From 9 to Mom

Why does doing more feel like we're still not enough? This week we sit down with Jordyn, a licensed mental health counselor, registered art therapist, and founder of Mosaic Therapy in Miami — who works with ambitious, high-achieving teen girls and women who look like they have it all together (even when they don't feel like it inside). She's also 24 weeks pregnant, which makes this conversation even more real.

We dig into why our strengths can quietly become identities that trap us, the "estuaries" theory of confidence (and why you need more than one), why guilt shows up the moment we try to rest, and how to model self-care for our kids instead of just preaching it. If you've ever felt like your life looks amazing on paper but you're running on empty, this one's for you.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Jordyn
00:51 – Life at 24 weeks pregnant & planning overwhelm
04:21 – Jordyn's path to founding Mosaic Therapy
08:01 – Why "having it all together" hides what's underneath
09:40 – When your strengths become your identity
13:06 – The "estuaries" theory of confidence
16:48 – Modeling rest instead of just preaching it
21:47 – Where mom guilt actually comes from
27:44 – Where to start when you're at your limit
30:31 – Productivity vs. joy
32:02 – How becoming a mom is already changing her practice
38:01 – Where to find Jordyn & Mosaic Therapy

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Meet Jamie Kolnick — mom of three, founder of Jam with Jamie (a nationwide kids' music company with 100+ performers in 10 cities), and creator of Little Jam Fest, Miami's family music festival. We talk chaos with three kids, building a business from the ground up, navigating grief and loss as a teenager, autoimmune burnout, and finding your mom community through an app called Peanut. And yes — we get the full story behind her "shit you can't make up" moment, which might be our best one yet.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Jamie Kolnick
00:55 – Life with three kids & sleepaway camp season
04:44 – Jamie's path from actress to children's entertainment CEO
06:00 – Losing her brother, and later both parents
12:03 – Why she still makes time to play
13:12 – Building Jam with Jamie from solo performer to 100+ team
18:23 – Doing parties nine months pregnant (the froyo shop story)
27:23 – Managing the business side vs. the creative side
28:01 – Burnout, delegation & becoming a real CEO
29:01 – Autoimmune disorders & the postpartum hormone connection
31:18 – Finding her mom community through the Peanut app
37:59 – The "shit you can't make up" story (a bath bomb snail)

🌐 Learn more: https://jamwithjamie.com/
📱 Follow along: @jamwithjamie on Instagram

Common" doesn't mean "normal." This week we sit down with Dr. Beth Guarin, board-certified physical therapist and founder of VivaCore Physical Therapy in Miami, to answer the pelvic floor questions we get asked constantly  leaking when you laugh, pain during sex, that "cleared" six-week checkup that doesn't actually mean you're healed, and so much more.

Dr. Beth breaks down what the pelvic floor actually does, why Kegels aren't the whole story, how C-section vs. vaginal delivery affects recovery differently, and why she believes every pregnant woman should see a pelvic floor therapist not just the ones already struggling. We also get into perimenopause, prolapse, and even pelvic floor issues in men.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Dr. Beth Guarin
03:57 – Her path into pelvic floor therapy
06:25 – What the pelvic floor actually does
10:13 – Is your postpartum pain normal or not?
16:00 – When to start pelvic floor therapy
21:46 – Inside a first appointment
27:07 – C-section vs. vaginal recovery
34:20 – Dr. Beth's #1 piece of advice for moms

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📱 Follow along: @vivacore.pt on Instagram

Is your kid anxious or are you? This week we sit down with Dr. Anne Josephson, psychologist, mom of two, and founder of Uptown Psychology (NY & Florida), who specializes in high-achieving anxious kids and the parents raising them.

We get real about the fine line between supporting our kids and accommodating their anxiety into a bigger problem, how to tell anxiety apart from ADHD or OCD, why "overprotective parenting" might be creating kids who can't handle discomfort, and why burnout hits so much harder now that we're never truly "off the clock." Dr. Anne also gets vulnerable about losing her patience, tapping out, and practicing what she preaches (or not).

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Dr. Ann Josephson
01:16 – Life with a 4.5 and 2.5 year old (potty training included)
02:54 – Dr. Ann's path from special ed teacher to child psychologist
05:08 – Early anxiety red flags parents miss
07:58 – ADHD vs. anxiety vs. OCD — why it's so hard to tell apart
13:11 – When should a parent seek extra support?
16:08 – Inside PCIT & SPACE therapy protocols
20:15 – Overprotective parenting: are we raising incapable kids?
24:06 – Natural consequences vs. preventing every injury
25:15 – Anxious kids often mean anxious parents
27:07 – "Tapping out" and staying a united parenting front
31:59 – Why doing more feels like doing less
39:44 – Simple ways to reduce daily overwhelm
42:32 – Dr. Ann on ignoring her own advice sometimes
47:15 – When it's time to get professional help
48:55 – Where to find Dr. Ann & Uptown Psychology

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What if you could meet your "mom friends" before the baby even arrives? This week we sit down with Georgia Kastaris and Monica Oslander, the founders behind Expecting Together a prenatal education and social club bringing the European model of built-in pregnancy community to the US.

Georgia discovered this concept while living in the UK, where matching expecting couples by due date and zip code is basically a rite of passage. Now she and Monica (a registered dietitian) are bringing it to Chicago and Miami  pairing 8-12 couples going through pregnancy at the same time with real nurses and nurse practitioners, so families build their village before the chaos of a newborn hits.

We talk clinician-led education vs. Dr. TikTok, why partner inclusion matters, the loneliness epidemic among new parents, and what it's really like building a venture-backed startup while raising toddlers.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back to From 9 to Mom
01:42 – Georgia's UK story & discovering the prenatal social club model
05:23 – Bringing the concept to the US & meeting Monica
09:00 – How Monica got pulled in (and never let go)
12:58 – What families were missing the research behind the curriculum
15:19 – Why clinician-led matters more than doulas or influencers
20:09 – How matching & the program actually works
23:44 – Why partner inclusion is core to the model
25:34 – Scaling a business while raising toddlers
31:57 – The hardest parts of entrepreneurial motherhood
38:22 – What's next: Miami launch, virtual cohorts & new cities
41:26 – Final thoughts + where to find them

💛 Learn more or find a group near you: https://expectingtogether.com/
📱 Follow Expecting Together on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/expecting.together/

Christine and Kristen never planned on starting a hat company — it just kind of happened after one couldn't find a decent toddler hat for her son. Now Local Social Club is the snapback brand your kids (and honestly, your husbands) won't stop wearing. We get into the whole journey: sample after sample gone wrong, running a business with your best friend, and juggling it all alongside full-time corporate jobs.

Shop the hats at localssocialclub.com and use code F9TM for 20% off. Follow along @localssocialclub.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro & Welcome
01:50 – Mom Life Chaos: Kids & Craziness
06:07 – The Origin Story: From a Text to a Business
13:45 – Splitting Roles as Business Partners
15:20 – Finding a Manufacturer & Sampling Mishaps
25:37 – Balancing Corporate Jobs with LSC
32:12 – Designing Hats with Their Graphic Designer
34:41 – What's Next: Custom Hats & New Markets

It's the monthly ramble sesh — no agenda, just moms yapping. This episode covers K-pop concert freebies, kindergarten bus orientation with a robot named Spencer, Skeeter Syndrome (yes, it's real), Spirit Week chaos, screen time wins courtesy of Bluey and Peppa Pig, and a very important vote: should Catie road-trip to see the Jonas Brothers in Charlotte?

This month's episode is brought to you by Social Med Consultants — a mom-owned social media marketing team helping medical and aesthetic practices grow with strategy that actually gets results. Check them out at socialmedconsultants.com and mention From 9 to Mom for a free marketing audit.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & sponsor shoutout
00:53 – Danielle's 36-hour Toronto trip & K-pop freebie obsession
02:52 – Back to school updates & Love Island: Elementary Edition
05:18 – Kindergarten bus orientation (starring Spencer the robot bus)
09:10 – Cal's "terror stage" & the no-nap struggle
09:48 – Skeeter Syndrome — what it is & how to deal
12:39 – Mom guilt & who takes the kids to the doctor
16:23 – Letting kids walk to school (and residual parent trauma)
17:16 – Spirit Week outfit chaos + the pajama day hack
21:15 – Last weeks of summer plans & Labor Day trips
24:03 – Picking your non-negotiables as a working parent
25:03 – Daisy's emotional support skeleton & "another baby" talk
26:22 – Screen time wins: Bluey & Salish teaching real lessons
29:56 – The vote: should Catie see the Jonas Brothers in Charlotte?

