MotherLoad Podcast

Chronic burnout. We’ve all felt it.

It feels like the space around us is getting smaller, causing constriction and stress and an overwhelming sense of limitation.

Today I’m here with my friend Shannon Salentine, an executive leadership coach, facilitator, and global development consultant. Four years ago, she left her job to start her own company, Lead For Good, which offers coaching for leaders, changemakers and their companies.

Shannon is the mom of two older kids – a 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son – which is always fun for me, to hear about what I have ahead in my motherhood journey with my two little boys! 

In this episode, Shannon and I talk about our changing identities as our kids grow older; about how work and leadership skills CAN translate to parenting; and how allowing more room for margin lets us be more conscious to make decisions that lead us toward our values and keep us present, curious and open to learning.

Resources & Links

You can follow Shannon on her Instagram and check out her website to learn more about Lead For Good.

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Sometimes, being around grieving people can be uncomfortable. 

For many of us, the instinct is to avoid the topic and walk on eggshells so as not to upset anyone. But as today’s guest Lauryn Laszczak reminds us, the emotions around grief are so vital. Confusion, frustration, doubt, sadness, anger and discomfort are all necessary experiences because with them comes WISDOM.

Lauryn is a somatic business coach, three-time female founder, wife, mama of three, and the host of the Loss and Light podcast, which is named for her newest company, inspired by the loss of her stillborn son, Ben.

My friend Lauryn has a beautiful perspective on ambition, internal purpose and allowing ourselves to feel and talk about those things that make us (and others) uncomfortable – if we do, we may find we’re able to achelmize those feelings into something beautiful and meaningful.

Resources & Links

Learn more about Lauryn on her website and follow her on Instagram and check out her podcast, Loss & Light. You can also learn more about Lauryn's upcoming retreats on Instagram at @retreattoreclaim.

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Teaching yoga and being in this motherhood space, I hear a lot of talk about pelvic floor therapy.

Initially I was resistant to this therapy because I’d always heard it was for women who had vaginal births. For both my sons, I had C-sections. 

But a lot of pelvic floor dysfunction – especially for mothers – is not related directly to birth. Much of it derives from a weak core and weak glutes, which could be there before you even become pregnant! Pregnancy hormones and the weight we carry while pregnant compounds any dysfunction that may have been there to begin with.

I only recently started pelvic floor therapy and in only four sessions, it’s already made a REVOLUTIONARY difference in my body. 

I thought I knew a lot about the pelvic floor because I’d taught yoga for so long, but turns out, there was a LOT I was unaware of. 

Today my goal is to demystify pelvic floor therapy, sharing my experience and what I’ve learned, so that other women might feel better about trying it themselves.

Resources & Links

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Growing up, what did you imagine starting a family would entail?

A peaceful partnership or marriage? Help around the house? Easygoing children?  Maybe even a white picket fence?

For many of us, the lives we’re living as mothers are not the ones we imagined, and it can be so hard to let go of that original story. Which brings us to the question: how do we rewrite our narratives so they feel true, and honest and good?

This episode features a conversation with my friend, Amanda Cunningham, who I met years ago at a yoga teacher training. She’s head of development for the nonprofit Her Future Coalition and the Yoga Medicine Seva Foundation and mother to her four-year-old son, Boone.

Amanda is also a single parent whose first years of motherhood involved being plunged in national politics. Today she speaks with exemplary grace and candor about what the experience was like – and is still like. 

For the single moms listening – this one’s for you – but I think women in partnerships can also learn from Amanda’s story, and discover how they too might rewrite their motherhood narratives.

Resources & Links

Amanda is a beautiful writer. You can find some of her writing on Instagram. She also wrote a beautiful essay about her marriage story, which I strongly recommend.

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Recently, while scrolling through Instagram, I found a meme that spoke to me. It went like this:

All my plans for the future involve me waking up tomorrow with a sudden sense of discipline and adherence to routine that I have never displayed even once in my life.

I thought, that’s EXACTLY how my future goals and visions feel sometimes – that the person at the end of the journey isn’t anything like the person I am now. It made me think about how self-transformation actually works.

Sometimes goals can feel very motivating, and sometimes they feel so far away from where we sit today. I often find myself on opposite ends of the spectrum. 

Either I’m disappointed in myself for not doing a single thing toward that goal today, or I’m so fired up I want to wake up at 4 a.m. and change everything about my life to support this long-term vision. Neither is ideal.

