Instamom Podcast
Download on the App Store

Instamom Podcast episodes

  • New House, New Beginning

    This episode covers us buying a new house, after outgrowing the 'premarital' house. I moved into the house Josh owned with his ex-wife (the girl's bio mom) and that comes with a lot of baggage in itself, but when she mentioned Emmy's bedroom in the contempt interrogatories... it was quite surprising.


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    23 min
  • Contempt - The Stepmom's Perspective

    This episode is about the contempt case, from my perspective as the stepmom! Many times, we go through court battles, listening, wanting to speak but we are often ignored because we aren't legally parents. We all know, you do not have to be blood to be a parent, nor do you have to be a legal parent to be a parent.


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    26 min
  • Contempt

    This episode is about when we took the girl's bio mom to court in 2017 for contempt. She disparaged Josh to the girls while she was angry, that he wasn't doing what she wanted him to do. Have you ever been in this situation?


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    25 min
  • Emmy's Episode

    This episode is dedicated to Emmy, my middle child. She taught me how to be a mom, has loved me even when I've made mistakes (and I've made big ones) and just overall has shown me how to be a better person. I gave her the biggest gift that I could give her this year, by adopting her.


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    30 min
  • Anxiety, Finances & Saying No to Step Kids

    This episode was by far my hardest to record. I had to record this quite a few times. I'm taking you back to when I was on maternity leave, headed back to work & how a physician missed diagnosing me with anxiety. I could have gotten the help I needed in 2017. This is such an important, raw and vulnerable episode. I hope you connect with it & please consider sharing with me.


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    27 min
  • Leave The Kids Alone

    This episode is very raw. Parental Alienation, abandonment & change in children. It prevents them from talking to people, trying new things & knowing how to trust. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends!


    Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:

    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    25 min
  • Mini Episode - Book The Vacation

    It is so important to put your marriage first in blended families. If you're not booking vacations, here I am to tell you to BOOK IT!


    Do you like what you hear? Share with your friends! Subscribe & Rate this podcast or better yet, Buy Me A Coffee:


    buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    14 min
  • Baggage + Marriage

    Marriage is fun & easy, right? What about second or third marriages? This episode is all about expectations in marriage. We all bring in baggage and it really matters how you manage it, in order to succeed in a blended family/marriage situation.


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    30 min
  • Birth Plans & PPD

    This episode is all about difficulties in communication, birth plans & Post Partum Depression.


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]


    24 min
  • Traditions

    This episode is all about traditions! I always wanted to have traditions with my family when I grew up but I never thought I'd walk into a ready-made family. Have you created any traditions with your blended family?


    Instagram: @instamompod


    Join our Facebook Group by becoming a member: buymeacoffee.com/instamompod


    Email me: [email protected]

    21 min

About Instamom Podcast

From the publisher's feed

 

Melissa Rainer, mother of three girls, takes you on her journey from Instamom to becoming the legal mother of her two stepdaughters. The stories are all true. Nothing is held…