Very Good Enough

This week's listener question: I'm all for snacking, but it's every 10 minutes. Already high protein snacks. Thoughts? Join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Very Good Mothers Club ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Email your questions to layne@enquiryco.com Book a 1:1 coaching session with Layne ⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE

It's easy to feel like time is slipping through our fingers. In this episode we delve into the overwhelming feeling of not having enough time to check off our endless to-do lists. We discuss ways to cope with the sense that life is hurtling by too fast, how to quiet the internal critic who tells us we aren't doing enough, and why doing nothing is actually a form of healing. Jess shares the...

Jess and Layne are off enjoying Thanksgiving with their families BUT we wanted to leave you with this reminder that the holidays are for YOU as much as anyone else and you get to decide how to spend them. Permission to get what you need this week, this holiday season and for the entire rest of your lives <3 Enjoy this conversation from season 1 about how to find your boundaries, how to communic...

There is some REALLY tough stuff going on in our world right now. And we're all trying to figure out how navigate tough conversations about it--internally, online, with friends and family. In this episode, we don't get into the nitty gritty of geopolitics. Instead, we try to broadly grapple with questions like: How do we talk to kids about tragedies? How much should I shield my kids from h...

This week's listener question: How to help my 3-year-old with potty training regression after sibling was born? Join ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Very Good Mothers Club⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Email your questions to layne@enquiryco.com Book a 1:1 coaching session with Layne ⁠⁠⁠HERE

*Note: the first 2 mins of this episode use backup audio due to tech problems. It gets normal again real quick <3 In this ep, Jess and Layne delve into the mental and emotional overwhelm of excessive of decision-making, particularly having to make choices on behalf of others. We explore how different personality types approaches decision-making, how to ask for help with everyday life decisions,...

This week's listener question comes from our community: I'd be interested in further discussion of something that come up during the call: rest being a practice. Recently, I have really been trying to shift towards this, rest during nap time, instead of using the time to clean house. But unsuccessfully! It's just so tempting to think "oh I could get the house tidied up SO quickly...

This week's listener question: Is it better to shield a toddler from serious conflict (mum and dad, but no yelling), or should they know? Join ⁠ ⁠Very Good Mothers Club⁠ ⁠ to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Email your questions to layne@enquiryco.com Book a 1:1 coaching session with Layne ⁠HERE

In this episode, Layne and Jess challenge the preconceived notion that moms aren't cool and discuss why we are made to feel irrelevant and uninteresting just because our lives center around kids. We explore how Beyonce is changing the landscape of motherhood and discuss how moms are embracing their authenticity while challenging conventional notions of what's "cool." Enjoy this c...

This week's listener question: Is preschool important? Join ⁠ Very Good Mothers Club ⁠ to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Email your questions to layne@enquiryco.com Book a 1:1 coaching session with Layne HERE

To kick off Season 4, we have a special guest: Jessica's very own husband, Shaun Hover. We get into why Shaun thinks he was made to be a dad, how he and Jess have taken turns supporting each other's dreams, and why he's convinced there is no greater gift he can give his children than his time. Shaun is a professional skateboarder and stay-at-home-dad (listen to find out why he hates th...

Jess and Layne reflect on the conversations we've had this season. We reveal our favorite episodes (which is ok because it's not the same as having a favorite child), share which guests influenced us the most and discuss why it's important to hear from people who are experts in their field and have our own worldviews challenged. We trade compliments, send a message to vegetarians, and,...

We love nitty gritty topics like toddler tantrums, personal boundaries and preschool drop offs. But for the Season 3 Finale, we want to zoom out to the big picture, end goal of raising kids. A million different parenting styles, education philosophies, and personal values inform our daily lives with kids, but they're all getting at the same thing: someday this child will be in charge of their...

