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Being MomResourceful AF with Samantha Fisher#014: This week's guest is Samantha Fisher, who lives in Los Angeles, CA with her four children, Billy (17), Dakota (14), Kingston (11), and Phoenix “Mimi” (9). In this special pandemic-focused episode, Samantha talks about the effects of distance learning on her kids, whose grade levels span from 3rd grade to 11th grade. She shares her strategy for navigating their lack of motivation around schoolwork and how she keeps things fun and interesting. She also talks about keeping an eye on her kids’ mental health and the ways she takes care of herself as well. Having experienced some big shifts in her employment status when h...2020-05-1333 minBeing MomPlanting Seeds for Truth with Liz Baghaei#010: This week's guest is Liz Baghaei, who lives in Burbank, CA with her soon-to-be 5 year old son. In this episode, Liz shares her incredible story of becoming a single mom. She talks about her unexpected, yet healthy, pregnancy, how pregnancy positively impacted her relationship to her body, and her easy, unmedicated, doula-supported birth. Liz describes the loneliness and anxiety of her first year as a mom and what helped her stay connected to herself despite having very little support. She also tells the inspiring story of how she persevered into business ownership by breaking ground for her hot yoga...2020-05-0657 minBeing MomRooting Into What’s Real with Jennifer Sterling#009: This week's guest is Jennifer Sterling, who lives in Manhattan with her 8 year old son. In this episode, Jennifer gets honest about her experience of being pregnant, which lasted 44 weeks and included pregnancy-long nausea and trouble gaining weight. She also describes her traumatic cesarean birth experience and shares the difficulties she faced during the postpartum period, which included flashbacks to her birth, her divorce, and a period with homelessness. She reveals what she finds rewarding and difficult about being a single mom and what she does to stay nourished. We talk about Jennifer’s work as a registered Dance/Mo...2020-04-2955 minBeing MomKeep Going with Jennifer Tracy#011: This week's guest is Jennifer Tracy, who lives in Los Angeles with her 10-year-old son and their two sweet rescue dogs. In this episode, Jennifer shares all the chapters of her motherhood story, starting with how she learned she was pregnant, to loving pregnancy (and pregnancy sex!), to having a swift, unmedicated birth, and then into a difficult and lonely postpartum period. She reveals what led her to seek help for postpartum depression and about her path to recovery and rediscovery of herself. Jennifer also shares about learning to hold exquisite space for her son’s panic attacks which st...2020-04-1559 minBeing MomFollowing the Soul Yes with Erin Pace#008: This week's guest is Erin Pace, who lives in New York City with her family, which includes her husband and their 2 year old son. In this episode, Erin shares the beautiful story of her son’s birth via surrogacy, a decision she made with her husband after several disappointing rounds of IVF which did not result in pregnancy. Erin’s 8-year story of perseverance, faith, surrender, gratitude, and love is inspiring. She even explains how she and her husband remained connected to each other along their journey together. Erin also talks about being a mom to a toddler, what she...2020-03-0449 minBeing MomThe Dance of Joy + Heartbreak with Kirsten Zinchuk Haley#007: This week's guest is Kirsten Zinchuk Haley, who lives near Princeton, NJ and is a mom of three children, two daughters (13 and 11) and one son (7). In this episode, Kirsten talks through all three of her birth stories, one cesarean after her breech baby was undetected by her doctor, a successful VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), and finally, a wildly free unmedicated birth using the hypnobirthing technique. Kirsten shares her perspective about the heartbreaking joy of motherhood, the particular love of a son for his mother, what she loves about spending time with her children, and how she cultivates presence...2020-02-111h 00Being MomYour Happiness Matters with Nina Restieri#006: This week's guest is Nina Restieri, who lives in Connecticut and is a mom of four children, Andrew (23), Jenna (21), Matthew (19), and Jamie (16). In this episode, Nina shares the unique choices she made with her ex-husband toward becoming a beautiful, blended family, how her motherhood journey has evolved over time, the process of learning to take care of herself, how she feels about becoming an empty-nester, and what she worried about unnecessarily when her children were younger. Nina explains how she purposefully created her business, momAgenda, around her role as a mother and expresses her honest