The Mom Enterprise

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Elena Sonnino

Elena Sonnino is a sought-after guide for living fully in the now to step into the spotlight of your life. As a life coach, speaker, and yoga teacher, her work is an invitation to unearth and attune to inner strength and wisdom – what she calls, the sunrise in your pocket. She inspires individuals and groups to remove self-imposed obstacles and explore the NOW with curiosity and gratitude so that they can step into the spotlight of their life. Learn more about Elena at ElenaSonnino.com or tune in to her Sunrise in Your Pocket podcast online or on iTunes. Elena is a mother to a 14 year old daughter and lives in Aldie, VA

Listen to hear more about Elena's story:

- From Teacher to Writer to Yoga Teacher to Life Coach: all the former and present lives.

- When a passion for speaking leads to your ideal career and helping with the wellness of others.

- The advantage of working from home.

- Podcasting and the joy it brings not just to your listeners but to you as well.

- Self Care: Expectations vs What You Need

- It can be an "and" instead of an "or".

- Raising a 14 year old daughter and co-parenting.

- Consistency and finding that healthy balance.

- The importance of being apart of the family and respect.

- Hey Moms, be kind to yourself.

Links mentioned:

@ElenaSonnino

Life Coach

Live Fully in the Now

ElenaSonnino.com

Twitter: @ElenaSonnino

Facebook: Elena Sonnino Life Coaching

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenasonnino

Echo Dot

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Shawn Brody

Shawn Brody is a Park Slope native – born and raised in Park Slope. She went away to college – University of Wisconsin, Madison but NYC was in her heart and moved back to NYC after graduating. Since graduating she found herself in the finance community. She spent most of her career at Goldman Sachs where she found her niche becoming a senior female leader and role model to other females in finance. She spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs and survived two maternity leaves (and a few market crashes in between). She joined a FinTech firm (founded by Goldman) to find a better work/life balance. On the side she's a very active parent within the Park Slope Community. Shortly after the birth of each of her kids she single handedly formed new mom's groups for each child as an outlet (each group used to meet once a week in prospect park). She now is head of her block association, FT mom and working professional who tries to be an active participant in both her career and personal life. Her and her husband, Andy, have been married for 15 years and have chosen Park Slope (Windsor Terrace) to raise their two boys (Alex who is now 10 and Evan who is now 8). She describes life as a "tug of war" – each day is a different balancing act.

Listen to hear more about Shawn's story:

- Working in Finance: a male dominated field.

- Working Full Time and finding the balance to keep a rigorous schedule.

- Finding the right time to start a family after getting married.

- Postpartum: looking back.

- Find one person to take advice from.

- Coming back from maternity leave and what to expect.

- When your babysitter is considered family.

- Supporting other moms in the community and society.

- "We've all been there."

Links mentioned:

Sound Machine

Digital Clock

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Nikole Vincent

"A week after the birth of our third child, my husband had to return to work to his full time. I found it quite difficult to handle my day-to-day tasks as a stay-at-home wife while recuperating from childbirth. I also had the challenge of acclimating myself and the rest of the household to the schedule of the new baby. Being originally from Pennsylvania, my husband and I found it to be very strenuous to navigate our expanding family without the help of relatives here in Virginia. Depression, specifically the sense of being overwhelmed and alone, were feelings that I had to manage. This is when/ how Moms Need Help Too was born."

Listen to hear more about Nikole's story:

- Running a Mommy Concierge and Childcare Service.

- The struggles and the rewards of starting your own business and balancing family.

- One girl and two boys and managing it all.

- Getting started and jumping in feet first... You have to start somewhere!

- Being a "mom-preneur" and the sacrifices you make.

- Having all the "firsts" with the third child.

- Meetings, networking, phone consultations and meeting & greets.

- Every mom can't expect to be Supermom.

- The "pain" of motherhood.

- Find your voice.

Links mentioned:

Official Job Title- Owner & Founder

www.momsneedhelptoollc.com

IG: momsneedhelp2

www.facebook.com/momsneedhelptoollc/

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Jessica Ochoa Hendrix

Jessica Ochoa Hendrix, CEO and co-founder of Killer Snails, has worked in K-12 education since 2003. Prior to co-founding Killer Snails, she most recently worked as an educational consultant whose clients included Relay Graduate School of Education and the Charter Network Accelerator. Previously, she worked for Uncommon Schools as the Director of Organizational Learning as the network grew from sixteen to thirty two schools. Ms. Ochoa Hendrix received her MBA with a concentration in Social Enterprise from Columbia Business School and was awarded the prestigious Board of Overseers Fellowship and the Nathan Gantcher Prize for Social Enterprise. Additionally, she served as an Education Pioneer at the New York City Department of Education and worked with Brooklyn Prospect Charter School to launch the first Brooklyn Prospect in 2008. Prior to business school, she worked in marketing for the Harvard Business Review and The Economist, and taught for four years for The Princeton Review. She holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a proud alumna of Project Entrepreneur. Jessica lives in Brooklyn, NY with her two kids and husband.

