Today we are hanging out with a movement guru of the highest order and getting extremely vulnerable about the road to healing and building resilience in the body and the mind. Come meet THE Jill Miller. We start in New Orleans and land here in LA. We cover experiencing her parents’ divorce as a child and being uprooted more times than she can count on two hands…and the underlying impact all of that can have on the body and mind.

Jill is a pioneer in her field - taking all of the pieces of fitness, yoga, athletics, massage and pain management and putting them together to create an approach to movement that is both focused on healing and resilience. She is the author of best-selling books, has created multiple fitness formats that are taught worldwide, and has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, to Women’s Health, GMA and Self Magazine. She’s also a mom of two kids and was crazy enough to go into business with her husband.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life 

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

This week we are celebrating the 4th of July by spending time highlighting parenting while building a career in the military. The department of defense is the LARGEST employer in the United States which means millions of people and families are working through the unique experiences associated with this career path. Overseas deployments. Being separated from loved ones. Moving cities and countries often. Constantly being worried about the safety and well-being of those you love the most. To cover all of this and more we are hanging out in the virtual closet with retired Colonel Jeff McCausland. We follow Jeff from his childhood in West Central Illinois, working jobs after school and listening to the war stories of the grown men around him, to - instead of waiting for the draft to find him - going to West Point, where he would launch a 30 year career in the Army. From leading 750 soldiers in battle to being the Dean of the US Army War College - Jeff’s is a story centered on service…all while working with his wife to make sure his kids were given the opportunity to have more/do better than he did.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life 

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

This week we are hanging out with E! The Rundown's Erin Lim Rhodes. In this episode we cover what happens when a focused and extremely driven person in a highly competitive field takes on parenthood. And, if that's not enough of a hook for you, we cover what it's like when parents separate later in life, the power of the placenta, finding her faith and her husband in a new church, how hobbies helped her through post partum depression, and the subtle joys of becoming a Disney adult.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @erinlimrhodes

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

Today we've got serial entrepeneur and sports obsessed former D1 Soccer Star, Stacy Bernstein, on the pod. She is the Co-Founder of All Better Company, a company re-imagining first aid in a way that’s showing up for you and your kids AND doing it in a way that’s also good for the planet. We follow Stacy from childhood in THE VALLEY, to her life as a D1 athlete, to working for the NHL, coaching, and starting out on her own. It's an episode that covers so many things I care deeply about - from how we talk to our kids about sex, to THE ART OF NOTICING. ENJOY! Share! Talk about it! TW: Child Sexual Abuse.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @getallbetter

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

Whitney Port has been in the public eye for 20 years and she’s cultivated an ability to both be vulnerable and share her life without it feeling exploitative. From her time on the Hills and the City, to her following years building her own mini media empire with her successful podcast and Youtube channel, watching Whitney grow and cultivate relationships has been a mainstay for so many people who grew up watching her. Today she’s in the closet and we cover such a wide range of topics - from finding meaningful connection and friendship in new stages of life, figuring out the balance between what’s best for YOU and what’s best for everyone else around you. Her very public experience with infertility and the decision to try and expand her family via surrogacy, what it’s like to be a member of the ‘sandwich generation’ and so much more. This is also a podcast first - we’ve had Whitney’s sister, Paige, on the pod (Episode 12) and so that makes Whitney’s episode our first-ever sibling episode…because you know what they say, no two people get the same two parents.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @whitneyeveport

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

This week in the closet we have Senior Director of Community and Partnerships Tubby Todd. To most, however, she's likely better known as the grand master of all things hobby...or just having a good time. Erika's path to corporate girly has been paved with stardust, dreams, and...community. From singing for Disney in Japan to being the front woman of an all-Filipino hip hop group to cross-fit gym co-owner and Lululemon MAVEN, I don't think little Erika growing up in the Mormon church could've guessed much of the turns her life would take, but I imagine she'd find it immensely entertaining, along with the rest of us. 

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @erikajaye

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

For an entire generation of girls wanting to be journalists, work in magazines and/or fashion, Atoosa Rubenstein was the pinnacle we looked to. She was living out loud and doing it YOUNG. Not waiting for any traditional hierarchies to retire. But what we didn’t see is how much was weighing those designer shoulders down at the same time. The unanswered questions. The lack of connection. The missing warmth and safety of a loving childhood home. This expansive hang in the virtual closet has us starting in Iran, growing up in a challenging home dynamic, skyrocketing to notoriety at a young age, and then finding new purpose in motherhood - leaving the photoshoots, Met Balls, and bougie Hamptons parties behind to just be. With her kids. And ZERO LAUNDRY.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @atoosarubenstein

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

It can feel like nothing is more precious and elusive to parents of young kids, as sleep. Today in the closet we've got Brittany Sheehan, certified kid's sleep guru and Internet funny girl, according to me. In this hang we cover everything from the impact of limited sex ed as kids, losing a parent too soon, finding new super powers with parenthood, division of labor at home...and we also answer some listener questions on sleep. We even cover why a quick trip to California grocery store staple, Gelson's, is a slippery slope and why pre-teens make the best babysitters.

Full show notes with alll the links INCLUDING A SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE FOR BRITTANY SHEEHAN SLEEP: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @brittanysheehansleep

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

Come hang in the closet with the renegade girl scout, Puno. She's the founder of iLoveCreatives and the Executive Creative Director of iLoveCreatives Studio - the woman is bursting with...creativ(ity). This sprawling chat covers so much: from growing up in Texas in what sounds like a movie marriage of LadyBird and Dazed & Confused, to thriving and diving deep in the early days of the internet, to the challenges of running a business and a family with a partner, there's so much here. If that's not enough to entice - there's a cat with main character energy and you can even find out how Puno thinks she might die, assuming the robots don't save her first. And Puno's mom, if you're listening, she still has some questions for you and we all want the answers.

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @punodostres @ilovecreatives @muaddibthecat

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa 

May is National Foster Care Awareness Month and we are taking the opportunity to raise awareness by hanging with Tige Charity, CEO of Kids in the Spotlight (KITS). KITS is a non profit organization focused on providing children in foster care with the tools and skills to take control of their own narrative and tell their own story, primarily through filmmaking. Tige's story starts in a little town and Louisiana and brings her to today - her life in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Tige's approach to life, career and parenting are deeply rooted in the values of her own youth in a religious household with a clear framework for how to live, while also putting her own stamp on how to do things - leaving behind the things that no longer serve her while celebrating the parts of her own childhood that have led her where she is today. This episode is all about gratitude and service. Knowing when you've got a good thing going and figuring out how to bring others along with you. Don't forget to like/leave a review if this speaks to you!

Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com 

Instagram: @mutha.life @kidsinthespotlight @leadersinthespotlight

Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa