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Sara Petersen is a mom of 3 and author of the new book, Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture. Sara has written about motherhood and feminism for The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She also writes the newsletter, In Pursuit of Clean Countertops, where she explores the cult of ideal motherhood. Sara lives in New Hampshire with her 3 kids, ages 4, 8 and 10. Follow Sara at... Twitter: @slouisepetersen IG:...

Episodes Mentioned: Ep. 130 - Cultivating New Habits in 2023: What I’m Leaving Behind in 2022 and My 2023 Word of the Year Ep. 119 - Women’s Health Issues I Never Talked About Before: Removing My Ovary, Battling Ovarian Tumors and My Personal Wellness Journey Ep. 19 - Feedback Loops ---------- Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week… because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last...

Welcome back to a new Mindful Monday series on Mommy's on a Call. It's been a couple months off from podcasting due to an unexpected surgery, illnesses and well, life. I'll go into my health and surgery later on the podcast, but for now, bringing back an episode from Oct 2020 that I thought is so helpful as we move forward to summer and the rest of the year. It's time to revaluate and eliminate those things wasting our time, draining our energy and bringing us down. In order to make space to...

Everyone has trauma and toxic stress. You don't need to have gone through some major life altering event to have unresolved trauma (I mean the last 3 years were traumatic enough for most parents!). In this episode, I dive deep with Dr. Amy Hoyt on different types of trauma response and toxic stress, common symptoms of unresolved trauma in high-achieving women, and ways we can tune into our bodies to heal from trauma and stop generational trauma so we can optimize our health and happiness. ...

Many of you have followed the last 3+ years of my #OperationRoomShare journey. I’ve had my ups and downs with my kids' sleep which in turn affects us, the parents, getting a good night’s rest. We all know the importance of sleep for adults and your overall health, but sometimes those kids don’t let you get good zzzs. So today I’m bringing on a mom friend and sleep consultant, Brittany Sheehan, to chat all about getting kids to sleep! Brittany Sheehan is a Los Angeles-based sleep consultant...

On today's episode, I'm bringing back an interview with Ara Katz, the founder of Seed. I loved this episode because she speaks to the importance of the microbiome, why we need to take probiotics (and prebiotics) as kids and adults, and how gut health is central to our immune system and health. Ara Katz is a mother, entrepreneur, author and wellness expert. She is the co-founder of microbial sciences company Seed Health and consumer innovations brand, Seed. Ara's first pregnancy and...

Happy March! I'm currently still recovering from laryngitis and so I thought I'd bring back some of my favorite episodes dealing with women's health. First up... Dr. Aviva Romm Dr. Aviva Romm is a world renowned midwife, herbalist, Yale-trained MD and board certified family physician with specialties in integrative, gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book "Hormone Intelligence" and is the mom of four and a grandma of two. Other top...

Kaitlin Soule is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of A Little Less of a Hot Mess: The Modern Mom's Guide to Growth and Evolution. She specializes in women's mental health, anxiety, and modern parenting, empowering modern women to take agency over their life and say yes to themselves. She is also an “imperfect mom” to three, ages 4, 7 and 8. In this episode, Kaitlin and I chat about: How she handled the big feelings of her youngest child How she had the capacity to manage...

Happy New Year!!! It has been a long month, over a month actually since I published the last episode and even recorded an episode of Mommy’s on a Call for you all. I'm excited to be back on the mic this week sharing the 3 things I'm leaving behind in 2022, the 10 things I'm cultivating for 2023 and what my 2023 word of the year is. I'm hoping some of these resonates and allows you to think about your year and what you would like to cultivate in 2023 also! I also share what this means for the...

Leah Arnold-Smeets is the founder of Woo Woo Realm, and an intuitive tarot reader, medium and spiritual guide located in Orange County, CA, with clients all over the world.  However, in her pre-"woo woo life", she was a badass COO for an app development company and a marketing and operations expert. Leah’s growth over the years from battling postpartum depression and ending up in the psych ward to emerging into this beautiful spiritual being is an inspiration to all that there isn't one...

**Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about her experience with the loss of a child, stillbirth, and miscarriages.** Christine McAlister is passionate about helping impact-driven entrepreneurs attract their next clients by being value-driven podcast guests. She and her clients have generated over $1 million as podcast guests, and she’s has been recognized as the best in the world at podcast guesting by 7-figure founders. A media expert for 2 decades, she's helped broadcast the Olympic...

