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May 4, 2023 / Mom &... Podcast Episode 118 / Guest: Sarah Hart-Unger, MD Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Do new pens and a fresh, new planner make your heart sing? Us, too! We had a fantastic, planner-nerd discussion with this week’s guest, Sarah Hart-Unger, MD. Part-time pediatric endocrinologist, part-time podcaster, full-time parent, blogger, runner, and… mor...

April 27, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 117 / Guest: Tara Stiles Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Imagine that you know how to gently move and breathe through your days, allowing yourself to think more clearly and feel better. We’ll give you a minute to picture it.  If your mind’s eye pulls up an image that you want to manifest, Tara Stiles is the...

April 20, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 116 / Guest: Yael Schonbrun Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: This week’s guest, Yael Schonbrun, had a plan for her career and motherhood. Then she became a mother, and it was harder than she’d anticipated. (Is there a mother out there who can’t relate?) At that moment, Yael said she did “a lot of crying and a lot...

March 30, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 115 / Guest: Christine Winston Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Like many of us, Christine Winston took a couple years off to be the stay-at-home caregiver for her children, and before she knew it a couple years turned into nine years. Some of us are looking at cough… 15+… cough years, so we relate. Christin...

April 7, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 114 / Guest: Shavon Saint Preux Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Shavon Saint Preux joins us this week to talk about starting something from nothing. Regular listeners know that we are passionate about foster care and about women living fully into their ellipses. Shavon is the ultimate mom &… She’s a busi...

March 30, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 113 / Guest: Addie Swartz Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Addie Swartz has been focused on helping women come back from career breaks since before the concept of a meaningful “career break” was really a thing. Her own career has been closely tied to her life journey, including figuring out how to manage motherhoo...

March 23, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 112 / Guest: Meredith Ethington Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: As we say in the intro to this episode, if you hang out on social media at all, you’ve probably laughed at something Meredith has posted. Her brand, Perfection Pending, is all about connecting with other parents around the realities – and absur...

March 9, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 111 / Guest: Natalie Borrell Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Our guest this week, Natalie Borrell, is a school psychologist and teen life coach. If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like the typical Mom &… Podcast guest, you’d be right, and wrong. Everything Natalie teaches teens can also help adults. T...

March 2, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 110 / Guest: Ericka Sóuter, an Encore Presentation Listen, Subscribe & Review Wherever You Listen to Podcasts This week, we have a special treat for you: an encore presentation of one of our favorite episodes with Ericka Souter! We’re sharing it again to help us kick off a collection of relaunch episodes over the next few months.  It’s hard...

February 23, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 109 / Guest: Kara Haug Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: TW/CW: This episode may be triggering for those with sexual trauma. If you are struggling and need immediate help, call 800.656.4673 or visit https://www.rainn.org/resources for resources and live chat options. This episode openly discusses sex education....

February 16, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 108 / Guest: Tami Hackbarth Listen, Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Our friend, Tami Hackbarth, is back with us this week to talk more about self-care! (Can there ever be enough self-care talk?) Tami has a new book all about erasing the guilt and making sure you have the mental, physical, and emotional resourc...

February 9, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 107 / Guest: Erin Pepler Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: It was so great to finally have Erin on the show. Longtime listeners may recognize her name as the Hero in the Raspberry Compote Incident at the 2018 Mom2.0 Conference. She saved the day, and Susanne’s pants, with a Tide Pen at a crucial moment. In additi...

January 26, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 106 / Guest: Megan Young Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Many of us automatically associate grief with losing someone, but as Megan Young shares with us, grief touches our lives in many ways. We talked with Megan about a couple areas of grief that we – and a lot of our listeners, maybe? – connect wi...

January 19, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 105 / Guest: Laura Vanderkam Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Laura Vanderkam is a time-tracking genius. Over the last seven years, she has tracked her own time and taught people all over the world to do the same. More importantly, she helps people learn why and how time tracking can change your life. It’s not j...

January 12, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 104 / Featuring the Hosts Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: This week features Susanne and Missy, sans guest, talking about prep work we’re doing for an upcoming episode with Laura Vanderkam . We’re working on our time management skills, and tracking our time to help us understand where the hours go. Spoiler: a l...

January 5, 2023 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 103 / Guest: Kimberly Didrikson Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Kimberly Didrikson says that she was on a career track she loved, and then once her son was born she didn’t know who she was or where she was going anymore. Sound familiar? We definitely resonated with that phenomenon. This episode is all about supp...

December 22, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 102 / Guest: Jen Mann Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Warning: This episode contains holiday spoilers that may upset young listeners. Headphones recommended! Jen Mann is back! Jen was our very first guest, back in episode 4 , and she came back a year later in episode 53 to talk about her book, Midlife Bites ....

December 15, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 101 / Guest: Cait Swamy Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Note: We mention the New Year several times in this episode, but due to some rescheduling/shuffling of episodes, it’s running BEFORE the New Year. Just close your eyes and pretend it’s January when listening. Cait Swamy is the third Ama La Vida coach we’v...

December 9, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 99 / Guest: Lizz Porter Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: We love highlighting amazing women doing amazing things, and Lizz Porter fits that description perfectly. This we we’re talking about running a business, and doing so while navigating medical issues, major life events, and all the regular life stuff. ...

December 2, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 98 / Guest: Ashley Reckdenwald Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Ashley says the collision of motherhood and career was “like an explosion.” We think most of our listeners can relate that sentiment. Her company, Working Mom Notes, was born out of the need for help – resources, advice, and support. In our co...

November 24, 2022 Mom &… Podcast Re-Release of Episode 10 Guest: Nancy Davis Kho, Midlife Mixtape and The Thank You Project Subscribe and review wherever you listen to podcasts. In this season of gratitude, we are re-releasing an episode with one of our gratitude heroes, Nancy Davis Kho. Even if you’ve heard the episode, we think it’s worth another listen! Nancy Davis Kho is a speaker, a...

November 17, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 97 / Guest: Becky Blades Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: Becky Blades wants us all to be stARTISTs! Her daughter coined the term “startist” when she noticed that Becky had her hands in a lot of different enterprises, from business, to art, to writing. We talked about writing through grief, and the creative pro...

October 27, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 96 / Guest: Heather Black Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary: You’ve probably seen Salesforce ads with the cute little cloud, but if you’re like us, you didn’t understand the scope of the company. Our guest this week, Heather Black, is a Salesforce expert who has used her skills to create a flexible, profitable car...

November 3, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 95 / Guests: Shellie Hayes-McMahon and Crystal Mason Subscribe and Review wherever you listen to podcasts! Show Summary This episode originally ran on March 25, 2022. With election day coming up next week on November 8, we wanted to re-run this important conversation with Shellie and Crystal.  Shellie Hayes-McMahon and Crystal Mason joined u...

October 27, 2022 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 94 / Guest: Kat Vellos Subscribe & Review Wherever You Listen to Podcasts Show Summary: Kat Vellos helps people make and maintain connections. In a time where we have access to numerous methods of communication, many people still struggle to develop lasting, meaningful friendships. We had such a great conversation about modern friendship, pac...