Cecil and Ashley are licensed therapists who specialize in working with children and the LGBTQ community. So when it was time to do an episode on coming out, I knew just who to call. We are sitting down and talking about how to best support our children if they come out to us, or we think they may be a member of the LGBTQ community. I am releasing this episode early in honor of Pride weekend in Atlanta - Happy Pride, ya’ll!

Cathi Huff is the owner of the Atlantis Dream Farm, which features goat yoga and many other wonderful classes involving animals of all kinds. She has even done kangaroo yoga before! Cathi shares how her business came together after feeling purposeless when her children left for college. We geek out on goats, and talk about how they are the purest form of therapy.

Today’s episode is about nice girls, and particularly nice girls in business. And I can’t think of a better entrepreneur to talk to than Michelle Carlton. She runs a branding company called Just Styling, is the co-owner of Pop up at 8th, and wife (and creative director) to the Not as Famous cookie company. She’s so nice she agreed to sit down with me and talk about how in a time of badasses and boss girls, where do us nice girls belong? I think a lot of women will be able to relate to this episode, I hope you enjoy it.

I am releasing a special bonus episode in honor of World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th. I sat down with Teresa Ruspi, the co-founder of the Better Than Yesterday LRJ Foundation which was started in honor of her brother, who she lost to suicide. The foundation is aimed providing awareness and education to schools and the community about mental health and suicide prevention. I appreciated she made time in her busy schedule to sit down and talk with me, I hope anything we have to say can be helpful to at least one family in identifying their child may be at risk and getting them the help they need.

This episode is all about starting something from scratch and Lizeth Gomez is a great person to talk to because she started an amazing creative business from her living room! Moms Kloset is a balloon design business. She has designed for all events including weddings, conferences, launch parties, and even Cardi B's baby shower! She is open about how she did it, who helped her along the way, and the even mistakes she made (secretly, this podcast is her apology letter to ATL Bucket List - haha). Listen to this if you are a creative person, want to start a small business, or just love hearing the story of a great mom who found her passion!

I am talking with Marni Grodzin, owner of Gathered & Grounded about all things teen. She is the teen queen, Gathered & Grounded is like a community center for kids and teens - except a community center they actually want to go to. As she perfectly puts it, if it's legal, it's allowed. In this episode I tried to get an understanding of what we should and shouldn’t worry about, and what it’s like to be a teen in today’s world.

Manu Muraro is a master of social media marketing. Your Social Team is her one-woman show where she helps businesses and brands utilize their marketing strategy through social media to its fullest. She co-founded the Let's Conference and has her own conference coming up in October 2019, all on the topic of using Instagram to your business's advantage. In this podcast we talk about common traps moms/women in business fall into with social media - primarily the comparison game, knowing when to unplug, and how to tell if you are oversharing. DISCLAIMER: audio quality is not perfect, I am working on this and it WILL improve! Manu's words are valuable and worth overlooking some pops in the audio, trust me.

This episode I discuss failure with Keon Davis, owner of the Smooth n Groove smoothie trucks. Keon is far from a failure, but he has seen his share of struggles and has a lot of insight to share on how he overcame them. Hint: crying is a business strategy. Because Keon was honest and open enough to talk about how close he came to taking his life, I am using this episode as an opportunity to share the Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1800-273-8255.

This episode I discuss the emotional side of dyslexia (and other language based learning disabilities) with Dr. Megan McSwain Mann. She holds a doctorate and masters in art therapy, and is a licensed professional counselor - specializing in working with children with social/emotional issues such as anxiety or depression and children with learning differences such as ADHD and dyslexia. This isn't just her specialization, she's also dyslexic! She shares her insight from both a personal and professional point of view of how we can help these children better see the superpower behind their dyslexia.

Meet Cindy Robinson, host of the Go Get Mom podcast. She is the founder and creator of The Kid Factory, a community project aimed at raising awareness about the mental health crisis our kids and teens are facing. She decided to start the podcast in an effort to reach and effect more families on a deeper level. She has learned to cope with her own childhood trauma and in turn wants to help others do the same. She works in Atlanta as a mindfulness curriculum coordinator (a job she proudly made up herself) at a children's counseling center. She has had a strange and winding path to her career, but she attributes most of what she knows to the school of hard knocks. She describes herself as chronically curious and aptly anxious, and has the simple dream of ending the rise of anxiety, depression, and suicide in kids and teens. She is supported and loved by a very patient husband and a very insightful son. In her down time she loves on her farm animals, travels, and loves a good craft!