Jessica Jackson is the host of the Thriving in Motherhood Podcast and annual Soaring Mothers Summit and the creator of the Thriving in Motherhood Planner. As a homeschooling mother of four young children, she knows what it is like to try and find peace and balance between running a household, creating a strong family culture, and working on her own projects while real life keeps happening (hard pregnancies and postpartum, sickness, cross country moves, etc.) After years of struggle, she realized there are simple, practical things we can do to stop living in survival mode and find meaning, joy, and growth in everyday life.

In today's episode,  Dr. Gertrude and Jessica talk about how mothers should thrive and own our space in our family through the three pillars of thriving. Jessica shares how she built strong relationships among her children and created her vision for motherhood.

Today on Mot(HER):

• The struggles of Jessica's motherhood journey
• Creating a vision for motherhood
• The Three Pillars of Thriving
• Concept of structure in motherhood
• Being the leader in creating the family culture
• What supports Jessica in being in the space of vision and not desperation
• Modeling a healthy relationship for her children
• Homeschooling and creating an experiential learning life for her children

Connect with Jessica Jackson:

• Website: https://thrivinginmotherhoodpodcast.com
• Instagram: @thrivinginmotherhood.podcast

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Sara Dean is a keynote speaker, a business and leadership coach, and a Step into Your Moxie® facilitator.  She is also the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top-rated podcast with 4 million downloads. Sara’s biggest passion is helping women own their space. After enduring her own identity crisis following the birth of her son, Sara took her background in psychology/health/ wellness and rebuilt her identity, one step at a time. Sara motivates and inspires women to stop shrinking and start shining #everydamnday.  

Sara leads her thriving membership community, Momentum Mamas, as well as her business and leadership mastermind, Tenacious Mamas. She has spoken for Amazon, the City of Seattle, Charles Schwab, Inspired Mama, WE Ignite, Alt Summit, and She Podcasts Live. She was recently featured on the Dr. Phil Show. When she’s not supporting Shameless Moms, you’ll find Sara with her husband and 9-year-old son - building Legos and pretending to understand Minecraft.

In today’s episode, Dr. Gertrude and Sara talk about how Sara speaks out her voice through her podcast as she empowers women to invest in themselves, own their identity, and take up their space in this world. In addition, Sara shares her journey from being a fitness coach to launching her podcast, which significantly impacted a lot of women.

Today on Mot(HER):

• Sara's journey from fitness to launching her podcast
• Challenges for women to invest in ourselves and create the impact that we want to have 
• Taking a stand and owning your space in your relationship in a new way
• How to mother yourself amidst all the responsibilities of being a mother
• What rewriting the mother code means to Sara

Connect with Sara Dean:

• Website: www.shamelessmom.com
• Shameless Mom Academy Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shameless-mom-academy/id1092674204
• Free Facebook Group: www.shamelessmom.com/facebook
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/shamelessmomacademy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saradeanspeaks/

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions.

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

In today’s solo episode, Dr. Gertrude explores ways of nurturing and reconnecting with your inner child. She talks about what our inner child is and why doing the inner child work is essential in our growth and healing.

Today on Mot(HER):

• What is our inner child, and why it's an important component in rewriting the mother code
• Dr. Gertrude's experience working with her inner child
• Utilize connecting with your inner child for healing, growth, and empowerment
• Ways to get in touch with your inner child
• Inner child work through meditation and breathwork
• Specific invoking of your inner child through guided meditation

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Psychic and Medical Intuitive Julie Ryan can sense what medical conditions and illnesses a person has and facilitate energetic healings. She can communicate with spirits both alive and dead. Julie can scan animals, access people’s past lives, and she can tell how close to death someone is. Her book Angelic Attendants: What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next describes a series of events that involves angels, multitudes of deceased family and friends, the spirits of deceased pets, and countless serendipitous and miraculous moments. Julie’s children’s books Angel Messages For Kids, Angel Messages For Dogs, and Angel Messages For Cats are picture books that have angels answering kids’ tough questions. Each week, Julie scans callers on her 'Ask Julie Ryan' radio show and podcast. Julie is a businesswoman, an inventor, author, radio show host, podcaster, and a serial entrepreneur. Her surgical device inventions are sold globally and she has founded nine companies in five different industries. Julie’s Psychic and Medical Intuitive skills are learned.

