In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Astrid Schanz-Garbassi, the CEO and Co-Founder of Agni. Having experienced the power of home remedies and food healing as a child, Astrid has dedicated her career to helping people access foods that can nourish them during important life moments. Working with health practitioners, medical experts, and nutritionists from around the world, Astrid has built three businesses to-date focused on the healing properties of food and good nutrition.

Agni’s goal is collect all of the information and wisdom about healing through nutrition and to turn it into delectable healing foods.

Replenishing the right nutrients at the right time can work wonders for human health. It can balance hormones, shorten the length of surgery recovery, and help new moms produce a higher quantity and quality of breast milk. It can improve sleep quality, reduce anxiety, and even reverse cognitive decline.

To make this happen, Agni built a Medical Advisory Board and assembled a team of food geniuses to create foods and drinks that wow your body and your taste buds.

On this episode, we discuss how Agni came to be, their approach to wellness and the development process of their products, balancing our hormones and supporting each moment of our lives through nourishment.

I hope you enjoy this week’s episode with Astrid!

Agni’s website: https://agniforall.com

Pregnancy Box https://agniforall.com/pages/pregnancy-box

Agni’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/agniforall/

Today on the podcast, I have the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Ippolito. Andrea is the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed, a virtual lactation and breastfeeding support service. Their mission to make this type of support more accessible in every way, from affordability to connecting with an expert quickly in the comfort of your own home. There are so many questions that can come up when breastfeeding and pumping, so SimpliFed is making it so much easier to get the answers you need when you need them.

Andrea Ippolito currently serves as the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed. Prior to joining SimpliFed, Andrea served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovators Network within the VA Center for Innovation. In this capacity, she designed and oversaw the creation of a $10.5M program that provides the tools and resources to VA employees to develop innovations that improve the experience of Veterans and their families. Prior to that role, Andrea served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow based out of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration.

In this episode we talk about why instant, private, expert lactation support is so important, the scope of practice of lactation consultants, and the ideal schedule to begin working with one. We also discuss how lactation consultants are now covered by insurance so more people will hopefully begin to take advantage of that benefit when they need it most.

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Andrea!

SimpliFed https://simplifed.us

SimpliFed Instagram https://www.instagram.com/simplifedbaby/

First droplets https://firstdroplets.com

First podcast of 2022 is with Million Marker’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Jenna Hua. Jenna, as she prefers to be called, is a registered dietitian and environmental health scientist by training.

Jenna’s extensive experience as an academic and health advocate led to her founding Million Marker in 2019, shortly after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Throughout her career in academia, Jenna has researched and published numerous studies that largely focused on citizens science, general health, and the impact of food consumption on a person’s well-being.

Jenna has been a Project Manager for UNC’s Carolina Population Center, a Graduate Instructor and Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, and a Project Manager at UCLA’s Center for Population Research. She was also a US Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of International Education in Kunming, China. Jenna holds a BS in Nutrition and an MPH and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley.

So, we are in good hands when it comes to understanding how to minimize toxins in our homes and in our lives. In this episode, we discuss how Million Marker’s home test kits can help you eliminate toxins from your home, why this is so important when trying to conceive and while pregnant, and how to start taking small steps to lead to big change in your life. I encourage you to head over to the Million Marker’s website too, as it is full of incredible resources including approved product lists for every category and articles covering everything from toxic free guides to fertility tips and more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation with Jenna!

Million Marker https://www.millionmarker.com

Use code NOTAMAMAYET15 for $15 off your home test kit!

Million Marker’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/million_marker/

EWG Skin Deep https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

This week on the Not a Mama Yet podcast, I’m so excited to share my conversation with Jessica Diamond. Jessica is a registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in moms, kids, and babies, and a mom to 1.

When Jessica became a dietitian in 2009, she noticed a disconnect between the complex concepts she studied and the kind of nutritional and parenting information available. All the information existed, but it wasn’t easily accessible to the majority of families. She has done an incredible job breaking down these complicated principles into easy-to-understand practices.

Her passion is teaching parents how to raise mindful children and how to feed their kids through a simpler approach that creates less picky, intuitive eaters.

On this episode, we talk about reproductive health, foods and tips that support fertility on your pre-conception journey, her manageable tips and tricks truly make you feel like you’ve got this, which is her go-to affirmation for all people, clients, and especially fellow parents.

We also discuss prenatal vitamins, detoxing, postpartum hormone balancing, and releasing control.

This is a great episode I know I will continue to come back to and listen to over and over again.

Check out the podcast notes on how to get in touch with Jessica on her website and podcast with Haley Hubbard, Meaningfull Living. That’s meaningful with two L’s.

Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this episode of Not A Mama Yet with Jessica Diamond!

