Are you looking for your mom tribe? Today we're talking about community and how this is an integral part of motherhood, business and all aspects of life. We brought on professional community builder, Katie Saffert to help us dive into this topic. We chat about Katie's experience with entrepreneurship and the pivots she's made over the last decade. She shares why building community in your life is important and how to tap into that community for support when you need it. She also discusses how community has impacted her, the importance of learning to say no and why you need to show up for what you want.

What's In This Episode:

• How she ended up launching the Hatched Collective
• Why community is needed in motherhood
• How serving people will make you feel better
• Going inward before being able to give
• Connecting with other people on Instagram

We brought on Vienna Farlow, a holistic reproductive health practitioner intern and founder of the Cvntsultant. She focuses her work on demystifying the female body and teaching women better ways to connect with themselves. We discuss what body literacy is and how to become your own expert for your health. She shares the stigmas that there are about the female body, misconceptions there are around feminine health and how to determine what your body is telling you.

What's In This Episode:

• Learning more about natural birth control methods and deciphering your health through the menstrual cycle
• Why there is a stigma about the female body
• What the term cvntsultant means to her
• How your menstrual cycle is a window into your overall health
• What you should expect your cycle to look like after birth

Have you ever heard the phrase, "there's an oil for that"? On this episode, we've enlisted Kelowna Giuliano, a holistic health practitioner and owner of Drop into Wellness who has over two decades of experience on healing from within. She breaks down all of the benefits and uses for essential oils including how to use it to support sleep, digestion, immunity, libido and even to clean your home. We chat about living a toxic-free lifestyle, how to use essential oils to benefit your health and wellness and precautions to take when using essential oils. If you want to ditch the chemicals from your life, then this is the episode for you.

What's In This Episode:

• Wanting to raise her family holistically and help clients with healing
• Ditching the toxic chemicals and upgrading to products that come from plants
• Knowing the difference between higher quality oils and synthetic oils
• How to use the oils on a wound, to support sleep, for babies, etc.
• How to get started using essential oils

Have you had issues with your children fighting or bickering? Or are you about to bring home baby number two and want to stop sibling rivalry in its tracks before it has the chance of forming?

Today we brought on Dr. Sheldon Zablow, a child and adult psychiatrist with an extensive background in sibling rivalries.

He gives some of his best advice on how to navigate difficult sibling relationships and how to set a good foundation for children to eliminate the chances of developing a sibling rivalry from the beginning.

We discuss how the family dynamic plays a role in sibling rivalries, why 1-on-1 time with your children is so important, and how to be inclusive and avoid showing favoritism to children.

• How he defines siblings and step-siblings and why sibling relationships are so important
• What sibling rivalry is and how to know when it's gotten out of control
• How to set up a good foundation to eliminate the chances of developing a sibling rivalry
• Empowering children to resolve sibling rivalry on their own without stepping in as parents
• The worst and best things you can say to children and siblings

Have you ever found yourself struggling with the juggling?

Our guest for today's episode joined us to discuss her movement, #thejuggleisreal.

As a mama, entrepreneur and wife - Nina wanted to find something that could express what most of us mothers feel on the day to day: which is the constant need to manage the juggle of our mental load and our mental to-do list that is always piling up.

The constant juggling that often leads us moms burnt out. Nina works to help create realistic conversations around motherhood without the sugarcoating you might see in your Instagram feed. She shares practical, real-life solutions to help you lighten your mental load. We discuss maternal gatekeeping and how this can contribute to an even larger mental load and how the mental load affects your partner dynamics.

• The realities of juggling the mental load on a daily basis in motherhood
• How technology has changed our generation of moms and the impact this has on our mental load
• How the #thejuggleisreal came about
• Real-life solutions for easing your mental load such as hiring a mother's helper, using Amazon and delegating tasks to others
• Why being connected and present with your support network will help with your mental load

In celebration of Father's day, we are doing something a little different on the podcast these next few weeks. For the first time ever, we are going to be bringing on dads to hear their perspective on fatherhood. Today's guest is Sean Donahue of Parenting Modern Teens. We discuss how parenting children in today's age looks different than in prior generations and how we can better parent teens and children. This episode will help you step away from fear-based parenting and feel encouraged to talk to your kids about feelings and emotions rather than teaching them right from wrong.

