Mother's Quest Podcast

It's Season Four of the Mother's Quest Podcast! At time of recording we're on the threshold of spring, a season of new growth and fresh opportunities. Around this time,  three years ago, I was visited by two birds trapped in my house, and letting them out became a sign for me to slay my self-doubt and choose into living what I now call my E.P.I.C. life. I could never have imagined that day, that t...

Welcome to this special bonus episode of The Mother's Quest Podcast, an interview I had on my friend Anne Ferguson's podcast – MamaFuel. In this conversation, Anne turns the tables on me, as she asks how the epic guideposts showed up in my life. I'm delighted to share this episode with you and use this as an opportunity to share some announcements and invitations for getting involved with Mother's...

I'm thrilled to share this special finale episode of the Mother's Quest podcast with my very own sister, Caren Lettiere. Caren, ten years older than me and like a second mother in many ways, has been a guide, mentor and inspiration to me my whole life. She's an ambitious, talented leader in the fashion industry and has managed to grow a $70 million dollar brand, Democracy Clothing, alongside a 27...

I'm honored to bring this special episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast to you with mother, activist, writer, co-founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation and an inspiration to so many, Sybrina Fulton.  The episode is the last in a series I've recorded for the Women Podcasters in Solidarity Initiative on the subject of gun safety and the intersectional impact of gun violence on our communities.  Un...

I'm honored to share this episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast, the second in a series I'm recording for the Women Podcasters in Solidarity Initiative on the subject of gun safety and the intersectional impact of gun violence on our communities. As the mother of two boys, I was interested in having a conversation with an expert on this subject who's also a man and a father and I'm so grateful to...

The last few weeks where I live, in California, have been a challenging time.  Wildfires raged in Southern and Northern California, taking lives and destroying so much (including my beloved childhood summer camp, Hess Kramer) and causing us to stay indoors or wear masks due to the unhealthy air quality. Through it all, I found myself coming back to the lessons on choosing gratitude in this "Revisi...

I'm thrilled to share this episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast with mother, coach, entrepreneur and mind-body wellness expert Erin Stutland. Through her signature Shrink Session workouts and Soul Strolls, which combine principles from dance, yoga, meditation and more, Erin helps over 70,000 people in 155 countries to transform negative thinking into possibility and tap into their own inner stren...

This conversation with best-selling New York Times author and Ted talk speaker Julie Lythcott-Haims was over two years in the making and yet came just at the right time. Author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success and Real American: A Memoir, Julie's interested in the human experience and writes non-fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetr...

Hello and welcome to this episode with mindfulness educator, corporate trainer, podcast host and author of "Mindful Parenting in a Messy World," Michelle Gale.  This conversation, rooted in how to bring more equanimity to our lives–finding our center of calm in the storm–came to me just when I needed it most, during a start to my fall season marked by big school transitions for my children, travel...

Welcome to another new episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast, one I'm sharing after a short break, so I could focus on transitioning my children into the new academic year, welcoming in the Jewish New Year and supporting my parents as my father recovers from bypass heart surgery (he is doing much better and already plotting to get back on the golf course!) During this time of reflection and connec...

We are welcoming back the 5-Day Mussar Yoga Challenge, which officially kicks off today. This is in line with my podcast episode with Edie Raphael last year on Mussar and this season of renewal. Come along for five daily prompts in the Mussar Yoga Challenge at the Mother's Quest Facebook Group. Mussar is an ancient Jewish practice that invites us to contemplate, journal on, talk in community about...

Honored to share this special episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast featuring a conversation I had with author and coach Sage Hobbs as a guest on her show, Naked Conversations. I loved all the themes that we discussed and wanted to introduce more of you to Sage's work, so I'm excited and appreciative that she gave me permission to share in this way. This is the last of a series of previously relea...

Hello and welcome to this special revisited episode of a conversation I had a year ago with  Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin , titled "Intersectionality and The Age of the New Heroine." This episode was one of my most impactful conversations and one that set me on my own heroine's journey to use my voice and leadership in new ways. So much has happened since that conversation. Sparked by that episode...

