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#202: Broadway star CAISSIE LEVY (RENT, WICKED, HAIRSPRAY) is now originating the role of Queen Elsa in the stage adaptation of the Disney juggernaut FROZEN. She chats with me about what it’s like playing Elsa in this historical year for women, the ways she helps her rambunctious two and a half year-old burn off steam in the city, and the secret as to why Let It Go resonates with so many people from all walks of life. We also talk about how ambition and professional high standards can seem at odds with raising children and how she manages to stay on top of her game. Finally, since she portrays the most famous big sister of all time, I ask her to give some “big sis” pointers to our five year-old Sabrina. Listen up and Let It Go! x Ellie Knaus

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Special thanks to Frozen's Nina LaFarga for Sabrina’s “Let It Go” workshop and to Atomic Moms guest and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood head writer Becky Friedman for the introduction.

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#201: Comedian, director, and bestselling author MIKE BIRBIGLIA chats with host Ellie Knaus about his reluctance in becoming a father and his hilarious and moving solo show "The New One", a New York Times Critics' Pick, currently running on Broadway at the Cort Theater. Listen up! x Ellie

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Special thanks to Ed and Whit for the introduction - and for watching our preschooler so I could go to the hospital and have our “new one”! Mollie, thank you for being the best blind mom date in the history of motherhood, Maggie, for creating our recent blog post on traditions, Owen, for sound engineering, and my mother, for babysitting Sabrina so I could go to the show!

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#199 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, boy mom of 2, and best known as Meadow in HBO’s The Sopranos, joins me in studio for a candid conversation that will stick with you. Jamie shares parenting lessons from her onscreen father, the beloved James Gandolfini, her favorite memories as Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, and what it’s like being married to a much younger gentleman. She offers a candid perspective on parenting as a mother trying to keep up with two young boys while also battling relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. She is truly a goddess onscreen and off with the biggest heart in Hollywood.

xx Ellie Knaus

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#198 

Santi White, aka Santigold, has performed around the world and collaborated with the best in the music industry. On Atomic Moms podcast, we chat about all things motherhood and her latest album I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions completed weeks before the birth of her twins, now seven months old. We laugh about her recent career day visit at her son's preschool. (Forget sold out arenas, nothing impresses a class of four year-olds like the idea of a bus with bunk beds). Santi openly shares how she approaches the BIG topics with her young son like death, shyness, and racial injustice. And we talk about her sixteen year relationship with her husband, professional snowboarder turned artist Trevor “Trouble” Andrew, known as Gucci Ghost, who approaches life so differently from his soul mate. You’ll be so inspired by her authenticity, drive, playfulness, and humor. I can’t wait for you to get to know Santi, the mom. xx Ellie 

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Since 2014, Apple Podcasts has featured Atomic Moms under its most popular “Kids & Family” recommendations. And Mental Floss named Atomic Moms in “19 Notable Podcasts About Parenting.” And ABC is currently developing a television comedy inspired by Atomic Moms podcast. Listen up! 

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A global phenomenon, the #bulletjournal has +2.5 million Instagram mentions. On Atomic Moms podcast, we're talking with #buju mastermind RYDER CARROLL about how we can use a blank notebook and a pen to get organized, increase productivity, and live intentionally. This digital product designer created the bullet journal as a way to cope with his ADHD and the method has since taken the millennial world by storm. Self-proclaimed productivity nerd and minimalist, stay-at-home mom Becca McHugh co-captains this episode with me, and we get a little teary-eyed sharing an example of how one mother's bullet journaling literally saved her preschooler's life. Check out atomicmoms.com for a "How To" video and THE BULLET JOURNAL METHOD: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (Portfolio; 10/23). xx Ellie Knaus

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Multi-million dollar company founding social entrepreneur and fun mom of three JESSICA ROLPH geeks out with us over baby brain development and start up #momlife. Jessica co-founded and sold the #1 organic baby food company Happy Family and is now putting her heart and soul into Lovevery, play products designed by child development experts. We discuss the greatest parenting lesson she learned from business school, overcoming the fear of starting something new, why the Idaho life is the best life, and how to keep marital love alive while immersing yourself in a start up.

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Got cabin fever, atomic mamas? On the side of the road near Lake Arrowhead, CA, three recurring podcast friends: Bridget Moloney-Sinclair, Jessica Coulter, and Becca McHugh join me in a recap of our Mom Retreat experience, including how hard it is to get on the top bunk now that we're adults. We're chatting about an epic mom talent show, meeting moms in real life that we chat with in a secret mom Facebook group, a vintage PlayGirl featuring Brad Pitt, and most importantly, what's in the moms' fanny packs! Also, Becca's baby boy was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes last month, and we find out what it's been like to step away from caregiving for the first time. We reclaimed a little bit of ourselves this weekend and ate too many s'mores. Join us in Becca's hot Volvo and escape with us on the pod!

x Ellie 

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Pediatric occupational therapist Lindsey Biel, M.A., OTR/L shares how parents can build their ‘sensory smarts’ and identify our children’s sensory needs. We’re talking about self-regulation, early signs of sensory processing differences, why we should all get dancing in the kitchen, and how to get through hairwashing with fewer tears. We also talk about creative ways to help our kids release all that pent up energy. Wanna go for a monster walk, anyone? (We'll explain). Lindsey Biel and Nance Peske are co-authors of the NAPPA Gold Award and iParenting Media Award winning book Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, with its revised and updated issue out this week!  

x Ellie 

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Guest Bio: Lindsey Biel is an occupational therapist with a private practice in New York City where she evaluates and treats children, adolescents, and young adults with sensory processing issues, developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders, physical disabilities and other challenges. She is co-author of the award-winning Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, with a foreword by Temple Grandin- with a brand new, expanded edition available in stores and online.  She is also the author of Sensory Processing Challenges: Effective Clinical Work with Kids & Teens which is targeted to clinicians. Lindsey teaches workshops for parents, teachers, therapists and others across the country. Visit her website at www.sensorysmarts.com for more information. 

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Jolie Jenkins, Netflix star of "Alexa and Katie" and 38 weeks pregnant with boy #2, shares the extraordinary relational shift that happens when you get to know your husband as a parent. We also talk about how pregnancy has been different this second time around, the biggest lessons she learned on her fertility journey, and how her unique childhood has influenced her parenting choices. We also talk about the "life lesson" Ellie has learned in Janet Lansbury's RIE baby class with 14 month-old Eliza and what is driving her crazy after the kids are asleep. x Ellie

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