The Momcult Podcast

Joy and Sarah sit down with best friend, art director and graphic designer, Mackenzie K Moore. We delve into the unspoken pressure of keeping work and home life separate.

Joy and Sarah are joined by indie-pop artist and songwriter Erin McCarley. We go deep into the process of piecing your identity back together after birth.

Therapy lesson of the day: Never have a fight over text!

The girls sit down with Joy’s long-time fellow thespian and improviser Margaret Patton French where we delve deeper into the trials, tribulations and joys of motherhood.

The girls are joined by Music Health Alliance founder and Sarah’s big sister, Tatum Hauck Allsep, who so graciously shares her story of strength amid adversity.

Des Stauffer shares with us her journey through denial and grief after discovering, around 20 weeks into her pregnancy, that her daughter Ivy’s cerebellum wasn’t developing at the typical rate. She shares how little help and preparation she received from the medical community and how her faith and her village make her day to day life possible. Now a mom of two (Lily 18, Ivy 8), Stauffer jumped in...

extra inadequacy/shame/embarrassment over the holidays, Sara‘s trip to Michigan, joys Xmas letter, the pressure on creating the magic

Nothing about motherhood feeds your ego.

Tabitha One Tune shares her 3 week postpartum experience with a confinement nanny.

Joy and Sarah are stoked to be joined by the one and only Leigh Nash! You know her from her hit song “Kiss Me” by Sixpence none the Richer. She is currently on the road guesting for 10’000 Maniacs in attempts to survive being an empty-nester. Joy has to rearrange the nursery and Sarah is tired of being the bad cop.

The girls are joined by Lindsey Rhodes, a hot yoga instructor in East Nashville who walks us through her journey with IVF.

Joy, Sarah and Jenny are mixing things up this season! They are using this time as a “Mom Therapy” session where they can broach topics they are currently dealing with. Submit yours via Instagram!

Sarah and Joy sit down with singer-songwriter and musician Shelly Colvin, who walks us through the tragic day in May of 2020 when she almost lost her husband and son.

Liz describes herself as a chronic optimist . She tells the tales of her 5 natural, drug-free births that took place all over the US, one technically falling out in her shorts. Also she didn’t use baby wipes, in case you wanna feel shittier about yourself. No pun intended.

Joy and Sarah interview Trained Herbalist Leah Larabell, who shares with us what led her to be so passionate about nature and all it has to offer and opens up about her difficulty to conceive. She gives us some easy tips on how to prepare our immune systems for the winter.

Joy & Sarah are joined by their husbands for this year's Father’s Day special!! Sarah is grieving Parker’s 4th birthday and Joy is shoving down her feelings about Eva graduating 5th grade.

Joined once again by resident Momcult guru, Jenny Black, the girls rehash their discussion with elementary school principal, Kellee Akers. We touch on the illusion of balance and how to be helpful after a traumatic event.

Joy and Sarah are joined by Elementary School Principal, Kellee Akers. She is a mother to 3 teenagers and has been an urban school educator for 25 years so to say she’s gathered some tidbits about parenting along the way is an understatement. You won’t wanna miss this one!

Jenny shares her grief about losing her kids to the world's expectations once they started school and the struggle to learn how both you and your kids adapt and function within a new system.

The girls sit down with longtime friend, Stephanie Melidis Wilson to discuss the day to day juggling act we all perform and the importance of soaking in the sweet moments.

Sarah, Joy and Jenny sit down once again to talk through Emily’s visit. We learn a new significance of the song “Red, Red Wine” and did you know you can learn about yourself through your handwriting?

From fertility clinics to panic attacks to sperm donors, our lovely guest Emily Kopp speaks on how becoming a parent shifted her relationship with herself.

Jenny, Joy and Sarah talk more about anger and expectations. Jenny gets personal.

Joy and Sarah are joined by Caroline Locorriere, founder of Nashville Acting Studio and Joy’s acting teacher for the last 3 years. She shares with us about losing her own mother, swiftly followed by her divorce and the challenges of being a single parent to an only child.

The gang is back together to talk about our wonderful guest, Niko McCall and how it’s become harder than ever to lean in and trust our mothers intuition when it comes to our children’s curiosity about gender identity and sexual curiosity.