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

Corey Spiegel is a mom of 2 teenagers and the founder of Light House, a community for like-minded women of all ages (even teens) to have real conversations on real topics with real people about real life. Through their many classes, Corey has created a safe space for women to be themselves, be supported and be heard in a confidential, judgement-free environment.

After spending over 25 years as a senior executive working in the entertainment space, she always wondered why there wasn't a mommy and me type of group for those in the later stages of life? At work she was always reporting to several Board of Directors and then it clicked, why couldn't she have her own Board of Directors for her personal life? And after 25+ years she left the corporate world to launch Light House and help support other women find their personal board of directors.

In this episode we talk all about her journey and inspiration behind Light House, why having a personal Board of Directors is important, being a mom of teenagers, and how she prioritizes self-care (especially movement, clean eating and sleep) in her life after losing 82 pounds, plus her favorite skin care products.

One of my favorite quotes from the episode: "You're not meant to do life alone and you don't have to."

Follow Corey at...

• Website: www.findyourlighthouse.com 
• IG: @findyour_lighthouse

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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

Lauren Gregor is the Founder and CEO of Rent-a-Romper, a baby and toddler subscription rental clothing company that offers affordable children's clothes for rent that are both cute and functional, without adding to our increased landfill waste as a society.

As a mom of two boys ages 5 and 7, Lauren grew increasingly frustrated with the build up of boxes and waste in her house, specifically around clothing. She decided to take action and not only solve her problem, but do so in an eco-friendly and sustainably conscious way.

Lauren launched Rent-a-Romper literally at the beginning of COVID when everyone was headed into lockdown while simultaneously working full-time for a charter school and facilitating distance learning for her two boys.

In this episode we go into the details on how she took her idea from a business card to a real business overnight without any background in subscription e-commerce, lessons she's learned in the first year, the team she surrounds herself with, and how she structures her day, while still working full-time.

Follow Lauren at...

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

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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

Whitney English is a registered dietitian, nutritionist, certified personal trainer, and a mama of two little ones (ages 6 months and 2 years). 

She's the creator of the media platform Whitney E. RD, where she serves up the scoop on food and fitness trends, and co-creator of Plant-Based Juniors, an online destination for all parents looking to get more plants on the plate. 

Whitney earned her master's degree in Nutrition, Healthspan, and Longevity and completed her dietetic internship at the University of Southern California's Norris Cancer Center and Keck Medical Center as well as BreatheHealing Life Center. Her experience working in cancer research fueled her curiosity for using food and fitness to promote lasting health and helped shape her Predominantly Plant-Based philosophy. 

Whitney also is the co-author of The Plant-Based Baby and Toddler coming out next Tuesday, May 18th! They're offering some great pre-order bonuses so head over the link below for more info.

In this episode, Whitney debunks some of the top myths surrounding plant-based eating using her evidence-based research while sharing strategies on how to get your babies, toddlers and kids to eat a predominantly plant-based diet. She also talks about plant-based nutrition during pregnancy and shared insight into the 3-day water fast she completed (pre-pregnancy and breastfeeding) to help with cell regeneration (aka autophagy) and longevity.

Even if you're an omnivore (or recovering paleo eater) like myself, her tips helped inspire me to find ways to get more veggies into my kids meals and have piqued my interest in the studies behind fasting and longevity.

So whether or not you are plant-based curious or wondering how to get your kids to eat more greens, listen in!

Resources:

• The Plant-Based Baby & Toddler (releasing 5/18/21) - BUY + BONUSES
• The Predominantly Plant-Based Pregnancy Guide

Follow Whitney at...

• Website: WhitneyERD.com // Plant-Based Juniors
• IG: @whitneyerd // @plantbasedjuniors
• YouTube: Whitney E. RD

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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

Didi Wong is a mom of 4 (a boy, a girl and identical girl twins), an award-winning keynote speaker, Hollywood TV and movie producer, business and speaking coach and angel investor. Didi was born in Hong Kong and raised in England, but now resides in Los Angeles.

In this episode we dive into life with four kids while running multiple businesses and the roles each of the family members play to help out around the house. We also talk about creating time freedom, time management, not giving up on your dreams as a woman, and how to rewrite your own elevator pitch in motherhood.

Resources:

• Cozi Family Organizer
• Free E-Book: How to Perfect Your Elevator Pitch with Didi Wong (didiwongfreebook.com)

Follow Didi at...

• Website: didiwong.com
• IG: @didiwongofficial

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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

Mary Huang is America's Female Empowerment and Conscious Parenting Expert, international best selling author, speaker & healer on a mission to help women transform traumatic life events into points of power, rapidly.

After fleeing and healing from an abusive marriage to now enjoying freedom and bliss, Mary uses her experience to help women connect the dots between healing personal traumas and consciously raise the next generation of empowered children.

