Podcasts by Work Like a Mother

Toni-Anne Mayembe: How to Stay Consistent from 2022-05-10T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Toni-Ann Mayembe, podcaster and dentist.

Toni-Ann Mayembe joins us to discuss the importance of routines for ourselves and our children. Toni-Ann explains how...

Deepti Sharma: Pivoting&Political Purpose from 2022-05-03T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Deepti Sharma- Serial Entrepreneur. 

Deepti’s career centers on her passions- food, community and advocacy. She is unafraid to pivot to figure out a ne...

Toyosi Babalola: How to Democratize Childcare from 2022-04-26T07:28:50

Today, Bridget chats with Toyosi Babalola- Founder and CEO of Ablué.

Do you have these moments that stop you in your tracks and make you realize that you just can’t do it all? T...

Jessi Duley: Why Shame Has no Place in Motherhood from 2022-04-19T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Jessi Duley, Founder of BurnCycle Spin Studios. 

Rarely do you get to meet someone who is willing to tell it how it is and truly expose all of their vulnerabiliti...

Jasmine Bradshaw: How to Raise an Anti-Racist from 2022-04-12T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Jasmine Bradshaw an anti-racist educator, podcaster and mother.

When Jasmine was pregnant with her first child, she dove into anti-racism research and realize...

Eve Rodsky: Unicorn Spaces&Domestic Work from 2022-04-05T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Eve Rodsky New York Times best-selling author of Fair Play and the newly released, National Bestseller, Find Your Unicorn Space.

Not only is Eve advo...

Ashley Mitchell: How to Heal and Empower Through Movement from 2022-03-29T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Ashley Mitchell- Wellness Professional and DEI Consultant. 

Ashley’s entire life has revolved around movement and exercise. She was raised by a professional b...

Cait Zogby: Why Kids Can’t Always Come First from 2022-03-22T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Cait Zogby, Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer of MotherNation.

Cait connected with a friend when they were both postpartum. Though they had very different pr...

Reshma Saujani: How to Fight a System Designed to Exploit You from 2022-03-15T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms.

This week, Reshma joins us to discuss her experience as a working mom, society’s assumptio...

Hitha Palepu: The Importance of Letting Your Humanity Show from 2022-03-08T08:00

Today Bridget chats with Hitha Palepu. Mother, CEO of ​Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals, and Author of We’re Speaking.

Hitha self identifies as a multi-hyphenate as an entrepreneur, in...

Katie Lowes: Hollywood, Motherhood&Keeping It Real from 2022-03-01T08:00

Today, Bridget chats with “Inventing Anna” and “Scandal” actor, Katie Lowes. 

This week, Katie joins us to discuss launching her podcast, Katie’s Crib, navigating pregnancy an...

Dr. Amber Thornton: The Power of No from 2022-02-22T07:00

Today, Bridget chats with Dr. Amber Thornton Clinical Psychologist and Millennial Motherhood Wellness Expert and Founder/Creator of Balanced Workin...

Katherine Goldstein: How America’s Letting Down Moms from 2022-02-15T08:19:16

Today, Bridget chats with Katherine Goldstein- Journalist, and Creator and Host of The Double Shift Podcast.

Once Katherine became a mom, she ...

Zoë, Editor of PEOPLE Digital, Normalizes Many Paths to Parenthood Through Me Becoming Mom Podcast from 2021-12-14T07:00

Zoë Ruderman, editor of PEOPLE digital, was excited to quickly get pregnant after she and her husband decided to start a family. However, that elation was shortlived when Zoë had her first misca...

Keeping it Real with Momtourage from 2021-12-07T07:00

When Keri Setaro and Ashley Hearon-Smith auditioned and were casted as “mom friends” on their first podcast, Scary mommy speaks, neither of them envisioned their careers revolving around the top...

Jenny Best Founded Solid Starts to Assist Parents with Baby-Led Weaning from 2021-11-30T07:00

Jenny scoured the internet for helpful information about introducing real food to her 6 month old twins. Her three year old was a picky eater and she wanted to avoid the same situation with her ...

Michele Founds KultureCity: to Create Full Inclusion for Families Living with Invisible Disabilities from 2021-11-23T07:00

Michele’s son was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4. Suddenly she and her family stopped getting invited over to friends’ houses for dinner and were asked to leave restaurants and shows. Mic...

