The Mothers with Sara Brown

Katherine Jetter is a gemologist, jewelry designer, and the founder of The Vault Nantucket — a curated boutique spotlighting designers from around the globe. She’s known for reintroducing opals to the luxury market, blending bold design with deep expertise, and building a brand that’s as innovative as it is elegant. She’s also the mother of one daughter and three stepdaughters — and the kind of wo...

Rebecca Love of Rebecca Love Photography is a portrait and wedding photographer on Nantucket and Mother of three. She and her husband Jonathan also produce ACK & Beyond . Rebecca’s work has been featured in Town & Country , The Wall Street Journal , Boston Magazine and Forbes Travel Guide, but the journey behind it is just as striking. In this conversation, Rebecca talks: 🍼 Launching what...

Nicky Bandera built a mission-driven brand out of her kitchen in the middle of a pandemic to set an example for her young daughter and hasn’t stopped opening doors since. In this episode, the founder of Project Paulie gets real about invisible labor, pandemic pivots, and the myth of doing it all – and shares how motherhood turned her passion into a purpose-driven movement. You’ll hear: 🤯 Why she...

The unstoppable and ever-joyful Meghan Joyce joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week! Meghan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Duckbill , pioneering a hybrid AI-human personal assistant model. Previously, she was COO at Oscar Health and held key leadership roles at Uber. Meghan serves on the boards of The Boston Beer Company and Guardant Health. She is also a Henry Crown Fellow and member of the Aspe...

Jessica Gelman is a trailblazer in sports, data, and leadership — and one of a few women at the helm of the business side of professional sports. As CEO & co-founder of Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), co-founder & co-chair of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and investor in women's sports, Jessica has spent her career changing how the sports industry thinks about fans, data, an...

Tufts University Field Hockey Head Coach Tina McDavitt Mattera joins the pod to share her unfiltered experience building one of the most dominant programs in the country AND raising kids – and finding time to hang with her husband and friends at the beach. Tina is entering her 21st year with Tufts. Under her leadership, they won the NCAA championship in 2012 – the first NCAA title won by a women’s...

Drumroll for greatness – Lexi Reese joins the pod this week! Lexi is the co-founder and CEO of Lanai , an AI Empowerment Platform that helps enterprises transform AI experiments into systematic success. Before Lanai, she led the Global Programmatic Ad Business at Google and then jumped to be the COO of Gusto (a unicorn, but don’t call it a unicorn as you’ll hear Lexi explain in our interview). Alw...

Get ready to fill up your cup! Tracy Skelly, founder of Little Cocoa Bean Co. , joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week. Tracy is a Boston-based entrepreneur, educator, and advocate for health equity & food access. Forever committed to service, Tracy started her career in education with Teach for America before getting her Masters in Education at Harvard and jumping into the private sector w...

Laura Green, perhaps better known as @lauramcgreen , joins Sara & Vee this week. And honestly thank goodness because it’s been a cold & dark few days in New England and we need some sunshine and levity! Laura is a comedic content creator in the run space, producing reels that make fun of herself as a lifelong runner and all the quirks that come with that. She loves writing and producing sh...

We dreamed about this on episode 3 and now here she is! Today we’re talking to Dr. Kate White, Chief of OB/GYN at Boston Medical Center and Professor & Chair of the Department of OB/GYN at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Kate completed her residency in OB/GYN at Tufts/Baystate Medical Center and her Fellowship in Family Planning at Columbia University (w...

Swehl Co-Founder Betsy Riley is here! Betsy started Swehl with Elizabeth Myer to create the one-stop-shop for navigating the modern day breastfeeding experience through education, community and products. Before Swehl, Betsy founded Doyenne, a women’s club where she grew the membership to over 3000 execs nationally in just two years before it was acquired by AllBright. AND Betsy is a mother of two...

Bagelsaurus owner + baker and Cambridge celebrity Mary Ting Hyatt stops by the pod this week! Launched in 2013 as a pop-up at Cutty’s sandwich shop, Bagelsaurus – a handmade bagel shop (yum) – took greater Boston by storm when Mary opened her own location in 2014. And the lines for weekend bagels have not stopped since!  Alongside growing her bagel biz, Mary has also been growing her family. Now a...