In this episode we dive into how she co-parents after her divorce, her journey to becoming an empowerment coach (and priestess), and ways she teaches and empowers her children and others to understand their emotions and have good psychic hygiene (yes, we do talk about energy, intention and auras). We also touch on her background growing up in Taiwan and how Asian culture has influenced her perspectives on gender roles and communication.

Follow Mary at...

• Website: optimalhumandevelopment.com
• IG: @changemaker_mary

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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

Alex Garzaro is the pivot queen. From wedding photographer to health and fitness coach to now a conscious living and business behavioral business coach, Alex has learned through her experiences how to push through boundaries and break mindset barriers.

Alex is a mom 2, married to her high school sweetheart for over 13 years and the host of the Alex Garzaro Show podcast. Since her babies were born it has been her mission is to help people to Build STRONG Bodies, Brains & Brands.

During the episode she deconstructs the 6 archetypes of imposter syndrome and explains how they can affect the way you show up in life plus tips to overcome them. We also talk about her entrepreneurial journey, how she used to get up at 3am and how she got out of being $40K in debt.

Follow Alex at

• Website: alexgarzaro.com
• Instagram: @alexgarzaro

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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

Kim Walls is a serial entrepreneur in the clean beauty industry. She is a brand founder, co-founder, angel investor, and executive in wellness.

Over the past 25 years, Kim has served behind-the-scenes as an advisor to the EWG and has brought this knowledge to the mainstream through major media outlets like Vogue and Coveteur. 

Kim is married with two nearly-grown boys (ages 15 and 18) and is here today to share about her journey through creating businesses while being a work-from-home mom, why skincare and grooming rituals are crucial even from birth, how she gets her children involved and to participate in the businesses, the importance of branding and the one ingredient we should eliminate from our daily lives.

Follow Kim at

• Website: https://linkin.bio/kimwallsla, https://www.furtunaskin.com/, https://www.beborganic.com/
• Instagram: @kimwallsla, @beborganic, @furtunaskin

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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. Melissa Vandermissen is a Functional Medicine Chiropractic Physician, as well as a wife and mom. She operates a 100% virtual natural fertility clinic and works with women throughout the world. 

Dr. Melissa utilizes specialized functional testing to find the root cause to infertility and hormone imbalance, and uses only natural treatments to instill balance. She works either 1:1 or through group programs with her clients, and has been able to help many couples go on to conceive naturally. 

In today's episode we dive into what is functional medicine, what are common root causes of infertility, natural treatments we can implement at home, how we can use seed cycling to help hormone regulation and what is postpartum depletion.

Whether or not you are TTC, her tips can help women with stress and hormone regulation.

Follow Dr. Melissa at

• Website: https://thedrmelissa.com
• Instagram: @drmelissavandermissen

Note: This episode is from the "Pregnancy and Parenting in a Pandemic Series" which was a 17 expert Facebook Live series geared to helping parents navigate "all the things" during the pandemic. I thought I'd bring a couple of those episodes out of the archives and play them for you this week on the podcast in honor of the 2021 National Infertility Awareness Week. This episode was originally filmed in April 2020.

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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 Earth Day!!! Shannon Lohr is the founder of Factory45, an online accelerator program that takes sustainable fashion brands from idea to launch.

She's also the host of The Clean Living Podcast, a show that helps busy women live more sustainably in the areas of home, food and beauty.

In today's episode we dive into all things clean living -- what chemicals to avoid, what everyday household, food and beauty products to swap out and how we can be more sustainable in fashion (especially with our children's clothing). Her tips are easy to digest and implement!

Resources mentioned:

• Clean Living Podcast: Organic Food (Dirty Dozen / Clean 15) 
• Skin Deep - EWG Healthy Living App
• Think Dirty
• Clean Living Podcast: Cleaning Supplies
• Branch Basics
• Poshmark
• Kidizen

Follow Shannon at

• Website: cleanlivingpodcast.com or factory45.co
• Instagram: @factory45co

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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

Tsao-Lin Moy, the founder of Integrative Healing Arts in NYC, utilizes Chinese medicine, acupuncture, herbal medicine and energy healing to treat patients.

With over 18 years of experience as an expert in alternative and Chinese medicine, Tsao specializes in fertility where she helps couples conceive using her signature fertility acupuncture protocols and Chinese medicine. 

In this interview, Tsao shares how Chinese medicine can help with fertility, postpartum health and just the immune system in general and how we can implement some of these methods at home.

We also talk a lot about some of the Asian traditions around postpartum and takeaways from those rituals. 

Follow Tsao-Lin Moy at

• Website: www.integrativehealingarts.com
• Instagram: @tsaolinmoy

Note: This episode is from the "Pregnancy and Parenting in a Pandemic Series" which was a 17 expert Facebook Live series geared to helping parents navigate "all the things" during the pandemic. I thought I'd bring a couple of those episodes out of the archives and play them for you this week on the podcast in honor of the 2021 National Infertility Awareness Week. This episode was originally filmed in April 2020.

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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