The Mother Daze with Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer

Teresa’s back with RV trip round two, proving once again that life is always better when it’s packed to the brim with adventure. From laughing through the chaos to Mark somehow ending up captaining a boat in Idaho with absolutely zero boating experience, it’s a classic Palmer family YOLO adventure. Throw in theme park thrills, Teresa living her best waterslide life, plus plenty of belly laughs, an...

This week we’re joined by our resident witch and long-time Dazey, Devyn Goss, for a conversation that wanders through magic, motherhood and everything in between. We chat about her journey into pagan witchcraft, practicing in a coven, studying under baby medium Emily, and why she believes we’re all spiritual beings having a very human experience. As a special education teacher and mama who had her...

This week on The Mother Daze, we’re feeling all the things. With Wyatt graduating and our kids somehow growing up right before our eyes, we found ourselves reflecting on this wild season of life. From starting over after the fires to moving cities (and even countries), we chat about what it’s been like watching our kids navigate change, find their people, build friendships, and create a sense of h...

This week on The Mother Daze, we have a brilliant guest: Sabrina Rudin. Mama, restaurateur, cookbook author and multi-hyphenate do-er of very cool things. She’s chatting with us about the winding road that led her to a healthier, happier relationship with food, and the path she’s taken to share her recipes with the world through her book, “Healthy with a Side of Happy: 100 Plant Based Recipes To F...

This week on the podcast, Sarah and Teresa debrief their epic double-family hangout and all the beautiful chaos that came with it. From the sight of Tez and Mark’s 30ft RV parked right out front of Sarah and Eric’s house for two days straight, a glimpse of full-on family commune living of our dreams, to skate park adventures, evening walks, ATV rides, Bodhi & Wyatt’s budding band career, the girls...

Sarah and Tez are joined this week by Erin Claire Jones, one of the world’s leading experts on Human Design, and wow… this conversation gave us plenty of “that explains so much” moments. We chat with Erin about how she first discovered Human Design, the path that led her to this work, and what Human Design actually is. She breaks down the foundations in a way that feels practical, accessible, and...

Sarah and Tez are riding solo this week and covering everything from baby crawling styles, Wyatt’s special new role, and Teresa’s latest board game obsession, to teachable moments with our kids when feelings of comparison and insecurity begin creeping in. We chat about why planting those emotional seeds early feels so important, especially while raising tiny humans in a world that constantly tells...

We are BACK for our second Broad Daze episode and apparently we’ve got pussies on the brain… cats, people. CATS. In true double-bestie fashion we cover everything from cat parenting, cat fostering and cat birthing (yes really) to kitty litter hacks, pee anxiety, spirituality, identity shifts, Parts Work and the lingering shadows of religious conditioning. From cats to horses (the Year of the Horse...

This week on our solo ep we’re chatting all things new beginnings and beautiful chaos as we officially launch our new YouTube memberships and share the exciting new direction we’re taking The Mother Daze community in. We’re also revealing some of the exclusive offerings just for members, including the return of #TezTalks, the introduction of #BoochBanter, and Sarah’s dreamy new #FashionFables seri...

This week we’re diving into Selfish, the raw and revealing memoir by Kerry Faherty, mother and co-founder of Faherty Brand.  We unpack radical honesty, telling the full truth about your life without people pleasing, and the tension that comes with being fully seen. Including why sharing your truth can upset people, and how to navigate that discomfort in relationships. We explore reclaiming the wor...

It’s another solo with Sarah and Tez and they’re wading through the woo-woo as they do do. Teresa shares a parenting a-ha around nighttime musical beds; the pull to sleep close to the people you love versus the expectation everyone should be in their own beds by a certain age. She opens up about how she’s pivoted, and the peace that’s come with it. Plus we celebrate Sarah nurturing her love of fas...

Sarah Baldwin joins us this week for one of the most powerful conversations we’ve had on the podcast. A somatic practitioner and educator, Sarah reminds us that tending to our own nervous systems is one of the most generous things we can do for our children. Our kids look to us to learn what safety and regulation feel like. We talk parts work, inner child healing, and how our nervous systems can “...

