The Unaparent

Can you be a present parent and an effective leader in a system that was never designed for moms?

In this episode of The Unaparent Podcast, Katia Reguero Lindor sits down with Representative Brittany Pettersen of Colorado’s 7th Congressional District to discuss the realities of raising two young sons while serving in Congress.

Brittany shares what it was like bringing her newborn to Washington, navigating child care challenges, and advocating for more family-friendly policies in Congress. She also opens up about growing up with a mother who struggled with addiction, the importance of recovery and mental health support, and how those experiences shaped her commitment to helping families.

Together, Katia and Brittany explore working motherhood, caregiving, child care, and the policies that shape families’ lives, while reflecting on the challenges of balancing leadership with parenthood and finding hope in difficult times.

A candid conversation about motherhood, women in politics, addiction and recovery, and building systems that better support families.

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Meet Rep. Brittany Pettersen
03:23 - An unapparent truth of parenting
05:00 - Being a working parent in Congress
08:55 - How motherhood changed her policy work
10:11 - 13 months waiting for child care
14:23 - Mental health for working moms
15:16 - Growing up with a parent's addiction
23:07 - Child care and family policy
27:02 - Proposals to expand child care access
29:08 - Hope for the next generation
31:58 - "Mom, can boys be in Congress?"
33:07 - Rapid fire questions
36:16 - Caregiving as infrastructure
37:57 - Where to find Brittany Pettersen

En este episodio de The Unaparent Podcast, Katia Reguero Lindor conversa con Ana Flores, escritora, estratega cultural y emprendedora, fundadora y CEO emérita de We All Grow Latina, una de las redes más influyentes de latinas en Estados Unidos, y cofundadora de Spanglish Baby. Hoy Ana está en una nueva etapa enfocada en el descanso intencional, la escritura y su próximo libro, Done with the Hustle.

Hablan de la maternidad como una transformación que nunca termina, de perder el control como la verdad que Ana no vio venir y de cómo la positividad tóxica alrededor de ser mamá puede hacernos sentir que somos nosotras el problema. Ana cuenta cómo se prepara para que su hija se vaya a estudiar actuación a Londres, el duelo que viene con ese momento y cómo ha sido criar y co-criar después de un divorcio. También explica por qué ella y su hija se mudaron a la montaña hace dos años para que su hija pudiera seguir su sueño de ser actriz, y cómo ese cambio le ayudó a bajar el ritmo y estar más presente.
También comparten el momento en que el cuerpo de Ana dijo basta después de más de una década construyendo su empresa, la lección de su terapeuta sobre el “we” de We All Grow, y cómo ha sido vender su negocio y reconstruirse. Conversan sobre hustle culture, burnout, descanso y por qué redefinir el éxito empieza por hacerlo sostenible para ti y para tus hijos.

Katia y Ana hablan además de la ambición y la maternidad, del mom guilt, del día que su hija la mordió en público (hoy se ríen de eso) y de lo que significa gozarse los 54 años en una sociedad que te dice que te hagas a un lado. Hablan de hermandad, de comunidad latina y de cómo el impacto colectivo empieza por conocerte y cuidarte.

Una conversación sobre maternidad, ambición, hustle culture, burnout, descanso, midlife, sisterhood y cómo redefinir el éxito.

Sigue a Ana Flores: anaflores.com y herwisdomera.com

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Quién es Ana Flores
04:20 - Verdad no aparente de la maternidad
06:34 - Su nueva etapa de vida
09:01 - Gozarse los 54 años
10:08 - El patriarcado y la edad
13:23 - Hermandad y comunidad
15:35 - Dejar el hustle culture
19:58 - Burnout y el quiebre en Oaxaca
23:05 - El "we" de We All Grow
25:49 - Ambición y maternidad
32:35 - Hustle culture y su hija
33:39 - La mudanza a la montaña
34:55 - Vender la empresa y reconstruirse
36:37 - Cómo soltar el control
39:29 - Impacto colectivo sin burnout
43:08 - Ronda rápida
43:43 - Conecta con Ana Flores

What happens when the issues you’ve spent your life fighting for suddenly become the world your children have to live in?

In this episode, Katia sits down with Jumaane D. Williams, New York City Public Advocate, activist, husband, and proud girl dad, for a deeply personal conversation about how fatherhood has changed the way he sees his work, himself, and the world he hopes to leave his daughters.

Jumaane opens up about having to explain racism to his daughter at just three years old, intentionally surrounding his girls with representation that reflects their beauty, and raising them to understand both the realities of the world and their own power within it. He also shares his family’s harrowing experience with cervical cancer, pregnancy, premature birth and the NICU—and why that experience reinforced for him the importance of listening to and believing Black women in healthcare.

