One of our favorite guests, Kam Price from @Our Family Passport is with us today! Kam always comes loaded with such fantastic knowledge that will save you thousands and make travel this summer possible. Enjoy this episode, take notes and get on with the dreaming!
Join us this week for a fun episode with just the three of us talking about the day today fun things (as well as functional things) that we want to do with our kids to make great memories this summer. In this episode we brainstorm ways to hold off insanity while trying to enjoy the best parts of summer! Enjoy!
Our guests are parents of 5 kids and are here to give great tips and tricks to making family travel possible at every income. If you are ready to make memories this summer but just don't know how to afford it and actually enjoy it with all those kiddos, then this is the episode for you! Enjoy!
You're in for a treat this week with guest Miranda Anderson @livefreemiranda joining us to talk about finding happiness and adventure in your life (no matter the stage). This is a fun interview that is perfect to listen to as summer is beginning! We loved Miranda and know you will too!
It's Mother's Day this week and you know what that means! It's our favorite season of laughter! Years ago we decided that the greatest gift we could give all the moms out there was a good 'ol dose of non-perfection, knee-slapping, slightly-peeing LAUGHTER! So, instead of feeling guilty this mothers day that you are human, sit back and listen to these brave sister mothers share their funniest mom fails!
Our guest, Joya Van Der Laan is a Family Nurse Practitioner, a Functional Medicine Specialist, and an autism mom. She is joining us this week to discuss helping parents of autistic children. She discusses three main areas that all parents can focus on: 1. Food as medicine (can be helpful or hurtful) 2. Targeted, individualized, and Intentional supplementation 3. Knowledge and curiosity is key She also points parents toward many free resources!
All parents have had the moment when their child tells a super obvious lie (because they're not good at it.. at ALL) and they wonder "has my child turned into a liar?? Is this the fast track to rebellion??? Juvenile detention, here we come!" The truth is that all kids go through a lying phase. Most don't end up in the clink because of it. However, nipping the lying in the bud is really important. Our guest, Kimball Lewis is the CEO of Empowering Parents and is here to share 3 easy things parents...
If the thought of summer coming and kids being home all day, fills you with impending doom about The number of child / parent hostage negotiations that take place day in and day out, then this is the episode for you! listen in as the three of us discuss our new ideas for summer negotiations coming up, how to keep control of a hostage takeover, and how to love the time that we have to be together this summer!
We have an incredible episode this week with author Michaleen Doucleff. In Hunt, Gather, Parent , Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She sees that these cultures don’t have the same problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly, parents build a relati...
Our good friend and fellow podcaster, Hillary Hess, joins us this week to discuss connecting to our kids through cooking. We touch opon getting kids ready to go to college, nutrition, and meal planning at every ability level. This is an episode you won't want to miss!
This week Nina Cruz teaches how to better communicate and relate to our children as we reflect on our own parenting styles. She teaches the value of conscious parenting and how to implent it in our home.
This week we talk all about connection. Our two fabulous guests, Hollie Henderson and Josh Brazier talk about the importance of connection in our families, road blocks to connecton, and how we can improve our interactions with our kids. It is a great episode for all ages.
For this spring release, we talk traditions that center on kids birthdays, Valentines, and St. Patricks Day. It's one of the things we love to talk about since all of us have different ideas on how much or how little to do.
Dana K. White of "A Slob Comes Clean" is with us today! Dana has come on once before, and has remained in our memory of one of the funniest guests we have had! Dana, a self confessed former slob, is brilliant at translating organization for the brains of the unorganized SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND! She's genius, fun, and funny! Enjoy!
You know we each love books, so between the three of us we go through our fair share! On this episode we discuss our latest reads - all the good and all the bad. We do a lot of laughing and hope you can laugh along with us.
One of our favorite guests, Kathi Lipp, joins us for this episode discussing the importance of creating a space for God in our lives. Kathi talks through the things that keep us from doing so and how to overcome them in easy reachable steps. We hope you find this episode to be a helpful and hopeful message!
