The Catch Up with Claire

Talking about consent is not one big, awkward conversation parents have when their children become teenagers. It starts much earlier—on the playground, during physical play, and in the everyday moments when children learn that their bodies and other people’s boundaries deserve respect. Dr. Tori Cordiano is a clinical psychologist, school consultant, and mom of three with nearly two decades of expe...

“Find your mom community” is advice we hear all the time—but finding meaningful friendship in motherhood is rarely that simple. Johanna Breton is the community builder behind Maman’s BK. What began as a neighborhood WhatsApp chat during the pandemic has grown into a community of thousands, with coffee meetups, wine nights, family events, and spaces where women can show up without pressure or prete...

When your child is struggling, how do you know when to intervene, when to wait, and when to trust that they are developing normally? Dr. Katie Davis is a clinical psychologist, pediatric neuropsychologist, professor, parent, and author of the newly released book Actually, You’re Fine. In this episode, we talk about the difficult position parents are placed in when one message tells us to intervene...

What happens when you finally reach the place you’ve been working toward—only to realize you don’t want the life that comes with it? Jennifer Lindquist spent years climbing the corporate ladder, building a successful career in recruiting at companies including Ulta, PepsiCo, and Amazon. She reached the level she thought she wanted, but the pressure, politics, and personal cost required more than s...

Sarah Cooper Smith is the founder of North Shore Bath Co., a thoughtfully built company creating bath gloves designed to make bathing safer, warmer, and less stressful for babies and their caregivers. Drawing on her nursing background and firsthand experience as a mom, Sarah transformed a kitchen-table prototype into a launched, patent-pending product with potential far beyond baby bathtime. Sarah...

Yuly is a Colombian-born, New York- and Florida-raised mom living in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children. She moved to Australia eight years ago for what she thought would be a one-year job opportunity—and nearly a decade, a pandemic, and two kids later, she’s still building a life there. In this episode, we catch up about her lifelong love of fútbol, the World Cup, raising a fami...

Our first guest of Season 3 is here and we’re starting with a conversation about the invisible work so many women carry. Laura Cunningham is the co-founder of Hi Ava, an AI-powered family assistant designed to help parents manage the schedules, emails, decisions, and never-ending details that keep a household running. But this episode isn’t really about adding more technology to our lives. It’s ab...

Content note: This episode includes candid discussions of severe perinatal mental illness, psychosis, intrusive thoughts, thoughts of self-harm, psychiatric hospitalization, and electroconvulsive therapy. Please take care while listening. Brittany is a working mom of two whose journey to motherhood began with fertility treatments and a deeply wanted pregnancy. During her second trimester, she deve...

Sheila Scott is a 16x marathoner, author of Miles of Motherhood , and a newly minted empty nester — and surprisingly, all three of those things are connected. She is a few stages ahead of me in motherhood and this conversation is proof that the stage changes but the feeling never really does. Sheila and I were connected through a mutual friend and I am so glad we were. We talked about how she inte...

Hattie Sparks Collins is the kind of woman who makes you want to be more of yourself. The New Orleans-based designer and creative director behind one of the city's most beloved brands never stopped building — through fertility struggles, twins, divorce at five months postpartum, coming out, blending a family, and remarrying — never once putting down what she was building professionally while n...

What do you do when you realize a language — and everything it carries — is about to disappear forever? Dr. Mary Walworth has dedicated her life to answering that question, and if you caught her on the Pole to Pole docuseries on Disney+ and Hulu, you already got a glimpse of the work that immediately made me want to know more. I was watching with my whole family — one of those rare shows my kids w...

May was supposed to be about hosting three small events. It turned into one of the most full and surprising months I've had since starting this. In this solo episode I'm recapping all of it — starting with the clothing swap where 30 people registered and no one showed up. I talk through what that felt like, what I learned, and why Dr. Rachel who hosted it with me somehow made it feel less...

Content note: this episode includes discussion of postpartum depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. If you are struggling or recognizing yourself in this conversation, you are not alone, and support is available. You can reach: Postpartum Support International call 1-800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) text “help” to 800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) https://postpartum.net/ 988 Suic...

Content note: this episode includes discussion of postpartum depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. If you are struggling or recognizing yourself in this conversation, you are not alone, and support is available. You can reach: Postpartum Support International call 1-800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) text “help” to 800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) https://postpartum.net/ 988 Suic...

Content note : this episode includes discussion of postpartum depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. If you are struggling or recognizing yourself in this conversation, you are not alone, and support is available. You can reach: Postpartum Support International call 1-800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) text “help” to 800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) https://postpartum.net/ 988 Sui...

Content note : this episode includes discussion of postpartum depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. If you are struggling or recognizing yourself in this conversation, you are not alone, and support is available. You can reach: Postpartum Support International call 1-800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) text “help” to 800-944-4773 (EN) or 971-203-7773 (ES) https://postpartum.net/ 988 Sui...

This week I’m sitting down with Kate, a systems strategist and founder of Work Well with Kate, for a conversation that goes beyond business and into how to build systems that work for your life. We talk about: creating time freedom through systems splitting parenting and household responsibilities why childcare is a critical part of the system and how to stop carrying everything in your head Kate...

In this episode of The Catch Up with Claire , I’m joined by Taylor,  a fellow mom I met through Instagram who also now calls New York City home. After months of trying to coordinate schedules (because, motherhood), we finally sat down to talk and it felt like catching up with an old friend. We talk about what it’s really like to move to New York City and build a life here — from living in Astoria...

In this episode of The Catch Up with Claire , I’m joined by Noureen, a mom of three living in Cairo, Egypt. We were introduced through a mutual friend and immediately connected over how similar our lives felt despite being on opposite sides of the world. From both having backgrounds in mental health counseling to navigating postpartum depression and raising three kids, this conversation felt like...

This month feels like a turning point. It’s my birthday month, my baby is turning one, and I’m coming to terms with being done having kids. In this solo episode, I’m reflecting on the first year of motherhood as a mom of three—the pace of it, the identity shift, and the emotions that come with closing the chapter of having babies and moving into the season of raising them. I talk about the mix of...

I met Kaylee at a friend’s engagement party earlier this year and we instantly clicked—the kind of connection that makes you wonder why that feels so rare as an adult. This episode started after she sent me a clip of someone saying that making mom friends is “so easy”… and I immediately responded: I could not disagree more. So we got into it—what it actually looks like to make friends as an adult,...

Breastfeeding is often described as “natural,” so why does it feel so hard? In this episode, I’m joined by lactation consultant Ayelet Kaznelson, who brings over 25 years of experience supporting new mothers through the realities of feeding their babies. I first met Ayelet postpartum with my third baby, during a time when feeding felt painful and overwhelming. Working with her felt like a reset. W...

When Lael reached out about joining the podcast, she shared something many mothers quietly carry: the overwhelm of working motherhood. Trying to show up at work. Trying to be present for your children. Trying to find a moment for yourself somewhere in between. In this conversation, Lael and I talk about the constant balancing act of parenting while building a career, the emotional shifts that come...

Our kids are growing up in a digital world — and that part isn’t optional. The real question is: how do we raise kids to navigate social media, the internet, and digital spaces safely and confidently? This week on The Catch Up with Claire , I sit down with Digital Wellness Educator Teodora Pavkovic, who has spent her career studying online behavior, kids and social media, and digital wellbeing for...

Yapping about finally feeling ready to get my year organized, breastfeeding updates, and answering questions about traveling solo with kids.