Moms Got This

Talking about kids publicly for the first time in fourteen years, playing rock and roll while nine months pregnant, not allowing having kids to change who you are or what you can accomplish, finding authenticity and faith in your self from motherhood, switching between road life and mom life, questioning choices, and pumping breast milk between rock and roll concert sets. Steph Paynes, lead guitarist and founder of tribute band Lez Zeppelin, shares her mom journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

(Steph's Instagram:  @lezzeppelin and @stephpaynes)

In this episode:

Stacy on signing Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell to her son nightly, and he asked why we can’t return back

Do something the same, but different every day

Becoming the founder and lead guitarist of the tribute band Lez Zeppelin

Steph never before talked about her kids publicly

The mystery of Rock and Roll, and sharing less is more

Having a band named Lez Zeppelin (Lez) don’t answer that question

Being a private person, and not always a great idea to discuss kids in public

Steph played her first gigs while nine months pregnant, and had to side-saddle wear her guitar

Her first is 18 year-old Max, second is Harrison who is 14

Steph toured with Ronnie Spector prior to Max

Why an all-girl band

Playing Led Zeppelin music is ambitious, and as women the band had to be twice ad good as others for credibility

Steph did it for fun, and realized she was pregnant around 4 months into the band

Being nauseous during both pregnancies, and the only time she felt better was when rehearsing and playing

Steph took 3 years off from music, worked on a novel

Being determined not to let having children interfere with who she is and what she can accomplish

A side effect of having kids was “cutting out all the crap that didn’t matter”, becoming a mega efficient person

Steph was a journalist before, never thought she’d be a big rock star, just wanted to have fun

Finding balance, discovering authenticity and courage and faith in herself to go out and play what she wanted because of becoming a mother

Then – the band took off

Road-life is like a bubble, like having an alter ego -- -when in band mode, she’s not mom mode

Bouncing back and forth between those two worlds was very difficult

Steph had a great nanny and could not have done it without her

As leader of the band she has found herself mothering them in a way

Questioning choices at times, and she never met a single woman on the road in her position

Was she doing harm to kids or being a role model?

Steph’s incredible #MOMSGOTGTHIS moment incolved playing a set of a concert, needing to pump breast milk in a bathroom during the break, then going out and playing another set

Steph realized you can do virtually anything in the world if you have the will to do it, no one can stop you

Less time with her first child when the second comes, raising a mixed child, aspirations for your child, attention to who your kid is rather than who they become, being present with your kids as they enter teenage years, and when a single mom thinks about reentering dating. Plus Size Model and Activist Denise Bidot shares special moments and aspirations with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

(Denise's Instagram: @denisebidot)

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Stacy on keeping old fashion pieces

Michelle shares a Korean term "Cold Rice" – won't have same amount of attention for first child with a second child

There's no handbook on raising a mixed child

Denise shocked when her daughter referred to "her people", despite Black History Month, context of slavery at 6 or 7 years old, a likely activist

Aspirations for Denise's daughter: Lawyer? Activist?

Denise has focus for her  daughter's future: not as much what she does as who she is when she does it

Working on raising a strong independent woman

When her daughter said she's ready for modeling

Ready for the world

Denise will support her daughter as her mom supported her

Just take them as far as you can and be with them and support them

Denise is thankful to live passion/dreams and have a successful life

Wanting to be present with her daughter as she enters teens

Are Denise and her daughter like the Gilmore Girls?

Is dating in Denise’s future?

BIO:

Denise Bidot is a plus size model, activist and pioneer of the widely acclaimed body positivity movement. Bidot, a Latina-Arab Miami native, has defied fashions standards since being discovered on a photo shoot back in 2006 where she was working as a makeup artist. Soon after, her modeling career took off and she became one of the most sought models in the curve category. Being the first plus size model to walk multiple runways during New York Fashion Week, her mission has and always will be to utilize her voice to promote change in the way the fashion industry views women and what it means to have a healthy body. As the founder of the No Wrong Way Movement, Bidot is an outspoken critic of representation in the fashion industry, starring in progressive advertisements for companies like Lane Bryant, Target and Dove, who notoriously push the envelope of fashion's restrictive beauty standards. As a single mother of 10 year old daughter Joselyn, Bidot looks at the younger generation as her inspiration to continue to break down barriers when it comes to self love and acceptance. Bidot is based in New York City where she lives with her daughter and their adorable puppy Millie. For more information, please visit www.denisebidot.com.

