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Author Gabriella Riberio on her new parenting book, "I'm Just Saying..."

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Catherine Lowe won Season 17 of The Bachelor and married Sean Lowe. Now a mom to three kids, Catherine spills about following your passions and how to honor moms this Mother's Day.
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Bethany:
All right. Okay. So I always like to check in because I interview a lot of moms out there. I know you have three little ones and we’re still kind of like coming off this crazy time. How are you doing?

Catherine:
I’m doing okay. Thank you for asking. Things are really chaotic, but I just feel like the role of mom is so rewarding. It’s really challenging. It’s really hard, but it’s also so fulfilling. I just feel so blessed that I get to direct these children on a good path. And also just to set, hopefully, a good example for my kids. I like to do different things, like pursue things that I love. And so those things kind of keep me grounded and keep me remembering who I am too so that I can be a really good mom.

All-Star Moms

And that’s why I really love partnering with Mrs. T’s on their All-Star Moms program because it’s encouraging moms to go back to things that may be their passions and their interests. And so what they’re doing is giving away a grand prize of $15,000 on Monday to a mom so that they can fulfill their passion. So I love that about it. And I also just think that a woman who is well rounded, a mother who gets to do her own thing is just hot so…

Bethany:
Yeah, absolutely. I agree. I have two little boys and of course, as you said, they bring me a lot, a lot of joy, but I have to make time for the things that I love. And so I also want to know, what are your passions? Like, what are you, I mean, we follow you on Instagram. We see all these things, but like we kind, what gets you going like aside from motherhood and Sean and all of that stuff?

Feeling Empowered

Catherine:
Well, the thing that I love to feel empowered by is learning a new skill or learning something new. I remember a couple of years ago, Sean gave me a language program to learn Italian. And I didn’t really do as much with that because I think I just got pregnant, but now it’s piano. And I love, like I have concerts at my house like every day and our nanny and our kids and my husband always clap. So I feel very empowered...

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As parents, it’s no secret that we spend a lot of money on our kids. From back-to-school clothes to the madness of holiday gift shopping it seems that there is always something we need to buy. Luckily, there are experts to help guide us when it comes to smart shopping and saving money.

Bethany Hollars from BrickSeek shares some gems about how to teach kids the value of a dollar and also reveals her favorite place to score epic deals. 

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Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi, and welcome back to another episode of the Breakdown with Bethany. I’m Bethany Braun-Silva and today we are doubling down on the name of this show. That’s because my guest is Bethany Hollars. She’s the content director of BrickSeek and a money-saving expert. So, parents, you’re definitely going to want to listen to this one.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Bethany, thank you so much for joining us. Obviously, I love your name, but I’m also really interested in what you do. I mean money-saving tips for parents is something that I probably should focus more on if I’m being really honest, but tell us about BrickSeek and all your credibility there.

Bethany Hollars:
Absolutely. I’m so excited to meet you. We just got done talking about how we don’t know many people named Bethany. So it’s really cool to actually sit down with another Bethany. My name is Bethany Hollars. I’m the content director and also the head of media relations at BrickSeek.com. We’re an online shopping tool. We came into existence about 10 years ago. Our founder was actually a Lego freak, loved collecting Legos. It’s a huge community out there. If you know anyone who’s an avid Lego collector, they’re just great people. He was actually buying sets locally to him in stores like Target and Walmart and when a set was getting ready to be clearanced out, he’d try and find it so he could stock up on it before they’d stop making it.

Bethany Hollars:
But he was spending a lot of time and also money searching, running all around, trying to find these sets. He has some software development background. So he created himself a simple tool where he could put the UPC number of whatever that Lego set is that he was chasing into his tool that he created along with his zip code, and it would pull up the closest stores to him, big box retailers like Walmart and Target. And it would tell him here’s how many of those Lego sets are at each of these specific stores, and also here’s how much they cost at each of these specific stores....

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Sometimes parents need a little help when it comes to talking to kids about challenging topics such as diversity and inclusion. That's where experts like Dr. Zabina Bhasin, MD (Dr. Zee) come in.

Dr. Zee is a child psychiatrist, a diversity and inclusion expert, and an entrepreneur. Her work educates families and schools, fostering future generations of truly global citizens.

She founded  In KidZ as a lifestyle brand dedicated to creating connections through culture and championing unity amongst diversity. Kidz creates kid-focused products that help children learn about cultures while inspiring them to create a world that embraces diversity of all kinds.

