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

Tonya Harris is an award-winning environmental toxin expert and the founder of Slightly Greener, offering busy women simple tips to reduce toxins without turning their family's lifestyle upside-down. 

As a childhood leukemia survivor and mom of three (ages 17, 19, and 23), Tonya helps parents learn how toxins in the home can affect their family's health. 

Tonya holds a Master's degree in holistic nutrition, board certification and multiple certificates in the environmental health field. 

She has been featured in multiple publications and TV shows across the country sharing her expertise in environmental toxins, holistic nutrition and how toxins affect children. And her new book "The Slightly Greener Method" was released by Sourcebooks on August 3rd, 2021.

In this episode, Tonya and I chat about...

• Experience having her first child in college and then launching an e-commerce business
• The ingredients she eliminated in her house to help her son's attention issues
• Other chemicals and ingredients to get rid of in your house to make it "slightly greener" - how to detoxify your home (low tox living)
• Tips on where and what to start eliminating in your house by using her R.E.A.D. method
• Her morning and nighttime wellness routine
• Advice on raising teenagers

Follow Tonya at...

• Website: www.slightlygreener.com
• Instagram: @slightlygreener
• Book: The Slightly Greener Method

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Babita Trivedi is a certified financial planner with a passion for educating and empowering women in their financial lives. She helps her clients understand where they are financially, define where they want to be in the future, and give them strategies and tools to achieve those goals so they can feel less stress and be more confident in their future. 

She's a mom of 2 (5 and 11 year old) who went through a huge career transition after having her first kid.

In this episode we dive into her journey of going back to school and switching careers to everything you need to know to start planning for your financial future as a mom with young kids.

Financial planning is way more than just excel projections, pie graphs and investment portfolios, it's about imagining the life you want to have when you retire.

One of my favorite things she said to me offline was "I never knew my job would be mainly about helping people figure out what they want." And that is so true!

Follow Babita at:

• Company Website
• LinkedIn
• Free Financial Planning Consultation (CA, NY, NJ residents only)

Resources:

• https://lifehappens.org/ 

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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

As we come out of the pandemic, we're faced with a whole set of new challenges and issues, especially as parents. One of the major issues moving forward is in mental health. While we as parents are trying to navigate our own mental health, we're also trying to help our kids thrive.

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Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health trailblazer, the founder of The Global Institute of Children's Mental Health, author of the "Teletherapy Toolkit™" and It's Gonna be OK!™ and the go-to media expert who is, "Changing the way we view and treat children's mental health". 

Her proven holistic therapies and techniques have helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions from ADHD, anxiety, mood, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS. She is often featured on dozens of media outlets: Fox, CBS, NBC, PARENTS, and New York Times.

Dr. Roseann is also the incredible mom of 2 boys, a 16-year old who was diagnosed with PANS and a 10-year old. 

As we come out of the pandemic, I think her work is so important to parents as we try to navigate the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of our children. 

In this episode, we chat about...

• Her motherhood journey raising a special needs child
• The secret to happy relationship, the importance of communication with your spouse
• What is neurofeedback and holistic mental health?
• How to teach your kids to cope with stress and regulate themselves
• Staying firm with your boundaries in all aspects of your life
  

Resources:

• Article: How the Pandemic Impacts Children's Mental Health
• Books:
  • It's Gonna Be OK™: Proven Ways to Improve Your Child's Mental Health
  • Teletherapy Toolkit™: Therapist Handbook for Treating Children and Teens
  • COPING STATEMENTS: Over 100 ways to help kids learn to manage stress - www.teletherapytoolkitbonus.com 

Follow Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge:

• Websites: www.drroseann.com and www.childrensmentalhealth.com 
• IG: @drroseann

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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.

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• IG: @MommysonaCall // @StephanieUchima

This week I'm sharing an episode I did with Sue Groner on the Parenting Mentor Sessions - Episode 22: When Everything Has To Be An Argument.

During this episode, Sue coaches me through how to manage sibling rivalry between my three kids who are always yelling, arguing and fighting about everything!

In this episode we talk about:

• What's behind sibling rivalry
• The value of alone time and why it's okay to need it
• The importance of letting your kids work it out
• The value of brainstorming and trial-and-error
• Why it's helpful to let your kids know what the plan is
• The Untouchable Box and its uses

Make sure to check out The Parenting Mentor Sessions for more amazing coaching sessions for parents.

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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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• IG: @MommysonaCall // @StephanieUchima

Betsy Fore was named one of Forbes 30 under 30, BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, and she is currently the co-founder of Tiny Organics, a nutrient-rich, organic baby food company designed to build adventurous eaters from a young age.

Betsy has over a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO, serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition and Policy Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama's Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation.

But above all, she is the mama of a little boy named Sebastian who was the inspiration behind launching Tiny Organics.

In this episode, Betsy and I chatted about...

• Her Forbes 30 Under 30 title for manufacturing and industry as one of the only woman inventors in her company and her inspiration to be an inventor
• In her first company Wondermento, she invented the first "fitbit" for dogs called WonderWoof
• Her journey from being raised in a rural town with a Native American mother to building Tiny Organics at 8 months pregnant
• Lessons learned from scaling her first company: growing a team, creating a shared vision, exiting a company, being a solo founder and fundraising
• How to feed your baby whole foods with baby led weaning, starting solids and why timing on savory over sweet flavors is important for developing a child's palette
• What she did differently with her second company: Tiny Organics
• The importance of Tiny's Founding Family - testing and reiterating for a year before bringing it to market and the value of organic word of mouth marketing over paid advertising and how it led to scaling and funding faster

Interested in trying out Tiny Organics? Get 40% off the first box of Tiny meals with code: TINYLOVESMOAC

Follow Betsy & Tiny Organics at...

