To Mom is To Love with Valerie Probstfeld, NP

Jen Cáceres the founder and CEO of Perpetual Capacity Coaching & Consulting, and an expert helping individuals and leaders discover what they've outgrown working through antiquated procedures, thoughts and outdated leadership direction. She's a Gallup certified CliftonStrengths coach and certified executive coach, having impacted hundreds of leaders over the past fifteen years in industries from manufacturing, hospitality, construction and non-profits to individual career coaching. She left her executive HR role in the corporate world in 2023 to care for her family and herself. Today she thrives speaking to individuals and organizations on the incredible power of what we've outgrown in work and life. Her book "The Great Outgrown" comes out Spring of 2026. She also has a podcast "Stop, Drop, and R.O.L.E." Learn more: https://www.perpetualcapacity.com/

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Ashley is an author, speaker, podcaster, and leadership mentor for women business owners who are ready to break free from overwhelm, build high-performing teams, get their time back, and create businesses they love. Learn more about Ashley: https://ashleycox.co/and her book: https://ashleycox.co/transform 

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Jacqui O’Connor is a visionary health leader, a reimagined nurse of 30 years, and founder of Heart Place Hospital, a registered New Zealand charity delivering care beyond the walls of traditional medicine. Rooted deeply in clinical nursing and guided by a passion for systemic healing, Jacqui brings a unique blend of frontline experience, whole health approaches, and indigenous-informed wellness practices. Her work nurtures whole-person, whole-system transformation—focusing on emotional safety, community connection, and the healing power of presence. With compassion and intention, Jacqui invites clinicians to gently explore the system and become active catalysts for its renewal. Learn more about Jacqui and Heart Place Hospital: https://www.heartplacehospital.org.nz/

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Connect with Jacqui on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-o-connor-heartplacehospital248/ 

Register for the free global healthcare summit on Saturday, September 6: https://impactactivators.com/healthcare-summit 

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Amber Pena Posey is a modern-day medicine woman who guides visionary women, entrepreneurs and helping professionals out of boredom, burnout and boxed-in experiences into soul-fulfilling passion and purpose from the inside out. She is traditionally trained as an integrative nurse practitioner and psychotherapist and consciously deconstructed guide and catalyst for soul initiation and vital creative living.

Katelyn Carey is an acute care nurse and clinical educator who has spent over 20 years helping people survive and recover from physical and emotional trauma. Her background includes community, pre-hospital and hospital care where she has served as a clinical educator, a director, and a program coordinator for award-winning healthcare systems. For two decades Katelyn has been responsible for designing, building, and teaching programs that support caregivers in everything from community crisis nurseries to nurse and physician residency programs. Along the way she began to dive into the research behind effective communication and care in high-stress spaces. Now, as a TEDx and keynote conference speaker, Katelyn teaches others to increase their compassion and their effectiveness through the principles of trauma-informed learning, holistic wellness, and cognitive science. The tools and resources she has created have been utilized by cancer care organizations around the world. 

In this must-listen episode, Katelyn shares with us what it means to be in the “blowfish” zone as well as the differences between compassion and empathy.

Learn more: https://www.katelyncarey.com/

Take a listen to Katelyn’s TED talks:

The Problem with Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987xaGgb2XQ&t=6s

The Secret to De-Escalating Angry People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQJ-_Zjj0SU

Check out Katelyn’s incredible book: Beauty After Breast Cancer: https://www.katelyncarey.com/purchase-book

Connect with Katelyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelyn-carey-0000/

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Dr. Diana Londoño is a Board-Certified Urologist and one of the 10% of urologists in the US who are women and the 0.5% who are Latina and women.  She is originally from Mexico City and attended Claremont McKenna College for her undergraduate studies and then went on to attend UCLA for medical school. She completed a 6-year residency in Urology at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles.

She has experienced burnout twice, which has led her to write and speak about it to raise awareness and help others. She has published multiple articles in prominent medical platforms, including Medscape, Doximity, Kevin MD, Men’s Health, Giddy.com, and WebMD, among others. She is also a contributing author to the books “Thriving After Burnout” and “Medic S.O.S.”  She has also been a guest on numerous podcasts, discussing various topics, including wellness, stress, spirituality, and energy. She has also been featured on TV on Univision, Telemundo, Mundo Fox, CNN Latino, KCET, and ABC News as a health consultant discussing urological topics.

Her burnout journey led her to become a certified life coach and founder of Physician Coach Support.com, a peer support platform she ran for 3 years. In 2022, she received the Los Angeles County Medical Association Physician Leadership Award for her work.

She is also a Reiki Master and a Pranic Healer, and the mother of two determined and joyful 7 and 9-year-old girls.

In this powerful episode, Dr. Londoño discusses with us the power of stress, energy, mindfulness, mindset, and much more!

Learn more here: https://dianalondonomd.com/

Connect with Diana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianalondonomd/

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Dr. Naha Pandya is a dynamic leader in the health industry, known for her strong entrepreneurial drive and commitment to transforming the future of healthcare. After experiencing a traumatic birth, Dr. Naha Pandya recognized a critical gap in postpartum healthcare for women. Motivated by this firsthand insight, she committed herself to research and community-building efforts aimed at addressing this often-overlooked area. Her dedication culminated in the development of The Recovery Method—an innovative approach designed to transform the future of postpartum care.

In this important episode, Dr. Pandya shares with us all about The Recovery Method. Learn more about this incredible organization here: https://www.therecoverymethodinfo.com/

Register for "It Takes A Village" in Denver and Chicago here: https://www.therecoverymethodinfo.com/ittakesavillageregistration

Follow The Recovery Method: https://www.instagram.com/the_recovery_method/

Reach out: [email protected]

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

Heather Grace Nelson is a passionate entrepreneur who champions self-care and a balanced lifestyle. After stepping away from the corporate world, she founded Heather Grace Skincare, where she personally formulates each product with a commitment to quality and wellness. Heather’s journey exemplifies how dedication, hard work, and a focus on self-care can pave the way to personal fulfillment and success.

In this episode, Heather shares with us all about skincare, her why, the effects of stress on the skin, and much more! 

Check out Heather Grace Skincare here: https://heathergraceskincare.com/ and use the code TOMOMISTOLOVE for 15 % off! 

Take a look at Heather's face care instructions here:  https://heathergraceskincare.com/pages/face-care-regime-card?_pos=1&_sid=98f4c9e08&_ss=r

Connect with Heather on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathergraceskincare/ and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathergraceskincare/ 

The mission of To Mom Is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/

*This podcast is meant to support and educate, but not offer medical advice. Contact your health care provider with any questions or concerns.

Dr. Gupta is an expert in driving transformational change for leading healthcare systems. He is a thought leader in physician engagement, change management, quality transformation, and leadership development. He coaches and mentors healthcare leaders to help them lead transformation efforts for their organizations. An Internal Medicine physician by training, he has held positions as Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Network Performance Improvement, and Director of Care Transformation. Deeply committed to values of compassion, trust, and growth mindset, he is an innovator and champion for staff empowerment. One prominent example is his pioneering work in developing A Loving Organization model to help create sustainable and profitable organizations through a loving systems based approach. Dr. Gupta completed his Internal Medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, received an M.D. and Sc.B. from Brown University, as well as an M.P.H. from Harvard University. 

Learn more about A Loving Organization: https://www.alovingorganization.com/ and connect with Apurv here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurvguptamd/

The mission of To Mom is To Love and Mental Backroads and Highways is to support, encourage, and empower each other as imperfect moms to love as a verb. Welcome to our community! https://www.tomomistolove.com/