The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

We are wrapping up this year with Dr. Sasha Heinz,Ph. D., MAPP.  She is an academic who went mainstream, using her background as a developmental psychologist to become a mindset coach. Her private coaching practice is grounded in psychological science, and she teaches clients the tools to change their lives for good. An expert in positive psychology and adult development, Dr .  Heinz  has based he...

This week, Arianna Taboada is on the podcast. She is an entrepreneur, author, coach and health researcher who recently published  The Expecting Entrepreneur : A Guide to Parental Leave Planning for Self Employed Business Owners. We dive into the importance of parental leave for the health of yourself, your baby and your business. Arianna gives us tips for building postpartum networks to support yo...

Each year on December 1-7, a coalition of organizations (including CURE Epilepsy) recognize  Infantile Spasms Awareness Week , a critical opportunity to raise awareness and educate the public about infantile spasms.  Kelly Cervantes is on this episode sharing a mother's journey through epilepsy.  Kelly has a deeply touching personal story to share after loosing her daughter, Adelaide to infantile...

Anais Goldberg is a home cook turned entrepreneur and the creator of Cook Intuitively with Anais.  Her passion for cooking stemmed from watching her Mexican and Cuban grandmothers in the kitchen at a young age. Their use of flavors and invigorated senses enthralled Anais as she intuitively absorbed every essence of what it meant to cook. But it was when Anais walked down her health journey after r...

Nayanka Paul From Bloody Btches is on this episode sharing about the disparities menstruating people in our country face.  She has started a grass roots in her local community and an online communal space curated for Black menstruators to engage freely in conversations about menstruation, sexual health, pleasure, & liberation. We dive into period poverty, access to feminine hygene products and how...

This week I am sharing stories from pregnant Americans who are opening up about their dark emotions in pregnancy.  This is 1 of 4 epsiodes that are shedding light on new research around the mental health crisis among pregnant Americans.  This new research has been conducted by Nonfiction and is called The Invisible Weight  that has been commission by Twill.   The remaining three episodes can be fo...

  Amelia  Kriss is a Drama Therapist and Certified Coach in private practice in the Bay Area, California, where she lives with her husband and two powerhouse daughters. She works primarily with recovering people-pleasers and "Nice" girls who are ready to deconstruct self-shrinking patterns, and find more ease & joy.  Amelia  is also deeply committed to Birth Story Medicine work--helping birthing p...

Meagan Heaton is the co-founded the VBAC Link in 2018. She really found her love for birth in 2014 after her second C-Section, and since has supported over 300 couples as a birth doula. Meagan's passion for VBAC started after her own experiences. She had two C-sections and then went on to have a VBA2C. Her drive is to help women like herself feel educated, supported, and empowered during their bir...

Kelley Nemiro is an entrepeneaur, health coach and pilates instructor sharing her story and expertise on this episode. After years of health issues withou answers, Kelley was done accepting that as a standard way to go through life and set out on a personal journey to change the way she felt. After trying nearly every lifestyle diet, she turned to plant-based whole foods, low impact movement, mind...

Holly Kohlmann is a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician and Trained Babywearing Educator.  She is on this episode telling sharing her wisdom with us and answering questions on how to keep our babies safe while wearing them and driving them.  Connect with Holly https://www.instagram.com/mamagoose_oc/?hl=en https://mamagooseoc.com/ Connect with Liz https://www.instagram.com/esandoz/?hl=en ht...

Karmel Garcia is on this episode sharing the story of her 3 year old, Zoe, who was born with Down Syndrome. She takes us from the beginning with a prenatal diagnosis, the birth and through her first three years of life. Karmel started to see a need for families to have therapuetic tools to work with their kids at home and has started Zoe's Tool Box. https://www.instagram.com/karmelita16/?hl=en htt...

Ameya Duprey is a postaprtum Ayurvedic doula that helps women achieve true health and balance through simple methods such as specialized Ayurvedic diet, lifestyle, massage, herbs and more. She shares with us what Ayurveda is and how to optimize postpartum healing and recovery. Connect with Ameya https://pages.shakticare.com/fhm-registration/ https://www.instagram.com/ shakticare/ https://shakticar...