How to Keep Your Kids Safe: Water Safety Tips with 4x Olympian Amanda Beard from 2021-11-16T07:00

Amanda Beard's entire life has revolved around the water. When the 4X Olympic swimmer finished her competitive swimming career, she just couldn’t stay away. The mom of two co-founded a learn to ...

Sarah Finds Passion and Purpose at Nanit from 2021-11-09T07:00

Sarah built a career as a leader in ecommerce working for more than two decades for various companies. Yet, when Nanit approached Sarah, she jumped at the opportunity to switch careers to help p...

The Wine Can’t Wait: The Juggle When it’s not a Traditional 9-5 from 2021-11-02T07:00

Shalini Sekhar fell in love with wine, but she never imagined this love affair with wine would turn into a career. She initially studied music and earned her masters in Music Performance. She be...

Amanda Goetz: On Setting Intentions and Taking Control from 2021-10-26T07:00

Amanda Goetz built her own personal toolkit to develop the skills that she needs personally and professionally to be successful. Amanda just raised 2M in a round of funding to launch her startup...

Defining Motherhood and Success on Your Own Terms from 2021-10-19T07:00

Blessing grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She was determined to dream big and be successful in spite of the societal expectations that boys went to school and pursued careers and women prepared to sta...

Lindsey’s Mission: A Successful Business and a Supportive Community for Moms from 2021-10-12T07:00

When Lindsey first had the idea to create a clip to keep her daughter’s pacifiers away from their family dog, she had no idea how successful the company would become 8 years later. Yet the part ...

CEO Sandy Abdallah Leads MAM to be a Family First Company from 2021-10-05T07:00

Sandy became CEO of MAM during the pandemic and is leading the company towards being a family first company. She models this by setting a culture that allows her colleagues to be flexible and re...

It Can’t all be Perfect- Choose What You’re Going to Get a C in from 2021-09-28T07:00

Early in Stephanie’s career as a working mom, she thought she had to do it all. She wanted to cook her children a nutritious breakfast each morning, have a smooth morning routine, pack bags with...

Emily Oster: The Data Driven Guide to Parenting from 2021-08-03T07:00

As an economist and professor, Emily Oster is accustomed to using data to inform the decisions that she made in her own life. When Emily got pregnant with her daughter, Penelope, she was shocked...

Leslie Forde: Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs from 2021-07-27T07:00

A male colleague once asked Leslie, why are moms always so stressed? Leslie grabbed a sheet of paper and scribbled down her first draft of her Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs. Leslie responded- moms ar...

Karri Bowen-Poole: Making space for play from 2021-07-20T07:00

Karri carved out a niche using her expertise as an educator and a parent to customize playroom designs to meet families’ needs. She put an ad in a local paper and started receiving phone calls f...

Raising the Next Generation: Moms as Activists and Advocates from 2021-07-13T07:00

Quiana believes that all mothers are inherently activists and advocates. We are raising the next generation of changemakers and we shouldn’t take this role lightly. Some moms advocate in the boo...

Artist Inspired by her Daughter to Spark Change from 2021-07-06T07:00

Though Nadia’s passion has always been art and film, she took a 15 year hiatus from creating to pursue a career in law. However, when Nadia’s daughter Aria was born, she was reinspired to pick b...

Mia Carr: How motherhood inspired her to build an empire from 2021-06-29T07:00

The Snuggle Me Organic was born when Mia Carr struggled to juggle twin newborns and a 2 year old. Desperately needing an extra pair of arms, Mia and her mother in law started sewing prototypes o...

Dr. Fradin’s Advice as a Pediatrician and a Mom: How to Navigate the Reopening with Kids from 2021-06-22T07:00

When the reality of COVID set in last March, we were all trying to figure out how we were going to cope without childcare in addition to the stress and anxiety of living through a scary pandemic...

Dr. Christine Koh and Minimalist Parenting: How to be Okay Doing Less from 2021-06-15T07:00

When Dr. Christine Koh wrote her minimalist parenting book 8 years ago, little did she know how relevant it would be for all of us today. The pandemic didn’t give us a choice- it forced us all t...

How Mothers Shape Us from 2021-06-08T07:00

In her groundbreaking debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the women who shaped three civil rights icons. Anna’s book ...

