Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Tonya Harris is an award-winning environmental toxin expert and the founder of Slightly Greener, offering busy women simple tips to reduce toxins without turning their family's lifestyle upside-down.  As a childhood leukemia survivor and mom of three (ages 17, 19, and 23), Tonya helps parents learn how toxins in the home can affect their family's health.  Tonya holds a Master's degree in holistic...

Babita Trivedi is a certified financial planner with a passion for educating and empowering women in their financial lives. She helps her clients understand where they are financially, define where they want to be in the future, and give them strategies and tools to achieve those goals so they can feel less stress and be more confident in their future.  She's a mom of 2 (5 and 11 year old) who wen...

As we come out of the pandemic, we're faced with a whole set of new challenges and issues, especially as parents. One of the major issues moving forward is in mental health. While we as parents are trying to navigate our own mental health, we're also trying to help our kids thrive. ---- Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health trailblazer, the founder of The Global Institute of Children's Ment...

This week I'm sharing an episode I did with Sue Groner on the Parenting Mentor Sessions - Episode 22: When Everything Has To Be An Argument . During this episode, Sue coaches me through how to manage sibling rivalry between my three kids who are always yelling, arguing and fighting about everything! In this episode we talk about: What's behind sibling rivalry The value of alone time and why it's o...

Betsy Fore was named one of Forbes 30 under 30, BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, and she is currently the co-founder of Tiny Organics, a nutrient-rich, organic baby food company designed to build adventurous eaters from a young age. Betsy has over a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO, serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition and Policy Innovation Council and her company, Ti...

Today I'm sharing an interview I did on the Not Your Mother's Podcast with Sonnet and Veronica ( Ep. 121: How to Organize Your Life to Keep What Works and Leave What Doesn't with Stephanie Uchima-Carney ) all about finding focus as a busy mom. We talk about the difference between our role as a mom and identity, a step-by-step process I use to figure out how to focus and take intentional actions in...

Meghan Dwyer is a wife, boy mom of 2, financial planner and the host of the Money Isn't Scary podcast, which was inspired by her own struggle with her relationship with money, while trying to do all the "right" things as a working mom. Meghan is a woman on a mission to remove the stigma around money in our culture and to get women talking about it, without fear. In this episode Meghan and I chat a...

Julie Ciardi is a former Fortune 500 marketing executive who has taken her passion for business and marketing to help women create businesses and income streams that create passion, purpose, profit and protection for themselves and their families. She is also the host of the Ignite Her Mind podcast, but above all she is the mom to two teenagers and a 7 year old.  In this episode Julie and I talk a...

Stacey Shieh Lee is passionate about finance and her purpose is to empower people to achieve their financial dreams. As a financial executive in the start-up tech space, she has helped founders and CEOs build sound financial processes and systems to get to the next level.  She has translated her experiences into her company, Solve Your Books, where they bring a next level service to accounting in...

Katie Bressack is an award winning holistic nutritionist who specializes in women's hormonal health; such as painful periods, PCOS, heavy/irregular periods, amenorrhea and thyroid imbalances, post birth control, pre/postnatal and preparing for pregnancy. Katie also helps women transition through perimenopause and menopause. Katie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Jim, their identical twin boys...

One year ago in the midst of 2020 chaos, newborn in arms, distanced learning preschool to starting distanced learning kindergarten and running after a toddler, the Mommy's on a Call podcast was born.  Join me as we celebrate one year of podcasting and take a sneak peek into the upcoming guests joining in Season 2! If you're interested in giving feedback on the podcast or to suggest guests or topic...

Michelle Reeves is the co-founder and CEO of The Accessory Junkie, a mom of two and step-mom to one. During the Pandemic she moved her family from Portland, OR to Australia and is busy juggling time zones and the daily needs of a modern, global family while building her company. In this episode we chat about: How working US hours in Australia (yes, 3am workdays) has actually made her a more presen...

Kodi Berg is a former actress and model turned obsessor of making chic weights you actually want to use with her company EQUIPT. Kodi can be found doing leg lifts and child wrangling most hours of the day while sending emails and trying to keep people moving. I loved our conversation because we had a real conversation about her entrepreneurial journey, which was the opposite of most founders… an a...

