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

When the pandemic hit, many small businesses struggled and many mom business owners chose to take a step back, but not Angela Engel. Instead, this mom of 3 went all-in to scale her business, The Collective Book Studio, because now was "her time to push forward."

For many years Angela Engel worked in sales and marketing for nationally known category leaders in publishing, including Chronicle Books, Cameron + Company, Dwell Studio, and Moleskine. She has sold to key national and international retailers such as Amazon, Costco, Nordstrom, and Target and became a sought-after expert in the industry. 

But motherhood pulled her in a different direction. Today, Angela is the Founder of The Collective Book Studio, a full-service, partnership publisher that has disrupted the publishing industry. Now, Angela has the opportunity to provide authors the support they need to get a beautiful book out into the world, from start to finish.

In this episode we talk all about

• How she overcame working mom guilt
• Leaving a corporate career to start a consulting business
• Turning a consulting side business into an imprint / publishing company
• Using relatable skills to disrupt an industry
• The lessons being a working corporate mom taught her children (and herself)

Follow Angela at

• Website: thecollectivebook.studio
• IG: @thecollectivebookstudio

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Shannon Kenny Carbonell is a former actress and author of the memoir "All is Not LOST" which is a book for every mom who's ever felt lost or stuck in that "what's next for me?" moment, which I think we've all gone through at one or many points in our lives.

She is also the wife of actor Nestor Carbonell of LOST, Bates Motel, and The Morning Show fame and a mom to a 15 and 19 year old.

When her kids were young, Shannon made the hard decision to give up her own acting career in favor of her husband's career and full-time motherhood. No matter how painful, she knew she was making the better choice for her and her family. Just like the LOST survivors, she had crashed on an island that would test her, heal her, and surround her with the people who would eventually show her the way home.

Shannon shares raw and honest stories of her experience and lessons learned from taking a pause on her career, having to rediscover her identity, and filling that void within her. We also talk about relationships, communication, life as an actor, and dealing with resentment.

Follow Shannon at

• Website: shannonkennycarbonell.com
• IG: @newshannonjkc
• Buy "All is Not Lost" on Amazon

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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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Sue Groner is The Parenting Mentor and author of "Parenting with Sanity and Joy: 101 Simple Strategies." She helps parents reduce the everyday stress and anxiety that inevitably comes from parenting by providing strategies and skills to parent with more sanity and joy.

In this episode we cover some real-life scenarios of parenting challenges and strategies to implement in each scenario to deliver a better and more positive outcome.

Say yes with joy. Your child is not your mini me. Stop giving unsolicited advice… are just a few pieces of advice Sue and I discussed in this episode all about how to parent with more sanity and joy, whether you have little ones or teenagers. 

Buy "Parenting with Sanity & Joy: 101 Simple Strategies" on Amazon

Follow Sue at

• Website: theparentingmentor.com
• IG: @theparentingmentor
  

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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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After being laid off at 7 months pregnant in her corporate job and faced with pregnancy discrimination when job hunting, Brea Starmer was thrown into consulting. Her experience inspired her to launch her agency, Lions and Tigers, which is a marketing, operations and strategy consultancy building a bridge to the future of work.

Today, Brea has a team of nearly 100 consultants that work flexibly and part-time by bringing highly-skilled workers to organizations through her innovative and inclusive business model. 

On top of scaling this business to almost 8-figures, Brea is the mama to 3 little ones and just returned from her first ever maternity leave with her baby girl.

In this episode we discuss:

• The three steps you need to take before you start consulting
• How to become a part-time consultant
• How to price your services and find your first clients
• How to sell your consultancy services (vs. filling an internal role)
• Key systems to put into place when running a team and scaling while working part-time
• What does flexibility look like in the future of work

Brea is an absolute powerhouse mama looking to change the future of work while helping other highly skilled women (especially moms) have flexibility and access to the workforce.

Follow Brea at

• Website: www.lions-tigers.com
• IG: @BreaStarmer and @lionstigersco

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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

If the words reiki, energy healing, feminine energy or chakras make you run in the other direction, stop, open yourself up to something new and take a listen.

Today's guest is Carah Elizabeth, a former psychotherapist turned Body Wisdom Coach. Carah incorporates her years as a psychotherapist with holistic approaches such as Somatic Movement, Yoga, Breathwork and Reiki energy healing to help women find healing for their body, mind and soul.

With 15 years experience in mental health, Carah has helped thousands of women reconnect to the wisdom of their bodies; finding freedom from the prison of body hatred, limiting beliefs and past traumatic experiences so they can live a life fully connected and confident.

In this episode, we talk about

• Transitioning from traditional psychotherapy to being a body wisdom coach
• Ways to connect, move and listen to your body
• Using reiki and energy to heal
• Masculine vs. feminine energy
• We go a little woo with moon circles and chakras

Follow Carah at

• IG: @Carah.Elizabeth

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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

How many times do we say "I'm sorry" in our day? Or tell our kids to apologize and say "sorry" after everything they do wrong? Or even do things they might not feel comfortable doing in that moment like FaceTime the grandparents or give a friend a hug? We sometimes guilt ourselves and our children to do things we might not want to do just to please the other party. These habits are learned at a young age.