Listen to hear more about Jessica's story:

- Creating a business to educate children about Science through games and fun!

- Your children give the best test feedback.

- Funding your small business and what you should know.

- Running a small business and what it requires from day to day.

- Organizing a meet up group for educators and developers.

- Living in Brooklyn, a husband, two children and growing.

- Family Planning can be strategic.

- Building your business and seeing your little ones at the end of the day.

- When your kids start after school activities and the balance.

- "Tidy" vs. "Deep Clean"

- The Brooklyn Family.

- Potty Training... just be ready.

- Every Mom has an "oops" now and then.

Links mentioned:

Roll up Keyboard Playmat

IG-KillerSnailsGames

*more active* Twitter @KillerSnails1

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Candice Cook

Candice is a native Atlantan with residential stints in Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas along the way and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 1 year old son, Harry IV.

The Managing Partner at The Cook Law Group, PLLC, a firm she founded in 2010 after seven years as a corporate litigator, Candice Cook Simmons has been selected as a Rising Star/Super Lawyer of 2018 in New York, one of the leading women in law, and an innovator in business, strategy, and legal solutions for clients in the technology, business, and entertainment industries--specifically film, television and music. Her clients range from lead talent from the production of Hamilton, a co-founder of Venmo, and she is the attorney for restauranteur, Dominique Ansel, where she made the legal and strategic decision to trademark the Cronut pastry resulting in propelling the croissant and pastry hybrid into the popular culture stratosphere. She is a passionate activist and philanthropist and is an Advisory Board Member for companies focusing on issues ranging from Crypto and Blockchain to History, Technology, and Real Estate Development. In addition to her legal and business strategy work, Candice is proud to be working on a film documentary centered on women who have changed the world.

Listen to hear more about Candice's story:

• Monitoring ovulation, trigger shots and getting pregnant on the first try.

• Taking the pressure off you and your partner when trying to conceive.
• The "normalcy" of pregnancy and having a "textbook" pregnancy.
• Not all signs are the same but are equally important.
• The take home Instagram-able outfit.
• When your delivery is a cocktail party without drinks.
• The importance of hydration.
• Getting back to yourself after childbirth is more than being physical.
• Going back to work and caregivers.
• The mental energy of breastfeeding.
• "Trust your gut"
• Bathing your little one in the sink and why it is not recommended by doctors.

Links mentioned:

Leachco Lounger

Twitter | @CandiceSC1

Instagram | @CandiceSC1of1

The Cook Law Group | http://ca-coglobalinc.com/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/csc1/something-good-to-read-with-candice-s-cook-esq/

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Jenn Farrer

Jennifer Farrer grew up in Richmond, VA and moved to New York in the summer of 2010. She is a certified executive coach, entrepreneur and award-winning researcher in the field of communication, collaboration and influence.

Jenn came to the leadership development field by way of a marketing career. After surviving a brain hemorrhage while on a business trip, Jenn was inspired to help other business leaders become a positive force in their own lives and magnify their positive impact on their companies, families and communities. In the 12 years since, she has helped thousands of professionals learn the skill set and mindset to excel at work and thrive in life. She founded her own leadership development firm in 2016 with the mission of elevating quality of life around the world, one person at a time. Her son Max was four months old when she took the leap into entrepreneurship, and he and her business have grown up together ever since. She lives in Manhattan with her son Max and husband Ben.

Listen to hear more about Jenn's story:

• The joy of the talking stage in toddlers.
• Motherhood Story: infertility, IVF, going for number two, postpartum.
• Getting your body back for yourself.
• Scheduling your C-section only to have your water break.
• "The First Cry"
• Sometimes starting your own business isn't on your ideal timeline.
• Postpartum Depression & Anxiety.
• Having that difficult conversation and taking action.
• Breastfeeding vs. Formula
• From Brand Management to Executive Coaching.
• Moms, Daycare and other outside help.
• Game Changer: The Moms On Call
• Being a safe space as a mother.

Links mentioned:

IG: @jennfarrer

www.jenniferhfarrer.com

Moms on Call

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Mariela Azcuy

Mariela has nearly 20 years' experience in the media industry focused on Marketing and Public Relations. She has worked at media companies and agencies helping shape messages, promote ideas and execute campaigns that create change and drive business. She's also worked closely with growth consumer segments with a focus on Hispanic audiences.

Since August of 2016, Mariela created and led a B2B marketing team that supports Univision's Content Distribution business goals. She's responsible for increasing demand for Univision's content, promoting Univision's expertise and developing the tools and materials that help the teams sell. She's been with the Company since 2010, when she was hired to launch the Ad Sales Marketing Department.

Prior to UCI, she worked for 12 years in Public Relations at companies including Meredith Corporation and Edelman Public Relations. She believes that words and a POV matter and that curiosity combined with decisiveness lead to success.

Mariela lives in Brooklyn with her husband David, daughter and dog Cleo.

