Mutha Life

Let's go SKIN DEEP…maybe even deeper with Dr. Aegean Chan today. Dr. Chan is a badass double board certified dermatologist and dermapathologist. She's a mom of three. She runs her successful Santa Barbara practice alongside her husband. She's educating the masses through her engaging and EVIDENCED take on her instagram account…and she's been featured in The New York Times, Allure, Vogue, Preventio...

From Slovakia to Canada to your living room, come snuggle down with Barbora Samieian. She's one of the co-founders of the fan favorite Sundays Furniture, the newly launched furniture brand Hetta, and Vancouver's fave lunch spot, Field and Social. Her story as a founder and as a parent to her 4 kids is integrally linked to her own brand of warmth, cultivated over borders, across cultures, and now i...

Welcome to our second ever SOLO POD for the big episode 6-0. We cover a wide sprawl of topics that span my brain and yours - I answer some listener questions and dive into what's been going on around here lately. Specifically, we talk about making 'mom friends' - and where I think we are getting that one a bit wrong in how we think about it. We talk about how a new school transition can take just...

Evan Lovett REPS HARD FOR LA. He's LA's biggest cheerleader and is the creator of LA IN A MINUTE - the viral social media sensation sharing snapshots of different LA neighborhoods and points of interest in a way that is truly celebrating the city where he was born and raised - and where he's now raising his son. With his successful pod, IN A MINUTE WITH EVAN LOVETT, Evan has managed to wrangle the...

Today we are hanging out in the closet with Whitney Wagner Hartley of HELLOWHITNEY fame. She is a retired model, a wellness and beauty influencer and….has become a vocal critic of the MAGA and MAHA agendas. Her videos have amassed millions of views where she crushes a skincare or makeup routine WHILE ALSO explaining in very accessible terms how our consumer dollars - and how we decide to use them...

Come hang with Billy Mann immediately. Billy is a Grammy Nominated multi-platinum multi-hyphenate. He's a songwriter, producer, artist, executive, podcaster, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Philadelphia-loving husband and father of 4 (Go Birds?). From his longstanding collaboration with PINK to his work with Sting, Celine Dion, Cher, Backstreet Boys, David Guetta, Robyn, Carole King, Hall & Oates, a...

Come hang in the closet with celeb makeup powerhouse, Jamie Greenberg of Jamie Makeup. She's the go-to artist for so many of Hollywood's funniest and most talented women - Rashida Jones, Kaley Cuoco, Chelsea Handler, the list goes on and on…but today we get down to the FOUNDATION of the person behind the brush. We focus on taking off the CONCEALER and getting the BAREFACED story of what kind of ch...

Today we get to hang in the closet with Victoria de la Fuente. She's a brand strategist. A tech entrepreneur. A fashion girly. And an absurdly successful substacker with her stack  Zillion Trillion . We start with what it was like growing up in Peru, what happens when your mom becomes one of the most famous women in Latin America in your teenage years, navigating the international fashion scene, a...

I HOPE YOU ARE SITTING DOWN. Today on the pod we have Shawn Stockman - a 4-time Grammy award winner and a member of the most commercially successful R&B group of all time, BoyzIIMen.  We start with Shawn's childhood in southwest Philadelphia - we go from singing in THE Boys Choir at age 8 to attending the prestigious Creative and Performing Arts High School. Then we talk about growing up and into...

Let's go hang with Chana Karna Blugrind - she has been an early childhood educator for 25 years and is the Director of a pre-school in Los Angeles. She's also a mom to four kids and step mom to two more. She's an ultramarathoner. A doctoral candidate. A Danish woman living in America….A woman with many layers, all of which are tied together with her faith. And tattoos. Lots of tattoos. We follow C...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FAM! They say for a first anniversary you should get your beloved paper, but I think substack and a podcast is the modern day equivalent, right? This episode is the product of your requests to get MY story. I couldn't think of anything more cringe than talking about myself at length, but our repeat guest and friend of the pod SOSUPERSAM wasn't going to let me off the hook. So her...

Is it just me or is the dream to flip the script on your doctor and ask THEM the personal questions? Well, cha ching. Today's the day for me. Not too long ago I started with a new doctor to work out the latest challenges and question marks around my Crohn's disease. She came highly recommended by my doc as THE woman to talk to about BEING a woman with Crohn's, especially around the hormonal roller...

