Mutha Life
The Mutha Life podcast is your place for exploring the near impossible balancing act of career and parenting. Each week, we talk to a badass parent who is pursuing their passions and career dreams, while also showing up for their kids. We talk through their childhoods, their jobs, relationships, support systems, philosophies on parenting and all of the messy stuff that comes up along the way.
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Episode 71: Bye Snake, Hello FIRE Horse!!!
12/31/2025
Episode 71: Bye Snake, Hello FIRE Horse!!!
Come hang in the closet for a special New Year's Eve episode. We go into the highlights of 2025, featuring reflections on the challenging yet transformative Year of the Wood Snake. We are going to march through some takeaways from 2025's 46 guests. We also look ahead to the Year of the Fire Horse and take a moment to remember NYE through the eyes of when Harry Met Sally, reimagining love for kids - and remembering Rob Reiner. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 70: Solo Pod: Is Santa a fun uncle?
12/24/2025
Episode 70: Solo Pod: Is Santa a fun uncle?
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…muthas were getting ready. Welcome to this year’s Christmas episode! Come hang in the closet for a solo episode where I cover a lot of ground - we go from a re-imagining of St. Nick and his role in the family to broken fingers, chronic illness, love of diet coke and solo travel…and feeling all of the feelings that come with the holidays. I also cover gift giving, being chief magic maker and so much more. Come cozy down while you tick some shit off your to do list on the night before Christmas. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 69: Dr. Jessica Combs: The best Metacine
12/17/2025
Episode 69: Dr. Jessica Combs: The best Metacine
Let’s hang with Dr. Jessica Combs. She’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Dr. Diamond’s Metacine - a medically inspired skincare line that is taking the skincare world by storm. And YES, it IS that Dr. Diamond. The one from Dr. 90210 and Celebrity Plastic Surgeons. He’s also known as her husband and their love story rivals a plot line from Gray’s Anatomy. Together the couple have built empires and legacies - a world renowned facial plastic surgery practice, an institute and a skincare line that’s changing the game - all while raising their two boys in LA. Today we peek behind the curtain at the big brain running the show. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 68: Julia Boorstin: A Leader
12/10/2025
Episode 68: Julia Boorstin: A Leader
Come hang with a true leader today. Julia Boorstin is CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and author of acclaimed book on leadership, When Women Lead. She’s been called ‘A pioneer in tech and media reporting.’ In 2013, Boorstin created and launched CNBC's Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting the private companies transforming and disrupting the economy. She also recently launched a podcast inspired by her book, CNBC’s Changemakers and Power Players. Navigating professional and personal identity alongside parenthood is at the core of what this podcast has always been about and Julia's journey resonated with me in a way that was deep, thought provoking, and a very good time. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 67: Natasha Oiye: Kenya's great export
12/03/2025
Episode 67: Natasha Oiye: Kenya's great export
Natasha Oiye is a multi-hyphenate who has lived so many chapters in her life. She’s a newborn care specialist that has helped so many families navigate the early days of sleepless newborn nights - coming into the home as a sleep doula fairy god mother. She’s also the founder of motherland stuff, which brings stunning handmade jewelry and accessories from Kenya to the US, paying artisans fair wages along the way and celebrating their craft. In addition to those two jobs - literally a day job and a night job - she’s raising her three kids on fufu, love, and healthy boundaries. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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EPISODE 66: Diana Sokal: Proof of concept
11/26/2025
EPISODE 66: Diana Sokal: Proof of concept
Let's hang with my former SUMMER CAMP CAMPER and now full fledged adult and mutha, Diana Sokal. She’s the Director of Communications for Apa Aesthetic - THE destination for A listers wanting to give their smiles an upgrade. I promise you - I have never seen dentistry looks this sexy, luxury or elite in my life. Before joining Apa’s army transforming the field of dentistry, Diana worked in PR and celebrity dressing at Harry Winston dressing our favorite celebs in the world's most precious jewels for the biggest red carpets. Diana and I cover a lot - from what it feels like to be a fish out of water in youth, what ROM-COM marriage actually looks like after the credits roll, and what happens to that high energy front row student when they're in the real world with energy to burn? Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 65: Mica Keeney: Mutha Bear
11/19/2025
Episode 65: Mica Keeney: Mutha Bear
Mica Keeney is on the pod this week and she had me thinking about the poignance and occasional annoyance of TIMING. She’s the founder of Keeney & Co. a brand marketing consultancy and she's worked with the brands we all know and love - from CARE BEARS to Tiffany and Netflix - Mica’s work has been recognized by her peers, winning a Cannes Young Lions award among a laundry list of other accolades. Outside of her day job, Mica writes about motherhood, in all its complexity, both on her own Substack Motherhood Muses and for outlets like . Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 64: Laura Krafft: Bubblegum in the briefcase