Cara Zelas is an author, educator, kindness advocate, and the founder of Big World of Little Dude is an educational platform teaching children, aged 3-7, social and emotional skills through a book series and curriculum. She is a mom of 2 and fur mom to Little Dude, a real life Therapy Dog with the Good Dog Foundation. In this episode we talk all about How the concept of Big World of Little Dude wa...

Sonnet and Veronica are the co-hosts of Not Your Mother's Podcast, which is a podcast that covers all the things no one is talking about when it comes to being a woman and becoming a mom. They are also co-founders of Raising Children You Like, an online platform helping parents not only take charge of the toddler years but also transform their own self as a parent.  In this episode we cover so man...

Julia Dennison is the Digital Content Director for the Parents brand, which includes heading up the content for Parents.com and its social platforms.  As a single co-parenting mama to 4-year-old, Julia has been writing and editing in the parenting space for over 13 years (an editor in general for more than 16 years), with a passion for covering all the wonderfully unique ways people parent and for...

"Be very, very, open-minded, ask a lot of questions and just really not give up. Like if you know that this world needs, whatever it is that you want to build, just do it, you know, do it." - Jessica Levison Jessica Levison is a mom of 3 (ages 4, 6 and 8) and a former lawyer who has a passion for ice cream. When she saw a need in her local community, she decided opened a brick and mortar ice cream...

Megan Harper is a work-from-home mom of 3 kids who recently launched a marketing agency after a successful career in marketing and product growth. Before kids she was a trained sommelier and worked at some of the top restaurants in NYC. After her son was born she left the restaurant world to work in start-ups and make her name for herself running her funny Instagram account, @girlgonechild_ (forme...

Annie Evans is the founder of Dream Ventures and a former founder operator turned angel investor and connector helping founders reach their fundraising goals and secure partnerships that are transformative for early stage businesses. She invests in companies that make the world a better place. Annie is also the mom to a 2 year old boy. In this episode we dive into... The 2 most important lessons s...

Rachel Rosenthal is an organizing expert, founder of Rachel and Company, a Washington, DC-based professional organizing firm and above all the mom to identical girl twins. In this episode, we chat about Her journey from being a lawyer to launching her side hustle full-time as an organizing expert Her biggest business lessons learned during the Pandemic Raising twin girls as a single mom and launch...

When the pandemic hit, many small businesses struggled and many mom business owners chose to take a step back, but not Angela Engel. Instead, this mom of 3 went all-in to scale her business, The Collective Book Studio, because now was "her time to push forward." For many years Angela Engel worked in sales and marketing for nationally known category leaders in publishing, including Chronicle Books,...

Shannon Kenny Carbonell is a former actress and author of the memoir "All is Not LOST" which is a book for every mom who's ever felt lost or stuck in that "what's next for me?" moment, which I think we've all gone through at one or many points in our lives. She is also the wife of actor Nestor Carbonell of LOST, Bates Motel, and The Morning Show fame and a mom to a 15 and 19 year old. When her kid...

Sue Groner is The Parenting Mentor and author of "Parenting with Sanity and Joy: 101 Simple Strategies." She helps parents reduce the everyday stress and anxiety that inevitably comes from parenting by providing strategies and skills to parent with more sanity and joy. In this episode we cover some real-life scenarios of parenting challenges and strategies to implement in each scenario to deliver...

After being laid off at 7 months pregnant in her corporate job and faced with pregnancy discrimination when job hunting, Brea Starmer was thrown into consulting. Her experience inspired her to launch her agency, Lions and Tigers, which is a marketing, operations and strategy consultancy building a bridge to the future of work. Today, Brea has a team of nearly 100 consultants that work flexibly and...

If the words reiki, energy healing, feminine energy or chakras make you run in the other direction, stop, open yourself up to something new and take a listen. Today's guest is Carah Elizabeth, a former psychotherapist turned Body Wisdom Coach. Carah incorporates her years as a psychotherapist with holistic approaches such as Somatic Movement, Yoga, Breathwork and Reiki energy healing to help women...