Moms Got This

Niki Cheng on organizers for food, smoothie every day, a kale juice recipe, when your kids are interested in your business, being copied by your daughter, teaching kids discounts and math in sales, and Korean mass. The owner of furniture brands Camerich New York, Calligaris NY, and M Collection Dumbo, and  co-founder of BoConcept,  shares her favorite products and solutions with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: @nikicheng55)

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:

Organizers for food, Planet Box

Niki's favorite product is a Vitamix

A smoothie every day, and making coffee drinks

Making her own kale juice recipe

Niki's kids are interested in her sales activities at her businesses, what sales she closed, monitor the business

Niki's daughter copies her, acts/dresses just like her

He daughter shows off her mom Niki

Teaching kids discounts and math

Korean mass

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When kids convince you to change bedtimes, focusing on routines, daily yoga, post-pregnancy weight, self care, running a business, a family support system, and a supportive husband.  Niki Cheng, owner of furniture brands Camerich New York, Calligaris NY, and M Collection Dumbo, and  co-founder of BoConcept,  shares her mom journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: @nikicheng55)

In this episode:

How a two-year-old daughter convinced Michelle to change bedtime

Being routine focused

Kid sleep issues

Niki crawling into a crib until her son fell asleep

How Niki always works out and practices yoga every day

Losing pregnancy weight

How yoga is not a workout, a practice

Self care – only 1 hour per day

Niki’s routine of getting up, going to yoga, then going to work fresh

Running a business on your cellphone

Taking yoga classes with her husband, sometimes going to gym together

Support system, sister sales director, and mother in law visits quite often, occasional hire help

Having support of her husband since day one

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Bedtime moments, mom and child matching apparel, balancing motherhood and multiple furniture brands, how reaching age 5 makes things less stressful, overcoming emotional stress, when parents live with you and can help, when going back to work after having a baby is an excuse, balancing emotions, amazing stay at home moms, and how moving to New York City to break up with a boyfriend sparked a new life.  Niki Cheng, owner of furniture brands Camerich New York, Calligaris NY, and M Collection Dumbo, and  co-founder of BoConcept,  shares her mom journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: @nikicheng55)

In this episode:

Putting kids to bed, Stacy on how with her son Dylan bedtime is a whole process, and after long day of work she wanted time with her child – she was wearing a shirt she designed and Dylan want to wear the same one she was wearing – how that became a and a selfie -- instead of going to bed, taking the moment

Michelle on her daughter’s desire to match, and how she’s running out of clothes to wear that match, and – a face mask also for a kid and mom?

Niki on balancing raising kids and running businesses Camerich New York, Calligaris NY, and M Collection Dumbo

Niki’s 8 and 11 year old kids, being a successful business women with furniture brands

When Niki’s kids reached the age of 5 things became easier, but it was very challenging before then and creates emotional stress

How Niki and her husband are blessed that her parents live with them, her mom is around, and how they got her dad a car and he’s become their driver

Niki shares how she was sad and upset at herself that she couldn’t handle an infant, how going back to work was an excuse, and her other baby (her company (BoConcept at that time)) didn’t really need her at that point

Trying to balance emotions for guilt, more time

Stay at home moms are amazing

Ending up in NYC to break up with ex boyfriend, in Malaysia at the time working in a company in architectural design, her mother suggested she come to NYC for 6 months, fell in love with the city

How that journey became her new path

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Wishing kids stay small, being the Queen of Benefits, forcing herself out of a wheelchair, the power of motherhood, enduring the physicality of standup comedy, an oboe scholarship, when doors open, a curiosity about life, and a lack of fear of death. Korean-Jewish Comedienne Esther Goodhart shares her insights on products and services she believes in with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

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In this episode:

How Stacy's son fell asleep on her on a car ride, wanting your kids not to get big, special moments when they still feel small

Esther as the "queen of benefits" for some, laughter is best medicine, she often gives it back -- but jests if someone is poor and she gives it back, then there are two poor people

How Esther had a TV show, radio show, one woman show on Broadway, performed at the UN

The greatest thing that ever happened to her

Esther's familial dystonia, neurological disorder (like Parkinson's, CP and MS rolled into one)

How Esther forced herself out of a wheelchair, now doing dance, choreography

How this was a miracle

It took a lot of years to look like she’s ok, her sister never got out of her wheelchair

The power of motherhood, how she needed to be a mom not in a wheelchair and be unencumbered, how she is grateful for a wheelchair helped her to move

She still needs to be in a scooter in malls, can’t walk too much.

An accident a month before her sons wedding

How is she able to deal with the physicality of standup comedy? -- through sheer force of her nature

A science of making all people laugh, very difficult thing to do.

How she took oboe in high school because it is the most difficult instrument

How Esther got a scholarship in college because she could play the oboe

Every door opens by itself, how she doesn’t solicit herself, happens because she loves people more than they can hurt her, and is curious about people and about life

How Esther wants to see everything, and she is seeing a lot of thing

Two thing her father gave her: Her name and lack of fear of death, and she's had a phenomenal life

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Water Wow! books, why Esther never denied her kids toys and video games, more than 800 Barbie dolls, why the most important gift is love, and one thing Esther wish she had to help with being a mom. Korean-Jewish Comedienne Esther Goodhart shares her insights on products and services she believes in 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:

Water Wow! books, with pens that refill with water – and key they have to look for in the picture---keeps daughter very busy – bought 10 of them, Melissa and Doug makes them

Why Esther never denied her kids any action figures or video games

Letting her kids watch TV, Rugrats

When she went shopping her kids would get a special toy when got to the department store, they’d be happy for hours

Now the toys are worth a lot of money, including video games and action figures

Why Esther has over 800 Barbie dolls mint in-box, how her minister father thought Barbie was a “slut and a whore”, and Esther bought a Barbie that looked like (better than) her

Esther’s shelves for Barbies

How moms shouldn’t spoil kids, giving them not too much and just enough

Making sure kids have more than enough love, but enough money to pay rent and eat, but the most important gift is love

Esther’s one wish she had as a mom- a “wipey warmer”

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When kids start thinking like entrepreneurs, the power of silence, when mom has a meltdown and the kids are the grownups, feeling validated as a mother, a mom’s unmatched love for her kids, trusting yourself that you raised the kids right, converting to Judaism and family alienation, and a Kosher Korean cookbook. Korean-Jewish Comedienne Esther Goodhart shares her insights on family routines and relationships with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

In this episode:

How, with school ending, Stacy’s son Dylan showed he had entrepreneurship in his mind

Esther’s sons had rules

Her tight relationship with her 28 and 30 year old sons

How kids can think you’re a jerk and you have to “eat it” as a mom

The deafening power in silence

Esther on having a meltdown at her kid’s wedding when she wasn’t being validated, and how her kids propped her up

How simple things like saying that Mom is important, and the intimacy of a simple statement, means everything

Nobody can love you like your mom, only God and your mom made you

How Esther didn’t honor herself and trust that she raised her kids right, kids wont listen to a mother complain

The challenges of converting to Judaism, the complexity of doing it with a Christian minister father, and how Esther’s Korean Christian family didn’t speak to her for years

Closing her mouth, living her life

Writing Kosher-Korean cookbook

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When should kids be disciplined, being Korean and Jewish, letting repetition end naturally with kids, reentering the work force as a mom, taking parenthood seriously after five miscarriages, how to calm a child down gently and effectively, a choice not to have a nanny, reinventing yourself, standup comedy vs. therapy, giving your kids everything, being the Asian Roseanne Barr, learning from Yoda, and being a tiger parent. Korean-Jewish Comedienne Esther Goodhart shares her mom journey with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park.

In this episode:

Michelle's 1 ½ year old daughter's tantrums, looking at when do you discipline kids

How you deal with a kid who wants to wear the same thing every day

Letting child do what they want even if the parent wants change, let someone else motivate them by making fun of them

Requests to read "Goodnight Moon" every night,

If it is what the kids want, let them have the repetition

How it is cheaper to let the girl wear one dress every day if they want

Esther's two boys, 30 and 28

Everyone has a different way of raising kids

How Esther majored in cognitive child development in grad school

Doing standup comedy and teaching Hebrew school

How Esther used to be an account exec in advertising and PR, thought she could go back to work but it doesn’t always work that way, and she knew she couldn’t have it all and be excellent in both

Having five miscarriages, then feeling like she got a major gift with kid and wanted to take it seriously

She couldn’t pay anyone enough money to love her kid the way she wanted to

The little moments you live for, especially when kids get things wrong

Getting back into the workforce after you raise children

How Esther reinvented herself and became a comic because it was cheaper than therapy

Performing at The White House --  21 times

Getting into comedy from an ad to pay to perform comedy at Carolines in NYC after being inspired by Margaret Cho -- who was seeming to "do her act"

Having both a Jewish and Korean side

Going to Hebrew school

Giving kids everything, no reason for them to suffer

Not going back to work, how Esther got an opportunity as a result to see the  entire learning process as her kids grew

Helping her kids learn everything, teaching her sons what she would teach if she had a daughter also

Esther would do more for the kids, but did not want the suburban mom life, was bored, so what was hard and exciting was to do standup

Esther's  standup routine would talk about how hard it is to be a parent and people would find it very funny

Esther has been called the "Asian Roseanne Barr"

