Atomic Moms

Happy Father’s Day! In this family check in, we discuss our tactics for entertaining our kids over summer break, and we catch up with my husband with the impossible last name.

Interrupting our conversational flow, graduating preschooler Sabrina puts Adam in the hot seat and asks questions better than her mother.

And because it's the end of another school year, and we’re all grappling with the wacky passage of time thing, I recount an awkward dad moment at the neighborhood park when my kid-free past collided with a very sniffly present moment. xx Ellie Knaus

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#221 - Did you see the FDA's recent sunscreen announcement? Not only are sunscreen chemicals absorbed into our blood, but it remains unclear whether 12 ingredients currently used in sunscreens are safe! We need to protect ourselves and our kids from skin cancer, but what’s a parent to do?

Well, of course, Ellie calls the best in skincare to find out. Dr. Whitney Bowe, research scientist, dermatologist, and mom, shares her thoughts on Atomic Moms about this latest sunscreen controversy, and how we can best protect our health.

And then, we riff on the microbiome, the gut-brain-skin axis, and the importance of cultivating the gut’s good bacteria in order to support our immune system, mental health, and our skin. Dr. Bowe’s Dirty Looks: The Secret to Beautiful Skin is full of scientific research and simple lifestyle changes with a big impact. This episode is for anyone who has ever suffered from anxiety or IBS or inflammation. Pretty much everyone who listens to Atomic Moms! 

xx Ellie Knaus

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#220 - New intro/ interview aired May 31, 2016. With the recent College Admissions Scandal, this Atomic Moms replay couldn’t be more timely. Conscious parenting trailblazer and 2x Atomic Moms guest Dr. Shefali Tsabary returns to talk about ego, boundaries, and all the psychological sticky stuff that comes with parenting. Her New York Times bestseller The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering our Children , The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting, and her appearance on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday has changed the conversation from how can we fix our kids to how can we heal ourselves. As Oprah Winfrey declared at a live event I attended, "Parents...you will be wowed and awed by her." Listeners, we can't wait to hear what you think/feel.

xx Ellie Knaus

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#219 - Julia Hart shares her personal odyssey from HS English teacher to screenwriter and feature film director. Rachel Brosnahan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and David Strathairn are just a few of the respected actors bringing her stories to life. In this in-studio conversation, Julia reveals how becoming a mother empowered her to step into the role of director and how motherhood influences the stories she tells. And Ellie shares an empowering matrilineal secret found in her grandmother’s locket. Also, we also discuss the importance of owning our stories as well as the sensitivities necessary in writing a character of another race. xx Ellie Knaus

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#218: Blogger phenom Jordan Reid of RamshackleGlam.com returns for our tell-all conversation on anxiety, divorce, falling on our faces, and her new project: The Big Activity Book For Anxious People (Penguin Random House, May 2019) co-created with illustrator Erin Williams, which is currently #1 in Art Therapy and Relaxation on Amazon. We’re talking: perfectionistic tendencies, anxiety attacks, massive life transitions, and her new single mom life. OH, and we swap tales of hitting our absolute most humiliating rock bottoms before we became “recovering actors” in L.A. Schadenfreude for all! Love, Ellie Knaus

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#217: We're talking to the creative entrepreneur who put baby swaddle blankets on the map and, ahem, in Prince George’s 'coming home from the hospital' photos! Australian mother of four RAEGAN MOYA-JONES shares with Atomic Moms what she learned building a $100 million company Aden + Anais from her kitchen table while raising four daughters. In this friendly and vulnerable conversation, we learn what Moya-Jones’s difficult relationship with her mother taught her about parenting and how she shared the invisible labor on the home front with her spouse. We also get this ultimate #momboss’s #1 hiring tip, what mother entrepreneurs need to keep in mind when launching their passion project, and important things to consider when scaling a business. Check out Raegan’s What It Takes: How I Built a $100 Million Business Against the Odds (May 7, 2019). Happy Mother’s Day! Love, Ellie Knaus

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The Daily Show correspondent and toddler wrangler DESI LYDIC chats about her recent globe-trotting adventures to Iceland, Namibia, and Spain in order to find out how America can do better with the Gender Gap. (The United States ranks flipping #49!). We talk about the time she flew across the country for her dream job interview that happened to coincide with a not yet revealed pregnancy. (Would you tell your potential boss if you were pregnant?) And since we're southern blondes, we share our hot tips for keeping things civil-ish when visiting our Fox News loving families back home. (We love you Moms.) We also give a Daniel Tiger shout, commiserate about not being our kid's favorite parent, and we can't wait for all y'all to watch her special The Daily Show Presents Desi Lydic: Abroad debuting Monday, May 13, at 11 pm ET/PT.

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#215: Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor MADELINE DONAHUE uses her work to celebrate the postpartum body and explore the overwhelming physical intimacy of early motherhood. In our conversation, this extraordinary artist and funny, dear friend shares how she carves out time and space to create, how she juggles her responsibilities as an artist and mother, and what it’s like to raise a kid with the boy she met when they were 12! Sign up for our newsletter at atomicmoms.com so you can be the first to know about our atomic moms x madeline donahue limited edition t-shirt collaboration! xx Ellie Knaus

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In this thought-provoking conversation, 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. Listen up! xx Ellie Knaus

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#213: The Operation Varsity Blues bribery scheme, you guys! Last week Lori Loughlin, Aunt Becky on Full House, was arrested and released on one million dollar bail. Thirty-three parents have been indicted so far, and when the news of the bribery scheme broke, the US attorney for the district of Massachusetts made it clear who was responsible, saying, “The parents are the prime movers of this fraud.”

What motivates some parents to risk everything to get their kids into elite colleges? What can we all learn as parents from this terrible mess?

Our esteemed guest Dr. Robin Berman, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, GOOP contributor, and author of Permission to Parent, admits this problem is “so insidious and starts at preschool.”

So how do we raise our children with integrity in a world that’s feeling more and more like a Lifetime movie? Listen up! Robin Berman, MD, helps us make sense of the college admissions scandal and reminds us of the true meaning of successful parenting. xx Ellie Knaus

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