In today’s episode, Dr. Gertrude and Julie talk about spirits, past lives, death, the intuition of children and more. We also get to experience Julie doing a few scans on Dr. Gertrude to inquire about her past and a current physical ailment.    

Today on Mot(HER):

• The ability of children to tap into universal intelligence
• Julie’s favorite stories of spirits
• Doing and unpacking past life scan on Dr. Gertrude
• What happens when someone passes into the next life
• How babies choose their mothers preconception

Connect with Julie Ryan:

• Website: askjulieryan.com
• Book: Angelic Attendants
• Podcast: Ask Julie Ryan
• Instagram: @askjulieryan
• Facebook: Julie Ryan
• Twitter: @askjulieryan
• TikTok: Ask Julie Ryan
• LinkedIn: Julie Ryan
• YouTube: Ask Julie Ryan

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Dr. Jessica Higgins is a licensed psychologist and relationship coach. She uses her deep understanding and keen perception to help guide clients on a path from confusion and heartache to clarity and authentic connection. Her ultimate goal is to help people acquire the insight, learning, and practice to navigate the terrain of intimacy more effectively. 

In this episode, Dr. Gertrude and Dr. Higgins explain how personal insecurities and conflict within relationships can be used as a means to get to know yourself and your partner better and, ultimately, help you dive deeper into intimacy. They also talk about the concept of “working the curriculum” to continue to develop fresh romance throughout the various stages that occur during a lifelong commitment. 

Today on Mot(HER):

• Getting to know Dr. Higgins
• How relationship hardships can often be teachers
• Ways to prepare in advance for couples activities that may be activating
• Self-validated intimacy and neuroception
• The importance of creating a vision with your partner

Connect with Jessica Higgins:

• Website: drjessicahiggins.com
• Podcast: Empowered Relationship Podcast
• Instagram: @drjessicahiggins

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Kate Mangino, PhD is a gender expert and professional facilitator who works with international non-profit organizations to promote positive social change. She has written and delivered curricula in over 20 countries about issues such as: gender equality, women’s empowerment, healthy masculinity, HIV prevention, and early and forced childhood marriage. She brings her lens of gender and social change to her debut book, Equal Partners, which addresses household gender inequality in the United States and offers practical advice as to what each of us can do to rewrite gender norms.

Today on the show, the two discuss how Kate’s passion for gender equality blossomed over time, as well as some of the contents of her forthcoming book, titled “Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home”. This episode serves as a reminder to all mothers to rewrite the mother code and that each one of us gets to create our own unique definition of what it means to be a good, quality mother.

Today on Mot(HER):

• How Kate become interested in in studying gender imbalances
• Some of the gender imbalances that are addressed in Kate’s book, “Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home” 
• What does healthy masculinity mean and look like?
• Creating new meaning when adhering to gendered traditions within weddings etc.
• Applying gender equality within partnership
• The importance of revisiting gender roles after each big life event
• Why you should establish your own definition of what it means to be a mother

Connect with Kate Mangino:

• Website: katemangino.com
• Book: “Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home” 
• Twitter: @manginokate

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Today on the show, Dr. Gertrude has a conversation with one of her heroines, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr. Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. As a world renowned author, teacher and public speaker she loves educating all age groups, academic levels, and corporations about the beauty of our human brain - not only its amazing ability to recover from trauma but as the vehicle through which we experience ourselves as the life-force power of the universe. Maybe you are one of the (as of today) 28 million views of her 2008 TED talk, a Stroke of Insight (the first to ever go viral on the Internet). She states that this 18-minute presentation where she shared her story of surviving a massive cerebral hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain and her 8-year journey of recovery, changed her world and the lives so so many others. Within 3 months of delivering that talk she was chosen one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2008. She became the premier guest on Oprah’s Soul Series webcast. Her first book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, spent 63 weeks on the NYT best seller list and remains the #1 on amazon on the subject of strokes 12 years later. Just over a year ago in May, 2021, her second book Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life, dives into how we can short-circuit emotional reactivity and find peace, which she says, “Is only a thought away.” 

