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The Mom FeedLove Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: How to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout in Motherhood with Dr. Morgan CutlipMom guilt.Mom rage. Mom brain.So many terms in motherhood, most of which we didn't really understand until we were in it.As mothers in this age, it can be really difficult to love your kids without losing yourself (and your mind!) in the process.My guest on the show today has made it her life's work to help mothers banish guilt and beat burnout in motherhood. She just released her first book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When you A...2023-09-211h 09The Mom FeedThe In Between: A Hospice Nurse’s Advice on How to Live Before we Die with Hadley Vlahos, RNHave you ever picked up a book that you just couldn't put down?You are exhausted and you want to go to bed, but you simply cannot stop turning the pages. And when you turn that final page, you're so sad, because it's over. But you're changed for having read it.That is The In Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments.It's a book written by hospice nurse, Hadley Vlahos, RN.Over her years helping patients transition from this life to whatever comes next, Hadley compiled their stories and realized...2023-09-091h 11The Mom FeedLiving in the Vision of Your Motherhood Experience with Susanne ConradWhen was the last time you thought about your goals? When was the last time you wrote them down?When I began working for lululemon in 2006, I was introduced to the world of goal setting, and as an overachiever, I was hooked on the process.A few months into my time there, I met a woman named Susanne Conrad, a woman who would change my life. Susanne was the Director of Possibility at lululemon, and she co-developed lululemon's renowned leadership program there. Since then, Susanne has coached thousands of leaders at hu...2023-05-091h 09The Mom FeedParenting Spicy Ones: Practical Parenting Tips for Your Spirited 2-10 Year old with Mary Van GeffenIf you're a parent to a child or children between the ages of 2 and 12 years old, you're going to get a lot out of today, especially if you have children that are particularly spicy, shall we say?You know the ones. They seem to defy what the parenting books say. They push your buttons. They push boundaries at earlier ages then seems appropriate. They hold a mirror to your wounds and traumas - most of them unhealed - and ask you dig deeper and deeper for the healing and the lesson.They are the kids...2023-04-251h 13The Mom FeedHuman Design, Astrology & Pluto in Aquarius: How to Use it all to Uplevel Your Life with Jessie EcclesIf you’ve ever wondered what is at the intersectin of astrology, human design, and your life, wonder no more.Today on the show, intuitive astrologer, mama and entrepreneur, Jessie Eccles, gives us a rundown on how you can use human design and astrology to better understand yourself and those around you.She empowers you to understand just how your birth chart reveals who you are, and how you can use your strengths and challenges to uplevel your life.Let’s face it – we’ll all have challenging moments in our lives. But how we f...2023-03-231h 11The Mom FeedChanging the Landscape of Egg Freezing and Egg Donation with Cofertility Co-Founder, Lauren MaklerAre you a parent or thinking about becoming one?My guest on the show today, Lauren Makler, is the CEO and co-founder of Cofertility, a mother owned and led company that is reshaping egg donation and egg freezing.Today's episode is for you if:1. You are in your 20s or early 30s and thinking about having a family someday2. You are experiencing fertility challenges3. You are experiencing secondary infertility after having had at least one child already4. You are interested in egg freezing5. You are interested in egg donation2023-03-091h 09The Mom FeedHow to Talk to Your Daughter About Puberty: A Step-by-Step Guide with Girolology's Dr. Trish HutchisonI don’t know about you, but motherhood goes in phases of panic and preparation. One phase informs the specifics around the panic and the preparation.For example, you get pregnant. Then, the research begins. What prenatal vitamins should I take? What kind of birth do I want? What kind of care provider do I want? What should I put on my baby registry? All the questions, all the preparation around the nursery and the buying of the parenting books and all the things.Th...2023-02-231h 07The Mom FeedHow to Thrive in Motherhood: Rewriting the Mother Code with Dr. Gertrude LyonsHow has motherhood felt to you? Has it felt easy? Hard? A mixed bag?I’ve been pretty open and honest about how much motherhood has thrown me for a loop. It came with some pretty dark moments, and though those dark