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Atomic Moms episodes

September 19, 2018 How to Keep the Love (and the Kids) Alive! | Karisa Bruin, comedy writer, director, actor
What starts as a relaxed tête-à-tête between old friends reminiscing about theater conservatory and miniature boobs evolves into a super honest conversation about the effects of our own mother’s parenting styles, pro tips from couple’s therapy, and what we’d perhaps do differently as 'creative moms' if we got another shot at caring for newborns. Meet Karisa Bruin, you'll be fast mom-friends. x Ellie Knaus
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Guest: Karisa Bruin is a writer, director and actress living in LA with her husband, 3 year-old son, and their rescued pit bull Kermit. Watch her short web series Why Does Mommy Cry? and follow along with #cryingmommy on Twitter as Karisa puts a funny spin on modern mothering.
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September 12, 2018 Fierce Mamas + Tiny Miracles: Inspiring Stories of the NICU | Rachel Finger, Stacey Merwin
September is NICU Awareness Month, and we're chatting with Rachel Finger in Miami and Stacey Merwin in NYC about their adrenaline-inducing and heart-warming birth stories as first time mothers of preemie twins. We're talking about: a mother's mindset, kangaroo care, twin to twin transfusion syndrome, life-saving doctors and doctors who get it wrong, preeclampsia, a sweet husband who took a sleeping pill at the absolute wrong moment, and a New Year's Eve one mom will never forget.
x Ellie
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September 05, 2018 Parenting Lessons from Neurodiverse Kids | Debbie Reber, TiLT Parenting, NYT bestselling author
#190 What are the invaluable lessons neurologically atypical children teach us as parents and as a society? One in five kids is "differently wired". Debbie Reber, New York Times bestselling author and Tilt Parenting founder, shares her personal motherhood journey and inspiring life tools for all of us from her new book: "Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World." We're talking: behavioral challenges, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, anxiety, accepting "what is", the education system, mom shame, and the homeschool leap. If you enjoyed our episodes with Martha Beck and Dr. Shefali Tsabary, you'll love getting to know Debbie Reber. Listen up! x Ellie Knaus
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About Our Guest:
Debbie Reber is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of TiLT Parenting, a website, top podcast, and online community for parents who are raising differently wired children. Her most recent book, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World, came out in June 2018. She currently lives with her son and husband in the Netherlands.
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August 14, 2018 How to Be a Happier Parent | KJ Dell'Antonia, The New York Times
KJ Dell’Antonia, mother of four and hockey mom extraordinaire, chats with us from New Hampshire about all the things she learned writing her new book “How to Be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute” (August 21, 2018: pre-order now). I’ve admired this week’s guest for a long time. I would often share her New York Times Motherlode blogs on our #naptimereads. We’re breaking down some of the parenting “challenge spots” (her phrase, mine would be "moments that make me want to laugh-cry"), including chores, discipline, screen time, and getting ready in the morning. I also share fabulous #atomicmama listener tips for how to be a happier parent! xx Ellie Knaus, mom-in-chief
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August 08, 2018 A Conversation About Gender Identity | Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, USC's Keck School of Medicine + Children's Hospital Los Angeles
"Dr. Jo" aka Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles and associate professor of clinical pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, gives us the low down on gender identity, the unique challenges facing transyouth, ways we can support a more gender inclusive community, and our #1 responsibility as a parent. Don't miss this one! xx Ellie Knaus
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August 01, 2018 Family Huddle: When the Annoying Baby on the Plane is Yours
Family meeting! We're breaking down our second child's first birthday, our mother/daughter field trip to the ER, turtle races, a flight from hell, and audio of our family meeting gone wrong. Humiliation abounds in this Sztykiel family summer update. Cheers! x Ellie Knaus
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43 min
July 18, 2018 Minivan Confessions: Road Trip Hacks, Marriage Help, and Mama Anxiety Salve | Emily Price, LCSW Returns!