In this episode, Dr. Jill shares how, although she experienced pure bliss while half her brain was down, she still longed to return to her more normal state in which she’s subject to the full range of human emotions. It’s only in this state, which she calls, “Whole Brain Living” (WBL), that she feels truly alive. Dr. Gertrude talks about her personal experience practicing WBL and how powerful it is to “huddle” with all parts of her brain – particularly in stressful situations. It is also clear how WBL supports us with Rewriting our Mother Codes to make discerned choices in our mothering journey.

Today on Mot(HER):

• The definition and value of whole brain living
• The emotional systems of the human brain
• Jill’s journey of losing and gaining back her entire left hemisphere due to a stroke
• Understanding that pain is a natural human emotion
• Naming and integrating the four characters of the brain.
• The power of our pain as it relates to natural childbirth

Connect with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor:

• Website: dr.jilltaylor.com
• Instagram: @drjillboltetaylor
• Facebook: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
• Youtube: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
• Dr. Jill’s Ted Talk: My Stroke of Insight

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Today, Dr. Gertrude joins us in another solo episode after returning from a special trip to Paris and London. She shares how strongly she feels about the month of May and opens up about everything that’s been happening to her personally, and around the world, during this month of significance for the divine feminine. 

Today on mot(HER):

• Examining the meaning of the feminine holidays during the month of May
• The non-gendered yin and yang of the divine masculine and feminine 
• How emotions are the essence of our humanness
• The importance of tapping into a sense of awe and wonder

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online:

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com/
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

In today’s solo episode, Dr. Gertrude muses on the connection between modern spirituality and traditional religions. She discusses why so many religious holidays happen during spring, why we are actually spiritual beings with physical bodies (not the other way around), and shares how her own personal upbringing in traditional religion affects her spirituality today. 

Today on mot(HER):

• The significance of spring in so many religious holidays
• What traditional religion can teach us about our own mothering journeys
• The power of unmediated spiritualism through mysticism
• How to honor all walks of spirituality
• Where religious holidays and personal spirituality collide 

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online: 

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com 
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons 
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children 
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24

Helena Shannon is back on the show! Friend and client of Dr. Gertrude, she joined the show last year along with her husband to muse on their newlywed life, and now she’s here again to share how much she’s grown and evolved in the past year. Once becoming sober herself, she found a gap within online communities for those interested in alcohol-free living, so she created a successful sober-curious meetup group for young women in Chicago. Now she’s currently dipping her toes into the “mother curious” world. Listen to learn exactly what that means, how attending Dr. Gertrude’s retreat unknowingly prepared her for a new job opportunity, and why we all mother something, whether we’re childfree or not.

Today on mot(HER):

• How learning to mother herself led Helena to sobriety 
• You’ve heard of sober curious, but are you mother curious? 
• How Dr. Gertrude’s retreat prepared Helena for a new job opportunity
• When you’re unsure if motherhood is for you
• Why we all mother, even those who choose to be childfree 

Connect with Helena:

• Instagram: @hail_shan
• Listen to the last time Helena was on the podcast here!

Join Dr. Gertrude’s community online: 

• Visit her website to learn more about Rewrite The Mother Code®: drgertrudelyons.com 
• Follow Dr. Gertrude on Instagram: @drgertrudelyons 
• Sign up for Dr. Gertrude’s Newsletter

Download Dr. Gertrude’s FREE ebooks and explore your own Mothering Journey:

• To the woman who is unsure if she wants to have children
• To the woman who never wants to have children 
• To the woman who is certain she wants children in the future
• To the woman who has a child

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Learn more about the 2024 Spring Equinox Self-Mothering Retreat at https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/spring-equinox-24