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

Recommended learning apps for young kids, the mom-bun secret, a virtual walk to school, handling pickups and drop offs as a busy working parent, an incredible babysitting service of artists, an absence of playdates, and mother-daughter massage time. Plus Size Model and Activist Denise Bidot shares her mom products and solutions with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

(Denise's Instagram: @denisebidot)

Support for today’s episode comes from luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon. Visit tamaramellon.com today to receive a $100 gift toward your first order using code MOMS100!

In this episode:

Stacy’s friend created an app Monty’s BackYard Adventure, for 2-5 year-olds, learning shapes and numbers, loved it, cute app

Michelle recommends Endless Reader app, anytime Michelle needs her daughter to sit still, will move letters around and sounds out words

Denise’s mom-bun secret

Denise on allowing her child to walk to school alone, and avoiding being overprotective, allowing her to grow and stretch

Facetime while her daughter goes to school, like a virtual walk to school

Why Denise feels iPhone is the biggest tech need as a parent

Being able to touch others daily, and new is multiple-people

Pickups, not having full time help, trying to be hands on as a single mother, drop off almost every morning, but can’t always pick her up, after school activities until 6

Amazing "Artist Babysitting", helps find childcare, artists who do babysitting in between gigs and auditions, excellent childcare women and men, Denise’s daughter has been able to explore NYC with these people, had the opportunity to keep meeting new people

Why Denise never did playdates when her daughter was young, and how she felt judged

Nail time, salon time, massage time, explored together

The value of massages for young and old

BIO:

Denise Bidot is a plus size model, activist and pioneer of the widely acclaimed body positivity movement. Bidot, a Latina-Arab Miami native, has defied fashions standards since being discovered on a photo shoot back in 2006 where she was working as a makeup artist. Soon after, her modeling career took off and she became one of the most sought models in the curve category. Being the first plus size model to walk multiple runways during New York Fashion Week, her mission has and always will be to utilize her voice to promote change in the way the fashion industry views women and what it means to have a healthy body. As the founder of the No Wrong Way Movement, Bidot is an outspoken critic of representation in the fashion industry, starring in progressive advertisements for companies like Lane Bryant, Target and Dove, who notoriously push the envelope of fashion's restrictive beauty standards. As a single mother of 10 year old daughter Joselyn, Bidot looks at the younger generation as her inspiration to continue to break down barriers when it comes to self love and acceptance. Bidot is based in New York City where she lives with her daughter and their adorable puppy Millie. For more information, please visit www.denisebidot.com.

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

When salon visits and long showers are like vacation, The No Wrong Way Movement, how involving a daughter in a cause resulted in empathy for the world, helping children redefine how they see beauty, why Denise has taken her young daughter around the world on her business travels, why wit and intelligence matter the most, and the many influences impacting body image.  Plus Size Model and Activist Denise Bidot shares her mom routines and relationships with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

(Denise's Instagram: @denisebidot)

In this episode:

Stacy's vintage fashion, and her new routine "Christmas tinsel hair”, dying hair to lose the little bits of gray

Salon visits and long showers like a vacation

"Wow powder"

The No Wrong Way Movement, a fully inclusive platform encouraging self love, and Denise doing it with her daughter at her side, how it is not just about body size but about acceptance

How she brought daughter on several trips around the world

Denise didn’t want to leave her baby in NYC while she travels the world, while spending a lot on childcare and not going what’s going on in one's house

Her daughter grew up in the modeling/fashion industry

Denise's daughter has empathy for the world

Kids learn from you and how you are, leading my example, and how her daughter kept Denise sane during her "crazy journey"

Helping her daughter with how she feels about her own body

Despite growing up in body positivity environment, so many other influences

We can help children redefine how they see beauty

"Straight Curve" documentary

Media fueling easting disorders and how we feel about bodies, and how that’s changing

Being truthful and transparent , and Denise showing her daughter that wit and intyelligence is what she should value the most

Picking up cues from others via social media, constantly taking pictures oneself

BIO:

Denise Bidot is a plus size model, activist and pioneer of the widely acclaimed body positivity movement. Bidot, a Latina-Arab Miami native, has defied fashions standards since being discovered on a photo shoot back in 2006 where she was working as a makeup artist. Soon after, her modeling career took off and she became one of the most sought models in the curve category. Being the first plus size model to walk multiple runways during New York Fashion Week, her mission has and always will be to utilize her voice to promote change in the way the fashion industry views women and what it means to have a healthy body. As the founder of the No Wrong Way Movement, Bidot is an outspoken critic of representation in the fashion industry, starring in progressive advertisements for companies like Lane Bryant, Target and Dove, who notoriously push the envelope of fashion's restrictive beauty standards. As a single mother of 10 year old daughter Joselyn, Bidot looks at the younger generation as her inspiration to continue to break down barriers when it comes to self love and acceptance. Bidot is based in New York City where she lives with her daughter and their adorable puppy Millie. For more information, please visit www.denisebidot.com.