Teaching kids to do their best for your boss or teacher

The bar was always high, she was a tiger parent

Learning from Yoda – "there is no try"

Sons are an actor/dancer and a comic book illustrator – two jobs tough to do well in, and they do well

Esther's #MOMSGOTTHIS Moment when she asked elderly woman how she raised two successful children --  you just love them – all books and classes out the window – that’s the answer

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Kids grow so fast, how kids change priorities, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as parental role models, making sure you actually know your kids personally, parenting vs. showbiz, being present with your kids in whatever they are doing, motivational messages on tissues, and what’s next for Ike. Actor and comedian Ike Barinholtz (Blockers, The Mindy Project, MADtv, and many more) shares special moments and aspirations in his life as a dad -- just in time for Father's Day -- with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: ikebarinholtz)

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Measuring hands, growing so fast, Stacy will shrink

Tall person Ike

Goals changing for career, kids change goals and prioritize things, less desire to do acting that requires travel with more kids he has

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have it down, manage busy career and family

Having a career and knowing your kids personally

Parenting always defats showbiz goals

Don’t invest time in things that don’t matter

Why not to check social media when kids want to play

Good advice from Barbara Bush

Focusing and being present and listening with your kids

How explaining contextual things on TV shapes reference points

The debate on tissues with motivational messages

“Blockers” in theaters, emotionally resonant and surprisingly great movie for parents, proud of the movie

Hilarity for Charity with Seth Rogan to fight Alzheimers

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Comedian, actor, dad, big fan of his wife...

Reading books with kids, inspiration from Joseph Campbell quotes, leaving kids notes for the day, the beauty of actually writing with pen and paper, recommended books, lunch boxes, high chairs, and kids on planes. Actor and comedian Ike Barinholtz (Blockers, The Mindy Project, MADtv, and many more) shares his favorite products and services -- just in time for Father's Day -- with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: ikebarinholtz)

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!

Reading books with and singing with your kids

Stacy’s books for Dylan, including Forever Young written by Bob Dylan

Joseph Campbell quotes - so inspiring

Leaving kids notes for the day

We don’t write anymore

Pen to paper, wanting to instill a love of writing in kids, being inspired by a new author

Five Minute Stories

The Paw Patrol phenomena

Bouncy Castles

PlanetBox lunch boxes

Bambino chair

The high chair that attaches to table

Handling kids on a plane

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Every Monday-Thursday weekly, starting Monday, May 15th, you’ll enjoy lively interviews with accomplished, inspiring entrepreneurs,  influencers, leaders, and entertainers who are each also a mom.

Each day covers a different parts of a guest’s life including career and adventures, their “mom journey”, the high and lows, the products they like (and don’t like), recipes that save the day, how they love and nurture their kids, the work-life balance, and more!

Listeners will discover tips and tricks, be inspired, find the confidence to know that they’ve “got this” — and even get a chance to share their own #MOMSGOTTHIS moment with hosts (and moms) TV host and fashion brand founder and lifestyle blogger Michelle Park (@growingupbabym) and fashion brand founder and blogger Stacy Igel (@stacyigel)!

Comedian, actor, dad, big fan of his wife...

The morning routine, the daily giant omelette, doing whatever you can, earning parent currency, a symbiotic relationship with one’s spouse, having family around to help, how almost dying led Michelle to start an Instagram account for her daughter, and Michael Keaton. Actor and comedian Ike Barinholtz (Blockers, The Mindy Project, MADtv, and many more) shares his dad journey, and salutes his wife (mompreneur with three daughters), and the routines and relationships in his life as a dad -- just in time for Father's Day -- with hosts Stacy Igel and Michelle Park. (Instagram: ikebarinholtz)

How Ike is the routine

Michelle on when her daughter was first born she decided to take everything on herself, but after her daughter turned 1 ½ she told her husband he is now part of this situation, now he's finally part of the morning. routine, but he didn’t want to -- how there’s breakfast, and he's part of it all

Ike has "Jewish dad guilt", does most of the cooking

The morning routine with instant organic steel cut oatmeal , his wife breastfeeding, breakfast for the family, coking a giant omelette cut into little squares, then making lunch for the older kid.

Running the morning routine all the time unless he has an work responsibility

Advice from Ike: Dads—do whatever you can

"Parent currency", and Ike's symbiotic relationship with his wife

How Ike met his wife in Vegas, and how they make it work

A lot of family, Ike's brother and his wife are close by and help out, having a great nanny, and wife's mom and dad so great

Having family around is so valuable

Having familial connection who are basically "you" with your kids

How cool it is when parents are friends

Michelle’s Instagram started because Michelle almost died due to a postpartum hemorrhage, writing letters to her daughter in case she died, wanted daughter  to know about her mother journey

Michael Keaton and the movie “My Life”

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