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Welcome to a new season of The Insider Mom Podcast. In this season I'll be sharing, thoughts, helpful tips and occasional guest interviews with you in hopes they'll help you with whatever you're going through. If you want to know when a new episode airs, make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or any other podcast platform you use . Also, don't forget to sign up to become an Insider Mom VIP at insidermom.com/VIP to be the first to know about the latest updates. Without further ado, here's the next episode.
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The holidays can be a fun but also stressful time. Here are ways we can reduce the stress the holidays can put both on us and on the environment.
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It seems our lives are consumed by screens these days. Whether it's for work, learning or entertainment, it's hard to put them away. In fact it can often seem impossible, so much so that our lives are almost controlled by them, rather than us being in control of our devices.
But what if it didn't have to be that way...In today's episode I speak to author Catherine Price who shares her research and insights into ways we can harness our tech and live our lives in ways that are more fun and fulfilling.
Dubbed “The Marie Kondo of Brains” by The New York Times, Catherine Price is an award-winning science journalist and speaker and the author of numerous books, including How to Break Up with Your Phone and Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food. She is also the creator of Screen/Life Balance, a resource hub dedicated to helping people scroll less and live more. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Popular Science, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Slate, Time, and Men’s Journal, among others.
Make sure to have a listen.Also, don't forget to check out her work and books at: ScreenLifeBalance.com and HowToHaveFun.com
For those mamas that want to schedule more time for self care, passion projects and fun, check out The Quick Time Saving Guide for Busy Moms.
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There are times when rest is essential. There are times when we can move forward and be continuously on the go. No matter where you're at, here are some things to consider for personal wellness.
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The internet can be a pretty critical place. Say or do one wrong thing and people are ready to pounce, whether it's trivial or not. Heck, even when you create, say or do the right things there are people who are ready to tear you and your work down and make you feel bad. So what are we supposed to do?
From Debt to Retiring at 32 & the One Dollar Rule - An Interview with Jillian Johnsrud
How can we build up our own resilience and help our kids navigate the digital world?
Well in today's episode author Jillian Johnsrud shares insights and tips on what we can do.
Her new book Fire the Haters: Finding the Courage to Create Online in a Critical World, helps creatives and entrepreneurs share their best work with others while learning constructive ways to deal with the various forms of online criticism.
After becoming financially independent at 32 years old, Jillian turned her personal and professional experience towards a creative life. She is a popular public speaker, online course creator, host of the Everyday Courage Podcast, and she's also a coach, and a writer. She and her husband live in Montana, with their 5 kids and travel often.
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Chances are you may have heard about the benefits of forest bathing...Being outdoors can boost mental health and have a positive impact on our lives. Unfortunately many of us spend hours cooped up inside, either due to work or home life. However, one mom is changing that for the women she works with.
Nailah Blades Wylie @nailahblades is a Life & Leadership coach, consultant and the founder of Color Outside, a community for ambitious women of color who are ready to create unapologetic, soul stirring lives through outdoor adventure. Nailah started Color Outside as a safe place for women of color to come together and unlock where they're feeling stuck so that they can fully step into their joy and shine. When she's not leading adventure retreats or consulting with brands you can find her hiking with her husband or playing intense games of hide-n-go seek with her two tiny kids.
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Being able to determine your own schedule is one of the perks of working from home. It can also help when raising kids with special needs. That's why Carrie a mom of two decided to turn her passion into a business that allows her to have a flexible schedule while working from home.
Carrie Keefe is the Founder of Sweet As April a business that sells hand sewn bonnets for babies and kids that are made from upcycled materials. She started Sweet As April as a blog, a place where she could share everything she was learning about being a mother, an artist, a maker and a woman who felt as though she had just lost her way. On that afternoon when she stitched her first bonnet she wasn't planning on selling them. Leia (her youngest) needed a sunbonnet for their camping trip, and because she had very little money at the time, she decided to sew one, using some of her childhood bedsheets. At the time, she was making the decision to close a gallery and gift shop she had opened and worked at for 7 years to stay home with her 3-year-old son, Elliot, who was newly diagnosed with autism. However, through sharing her bonnet creation online, people started asking her to make more and she decided to turn Sweet As April into a business; one that has helped her make a living while being able to stay home with her kids.
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Content creation requires work and planning, but it's necessary to stand out online. It's also crucial to keep diversity in mind when creating content as well.
In this episode, Dominique Bouchard talks about things we need to consider when creating content. She also talks about strategies moms can use to make sure they are tending to their own well-being.
Dominique @dom.creates is a senior-level digital strategist, content producer, and mom. Collaborating with some of the top international brands, she has leveraged her knowledge in content creation as an entrepreneur, sports marketer, and businesswoman to make personal and professional brands bring culture to the forefront. She's the co-founder of Dom Creates Digital Marketing Agency and helps people create inclusive content for their brands.