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

Becoming single mom as a model, changing career trajectories,  when a makeup artist is discovered as a plus size model,  working as a model while pregnant, dealing with all-day morning sickness, epidural challenges, and returning to work quickly after childbirth. Plus Size Model and Activist Denise Bidot shares her Mom Journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

(Denise's Instagram: @denisebidot)

In this episode:

TGIM? Being glad to go back to work

When Michelle took a hard turn in her career because of her daughter's birth, but she went back. Will she leave TV with the second one?

Stacy never really stopped working

Single mom Denise Bidot, and the origin of her last name

Getting into acting, how sports and music are not her strong suite, clumsiness

How she felt at home with theater

Unhappy in college, pursued acting in LA and hit walls

Denise pursued freelance makeup

Being discovered while doing makeup for a plus size model

Having a child a year after getting into modeling

Changing career trajectories

Working while pregnant, and losing a lot of weight because of all-day morning sickness

Denise's easy childbirth of her daughter except for receiving the epidural

Going back to work quickly after childbirth, and never stopping

Denise's @MOMSGOTTHIS moment, and getting it together with her mom

BIO:

Denise Bidot is a plus size model, activist and pioneer of the widely acclaimed body positivity movement. Bidot, a Latina-Arab Miami native, has defied fashions standards since being discovered on a photo shoot back in 2006 where she was working as a makeup artist. Soon after, her modeling career took off and she became one of the most sought models in the curve category. Being the first plus size model to walk multiple runways during New York Fashion Week, her mission has and always will be to utilize her voice to promote change in the way the fashion industry views women and what it means to have a healthy body. As the founder of the No Wrong Way Movement, Bidot is an outspoken critic of representation in the fashion industry, starring in progressive advertisements for companies like Lane Bryant, Target and Dove, who notoriously push the envelope of fashion's restrictive beauty standards. As a single mother of 10 year old daughter Joselyn, Bidot looks at the younger generation as her inspiration to continue to break down barriers when it comes to self love and acceptance. Bidot is based in New York City where she lives with her daughter and their adorable puppy Millie. For more information, please visit www.denisebidot.com.

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

Educating daughters to deal with sexism, wanting and supporting kids to find their passions, find their own way, and live the life they want, being more present with kids at home and thinking about work less, when mom almost loses it and needs a "time out", talking to your own mom every day, meditation, and -- just breathe.  Meredith Weintraub, Co-Executive Producer of "The Rachael Ray Show", shares her special mom moments and aspirations for her kids and herself with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

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In this episode:

Michelle on when somebody says something sexist – and the goal to be educating girls and young women on dealing with these situations, how you deal with sexism, maybe Michelle isn't not speaking up enough and scared to say something

Michelle's aspiration for daughter balance between not getting upset and speaking up for herself and others, and considering how to teach her

Meredith Weintraub reflects on looking toward the future for her kids, wanting them to live the life they want to live

Letting her kids sample a bunch of things, and giving them room to weed out what they don’t like, and decide what they have passion for, find their own way, not pushing them in a specific direction

Meredith on how her son loves fantasy football with adults

Not being reactive to each thing the kids like while being supportive.

Meredith keeps challenging herself to make every episode of the Rachael Ray Show better, grow herself, and a goal to develop some of her own content

With kids, wanting to be more present -- Meredith tends to have her mind on other things when she is with her kids

Work is not urgent or an emergency usually when she's home, she can put work down, but tough to turn brain off, so she's starting to meditate

The times you almost lose it, especially when kids aren’t getting ready and how it all becomes like dominoes falling

When Mom needs a “time out” to gather herself

Meredith on talking with her own mom on the way to work every day,  how ut calms her down,

And – Just Breathe

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

A bubble glove, an app to control screen time and content,  the Fortnite video game, and who Meredith follows on Instagram and sometimes invites as users of Rachael Ray. Meredith Weintraub, Co-Executive Producer of "The Rachael Ray Show", shares her mom products and solutions as a mom with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

Support for today’s episode comes from luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon. Visit tamaramellon.com today to receive a $100 gift toward your first order using code MOMS100!

