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Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Feb 17, 2020

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Jenny interviews her prenatal yoga teacher, Roberta Kelinson, owner of Born to Breathe: Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga. