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: Renanit Levy

Renanit Levy has worked in leadership roles in Jewish community settings for over two decades. In 2016 she founded R.Levy Consulting, focused on tactical and strategic planning, fundraising and development with a specialty in foundation relations and grant writing, executive coaching and project management. Prior to founding R.Levy Consulting, Renanit worked as Director of Institutional Advancement as Hazon; served as the director of The Gottesman Fund; worked as a grantmaker and communal planner at UJA-Federation of New York, as well as in admissions for The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Renanit holds a graduate degree in Jewish Communal Leadership and Nonprofit Management from the University of Michigan School of Social Work, where she was the Ernie Michel Fellow. Also a certified lactation counselor, postpartum doula and yoga instructor, Renanit founded Brooklyn Postpartum, a holistic support service center for growing families, in 2012. Renanit lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and three daughters, ages 13, 10 and 4.

Listen to hear more about Renanit's story:

- A family with three girls and running your own business.

- Taking the Leap: When the side hustle becomes the main focus.

- Teenagers and modern technology.

- Learning when to let go: a commuting story.

- What raising children in NYC contributes to development.

- Getting the right fit for you and your baby carrier.

- Mom Time, Partner Time, Family Time.

Links mentioned:

[email protected]

Velcro Swaddle Blankets

Baby Carrier

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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: Dara Kass

Dara Kass, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in NYC.

After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of Staten Island University Hospital, where she facilitated the start of their EM residency program. She previously served as the director of undergraduate medical education at NYU. As director, she introduced longitudinal career advising, innovative educational modalities, and numerous clinical experiences.

She is the founder of FemInEM, an organization dedicated to the achievement of gender equity in emergency medicine. FemInEM serves as an open access resource for women in EM, a community focused on career development, physician support, and seeing women in medicine thrive. What began as a blog is now a movement, a multi-faceted community comprised women in medicine all over the world.

The FemInEM Idea Exchange, the organization's first conference, was held in 2017 and featured inspiring international speakers. The sold-out gathering was comprised of attendees from four different continents. The 2018 FemInEM Idea Exchange which took place in October of 2018 at The New York Academy of Emergency Medicine in New York City.

Dara Kass, MD FACEP

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, FemInEM

www.feminem.org

Listen to hear more about Dara's story:

- Supporting Women in the Medical Field with FemInEM.

- Gender Equality, Social Media and the Workplace.

- The Balancing Act and picking your battles.

- Going through a liver donation for your child.

- Raising three children with three different personalities.

- Family Time vs Mom & Dad Time.

- Teaching to Listen.

- Staying organized and balanced from day to day as Mom and in the workplace.

Links mentioned:

@darakass

Twitter: @feminemtweets

Instagram: @feminemgram

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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: Jaime Openden

Jaime is a mom, wife, and speech-language pathologist born and raised in New York. Jaime recently opened MySpeechee, after over 10 years working as a speech-language pathologist and educator in both public and private special needs schools. MySpeechee is a boutique private practice that offers individualized and collaborative speech-language therapy, comprehensive evaluations, and parent/caregiver speech-language development training courses in NYC and the five boroughs.

In addition to her private practice, Jaime has created the first in a series of speech and language apps, combining her love for writing and her passion for helping children and teens. She is married to her equally ambitious husband and together they aim to create a work-life balance that enables them to enjoy life's adventures and to appreciate the special moments shared with their daughter.

Listen to hear more about Jaime's story:

- Living in NYC raising a "very determined" little girl.

- Your Birth Story: Expectations vs. Reality

- Sleeping through the night.

- From Speech Pathology to MySpeechee... Enhancing language skills.

- Sign language at a young age.

- The nanny and family dynamic.

- When breastfeeding issues pop up.

Links mentioned:

The Nose Frida

Website: www.myspeechee.com

Instagram: @myspeechee

Twitter: @myspeechee

Pinterest: @jaimeopenden (myspeechee)

Email: [email protected]

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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: Cara Zelas

Cara Zelas is an educator and kindness advocate from Sydney, Australia. Cara earned her Bachelor of Media and Bachelor of Education degrees from Macquarie University. She moved to New York in 2012 where she graduated with an Early Childhood Montessori (AMS) teaching certification from West Side Montessori School.

Soon after moving to New York City, Cara became active with The Good Dog Foundation along with her dog, Little Dude. Cara and Little Dude trained to be a therapy team in order to visit hospitals and schools throughout New York City, where they deliver kindness and support to those in need. Through this experience, Cara quickly discovered that children respond most positively to the kindness of dogs, which is how the Big World of Little Dude book series and the Kindness Education curriculum, was developed.

Today Cara lives in New York with her husband, health advocate Seth Ginsberg, her daughter Grace and Little Dude.

Listen to hear more about Cara's story:

- Adventures with Little Dude and the business of therapy dogs.

- The importance of teaching kindness at a young age.

- The Montessori School of thought.

- Babies and Speech.

- A fairy tale love and starting a family.

- Mom Duties and Responsibilities.

- Find your "Mom Tribe".

Links mentioned:

Website: www.worldoflittledude.com

Instagram @worldoflittledude

Twitter @LittleDudeNYC

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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: Nicole Radosti

 Nicole Radosti was born, raised, and still resides in Suffolk County, Long Island. She began her career for the New York City Department of Education 10 years ago. She has found success and absolutely loves her profession and craft. Nicole was recently nominated for The Big Apple Award for teaching, she is a writer and her work continues to get published in the New York Teacher. She has been a guest speaker for multiple teachers’ conferences as well.

 Nicole attributes much of her success to her family and good friends, especially her husband Chris. They’ve been together for 16 years and married for five, now with two wonderful boys, Vincent 5 ½ and Giovanni 2 ½ . Nicole could not be prouder to see her two boys growing up right before her eyes. She feels truly blessed to have such healthy, happy, smart, curious, loving, and compassionate children. She is very proud of her and Chris’ parenting accomplishments and has learned to laugh and smile at their mistakes.  Nicole enjoys to write, read, watch movies, draw, and coffee!! Nicole has just finished writing her first Novel, Taming the Dark and has received multiple offers from agents and editors to review her full manuscript!

Listen to hear more about Nicole's story: 

- Working full time with two boys and finding time to write a novel.

- The power of your support system.

- "It's all about Time Management."

- The trails of entering kindergarten and growing up.

- Being a teacher and how it influences your parental perspective.

- Dealing with the current political climate in the classroom.

- The power of your words.

Links mentioned:

Baby Swing

Taming The Dark on Inkitt.com

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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 Garrett

Rachel Garrett is a Career and Leadership Coach with a mission to get more women into positions of power. Through 1:1 coaching, workshops and online programs, she supports women in up-leveling their leadership skills, ditching impostor syndrome, mastering the work-life juggle and actively lifting up other women as part of their respective journeys. Prior to coaching, Rachel had a 15 year career in digital marketing at companies like American Express, Scholastic and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. She and her husband have two dynamic daughters and live in Brooklyn.

Listen to hear more about Rachel's story:

- From Digital Marketing to Career Coaching.

- Choices and how they help you move forward.

- Raising two girls and navigating the teen years.

- Quality time and being involved... not everyone has to be the "class mom".

- 80% Mind Set, 20% Tactile

- Managing the Household... "The Third Job".

- Setting goals and meeting them: Running a Marathon

Links mentioned:

Drop The Ball | Tiffany Dufu

- Join her community @ http://rachelbgarrett.com

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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: Sharon Somekh

Dr. Sharon Somekh was born and raised in Queens, NY. She now lives in Long Island with her husband and two daughters. After practicing as a general Pediatrician for nearly a decade, she decided to embark on a new journey as a parenting consultant. She helps parents with newborns to school age children navigate the challenges they face and teaches them how to enjoy their kids now while building a healthy life long relationship with them. She launched Raiseology in March 2018 and The Raiseology Podcast where she provides a combination of solo and guest interviews, has just recently launched.

Listen to hear more about Sharon's story:

- Pediatrician, Mother & Entrepreneur.

- What is Raiseology?