11/12/2025
Episode 64: Laura Krafft: Bubblegum in the briefcase
Come hang with professionally funny person, Laura Krafft. Laura is a comedic writer, actress and dedicated aunt to her 22 nieces and nephews. Her work comes to us by way of a storied era of improv in Chicago - coming up with comedians like Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Adam McKay, Horatio Sanz, and so many more. When she landed in LA, her work moved from the stage to the screen and she’s been a writer for some of our favorite shows for more than 20 years, including well over 300 episodes of the beloved Colbert Report. Enjoy this hang and remember that good improv, and good living, both depend on hyping up and showing up for the people around us. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life - Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 63: Nicole Lyn: Seasons of love
11/05/2025
Episode 63: Nicole Lyn: Seasons of love
Today we are traveling from Canada to Jamaica, from New York to LA, with Nicole Lyn (aka Ms. Nix). She is an actor, a DJ, and a creative. She started in the acting and modeling world YOUNG and by 12 was working regularly on a range of popular Canadian TV shows - from Ramona and Eric’s World to later on Student Bodies with appearances on a range of shows we all know and love - Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Kids in the Hall, West Wing, and so many more. As creative second act, Nicole’s DJ career has been in some ways a return to the power of music that she was exposed to and loved in childhood. Her story is one of finding the beauty in her childhood, distilling her passions and pouring it all into her craft and her family. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life - Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 62: Dr. Aegean Chan: Fine lines
10/29/2025
Episode 62: Dr. Aegean Chan: Fine lines
Let’s go SKIN DEEP…maybe even deeper with Dr. Aegean Chan today. Dr. Chan is a badass double board certified dermatologist and dermapathologist. She’s a mom of three. She runs her successful Santa Barbara practice alongside her husband. She’s educating the masses through her engaging and EVIDENCED take on her instagram account…and she’s been featured in The New York Times, Allure, Vogue, Prevention, and Well+Good for her efforts…and there’s some more exciting stuff to come from her in the pipeline. Dr. Chan was just who we needed answering listener questions and my own questions and I feel newly invigorated to keep my skincare routine boring in the best way possible…and to not sweat the little tradeoffs we make for the big picture. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life - Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 61: Barbora Samieian: A family brand of warmth
10/22/2025
Episode 61: Barbora Samieian: A family brand of warmth
From Slovakia to Canada to your living room, come snuggle down with Barbora Samieian. She’s one of the co-founders of the fan favorite Sundays Furniture, the newly launched furniture brand Hetta, and Vancouver’s fave lunch spot, Field and Social. Her story as a founder and as a parent to her 4 kids is integrally linked to her own brand of warmth, cultivated over borders, across cultures, and now into our homes. In this chat, Barbora and I cover everything from what it was like growing up in Czechoslovakia turned Slovakia, emigrating to Canada as a pre-teen, leaving behind a prestigious career in international relations to pursue passion projects, founding companies with her friends and family, making time for herself and her kids, and how hard the post-partum period can be - even when you’ve got support. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 60: Solo Pod: Learning to chill in sweata weatha
10/15/2025
Episode 60: Solo Pod: Learning to chill in sweata weatha
Welcome to our second ever SOLO POD for the big episode 6-0. We cover a wide sprawl of topics that span my brain and yours - I answer some listener questions and dive into what’s been going on around here lately. Specifically, we talk about making ‘mom friends’ - and where I think we are getting that one a bit wrong in how we think about it. We talk about how a new school transition can take just a big a toll on us as it does our kids (if not more?), recent birthday party wins, why cliches are so annoyingly true, Justin Beiber superfandom and more. Come hang! Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 59: Evan Lovett: The Valley Boy’s Love Letter
10/08/2025
Episode 59: Evan Lovett: The Valley Boy’s Love Letter
Evan Lovett REPS HARD FOR LA. He’s LA’s biggest cheerleader and is the creator of LA IN A MINUTE - the viral social media sensation sharing snapshots of different LA neighborhoods and points of interest in a way that is truly celebrating the city where he was born and raised - and where he’s now raising his son. With his successful pod, IN A MINUTE WITH EVAN LOVETT, Evan has managed to wrangle the most prominent politicians in LA, as well as athletes and artists and everyone in between to both hold those in power accountable for continuing to make LA great, while spotlighting the people who have, in some way or another, put their own brick in the wall of LA’s legacy. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 58: Whitney Wagner: Marked safe
10/01/2025
Episode 58: Whitney Wagner: Marked safe