In today's episode, Annie Henderson and I talk about how to end mom guilt and stop being a people pleaser, what it's like to co-parenting with parent of opposite views, and how social media has helped her create a safe space, community and support for Christian LGBTQ+ and allies.

Annie grew up as a people pleaser and did not come out of the closet until she was in her late 20s after getting married and having a baby. Annie now has a partner of 9 years and a 14 year old daughter. She lives in Texas and is a Life Coach, Counselor, EFT Practitioner and Coming Out Coach for LGBTQ+ and families struggling with their child coming out and need some guidance along the way.

She has also partnered with her church to create a safe space for LGBT and Allies on Facebook because they know how much the church has hurt the LGBT community and are wanting to provide a safe, judgement free and affirming space.

Resources:

• The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
• Untamed by Glendon Doyle
• Brene Brown "Post It Note"

Follow Annie

• Website: www.anniemhenderson.com
• IG: @life_coach_annie
• TikTok: @anniemhenderson

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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

After a jam packed April and May releasing 2 episodes (if not more) per week, I thought I'd take a break to share some of my top takeaways from the last month of episodes.

May was Mental Health Awareness and Asian American Heritage Month, and I realized that the common theme throughout the episodes was all about mindset.

Tune in to hear my top 5 takeaways from May's episodes and if you missed out on some of the episodes, head back and take a listen!

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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

Kenise Etwaru is an executive leadership coach, women's empowerment strategist, entrepreneur, best selling author and motivational speaker. However, above all these successes, her greatest pride and joy is being a mom to an 11 year old daughter.

When her daughter was 2, Kenise became a single mom overnight and the sole provider. While she had a full-time job and was financially independent, Kenise was bored and started looking to start something new on her own. Slowly, she started consulting on top of her 40-hour a week "day job" and as a full-time single mom. 

That consulting side hustle turned into multiple more streams of income - from coaching to HR training to book publishing to singing and piano playing, Kenise quit her day job and today has created 7 income streams for herself.

In this episode we talk about how to develop multiple income streams, how to rebrand yourself (physically), and how to transition from being an employee to taking your side hustle to a full-time business. We also chat about her daughter's new book called Be You. Be Cool. Be Kind, which is all about bullying and how Kenise is teaching her daughter to be financially responsible.

Follow Kenise at...

• Website: keniseetwaru.com
• IG: @kenise_etwaru

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Attention Toddler Parents... if you want to learn more about how to take charge of the toddler years so that you can stop wanting to pull your hair out and throw your own parent tantrum, then head over to Raising Children You Like for more info at bit.ly/stoptoddlertantrums 

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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

I think it's safe to say the word "overwhelm" might have been the word of the year for moms in 2020; however, as we move forward in mid-2021, it's the word that should be banished from our vocabulary. But how do you get rid of overwhelm from your vocabulary and your life?

Jennifer Blossom is a boy mom of two, occupational therapist, and the CEO and Founder of Blossoming Moms, a digital wellness brand that helps overwhelmed moms simplify motherhood using healthy habits and simple strategies. 

She is also the host of the top-rated mom podcast, The Blossoming Moms Show, and lives in a little fishing town with her husband and sons just south of Anchorage, Alaska.

In today's episode Jennifer and I talk about how she had to get scrappy in order to create her online business from a little town in Alaska; she shares tangible tips on how to overcome and banish overwhelm as a mom, important rituals and practices every mom should implement daily and how to shift your mindset to get clear on what's important in this season of motherhood.

Follow Jennifer at...

• Website: www.blossomingmoms.co
• IG: @blossomingmoms_co

Resources Mentioned:

• Asana
• Meditation Apps: Calm, Insight Timer, Simple Habit*
• FitOn App

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Attention Toddler Parents... if you want to learn more about how to take charge of the toddler years so that you can stop wanting to pull your hair out and throw your own parent tantrum, then head over to Raising Children You Like for more info at bit.ly/stoptoddlertantrums 

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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

This episode with Bethany Braun-Silva was a good reminder that it is okay to take a week off. It is okay to take time to stop and think about what your goals are in life. And it is okay to focus on your career even if you have young kids.

Bethany has 2 boys and lives in NYC. In her off hours you can find her on-air showcasing some of the latest and greatest parenting products, side note - she shares one of her favorite summer products in the episode, or talking all about working motherhood. 

Because I batch my podcast episodes, this episode was recorded in February so at the time Bethany was the editor at Parenting.com. Since then she has moved over to be the Senior Content Strategist at What to Expect and is still living her dream in the parenting and lifestyle space.

In this episode we talk all about taking a week off just to herself, how to discover and connect to your passions, finding freelance jobs as a mom and her journey as a career-driven full-time working mom.

Follow Bethany at...

• Website: bethanybraun.com
• IG: @bethanybraunsilva

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Attention Toddler Parents... if you want to learn more about how to take charge of the toddler years so that you can stop wanting to pull your hair out and throw your own parent tantrum, then head over to Raising Children You Like for more info at bit.ly/stoptoddlertantrums 

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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