Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

For most moms with babies, you meet another mom at the park or in a mommy and me class and then you form a friendship or start a mom tribe in which you do wine nights or play dates, but it's rarely the case that a chance encounter because your kids leads to a life changing business venture.

However, that was the case for Katya Libin, the co-founder & CEO of HeyMama, a membership community that connects working moms at every stage of life and career.

HeyMama has over 3,200+ members (me included) and creates opportunities for their members to bring their whole selves while advancing their careers.

Honestly, for me HeyMama has been one of the best communities and investments I have ever made… and trust me, I don't get any sort of referral or affiliate for this, but because of HeyMama I have met so many incredible working moms, many of which have now been on the podcast and more of them to come.

This community that Katya and her co-founder Amri founded back in 2014 has grown into a diverse online and in-real life (when there isn't a pandemic) community that gives moms the platform to provide each other with support, connection, and collaboration in life and business. 

In this episode, we talk about life with a blended family, how she includes her daughter in everything, favorite binge worthy TV shows, spiritual work, having a co-founder to tips for entrepreneurs just starting out right now.

Follow Katya at

• Website: www.heymama.co
• IG: @heymamaco & @katyaslife

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Sarah K Peck is on a mission to rethink modern parenthood (work + parenting) in order to live a more fulfilled life. In an era where traditional gender roles are being redefined and the "work hard and hustle" mentality is no longer a goal, Startup Parent is paving a path for the new modern day working parent.

Sarah is the founder and CEO of Startup Parent, the host of The Startup Parent Podcast, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting, and runs The Wise Women's Council, a year-long membership program for women to come together and be honest and brave together while navigating the challenges of working and parenting.

She's worked previously at Y-Combinator backed startups, and as a writing and communications consultant. Her writing and work has been featured on Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. Sarah lives in New York City with her family.

Follow Sarah K Peck at

• Website: www.startupparent.com
• IG: @StartupParent
• Listen to the Startup Parent Podcast

Resources Mentioned

• Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
• All the Rage by Darcy Lockman
• The Artist's Way Workbook by Julia Cameron
• Sarah's Books: https://www.sarahkpeck.com/books/
• How to Practice Saying No

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

Samantha Ettus is a mom of 3, a Harvard undergrad and MBA graduate, bestselling author including "The Pie Life: A Guilt Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction" and more recently the Founder and CEO of Park Place Payments. 

In her spare time, she also co-hosts a podcast with Amy Nelson from the Riveter called "What's Her Story with Sam and Amy, " where they bring on incredibly accomplished women to learn all about their story. Some of their guests include Melinda Gates, Sallie Krawcheck, Marcia Cross, and Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach (to name drop a few).

Samantha is also the guru and expert on how to thrive professionally and personally, and I was excited to dive into what it looks like behind the scenes and how the pie life has shifted for her in 2020.

Her new venture Park Place Payments is a women founded and run fintech company that is changing the way financial services are sold to independent businesses.

They are on a mission to disrupt the payment and credit card processing industry by bringing it the trust, pricing clarity, and white glove customer service every business deserves. 

And to do this, they start with an honest analysis of your business and your current solution and you are given the power to decide if it makes sense to switch. The result is the highest customer retention and satisfaction rate in the industry. 

To request a free Payment Checkup, go to ParkPlacePayments.com and tell them you heard about it from Mommy's On a Call podcast.

Follow Samantha at

• Website: www.samanthaettus.com/ & www.parkplacepayments.com
• Instagram: @samanthaettus & @parkplacepayments

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

Dr. Stephanie Canale is a family medicine physician and professor and the founder of Lactation Lab, a company on a mission to help empower women with data to be their best selves and help their children thrive by taking the guessing out of breastfeeding and biohacking milk.

After practicing medicine for many years, Dr. Stephanie has traded the doctor life for the startup life while raising her two kids. 

Besides all the information I learned about breastmilk from Dr. Stephanie, I found it so inspiring that she left an established medical practice to join a startup accelerator to pursue her passion in helping moms.

So even if you aren't breastfeeding or don't really want to learn about breastmilk, tune in because she talks all about her journey launching her startup and the challenges with fundraising.

Follow Dr. Stephanie Canale at

• Website: www.lactationlab.com
• IG: @LactationLab

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

If you want to design your future, you "have got to awaken and become conscious to the unconscious thought patterns, emotional patterns, ways of being that are driving the bus... [manifesting] is becoming awake to the reality that you have the ability to create in the physical world." ~ Heidi Stevens

Heidi Stevens is a wealth consciousness coach and helps women manifest lives better than they think is possible. She works with her clients to have massive mindset & transformational outcomes through her group program Magnetic & the Ascension Mastermind.

