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

Emma Isaacs is the Founder and Global CEO of Business Chicks. She's also the author of Winging It (released September 15) and a mother to six kids aged 11 and under. Emma recently live-streamed the home birth of her sixth child from her living room with tens of thousands of viewers tuning in to watch his arrival. Emma doesn't believe in work/life balance, preferring to advocate for a full life where people are in constant evaluation of what they truly want from it.

In this episode we talked about how work gives her energy, how she combats mom guilt, why she hasn't quit working after 6 kids, how she decides what to say yes to and what to say no to and what her home life looks like managing a multi-million dollar business alongside writing a book and being a mom of six.

Follow Emma:

• www.EmmaIsaacs.com
• IG: @emmaisaacs & @businesschicks
• Book: Winging It

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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

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Whitnee Hawthorne is a woman who wears many hats. From her "day job" as a Fortune 500 executive to being the founder of The Savvy Working Mom, a certified coach, professional speaker, author, podcast host, productivity expert, and more, this mom of a 2.5 year old and 13 week old boy embraces what it is truly like to be a working mom.

In this episode Whitnee and I chat about her inspiration behind launching The Savvy Working Mom alongside her job as a Fortune 500 Executive, how she manages a professional career, being a mom, and an entrepreneurial side venture, what she's doing differently this time around on maternity leave with her second child and tips on how to transition back to work after maternity leave.

Follow Whitnee:

• www.thesavvyworkingmom.com
• IG: @thesavvyworkingmom
• Podcast: The Savvy Working Mom

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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

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Now that we've officially started (distance learning) Kindergarten (aka Zoom Kindergarten), I decided to bring on some of my Mommy Pod to discuss how they're coping with virtual kinder and what they're doing to make it work.

Starting Kindergarten off virtually has been an interesting and unique experience, and not necessarily a good one for many reasons. But kids are resilient and in the end, they seem to be doing okay.

But are the parents? Not at all. Just like in the spring, the parents are still the ones suffering and for many, at least one parent (in many cases the mom) has to be available at all times.

So how can we make this work? What can we do to help our children and ourselves?

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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 you 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

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Who's this??? You might notice a change this week... the podcast has been renamed!

The Power Mom Minute is now the Mommy's on a Call podcast.

I'm excited to bring to you all new interviews, real talk with my mommy pod and solo episodes that go behind-the-scenes to uncover the daily rituals, life lessons, real-life tactics and favorite tools to help you thrive in motherhood, business and life.

The mission of the Mommy's on a Call podcast is to curate and share content and resources to empower and inspire YOU, mommy, to get the most out of your life - yourself, your work, and your relationships - with more intention, more laughter and more self-care every single unpredictable day.

Besides sharing behind-the-scenes of the lives of moms (and dads) I'm interviewing, they'll also be sharing some of their expertise from entrepreneurship to health and wellness to mindset to motherhood and more!!!

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

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For show notes, visit www.MommysonaCall.com

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

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Happy 1 year of podcasting! While I'm only 20 episodes in, accomplishing this is a celebration in itself especially after the crazy rollercoaster of 2020 and having my third baby in Feb.

I have learned so much about podcasting, my business and my life over the last year and I share a few of those in today's episode.

Along with those insights, over the last year I've interviewed dozens of mom entrepreneurs both on the podcast, in-person and on my Parenting in a Pandemic Series. And while every mom has a different family structure and situation, there are a lot of commonalities that allow them to pursue their passion and succeed as a "power mom."

In this episode I share the top 3 takeaways I learned after interviewing all these mom entrepreneurs. 

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For more information, visit www.PowerMomMinute.com

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Having a Baby, Surviving Parenting, Running a Business During the Pandemic

In the last 6 months (yes during a Pandemic), I had a baby, homeschooled a preschoolers, ran a business, continued a podcast, ended a 10 year old event planning company, and survived parenting 3 kids while working from home.

So this week we're taking a "le pause" to reflect on the past 6 months (since the baby just turned 6 months old) in order to plan for the rest of the year. If you don't have awareness of where you are in the present, it's hard to figure out how to move forward.

By using the same feedback loops and system of reflection I apply to my business to my life, I am able to make a plan for how to move forward.

Listen in to learn more about what to do and how to apply this process to your life so that you can plan out the rest of 2020 with success!

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In Part 2, Jesse and I dive into wellness and self-care as a busy mom. After having a health scare when her second kid was 3 months old, Jesse realized she needed to focus on making sure she took care of herself.

Jesse Draper is the Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures, an LA-based early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in female founded consumer technology. She's a 4th generation venture capitalist (just watch the show Meet the Drapers), a former Nickelodeon star and also the creator and host of the Emmy nominated TV series, The Valley Girl Show.

But of all the hats she wears, her MAIN ROLE (and most important) is as the mother to 2 little boys.