The conversation also turns inward as Jumaane reflects on therapy, fatherhood, male vulnerability, positive masculinity and breaking generational trauma—including his belief that successful parenting isn’t about making no mistakes, but making new ones instead of passing the same wounds from one generation to the next.

A vulnerable conversation about fatherhood, racism, Black maternal health, raising daughters, representation, masculinity, mental health and healing generational trauma.

Follow Jumaane D. Williams:

@jumaane.williams

@nycpublicadvocate

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 — Intro
04:54 — Jumaane’s unapparent truth about fatherhood
06:37 — How becoming a father changed the way he sees the world
09:45 — When activism becomes personal after having children
13:31 — Black maternal health and the importance of believing women
14:40 — Cervical cancer, pregnancy, and the story of their “miracle baby”
17:35 — The importance of advocating for yourself in the medical system
18:23 — How to talk to our children about racism
19:28 — “My dad is an activist”: raising Black daughters with awareness and confidence
20:09 — Representation, beauty, and teaching children to love their skin and hair
25:53 — Balancing activism, fatherhood, and making space for joy
28:46 — The impact fathers can have on their daughters’ self-worth
31:32 — Being a proud “girl dad”
33:15 — Male vulnerability, therapy, and redefining masculinity
35:21 — Healing our younger selves so we can parent differently
37:13 — Breaking generational cycles: “make new mistakes”
39:13 — Heart-led speed round
41:46 — What Jumaane is working on and where to follow him
42:35 — “Be who you needed when you were younger”: Jumaane on living with Tourette syndrome

¿Qué cambia cuando dejamos de ver el parto como algo que simplemente nos sucede y empezamos a reconocernos como protagonistas de nuestra propia experiencia?

En este episodio, Katia conversa con Paloma del Mar Hernández Quiñones, partera profesional certificada, doula, educadora perinatal, líder en salud comunitaria y fundadora de Partería AfroBoricua, sobre maternidad, partería, autonomía corporal y justicia reproductiva en Puerto Rico.

Paloma comparte cómo su propia experiencia como madre la llevó de la lactancia al acompañamiento de otras familias y, eventualmente, a la partería. Juntas exploran por qué el parto es mucho más que un evento fisiológico: es también una experiencia profundamente personal, cultural y atravesada por el acceso a recursos, las condiciones sociales y las decisiones que podemos —o no podemos— tomar sobre nuestros propios cuerpos.
Desde el consentimiento informado y el derecho a decidir cómo y dónde parir hasta la salud materna, el posparto y la justicia reproductiva, esta conversación nos invita a preguntarnos qué sucede cuando volvemos a colocar a la persona en el centro de su propio cuidado.

Una conversación sobre parto, partería, maternidad, autonomía corporal, consentimiento informado, salud materna y justicia reproductiva en Puerto Rico.

ANUNCIO:

Criamos Aquí (Evento co-coordinado por Paloma)

📅 Sábado, 26 de septiembre
🕑 2:00–4:30 PM
📍 El Sillón de Abu, Bayamón
🎟️ Cupo limitado · Registro requerido

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 — Intro
04:42 — La verdad no aparente de Paloma sobre la maternidad
09:26 — De la lactancia a la partería: cómo comenzó la trayectoria de Paloma
15:01 — Salud materna, desigualdad y los determinantes sociales de la salud
16:11 — Convertirse en doula y la experiencia que la llevó a la partería
18:27 — El modelo de cuidado de las parteras y el poder de sentirse escuchada
26:54 — Por qué el parto también es una experiencia cultural y política
31:11 — Derechos humanos, maternidad y por qué hablar de estos temas también es político
35:15 — La realidad de la salud materna y el acceso al cuidado en Puerto Rico
38:18 — Posparto, salud mental materna y la importancia del acompañamiento
39:37 — ¿Qué significa realmente la justicia reproductiva?
44:15 — Ronda rápida
45:32 — ¿El cuidado es un derecho o un privilegio?
46:18 — ¿Estamos desconectados de nuestros propios cuerpos?
47:30 — Criar una generación que confíe en su cuerpo y en su voz
49:08 — Proyectos de Paloma y dónde encontrarla

She got hit by a 110 mph foul ball to the head. She was 16 weeks pregnant. And nobody at the ballpark knew either thing.
In Part 2 of this conversation, Katia Reguero Lindor continues her conversation with Emmy Award-winning sports reporter and SNY host Michelle Margaux. Michelle opens up about how motherhood made her more confident at work but less confident in other parts of her life, why she and her husband are already planning for how they'll parent differently, and the moment she had to compartmentalize her father's declining health while asking players about their home run celebrations, five minutes apart.
She also shares the story behind one of the most surreal moments of her career: getting hit in the head by a line drive foul ball while 16 weeks pregnant, hiding both the injury and the pregnancy from everyone around her in the moment, and going back to work anyway.
Michelle and Katia talk about privacy in the social media age, letting go of the instinct to protect your kids from everything, and the advice Michelle's dad gave her that changed the entire trajectory of her life.

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Welcome to Part 2 with Michelle Margaux
01:33 - Motherhood made me more confident
03:53 - Motherhood grounds you and uproots you at once
07:07 - Striving for imperfect perfection
07:53 - Being on the same page as your partner
13:33 - Prepare them, don't shield them
20:52 - Why she doesn't post her son's face
23:12 - Hiding her pregnancy
27:40 - Balance is a myth
30:31 - Hit by a 110 MPH foul ball, 16 weeks pregnant
34:20 - The advice her dad gave her

Can you become a mother without losing the woman you were before?
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Emmy Award-winning sports reporter and SNY host ⁠Michelle Margaux⁠ joins ⁠Katia Lindor⁠ for an honest discussion about working motherhood, identity, ambition, partnership, and raising boys.
Michelle opens up about the vulnerability she never expected from becoming a mom, the pressure women face to choose between career and motherhood, and why no one seems to ask fathers whether they’re afraid of “losing themselves” to parenthood. She also shares the behind-the-scenes reality of balancing a demanding career in sports media with a husband who works an opposite schedule—and how their partnership makes it all possible.
As a woman working in a male-dominated industry, Michelle reflects on how those experiences are shaping the son she hopes to raise: one who leads with empathy, challenges stereotypes, and stands up for what’s right.
A candid conversation about motherhood and career, gender roles, marriage, raising boys, and finding space for both ambition and presence.
Tune in next week for Part 2 of Katia and Michelle’s conversation.
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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Intro
02:45 - Today's quote
03:42 - Meet Michelle Margaux
05:38 - The unapparent truth of parenting
08:29 - The fear of losing yourself
11:11 - We're never doing everything right
12:08 - The double standard in sports media
13:35 - The camaraderie of becoming a parent
14:12 - Postpartum depression
19:20 - Two ships passing in the night
22:03 - Raising a boy with depth
24:27 - Raising a feminist son
26:21 - Who you marry really matters
27:26 - Craving a quieter life

¿Cómo sanamos nuestras propias heridas sin convertirlas en heridas de nuestros hijos?

En la segunda parte de esta conversación con Astrid Rivera, Katia y Astrid profundizan en lo que significa sanar mientras criamos. Astrid habla con vulnerabilidad sobre su experiencia como sobreviviente de abuso sexual infantil, la soledad que marcó esos años y cómo la maternidad la ha llevado a reflexionar sobre trauma generacional, crianza consciente y romper patrones familiares.

También conversan sobre una de las transiciones más agridulces de la maternidad: aprender a soltar. Mientras su hijo mayor se prepara para irse a la universidad, Astrid comparte cómo está aprendiendo a transformar la preocupación en confianza y a celebrar todo lo que ha sembrado durante años de crianza.

Una conversación sobre maternidad, sanación, trauma, romper ciclos generacionales y confiar en nuestros hijos cuando llega el momento de dejarlos volar.

Puedes encontrar a Astrid y seguir sus proyectos/causas en ⁠@astridriveratv⁠ , ⁠@feel.organization⁠ , ⁠@reposheshop

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Parte 2 con Astrid Rivera
01:31 - Patrones que vienen de generaciones pasadas
03:52 - Sanar mientras crías: reparenting
04:29 - Mi agresor falleció el año pasado
07:53 - Lo que hubiese querido de niña
09:08 - El abuso sexual mata en silencio
11:50 - La etapa de soltar a los hijos
15:25 - Lo estás haciendo maravilloso
15:56 - Romper los patrones que te hicieron daño
17:32 - Transformar la preocupación en certeza
19:23 - Rapid fire questions
23:09 - Los proyectos de Astrid Rivera
24:03 - FEEL: sanación del abuso sexual infantil

¿Cómo criamos desde nuestras experiencias sin hacer que nuestros hijos carguen con heridas que no les pertenecen?

