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1. In this Stace and Steph mini-episode, we talk about meltdowns: mother meltdowns
2. Why it helps to accept this side of ourselves, talk about our meltdowns, and find compassion when we #FailLikeAMother
3. Understanding what pushes our buttons and triggers our feelings of frustration. 
4. The lost cause of trying to find reason amidst an unreasonable situation. 
5. Accepting the type of mother we are instead of trying to be someone we’re not, and finding fulfillment as a path to avoid meltdowns. 

Stephanie is mother of two girls + writer, music therapist, producer, and teacher. She writes frequently about her raw and real motherhood experiences, and in this episode shares excerpts of her writing that originally appeared in Mamalode and on stage as part of Listen To Your Mother Boulder. 

Stacey is also mother to two girls + writer, entrepreneur, former food blogger, and certified nutrition coach. She has been published in publications like Motherly, Hubspot, and Paleo Magazine. The piece she shares here, though, she wrote just for the Mother Plus Podcast.

Find us on www.motherplusser.com and Instagram @mother_plus_podcast

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode, we cover:

1. How Kalindi uses hypnosis to help women overcome trauma that is holding them back
2. Understanding the power of our subconscious mind and how to tap into it
3. Shifting the cultural paradigm of guilt and imbalance that negatively impacts mothers
4. Fulfilled motherhood: make yourself a priority and put your identity back on the table

Kalindi Conaway is a certified Rapid Transformational Therapist Practitioner (RTTP).  She is also trained in Neo-Ericksonian hypnosis, NLP, CBT, and inner child healing.

It is estimated that 95% of our actions and behavior are run by our subconscious mind. Kalindi helps women (especially Mother Plussers) work directly with their subconscious mind, so that their actions and behavior fully align with creating their vision.

Where you can find Kalindi:
https://www.facebook.com/kalindiconawayRTTP/
Contact her directly at 864-276-8628

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode, we cover:

1. What about playing makes us so uncomfortable: when you’re drained, and in perpetual “mom mode,” it’s hard to flip a switch into being playful. 
2. How to tap into play that feels good for both you AND your kids and ditch the guilt, too.
3. Why the Montessori method not only gives us permission not to play, but shows us why it’s better to teach our kids not to rely on us for entertainment. 
4. What it looks like on the “other side of play” as our kids get older: when the “playing field” is leveled, it’s more fun, more genuine, and more natural.

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode, we cover:

1. Kimberlyn Owens-Hughes helps women make space for creativity-- creativity is the first thing to go when we are burned out.
2. To do list vs to be list--how do you want to feel during the day? 
3. The importance of setting boundaries with our kids to foster their own independence and creativity.
4. The role confidence plays in moms forgetting our identities and losing our spark.
5. Using connection and community to get unstuck.

Kimberlyn is the founder of Coffee and Create, a virtual co-working space for female creatives. Kimberlyn offers personalized creativity coaching to help women learn how to manage their creative energy and make space for a creative outlet in motherhood and a society that emphasizes productivity over creativity.

Part over-achiever and part rebel, Kimberlyn has spent most of her adult life swaying between the expectation of making a successful and profitable business out of her language skills and her dream of reading books all day and writing her own. After her daughter was born, she spent the better part of the past 8 years pursuing more “sensible” and “productive” translation work, focusing more on the bottom line than on her inner desire for fun and creative freedom, with the belief that there was no longer room for creativity in motherhood. Little did she know this was the fast track to burnout. It wasn’t until she shifted her focus towards making space for creativity that she realized she could enjoy both creative and financial abundance. 

 Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she has resided for the past 15 years in Valparaiso, Chile, where she now lives with her daughter, her Argentinean fiancé, and their 4 pets (2 cats and 2 dogs).

Where you can find her:
Instagram
Facebook

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode of the Mother Plus Podcast, we cover:

• How Niki lost her connection with music when she became a mother 2 + years ago. But she soon realized it was key to her mental health, to developing new skills, and really the best way to bond with her daughter.
• She performs with her daughter on her back or her husband’s back, or with her hanging on stage with them and their band because Niki wants to have her daughter be a part of their love for music. 
• Overcoming your prior expectations of the kind of mother you were “supposed to be” vs. being the kind of mother that works for you (which you learn as you go)
• Don’t be afraid to do what you love and bring your kid along.
• Do what makes you feel wonderful - Niki’s take on following her dream to become a neonatal nurse and lactation consultant after having such a good experience with her own.
• Don’t let anything stop you from doing things that make you happy, that make you "you"
• In looking to find your passion, remember the things that made you feel happy before you were a mom, but don’t be too hard on yourself if you don’t want to do them or aren’t ready to do them.

Niki Tredinnick  is a mother + musician who writes and performs alongside her husband with The Dollhouse Thieves, Mile High Brass Band, Distance Walk, and various Colorado ensembles and projects. She plays the saxophone, clarinet, flute, guitar, and dabbles in the piano and the drums. She is also a full-time stay at home parent to her two year old daughter and a nursing student. 

Niki lives in Denver with her husband, daughter and two cats.