Today we are hanging out in the closet with Whitney Wagner Hartley of HELLOWHITNEY fame. She is a retired model, a wellness and beauty influencer and….has become a vocal critic of the MAGA and MAHA agendas. Her videos have amassed millions of views where she crushes a skincare or makeup routine WHILE ALSO explaining in very accessible terms how our consumer dollars - and how we decide to use them - can be an act of resistance. This episode has it all. From near run-ins with Joshua Jackson, commentary on Pedro Pascal as our north star for advocacy, armchair psych diagnoses of celebrities, fermented foods and farts and so much more. Come get involved on this first friend date. I think we're going places, people. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 57: Billy Mann: The long game
09/24/2025
Episode 57: Billy Mann: The long game
Come hang with Billy Mann immediately. Billy is a Grammy Nominated multi-platinum multi-hyphenate. He’s a songwriter, producer, artist, executive, podcaster, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Philadelphia-loving husband and father of 4 (Go Birds?). From his longstanding collaboration with PINK to his work with Sting, Celine Dion, Cher, Backstreet Boys, David Guetta, Robyn, Carole King, Hall & Oates, and SO MANY MORE, Billy has been an integral part of shaping so many moments of our lives with his music. His most recent collaborator is Episode 54’s Shawn Stockman with their Chosen Family project. Between Chosen Family and his podcast Yeah, I Fucked That Up, we get the best of what Billy has learned over a storied career and parenting journey - from where it all started in Philly, to living in his car while he pursued his dreams, to almost filing for bankruptcy only to find he had a hit on his hands…to losing a great love, to finding love again, raising four children, becoming a needle-moving autism advocate. and more. It just has to be heard to be believed. Enjoy and share. There is so much in this episode that celebrates failure in way that we all need to hear. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 56: Jamie Greenberg: Broad strokes
09/17/2025
Episode 56: Jamie Greenberg: Broad strokes
Come hang in the closet with celeb makeup powerhouse, Jamie Greenberg of Jamie Makeup. She’s the go-to artist for so many of Hollywood’s funniest and most talented women - Rashida Jones, Kaley Cuoco, Chelsea Handler, the list goes on and on…but today we get down to the FOUNDATION of the person behind the brush. We focus on taking off the CONCEALER and getting the BAREFACED story of what kind of childhood and life story has given us this wonderful new pal (see what I did there? Moms can make puns too, pffff). A first for the pod, I believe, we’ve got a Maryland girl with New Jersey roots and a love of Zoloft and laughter like nobody’s business. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 55: Victoria de la Fuente: A rebrand for motherhood
09/10/2025
Episode 55: Victoria de la Fuente: A rebrand for motherhood
Today we get to hang in the closet with Victoria de la Fuente. She’s a brand strategist. A tech entrepreneur. A fashion girly. And an absurdly successful substacker with her stack . We start with what it was like growing up in Peru, what happens when your mom becomes one of the most famous women in Latin America in your teenage years, navigating the international fashion scene, and how starting a family might be her biggest creative and important venture yet. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 54: Shawn Stockman: From boy II man
09/03/2025
Episode 54: Shawn Stockman: From boy II man
I HOPE YOU ARE SITTING DOWN. Today on the pod we have Shawn Stockman - a 4-time Grammy award winner and a member of the most commercially successful R&B group of all time, BoyzIIMen. We start with Shawn's childhood in southwest Philadelphia - we go from singing in THE Boys Choir at age 8 to attending the prestigious Creative and Performing Arts High School. Then we talk about growing up and into adulthood under the watchful eye of the whole world - Shawn covers so much in a new light. From his partnership with his wife to what it's like to parent a child on the spectrum, and what lessons he took from his own childhood into his approach to parenting, there is so much to dig into here. We answer some listener questions, talk about his new music collab with fellow CAPA alum Billy Mann - Chosen Family - I get a lesson on water ice, and we talk about the fine line between giving your kids what you didn't have while also figuring out how to keep them grounded. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 53: Chana Blugrind: Running on faith
08/27/2025
Episode 53: Chana Blugrind: Running on faith
Let’s go hang with Chana Karna Blugrind - she has been an early childhood educator for 25 years and is the Director of a pre-school in Los Angeles. She’s also a mom to four kids and step mom to two more. She’s an ultramarathoner. A doctoral candidate. A Danish woman living in America….A woman with many layers, all of which are tied together with her faith. And tattoos. Lots of tattoos. We follow Chana from growing up in Denmark - a kid with undiagnosed ADHD whose parents never made her feel like an inconvenience. We follow her through her (double) conversion to Judaism, her time spent as a member of an ultra-orthodox community, escaping an abusive relationship and finding new purpose through running. We cover a lot in this episode - from how different it feels to parent when society is set up for families to succeed. How hard it can be to leave a community - even a bad one - if you don’t have a community to help you overcome the transition. And how focusing on joy, despite being dealt repeated shitty hands, can make every day worth living. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 52: Kari Selander: Robots and Unicorns
08/20/2025
