Joy and Sarah drill 1st-time dad guest, Jesse Santoyo about dad guilt. He shares with us the difficulty of disciplining 3 boys differently, how he keeps open communication and the importance of self-care. Sarah cries but barely and Joy shares one of her lowest parenting moments.

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Joy shares the difficulty of having children with very different needs, Sarah feels like having more help with Parker has given her an extra brain and Jenny shares insight on how trauma feels similar leaving the body as it does entering it.

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Sarah and Joy are joined by musician and style guru, Katie Schecter, who is pregnant for the first time! Being the last of her friends to jump into motherhood, she shares with us the overall desire she felt for the next challenge in life and how being pregnant immediately connected her back to he...

Jenny highlights how rare the love that Sarah & Cathey share is, when the giving and receiving is so intertwined you can’t separate them. Joy talks about her disdain for feeding children and Sarah shares her struggle with having to discipline and we discuss what we do when we get angry.

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Sarah and Cathey, twin sisters, have always had a strong bond but when Sarah was diagnosed with cancer and faced the possibility of not being able to have any more children, Cathey stepped in to offer herself as a surrogate, taking that bond to a place they never imagined.

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In this after the episode the girls discuss how motherhood makes you feel more like a place rather than a person and how having pursuits outside of your kids can help bridge that gap. Joy share’s her new found sympathy for Miss Hannigan and we get more of a sneak peek into Joy and Jenny‘s Christi...

Haylee Young is a full-time working mother of one. She chats with Joy and Sarah about her birth plan and it’s demise as well as the struggle of being married to a traveling musician. Sarah shares a milestone and Joy brings awareness to the fact that 4th graders casually throw around the term “hot...

The gals dive into the differences between “traumatizing” our kids and just being human as well as the importance of taking care of our own inner toddler. Jenny talks about her frustration with the unspecified haziness of mom guilt (Is “good guilt” a thing?) and shares her favorite hack for teach...

Joy and Sarah sit down together without marriage and family therapist Jenny Black to reflect on their discussion with Caitlin Mello. Hear what happens when our hosts are unexpectedly left to their own devices. Spoiler alert: there’s plenty of great insight on Mello, COVID holidaze and some meande...

Being a single mom wasn’t part of Caitlin’s life plan but now she can’t imagine it any other way. Listen in as she talks with Joy and Sarah about how she continued a life of travel and adventure post baby, as well as the next level bond she shares with her daughter & the challenges that closeness...

Joy and Sarah sit down once again with marriage and family therapist, Jenny Black and have a discussion about their episode with Julia Vega. Together, they touch on the uniqueness of how individuals process grief, managing expectations, and the fingerprints our moms leave behind on us.

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Guest Julia Vega graciously walks us through how 2020 turned her world upside down with the loss of her mother due to COVID-19. Since then, her life has been devoted to creating a stable environment for her teenage sister and you’ll hear for yourself... she’s basically crushing it.

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This episode contains sensitive topics and discussions.

Nurse practitioner Alexis Paulson brings the heat - sharing her difficult birth story, body resentment, experiences as the parent of a neurodivergent preteen, EMDR, mindfulness, #GGBO, pottery & the dark thoughts that accompany the inevitab...

As part of our team, licensed marriage and family therapist Jenny Black will be joining us for a series of recaps and insights about each of our episodes. This episode we look back at our chat with Shannon Ware and dig into the precariousness of work/life balance, boundaries & for the second time...

**This episode contains sensitive topics and discussions.**

Sarah, Joy and Shannon share the challenges of their week and the guilt that often follows. Shannon opens up about the unexpected pregnancy of her first daughter, a traumatic miscarriage, and her journey to reassessing her priorities an...

As part of our team, licensed marriage and family therapist Jenny Black will be joining us for a series of recaps and insights about each of our episodes. This episode we look back at our chat with Shannon Lee Miller to discuss making your own milestones, the concept of moving mountains and just ...

Shannon Lee Miller, brilliant ghostwriter and mom of three (an 8 year old & 6 year old twins), talks to us about the triumphs, trials, and messier parts of motherhood. Sarah is sleep deprived & Joy carries the show. Join us!

About our guest: Shannon Lee Miller is a best-selling ghostwriter, edit...

Our first guest and part of our team, Jenny Black, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has just reached the other side of motherhood as both her children have left home. Naturally she’s got some pretty amazing things to share that she’s learned along the way.

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