This week, Sara & Vee sit down with Rana Foroohar , Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst, a regular feature on NPR and no stranger to any smart economic/business outlet, having also worked at TIME and Newsweek. If you have ever consumed news or found yourself at the World Economic Forum in Davos, you’ve probably see...

Sara & Vee are joined by Dr. Jessica Zucker a Los Angeles-based psychologist specializing in reproductive health and the author of the award-winning book I HAD A MISCARRIAGE: A Memoir, a Movement . Jessica is also the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , New York Magazine , Vogue , and Harvard Business Review ,...

Grab your “second” cup of coffee, it’s Gilmore Girls time on The Mothers! But first, Sara & Vee reflect on themes from their interviews with Meghan Joyce, Megan Marshall and Erica Dambach. Then they take a moment to unpack Chappell Roan’s “Call Her Daddy” comments re: Motherhood and Sara of course asks the existential question of “Why DO we have kids?” Not to worry - they wrap it up with a dis...

Women’s soccer coaching legend Erica Dambach (aka Walshy) joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week! Erica is the head women’s soccer coach at Penn State. She is a two-time National Coach of the Year and five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year. She has led her teams to 17 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, 11 Big Ten regular season titles, five Big Ten Tournament titles and the 2015 NCAA National Champions...

Sara’s very own mother Megan Marshall joins the pod this week! Megan is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life as well as Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor of nonfiction writing at Emerson College. Her most recent book, the essay collection After Li...

The unstoppable and ever-joyful Meghan Joyce joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week! Meghan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Duckbill , pioneering a hybrid AI-human personal assistant model. Previously, she was COO at Oscar Health and held key leadership roles at Uber. Meghan serves on the boards of The Boston Beer Company and Guardant Health. She is also a Henry Crown Fellow and member of the Aspe...

Sara & Vee are BACK! They get existential about Ilana Glazer’s recent comedy special ‘ Human Magic ,’ but not before Vee shares too-funny-to-be-true stories from the front lines of raising a 6 month old. Sara & Vee also reflect on the amazing guests (and even more amazing feedback!) so far. * Ilana Glazer: Human Magic is now streaming on Hulu. * PS - Here’s the link to the viral “putting b...

Sara & Vee go deep (per usual) with Tina Jellinek, founder of Tidy by Tina and Mother to two kids – her first born in California when Tina was just 17 and her second born more than a decade later after Tina had found a devoted husband and entered into a new world of privilege in New England. Tina shares how her perspective on being a Mother changed between her first and second child, the chall...

Sara & Vee sit down with the unflappable April Soderstrom , founder and designer of the successful jewelry company bearing her very own name (v cool!). They discuss what it’s like to build a business with a small child in the middle of the pandemic, how moments of imperfection (spurred by her kids!) are what helped her brand really take off, why going back to work after a baby hits different w...

In their very first interview episode, Sara & Vee are joined by a person who “just gets it” – and not only because she’s an Aquarius! Seo Yun Yang, aka Sy, is an entrepreneur, original thinker and all around badass. She is the Founder & President of SY Agency , a strategy & branding agency for professional services firms and thought leaders. She previously built an omnichannel experien...

In their third episode, Sara & Vee discuss the role of mothers and motherhood in one of their fav shows… Apple TV's Shrinking! What does the arc of Liz (Christa Miller) say about mothers, purpose, and where to find value? Sara goes from largely hating Liz to thinking she may actually be the show's hero. Is she essentially an unpaid psychologist? And how can we find a way to be / be bes...

In the second episode of “The Mothers,” Sara & Vee recap the experience of launching their first episode, listener responses and painful learnings. Sara talks about seeing the Peter Pan musical with her mother & daughter. She realizes the whole darn thing is about Mothers and a manifestation of playwright JM Barrie’s desire to recover the love of his mother after loss – which leads Vee to...

In our very first episode, we make plenty of mistakes, but we also introduce "The Mothers" podcast and co-hosts Sara Brown & Veronica Wolanin, aka Vee. We lay out what to expect in early episodes (a lot of sausage making content + riffing on motherhood) vs over time, when this podcast will feature interviews with rockstar women who also happen to be mothers -- getting to know them, l...