Parents never set out on their parenting journey with the goal of making man babies that take from, rather than give to, the world as a whole. We all want to raise little boys into good men who know how to treat others and leave the world a better place than they found it. Bethany Jett is a mom of boys who knows a thing or two about how to raise boys to be good men. We loved her and hope you enjoy this episode!
The "Sandwich Generation" is a term given to middle-aged adults (often in their 40s and 50s) who are caring for both elderly parents and their own children. Being a caregiver to both parent and child brings creates a juggling act with its own set of struggles. Our guest today not only lived this reality herself, but now counsels those who are currently dancing this particular dance. This is an episode filled with personal stories, wisdom and empathy. We hope you will enjoy!
We are thrilled to welcome back Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson, to discuss their new book “What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home” . These authors always have incredible insights backed by science that helps parents to understand, better, how to communicate with their child. We hope you enjoy!
This weeks interview was SO energizing and inspiring! Chanelle is an author, a health and life coach, and a mom and wife who is with us this week to talk about the power that our mornings CAN have. We were full of questions and excited by the answers that she shared with us! We hope that you love this episode and find as much inspiration in it as we did!
Sunny Lawrence, wife of James “the Iron Cowboy” Lawrence is with us this week. James completed 100 triathlons in 100 days. To achieve this incredible feat, James needed a wife willing to do hard things alongside him. Sunny is sharing ideas with us to help us achieve our goals, no matter how big they seem. Enjoy!
For most women, guests coming for the holidays, means a full-on panic attack. The sirens (aka moms voice) wails as martial law is declared upon the household until the house looks like the cover of a “Better Homes And Gardens” Magazine. Today we have Dana White of “A Slob Comes Clean” with us to give us Non-U.M. (Non Unicorn Mom) tips to get our houses back after holiday guests. Dana shared 10 very easy and practical steps that we can take for cleaning for the holidays. To hear what those steps ...
Join us as we have a fun and lively conversation reviewing the books we read in 2021. We cover all the must reads as well as must not's. AND we hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
Motherhood and chaos are so deeply linked that often we think they are inseparable. Our guest this week is Heather Steinker. Heather is one of the few human beings put on this earth with what we like to call "chaos common sense". Heather is an expert at finding ways to multi task common duties to bring some control and order to our everyday chaos. Have a listen and let us know what resonated with you!
We love to join you for the yearly Christmas episode! On this episode we talk traditions, our thoughts about the season in 2021, and how we are going to try to make it more meaningful. Most of all, we want to say a great big THANK YOU to you, our Mom Squad! Here's to another Christmas together!
One thing that most parents would all agree on is the importance of helping our kids to make the best kind of friends and to learn to be a good friend. I know that it is something that the three of us have all been concerned with! JoAnn Crohn, podcaster, M.ED. Educator, mom, and friend of ours has recently written a fantastic book called "Me and My Friendships: A Friendship Book for Kids". This is a must listen for all parents. We love JoAnn and we love the message of this book. In an age when s...
It's here Mom Squad!! The Christmas season is upon us and we are thrilled to bring you our 2021 Gift Guide! These are products for every member of your family that we have either recently discovered or tried and true favorites of ours. This is a lighthearted conversation we hope you enjoy!
We are thrilled to bring you our good friend Whitney Archibald for this special episode on Thanksgiving! Whitney is the host of the "How She Moms" podcast. This week she shares SO MANY fantastic ideas parents can implement to teach gratitude and to feel more gratitude. So many of her ideas were things we had never thought of and have already started implementing in our own homes. Whitney is the mom to 5 and is full of creativity and has a special talent for gathering others ideas as well. We hop...
It's just the three of us this week sharing hilarious experiences, thoughts on the HappyHallowThankMas 2021 experience, old traditions we can't wait for and new ones we are excited to implement. We hope you enjoy!