LINKS:

https://meaningfullliving.com

https://meaningfullliving.com/podcast/

Avocados: https://meaningfullliving.com/avocados-the-nutrient-all-star/

Prenatals Explained: https://meaningfullliving.com/prenatal-vitamins-explained/

Perelel: https://perelelhealth.com/collections/all

Ritual: https://ritual.com/products/essential-prenatal-multivitamin

Pink Stork: https://pinkstork.com/collections/fertility

Thorne: https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/basic-prenatal

Whitney E., RD: https://www.whitneyerd.com, https://plantbasedjuniors.com

Ditching Diet Culture: https://meaningfullliving.com/ditching-diet-culture-how-we-can-do-better-for-our-kids-2/

Feeding your Baby Solids Course: https://meaningfullliving.com/feeding-baby/

This week on the Not A Mama Yet podcast, I am speaking with Melissa Salmeron. As a mother of 3, Melissa reached a point where she didn’t recognize herself anymore and she felt stuck in a pattern that wasn’t serving her, her partnership, or her family.

So Melissa decided to take a step back, reassess what she needed vs what she was doing in her daily life that wasn’t working and she really figured out how to reset on a better path forward.

With that experience and knowledge, she developed the CARE method to help other moms finding themselves in similar situations create conscious connection and communication, bring more awareness to their lives, re-energize, and feel more empowered from within. Being more present, finding a more manageable work/life balance, and stepping into the person, woman, and mom you want to be and know you are, has helped her clients completely change their reality for the better.

In this episode we talk more about her life before versus her life now, how people without kids can benefit from this knowledge to help them potentially avoid this, and communication tools that have really helped her and her husband.

This was an enlightening conversation that I thoroughly enjoyed having with Melissa and I hope you enjoy it too!

Links: 

Melissa's website: https://www.melissasalmeron.com

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.newellsalmeron 

Today on the Not A Mama Yet podcast, I am speaking with Dr. Inderpal Randhawa. Dr. Randhawa is a leading specialist in internal medicine, pediatrics, immunology, allergy medicine, and pulmonology with fifteen years of experience. Dr. Randhawa is also the founder of the Southern California Food Allergy Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to providing innovative and safe treatment for the six million children in the U.S. who suffer from food allergies. His incredible algorithm and ever-growing database is putting people in remission from severe allergy, allowing them to eat all of the foods that use to be potentially fatal for them to even be around. 

He is a special person helping so many people. I loved recording this episode. We get into so many subjects surrounding food allergy, from the physical to the emotional side effects, how foods are connected to each other in the development of certain allergies, to his incredible data-based approach, and how other illnesses such as IBS could be linked to food anaphylaxis. 

And of course we spoke about pregnancy, breastfeeding and newborns when it relates to doing what we can to prevent these allergies from developing in the first place I learned SO much in this episode, and as someone who has only dealt with mild allergies, and we are talking sneezing from dust or pollen, it was amazing to learn more about what it can be like for people who suffer from severe food anaphylaxis. If I am ever around a friend, a peer, a parent who is worried about an allergy they have or their child has, I will do my absolute best to make myself aware and do whatever I can to keep them safe. This is not something to be dealt with alone. 

I hope you enjoy this week’s episode with Dr. Randhawa. 

Thank you for listening! 

Links we mentioned: 

Ultra-filtered milk: https://fairlife.com 

https://www.socalfoodallergy.org 

https://www.socalfoodallergy.org/about#8 

https://www.instagram.com/socalfoodallergy/

Today on the Not A Mama Yet Podcast I am speaking with Caroline Sanchez!

Last year, Caroline left her 9-5 job as a graphic designer and decided to establish her own business educating individuals on the importance of living a more non-toxic and sustainable lifestyle. Her partnership with Enagic and her social media presence sharing the importance of knowing what’s in our drinking water, sparked my interest in wanting her on the show.

On this episode we discuss important facts about water you might not know, tools to educate yourself on finding out what’s in your water based on where you live, the surprising statistics about bottled water, and how to pick the best water filtration option for you.

This episode was pretty eye-opening to me and I hope you have some valuable takeaways as well.

I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Not A Mama Yet!

Products and Links in the episode:

Hydroviv

This is the company that builds custom filters for you based on your zip code and the issues that impact your specific water quality.

https://www.hydroviv.com/

Reverse Osmosis Water Supplier

This one kind of depends on the your location and will require some additional research on your end. Depending on where you live, there are water storefronts that offer various types of water for you to fill up with.

Here is a link to an in-home RO system with remineralization. 

https://ionfaucet.com/reverse-osmosis-with-remineralization/

Mineral Additives for RO Water

Here is a link to those trace minerals we were talking about. This specific product happens to be from Thrive Market, but you can find these types of minerals on various online stores like Amazon as well. Please look for a product that offers a full spectrum of minerals to ensure the body is receiving everything it needs to function properly and read the dilution directions carefully.

https://thrivemarket.com/p/trace-minerals-concentrace-trace-mineral-drops?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla_smart&utm_campaign=Shopping_Engagement_Smart_Members&utm_content=878941000058&utm_term=na&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5oiMBhDtARIsAJi0qk3VPkMCEE1E-2ILAVl21-VfwdYQCxWW_exMCBRaN8nfyjm5NF0eo_gaAs6yEALw_wcB

https://www.amazon.com/Trace-Minerals-Research-Concentrace-Mineral/dp/B005BP5UCM?th=1

Enagic

Here is Caroline's partner company's website for the water ionizer. You can view their full product line and pricing using this link. In order to add an item to your cart, viewers will need to log in with a distributor ID number to complete their purchase. If they are not logged in under a distributor ID the website will notify them that, “This product is not allowed to be purchased.” Caroline's ID number is: 8722635

https://www.enagic.com/

This week on the Not A Mama Yet Podcast, I am speaking with Veronica of @HikingWithHarps.

Veronica came across Montessori after having her daughter and realized how the method not only translates to children but into her day to day at home with all adults.

When she transitioned from working full time to staying at home full time with Harper, her daughter, she found it was hard to stay connected to like-minded moms. The pandemic also made it more difficult in the earlier months of motherhood so she created her account to share her story, where she quickly realized how many parents were inspired by her story.

Veronica believes that children are much more capable than most people believe and that we can support them best by guiding them without interference.

In this episode, Veronica shares how Montessori has taught her so much about herself, parenting, and her community. She is self taught and has taken courses from The Prepared Montessorian and has read countless books.

She wants caretakers and future parents to know that Montessori is and should be accessible for all. By focusing on following your child and outdoor play, all children can have a Montessori home.

I wanted to speak with Veronica on this topic because there are a lot of ways to approach parenthood and everyone needs to find what works for them. As I get closer to the time of having my own kids, I am always curious to see how parents interact with their children to see what I really like. I have loved seeing Veronica and Harper play and enjoy the outdoors, I have learned so much. You’ll see in this episode why patience is so important with this approach, something that I think is a great reminder, personally as well.

I hope you enjoy this episode with Veronica!

Thanks for listening!

Links: 

@HikingWithHarps: https://www.instagram.com/hikingwithharps/

Veronica's Amazon storefront with tons of great items: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hikingwithharps

Books Veronica recommends: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hikingwithharps?listId=1JG9W4OZ55JTE&ref=cm_sw_em_r_inf_list_pub_hikingwithharps_dp_xN7VuTbV9IKGj

Veronica's Links: https://beacons.page/hikingwithharps

Today on the podcast, I am speaking with Dr. Kristin Pauker.

She is originally born and raised in Hawaiʻi and became fascinated with exploring how a person’s immediate environment and culturally-shaped theories about race impact basic social perception, social interactions, and stereotyping in childhood and throughout development. She loves to discover new ideas through her novel research studies and applying those insights toward creating interventions to mitigate stereotyping, interpersonal friction, or persistently biased social perception.

Her research examines how motivations, social context, and individuals’ lay theories impact social perception and their resultant consequences for intergroup relations. Spanning both Social and Developmental Psychology, her research has been featured in journals including Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Developmental Psychology.

She was also my Psychology professor at the University of San Francisco and I actually assisted her on some of her research at the time, which we touched on in our conversation.

In this episode, we discuss the danger of color blindness, an interesting preschool activity that would definitely test any parent during an important teaching moment, a few of Dr. Pauker’s recent studies and the interesting findings that teach us more about the ways children think and perceive, and some moments she has had as a mom talking to her son about race and appearance. 

Enjoy!

Dr. Pauker on the University of Hawai'i Mānoa's website 

Dr. Pauker's research

Today on the podcast, I am speaking with Melissa Buchan, a National Board Certified Integrative Health & Wellness Coach, and Neo Fertility Advisor. Over the past 15 years, Melissa has helped empower women to better understand their fertility and manage their reproductive health. She is the co-developer of Chart Neo, a medical management model app for secure cycle charting.

Navigating your menstrual cycle is a powerful daily practice that provides insight into managing and balancing your hormonal health. Medical literature states that a well-charted cycle is the fifth vital sign in women. Melissa helps her clients map their cycle for infertility evaluation, women’s health assessment, or family planning and evaluate their unique patterns to create a customized plan to optimize their healing journey. Melissa believes in a root-cause, solution-based approach to dealing with infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, and hormonal imbalances. A balanced cycle is a sign of health and vitality and Melissa’s mission is to help her clients get there.

Today we are talking about how Melissa’s personal experiences led her down this career path, empowering women from a young age to understand external cues that inform them about what is happening internally, natural birth control and the charting lifestyle to cycle sync and bio hack your cycle, how to manage stress, and Melissa shares some great advice for women as a mother and expert in this space.

I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Not A Mama yet with Melissa Buchan! Links below!

Not A Mama Yet: www.notamamayet.com

Not A Mama Yet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notamamayet/

Melissa's Website: https://www.melissabuchan.com

Melissa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virtusfertilitycare/

Thank you!