What's In This Episode:

• Why parenting looks different today than it did in previous generations
• Sean's advice for embracing the behaviors of adolescence
• False beliefs that parents have
• Where influences on our children come from
• Why presence is crucial in parenting

Are you looking for activity ideas for your children but feeling like you just aren't that creative? That's where today's guest and her business comes in. Beth is the founder and creator of Days with Grey where she developed creative, fun activities called Breakfast Invitations that help your child get engaged and learning during play. She explains what the Breakfast Invitations are, how they can be modified as your children grow and how you can differ the activity for children of different ages depending on their skill set. She shared how children can use these activities to explore concepts rather than worrying about mastering and perfecting them.

What's In This Episode:

• Making playtime more functional and educational
• Being a stay-at-home mom and figuring out how to prepare her children for school
• How to use the Breakfast Invitations activities with your children
• How projects help with sibling relationships and interactions
• Key supplies that you need to start
• Giving yourself grace as a parent

As we're all learning how to navigate through a global pandemic, we wanted to share our experiences with social distancing, the joys we've had from this time at home and how we've personally been navigating the challenges of balancing parenting while staying up to date on information regarding COVID-19.

In this episode, we talk about the biggest resources for parents during this pandemic, how it's okay to take a step back and do less and how this is similar to what a lot of our grandparents and parents went through with the 1918 Pandemic and Great Depression.

We also share where the Generation.Mom podcast is headed next including a short break we're taking (and how you can stay connected with us during the break). Although we're taking a break we are going to be re-releasing some of our very favorite episodes so you can continue to enjoy past episodes.

• Managing the balance of parenting and learning information about the pandemic
• Navigating the weight on the pandemic
• Resources for helping parents with their kids during this time
• The biggest joys they've had during this time at home
• Where Generation.Mom is headed next

Raising children in today's world, it's important that we have these needed conversations about race, inclusion and being tolerant of everybody no matter their skin tone and background.

We're very excited to have someone on the podcast who is helping to bridge this gap and is creating a community that supports black families and people of color in parenthood. We brought on Jackie Douge, pediatrician, children's health advocate and the host of What Is Black?

In this episode, Jackie shares how we can start these open and honest conversations with our kids. She talks about the importance of creating a lived, shared experience with people of all races and the themes her podcast explores including the misperceptions of race that occur in the world.

She explains how adverse childhood experiences such as racism can impact a child's wellbeing and how she hopes her podcast will help inform and educate parents on how these issues can impact their children in the long term while providing them with helpful insight to navigate these concerns as they come up.

• Informing and educating your children about racism and prejudices that happen in the world
• Having open and honest discussions about tolerance and inclusion
• How she uses the knowledge she learns from podcast guests to influence her parenting and work as a pediatrician
• Lifting up your kids and sharing positive messages with them
• Providing information to your kids and continuing to have conversations about race, intimacy and other important topics as they grow developmentally

Do you feel like you need a translator to understand your toddler? If so, then this is the episode for you.

Today we're speaking with Carly Tulloch, a pediatric speech-language pathologist and the founder of WeeTalkers, a platform that helps parents navigate all things speech with their kiddos.

Carly shares how music and singing can help kids as they learn speech and why you should follow your child's lead of what they're interested in when communicating with them.

We ask all of our questions on what mamas should be looking out for to make sure their little one is on track and what to do to help support your child's foundational language skills. She gives us a clue on what we could expect from an appointment with a speech-language pathologist plus how to approach teaching your child language in a two-language household.

• What speech-language pathologists do to help people communicate
• The benefits of music and singing as it relates to speech
• What you can do to help support your child's foundational language skills
• What you should look for to make sure your child is on track at each age range
• What you can expect from an appointment with a speech-language pathologist