In KidZ recently released their Ukraine Box to teach children about the people of Ukraine and to welcome individuals from this crisis with kindness, understanding, and belonging for all. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to charity.


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Transcript of the Interview:

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi, and welcome back to another episode of The Breakdown with Bethany. I’m Bethany Braun-Silva and today my guest is Dr. Zee, Zabina Bhasin. She’s a diversity and inclusion expert, an entrepreneur, a physician and a mom of two. She created a company called In KidZ. It’s all about teaching our children about global citizenship and she’s going to talk to us about what it means to be a global citizen and how we can instill those values in our kids. So this is an episode you’re definitely not going to want to miss.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
You have such an impressive background. You’re a physician, an entrepreneur, and a mom. So, tell us about your background, how you got started and what you’re all about.

Diversity and Inclusive Toys
Dr. Zabina Bhasin:
So, my name is Dr. Zabina Bhasin. I am a non-practicing child psychiatrist now because I am an entrepreneur that started a company that I founded in March 2020, known as In KidZ. We are a diverse and inclusive toy company on a mission to educate everyone through play. We launched on the basis of teaching children three years and older about diversity, inclusion and belonging, as well as protecting one another and making sure we teach our children about other cultures through toys and play.

Dr. Zabina Bhasin:
Well, why I launched that was because of my kids and that’s where I’m a mom also. My kids were my priority, I stopped practicing and I was a hospital administrator and I decided I wanted to do something to really uplift my children and teach them not only about our culture and our traditions and our religion but about other cultures and traditions because I got bullied so much when I was growing up.

Teaching Diversity Through Play
Dr. Zabina Bhasin:
Look, I’m a born-and-raised American. I was born in Cerritos, California. I was raised in Cerritos, which is culturally a diverse town but I was still bullied for the color of my skin, for my nose, for my food, the way I dressed.....

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Real Housewives of Orange County  Gretchen Rossi talks living in "sin," kids, and keeping kids safe from choking with a new life-saving device. Check out this celeb mom interview!

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Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi, and welcome back to another episode of The Breakdown with Bethany. I’m Bethany Braun-Silva and today my guest is Gretchen Rossi, a former cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County who’s also an entrepreneur and a loving mother. She’s also famously engaged to another cast member from The Real Housewives of Orange County, Slade Smiley. So we’re going to be talking about her not being married, living in sin, and keeping kids safe with an amazing life-saving device. You’re not going to want to miss it.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
So we were just saying like mom life, I actually have to run and pick up my kids. So we’re going to jump right in and your daughter, Skylar is about two and a half. She’s going to be three in July. So I just want to know how is that going? I mean, pandemic, toddler, all of it, what’s going on?

Gretchen Rossi:
So I love to say that it’s like that juxtaposition of it’s the most incredible thing ever that you will do, but it is literally the hardest thing you will ever do. It is. It’s all about maintaining a balance and good time management, which I still haven’t got down and it’s just so much harder than I think I thought it was ever going to be. I think I had this vision of everything’s just going to be rainbows and butterflies and I’m going to have this kid and it’s just going to be so much fun and then you wake up and your house is a disaster and you have no time for yourself or self-care and you have this little person that needs you 24/7 and you’re just like, ah.

Postpartum Depression
Bethany Braun-Silva:
I know. I mean, it’s a lot. It’s definitely a lot and actually, when I was preparing for this interview, I was researching about different interviews you’ve done and you talked to openly about postpartum depression and that may have even been a reason why you might not even be getting pregnant right away. So I want to know sort of what was that like in the beginning and how has it evolved till now, because one of my favorite things that I say a lot is that postpartum, that postpartum period is not six weeks. It’s not even six months. It’s like every… The time from you becoming a mother and beyond. My kids are six and 10 and I feel like I’m still in the postpartum period. So tell us a little bit about how it was then opposed to now almost three years later?...

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Meet host of "New York Live," journalist Joelle Garguilo. This mom of two girls is not only an incredible reporter and producer (she has two Emmys to prove it), but she is also one of the kindest people out there.

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Transcript of the Interview:
Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi, and welcome back to another episode of The Breakdown with Bethany. Today is a really special episode because I got to interview one of my heroes. Joelle Garguilo is not only an Emmy award-winning producer and reporter, but she’s also probably the nicest gal you’ll ever meet. She and I dished on kids, on work, on everything, and it really was a life-changing moment for me. Because, as I mentioned before, she is the inspiration and the reason why I wanted to be on camera. I hope you enjoy the interview. It was really a thrill, and Joelle is just so much fun. So take a look.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
I feel like you are the best interviewer out there. And I’m not the only one that says it. I’ve heard Patrice Poltzer say it. You have such a skill, and I want to know, and I think people in my field and our field, they want to know what are you doing that makes you so good? Is it prep? Is it your personality? What is it?

