Mutha Life

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...

May is National Foster Care Awareness Month and we are taking the opportunity to raise awareness by hanging with Tige Charity, CEO of Kids in the Spotlight (KITS). KITS is a non profit organization focused on providing children in foster care with the tools and skills to take control of their own narrative and tell their own story, primarily through filmmaking. Tige's story starts in a little town...

It's tradition when someone comes to the closet that I bake them something to bring home to their family...So you can imagine my surprise when today's guest brought ME something ...a very special something in fact: Childish plates for my kiddos. Meg Duff is the CEO of Childish plates - a company she started because she just wasn't happy with the plastic alternatives out there for feeding kids. She...

Today we are hanging out with Betina Gozo Shimonek, Nike Global Trainer and women's strength training guru . We follow Betina from her first years in the Philippines to a small town in Indiana to wild child bassist in a band and then on to her chapter where she can't stop shining - elite trainer and mother of 3. We cover it all - from a starter marriage to birthing babies in bathtubs to looking ah...

Wow. This is the longest voice memo you'll ever hear on a podcast available to you on Apple, Spotify and wherever else you get your podcasts. In the first-ever solo pod, we cover a lot of listeners' questions and wax poetic on a wild Friday night following a week of kid Spring Break. Let's talk about juggling work and side gigs and family, the latest on my Crohn's diagnosis. When milestones are ha...

Mike Caron is a TV Director with more than 500 episodes of television under his belt. He's a beloved Nickelodeon fixture and the man who brings to tiktok unfiltered behind-the-scenes content of some of our favorite kids shows. He's is known for his work on Henry Danger, Danger Force, iCarly, Zoey101, Drake and Josh and more.  Mike is also a dad of two grown women exploring what it means to be an e...

Sara Tan is the Global Beauty Director for Refinery29 and Co-Host of the Glossangeles Podcast. Her life, like so many parents, is one of stark contrasts. One day she's hanging out with Hailey Beiber at a Rhode popup, or talking shop and parenthood with Rihanna, fully glammed up, and the next she's knee deep in breakfast and lunch prep while wrangling kiddos after her husband leaves for work and be...

Alright alright alright. Today we hang out with an OG Austin native who has somehow married the old Austin (hippy whimsy a la Dazed and Confused) with the new Austin (creative hub for a new crop of national businesses and entrepeneurs). Because that's kind of who she is - taking the best of the old and bringing it to the new, while staying steadfast to a set of deeply ingrained core values from he...

In this week's episode we overcame some technical difficulties to bring you the wonderful story of Alma Vicencio. Alma is a first generation American finding her own way, following her instincts and pursuing a career in fashion, moving from fashion designer to in-house stylist, to being her own boss with her personal styling business, Alma Styles. The program running in the background of the machi...

Chris Mann, accomplished singer and comedian, got extremely real in the closet. We cover how Wichita is low key the perfect place to grow up if you want to be a professional singer one day. How we aren't sure what the Drake-Kendrick beef is actually about. How, it turns out, midlife crises make a lot of sense if you look at all that is foisted upon people in their 40s and 50s - aging and ailing pa...

This week we get to hang out with DIY and style expert, founder and mutha, Orly Shani. The way this woman is so fiercely independent AND ALSO deeply rooted in her family is something worth listening to. Her whole life credo seems to be: take stuff that's there and make it your own. Look at what's in front of you and find the opportunity - even if what's in front of you is a DUI at a young age, fig...

This week we get to hang in the closet with Vanessa Dew, co-founder of Health-Ade kombucha. There are so many reasons to love this conversation. Chief among them is how self aware Vanessa is. This is a woman who has danced the delicate tango between her own family's expectations of her growing up as a first-born daughter of immigrants (she's 1.5 generation American, according to her), and the dogg...

This week we are hanging with Gabi Richmond in the closet. The story of the experiential marketing guru starts with epic house parties as a teenager in LA and takes us through to the New York suburban life, raising two kids while pursuing a career she's passionate about. As you'll hear, Gabi is the product of her family in so many ways (and a departure in so many others). This episode covers so mu...

This week's episode features food scene legend Zach Brooks.  The blogger, podcaster and General Manager of Smorgasburg LA is also a father of three kids. This chat covers the long and winding road of a creative soul balancing his career aspirations with his family's needs. We cover a wild amount of ground - from feeding kids to dividing labor in a house where people have varying degrees of flexibi...

When you were a kid, who did you go to for advice on things that were sensitive? That required you to be vulnerable? Where you required a real education on bodies and relationships? Certainly not your parents, YOUR CAMP COUNSELOR. So, in keeping with that tradition, this week I sit down with my summer camp counselor from when I was a young teen. These days she's a GURU on being a stay at home pare...