Neighborhood Villages Launches Podcast with Kristen Bell and Gloria Riviera to Raise Awareness About the Childcare Crisis in our Nation from 2021-06-01T07:00

The daily struggles of working parents existed long before the pandemic, but now it’s impossible to ignore them. We’re so inspired by our friends over at Neighborhood Villages for partnering wit...

Dr. Karp&SNOO: a Working Mom’s Best Friend from 2021-05-25T07:00

As a pediatrician, Dr. Harvey Karp spent countless hours at appointments listening to the joys, concerns and desperations of new parents in the earliest and most vulnerable stages of parenting. ...

Slumberkins' Mission to Make Emotional Development Mainstream for Kids from 2021-05-18T07:37:18

You can’t remove “mom” from the founding story of Slumberkins. Best friends and behavioral-health experts Callie and Kelly were on maternity leave at the same time, and spent a lot of those earl...

How to Make a Career Leap During Maternity Leave from 2021-05-11T07:00

Throughout her pregnancy, Liz didn’t think twice about her return to work plans. She’d take the 3 month maternity leave, and return to an advertising job that she loved. Baby came, 3-month mater...

When Motherhood Changes Us More Radically: a Conversation with Veronica Jackson from 2021-05-04T07:00

Veronica had just released her third album and was a rising star in the club music scene when she got pregnant with her son. Her career was taking off, and people saw her as one of the divas of ...

Bouncing Back from Pregnancy to World Championships with USA Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor from 2021-04-27T08:00

For professional athletes, there is never a “good time” to have a kid. Elana Meyers Taylor, an Olympic bobsledder, weighed the decision with her husband. The thought of taking significant time o...

Postpartum Care Reimagined: a conversation with Sara Reardon, aka “The Vagina Whisperer” from 2021-04-20T08:00

As soon as she started her physical therapy program, Sara knew that she wanted to focus on the pelvic floor. At first she was mostly curious to learn more about her own body, but curiosity turne...

Anti-Racist Parenting with Alexandria Scott of Ditto Kids Magazine from 2021-03-02T07:00

As a Black mother raising multiracial children, Alexandria always knew that she’d have to talk to her kids about race and racism. And yet she was shocked when it started so early - her daughter ...

I was Born to be a Mom from 2021-02-23T09:01:59

Alexandra was born to be a mom and she knew it from a young age. She even remembers as a child volunteering to change diapers so she could spend more time with them! So when she turned 30, still...

How one Mom Helps Others Celebrate their Children from 2021-02-16T08:52:05

When Melissa made the first Tiny Tags pendant, at her kitchen table in 2012, she felt like she was onto something, but didn’t know just how big it might get. Her inspiration was simple but beaut...

Juggling Career, Motherhood, and Expectations from our Families from 2021-02-09T07:00

Zaileen was in 2nd grade when she brought home a flyer for a local youth hockey league and asked her mom if she could play. No, her mom explained, Indian girls don’t play hockey, but maybe it wo...

How One Mama Passes on Family Lactation Recipes to Help New Moms from 2021-02-02T07:00

When Anhoni had her two children, her mother filled her kitchen with delicious treats to aid with lactation and postpartum healing. The family recipes, rooted in ayurvedic medicinal system, have...

If My Mom Could Do It, So Can I from 2021-01-26T07:00

Growing up, Loira was the oldest of four and she spent a lot of time translating for her mom and helping out with her younger siblings. Like so many women, her mom had to work to provide for the...

This is Why Ingrid Created Working Momkind from 2021-01-19T07:00

When Ingrid’s son was 1 week old and her family left after their initial visit, she felt incredibly isolated, overwhelmed and alone. During a feed on those sleepless nights she pulled out her ph...

How Two Boston Nurses Founded NAPS to Support New Parents from 2021-01-12T07:00

When Jamie and Emily were labor and delivery nurses at Boston-area hospitals in their twenties, they would constantly hear from parents who would say, “If only I could take you home with us!” Th...

Talking Sh*t with the Potty Training Expert from 2021-01-05T07:00

When Jamie was a social worker, she was desperate to help her clients teach their 4 and 5 years olds how to potty train. She went to the “experts”- her mother and friends to teach her the tricks...

