Mutha Life

This month's solo pod covers a lot of ground - both from my own brain and in response to listener questions, from mahjong to my luteal phase, from sex drive to potty training, from grief to joy, consider this a smorgasbord of the inside of my brain. Make sure you drop comments to respond to the many questions I ask YOU in the episode and share with a friend. LET'S GAB.

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

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Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

Undies, bidets, diapers, oh my! Let's hang with Miki Agrawal. She is a serial entrepreneur - founding companies like THINX, period underwear, Tushy, the seemingly now ubiquitous Bidet company, and most recently Hiro Technolgoies - a disposable diaper revolutionizing the market with a fast-decomposing product that promises to reduce landfill waste caused by traditional diapers dramatically. We talk about growing up in Canada to immigrant parents, being an identical twin (but identifying as a youngest), finding an approach to co-parenting with her ex-husband, founding a range of companies that tackle how we take care of our bodies in a way that's good for us and the planet, and so much more. It's woo-woo meets the marketplace. It's conscious capitalism, babyyyy.

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

Instagram: @mutha.life

Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

We are continuing our look back into the archive with an episode from a year ago with the inimitable Lisa Weinbaum. A discussion that started on the pod - reconnecting with someone I always looked up to as a kid - and hasn't stopped yet. Since recording that original episode, Lisa and I have volunteered at her beloved Baby2Baby together. We have hung out by the beach forging a new connection in adulthood, and have not stopped texting - the true love language of our time. This curated re-release is a bit more produced than the last one - I've broken it into themes: the job description of stay at home parent, the emotional and financial dynamics involved in partnership where one person works in the home and one outside, how to streamline the goals of parenting, parenting while grieving, and drilling down into the importance of sleep away summer camp. Let me know what you think in the comments or on IG.

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

Instagram: @mutha.life

Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

This week's guest is Lillian Tung, co-founder of FUR. If you haven't already heard of the viral company, Fur is a beauty and hair care brand for the whole body - first grabbing headlines with their FUR OIL - specifically designed for pubic hair and skin. From the brains of childhood best friends to the shelves of Ulta, to talking about PUBIC HAIR on Shark Tank, this brand has taken the beauty world by storm - creating a new market segment, becoming an instant fan favorite of aestheticians the world over.

This conversation covered so much that I think about regularly - how to get siblings to like each other. How the idea of friendship and how we form friendships is as unique as people are. How every great enterprise needs different kinds of people to succeed in the long run. How doing something polarizing is good.

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

Instagram: @mutha.life

Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

Trigger warning: Grief, loss, death of a parent

In this week's solo pod, Kari gives an update on the unexpected turn life took in the days leading up to her 40th birthday. This isn't a funny one, or a silly one, or a general episode. It's a deeply personal slice of life at a horrible moment in life. The Mutha Life community has become one of support, comfort, encouragement and above all, love, and so with this ep, we are going out on a vulnerable limb. Be kind to each other. Tell people you love them.

Instagram: @mutha.life Show notes: muthalife.substack.com Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa, https://ronenlanda.com/

Come revisit this beautiful episode from the archive with me. In this episode, we talk to Emmy-nominated documentary producer, Tracy Aftergood. Tracy talks candidly about her career trajectory, the tragic loss of her best friend, her mom, at an early age, and the work she does to show up for herself, so she can show up for her kids and her relationship.

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SCALPEL! Dr. Ira Savetsky, New York based celeb plastic surgeon, is on the pod today. We cover a lot of ground - from growing up in a very religious Jewish community in Long Island and not being super enthused by school to taking an insanely arduous and rigorous path to being one of the rising stars in his field in the US today. We talk about how to figure out if plastic surgery is right for you, how he and his wife Lizzy run their busy lives and talk to their kids about all that's messy and complicated, and we answer some listener questions.

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

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Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

Let's hang out with certified funny person, Aisha (EYE-SHUH, get it right!) Alfa. She is an actor and a comedian, and has lived a shocking number of lives. While you may have missed her on the men's soccer circuit in Korea, or planning all out wedding ragers, you may recognize her from her role on Degrassi, The Beaverton, Sorry for Your Loss, and so many more. Talking to Aisha was a wonderful reminder that - de facto - we can love our kids AND ALSO laugh about how hard/chaotic/absurd raising them in today's world is. We cover so much here - talking to kids about bodies and gender identity, how hard it can be to shake the patterns we watched modeled for us as kids, what bed rest can actually look like in practice when pregnant, and... how important Winnipeg is for finding love for apparently a lot of people?

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

Instagram: @mutha.life

Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

Let's hang DOWN UNDER today. Yen Trinh is co-owner of Pipit Restaurant in Pottsville in New South Wales, Australia. Pipit has received stellar reviews, including retaining two hats from the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide, it was a finalist for Time Out Food & Drink Awards' Best Destination Venue category, and their head chef, Yen's husband and co-owner, NOMA alum Ben Devlin has earned a Global Knife for excellence on the Global Best Chef List. In addition to her work on Pipit, Yen is the creator of Chef Widow Club, a project that is equal parts, blog, illustration and book on what it's like to date and maintain relationships with people working in hospitality. She's an illustrator, a designer, and a strategist…and she pulls no punches talking about the navigating parenthood and family life while also running a family-owned business.

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

Instagram: @mutha.life

Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa

Let's hang with someone I've known for 20 years, but who I only actually got to know by doing this interview. Kelsy Parkhouse is the owner and founder of CARLEEN, a clothing brand steeped in nostalgia and a celebration of American textiles. Her one of a kind pieces have been gracing runways, editorial shoots for Vogue (peep a baby Kendall Jenner in Carleen, in the show notes), and the streets of big cities around the world since its debut in 2012. Her story, to me, feels like true LORE, a slow and deliberate movement toward making and being who she was always meant to be - both in her parenting and her career.

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

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Produced by: Mutha Life, Music by: Ronen Landa