Mom Com

Your daughter’s first period can arrive with a whisper or with a full-on crisis and most of us were never taught how to make that moment feel calm. We’re joined by Dana Roberts and Monica Williams, the founders of Scarlet by Red Drop, a brand rethinking menstrual health for girls with first period kits, education, and products designed for younger bodies (not scaled-down adult solutions). Dana tak...

Motherhood can be the greatest love you’ve ever known and the most relentless workload you’ve ever carried, and pretending otherwise is where so much of the guilt starts. We sit down with therapist and author Dr. Danielle Dowling to talk about the truths moms whisper to themselves in the dark: resentment, overwhelm, identity whiplash, and the fear that admitting any of it means you’re a “bad mom.”...

Wellness advice for moms has gotten louder, stricter, and honestly more stressful than helpful. We sit down with functional nutritionist Katie Monaco (The Fab Foodie) for a calmer, more realistic take on hormone health, stress, and motherhood because the goal isn’t to “do wellness right,” it’s to feel better and stay sane while raising kids. Katie shares her personal health story, including years...

Motherhood can feel like you’re carrying a backpack no one else can see, especially when your child is neurodivergent and the world keeps telling you it’s “normal” to be drowning. We sit down with Susanna Peace Lovell, Life Coach, author, co-host of the Brave Together Podcast and a Connection Circle leader for We Are Brave Together, a supportive community for mothers raising children with disabili...

Your sweet kid didn’t disappear. Their brain is getting a hormone upgrade with messy wiring in the middle, and it can look like mood swings, sudden tears, sarcastic comments, and big emotional outbursts aimed straight at you. We sit down with nurse practitioner Keaton Mims to make preteen hormones make sense, from what’s happening in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to why puberty hormones can...

Motherhood can feel lonely, but we refuse to pretend it’s just a “phase” or a mindset problem. We’re Nicole and Shannon, and we dig into why parenting today can be one of the most isolating seasons of life, even when you’re surrounded by kids, partners, and people who love you. The hard truth is that so much of what we’re carrying is structural: families live farther apart, support systems are thi...

Summer is supposed to feel lighter, but if you’re a working parent it can feel like a full-time puzzle with missing pieces. School ends, your job doesn’t, and suddenly you’re expected to cover full workdays with camps that run for three hours, cost more every year, and require registration months in advance. We’re Nicole and Shannon, and we’re saying the quiet part out loud: the summer camp system...

Mother’s Day is supposed to feel like a celebration, but for a lot of us it lands more like a stress test. We’re pulling the filter off and talking about the real emotional mix that shows up: love and pride, plus exhaustion, pressure, guilt, and sometimes resentment. Not because we don’t adore our kids, but because motherhood is relentless and one Sunday in May doesn’t erase the daily mental load....

Your kid melts down at drop-off, refuses the birthday party, or panics over something that seems “small” to everyone else and you’re left wondering if you’re failing. We’re Nicole and Shannon, and we’re sharing what anxiety has looked like inside our own homes, including the moments that humbled us and the progress that only a parent can measure. We talk about why anxiety is often a nervous system...

One day you are on the track you planned for years. The next day motherhood, COVID, or a company decision you cannot control forces a hard question: what actually matters, and who are you without the title you worked so hard to earn? We open up about the “one correct path” mindset we were raised with, the grind culture that rewards overwork, and the strange whiplash of being told to return to offi...

If you’ve ever thought, “Why am I saying the same thing for the tenth time and still getting nowhere?” you’re not alone and you’re not failing. We sit down with Hanna Forrest, a child ADHD behavior specialist, parent trainer, and a mom with ADHD, to name what’s really happening underneath the chaos: executive function gaps, working memory overload, sensory stress, time blindness, and a whole lot o...

Nicole didn’t just “grow up fast” she learned how to survive. From a childhood shaped by instability, addiction, and adult-sized responsibility, she became fiercely independent, resourceful, and determined to build a different life. That drive helped her work, graduate early, and take care of herself as a teen, but it also laid down a nervous-system blueprint that motherhood would later challenge...

Nicole turns the mic toward, Shannon, and it gets real fast. We go back to the small-town kid who thought her older brothers were the coolest, held an eighth-grade triple jump record, and learned early what it looks like when a single mom is in full survival mode. We talk about the kind of childhood you don’t fully remember until someone asks the right question and how family, neighbors, and grand...

One minute you’re packing a tiny backpack for the first day of preschool. The next minute you’re hearing the words “oncology floor” and trying to understand how your child can look perfectly fine while something life-threatening is happening inside their body. That’s the reality our friend Katie Holifield lived when her son Hunter was diagnosed at age three with a Wilms tumor, a form of pediatric...

Motherhood has a way of turning made-up rules into daily proof that we’re “doing it wrong.” We’re Nicole and Shannon, and we’re calling out the myths that trigger mom guilt, perfectionism, and that heavy feeling you carry to bed at night. If you’ve ever looked at your dinner, your messy house, your short patience, or your morning chaos and thought, why can’t I get this right, you’re our person.  W...

What if the right outfit could help you hear your own voice again? We sit down with Renee Smith, founder of Subtle and Sass, whose journey from childhood pageants to two inclusive boutiques reveals how style can be a catalyst for self-worth, community, and real change. Renee opens up about the years she buried her creative dream, the loneliness of early motherhood, and the moment a simple dress he...

Feeling lonely while your calendar stays full is a quiet heartbreak many of us carry. We sat down with therapist and community builder Heather J. Carlson to name why modern friendship feels so hard and to share a simple, once‑a‑month framework that rebuilds real connection without adding another job to your plate. Heather traces her post‑pandemic turning point from caregiver and primary parent to...

Ever feel like your home swings from calm to chaos in seconds and you’re the common denominator? We brought in occupational therapist and healer Nicole Ramsey to flip that belief on its head and show how the nervous system—yours and your child’s—drives what we see as “behavior.” Nicole breaks down primitive reflexes in the brainstem, why an unsteady foundation shows up as clumsiness, tantrums, and...

Ever feel like your home is a pinball machine and you’re the ball? We crack open what it’s like to run on empty while juggling work, kids, screens, school drama, and the relentless noise that seems baked into modern family life. From winter stress and emotional eating to the dopamine drip of YouTube shorts and dueling TVs, we get honest about the sensory overload that makes focus—and patience—feel...

Ever feel like your brain is running a subway map while everyone else rides a single track? We open up about the invisible mental load that keeps households moving—packing lunches, tracking therapy appointments, remembering teacher names, and absorbing the emotions in every room—then get honest about what it costs when the lights go out and the cortisol clock flips on at 3 a.m. From nerves and box...

Ever feel like your brain replays every rough parenting moment right as your head hits the pillow? We go straight at mom guilt—naming it, sorting it, and giving it boundaries—so it stops steering the day. We unpack the three big flavors we see most: real guilt when actions don’t match values, fake guilt built on comparison and expectations, and absorbed guilt we carry from other people’s feelings....

Some mornings feel like a marathon before 9 a.m. and for parents raising neurodivergent kids, those miles can be lined with judgment, confusion, and a lot of “he’ll grow out of it.” We open the door on what parenting looks like when ADHD, sensory processing differences, and learning challenges reshape the plan. From the first red flags after 18 months to full neuropsychology evaluations, we walk t...

Welcome to  Mom Com  ! A podcast created for moms who are navigating the beautiful, messy, overwhelming reality of motherhood and want a place to feel seen, supported, and understood. In this first episode, we’re introducing ourselves, sharing our stories, and opening up about why Mom Com needed to exist. From the loneliness that can quietly creep in, to the pressure to “do it all,” we talk about...