Today's question comes from the VGMC community: Whenever my husband and I are trying to have a conversation my 3 year old daughter ALWAYS tries to continue talking and talk over us. We obviously try to save important conversations for after she's in bed, but it's gotten to the point where he cannot even try to have a short conversation without her starting to talk louder and interrupt...

This episode is a curated collection of the best toddler parenting advice we've given on the podcast so far. We cover topics like: -Why is my toddler constantly testing me? -Does my toddler understand discipline? -Why toddlers are actually the best -How to empower your strong-willed child -What to do if your toddler is aggressive with the new baby -How to manage tantrums ...and lots more. Come...

Apropos of nothing, we recorded a spontaneous conversation about our experiences with and thoughts on various kinds of contraception. We talk about IUDs, the pill, condoms, the pullout method, vasectomies and even a little bit of religious abstinence. It's by far our funniest episode yet and dare we say, sexiest? We really, really want you to hear it BUT we also really, really don't want o...

This week's listener question: "How to help my husband with this tone while parenting our two-year-old. They butt heads a lot lately." Join  ⁠Very Good Mothers Club⁠  to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Find Jess at  ⁠Jessica Hover⁠  on Youtube and  ⁠@jess_hover ⁠ on Instagram Find Layne  ⁠@enquiryco⁠  on Instagram If you have a...

This week Lily Hagen joins to talk about the beauty and challenges of raising multicultural kids. She shares why it's important to equally value both cultures in her home (Colombian and American) and how she has learned to respect that her kids' experience of their culture will be different from her own. She gives us tons of advice about how to teach your child a new language in a context...

This week's listener question: "Struggling to figure out how many babies to have (financially limited?) and when to try for another? Advice?" Join ⁠ Very Good Mothers Club⁠  to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Find Jess at  ⁠Jessica Hover⁠  on Youtube and  ⁠@jess_hover ⁠ on Instagram Find Layne  ⁠@enquiryco⁠  on Instagram If you...

Communications expert Dr. Nafeesah Allen is here to help us through a tricky topic: how do we stay connected with the people we love when our beliefs are different? She talks about how to communicate loving boundaries with grandparents and in-laws, how to navigate different faiths within your marriage and how focusing on shared values can keep you on the same team. Jess and Nafeesah connect over t...

This week's listener question: "My two-year-old makes me MAD. I'm not an angry person but I feel like I am a monster for what I think in my head. " Join  ⁠Very Good Mothers Club⁠  to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Find Jess at  ⁠Jessica Hover⁠  on Youtube and  ⁠@jess_hover ⁠ on Instagram Find Layne  ⁠@enquiryco⁠  on Instag...

This week Kay de Veer of Techwise Littles offers her insight into how to navigate screen time for children in safe and healthy way. We get into how much screen time is appropriate for toddlers, which devices are least risky for kids to interact with and the all-important question: how to handle tech-related tantrums. We cover guidelines for choosing high-quality and age-appropriate content for you...

This week's listener question: "I'd love your perspective on transitioning to daycare (mum returning to work), how it impacts my child and how to stay connected with reduced time together." Join ⁠ Very Good Mothers Club⁠  to be a part of our community and join our live monthly calls (4th Tuesday of every month)! Find Jess at  ⁠Jessica Hover⁠  on Youtube and  ⁠@jess_hover ⁠ on Ins...

Jenny Tucker joins us this week in a powerful conversation about the rawness of postpartum and a mother's journey into becoming her own advocate. Jenny leads Centerline Community, a support network for mothers in Santa Barbara. She shares about unprocessed trauma from her first birth and how she fought to keep her and her baby's needs at the center the next time around. We discuss the deca...

This week's listener question: "I'd love to hear your thoughts on sleep routines and sleep training." Jess mentions Huckleberry Sleep Schedules and the following videos from her Youtube: How to Sleep Train Your Baby or Toddler - my experience How We Sleep Trained Our Babies - [Tips for sleep training] 4 month sleep regression - tips & my experience! Join  ⁠Very Good Mothers C...