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The road to mompreneurship isn't always a straight path. Building a business is a lot of work, but doing so with kids in tow requires extra effort and planning.
In today's episode Lianne Kim, podcast host of The Business of Thinking Big and founder of Mamas & Co. @mamasandco a community for mompreneurs, shares tips on how moms can create businesses that make them light up and that they are passionate about. She also talks about her new bestselling book Building a Joyful Business and what inspired her to do the work she does.
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In an age where polarization has become the norm online and media networks utilize conflict to gain more attention in reality television, it can be delightful to know there are people out there spreading good news...and quite literally doing so.
Summers McKay is the CEO of The Optimist Daily @optimistdaily, a news publisher that spreads good news and uses a multimedia approach to offer formulas for success to its audiences.
In this interview summers talks about her professional life, the struggles and the beauty of early motherhood and how she loves leading a company where she gets to read good news everyday. She also talks about a past experience in working as a reality television producer where she refused to do what she was asked from the network as it would have created a false and conflict-inducing narrative, and what she did following that experience.
Summers McKay has been building successful, Do Good Do Well, businesses for over twenty years. A U.C. Berkeley grad with an MBA from UCLA Anderson, Summers brings a unique set of skills from both her robust education and intense practical experience creating brands, running companies, and leading innovative teams. She is a contributing writer, podcast host and the author of Running With Kenyans. She is determined to apply lucrative and scalable business rigor to the world of doing good.
In addition to offering her expertise to her fellow entrepreneurs at Noospheric, Summers ran her own company, Love Summers Company, LLC. Love Summers Company was a sexual health and intimate wellness company focused on creating natural intimate care products and sex life enhancing apps. Her company won the 2015 Audience Choice Award at the Silicon Beach Fest Startup Pitch for their app concept, the Make Love More App.
Prior to joining The Optimist Daily, Summers served as Chairman of Santa Barbara Entrepreneur, where she led strategic masterminds and executive development groups including Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Advantage, and served as Executive in Residence at Noospheric. She founded UCLA Anderson EDGE, offering rigorous business education to graduate and undergraduate students. She's also a lecturer for UCLA Anderson, and an instructor for UCLA Extension. Summers business, motherhood, and life mantra is simple – Help good things grow.
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Finding one's calling doesn't always happen in ways we'd expect. Moms are often made to choose between a flourishing family life or career. Ambitious mamas are sometimes labeled as selfish when in fact they should be supported. Balance is often seen as unattainable and mom guilt is often present regardless of what decisions a mother makes.
In today's interview Brooke Cates talks about how she found her calling, her views on why balance is possible and why we need to "walk through the muck" in order build stronger relationships with others and ourselves.
Brooke Cates is the CEO and Founder of The Bloom Method @thebloommethod, a global pre+ postnatal fitness method and app. Brooke created The Bloom Method with a desire to empower women before, during, and after pregnancy while slashing narratives that tend to create disempowering outcomes for mothers. She is a Prenatal and Postnatal Exercise Specialist, Core Rehabilitation Specialist, Prenatal and Postnatal Holistic Health Coach and thought leader in the pre and postnatal wellness space.
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When it comes to our health and the health of our families, there isn't a one-size-fits all approach. Each of us requires specific things in order to achieve optimal health. Whether we're dealing with the impact of stress on our bodies, food sensitivities, genetic or environmental factors, following a specifically tailored program to address whatever it is we need to, can greatly help.
Dr. Alanna Kuhn, ND @dr.alannakuhn is a Naturopathic Doctor whose practice focuses on hormone health including thyroid conditions, stress management, adrenal dysfunction, and women's hormone balance. Throughout women's lives, hormone imbalances can arise causing women to feel less optimal than they did before. Dr. Alanna takes the time to make the connections between your health concerns in order to address the root cause and get you back to feeling like your best self again.
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A lot of families are taking time for summer break this time of the year. Chances are you might be too...In this episode I share a couple updates and have also added a list of episodes you can check out during the summer holidays:
- ER Physician Dr. Courtney Howard On The Impacts Climate Change On Our Health & On Our Planet
- One Detailed Mama And The Power Of Organizing Your Life & Home
- Overcoming Unimaginable Hardship & Becoming a Voice for Peace - The story of former child soldier and international speaker Michel Chikwanine
- The Power Of Living On Purpose Even In The Face Of Difficulty - An Interview with Jovian Zayne
- From Debt to Retiring at 32 & the One Dollar Rule - An Interview with Jillian Johnsrud
- The Fifth Vital Sign, Overcoming Period Pain & the One Sign to NEVER Ignore - Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Queen of Raw: How This Mom Is Saving The Planet & The Fashion Industry
- The Impacts of the Microbiome, Genetics, Parenting & Culture on Children's Behavior
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In an age where credit cards make it easy to make quick purchases, keeping track of spending is crucial. Building financial wealth can sometimes seem incredibly difficult, especially for moms who've been faced with job losses or have stepped out of the workforce to stay home with their kids, due to the stress the pandemic has put on families.
In today's episode Tammatha Denyes, @tammatha-denyes an accounting professional and coach, shares ways moms can save, spend and track their finances in order to help them build wealth.
She shares her own personal experiences and how she went from being a single mom of two who dropped out of high school, to an entrepreneur who is now the driving force behind a number of practices in Ontario.
She and her team provide accounting and tax solutions to not only the local businesses in their area, but to other locations using the power of cloud technology and desktop solutions.Recently, you can find Tammatha spending much of her time giving back to both small business owners and accounting professionals by providing mentorship opportunities and online courses to encourage growth, adoption and adaptation to the world of cloud based accounting.
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Starting a business as a mom of two isn't easy. Leaving a comfortable job and being faced with uncertainty can make it even more difficult. But that's exactly what Katie Thompson did.
In this interview she talks about her journey creating her company and the supports and systems she had in place to make it happen.
Katie Thomson is the Co-founder and CEO of Square Baby. She's a mom of 2 and Registered Dietitian with a Masters in Nutrition. She spent her career pioneering nutrition strategy for some of the biggest and most respected brands. As the first Nutritionist for Starbucks Coffee Company, she shaped their Health & Wellness strategy and made foundational shifts to the menu. When she became a mom, Katie shifted all of her energy to creating a better solution for parents and babies and so she created Square Baby, a baby food company that has Nutrition Science at their core. -
Still today, there aren't enough public schools that value and set aside sufficient time for creativity. But it's something that definitely needs to be cultivated and prioritized.
That's why a while back, when author C.R. Stewart reached out about his new book Britfield & The Lost Crown, I invited him on the show to share about his children's book that has won 18 awards.
In this interview he talks about how teachers and parents can make time for more creativity in schools and in their homes. He also talks about what inspired him to become a writer and how his travels inspire his work.
Born in Newport Beach, California, C. R. Stewart has 20 years of experience in writing fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. He is an award-winning, bestselling author, creativity specialist, and prolific writer. He's also founder of Britfield Institute, and Devonfield, dedicated to the highest quality in publishing, film production, and education. Chad received a Bachelor of Arts in British literature and European history from Brown University; earned an MBA from Boston College; and is pursuing a Master of Science and a PhD at Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Chad has traveled throughout the world and spent two years in England, furthering his education and conducting research. Now based in San Diego, he is a strong supporter of education and the arts and sits on the board of Horizon University; he's also an adjunct professor at Fermanian School of Business, Point Loma Nazarene University; and is the past president of the board of directors of the San Diego Ballet.
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What if you could create your family life the way you envision it to be. A life where you, your partner and kids all receive the support you need, through following a plan you create together. One where your kids grow up and learn about self-discipline and apply the principles, with you as a guide.
There's no doubt that parenting can be hard, but having a plan in place not just for your kids, but your family as a whole can make things a lot easier.
After a period of difficulty and a family emergency, Nellie Harden decided things had to change. She decided to create and set goals for her own family and developed a system called The 6570 Project, to help other families do the same.
Nellie Harden is a wife, mother of four teen daughters, a forever student and a devoted teacher, but she is also a Family Experience Designer and Parenting Coach for confused, frustrated and even proactive parents of teens and tweens helping them to achieve their unique parenting and family goals so that they can dramatically improve their family experience and position their child for success before they even leave home. With a lifelong passion and curiosity in thought, choice, behavior and growth she has found incredible joy in bringing peace and success to families looking for answers and a path forward.
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Some days can be chaotic and unpredictable when you have little kids, but that doesn't mean you can't get things done and block out time for projects and work that matters to you. There are several things to consider when you're faced with unpredictable days, so make sure to tune in to this episode.
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With so much information available on the web today, it would seem that people would be adequately informed about a variety of topics, but the availability of information does not necessarily mean people become specialized in it. It also means that misinformation is easily spread as well. As moms, receiving specialized support for our concerns and becoming informed is more crucial than it has ever been. Doing so means we can better support our families and communities and help remove stigmas associated with issues that matter to us.
If you liked this episode, here are some additional episodes you might want to check out:
Surviving the Waiting Room: A Mother’s Journey to Becoming a CoachThe Impacts of the Microbiome, Genetics, Parenting & Culture on Children’s Behavior
Treating Anxiety, Depression, ADHD and Certain Health Conditions With Neurofeedback - Show more