Episode 52: Kari Selander: Robots and Unicorns
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FAM! They say for a first anniversary you should get your beloved paper, but I think substack and a podcast is the modern day equivalent, right? This episode is the product of your requests to get MY story. I couldn’t think of anything more cringe than talking about myself at length, but our repeat guest and friend of the pod SOSUPERSAM wasn't going to let me off the hook. So here we are. A long ass episode where Sam gets in the interview chair while I sit down in the hot seat and we chop it up - all of the standard Mutha Life topics are on the table. From Tampa, Florida to my closet in Los Angeles and the more than fifty countries in between, let’s figure out why I am so obsessed with bodily fluids, parenthood and other people’s life shit. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 51: Dr. Puja Khanna: The star of career day
08/13/2025
Episode 51: Dr. Puja Khanna: The star of career day
Is it just me or is the dream to flip the script on your doctor and ask THEM the personal questions? Well, cha ching. Today’s the day for me. Not too long ago I started with a new doctor to work out the latest challenges and question marks around my Crohn’s disease. She came highly recommended by my doc as THE woman to talk to about BEING a woman with Crohn’s, especially around the hormonal roller coaster of having kids and post partum. But it wasn’t until almost 17 million views of a procedure I did for this new doc, a capsule endoscopy, went viral that I really took the plunge and asked my doc out on a POD DATE. Dr. Puja Khanna is the Clinical Director of Women’s Health of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedars-Sinai. She’s a research powerhouse who specializes in women with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. AND she’s got three kids of her own. The first half of the ep is the classic MUTHA LIFE fare you’ve come to know and love - then we get into all of the listener questions around gut health. Come hang. Let’s talk about poop and butts. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 50: Bennet Kaspar-Williams: On purpose
08/06/2025
Episode 50: Bennet Kaspar-Williams: On purpose
Today we are hanging out in the closet with Bennett Kaspar-Williams, the multi-threat. Lawyer, activist, writer, creative…and seahorse dad. If you don’t know what a seahorse is, you’re in the right place today to learn from source. Bennett is trans and was the gestational carrier for his son (get it? male seahorses are famously the gestational carriers). In talking to Bennett about his life - from Texas to Seattle to New York and LA, each chapter has provided stones for his life’s foundation. We are going to cover so much ground in this one - from why our almost five year old boys are psychos right now (it’s the LIMBIC LEAP PEOPLE), to why Labubus are actually a valuable contribution to society, to reframing what partnership in the parent era looks like (she whispers: just unload the dishwasher, people). Ultimately, this is a conversation about what happens when we keep interrogating and asking ourselves what we need to feel complete and happy. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 49: Emily Tucker: Everything in its place
07/30/2025
Episode 49: Emily Tucker: Everything in its place
This week we have Emily Tucker in the virtual closet all the way in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Emily is the founder and face of Emily Tucker Design - an insanely talented firm building projects that would be right up my alley if my house wasn't a toy vomit factory. On this episode, I use Emily as my personal guru for all things - from understanding how interior designers actually work with clients to what she does in her own home to make her kids get along. We talked about what it means to be inspired by your parents' work and finding your own place in the world while taking that inspiration with you. We talked about division of labor, what she and her husband argue about, and how hard it can be when your kids are all....shocker, different people. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 48: Charlie Curtis: Running on protein
07/23/2025
Episode 48: Charlie Curtis: Running on protein
This week in the closet we have celebrity trainer/founder of Bad Badger Treats, Charlie Curtis. You may know him as ‘Perfect 10 Charlie’ of Armchair Expert fame. Or maybe as the founder of Indoorphins, the online high intensity workout community. Orrrrr that guy who seems to live at the little league field. Maybe you don’t know him at all and you’re here because you just want to hear how someone who is actively involved in raising his two boys also manages to juggle his own fitness and professional goals. This is a sprawling chat - from being raised by a single mom in San Diego, to playing college football, to building a durable relationship with his wife based on shared history, respect and understanding - it’s all here. AND we managed to answer a few listener questions that were submitted ahead of time. Let’s goooooo. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 47: Lily Walla: The group chat goes big league
07/16/2025
Episode 47: Lily Walla: The group chat goes big league