Joelle Garguilo:
That is the greatest compliment that anybody could ever give me. I’m not kidding, that truly is, so I will say thank you. And I say that because I do work really hard at it, but I also think, and I’m not saying you’re starting out, I’m saying when somebody is starting out, you’re nervous, as one should be, because you care. I think everyone’s always like, “I want to get to a point where I’m not nervous”, but I think nerves are good because it means that you still actually care about what you’re doing. But I do remember when I was starting out and I just wanted to be a good interviewer. And I think somewhere along the way, it all just clicked...

Joelle Garguilo:
There’s no secret. I wish that there was a secret, but if I would have to dig into my process, I would say, I just, I care. I really care. I think that there was a time at the beginning of my career, and I think for a lot of people at the beginning of their career when you’re interviewing someone, you’re thinking more about yourself. You’re like, “Oh, how can I get that soundbite? Or how can I get this? And how can I get that?” And you’re not really listening to anything that the other person is saying, because you’re worried about yourself. But once you flip that switch and it becomes about whoever’s on the other side of the microphone, or whatever medium it is, I do think it all falls into place. And I think, not for nothing, can we curse on here? Is there cursing?

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Yeah, please. There are no rules. No rules.

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Meet the super mama CEO who became a mom of TWO babies born 51 weeks apart… during the pandemic! Bonnie Bruderer of Binge Networks. 

....AND a big announcement about MomCaveTV….. we are now on over 100 Smart TV Networks (Apple TV, Amazon, Roku etc) thanks to Bonnie’s BINGEnetworks!

We also have an app on the Amazon Fire store (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TBM8NSK/ref=sr_1_1...)
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Jen: Hi, people of Facebook. We’re live on Facebook. We’re getting Instagram going and we have a really fun guest today. It’s been a while since I’ve done MomCave LIVE in the morning. Um, there, there we are. Okay. So we are on Instagram and Facebook with Bonnie Bruderer from Binge Networks. Hey Bonnie. 

Bonnie Bruderer: Hi. Hey guys.

Jen: Thanks for being up and awake and showered and makeup and everything at this point. Oh my God. 

Bonnie Bruderer: I have been up for like 17 hours already, I have two babies. 

Jen: And that’s exactly what I want to talk to you…. why I was so fascinated. And later Bonnie and I are going to make a big announcement later about MomCave.

Jen: And we’re going to talk about Bonnie’s business, but the most fascinating thing to me is not about business. It’s about when I heard that Bonnie had adopted two babies, newborn babies, since the pandemic and she’s running a business and she’s here talking to us. So you’re the super mama and we want to hear all about it.

Bonnie Bruderer: It was a very arduous, horrible, and very long process. Yeah. In total it took about eight years. Um, Obviously, that’s not what we’re here to talk about today. We can do a full show on that, but yes, a very, very long time. I have a whole other blog called disruptedmomma.com on that whole topic, so. 

I want to know about disrupted mama. Um, yeah. Okay. And so. You, uh, nobody was prepared for the pandemic to hit. Right. Um, it surprised us all, but let’s just go back to like the day. Before we knew the crap was going to hit the fan as I call it at that point....

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Nadia Murdock gets it! She’s a mom to two boys, a successful business owner, and a mindset and movement coach. She helps women achieve wellness by encouraging them to adopt a self-positive mindset. But she’s also been on the other side of it too and knows what it feels like to be overwhelmed and not feeling your best.

During our chat, we talked about what it takes to start and sustain a business, how to give yourself credit, and the importance of asking for help. Take a look below!

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Bethany Braun-Silva:
Welcome back to another episode of The Breakdown With Bethany. I’m Bethany Braun-Silva. And today my guest is Nadia Murdock, who’s a movement and mindset expert. She helps entrepreneurial moms prioritize themselves through movement and getting in the right mental space. And she’s also an entrepreneur herself. So this is one you’re not going to want to miss. Check it out. So I was looking on your website and you weren’t always into fitness and mindset. Right. This was sort of a pivot for you. So tell us a little bit about that.