Trauma and post-partum depression survivor, Ashley Bernardi, is on this episode sharing how listeners can own their authentic power and transform the mind, body, and spirit with hope.  Drawing from practical techniques from over 20 healing luminaries plus her own personal story of surviving trauma, Lyme disease, and postpartum depression,  Ashley shares the insights she's gained and her personal s...

**Trigger Warning: This Episode Contains Details of a Child Loss** Nicole Hughes in on this episode sharing her passion for child water safety.  Nicole lost her 3 year old son to a drowning incident and has since become a huge advocate for sharing valuable, life-saving information.  She is on this episode sharing the story of her son, Levi,  and how we can protect our children.  Connect with Nicol...

Dr. Marisa Franco is a psychologist and friendship expert. She identifies as a psychologist for the people as she is passionate about sharing research with the people that it could help the most. Dr. Franco has studied friendship intensively, doing research on friendship all over the world. She is a professor and wrote the book on friends called Platonic.  This episode, we dive into how to help yo...

Joanna Faber and Julie King are lifelong childhood friends who grew up with parents who practiced gentle parenting with them.  Coming from a family of parenting experts and authors, they teamed up to write a survival guide for parents with kids ages 2 to 7. They offer tips and advice this episode on how to deal with meltdowns, whining and every day tasks.  Connect: https://how-to-talk.com/ http://...

Dr. Julia DiGangi  is a neuropsychologist and focuses on the  brain, emotional intelligence, and resilience . Through her work, she shows people how to work with their nervous systems so they can take the energy of their emotional pain--everything from stress to anxiety to trauma--and turn it into their emotional power. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and psychology, she focuses on pract...

Emma Jean is a best selling author and on this episode sharing her knowledge of how to get published and launching the I'm An Author Academy, which empowers children to publish their own best-selling books!  We discuss how giving your child the outlet of writing can absolutely change both their world and yours! Connect at: imanauthor.com 4pigs2fly.com Follow Emma Jean https://www.instagram.com/ em...

Andrea Haskins is a lactation counselor with Childbirth International and a La Leche League leader who focuses on fostering parent confidence and restoring mamas relying on their instincts to parent. Some of the topics we cover this episode are breastfeeding, bed-sharing, weaning and combo feeding. Andrea shares research, statistics but most importantly talks about following your instincts in moth...

Kaila Díaz is a liguist and language educator with her Masters in Linguistics.  She founded Bilinguitos from her passion to help families pass down & preserve their language.  At Bilinguitos their mission is first and foremost to cultivate and celebrate bilingualism, and to help others do the same in their home for their families. She is on this episode sharing her expertise and giving the listene...

Troy Duell has been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years. He realized pharmaceutical companies were prioritizing profits over health and products that were expensive, ineffective, and often harmful.  He felt the pull to develop a company that put people and their health over profits.  Through his personal story and passion for helping others, he started to dive into what was really in...

As an auto-immune disease fighter, Jessica's motherhood journey is postponed. She comes on the podcast to share why she decided to start Mamas in Training and her passion for learning all about motherhood before she actually becomes a mom. Jessica talk about 3 Pillars of Motherhood: Advocacy, Planning/Preparing & Community and how important they are throughout motherhood.  She has created an onlin...

Macall Gordon is on this episode talking all about sleep. We have all heard about sleep training and gentle sleep approaches but both leave out the key to whether or not it will work.  The temperament of your child can majorly affect sleep.  Macall dives into what can affect temperament and how it can cause sleep issues.   Between 20-and 30% of children come into this world wired to be more sensit...

Renowned social impact experts and mothers come on to talk about what it takes for parents to thrive as business leaders, partners, and citizens.  Monica Brand Engel, Lisa Neuberger Fernandez and Wendy Jagers joined forces to write the book,  Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner… and Thrive.   They come on the podcast to share what they have learned and to give tips to thrive as mothers. Get...

Liz Wolfe is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Author and Researcher.  She is passionate about diving deep into topics and the research behind them. This week, we are diving into safe sun exposure.  We discuss the health benefits of sun, the risks of too much exposure, the sunscreen industry and how should we approach this with our kids.  Do we lather them or not?  Listen to this episode to find...