New! Can people really change? I can’t wait for you to hear what Emily Price has to say. My fave conversations are with experts who speak frankly as mom friends, so basically, in this one, I’m in heaven. Our returning guest Emily Price, a New York City based psychotherapist specializing in anxiety welcomes us into her minivan in the northern Michigan woods for a super fun conversation about teaching our kids indepedence in a big city (free range parenting in Queens), cross country road trip hacks for travelling with young kids, and exercises for reconnecting with your partner. Atomic Mamas loved Emily’s first conversation: “Who’s Got Anxiety” and it was so fun to get a chance to do this one face to face after playing with our kids together all week. When she’s not teaching me how to make a mean grilled cheese in my grandparent's cottage, Emily is an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. Listen up! Ellie
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July 11, 2018Getting Real about Stepmoms, Exes, and Blended Families | Nathalie Savell, LCPC
Today we’re empowering blended families and talking stepmom strategies! Holistic psychotherapist, step-mom coach, and #atomicmama Nathalie Savell tackles the biggest challenges stepmoms face. We’re talking high conflict exes, healthy boundaries, and smooth transitions between households. Then we turn the tables and share my guest interview with Nathalie from her “Empowering Stepmoms: Re-Imagining the Modern Family” series in May. I share my experience as a child of blended families — after all, I’m an only child with six siblings! — and reflect on all my stepmother has taught me about parenting. x Ellie Knaus
You’ll learn:
The unique frustrations of blended families and tools to overcome them.
How to handle anyone with a "high conflict" personality.
How to create boundaries.
How to help your children have a smooth transition between homes.
How to interact with the ex.
The single most important thing to remember as a stepmom when times get tough.

Guest Bio: Nathalie Savell lives outside Baltimore, Maryland and is a Holistic Psychotherapist & Step-mom Coach. She is a bio-mom to a 3 year old boy, step-mom to an 8 year old boy. She considers herself a "personal growth junkie" and loves supporting people to be the best version of themselves.
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July 02, 2018 Becoming the Parent You Wish You Had | Margaux Bergen (original airdate Aug 16, 2016)
We're going WAY BACK to the summer of 2016 (!!!) and sharing one of my favorite conversations. I've never met Margaux IRL but revisiting to this episode feels like I'm catching up with an old friend. "Born in Paris and raised in London, educated at Edinburgh University and living in Washington D.C., Margaux Bergen is the mother of three Millennials.” We use Bergen's fabulous memoir/advice book: Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me (Penguin Press, August 2016) as a jumping off point to talk about respectful parenting, getting back into the workforce after being a stay at home mom, the difference between solitude and loneliness, her complicated childhood, and how we can create a meaningful life. x Ellie Knaus
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Guest Bio:
A champion for women leadership around the world, Margaux Bergen has worked with the non-profit Vital Voices. She has held senior communications positions at The Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, The United Way and the World Bank, and is now with the women-led, conscious journalism site ORBMedia.
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36 min
June 27, 2018 The Ambition Spectrum | An Honest Look at Career + Motherhood
New Episode + Giveaway (@atomicmoms on Friday 6/29). Guest co-host Jessica Coulter, named in Business Insider's "30 Most Creative Women in Advertising", offers her #1 tip for women who want to have families and charge hard in their careers. And journalist Elizabeth Wallace returns to celebrate her brand new book, The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life (June 2018), co-written with Hana Schank, and based on their popular essay series for The Atlantic.
This episode touches on it all, from professional envy to limit setting to fertility treatments to lesbian bath tub gin. Raised by high achieving single moms, Elizabeth and I share our own complicated relationships with ambition and our 90's power suit shopping trips with our moms. There are fun callbacks to last year’s conversation (2017), and you’ll just have to wait to hear our scoop on Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Northwestern University's sorority sister extraordinaire.
We are giving away three signed copies of The Ambition Decisions on Friday 6/29. Join us on Instagram: @atomicmoms, Facebook, and our Facebook community page for details!
Special thanks to sound engineer Owen O’Neill, musical genius Jeremy Turner for our original theme composition, and Natalie Truly for encouraging us to do giveaways!
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Ellie Knaus celebrates and commiserates with world class experts, best-selling authors, and listeners around the world on Atomic Moms podcast. She shares the sweet and messy journey of her growing…