Ladies, grab your heating pad and a snack, because this one's for every woman who's ever bled through her jeans in a Target parking lot and thought "surely this isn't normal." Catie and Danielle sit down with Vanda Aubrey — functional medicine nurse, board-certified nurse coach, mom of four, and self-proclaimed queen of "your labs are 'normal' but you feel like a raccoon that lost a fight" — to finally get real answers about postpartum periods, hormones, and why your doctor's go-to fix is always just... more birth control.

They cover why "normal" lab ranges are basically the participation trophy of medicine, the four minerals every depleted mom needs (RIP your magnesium), the wild concept of estrogen dominance, and the bombshell that period-on-birth-control isn't actually a period (Danielle needed a minute to recover from this one). Plus: hair tests, cervical mucus check-ins nobody asked for but everyone needed, and why keto might be quietly wrecking your hormones. Bring tissues, bring snacks, and maybe bring your own mineral drink.

Find Vanda on Instagram @wellness.with.vanda and at wellnesswithvanda.com for her free minerals & fertility guide.

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome + meet Vanda (and her beautiful chaos of four kids)
02:00 – How Vanda went from nurse to functional medicine convert
04:40 – What is functional medicine, actually? (the bucket analogy)
05:45 – Why "normal" labs can still mean you feel awful
09:15 – Postpartum symptoms nobody warns you about
14:40 – The 4 minerals every mom needs to know
15:25 – Estrogen dominance, explained without the jargon
17:35 – How to actually get your hormones tested
20:05 – Cycle tracking apps that don't suck
26:00 – HTMA testing (yes, they clip your hair)
29:20 – Fertility work vs. just wanting normal periods
34:20 – The birth control "period" myth that broke Danielle's brain
37:15 – Trends Vanda wishes would die (looking at you, keto)
38:15 – Where to find Vanda

Motherhood is chaos — beautiful chaos, but chaos nonetheless.

In this episode of From 9 to Mom, working moms Danielle and Catie get real about the whirlwind of back-to-school season: strep throat within the first week, an epic band-aid shortage, and the emotional gut-punch of a kid starting kindergarten for the first time. They swap practical back-to-school and kindergarten prep tips for moms, share the story of a 7-year-old's first "breakup," and give an honest update on toddler eye patching for lazy eye (amblyopia).

The conversation turns into real talk about mental load and burnout for working mothers — and an attempt to "romanticize your everyday" as moms, from Starbucks runs to chaotic family dinners.

They also dig into potty training struggles, toddler bathroom chaos, and a genius home-organization hack using ChatGPT for decluttering and interior design.

If you're a working mom juggling a 9-to-5, a side hustle, and the beautiful mess of raising little kids, this episode is your permission slip to laugh at the chaos with us.

This episode was brought to you by Social Med Consultants .

a mom-owned social media marketing agency helping medical and aesthetic practices grow with strategy that gets real results — from social strategy and branding to top-tier filming and photography. Mention "From 9 to Mom" for a free marketing audit.

Okay but can we talk about how Katie Holter went from a chaotic pediatrician's appointment to founding an entire baby product brand??

Katie, mom of three and founder of August & Ivy, sits down with Catie and Danielle to spill literally everything.

She takes us behind the scenes of building a product from scratch — patents, tech packs, factories that ghost you, and why "bamboo fabric" is not the eco win you think it is. Zero industry background, all figured out along the way.

But this isn't just a business episode. Katie gets real about developing severe preeclampsia postpartum, leaning hard on her village while juggling three kids and two full-time jobs, and why she believes every mom with an idea should just take the first step already.

Total self-starter energy, and we are here for it.

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