Nadia Murdock:
Yeah. So I mean, it’s a while now, but when I went to college, I graduated with a BA in psychology and I thought I wanted to do forensic psychology. And then I got into the thick of it and I was like, oh, this is a little too much for me. So then I continued my journey doing odd-end jobs. And then I fell in love with communications and PR and that’s actually what I got my master’s in. And so then I worked in that, I worked in events, I worked in PR, fashion PR, event planning. And, but something kept bringing me back to fitness largely because I had my own hurdles that I was trying to overcome.

Nadia Murdock:
After college, I gained a considerable amount of weight that I just couldn’t seem to shake off and I was trying all these fad diets, the onion soup diet. I was miserable. I was depriving myself. And then I finally just said, okay, I’m going to join a gym. And I tried all the classes and I just found a love for it. I loved how it made me feel and it kind of stuck with me. So then I started freelancing for examiner.com. If you may remember that publication way back when, and I started reviewing fitness studios and taking classes and interviewing people like Billy Blanks and Jillian Michaels and all this-

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Wait the Tae Bo guy?

Nadia Murdock:
Yes.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
I have his VHS tapes....

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Bethany talks with real-life doctor and mom, pediatrician Dr. Whitney Casares aka Modern Mommy Doc.

Whitney Casares M.D. is a private-practice pediatrician, an AAP Spokesperson & Published Author, Podcast Host, and a mom to two young girls in Portland, Oregon. She is also the founder of the Modern Mommy Doc and the Modern Mamas Membership community dedicated to helping women thrive in motherhood. She’s pretty much your very knowledgeable best mom friend.

Dr. Whitney is all about helping moms so that they can help their kids. In our chat, we talk about self-care (the real kind), her amazing second book, and what she’s struggling with currently.
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Bethany Braun-Silva :
So I first want to talk about this book, The Working Mom Blueprint. I have to say when I read the little, I mean, I don’t know the subtitle, Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. I almost started tearing up and that’s where I guess I am right now in my parenting life. So can you talk to me a little bit about it? I mean, it’s your second book, but what was the inspiration behind it? What was the research, the writing process like and how has it been received so far?

Whitney Caseres:
Absolutely. So, yeah, it’s my second book. And the first book that I wrote was about how to take care of yourself in that first newborn period. Like how do you not completely lose it when you’re in the midst of sleeplessness and trying to feed a baby and all of that. And that really in pediatrics is a huge focus for us. We care so much about that newborn period, but then I realized as I started talking to other moms in my pediatrics practice, like what about all the time after that?

What about your entire working experience? If you’re a working mom or there are lots of moms that are at home that have unpaid work that they’re doing. Right. What about all those moms? And so after I had agreed with the American Academy of Pediatrics to write the first book, then they said, well, would you want to write a second book too?...

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Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi, and welcome back to another episode of the Breakdown with Bethany. I’m Bethany Braun-Silva and if you are a Bravo fanatic like I am, you’re going to be so excited about my guest today. Dorit Kemsley is a loving mom of two, a busy entrepreneur, and of course, one of the stars of the hit show, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She’s going to be talking to us today about her New Year’s resolutions and how she keeps her family connections strong all year long. You’re not going to want to miss this one, so keep watching to check it out.

Dorit Kemsley:
Hi Bethany.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Hi Dorit. Thank you so much for chatting with me today. I’m really excited.

Dorit Kemsley:
Me too Bethany. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I’m excited to be here.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Of course, and happy new year. I know it’s been a rough couple of years for us all, especially with us raising little ones, but we’re almost halfway through January and I’m wondering what are your New Year’s resolutions for 2022?

Dorit Kemsley:
My New Year’s resolutions this year, they’re easy. I am resolving to spend more time building connections with extended family all year long. Really the emphasis and the focus for me is family, family, family, which is not only an easy resolution, but it’s a warm and fuzzy one.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
Yeah. I love that. I think that really is such a great way to go into, start the new year off after what we’ve gone through the past few years. But so how do you plan on doing that? Because I know some of us are still facing some challenges with seeing family in person or whether you have family that lives on separate coasts or in another country. So how can extended family stay connected in 2022?

Dorit Kemsley:
So, my parents live out of state. They live on the East Coast. I just recently purchased this amazing device, Amazon Glow, which it’s an interactive projector and video calling device. And it allows kids to play games, read, draw, and they’ve been able to connect and play with my parents who are out of state. And they’re having a blast. Even though my parents are miles apart, they feel like they’re in the same room playing together.

Bethany Braun-Silva:
And that’s kind of nice. Do you feel like it gives you a little break too? Even though your parents aren’t there in person, sort of your kids are under the watchful eye of their grandparents. Maybe you can go and take a shower or do something for your