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#242 • Do you live with anxiety? If so, how does it show up in your relationships? For example, are you over-involved with your extended family, or do you make up excuses to avoid them?

We all have our tricks for managing anxiety. (Mine is procrastination). And psychologist Dr. Kathleen Smith, author of Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down (Hachette Books, Dec 2019), encourages us to curiously examine our anxiety and our efforts to squelch it. Many of us try to control other people, myself included. "Because when we feel anxious, we often try to make other people change," she writes. "We try to calm everyone else down so we can finally relax. But if you can work on managing yourself in these relationships, it’s likely that your family, your workplace, and even the greater world will calm down a little too." So we pinpoint some ways that we can follow through on this.

Throughout the episode Dr. Kathleen Smith offers tools for how we can live a calmer, more authentic life, one that isn't defined by what other people think or feel. Sounds liberating, doesn't it?

x Ellie Knaus

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#241 • 2x best-selling author Dr. Tina Payne Bryson discusses how we can show up for our kids even when they’re making it really hard for us, how we can stay regulated when sh*t hits the fan, how we can gage if we have a ‘secure attachment’ (and why that matters), and what to do when you find yourself in a pressure cooker situation and parenting for an audience.

We use Dr. Bryson’s latest book, co-authored with Dan Siegel: The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired (A Ballantine Hardcover, On-Sale January 7, 2020) as a jumping off point for our discussion and I can’t wait for you to take a listen! x Ellie Knaus

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#240 • From fashion show runways to celebrity kitchens, Catherine McCord feels right at home. In celebration of Catherine’s third cookbook The Smoothie Project, debuting December 17, 2019 and already the #1 New Release in Cooking for Kids on Amazon, we cover everything from how she transitioned from Glamour cover model to culinary chef, and how McCord built her company Weelicious after becoming a mother. We myth bust all my smoothie hang ups, like: “What about all the sugar?” and discuss the health benefits for our children. And you won’t want to miss her parenting suggestion for how to shut down that “…but I’m still hungry” bedtime whine. Listen up!

Xx Ellie Knaus

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#239 • Best-selling author Kate Northrup joins Ellie on Atomic Moms to discuss time management for busy moms, how exactly we’re supposed to “do less”, how to break through newborn-land isolation, why tracking our menstrual cycle can increase productivity, and how to ask for help when your family's health is falling apart. 

As an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire that reaches hundreds of thousands globally and speaks to us about her second book Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time Management for Busy Moms.

Kate invites us all to “do less” with her in this episode, and I’m so in. Will you join me?

Xx Ellie Knaus

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#238 • The bestselling phenomenon The Invisible String has helped countless families with separation anxiety and loss. Patrice Karst, author of The Invisible String, The Invisible Leash, The Invisible Web, You Are Never Alone: An Invisible String Lullaby, and the co-author of The Invisible String Workbook speaks with us about how this independently published book made it around the world, why it’s healing message is so important today, and the exciting backstory of her new Invisible String series (published by Little, Brown Books, Dec 3rd, 2019).

Hope you all survived the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving and made beautiful memories with your little ones. Post-Thanksgiving, I find that my kids have a really hard time heading back to school. The separation anxiety kicks in deep after so much fun, quality time with family. Thankfully, this week on the podcast, guest Patrice Karst has the most heart-warming solution to this challenging struggle. Can’t wait for you to take a listen.

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#237 -Listening to entrepreneur podcasts like How I Built This, I can’t help but want to dig deeper into the guest’s personal lives. I want to ask crazy questions like: When building an empire, does your husband ever feel needy or jealous of your success? Or did your withholding mother drive you to prove yourself to the world? What kind of snacks do you keep at the office? You know, questions people don’t typically ask unless they’re your close girlfriend. And while I don’t know these wildly successful founders personally, Atomic Moms podcast felt like the perfect opportunity to do that. In this compilation episode, we share highlights with three trailblazing founders: Jessica Rolph, Jacq Tatelman, and Raegan Moya-Jones. I can’t wait for you to listen.

First up, Multi-million dollar company founding social entrepreneur, and super interesting/fun mom of three JESSICA ROLPH geeks out with us over baby brain development and start up family life. Jessica co-founded and sold the #1 organic baby food company Happy Family - selling it for hundreds of millions of dollars - and is now putting her heart and soul into Lovevery, play products designed by child development experts.

Then we catch up with Jacq Tatelman, Brooklyn-based social impact entrepreneur and mom of two is co-founder and creative director of the wildly popular STATE bags and the co-creator of the non-profit foundation Country Roads Foundation, est. in 2009.

And finally, we're talking to the creative entrepreneur who put baby swaddle blankets on the map and, eh hem, in Prince George’s “coming home from the hospital” photos, Australian mother of four RAEGAN MOYA-JONES. She shares with Atomic Moms what she learned building a $100 million company Aden + Anais from her kitchen table while raising four daughters. Enjoy!

X Ellie Knaus

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#235 - MICHAEL C. REICHERT, Ph.D., clinical practitioner and founding director of the Center for the Study of Boys' and Girls' Lives at the University of Pennsylvania shares transformational insights from his extensive studies and his book How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Raise Good Men (TarcherPerigee, April 2019). We discuss discipline and the single most important factor that shapes how a boy learns. This is a conversation every educator and parent will want to hear. You may have first heard this episode in April 2019. It's worth a revisit!

xx Ellie Knaus

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#235 - CNN host Kate Bolduan and former Glamour executive editor Lauren Smith Brody give tips for heading back to work after having kids.

Just back from maternity leave, Kate Bolduan gives us three momhacks for transitioning back to work. And Fifth Trimester founder Lauren Smith Brody shares lessons from her fun, comforting, and informative book: The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby. We talk about changing workplace culture, the gender pay gap as it relates to mamas, how to ask for flex time, signs of postpartum mood disorder, and what to do if you have the sudden itch to quit. You may have first heard this episode in April 2018. It's worth a revisit! And it perfectly pairs with our recent podcast: Fair Play | NYT Bestselling Author Eve Rodsky on Rebalancing Family Responsibilities and Reclaiming Your Time with Eve Rodsky.

xx Ellie Knaus

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#234 - Join Adam and me on our experimental 'microdate', the latest trend in staying connected after kids. In this episode, Coach Adam discusses what to do when your kid's soccer team loses every single game, and Ellie takes a premature super mom victory lap for organizing a flu shot house call for the whole family using a popular medical app. We report back after it goes horribly, insanely, outrageously awry.

You should definitely not take ANY advice from us. Enjoy!

Ellie Knaus and Adam Sztykiel

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#233 - A current New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine bookclub pick, FAIR PLAY by Eve Rodsky tackles the question: how can we share domestic responsibilities in a fair and systematic way so that mothers can reclaim their lives from the thankless time-suck of “invisible labor”? Backed with a Harvard Law degree and organizational management know-how, Eve Rodsky is here to share a clear cut system for our modern families. I don’t know about your household, but in ours, too much is falling through the cracks, from forgotten school forms to cherished relationships with friends. We’ve got this one life; how are we going to consciously choose to live it? Eve helps us cut through the crap and figure out a fair approach to managing our domestic lives. Adam and I have just started implementing this system and our marriage is stronger for it. Listen up!

Xx Ellie

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