Today I am interviewing Ashley Brown! Ashley is a mom of 2, educator, planning nerd, and founder of Routine and Things, a platform dedicated to helping moms get and stay in their happy place using routines as a roadmap.

Ashley is passionate about supporting moms in their homemaking and motherhood journeys. She strongly believes routines are a springboard for improving your home, yourself, and your life.

Through her binge worthy podcast, the Routine and Things Podcast, she makes it clear it’s her mission to encourage mamas to use routines as a way of consistently achieving peace in their home and life.

Ashley drops some serious GOLD about how to set up routines, especially in this crazy time that we’re in so take notes if you can! I absolutely love her heart and her mission to help Mamas and I know you will love her too! Enjoy my conversation with Ashley!

Book she mentioned: “More than Enough” by Elaine Welteroth

Find Ashley:

Website: routineandthings.com

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/routineandthings

Routine and Things Podcast: https://routineandthings.com/podcast/

Current Offer: Free Rock Your Routines Bundle (routineandthings.com/bundle)

Today I'm doing something a little bit different! Instead of the normal format of our podcast; where I interview another Mama, it's just ME and you, sister!

Do you ever do "Mommy dates" with your kids? Some of my most “filled-up” moments have included my kids. Now, you may be thinking, “But isn’t the point of self-care to be alone?” Yes and no. It depends on you, what you need and what your kids need.

I love spending time with my kids but not all day, everyday. No, thank you. They need a break from ME sometimes! Ha!

When we are together, I try to make it count. I love watching them experience new things, seeing them learn and grow and be brave! It doesn’t have to be extravagant trips or vacations, either! I love doing really easy things right in our own house or community.

In today's episode, I'm giving you T W E L V E fun, easy and cheap things to do with your kids that will fill you ALL up!

Let me know which one you're going to try this week!

I’m super excited to introduce you to Jessica Principe today on the podcast! Jessica is the Founder of All Girl Shave Club. A self-taught product & e-commerce entrepreneur, she embodies the quote, "she believed she could, so she did."

Armed with a passion for business, a creative idea, and google - she self-funded and launched All Girl Shave Club, a women's shaving subscription service and online boutique.

She is a relatable and engaging speaker, author and mentor, whose greatest passion is teaching others who want to get started in the subscription box and e-commerce industry.

She lives in beautiful southern NH with her husband TJ and their two boys. In her spare time, you can find her at the beach or hiking with her family!

You’re going to love how fun she is and the energy she brings to this conversation. You’ll also hear about a scary birth experience with her first son and all that she and her husband went through. She is such a joy and I know you will love her! Enjoy my conversation with Jessica!

Find Jessica:

Website: https://jessicaprincipe.com/ and https://allgirlshaveclub.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllGirlShaveClub/

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

Today I’m interviewing Dr. Leesha Eliis-Cox! Dr. Leesha is a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who shares a heartfelt message of love, hope, and acceptance for moms. As a practicing physician, dynamic public speaker, wife, mommy, and parenting expert, she skillfully weaves sound medical advice with practical strategy grounded in years of clinical care, current research, and personal experience. A catalyst for continuous and positive change, Dr. Leesha works with moms to bring about a powerful mindset shift. The result is a fresh, uncomplicated approach to balanced living for the mind, body, and soul – one that strengthens moms and their families.

I think you’re really going to love our conversation from not only her perspective as a Mama but also her professional experience as a psychiatrist. We talk a lot about her book called “Ditch the Mommy Guilt” which is a short and helpful read about truly letting go of the mom guilt that we all feel too often.

Enjoy my conversation with Leesha.

Find Leesha:

Website: drleesha.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drleeshapsych/

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

Today I’m interviewing Cindra McCoy! She’s a navy wife turned momprenuer based out of Aiken, SC. Currently she has a 2 yr old and is pregnant with her second child.

She owns a local art school/studio and recently launched an art subscription box for children called Guide Dots. Her goal with Guide Dots is to unlock children's creativity by giving them a map using strategically placed dots and online video instruction. It looks really interesting and I am definitely going to check it out for my kids! You can tell she’s super passionate about getting the arts back into schools and in kids’ lives!

And this is exciting - just for listeners of The Mama Needs Podcast, Cindra has given us a coupon code to get $5 off of her starter kit! Just go to guide-dots.com, sign up for the starter kit and use code “mamaneeds” at checkout for $5 off! Now, enjoy my conversation with Cindra.

Find Cindra:

Website: https://guide-dots.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guidedots/

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

I’m excited to introduce you to Lana Nelson. Lana is wife to Dr. Bruce Nelson, mother to 12 adult children and grandmother to 38 and she’s even a great-grandmother! She loves to hike and garden and experiment with food. Her newest book, The Food Codes™ is available on Amazon.

Lana Nelson’s, The Food Codes teaches you how to eat without guilt and shame for the rest of your life! The Food Codes also teaches you what your body needs for food at different times, seasons, and when different stresses affect your life.

Lana is also an Intuitive Nutritionist, Certified Emotion and Body Code consultant, a Licensed Massage Therapist as well as a Reiki Master Teacher. So, in short, this woman does it all.

It was a pleasure to chat with her about her kids, how she met her husband and how she’s changed her life with food. Enjoy my conversation with Lana.

Find Lana:

Website: thefoodcodes.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefoodcodes1/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefoodcodes/

Today I am interviewing Kendall Gilbert! Kendall lives in Raleigh, NC and works part-time. She also owns a stationery business where she creates tactical paper tools for the busy mom. She has been married 20 years and has two kids. She believes less is more and is on a mission to help other moms simplify the chaos that comes with motherhood so life doesn’t feel so overwhelming. I loved getting to know Kendall better and we also had some real talk about taking medicine for postpartum depression and anxiety. Enjoy my conversation with Kendall.

Find Kendall:

Website: kendallpgilbert.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kendallpgilbert/

Today I am interviewing Shannon Parker. Shannon has been married for 11 years is Mama to her son JJ and daughter Eden. She’s also CFO at Raleigh North Christian Center and founder of Faith Wins LLC.

She is the creator of Nourish, an online signature course to teach women how to eat, heal their bodies and counter inflammation. Shannon was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after having children that she’ll explain more in this episode.

Shannon is so much fun and we laughed a lot in this episode. Her joy and passion for helping women is contagious. Enjoy my conversation with Shannon!

Find Shannon:

Website: http://shannonparker.rdumedia.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foreverfinesse/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foreverfinesse/

In this first episode of 2020, I am interviewing Amy Gabriel! Amy is a wife, Mama to 2 and entrepreneur! She and her family live in the Orlando, FL area. Amy started a business in 2013 called LippyClip, which combined her love for sewing and dream of creating products people would love! LippyClip is an adorable lip balm holder made from fabric that you can clip onto your keychain, wallet, purse or anywhere you need to find it! I got myself one recently and not only has it made this winter more bearable with dry lips but I’ve gotten so many compliments on it, too!

When I first found LippyClip, I was looking at putting one inside of our subscription boxes and as I dug a little deeper, I realized that not only is Amy a Mama and business owner but we also graduated from the same college AND we both have children who have a severe and rare speech disorder called apraxia. We actually go pretty deep into that sharing our stories to each other and things definitely get emotional in this episode. We joked that you all get to listen to our therapy session! I loved getting to know Amy and I know you will, too. Enjoy my conversation with Amy.

Find Amy:

Website: LippyClip.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lippyclip

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

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lippyclip/