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: Amanda Butler

Amanda Butler is one of the founding instructors at Fhitting Room, a boutique fitness studio in New York City that focuses on High Intensity Interval Training and is still there today. Amanda is a NASM certified prenatal/postnatal trainer and if that wasn't impressive enough, she is also a fitness model and has been on the cover of Runner's World Magazine and Women's Health Total Body Bootcamp book.

This small town Hastings, Nebraska native studied Dance at Oklahoma City University and after graduating traveled the world and danced on Royal Caribbean ships for 3 years. She landed in NYC in 2011 and that's when she transitioned her career into the fitness industry.

Amanda and her husband welcomed their first son in July 2017, and Amanda is also a Step Mother to a 12 year old daughter. She is currently teaching part time, training personal clients, and loves spending time with her family!

Listen to hear more about Amanda's Life:

• How she managed to keep fitness in her life during pregnancy
• How she got back into killer shape
• How fitness impacted her delivery and impacted her postpartum body
• How motherhood has changed her
• How she spends her time with her son and classes they enjoy together
• How she felt about becoming a step mother and the benefits of having a 12 year old step-daughter and a 10 month old son
• How she handled her maternity leave
• What she would change about maternity policies

Links mentioned:

• View her website and or train with Amanda
• Sweat with Amanda at Fhitting Room
• Amanda's Instagram Account: @AmandaButlerNYC

Follow this podcast:

• Instagram: @themomenterprise
• Website: www.themomenterprise.com

Contact Us: [email protected]

Music: www.bensound.com

*This episode is marked explicit due to a few curse words. Please be advised when listening in a room with children.*

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: Sarah Maguire

Sarah Maguire grew up on the beaches of southern New Jersey with her two younger siblings. After landing an athletic scholarship to Northeastern University as a coxswain on the Men's Division I Rowing Team, she chose to stay in Boston after graduation, ultimately meeting her husband Ryan at the campus dive bar. Sarah and Ryan are real estate brokers at Compass in Boston where they are partners and run a wildly successful sales, leasing, development and management team. They live in Boston with their 3.5 year old son Liam, 1 year old daughter Mollie and their old grumpy bulldog, Stella. On summer weekends you can find them escaping to their little slice of heaven on Cape Cod. Oh, and if working 7 days a week and raising two children isn't enough, Sarah also doubles as a senior indoor cycling instructor at Boston's best boutique cycling studio - The Handle Bar AKA her own form of Xanax.

Listen to hear more about how Sarah handles her busy life:

• Find out what her secret sauce is!
• What gives Sarah the most anxiety with two children
• How she and her husband divvy up the household tasks
• How she and her husband handle bedtime routines
• How different her kids are and how she's managed them
• How her relationships have evolved with her first child, husband and friends over the years
• How she survived a newborn with a toddler running around
• The best piece of advice she has to offer
• The two baby items that changed her life (and maybe yours)!

Links mentioned:

• Find Sarah at work at Compass
• Sarah's favorite baby items, The mamaRoo and Rock N Play
• Take a spin class with Sarah at The Handle Bar
• Instagram: @sar.maguire / @maguire_group

Follow this podcast:

• Instagram: @themomenterprise
• Website: www.themomenterprise.com

Contact Us: [email protected]

Music: www.bensound.com

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 Giesenkirchen

Jessica Giesenkirchen was born in Germany and raised in Cambridge, MA. She moved to New York in 2000 to focus on restaurant management. When a rare opportunity arose in 2011 to help open a new business, she took it and six years later, Jessica is now the Director of Operations at that same place, Nighthawk Cinema, a boutique Brooklyn cinema. She oversees a staff of over 70 employees and the daily operations of a growing business.

Jessica is also a mother of two! She gave birth to her Still born son in 2015 and after taking some to recover she decided to try again. Last Spring she welcomed her healthy and beautiful daughter and has been managing motherhood and work ever since. She is a "single mother by choice", a term she feels always needs to be in quotes.

Listen to hear more about Jessica's story:

• How she knew she wanted to be a mother
• Her road to single motherhood (by choice)
• The father of her children
• IUI and sperm donors
• How she manages raising a baby girl by herself
• The must have baby product that changed her life

Links mentioned:

• Nighthawk Cinema
• Jessica's favorite baby item The Peanut

Follow this podcast:

• Instagram: @themomenterprise
• Website: www.themomenterprise.com

Contact Us: [email protected]

Music: www.bensound.com

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: Karla Bruning

Karla Bruning is a writer, on-camera reporter, and emcee who covers running, endurance sports, health, and fitness. She announces live at major events like the TCS New York City Marathon and United Airlines NYC Half, has hosted the TV broadcasts of the New York City Triathlon and Brooklyn Half, and has appeared on camera for ABC in New York, Runner's World, Champion, Brooks Running, New York Road Runners, and Hawaiian Xtreme Sports. Karla also writes for publications like Shape, Redbook, Runner's World, and Women's Running, along with her blog, RunKarlaRun.com. She used to report for Newsweek, but spent all her free time squeezing in workouts. Now it's her job. She's run 9 marathons, 30 half-marathons, and 11 triathlons and open water swims. In 2017, Karla added "Mom" to her title with the birth of her daughter. She also has a furry doghter, amazing husband, and serious case of wanderlust. In her first year, Karla's daughter visited six states and two countries. She seems to love travel as much as her mom. Karla has been to over 40 countries on six continents and counting!

Listen to hear more about Karla's story:

She wasn't always a runner, and she explains when that changed her choice to do IVF and why running during pregnancy and getting back into it postpartum. The maternity policy she gave herself. How she manages working and motherhood. What she wish she knew before becoming a mother. The book that changed her life. What she would do with 2 hours of free time. Karla's stance on how we can be world leaders with maternity policies

Links mentioned:

Website: KarlaBruning.com Blog: RunKarlaRun.com Facebook @RunKarlaRun Instagram @RunKarlaRun Twitter @KBruning Pinterest @RunKarlaRun The book that become her bible: Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Baby Baby Carrier The Nesting Days

Follow this podcast:

Instagram: @themomenterprise Website: www.themomenterprise.com Contact Us: @[email protected]

Music: www.bensound.com