Juggling her role as investor, "mother to companies", mother to 2 boys, wife and more is no easy feat especially with two full-time working parents. 

If you missed Part 1 - check out Episode 17.

Disclaimer: This was recorded pre-COVID... don't we all wish we could still get our nails done!

Interview Notes:

• [5:01] Jesse's emergency health scare
• [6:28] The 3 things she makes sure she does daily
• [7:21] Jesse's morning routine
• [13:30] Favorite apps / services 
• [16:43] Advice to pre-mom self
• [19:58] Family meetings

Follow Jesse at

• Halogen Ventures: www.halogenvc.com
• Instagram: @jessecdraper

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Jesse Draper is the Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures, an LA-based early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in female founded consumer technology. She's a 4th generation venture capitalist (just watch the show Meet the Drapers), a former Nickelodeon star and also the creator and host of the Emmy nominated TV series, The Valley Girl Show.

But of all the hats she wears, her MAIN ROLE (and most important) is as the mother to 2 little boys.

Juggling her role as investor, "mother to companies", mother to 2 boys, wife and more is no easy feat especially with two full-time working parents. 

In Part 1, Jesse and I dive into the behind-the-scenes of her home and work life, her path from daughter of a famous venture capitalist to TV star to founder of her own venture capital firm, and her journey through motherhood.

Interview Notes:

• [5:37] Jesse's "past life" (aka pre-kid life)
• [12:30] Discussion on mom founded companies
• [15:42] How her priorities shifted after becoming a mom and her responsibilities as a "mother" to companies
• [20:15] How she's implementing the concepts from the book Fair Play into her marriage and household
• [24:27] Areas of her life she leaves messy
• [27:10] How she's trying to invest in childcare solutions
• [29:03] Finding your identity as a mom

Follow Jesse at

• Halogen Ventures: www.halogenvc.com
• Instagram: @jessecdraper

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After being on bedrest for most of her pregnancy and delivering her first child at 24 weeks and 5 days, which was 15 days longer than expected, Parijat Deshpande used her personal experience to embark on a journey learning and researching all about how the body's nervous system reacts to stressors, anxiety, and fear associated with a high risk pregnancy.

In this episode, I learned so much about how she approaches the stress cycle and how to use neurobiological techniques to help improve your overall mind-body connection. 

She explains why deep breathing and a lot of common quick fixes aren't the answer to combating stress long-term and why she doesn't believe in "stress management."

I think my big takeaway was how to tune in, acknowledge and listen to my body effectively so that I have the tools to properly respond to situations that change my baseline stress level.

Her approach is extremely fascinating and can be applied to more than just a high-risk pregnancy, but in any situation when you feel high stress, which as a parent is quite often!

Parijat is the leading high-risk pregnancy specialist, somatic stress & trauma professional and speaker and author who guides women to improve their pregnancy complications so they can reduce their risk of preterm birth. 

Her unique neurobiological approach has served hundreds of women to manage pregnancy complications and reclaim a safety and trust in their bodies that they thought was eroded forever.

Parijat is the author of bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy. She is also the host of the popular podcast Delivering Miracles®, that discusses the real, raw side of family-building including infertility, loss, high-risk pregnancy, bed rest, prematurity and healing once the baby comes home. Learn more at parijatdeshpande.com

Follow Parijat Deshpande at

• Website: www.parijatdeshpande.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthy.highriskpregnancy

Watch (or listen) to ALL 17 experts for FREE on the Pregnancy & Parenting in a Pandemic Series: ParentingPandemicSeries.com

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Imagine taking care of 4 young kids, having the responsibility of running a business with multiple employees and managing clients all from a Brooklyn apartment... while both you AND your husband have been diagnosed with COVID.

Well that situation was a reality for Chanie Wilschanski.

Chanie also appeared in episode 4 of the podcast, so I'm happy to have her back.

In this episode we chatted about how she survived parenting while having COVID, how she structures work and life behind the scenes without childcare and help, how values came into play on making her decisions, what she does to make sure her relationship stays intact and more!

Chanie is an Early Childhood Leadership Coach and Culture Specialist, and she has had the privilege of working with hundreds of EC Directors who are working to build a School of Excellence.

Chanie began her journey over a decade ago, teaching toddlers at the acclaimed Preschool of the Arts in NYC.

Continuing her path into higher studies, she got her Masters in EC and Special Education, and started training teachers and school leaders on the HOW part of creating excellence in their schools.

Through her journey, Chanie got married and had 4 children. Her hands are full! Chanie knows what it takes to lead a large center and have a full-time job at home as well.

Follow Chanie at...

• Website: https://ecschoolofexcellence.com/
• Instagram: @ChanieWilschanski

Watch (or listen) to ALL 17 experts for FREE on the Pregnancy & Parenting in a Pandemic Series: ParentingPandemicSeries.com/

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