Today, I want to talk about that middle zone, which is all about discipline and consistency. How do we go about setting goals? What do we need to do day-to-day to meet them? Most importantly – how do we BECOME that disciplined person fulfilling that long-term goal?

Resources & Links

Be sure to check out Lindsay’s “Habits vs. Practices” episode!

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Have you ever declined help from a friend because you didn’t want to feel in debt?

I’ve talked about this fear of reciprocity with many women, and in today’s conversation with Laura Munkholm, we go in depth to why it’s a thing – and how to get past it to live our best lives.

Laura and I have been on similar journeys. We attended high school together and reconnected via Facebook in 2015 over our shared experiences as yoga studio owners, consultants for MINDBODY software, entrepreneurs and mothers.

Today she is a speaker, mother of two, and the president and co-founder of Walla, a comprehensive software company that's taking on the health and wellness space.

In this episode, Laura and I talk about her motherhood and entrepreneurial journey, getting past this “fear of reciprocity” to accept help, and why sharing our ambitions with our children is so important.

Resources & Links

To learn more about Walla, visit their website and read about them in recent articles from Fitt Insider and News Athletech.

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

The last few weeks, I’ve been dealing with my first exposure to school politics.

In short, a handful of moms took all the volunteer spots in my son’s classroom, fewer than five parents signing up for eight to twelve slots each. On the surface, it might not seem like a big deal, but underneath are some serious questions I’m pondering.

Questions like, are we showing up to help the school and our kids? Or are we showing up to fill some unmet need of our own? 

In this episode, I tell the story in detail and the lessons I’ve taken away from it. It’s one aspect of my mental load, and I hope it resonates with you, and that you can take something away from it for your future school politics run-ins.

Resources & Links

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselleand @motherload.pod.

What are your thoughts on astrology, human design, and Gene Keys? 

Maybe you’re a believer. Maybe you’re a skeptic. Or, maybe you’re a little undecided. No matter your feelings, I urge you to listen to today’s episode, which features my friend Kelly Kasle, who I met during the One Infinity mastermind program. 

(I spoke in detail about the One Infinity program in the episode, “How Ayahuasca Changed Motherhood for Me,” which I recommend listening to for context.)

Kelly is a teacher and astrologer, and she has such a unique perspective on the collective consciousness of motherhood in the world today and where it’s all heading. 

I hope you’ll join us and, if you haven’t already, give astrology a chance, because as a mother, I’ve found Kelly’s wisdom around these topics incredibly valuable, helping me better understand my children, myself, and what gives purpose to my life.

Resources & Links

Follow Kelly on Instagram, TikTok, and visit her website for more information on who she is, what she does and her services. Currently, she offers readings and is putting together courses on how to start using astrology and gene keys in your daily life.

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Today’s conversation is about a topic I go into quite a lot offline: habits vs. practices.

Habits and practices get thrown around a lot and used interchangeably, but after going through my own inner work journey, I realized they’re actually wildly different. (Hint: one requires far more focus, time, and presence). The way that you form and stop habits is so different than how you approach the rituals and mastery involved in developing a practice.

I hope this episode inspires you to think about the habits and practices you want to have in your own life.

Resources & Links

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.

Today, I’m excited to introduce you to a person who played an ENORMOUS role in inspiring the MotherLoad podcast.

Meet Adam Roa, my incredible coach, mentor, and the poet behind the viral YouTube poem, “You Are Who You’ve Been Looking For.” He’s a filmmaker, speaker, creator, and he runs the One Infinity Mastermind program.

I spoke in great detail about my participation in the One Infinity program in my third episode, “How Ayahuasca Changed Motherhood for Me,” which I strongly recommend listening to before this one. At the end of this program, on the train from Cusco to Machu Picchu, Adam and I discussed what I’d make of my Ayahuasca journey. 

So much of my experience involved grappling with my identity as a mother, but I didn’t want my future project to be about mothering. 

His response: Why not? Everyone has a mother. It is a universal truth. 

The rest, of course, is history.

In this episode, Adam and I discussed a number of topics – pacing, trauma, relationships, personal journeys, learning to love life – and, per usual, our conversation went very deep very quickly.

Resources & Links

For more information on my friend Adam Roa, visit his website and follow him on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. He also runs a weekly newsletter, two podcasts (The Deep Dive with Adam Roa & You’re Too Much, which is with Taylor Simpson)

Did this episode resonate with you? Share your takeaways with Lindsay directly at [email protected]. 

Learn more about Lindsay’s coaching and consulting services at https://www.lindsayroselle.com or follow along on Instagram at @lindsayroselle and @motherload.pod.