Motherhood in America: The Quiet Reality of the Lack of Pre & Postnatal Care
Release Date: 06/11/2025
Mom Talk: Our Birth Stories- with guest host Amanda
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Amanda and Christina share their personal insights & stories of pregnancy and birth in this honest, funny, and often-considered-taboo multi-part Mom Talk Series. Take care of yourself while listening- topics such as pregnancy loss, traumatic birth, surgery, etc. are mentioned in today's episode.
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A Smarter Way to Plan Your Year- Why Your Plans Keep Failing And What to Do Instead
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Why Your Plans Keep Failing — And What to Do Instead Every January, we’re told to plan bigger, try harder, and finally “get our shit together.” By February, most people already feel behind. In this episode of The Confidence Project, Christina breaks down why planning fails even when you’re motivated — and how to plan your year in a way that actually works in real life. This isn’t about finding the perfect planner or forcing more discipline. It’s about building plans that respect your energy, capacity, and season of life — without burning you out or setting you up for shame....
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My Birthday + A Winter Solstice Ritual
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My birthday was yesterday! Happy birthday to meeee 🥳 Tune in to hear how I celebrated ~36~ as well as the Winter Solstice Ritual I'm doing to close out this year. IG video mentioned in this episode:
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Not Your Mother's Menopause: A Collection of Stories and Experiences Because No One Else Told Us
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The Granny gang calls in and writes in to share their experiences and insights about all things perimenopause and menopause symptoms. Of course, this episode also includes Christina's insights into all things lack of research and funding for women's health and of course... a segment on wild mammals, specifically whales- because they too go through menopause!
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My new favorite journaling practice- the 5 year journal
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My new favorite journaling practice takes less than 2 minutes each day- it's sustainable, enjoyable, and gives us the opportunity to reflect on our life 5 years at a time. But also, who doesn't love a new pen and new journal? Links: Previous episode:
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DECEMBER DECLUTTER CHALLENGE: 25 bags in 25 days
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How We Announced Our Pregnancy
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A personal episode where I share the non-traditional but super fun way that we announced our pregnancy to my immediate family even while keeping my pregnancy under wraps from everyone else!
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Fitness & Running Updates, A Pinterest Fail, & Songs About Butt Plugs
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Hannah and Christina are back with life updates, upcoming travel plans, a dog-craft-gone-awry, and our thoughts on the new Lily Allen album.
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Building a Politically Aligned Small Business Without Social Media Drama
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Find yourself wondering how to navigate social media as a small business owner during these (never ending) 'unprecedented' political times? Take it from me, the retired 'run your mouth on the internet about politics' girlie- there are other ways. Tune into this episode to hear other ways to build a values-led small business without getting dragged into social media drama or destroying your peace.
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Into the Cave: Prepping for Fall & Winter
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Whether you experience the winter blues or not, there is a biological shift that happens once we begin to lose sunlight for the winter time. In this episode, I cover the things that have helped me the most in order to (almost) enjoy winter and (almost) not feel 'seasonally depressed' anymore (although I'm anxious about my first winter with a baby) including perspectives and mindset shifts, to things to begin incorporating into your daily routine, along with never, and I mean never, turning on the big overhead lights at home ;)
info_outlineWhat happens after the baby comes? For many mothers in the U.S., the answer is: not much support. In this episode, I sit down with pelvic floor physical therapist Annie Hopkins to talk about the quiet crisis happening in postpartum care—and why so many moms are left to navigate healing, identity shifts, and physical recovery on their own.
We unpack the gaps in our medical system, the lack of federal paid leave, and why postpartum care often stops at six weeks (if it even starts). Annie brings both professional insight and deep compassion to this conversation, shedding light on what true care could and should look like for new mothers.
Whether you're a mom, planning to become one, or just someone who cares about how we treat women, this episode is for you.
Topics We Cover:
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What pelvic floor physical therapy really is (and why it matters)
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The six-week postpartum "cutoff" and its consequences
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Cultural myths around bouncing back after birth
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Why America’s policies fall short for mothers
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How we can start building better systems of care
More from Annie:
Website: Full Bloom Wellness
Podcast: The Postpartum Revolution
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