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Do you feel lost in motherhood? Ashley and I have been there.  Tune in for tips on how to find yourself in motherhood again and how to balance the load with your partner. Ashley will be your new best friend!

Ashley Kix is Country Morning Radio Host who lives in Southern Wisconsin.  When she’s notdoing radio she is raising two little ones; Gunnison and Goldie.  She became fast friends with Nina on social media as they are going through the same stages in life.

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Tom and Nina air their dirty laundry and talk about how and why their marriage is in a low season and what they can and will do to improve. Also Tom shares his new business and "secret" project.
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I hear all the time - "How do I get my kids to independent play?" "What can I do to encourage independent play". I have been there! It took a while to get to the point where my kids will independent play. This week Avital Schreiber Levy breaks down why independent play is important and how to successfully integrate independent play in your kids routine.

Meet Avital
A designer, parenting coach and mother of five. Married for 16 years, parenting for over a decade and designing for 20. Avital is here to offer you the blueprints, checklists, and roadmaps that will allow you to cut corners, skip years of painful trial and error - and design a family life you love. We believe meaning begins at home. Build an unbreakable home, create a passionate marriage, and raise resilient kids.

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Diet culture sucks! Are you sick of feeling like you are always on a diet or restricting your food? This episode is for you and me! Samantha Gollup talks about how to heal our relationship with food and how to have a healthy balanced view of nutrition through Intuitive Eating.


Samantha Gollup is a Registered Dietitian from Madison, Wisconsin. She began her career in Surgical Weight Management for several years and through that has found her niche in the intuitive eating world at her private practice, Anti Diet Mama. Sammie is passionate about helping mamas to heal their relationships with food and body by dismantling what we've learned from diet culture and finding space in their busy lives to take care of their own health in a balanced way. Through Intuitive Eating Counseling, she helps mamas to honor their bodies, create healthful habits, and improve overall quality of life, all while simplifying nutrition. Sammie aims to help each mama break the dieting cycle so she can become her authentic self and raise the next generation without the toxic influence of diet culture. When Sammie isn't working, she's spending time with her husband and her busy toddlers. She loves moving her body in many different ways, self care, eating delicious food with her friends and family, and traveling.

Instagram: @antidietmama
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This episode couldn't have come at a better time. If you are like me and dealing with sibling rivalry between your kids, you are at a loss for what to do. Join today's talk with Michelle of @Peaceandparenting to figure out what causes siblings to be rivals, when to intervene and when to let them figure it out, and tips on how to raise friendly siblings.

Find out how to come to parenting through the lens of connection as a way to navigate and unravel sticky parenting situations. Michelle is a mother of two girls as well as a former teacher and counselor turned Certified Parenting Instructor. After years of consequences, bribes, and star charts, she finally reshaped the relationship she shares with her daughters and credits peaceful parenting for changing her life. Michelle considers herself a recovering yeller, perfectionist, and control freak who has found a more calm and connected way to parent. Using the ideas of Brain Science as her guide and working on childhood hurts as her deeper work, she helps other parents do what she has been able to do for herself over the last decade.

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website: peaceandparentingla.com
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Do you yell at your kids? This week I talked with Mary Van Geffen about being a yeller, how to recover after yelling at my kids, and even how to stay calm in the chaos. If you tend to yell, listen to this episode! 

Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach and parent educator for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & Spicy Children™.

She teaches monthly workshops to help moms gain confidence to choose gentle, respectful parenting especially if they weren’t raised that way.

Mary has a ministry on Instagram where she posts an inspiring parenting tip every single day. Just reading her social media will help you delight in your child and remember that you are enough. Mary believes that when a mom realizes how hard she is on herself and cracks the door open for some self-compassion, her entire family is bathed in light!

Mary is a certified Simplicity Parenting Counselor® and Professional Co-Active Coach®. Her greatest achievement, however, is cultivating a calm, kind, and firm relationship with her spirited go-getter daughter (17), polar-opposite introverted son (15) and un-Enneagramable hubby.

Website: www.maryvangeffen.com for classes
Calm: https://www.maryvangeffen.com/calm
Firm:  https://maryvangeffen.com/firm
Kind:  https://maryvangeffen.com/kind

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In honor of Valentine's day: Do you know your love language? What about your spouse?
If you and your partner DO NOT KNOW then GET ON IT and find out for FREE here: https://5lovelanguages.com/

Dr. Tracy Dalgleish is a psychologist and couples therapist in Ottawa. For over 15 years, Dr. Tracy has provided direct clinical services as well as researching, writing, and speaking about relationships. Dr. Tracy focuses on helping mothers improve their relationships and reconnect with their partners. 

In addition to wellness seminars, Dr. Tracy makes clinical knowledge and research accessible to people through her contributions to popular media sites, including Motherly, Huffington Post, and Bustle, her podcast, "I'm Not Your Shrink" and online webinars accessible to people all over the world. 

A mom of two young children and owner of Ottawa’s mental health clinic, Integrated Wellness, she knows what it means to balance the full load.

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**Trigger Warning** 
On today's episode, we are talking about infertility, endometriosis, hemorrhaging and traumatic birth experiences. My friend Melissa Randazzo opens up about her several year journey with all of the things I just listed. She is inviting us into her personal life and making us feel less alone. I'm so grateful for her. 

Melissa founded True Warrior Jewelry after teaching herself how to make jewelry to help her cope through a traumatic fertility journey and the premature birth of her son.

She is a social worker, mom of two, wife and small business owner who wants to spread awareness to other women who may be going through something similar to her.

Melissa’s fertility journey started after she lost both of her fallopian tubes due to a doctor not taking her pain seriously. She wants other women to learn to trust their instincts and to advocate for themselves.

Her jewelry company, True Warrior Jewelry, empowers others to face their current journey with courage, power and protection.

IG: @true_warrior_jewelry

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Ash Brandin, EdS, is a middle school teacher living in Colorado. Since 2016, Ash has spoken across the country about how classrooms and academic spaces can mimic game structures to make learning compelling, motivating, and engaging. Ash believes video games, specifically entertainment games, can help us create better teaching, more engaging learning, and motivated life-long learners. In 2021, Ash pivoted their gaming and educational content onto Instagram. Their account- TheGamerEducator- they help guide families to have a relationship with screens and video games that benefits everyone in a family. In addition to teaching and gaming, Ash loves baking, hiking, and going to car shows with their child.
Website: TheGamerEducator.com
Instagram: @TheGamerEducator
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We all go through it - relationship ruts. Are you in one now? Listen to this if you are trying to get past your rut or trying to prevent one from happening!

John Ryan De Oca is a relationship expert and board-certified Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Coach residing in Hudson County, NJ. He offers more than 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry with his ultimate passion being in relationships.

Instagram @therelationshipprescriber
Website https://www.therelationshipprescriber.com/
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