Why is Everyone Yelling?

Katie Kovacs is a licensed therapist and she specializes in individual counseling and psychotherapy for both adults and children. She is known for her work in high school athletics and the reality of anxiety, perfectionism, and eating disorders.  In this podcast, we focus on transitions, perfectionism, anxiety, handling emotion, and talking to our kids and ourselves about having a healthy rel...

Rachael Amarante is an author, a speaker, and she has created the Awakening Motherhood Project. She talks really authentically and in a really honest way to mothers and has a passion for living life with a little less BS, more joy, and purpose.  In this episode, we talk about burnout and ways to tackle it, choosing to unhurry yourself, and we end the episode with some favorite things that we...

Kellie is a board certified behavior analyst. She is the founder of her own business, Applied Behavioral Happiness. At Applied Behavioral Happiness, Kellie and her team work with families to overcome challenging behavior through skill building programs and play.  What I love about Kellie is that she approaches this with what will work with your kids, your family, your belief systems, your val...

Angela Douglas is the Executive Director for Healthy New Albany which is an organization that promotes wellness in Ohio. They have toddler in nature programs, nourish cooking lessons, a food pantry, and five races throughout the year that help fund their programming. They also have a virtual kids marathon where you do 26 miles over an 8 week period. She started the food pantry in her garage when s...

Dr. Laurie Kramer is a licensed clinical psychologist and a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. She is the creator of More Fun with Sisters and Brothers program which is a program that teaches 4-8 year old children the key social and emotional competencies that research has shown are critical for fun, friendly, and low conflict sibling interaction. She has some steps that a...

Bob Kennedy is an American Distance Runner, who is now retired. He once held the American record in the 3,000 meters, 2 mile and the 5,000 meters. Bob ran for Indiana University and went on to run professionally for Nike, competing in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. Bob has a 5k PR of 12:58 and Nike has named two shoes after him. I’ve had the opportunity to work with Bob, when he was on the...

Jennifer Borget is the mom of three kids. She is a blogger and is the creator of the Movie Night Journal. She is very passionate about movie watching and they do a family movie night every week and the journal that she created gives you suggestions, activities, and snack ideas to make your family movie night perfect. Jennifer is a former news anchor and we talked about how her life shifted after s...

Amy Arnold and Jessica Stanley are my guests today. They founded the company, Card My Yard. They founded the business with the simple goal of serving families and making a positive impact in the community with their small business. Over the past several years, they have turned this into a major franchise. They have over 450 franchises throughout the United States.  They are both mothers of th...

Lyndsee Wunn is the founder of Boxes of Love which is a grassroots effort to provide babies and children entering foster care from local hospitals with a large box of new clothing, pajamas, shoes and other comfort items to call their own. Lyndsee is a pediatric nurse and she saw a shocking number of babies and children who would enter the foster care system with nothing but the clothes on their ba...

Tricia Brichler is a mom of two lively little boys, a pediatric and holistic certified registered nurse (RN) and an integrative health coach based in Cincinnati, OH. She is an active lifestyle enthusiast and life-long learner and is constantly seeking ways to improve the balance between modern conveniences and long-term health of her own family. She received her integrative health coach training t...

Julie Leonard is a pre and postnatal fitness coach. She has a master’s degree in exercise science. She focuses on the core and pelvic floor and she helps people achieve an easier birth and faster postpartum recovery. In this episode, Julie and I talk about how she got into her career and she gives us some great advice on strength work and core work. She has a wild story about the birth of one of h...

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the NYT Bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to her popular Ted Talk. Her newest book is coming out, it is called Your Turn: How to be an Adult. Julie is also the author of a poetry memoir called Real American which illustrates her experience as a black and biracial person in white spaces. Julie worked at Stanford University as the Dean of Freshman fo...

Sarah Molitor lives in the Pacific Northwest and has 6 boys. Sarah is married to her husband, Tim. She provides encouragement, joy, and inspiration for you over on her Instagram page: Modern Farmhouse Family. She recently wrote a children’s book and has another one coming out soon. Sarah used to be a nurse and in this episode she shares about what it looked like to step away from that career...