In this episode:

Stacy's cousin’s house – an amazing and fun "bubble hand thing", put a glove in bubbles, wave it around for bubble fun

Can you create own glove, or need buy it?

Meredith's kids are all about electronics

Circle, parental control of the Internet -- control kids' screentime with an app

how parents can limit the amount of time on a device or the Internet, shuts it off when time expires, can control downloads

Fortnite video game

Meredith following different people on Instagram, people to help her in her own life, such as organizational people in Nashville "The Home Edit" with ways to organize the home; Molly Simms on dinner parties; Happily Eva After, Busy Phillips

How people Meredith follows on Instagram can sometimes become guests of Rachael Ray

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

A bubble glove, an app to control screen time and content,  the Fortnite video game, and who Meredith follows on Instagram and sometimes invites as users of Rachael Ray. Meredith Weintraub, Co-Executive Producer of "The Rachael Ray Show", shares her routines and relationships as a mom with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: meredithweintraub)

Support for today’s episode comes from luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon. Visit tamaramellon.com today to receive a $100 gift toward your first order using code MOMS100!

In this episode:

Stacy's cousin’s house – an amazing and fun "bubble hand thing", put a glove in bubbles, wave it around for bubble fun

Can you create own glove, or need buy it?

Meredith's kids are all about electronics

Circle, parental control of the Internet -- control kids' screentime with an app

how parents can limit the amount of time on a device or the Internet, shuts it off when time expires, can control downloads

Fortnite video game

Meredith following different people on Instagram, people to help her in her own life, such as organizational people in Nashville "The Home Edit" with ways to organize the home; Molly Simms on dinner parties; Happily Eva After, Busy Phillips

How people Meredith follows on Instagram can sometimes become guests of Rachael Ray

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

Is it is ever OK to ask a pregnant woman if she's having twins? Sending your kid to school sick, when your spouse does at least half the work, "Play to Your Strength" parenting, when you feel the same way about parenting with your spouse, how involvement motivates kids to do tasks, checklists, managing money with kids, and when kids give to charity. Meredith Weintraub, Co-Executive Producer of "The Rachael Ray Show", shares her routines and relationships as a mom with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

In this episode:

Michelle reminds us that it's almost never OK to ask a pregnant woman if she is having twins

Routines, Michelle's daughter's fever, why Michelle still brought her to school, what do you do -- daughter is just adapting to a new routine

Meredith Weintraub's relationship with husband changed with kids,

Her husband does at least half the work

"Play to your strengths" parenting, taking on roles you're best at

How Meredith sits alone reading magazines on planes, and her husband manages kids on a plane

Meredith's relationship with her husband works despite strong personalities, partly because they feel same way about parenting

When kids participate in something more likely to do it

Meredith's kids get a checklist for things to do

Managing money with your kids

Giving to charity when getting gifts

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.

When you need time away from work with your kids, 19 years as a producer, co-executive producing the Rachael Ray Show, 5:30am workouts, morning routines, managing time, a supportive work environment, being great wherever you are, and a picnic on the bedroom floor. Meredith Weintraub, Co-Executive Producer of "The Rachael Ray Show", shares her Mom Journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

In this episode:

Stacy on needing a moment away from work for time with her son, needing to hear about other people’s journeys

Meredith on being Co-Executive Producer of Rachael Ray Show, produing for 19 years

How she studied to be a teacher and saw a talk show “The Jenny Jones Show” when she was 19 and they hired her as an intern

How producers are like teachers

Having to love what you do on a show

Meredith's two kids (girl 6 ½ and boy almost 9)

Morning routine with Meredith's husband going to work early, Meredith wakes up and works out at 5;30am to Kaela Itsines BBG workout

Nanny preps the lunches, then Meredith finishes off the lunches, takes care of son’s allergy regimen, leave house to 8am

No matter how much time you have as a mom, you never have much time

Meredith being promoted both times she was pregnant, lots of support at work

A dog-friendly, kid-friendly work environment, understanding environment

Teaching kids that it is healthy to balance family with doing what you love

It is hard to be exceptional at everything 100% of time,  so just be great wherever you are, whatever needs you more

Meredith's #MOMSGOTTHIS Moment is one of the kids favorite stories, she burned popcorn for dinner apartment was filled with smoke, took all the food and went into bedroom and had a picnic on the bedroom floor

How when something goes wrong, kida take cues from you, they react how you react

Turning something into something magical

To share your #MOMSGOTTHIS MOMENT just call 833-844-THIS-MOM (833-844-7666) and leave a voicemail with your first name and city along with your moment.