This week we get down and dischargey with the founder of Auggie, the parent platform so many of us want and need. Lily Walla’s childhood story is one of contrasts - bouncing between her parents’ apartments, sleeping on pull out beds and sharing tight spaces - all while going to one of the country’s most elite private schools and running around with classmates with literal mansions to call home. Today, we find Lily the fully actualized person, in Brooklyn with her family. She’s a million weeks pregnant and about to pop…all while at the helm of her second entrepreneurial venture. This conversation covers so much both in parenting and in career - how confusingly devastating it can feel in the lead up to welcoming a new baby. The way taking on investors is both a blessing and a stressor when you’re in the early stages of building. The importance of being able to be honest with yourself when the thoughts get a little too dark and working toward getting yourself help. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 46: Jill Miller: A breath of fresh air
07/09/2025
Episode 46: Jill Miller: A breath of fresh air
Today we are hanging out with a movement guru of the highest order and getting extremely vulnerable about the road to healing and building resilience in the body and the mind. Come meet THE Jill Miller. We start in New Orleans and land here in LA. We cover experiencing her parents’ divorce as a child and being uprooted more times than she can count on two hands…and the underlying impact all of that can have on the body and mind. Jill is a pioneer in her field - taking all of the pieces of fitness, yoga, athletics, massage and pain management and putting them together to create an approach to movement that is both focused on healing and resilience. She is the author of best-selling books, has created multiple fitness formats that are taught worldwide, and has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, to Women’s Health, GMA and Self Magazine. She’s also a mom of two kids and was crazy enough to go into business with her husband. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 45: Jeff McCausland: A leader that serves
07/02/2025
Episode 45: Jeff McCausland: A leader that serves
This week we are celebrating the 4th of July by spending time highlighting parenting while building a career in the military. The department of defense is the LARGEST employer in the United States which means millions of people and families are working through the unique experiences associated with this career path. Overseas deployments. Being separated from loved ones. Moving cities and countries often. Constantly being worried about the safety and well-being of those you love the most. To cover all of this and more we are hanging out in the virtual closet with retired Colonel Jeff McCausland. We follow Jeff from his childhood in West Central Illinois, working jobs after school and listening to the war stories of the grown men around him, to - instead of waiting for the draft to find him - going to West Point, where he would launch a 30 year career in the Army. From leading 750 soldiers in battle to being the Dean of the US Army War College - Jeff’s is a story centered on service…all while working with his wife to make sure his kids were given the opportunity to have more/do better than he did. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 44: Erin Lim Rhodes: No fake news
06/25/2025
Episode 44: Erin Lim Rhodes: No fake news
This week we are hanging out with E! The Rundown's Erin Lim Rhodes. In this episode we cover what happens when a focused and extremely driven person in a highly competitive field takes on parenthood. And, if that's not enough of a hook for you, we cover what it's like when parents separate later in life, the power of the placenta, finding her faith and her husband in a new church, how hobbies helped her through post partum depression, and the subtle joys of becoming a Disney adult. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 43: Stacy Bernstein: Making it All Better
06/18/2025
Episode 43: Stacy Bernstein: Making it All Better
Today we've got serial entrepeneur and sports obsessed former D1 Soccer Star, Stacy Bernstein, on the pod. She is the Co-Founder of All Better Company, a company re-imagining first aid in a way that’s showing up for you and your kids AND doing it in a way that’s also good for the planet. We follow Stacy from childhood in THE VALLEY, to her life as a D1 athlete, to working for the NHL, coaching, and starting out on her own. It's an episode that covers so many things I care deeply about - from how we talk to our kids about sex, to THE ART OF NOTICING. ENJOY! Share! Talk about it! TW: Child Sexual Abuse. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 42: Whitney Port: No small talk here
06/11/2025
Episode 42: Whitney Port: No small talk here
Whitney Port has been in the public eye for 20 years and she’s cultivated an ability to both be vulnerable and share her life without it feeling exploitative. From her time on the Hills and the City, to her following years building her own mini media empire with her successful podcast and Youtube channel, watching Whitney grow and cultivate relationships has been a mainstay for so many people who grew up watching her. Today she’s in the closet and we cover such a wide range of topics - from finding meaningful connection and friendship in new stages of life, figuring out the balance between what’s best for YOU and what’s best for everyone else around you. Her very public experience with infertility and the decision to try and expand her family via surrogacy, what it’s like to be a member of the ‘sandwich generation’ and so much more. This is also a podcast first - we’ve had Whitney’s sister, Paige, on the pod (Episode 12) and so that makes Whitney’s episode our first-ever sibling episode…because you know what they say, no two people get the same two parents. Full show notes with alll the links: Instagram: Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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