We’re in one of those everything-at-once seasons. Sarah wraps up her dream job, Ocean hits 9 months (how??), Lotus “dadas” throughout the ep, and we spiral into the kids growing up, the paths we thought we’d take, and how we both somehow dodged university and landed in acting instead. We talk car accidents, near misses, and those moments that make you wonder if the universe is trying to get your a...

This week we’re joined by our darling friend Olivia Allen; actress, producer, writer, and one half of the bestie duo behind The Broad Ideas pod with Rachel Bilson.  This is a come-back-to-yourself kind of episode. We’re talking full body yeses vs obligation energy, and learning how to trust what actually feels aligned. We dive into returning to your spiritual practices in seasons of chaos, plus hu...

This week on The Mother Daze we’re deep in the beautiful chaos of motherhood, with scooting babies keeping us on high alert and baby proofing becoming a full-time job. We chat the simple joys of a Costco run, what our sleep scores and aura rings are really telling us, and Sarah’s surprisingly impressive sleep score despite a baby on the boob all night. We get into the magic of those truly special...

This week on the pod we sit down with environmental health expert and mama Lindsay Dahl, author of Cleaning House, for a deeply grounding, eye-opening chat about what it really means to create a healthier home without spiraling into perfectionism. From beauty products to the everyday cleaning staples sitting under your sink, Lindsay walks us through how to make more conscious choices without throw...

This week on The Mother Daze, we’re in the thick of it. The tired mama juggle is real and we’re giggling our way through it, throwing some grace at it, laughing at the dropped balls and celebrating the wins! We chat about outgrowing friendships, curating new connections, and what it really looks like to protect your energy and your space as a mama. There’s also a whole lot of woo woo mystical chat...

Today we’re joined by our friend Megan Papay, co-founder of Freda Salvador, a brand that feels less like a shoe company and more like an energy. Built on three generations of shoemaking, Freda has become a reflection of personal style, intention, and the quiet power of women building something meaningful. We talk about the idea that getting dressed can actually be a form of storytelling. How what...

This week’s wild stories are plentiful. We unpack the absurdity of driving through the night to be a “Sexiest Person” while standing next to a Victoria’s Secret supermodel… and personally feeling mildly unalived. Not emotionally. Just aesthetically. Spiritually. Sleep-deprived-y. (And this was pre-kids.) We talk God of War, Sarah filming Matlock, birthday snow trips, and the wobbly dance of mixing...

This week we sit down with Emily Doyle, founder of Ursa Major and fellow mama, to talk about the real birth story behind building a brand while raising a family at the same time. We dive into the why behind Ursa Major, what it means to keep it real and relatable in the beauty business, and Emily shares some beautiful, grounded words for our Dazeys about taking the leap and launching something of y...

Solo ep this week aaaaand we went everywhere! We talk all about our women’s circle and the way it keeps showing up for us in the most nurturing, grounding, “ohhhh this is why community matters” kind of way. The softness. The honesty. The way women holding women just hit different. Tez retells a fully wild WTF-universe story where it showed up in the most epic, aligned, magical way… and also in the...

From the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle, to founding one of the world’s leading maternity and postpartum brands, Nicole Trunfio has redefined what it looks like to show up for women through motherhood with her groundbreaking company Bumpsuit. This week on the pod, we talk with Nic about her beautifully colourful, whirlwind life raising three kids, and the heart behind building a compan...

We’re talking big life shifts! Tez’s big move (“It’s gonna be a bit chilly, eh?”), her God of War news, and the auditioning experience, including those moments where the universe shows up right when you’re on the brink. We dive into audition horror stories, nerves, rejection, and the emotional whiplash of putting yourself out there… weeeeee (followed by nervous). We also catch the Dazeys up on our...

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Melanie Jackson, PhD researcher and host of The Great Birth Rebellion, to explore evidence-based maternity care and how birth systems can better support women and babies across all birth settings. We discuss the medicalisation of birth, how fear and risk are often overstated in modern maternity care, and the need to shift social messaging that frames birth as in...

In this solo episode, we get into the manifesting practices we actually use, what’s brewing with our next women’s circle, and why one-on-one time with kids in big families really hits different. We talk about the mindset reset that comes with realising we’re living inside the dreams we once cooked up as kids, share a few stories from on-set visits with Sarah, and take a very necessary detour into...