opinion about finding work...2020-01-281h 04Being MomSurviving the Unimaginable with Kara Ryska#007: This week's guest is Kara Ryska, who lives near San Diego with her husband and their four children, three boys, ages 7 - 12, and one 2-year-old daughter. In this episode, Kara talks about her devastating second-trimester pregnancy loss which occurred before the arrival of her daughter and shares the story of her son’s brain cancer diagnosis which led him into a craniotomy, a surgical procedure that required significant recovery. She also discusses the long-term effects of the surgery, which continue to affect her son and their family life. Kara shares how she has learned to take care of herself as...2020-01-2157 minBeing MomWhen Mommy Puts Herself First with Saba Homayoon Hopkins#005: This week's guest is Saba Homayoon Hopkins, who lives in Los Angeles, California with her family, which includes her husband and their two kids, Lily (9) and Alex (5). In this episode, Saba talks about how pregnancy helped dramatically change her view of her body and tells the story of her hospital birth. She then discusses the loneliness of pumping breastmilk and shares how she prepared her daughter for a sibling. Saba also talks about the experience of learning that her son has Sensory Processing Disorder, explains how she copes with the messiness of having kids, and expresses how much she...2020-01-141h 03Being MomUnapologetically Turned On with Brenda Munson#004: This week's guest is Brenda Munson, who lives in Portland, Oregon with her family, which includes her husband and their 3-year-old son. In this episode, Brenda talks about her path to pregnancy, explains her unexpected aversion to being pregnant, and tells the story about her 63-hour labor which led to the arrival of her son via vacuum-assisted birth. Brenda also talks about her commitment to breastfeeding and finding the balance between permissiveness and boundary setting as a parent. Brenda is open about how critical she became of her body during the postpartum period and shares how she eventually found...2020-01-071h 15Being MomLoosening the Reins of Control with Laura Victore#004: This week's guest is Laura Victore, who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, James and their two children, Wyatt (4) and Nova (2). In this episode, Laura talks about the alternative fertility methods she used in her efforts to become pregnant for the first time, shares her experience of being a step-mom, and tells the story of her successful home birth. She also reveals what took her son to the hospital 6 days after his arrival and discusses her difficult experience with breastfeeding. Laura finds a lot of magic in being a mom, and has a lovely ability to find lessons...2019-12-2459 minBeing MomFinding Grace in the Mess with Anjua Maximo#003: This week's guest is Anjua Maximo, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her family, which includes her husband and their two sons ages 8 and 14. Inspired by her early experiences and personal development working for fitness apparel brand lululemon athletica, Anjua took risks by setting out on her own to become a successful entrepreneur and life coach, dedicated to empowering women. It was at lululemon that she fell in love with personal development, which inspired her to join forces with her husband, Zosimo, in launching a business venture in 2015 that became GrooveRyde - Cleveland’s premier boutique micro-gym. While GrooveRyde’s mi...2019-12-171h 07Being MomListening to your Soul Voice with Michelle Tamblyn-Sabo#002: This week's guest is Michelle Tamblyn-Sabo, is a self-described spiritual seeker and a mama of 2 shining children, Penelope Love (7) and William Maxwell (5). She is married to JP Tamblyn~Sabo an Internationally known Yoga Teacher and she is the creator of Goddess Flow Feminine Movement. Michelle is a wildly passionate woman that sees potential and possibility in Life. She has a deep seeded belief that when we are aligned with our Soul’s Wisdom anything is possible. Ultimately, Michelle is a woman seeking to become the most authentic embodiment of her Soul’s truth in order to be an ambassador of lo...2019-12-1056 minBeing MomMotherhood is a Beautiful Roller Coaster Ride with Ali Kozoll#001: Welcome to Being Mom! In this episode, host Ali Kozoll, introduces herself and her family by telling her story of pregnancy and her son's birth by cesarean. She shares the intention behind the show and invites you to join her on the beautiful roller coaster ride of being a mother. This is where moms get to connect heart-to-heart about the joys and challenges of motherhood. Welcome to the community, we're so glad you found us!If you'd like to get the links and show notes for this episode head to: https://beingmompodcast.com/podcast/episode-0012019-12-0822 min