En este episodio, Katia conversa con la periodista, emprendedora y madre de tres Astrid Rivera sobre las muchas transformaciones que llegan con la maternidad. Astrid habla de su reciente decisión de alejarse de un trabajo que alguna vez representó un sueño para hacer espacio para una nueva etapa, estar más presente con sus hijos y reencontrarse consigo misma fuera de los títulos profesionales.

Como sobreviviente de abuso sexual infantil, Astrid también comparte cómo ha aprendido a criar sin convertir su propio trauma en el miedo de sus hijos. Juntas, hablan sobre consentimiento, autonomía corporal, conversaciones difíciles, pedirles perdón a nuestros hijos y la responsabilidad de romper patrones generacionales mientras seguimos sanando nuestras propias heridas.

Y mientras su hijo mayor se prepara para dejar el hogar, Astrid reflexiona sobre otro duelo silencioso de la maternidad: criar a nuestros hijos para el mundo y, eventualmente, tener el valor de dejarlos ir.

Una conversación profundamente vulnerable sobre maternidad, trauma, sanación, crianza consciente, consentimiento, ciclos generacionales y el amor que permanece incluso mientras todo cambia.

Puedes encontrar a Astrid y seguir sus proyectos/causas en @astridriveratv , @feel.organization , @reposheshop

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 – Highlights: el inicio de una historia reveladora.

03:55 – "Tus hijos son tuyos, pero no te pertenecen".

04:39 – El duelo constante de la maternidad y dejar ir etapas.

08:26 – Renunciar al trabajo de los sueños por alineación y paz.

12:44 – Los niños no quieren una mamá perfecta, sino una mamá feliz.

15:53 – "Para los muelles de mi cama": el poder de la pausa sin culpas.

19:43 – Romper ciclos: que los hijos no carguen con traumas heredados.

21:25 – Sobrevivir al abuso infantil y negarse a criar desde el miedo.

25:17 – Consentimiento en casa: el derecho a decir que no a besos y abrazos.

26:30 – Sexualización infantil disfrazada de bromas de adultos.

31:51 – La búsqueda en Google: cómo explicar tu historia de abuso a tus hijos.

34:44 – Predicar con el ejemplo: deconstruir las críticas al cuerpo ajeno.

How do we raise children who are compassionate, courageous, and prepared to make the world better than they found it?

In Part 2 of Katia Lindor's conversation with award-winning journalist and creator Garrison Hayes, the discussion turns to one of parenting's greatest responsibilities: the values we model every day. Together, they explore raising boys in the age of social media, confronting harmful ideas about masculinity, and why emotional vulnerability may be one of the greatest gifts a father can give his son.

Katia and Garrison also reflect on the fears that come with parenting in today's political climate, the importance of teaching history, the power of representation, and why hope is an act of courage. Throughout the conversation, they remind us that children don't just learn from what we tell them—they learn from who they see us become.

Whether you're raising sons, daughters, or simply trying to become the kind of adult you hope your children emulate, this episode is an invitation to lead with compassion, intention, and hope.

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SHOW NOTES:

00:00 - Garryson Hayes (Part 2)
01:19 - Parenting between love and fear
03:06 - Our grandparents survived worse
04:52 - Why they're erasing history
06:35 - "Peculiar institution"
09:20 - Raising a Black boy in America
10:25 - Lessons from Garrison's father
11:40 - Making sure your son sees himself everywhere
15:18 - How do you keep them from Andrew Tate?
16:46 - 2 clicks from the manosphere
17:46 - Now I'm a boy mom and it terrifies me
18:08 - Why aren't we raising better boys?
21:02 - How fatherhood changed masculinity
23:05 - The performance of masculinity is exhausting
25:00 - Redefining vulnerability as strength
25:52 - Rapid fire questions
28:09 - Where to find Garrison Hayes

What does becoming a father reveal about who you are—and who you hope to become?

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, award-winning journalist and creator Garrison Hayes joins Katia Lindor to reflect on the unexpected realities of first-time fatherhood. Together, they explore the isolation of early parenthood, the mental load of the postpartum season, supporting a breastfeeding partner, and how becoming parents has reshaped their relationships, careers, and sense of purpose.

The conversation also turns to the world their children are inheriting. From history and representation to raising compassionate, courageous kids in today's political climate, Katia and Garrison discuss the responsibility of modeling the values we hope to pass on to the next generation.

Whether you're navigating new parenthood or simply thinking deeply about the kind of world you're helping create, this episode is an honest reminder that parenting is less about perfection—and more about presence, partnership, and intentionality.

This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Tune in next week for Part 2, where Katia and Garrison dive into positive masculinity, raising boys, emotional vulnerability, and the influence of social media on the next generation.

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