- The Doctor/Patient relationship and it's evolution.

-Starting a family and going for it.

- Raising four girls and starting a new business. It's all about support.

- Navigating education.

- Routines and Chores.

- The teen years.

- Teaching skills and embracing independence.

- Nature vs. Nurture

Links mentioned:

MAGNA-TILES

www.instagram.com/raiseology

www.linktr.ee/raiseology

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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: Shelbi Moore

Shelbi Moore was born and raised in Mississippi, interned at Walt Disney World in college where she met her now husband, they now live in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. In college Shelbi interned with event planners and worked in sales. When she moved to Michigan she took advantage of the new opportunities and worked multiple jobs in the event industry. Eventually she started her own travel and even planning business. After 6 years of learning all the things NOT to do when starting your own business she found that she was most passionate sharing what she had learned with others and motivating them to overcome the same negative mindset that held her and her business back for all those years. Now she specializes in coaching business owners to step out of their comfort zone and run a profitable business by leveraging Social Media! Instagram is her happy place! In her spare time, (Ha yeah right!), she is a mom to two little tots under the age of two and her very needy but supportive husband. Shelbi is obsessed with all things motherhood and business!

Listen to hear more about Shelbi's story:

- Raising two little ones 16 months apart.

- The emotional and physical toll of pregnancy & breastfeeding.

- Baby Language.

- The Business of the Side Business and the Entrepreneur.

- Knowing when to adjust.

- Setting the example.

- Daily Chores and why they are the worst.

- Poo & Puke... get ready for fun.

Links mentioned:

• Baby Brezza
• Solly Baby Wrap

• www.ShelbiMoore.com
• Instagram.com/Shelbi.Moore

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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: Marisa Russell

Marisa Russell grew up on the beach in Montauk, NY. She graduated from New York University, and has been living and working in New York ever since. After a stint working for a boutique PR firm, she found her calling working in children's books and works in publicity at Penguin Young Readers. She lives in Brooklyn with her two sons, two cats, and bearded husband.

Listen to hear more about Marisa's story:

- Mother of two little boys in NYC.

- Growing the family means growing the home.

- The Commuting Mom and Scheduling.

- Sharing and gifting with Mom friends.

- Working in Children's Publishing.

- Balancing Family and Clients.

- Breastfeeding: an uplifting tale.

- The importance of Parental Leave for New Dads.

- The Wonderful World of Doulas.

- Raising two boys to be emotionally aware.

- "Survival Mode" and whatever it takes...

- The Science of Onsies.

Links mentioned:

Subway by Chris Niemann

The Carrot Seed (Rise and Shine) by Ruth Krauss

Velcro Swaddle

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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: Jamie Kolnick

Jamie grew up in Miami, FL and moved to NYC to be an actress in 2007 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2008, she was auditioning for everything under the sun and started her children's entertainment company "Jam with Jamie." A couple years after starting the business, She booked an Off-Broadway children's show called "Wanda's Monster," with music by Laurie Berkner. This took her away from doing parties herself and She began to train and hire other performers. She now has over 40 performers that work in multiple states across the country. Musicians, Face Painters, Balloonists and more!

Jamie also writes comedic shows for web series & TV and runs her families charity, The Alan Epstein "Reach for the Stars" Scholarship Foundation in honor of her brother Alan who passed away in a car accident in 1998. Annually, they give 10k to graduating seniors in high school who are in deep financial need. This charity also honors her parents who have also passed from cancer since it's inception. Jamie now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Shaun and her most important role to date is being a mama to two beautiful Boys, Zach 2.5 years old and Evan 3 months old.

Listen to hear more about Jamie's story:

- Two young boys and all the fun in NYC.

- Navigating postpartum as a business owner.

- Sleep Training Tricks.

- Jam with Jamie and Children's Entertainment.

- The evolution of career with motherhood.

- Expanding Family & Expanding Business = Time Management.

- Passion Projects and Book Writing.

Links mentioned:

IG: @jamwithjamie

www.jamwithjamie.com

LapBaby

Nest Baby Camera

Little Big Dreamer: Sleep Trainer

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