Listen to hear more about Mariela's story:

- Online Dating Success: it all started with an email.

- From IVF to Adoption back to IVF.

- The unfortunate ending of working with this adoption agency.

- Advancements in IVF with a happy ending.

- Being a "high risk pregnancy" and juggling two doctors.

- Doing things you swore you would never do as a mother.

- The joys of having family live close by.

- The challenge of getting home from work in a timely manor for family time.

- Making your own baby food.

- Accepting help to ease the pressure.

- Working in Media: unpredictability with long hours and knowing when to unplug.

- Picking and choosing your night to go out and have a little fun.

- Parenthood: it's a 24/7 job.

- Maternity Policy: ease back into it.

- Don't sweat the small stuff.

Links mentioned:

IG/Twitter: @marielaazcuy

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Rahti Gorfien

Listen to hear more about Rahti's story:

- From Theater Arts to Stand Up Comedy to Play Writing to Career Coaching.

- Working with Writers, Filmmakers, Animators, Yogis and Entrepreneurs in Career Coaching and helping to establish structure in order to succeed.

- Recognizing your calling and having your Tribe.

- Raising a teenage boy in the city and the importance of street smarts.

- "Nobody should have to pick up after anyone else."

- Teenager = "Toddler Adults"

- Taking longer for people to "Adult".

- Mental Illness and figuring out what ways you learn best and implementing them.

- The importance of routine and family time.

- The highs and lows of raising a son in the city.

- Technology and it's impact on the brain of constant consumption.

- The fear of being judged as a parent.

- Everybody has their responsibilities around the house.

- Monitoring screen time and it's impact on school work.

- Letting yourself accept help and dropping being a perfectionist.

- The "Lazy Crazy Day".

Links mentioned:

Instagram: coachrahti

FB: @creativecallingcoaching

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

*this episode contains a few curse words*

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Amanda Semenoff

Amanda is a civil mediator and conflict management specialist in New Westminster, BC. She works with start-ups, entrepreneurs and tech companies to pre-wire them to thrive through conflict and change. She helps academics, project teams, sports organizations and community groups manage conflict for increased effectiveness.

Amanda is member of the Mediate BC Civil Roster, a designer with the Pig 'n Potato Game Collaborative and co-hosts the Overthinking Conflict Podcast. She has 2 kids, a dog and coaches hockey in her spare time.

Listen to hear more about Amanda's story:

- Pursing a career as a Mediator in Conflict Management full time and the schedule it allows for family time.

- The business of the business and how conflict is resolved.

- Teaching your children the importance of their feelings and making decisions.

- Each child has individual needs at different stages in their lives.

- Children pay more attention to your mistakes.

- Dealing with illness and your day to day as a wife, mother and business woman.

- You're allowed to have bad days as a mom.

- Co-Parenting is about balance.

- Sleep: Quality is key. How to get that deep sleep.

- Trusting your partner when it comes raising your children together.

- "Sometimes you're going to cry and it's okay."

- Splitting up the Maternity Leave.

Links mentioned:

Owlkids | Discover a world of fun!

www.mindfulresolution.ca

www.twitter.com/mindfulconres

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asemenoff/

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows

Welcome to The Mom Enterprise, a weekly podcast hosted by Kendra Martinez featuring working Moms who find a way to manage it all.

Episode Guest: Rachel Lipson

Rachel Lipson is the founder and CEO of Blue Balloon Songwriting for Small People, a music school that teaches in-home private and group instrument lessons through songwriting to kids 3 and up in NYC, The Hamptons and Nashville. Rachel started out as a guitarist and songwriter working as a preschool teacher at Saint Ann's in Brooklyn Heights. She organically grew Blue Balloon from the ground up. What began as a one woman music "school" in Rachel's one room studio apartment, has grown into what Blue Balloon is today: 60+ amazing, talented teachers, teaching over 350 students a week on many different instruments in multiple cities. Rachel is an accomplished educator, a prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has recorded and toured in Europe and the UK, and recorded twice at BBC Radio One in London. Rachel lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband, two small boys and their Border Collie mix, Finn.

Listen to hear more about Rachel's story:

- From School Teacher to full time Teacher in Songwriting and Music Education.

- Expanding your business when the time is right.

- Entrepreneurship from home and raising a family.

- a Kismet meeting and the start of a family: When you know, you know.

- Planning: having two babies close together.

- Handling unexpected circumstances in your pregnancy.

- Not every birth follows your plan.

- Stay At Home Dads.

- Crafting with your little ones.

- The unconditional love you never knew you had.

Links mentioned:

Gliding Rocking Chair

Rachel Lipson | Founder & CEO | Blue Balloon Songwriting

BlueBalloonSchool.com | 917 608 2433 | Facebook | Instagram

Ages 3-9: Blue Balloon Songwriting for Small People

Ages 10-18 Adults: Pitch & Propeller Songs and Instruction

Follow this podcast:

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Producer: Kendra Martinez

Co-Producer/Editor: Lexi Burrows