• Website: www.tinyorganics.com
• Instagram: @tinyorganics

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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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• IG: @MommysonaCall // @StephanieUchima

Today I'm sharing an interview I did on the Not Your Mother's Podcast with Sonnet and Veronica (Ep. 121: How to Organize Your Life to Keep What Works and Leave What Doesn't with Stephanie Uchima-Carney) all about finding focus as a busy mom. We talk about the difference between our role as a mom and identity, a step-by-step process I use to figure out how to focus and take intentional actions in our lives and more! This is a great way to kick-off the last quarter of the year and set yourself up for success!

Sonnet and Veronica were also on this podcast (Ep. 80 "Becoming a Better Parent by Learning How to Regulate Yourself First" - Listen HERE) so tune into their episode too!

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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

Meghan Dwyer is a wife, boy mom of 2, financial planner and the host of the Money Isn't Scary podcast, which was inspired by her own struggle with her relationship with money, while trying to do all the "right" things as a working mom.

Meghan is a woman on a mission to remove the stigma around money in our culture and to get women talking about it, without fear.

In this episode Meghan and I chat about...

• Switching jobs/companies in the middle of COVID and the process she went through to gain clarity on her values and what she wanted to do in the world
• How to get intune with and shift your beliefs and mindset around money
• How to break through the taboo and stigmas and have conversations about money with your mom group
• Equating money with worth and the stigma around being the breadwinner as a mom
  

Follow Meghan at...

• Website: www.moneyisntscary.com
• Instagram: @moneyisntscary

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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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Julie Ciardi is a former Fortune 500 marketing executive who has taken her passion for business and marketing to help women create businesses and income streams that create passion, purpose, profit and protection for themselves and their families.

She is also the host of the Ignite Her Mind podcast, but above all she is the mom to two teenagers and a 7 year old. 

In this episode Julie and I talk about:

• The impact working on personal growth and mindset has made on how she parents, especially raising teenagers
• Why all moms, not just business moms, should focus on personal growth and development
• Creating an intentional co-parenting situation that has worked for over a decade
• Her personal journey leaving her Fortune 500 executive job as the primary breadwinner in the family to transitioning into launching her own businesses and how she manifested it all to happen
• The steps to take to manifest your future in a tangible, not woo-woo way
• The first steps moms can take to figure out what to do next in their life
• The number one word to take out of your vocabulary to shift your mindset

To learn more about how to work with Julie to create 10K breakthroughs in your business, apply to her Ignite 10K Program at www.julieciardi.com/apply

Follow Julie at...

• Website: www.julieciardi.com
• Instagram: @julieciardi

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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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Stacey Shieh Lee is passionate about finance and her purpose is to empower people to achieve their financial dreams.

As a financial executive in the start-up tech space, she has helped founders and CEOs build sound financial processes and systems to get to the next level. 

She has translated her experiences into her company, Solve Your Books, where they bring a next level service to accounting in e-commerce, creative and PR agencies and women-owned businesses. Stacey is also a personal finance coach and provides advisory and CFO level services.

But above all she is a mom of 2, a 6 and 8 year old, who were the motivation and wake-up call for her to leave her corporate dream career to pursue entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Stacey and I chat about...

• Her personal journey leaving her dream corporate career to launch her own business and how she financially made it happen
• How to start an emergency savings fund
• How to allocate your paycheck into different buckets
• Money mindset and what important questions you need to ask yourself when saving (and spending) money
• A step-by-step plan to get out of personal debt
• How to have an intentional conversation about money and structuring your finances with your partner (without fighting)
• How she personally structures her family's finances (hint: this is how you save for a mom's weekend to Miami and still put money toward retirement even if you're a stay-at-home mom)

Follow Stacey at

• Website: www.solveyourbooks.com
• IG: @staceyshiehlee

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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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• IG: @MommysonaCall // @StephanieUchima

Katie Bressack is an award winning holistic nutritionist who specializes in women's hormonal health; such as painful periods, PCOS, heavy/irregular periods, amenorrhea and thyroid imbalances, post birth control, pre/postnatal and preparing for pregnancy. Katie also helps women transition through perimenopause and menopause.

Katie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Jim, their identical twin boys Brady and Devin and their dog, Piper. 

Join Katie's "Eat For Your Hormones" Group Program starting September 13, 2021 >> HERE

• Her journey getting pregnant at 40 with identical twins
• How to address postpartum issues like painful sex, scar tissue, and weight gain
• All about sugar cravings and regulating blood sugar in women and why it's different than in men
• Ways to combat heavy periods (hint: stress, sleep and food play a huge role)
• How to eat for your hormones (timing and types of food matter) during each part of your cycle
• How intermittent fasting affects women
• Why sleep is the most important category for hormone regulation 
• How to track your blood sugar throughout the day and week
• And the 3 categories you must have at every meal regardless if you're trying lose weight or regulate your hormones

• Website: www.katiebressack.com
• IG: @katiebressack

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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