Heidi also has a masters in spiritual psychology and is a fellow UCLA bruin like myself.

But her most important role is as a mom of two.

I've been following Heidi for a while and listening to her podcast the Heidi Stevens podcast and I love all her insight on the feminine divine, healing, abundance and manifestation. 

But that wasn't always who she was and in this episode, you'll hear all about her physical and spiritual journey to where she is today.

I hope this episode inspires some of you out there to take action on something that is pulling you inside to do something different because it's never too late.

Follow Heidi at...

• Web: www.heidistevens.co
• IG: @heidistevens
• Raise Your Vibration Meditation

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

Happy New Year!!! It's finally 2021... we survived 2020. I thought I'd drop in today with a quick update on what's to come and my 2021 word of the year.

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

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• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

In today's episode I share my top 5 life lessons I learned from 2020 and how you can take these and customize it to your life.

I would love to hear what unexpected lessons shaped your 2020 vision? And what's in the plans for '21?

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

When I decided to revamp my blog and personal brand a few years ago, I started following Elna Cain. Elna is a freelance writer, consultant and blogger. She owns several sites including Twins Mommy where she helps moms make money blogging and is the mom to some fabulous twins.

Elna's pins would pop up on my feed everywhere… how to start a blog, how to monetize a blog, how to increase blog traffic, how to drive traffic using Pinterest, etc.. and so back in 2017, I reached out to her to contribute to one of my round-up posts and she said yes.

Flash forward 3 years later and Elna and I reconnected as speakers at a virtual summit back in October and we chatted all about making a living as a full-time blogger and if that is a thing of the past or actually still possible.

Blogging is still thriving and Elna is here to share success strategies on how to launch and monetize one in 2021 especially as a mom. If you're looking to start a blog for either a side hustle or full-time income stream, way to build credibility in your brand and business or as a creative outlet then listen closely.

Follow Elna at...

• Website: elnacain.com & twinsmommy.com
• Instagram: @elnacain
• Facebook Group: Mom to Mompreneur

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

Jamie Kolnick is a writer, mama of a 2, musician, philanthropist and the Founder and CEO of the nationwide children's music company, "Jam with Jamie." She is currently writing a comedic coming-of-age memoir about loss.

In this episode we discuss:

• how she pivoted her company from an in-person event-based business to online/virtual because of the pandemic and is now able to reach millions of children all over the world with her music programs
• her journey dealing with the loss of her father to leukemia, her mother to cancer and her brother to a car accident
• how those experiences taught her so much about how to approach grief and loss in your life
• how life and loss are so intertwined in everyone's life
• tools to communicate with people who are grieving because so often it's a different subject matter
• and so much more (even bits on Transcendental Mediation, BeachBody and social media cleansing)!

Follow Jamie at...

• Web: https://jamwithjamie.com/
• IG: @jamwithjamie
• IG: @jamiekolnick
  

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima

In today's episode, I chat with Uma Naralkar, a licensed health coach and integrative nutritionist, the founder of Om With a Twist and the mom to two boys, ages 9 and 11.

If you don't know what integrative nutrition is or how moms can really benefit from taking a more holistic approach with their health (especially after babies messing up our hormones), then definitely listen in!

Uma specializes in hormonal health, digestive health and fat loss. She believes that good health is not just about what you are eating or how much you are exercising but also your mindset plays a very important role in your outcome. 

All her programs are based on a holistic approach and she believes in creating a strong mind and body connection that will support each client in optimizing their health.

Uma's practice is based in Los Angeles; however, she also works remotely with several international clients from India and the UK. Most of her clients are women in the age group of 30 to 60. 

In this episode, Uma and I talk all about

• How her morning routine influences her entire day and her advice for how to create one with kids
• What her bedtime routine looks like
• What is integrative nutrition all about
• The different levels of hormones and how each directly affect our health
• Intermittent fasting, the influence of sugar, and periods

Follow Uma at...

• Web: https://omwithatwist.com/
• IG: @umanaralkar
• FB: https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOm

If you want to join the next round of the Om 10-Week Challenge, which runs from Jan 11 - March 21, 2021, sign up here: https://omwithatwist.com/product/om-10-week-challenge/

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Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week.

Subscribe and tune in weekly because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!!

For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

• Stephanie's Website
• IG: @MommysonaCall & @StephanieUchima