Keli has a heart for helping mothers replace anxiety and guilt with fulfillment and joy. She is the mom of 5 and recently went back to work. She is an educator who teaches fifth grade. She spent 11 years at home with her kids and has been back teaching for 2 years. We get to hear about that transition and she also shares about choosing joy in her life even in the hard times. She shares how she han...

Jenn Kautsch feels passionate about making safe spaces for women to have conversations about alcohol without judgment, labels or rules. She is a retired “grey area” drinker and in her mid-40s, she felt tired, stuck, and on autopilot and needed a change. She just turned 50 and is a new empty nester. She started a community called Sober Sis where she has helped over 20,000 women from all over the wo...

Tessa Stuckey is a licensed therapist working with teens and parents of teens. She is a returning guest on this show. She was episode 32 of this podcast where we talked about cultural influences impacting our teens. Today on the podcast, Tessa talks about coping skills, when our kids lie and cheat and how to handle those things. Tessa has a great system that she talks about in this podcast for whe...

Sarah Lacey is the founder of Linking Indy Women which is an amazing community and networking group where each month men and women gather to hear inspiring women in business around the city share the story. You leave all of these events feeling connection, encouragement, having advice and strategy and most importantly you leave inspired.  Sarah is also the mother of four, she works full time...

Esther is the mother of four grown children and she runs the Instagram account Moms of Bigs . She will speak to your soul over on that page! She talks about giving our big kids the roots of unconditional love and the wings of freedom to be completely themselves. She comes to you with help, humor, and hope! We get a lot of really great advice from Esther in this episode and I hope that you enjoy it...

Shannon Battle is a mentor, a business owner, a speaker, a counselor, and she is the mother of 5. She also recently got her license to be a general contractor and the story behind that is so cool that she saw the need for it and went after it. Shannon has a passion for helping others see opportunities that lay dormant within themselves. I had so much fun talking to her and hearing about her journe...

Michelle Icard is a speaker, author and educator who helps kids, parents, and teachers navigate the complicated social world of early adolescence. Her newest book is Fourteen Talks By Age Fourteen. That guides readers between the fourteen essential conversations parents need to have with their kids before they start high school. It talks to you about the simple conversations to the really big conv...

Erin Mohring is the mom of three boys who are a sophomore, an 8th grader, and a 4th grader. Erin is also a runner so it was fun to hear that part of her story. She is a really fun follow on Instagram, she is @homewiththeboys over there! On her blog, she shares all about faith, family, fashion, and fitness! In this episode, Erin shares about the MOB Society and A Million Praying Moms that she...

Matt DeVirgiliis is on the podcast today! He is the father of 2 and his daughters are 6 and 8 now. They were born very prematurely so he has a memoir out that walks through his journey of being a dad of two preemie babies and walking through some pretty scary and life threatening situations with his wife. He shares openly and honestly in this book about what it was like during those few years in h...

Amanda Knapp is the founder and CEO of Sitting Made Simple. Amanda started her career as a nanny right out of high school in 1999. Over time, as her nanny career evolved and changed and she moved, she lived in Columbus, Ohio and realized that there was a huge need for childcare. That is where Sitting Made Simple all started. She worked from her home basement, scheduled everything on pen and paper...

Shanisty Ireland is a former news reporter and anchor. She is now the mother to 4 and she runs the blog She’s Becoming Domestic. She has had a couple of articles that have gone viral on Scary Mommy. Shanisty talks openly about the messy parts of motherhood as well as the fun parts. I really enjoyed chatting with Shanisty and I really hope that when you listen to this conversation you feel like you...

Julie is the mother of two and she is the founder of Modern Pop which is a fruit bar which was born out of her kitchen. She couldn’t find a simple ingredient frozen fruit bar to help her son’s teeth when he was teething and needed some soothing. They started selling these from a cold plate push cart along the street in Laguna Beach. Not long after that they fielded phoen calls from local gro...