Today we are hanging out in the closet with Bennett Kaspar-Williams, the multi-threat. Lawyer, activist, writer, creative…and seahorse dad. If you don't know what a seahorse is, you're in the right place today to learn from source. Bennett is trans and was the gestational carrier for his son (get it? male seahorses are famously the gestational carriers). In talking to Bennett about his life - from...

This week we have Emily Tucker in the virtual closet all the way in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Emily is the founder and face of Emily Tucker Design - an insanely talented firm building projects that would be right up my alley if my house wasn't a toy vomit factory. On this episode, I use Emily as my personal guru for all things - from understanding how interior designers actually work with clien...

This week in the closet we have celebrity trainer/founder of Bad Badger Treats, Charlie Curtis. You may know him as 'Perfect 10 Charlie' of Armchair Expert fame. Or maybe as the founder of Indoorphins, the online high intensity workout community. Orrrrr that guy who seems to live at the little league field. Maybe you don't know him at all and you're here because you just want to hear how someone w...

This week we get down and dischargey with the founder of Auggie, the parent platform so many of us want and need. Lily Walla's childhood story is one of contrasts - bouncing between her parents' apartments, sleeping on pull out beds and sharing tight spaces - all while going to one of the country's most elite private schools and running around with classmates with literal mansions to call home. To...

Today we are hanging out with a movement guru of the highest order and getting extremely vulnerable about the road to healing and building resilience in the body and the mind. Come meet THE Jill Miller. We start in New Orleans and land here in LA. We cover experiencing her parents' divorce as a child and being uprooted more times than she can count on two hands…and the underlying impact all of tha...

This week we are celebrating the 4th of July by spending time highlighting parenting while building a career in the military. The department of defense is the LARGEST employer in the United States which means millions of people and families are working through the unique experiences associated with this career path. Overseas deployments. Being separated from loved ones. Moving cities and countries...

This week we are hanging out with E! The Rundown's Erin Lim Rhodes.  In this episode we cover what happens when a focused and extremely driven person in a highly competitive field takes on parenthood. And, if that's not enough of a hook for you, we cover what it's like when parents separate later in life, the power of the placenta, finding her faith and her husband in a new church, how hobbies hel...

Today we've got serial entrepeneur and sports obsessed former D1 Soccer Star, Stacy Bernstein, on the pod. She is the Co-Founder of All Better Company, a company re-imagining first aid in a way that's showing up for you and your kids AND doing it in a way that's also good for the planet. We follow Stacy from childhood in THE VALLEY, to her life as a D1 athlete, to working for the NHL, coaching, an...

Whitney Port has been in the public eye for 20 years and she's cultivated an ability to both be vulnerable and share her life without it feeling exploitative. From her time on the Hills and the City, to her following years building her own mini media empire with her successful podcast and Youtube channel, watching Whitney grow and cultivate relationships has been a mainstay for so many people who...

This week in the closet we have Senior Director of Community and Partnerships Tubby Todd. To most, however, she's likely better known as the grand master of all things hobby...or just having a good time. Erika's path to corporate girly has been paved with stardust, dreams, and...community. From singing for Disney in Japan to being the front woman of an all-Filipino hip hop group to cross-fit gym c...

For an entire generation of girls wanting to be journalists, work in magazines and/or fashion, Atoosa Rubenstein was the pinnacle we looked to. She was living out loud and doing it YOUNG. Not waiting for any traditional hierarchies to retire. But what we didn't see is how much was weighing those designer shoulders down at the same time. The unanswered questions. The lack of connection. The missing...

It can feel like nothing is more precious and elusive to parents of young kids, as sleep. Today in the closet we've got Brittany Sheehan, certified kid's sleep guru and Internet funny girl, according to me. In this hang we cover everything from the impact of limited sex ed as kids, losing a parent too soon, finding new super powers with parenthood, division of labor at home...and we also answer so...

Come hang in the closet with the renegade girl scout, Puno. She's the founder of iLoveCreatives and the Executive Creative Director of iLoveCreatives Studio - the woman is bursting with...creativ(ity). This sprawling chat covers so much: from growing up in Texas in what sounds like a movie marriage of LadyBird and Dazed & Confused, to thriving and diving deep in the early days of the internet, to...