2012, the sisters opened up their private practice for speech therapy in California, and in 2018 they started an Instagram account to help parents help their kiddos develop their language & communication skills!    Before we bring Brooke and Bridget on, Doug and Jamie chat about the struggle to h...

We figured we would switch things up this week and get some feedback from you guys. We asked what are some assumptions you guys have of us, and let me tell ya, we got some good ones!    Show Notes: 04:52 - 1st assumption - Does Jamie do anything for Doug? He is so caring. 07:54 - 2nd assumption - You’re super in love and laugh all the time. 08:24 - 3rd assumption - I assume people recognize you im...

We are super excited to welcome on to our podcast today the amazing Mary Marantz! She is a rockstar podcast host, speaker, and author! She grew up in a single-wide trailer in rural West Virginia. The first of her immediate family to go to college, she went on to earn a law degree from the nation's top-ranked law school, Yale. After ditching six-figure-salary law firm offers in London and New York,...

Hot Marriage. Cool Parents is coming to you live from LA this week!! Last weekend, Jamie went to LA to shoot for Married at First Sight: Unfiltered and she finally got to catch up with the whole crew! We are really excited to share this conversation between Alisha, Jamie's WONDERFUL makeup artist & Jamie! But first, Doug and chat about first impressions of the new MAFS couples meeting face to face...

Hot Marriage. Cool Parents is coming to you live from Florida for the next few months! Doug and Jamie are super excited to be in the sunny weather! It is going to be fun trying to get the house all set up!   We are really excited to share this interview with you today! We brought on some of our awesome frans, Tim & Kelli Dexter, to share a really inspiring story!    For those of you who don’t know...

Breanna Lockwood, mama to be, IG blogger, and fertility awareness advocate and her mama, Julie Loving are our guests today! Breanna has a VERY special story to share with us today, one that is unique and beautiful! After going through a difficult journey to getting pregnant, Breanna turned to surrogacy and let’s just say, she found her PERFECT MATCH! Today we are interviewing Breanna and her mama,...

We are SO excited to have the absolutely HILARIOUS Lauren Lapkus with us on the podcast today! Oh my goodness, this girl is SO talented! She's an American actress, comedian, and impressionist and she is known for portraying Susan Fischer on Orange is the New Black and Jess in the HBO series Crashing, and she is the BIGGEST star of Jamie's favorite movie on Netflix, the Wrong Missy! She's also a MA...