Breakfast with Benefits

It's our last episode of the year, and instead of pretending we're brand new people, we did something more honest.

We let AI write our New Year episode and then reacted in real time. What followed was funny, uncomfortable, accurate, and very us.

We talk about who we became this year, the patterns we're done repeating, the resolutions that didn't survive real life, and what we're actually carrying into the new year.

No glow-ups. No pressure. Just three women, one table, and a very real New Year conversation.

Happy New Year. We're still here.

Art Basel Miami is loud, glossy, and expensive. This episode lives on the B-side. During Miami Art Week, we went off the main stage and into the booths and corridors to find women behind the art. Not the headlines. Not the VIP lists. The real ones.

We met mothers who paused their creativity, and came back anyway. Artists juggling school pickups, illness, immigration, self-doubt, and the need to create. Women who didn't wait to feel ready. They just started.

These are unfiltered conversations recorded on the go during Art Basel and Miami Art Week. Honest talks about art, motherhood, identity, survival, and why creativity becomes rebellion when women are expected to carry everything.

This is the part of Art Basel you don't see framed. The B-side sounds better anyway.

Our feeds won't stop feeding us nonsense, and we can't stop scrolling. In this episode, we look at how our phones shape what we think, how we feel, and why everything suddenly feels like a mess, even during the days we're supposed to feel grateful. From algorithm anxiety to the pressure of perfect lives, we unpack what we're being served every day and what it's doing to us.

Funny, honest, a little unhinged...just how we like it.

Between skydiving dreams and dishwasher duty, the women of Breakfast with Benefits ask: Would you do it all over again? Marriage, motherhood, and the midlife remix. Served hot, unfiltered, and slightly burnt around the edges.

In this episode, we had the amazing opportunity to sit down with one of Peru's most celebrated fashion designers, Sitka Semsch. Our conversation flowed through the worlds of fashion, sustainability, women's empowerment, and motherhood. Themes that define both her work and her philosophy. Sitka's collection beautifully blends innovation, timeless elegance, and artisanal craftsmanship.

https://sitkasemsch.com/?srsltid=AfmBOook5b6MhTl35NmXYodPq2ISqDBDSEfZDmW79BBi8pAc_wBu4NLD

https://www.instagram.com/sitka.semsch?igsh=OWsyMHQ3azlscjZ6

What happens when three mothers try to find peace and end up in a Temazcal wondering why enlightenment smells like sweat and eucalyptus?

In this unfiltered episode, Beyza, Julia, and Kriszta confess what really goes down at women's retreats: overpriced yoga mats, collective tears, and the hope that "healing" lasts longer than the flight home. From solo trips in Sedona to group bonding in Tulum, the trio dives into motherhood burnout, fake zen, and the hilarious ways women justify disappearing for four days to "reconnect with their soul."

Breakfast with Benefits, where three women, three cultures, and one microphone prove that healing is messy, real, and always better with friends.

Sleepness nights follow us from babyhood to adulthood and somehow, nobody's getting rest. In this episode, we sit down with Sleep Coach Ane, a former lawyer who turned her own battles with anxiety and insomnia into a new calling : helping families sleep.

We spoke:

Why cry-it-out sleep training doesn't actually teach healthy sleep but destroy our bond with our kids...

The surprising connection between childhood routines and teenage communication...

How insomnia, menapause, and stress shape adult sleep struggles...

What works ( what doesn't) with melatonin, magnesium and CBD...

Ane's personal story of healing her own sleep and guiding others...

From newborn nights to teenage late nights and midlife insomnia, this talk unpacks why rest is broken and how to fix it.

Connect with Ane:

Instagram: @_anevaz

https://www.instagram.com/_anevaz?igsh=amk3eWdmaDdvMTdx

Email: [email protected]

Our husbands don't listen, but maybe you should. In this episode we dive into the wellness circus: endless supplements, biohacking, and the promise of living to 120. Kriszta brings back insights (and stress) from a health event, Julia questions if we're just not trying not to die, Beyza reminds us that American food might be poisoning our kids. From candy at school to billion-dollar longevity industry, we ask: is wellness about living longer or just surviving motherhood with our sanity intact ?

✨In this episode, we welcome our very first guest, vocational astrologer Mariana Birchall ( or Mariana Birth Chart" 😉). She shares her personal journey of transformation and how it led her to help mothers, and now also men in midlife, navigate career changes, new beginnings, and business ventures through astrology. We explore birth charts, astrocartography ( the astrology of place), maps for children as unique life roadmaps, and even synastry as a way to understand family dynamics. Mariana also leaves us with insights about 2026 as a turning point year you won't want to miss.

📲 Connect with Mariana Birchall : Whatsapp: +55 21 99446 0482

Instagram : @maribirchall

In this episode, we step into the College Admissions, the real Squid Game: the stress, the pressure, and the doubts every parent secretly carries. From the London's brutal school system to Miami's cutthroat admissions race, we share raw stories, fears and hopes for our kid's future.

Honest, funny and sometimes painfully real, this is one conversation every parent needs to hear.