moments are fewer and farther between, they are still there sometimes.Someone once asked me, “Why did you decide to have kids?”The question jarred me. Because the honest answer was: I didn’t know the answ...2023-02-091h 16The Mom FeedCoolhaus Co-Founder and mama, Natasha Case, on Building a Meal Delivery Service for KidsWhen co-founder Natasha Case of the wildly popular ice cream company, Coolhaus, found herself challenged by feeding her little ones, she took action.She realized that as both she and her wife, Freya, were busy working professionals and entrepreneurs, they were solving their nutritional needs by ordering pre-made meals for themselves through a meal delivery service.Standing over yet another uneaten lunch that her son had brought back home from school and feeling frustrated, Natasha had an aha moment:Why don't we have meal delivery services for kids?She got to...2023-01-2652 minThe Mom FeedWhat you Need to Know About Intermittent Fasting & Blood Sugar with Funktional Nutritionist, Erin HoltI simply cannot believe that we’ve already come to the end of another year, but alas, here we are. And I think so many of us have some kind of health goal we’d like to carry out once the new year begins. One of the things that seems to be super popular is intermittent fasting. I invited Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Erin Holt, on the show a few months ago to talk about nutrition for women in general, and we touched on intermittent fasting but we didn’t have time to dive d...2022-12-2952 minThe Mom FeedA Practical Guide to Help Siblings Get Along with Parenting Coach, Danielle BettmannDo you have siblings? If so, do you get along? Do you ever remember a time where you did? What was your relationship like as children?Sibling relationships can be tricky. As it says in the book - Siblings Without Rivalry - when another child comes along, it can feel like a roommate the first child never asked for and never wanted. While some children may gravitate toward their new sibling, others may not. And no matter how the relationship starts out, there will be times when siblings inevitably do not get along.This can...2022-12-151h 17The Mom FeedParenting The Hard Stuff: How & When to Talk to Your Kids About Bodily Autonomy with Dr. Sarah BrenTalking about the birds and the bees has been depicted in so many ways throughout our lives. It's a conversation I naively thought didn't really have to happen until my kids were at least 15 or 16 years old.That's why I was so surprised when my 6 year old daughter came to me at the end of a play date last month to tell me that her 6 year old male playmate had asked to touch her private parts (cue the panic, red flushed face, shaking with adrenaline Hulk-like creature I felt myself becoming as she delivered each word). 2022-12-011h 10The Mom FeedUnlocking Infertility: A Mind-Body Approach to Conception with Dr. Danica Thornberry, DAOMWhen Danica Thornberry, DAOM, found herself staring at her lab work at 31 years of age - lab work that confirmed she was headed into early menopause due to prematurely aging ovaries - she couldn't believe it.She had spent the previous decade helping her patients in her practice in LA to overcome fertility challenges. How could this be?At the time of her diagnosis, Danica was not in a place to begin trying for a family. She thought she had time, and she was determined to figure out how to create it.She...2022-11-171h 09The Mom FeedTongue Ties, Tummy Time, Crawling & More! Helping You Understand Your 0-2 Year Old Child’s Developmental Motor Skills with Dr. Brita DeStefanoWe’ve all been there. You’re at the park or on a playdate with your mom friends and their babes who are about the same age. You’re trying not to - you really are - but you can’t help but notice that your friend’s baby is crawling or walking or doing something that your child is not yet doing. And they are the same age.You try not to panic. But the truth is, we’ve never done this before. We don’t know what is considered “normal” and what isn’t when it come...2022-11-031h 22The Mom FeedWomen’s Health 101: Hormones, Your Nervous System & Intermittent Fasting with Funktional Nutritionist, Erin HoltIf you're a mama who is suffering from hormonal imbalances of any kind (night sweats and hot flashes, migraines, bloating, cramps, PMS, etc), autoimmune conditions, brain fog, a lack of energy - basically if you aren't feeling well, my guest today can probably help you figure out why.Erin Holt AKA The Funktional Nutritionist is a board certified integrative and functional nutritionist who is on a mission to help women feel better in their bodies. With 15 years of experience as a clinician, Erin is constantly keeping up with the latest research and seeing how it plays out...2022-10-2047 min