Raising Kids & Running a Business

Kayleigh Medeiros, Founder of Heritage Baby Designs shares her journey from retail management to creating her own babywearing brand. Kayleigh beautifully narrates how her multicultural background and her grandmother's influence inspired her to start the business. She also talks about the challenges of balancing motherhood, health issues, and entrepreneurship.  Their conversation highlights th...

Haley Dagan is a self proclaimed agency owner by accident at The Written World Agency. After losing her corporate job in marketing inside the world of hospitality during the pandemic, Haley made a choice to give it a go at freelancing as a copywriter. As her client roster grew and her bandwidth did not after having baby number two—she slowly began to turn her solo gig into a team and full blown ag...

In this episode Kate reflects on 2023 — what when right and what didn't. And how she's moving into the new year with lessons learned in tow (hopefully). Connect with Kate Christy: Website Instagram

Amber Sperling is a social worker, psychotherapist, wife, and mother of two. Her training specifically in perinatal mental health made this chat chock-full of advice, common themes among mothers, and a lot of permission slips to do what feels right for you and your family.   Inside the episode we talked all about... Treating yourself like your best friend Taking time to evaluate, notice, and do se...

Greetings Mothers — a little update on the podcast and storytime about why I almost burnt it all down!  Running a business is hard. Being a mom is hard. So when stuff gets really hard, I think it's important to share, ask for help, and be honest because someone might just have sage advice because they've been there or you might help someone avoid the same mistake you made! DISCLAIMER — I...

Dr. Kelly Vincent is a licensed clinical psychologist and owner of Nourished Wellness Group. Kelly works with mothers and working women to help them emobody their authentic self, heal holistically, and thrive. She's also a mom of two wild-and-wonderful boys, a wife, and building a holistic wellness practice in Southern California. This episode is packed with tasty little nuggets of wisdom aro...

Amber Ladd is an independent designer based on the Surf Coast, Australia, with a focus on art direction, brand identity, web design and development, and editorial works. Partnering with creative and avant-garde brands from far and wide, Amber’s greatest inspirations are found in fashion, objects, and architecture.  Amber is also a mother to a 3.5 year old boy and they're all coming out of the...

Meet the mom behind WorkMom—Mel Goodman.  Mel's a mother of two who ditched climbing the ladder and left her high level corporate career behind to build a life and career that not only supported the life she deeply desired, but one that also helped her support other working moms in that same endeavor.  At WorkMom, Mel helps other mothers to reclaim their identity and get clear on the kind of...

Delia D'Ambra Wheeler is an investigative journalist, story-teller, wife, and mother. She's most known for her long-form true crime investigative limited series  CounterClock and summer series Park Predators In this episode, Delia and I talked about her start in the world of true crime podcasting and how it changed the trajectory of her journalism career. She shared how she and her husba...

I've been having such wonderful converstations with mothers doing the business thing and the momming thing and I wanted to pop in a few mini solo episodes to distill some of the good stuff we get into inside the longer guest episodes. This one is all about building a business structure or framework that WORKS FOR YOU. And also giving yourself a bigger frame of time to measure growth when you&...

Danni Sinclair is the founder of My Peace of Space, a holistic interior design studio in Las Vegas, NV. As a holistic and intuitive interior designer, Danni uses intentional space planning, color therapy, energy cleansing practices, and natural, sustainable decor to bring peace and balance to her clients' spaces. Danni's "formal training" is in architecture but taps into her yo...

Megan Phillips is a mom of 3 and runs a social media management business.  What I loved most about chatting with Megan was the honesty around being a stay at home mom isn't always what all moms want (or need). Megan had an interesting transition out of corporate to being a stay-at-home mom and then found herself in network marketing (#guiltytoo). After a couple years of that, she wanted more...

On this week's episode I sat down with my first DUO — the Coastyle Chicks. Samantha + Taylor are 50/50 partners at Coastyle Events and are THE PREMIER wedding planners on the Outer Banks of North Carolina (yeah, I said it...) Since recording the episode, they launched their event rentals business, Rarity Rentals.  It was great to hear how they embraced motherhood in their professional roles,...

Sara Noel is a Website Copywriter + Marketing Mentor for business owners who want to craft compelling narratives and build better connections with their ideal clients and customers. Through copywriting, marketing strategy, and mentorship, she helps creative brands, founder-first businesses, and freelancers create, tell, and sustain their success stories—with an emphasis on embracing their authenti...

In this epsiode I sat down with my long-time pal and hella talented wedding and lifestyle photographer Sarah D'Ambra Kopp.  In this episode we talked all about... The realities of working from home Giving birth and a longer than expected maternity leave during the pandemic Leaning on family and childcare to make it work Being really transparent with our clients when it comes to being a mom Pe...

TW!! We discuss loss and miscarriage between the 8-12 minute mark if you want to tune in or opt out! Samantha MacKinnon left the corporate construction world (aka long days, no boundaries, and extended driving to on-site projects) to enter entrepreneurship and create a better work/life balance for when she did start a family. Now in her business, Sam supports other small businesses and entrepreneu...

On today's episode I sat down with ethical copywriter extraordinaire, wife + mother of one Maddy Aucoin.  Our converstation really circled around DOING WHAT WORKS FOR YOU and reaaaaaallly sifting through parenting and business advice on the internet! We also talked all about... Being pregnant while finishing her master's program The pandemic pivot Being ok with changing course Giving our...

Ilana Griffo is a lettering artist, published author, and co-owner of Goodtype, a global type community that champions good type and good business. She’s also a wife and mom of two small kids (2 + 5). Inside this episode we talk all about her path to where she is now spending her work days building Goodtype with her co-owner Katie Johnson. Which looks a lot different than it did in the early days...

I have one of my very best friends on the podcast, Katie Kidd. I met Katie back when she was Katie Mooney and we were in the 11th grade. Now in her 30s, she works a 9-5, is a single mother, and has her own side business. How can anyone manage all of this at once? That is what we will be discussing in today’s episode.  We dive right into:  Being a single mother during pandemic and how the pandemic...

On the very first podcast episode, host Kate Christy sets the scene for what you can expect from this podcast.  I dive right into:  The concept of what this podcast is. My story of being creative. How I left my jobby-job and opened my web design studio, Folk Founded.  What this podcast means to me and to others.  Let’s connect !  My Website My Instagram   Music By: JW Lee Connect with Kate Christy...

On Raising Kids & Running a Business host Kate Christy (designer + mom x3) talks with other mothers all about what it’s like to manage the mental load of motherhood while building a career and quite frankly how they’re keeping both the creativity and the kids alive. We have honest conversations about what we’re doing (or not doing) to chase our dreams, the lessons we’ve learned, sacrifices mad...