Where you can find her:

Website: https://www.thedollhousethieves.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedollhousethieves/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/thedollhousethieves/
https://www.facebook.com/milehighbrassband 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChc4wu7bmHSF9gAJ0SIaVFg 

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode of the Mother Plus Podcast, we cover:

1. When a career change upended Mandy’s identity, she used her background in both biochemistry and mindset to create a business supporting the mental health of  prospective medical students who are preparing for the MCAT. 
2. Why and how Mandy made a professional pivot during the pandemic. What happens when the right thing for your family isn’t the best for your career? 
3. Mandy shares her guilt-free perspective and why work makes her a better mom. 
4. Honor your motherhood style: why a “one size fits all” approach doesn’t work when it comes to parenting choices. 
5. Small, incremental steps are the key to success: Be authentic and follow your gut when starting your business-- you do not have to do what everyone else is doing or have everything perfect.

Mandy Siglin has a lot of titles: Mother to three + PhD, yoga instructor and mindset coach. Siglin received her PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and Structural Biology from Thomas Jefferson University.  She lovingly served as the Director of Juniata College’s Health Professions Program for five years. When family circumstances took her away from her Director position right before the pandemic hit, she had to make a pivot. Inspired by her ability to change the students she worked with in the past with her unique science and mindset perspective, she founded ThiveMed, a company dedicated to the wellbeing of pre-med students. Mandy uses strategic, evidence-based practices to help students increase their confidence and lower their stress and anxiety around standardized entrance exams for admission to professional school.

Mandy lives in North Carolina with her husband, Josh, and three children.

Where you can find her:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrive.med/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-siglin-a783955a/

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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Show notes: 

1. Why are the holidays often so disappointing for moms? There are two versions of the holidays—the ones we imagine and the ones we actually get. 
2. Sky-high expectations for holiday perfection almost alway backfire—why it helps to stop being surprised when things go badly. 
3. How to cope with disappointing and stressful holidays: let go of the guilt and control, permission to put yourself first, and simplify. 
4. How to stop trying to make magic and let magic happen. 

Stace and Steph have a candid conversation about why the holidays can be so disappointing for moms (spoiler: expectations exceed reality!). They share their Christmas disasters, Epic Elf fails, and festive “crying in the bathroom” scenes. Find out what happens when magic meets control, and witness the lightbulb breakthrough moment when Steph realized how she can actually have a merrier holiday season this year.

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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In this episode of the Mother Plus Podcast, we cover:

1. How there is no perfect time to pursue your thing, and it’s not a lifelong commitment; put it in pencil and give yourself permission to make mistakes.
2. What lights you up? Stay in alignment with what gets you to where you want to be.
3. Impostor syndrome: no special skills required; just keep going.
4. Finding purpose: the desire to be known for something meaningful and connect with people.

Pam Moore is a mother + occupational therapist-turned-award-winning health and fitness freelance writer, speaker, and podcaster.

A regular contributor to the Washington Post and the author of There's No Room for Fear in a Burley Trailer, Pam's writing has been published in The Guardian, Time, Runner's World, Outside, SELF, and Forbes, among others. A body-positive health coach, certified personal trainer, six-time marathoner, and two-time Ironman finisher, Pam is also the host of the Real Fit podcast, featuring real conversations with women athletes about body image, confidence, and more. Her mission is to let women know they are already enough.

She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two daughters.

Where you can find her:
Website:
Pam Moore
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pammoorewriter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pammoore303/
Twitter: https://https://twitter.com/PamMooreWriter/

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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Bri Hill is a mother of two children plus artist, teacher, course creator, and writer. She wanted to do something with her life that involved art, but questioned her skills after a damaging experience with an unsupportive professor as an art major. She ended up minoring in art and majoring in elementary education, taught special ed for seven years, worked internationally, and during that time, she didn't do anything creative on her own. Bri shares the unique evolution of her experience as an artist, writer, and teacher, and how she found her way back to herself in this episode of The Mother Plus Podcast.

Find her on her website: https://brihillcreative.com/ or on Instagram @bri_hill_creative

Here's a breakdown of what you can expect in this episode:

1.     Curiosity: Why Bri recommends following our curiosity to lead us to what makes us feel most alive.

2.     The Evolution of Creativity: Bri shares how she overcame her need to see her own artistic process through someone else’s journey and how she arrived at the "aha" moment of her latest creative project.

3.     The Importance of Connection + Community: How vulnerability and validation helped Bri take herself seriously with her writing and art.

4.     Does every mother feel like this? We dive deep with Bri about whether all women want more than motherhood, and what happens when it’s not enough to fulfill you.

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger

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1. What exactly does Mother + mean, and why it matters how we view ourselves. 
2. Who is the podcast for, and who isn’t it for? 
3. Introducing Stace & Steph, and how their different perspectives can help you get unstuck. 
4. The 4 things mother plussers struggle with: ambivalence, guilt, juggling, and obstacles in the way of pursuing their dreams. 
5. Why “Because I want to.” is a complete sentence for moms putting themselves first. 

Stace and Steph are mothers + writers, entrepreneurs, and the hosts of the Mother Plus podcast. Learn more about them and the show at www.motherplusser.com and find them on Instagram @mother_plus_podcast.

WHERE TO FIND US NOW

Connect with Stacey

• 🎧 The Next Phase Podcast —  
• on Apple & Spotify 
• 📸 Instagram: @stacehutson

Connect with Steph

• 🎧 The Peri-Normal Podcast
  on Apple and Spotify
• ✍️ The Reclamation Era
  on Substack
• 📝 MidCircle
  — a writing community for midlife women
• 📸 Instagram: @stephsprenger