Why We Need to Consider the Mental and Social Health of our Kids and Families During this Pandemic from 2020-12-29T07:00

At the start of the pandemic, Julia never could have foreseen her current reality, but after one of her tweets caught some attention, she was asked to write an article for The Atlantic about the...

From Maternity Leave to Starring in Hamilton, Mandy Gonzalez’s Story is more Relatable Than you May Think from 2020-12-22T08:00

Mandy Gonzalez worked incredibly hard to make it to Broadway. She was thrilled that she had “made it” in her role as Elphaba in Wicked but also knew that she wanted a family too. Though...

My Infertility Journey Led me to Adopt Three Kids from 2020-12-15T08:00

After four challenging and heartbreaking years trying to conceive, Heather decided that she had had enough - enough invasive procedures, enough unsolicited advice from friends, and enough heartb...

Building a Movement of Mothers from 2020-12-08T07:00

Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, has spent her entire career fighting for women’s rights. Inspired by her mother and grandmother who raised her, Ai-jen r...

Moms, Remember Your Dreams. They Matter too. from 2020-12-01T08:00

Most moms reading this will know Christine Platt as the author behind the beloved Ana and Andrews series of children’s books. But writing was a second, or even third, act for Christine. You may ...

Real Talk with Caitlin Murray of BigTimeAdulting from 2020-09-28T13:07:17

Caitlin’s world got turned upside down when her son got sick just before Christmas. Something in her gut said it wasn’t just a normal fever; that something might be really wrong with Ca...

We Had it all Planned... and Then I Gave Birth to a Medically Complex Child from 2020-09-21T08:00

Like a lot of hard working, driven women, Elysian McNiff Koglmeier had some reservations about how a baby would impact her career and her social life.  But she was ready and after a relatively s...

Ownership Matters: One Mom’s Mission to Bring Black Voices to Boston Radio from 2020-09-14T08:00

Want to know the hardest way to host a radio show? Launch a new station from scratch. Sound crazy? No, what’s really crazy is that in 2019 there wasn’t a single female Black-owned radio station ...

Lean on Your People, Mama from 2020-09-07T16:04:48

Samantha was one of the first of her friends to get pregnant. She was ready, prepared, and excited. Then came her first daughter, her first maternity leave, and her first experience feeling isol...

Dr. Joia&the Mission Behind the National Birth Equity Collaborative from 2020-08-31T07:19:36

Dr. Joia always knew she wanted to be a doctor, and assumed she would follow in her father’s footsteps as an ophthalmologist. Until, that is, she got pregnant. That experience shifted her perspe...

The Fifth Trimester: Gender Equity at Work and at Home in 2020 from 2020-08-24T08:00

After the birth of her first son, and following a standard 3-month maternity leave, Lauren returned to work as an editor at Glamour. It was hard, and she never felt a need to pretend it was easy...

Why DA Rollins’ Proudest Achievement is Being a Mom from 2020-08-17T09:55:28

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins has smashed through the proverbial glass ceiling more than once. As the first woman to serve as DA in Suffolk County, and the first woman of color to se...

Speaking Up During Pregnancy: a clinic with Dr. West-Livingston from 2020-08-10T09:00

When she sets her sights on a goal, Dr. Lauren West-Livingston doesn’t miss. She’s a go getter. So even after many months of fertility treatments and multiple miscarriages, when she finally did ...

This is why Mindfulness Matters for Mamas: Overcoming PPD and Empowering Moms Everywhere from 2020-08-03T07:41:37

Postpartum depression affects over half a million new moms every year, and Carina was one of them. When traditional therapy didn’t feel right, Carina circled back to something her own mother sha...

Making Every Minute Count: Finding Quality Time with a Family of 6 from 2020-07-27T08:02:38

Every morning Janelle hops in her car and drives an hour to the hospital, where she manages a team of 150 essential workers. Every evening she drives an hour home, where she’s mom to 4 children ...

Big Career Moves with New Little Ones from 2020-07-20T14:45:35

Returning from maternity leave looks different for everyone. Some feel ready, some feel pure dread, most of us feel something between exhaustion and delirium. But not many moms I know feel energ...

How Becoming a Mom Led Me to Become an Entrepreneur from 2020-07-13T12:54:08

I’m thrilled to welcome Sarah DeHaan, owner of owen + sage, to Work Like a Mother. This we...