Dr. Elisa Song, MD is an integrative pediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert, and mom to 2 thriving children.  In her integrative pediatric practice, Whole Family Wellness, she’s helped 1000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and helped their parents understand how to help their children thrive – through body, mind, and spirit – by integrating conventional pediatrics with functional medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and essential oils.  Dr....

Welcome back to a Friday episode of Mommy's on a Call where I'm going to be doing a little bit of a pep talk or behind the scenes series of what's going on in my life or interesting things that I come across. Ever feel like you're doing all the things you're supposed to be doing? You've learned all the tools and tactics. You've started implementing what you've read and learned, and yet, you aren't seeing the results you hoped for? You keep feeling like you've had setback after setback even...

Michael Perry is a husband and father to two little boys, Leander and Solomon. He is also the founder and CEO of Maple, a venture backed company focused on improving the quality of life at home by making it easier to plan and manage the workload in a more equitable way.  Prior to founding Maple, he was the founder and CEO of Kit, which was acquired by Shopify in 2016 and spent a few years after remaining as the Director of Kit and Product at Shopify. Michael has previously been recognized as...

Have your habits and routines gone out the door? For me, the last few months have really made me feel out of balance, exhausted trying to keep up with all the schedules and out of alignment with my routines. It's time to get it together and move forward so 2022 doesn't end in a mess!  In this episode, I go through my ABC's of how I'm moving forward intentionally and why I've been a little MIA on the podcast. Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and...

Jessica Jenkins is the Co-Founder of Better Battery Co., the first and only Carbon-Neutral Alkaline Battery.  Growing up in the family consumer electronic business, Jessica gained passion for entrepreneurship. While completing her degrees, Jessica worked closely with her father’s carbon neutral alkaline battery company and was instrumental in the creation of Better Battery Co.  As a busy mother of two beautiful young boys, Jessica quickly realized the ever present need for batteries, a...

“The greatest gift you can give your children is your own financial independence when you get older so that they don't have to financially take care of you.” - Bobbi Rebell Bobbi Rebell is the author of Launching Financial Grownups: Live Your Richest Life by Helping Your (Almost) Adult Kids Become Everyday Money Smart.  She is also a Certified Financial Planner, the founder of Grownup Gear - merchandise to celebrate all the milestones of adulting, a former global business news anchor having...

Celebrating 3 years of podcasting (and 2 years as the Mommy's on a Call podcast). What started as the Power Mom Minute evolved into Mommy's on a Call. Flash forward 120 episodes, 2 more babies, a global pandemic and THREE years later, Mommy’s on a Call has now reached thousands of listeners in over a dozen countries and is now ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally. I’m not saying this to brag (although I am pretty proud of that), but more reflecting upon “what if I never launched?” As I...

Lauren Schulte Wang is the Founder and CEO of The Flex Co. She coined the term ‘menstrual disc’ in 2016 and created a new category in period care. Today, Flex is the #1 selling, sustainable period care company in America and is aiming to transform the lives of people with periods and offer period freedom Lauren is also the mom of a toddler, but expecting a second child in a few months. In this episode Lauren and I chatted about... Her battle with prenatal depression with her first child...

This week's episode goes personal. I talk about my recent salpingo-oophorectomy (aka removal of ovary and tube), ovarian tumors and my wellness journey. Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week. Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!! For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com Stephanie's Website IG: @MommysonaCall // @StephanieUchima

Amanda Goetz is a single mom of 3 kids and the founder & CEO of House of Wise, a luxury CBD company and wellness brand that empowers women to give more purposeful intention to their routines so they can take better control of their lives.  Her CBD products empower women to take control of their sleep, sex, strength and stress while also giving women the opportunity to create wealth by selling the products in a non-MLM sort of way. But Amanda’s journey has not always been easy. From...

Victoria Thain Gioia is the co-founder of Perelel Health, the first and only OB/GYN-founded vitamin brand offering clean, targeted nutrition for each distinct stage of a woman’s reproductive life cycle.  Tori holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and has a background in Finance and Strategy working for many eCommerce companies like Olive & June, Carbon 38 and the Honest Company. But on top of it all, Tori is the mom to 3 littles ones ages 4 and under. In this episode, Victoria and...

Katie Wussow is a business coach that helps creative entrepreneurs build profitable service-based businesses so they can make a living doing what they love.  She's also the host of The Game Changer podcast and a mama of two. In this episode, Katie and I chatted about Her journey leaving her management consulting job working with goverment contracts to launching her own business consulting and coaching company working with creative entrepreneurs How she figured out how to price her...