This episode introduction comes to you from my hotel balcony in San Miguel de Allende Mexico, where Chris and I are celebrating our 21st anniversary and our children are on a special trip with their grandparents. To make space for vacation, I decided to re-release two episodes and take a break from recording. Next week, at the one year mark of the Charlottesville Rally, I'll share again my origina...

I'm honored to share with you this episode with Renegade Mothering's, Janelle Hanchett, mom to four ranging in age from 4 to 16, and author of the new memoir "I'm Just Happy to Be Here." I reached out to Janelle after reading her raw and honest blog post about raising teenagers. In my experience raising my own teenage son, I saw myself in Janelle's words, and shared her post with every friend I kn...

I'm honored to bring you this Episode #45 of the Mother's Quest Podcast, a conversation I shared first a little over a year ago, when my own son Ryan marked a big milestone in his life, his 13th birthday and the approach of his bar mitzvah. Recently, Ryan crossed another threshold, his middle school graduation, and in the weeks before this new milestone, he wrote a speech to capture the experience...

I'm excited to share this second special episode this month of the Mother's Quest Podcast, in honor of Father's Day, with someone I've known and admired for over a decade through our connection at Alternatives in Action, California Assemblymember Rob Bonta. This month of June has been a time to focus on the amazing fathers in our lives. It's also been primary election month in many communities. An...

What an honor it is to bring you this episode with my own father as one of two I'm having with men on the podcast this month in honor of Father's Day. Two things sparked my interest in having my father on the show now…first, a desire to feel more connected to my grandmother Molla, my father's mother, who passed away years before I was born from pancreatic cancer. I wanted to hear from my Dad about...

I'm honored to share this Episode #42 of the Mother's Quest Podcast, a special conversation released in conjunction with ALS Awareness Month with Mary Huffman. Mary is a wonder woman unlike any I've ever met, who relishes life with exuberance, and shares her love with everyone in her midst, even when facing the greatest of challenges. I've known Mary and her family, her husband Ted, and her two ch...

I'm so honored to bring you this special Mother's Day edition of the Mother's Quest Podcast with Graeme Seabrook, a woman whose recent writing on reclaiming ourselves in motherhood through a Mother's Bill of Rights had me laughing, crying and cheering out loud. The moment I read it, I knew I wanted to have this conversation on the podcast. Graeme is a Motherhood Life Coach, who bases her approach...

Hello and welcome to this Episode #40 of the Mother's Quest Podcast with someone who's grown up alongside me as my friend since I was five years old, Rachel Winter. The St Ends to my Be Fri in the Best Friends necklace charm we bought in elementary school, Rachel knows me better in some ways than I know myself. Most know her as the Oscar-nominated producer for the movie "Dallas Buyers Club," and t...

I'm excited to share this Episode #39 of the Mother's Quest Podcast with a special guest who I seemed destined to know, and who I'll have the pleasure of meeting in person when we both speak at the upcoming Gaia Women Lead Conference in May, Alethea Cheng Fitzpatrick.  The immigrant daughter of immigrant parents from Hong Kong, Alethea was born in London and grew up in a predominantly white commun...

I'm honored to share this Episode #38 of the Mother's Quest Podcast with someone who even my children were excited I was interviewing… best-selling, award-winning, children's recording artist Laurie Berkner. Widely recognized as the uncrowned queen of children's music, Laurie's albums, released on her own label Two Tomatoes, have been best sellers beloved by children and adults alike.  Her debut D...

Hello and welcome to this special episode of the Mother's Quest Podcast which I'm releasing just days before the March for our Lives. On March 24, 2018 the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington DC, and around the country, to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today. To help li...

I'm honored and excited to bring you this Episode #36, the first of Season Three of the Mother's Quest Podcast.  If you had a chance to tune into the bonus episode I released last week, "Sprouting Seeds for Mother's Quest," you know that today's episode marks what feels like a new chapter with the podcast and with what I call my E.P.I.C. Life. Through that episode, I reflected on the growth that's...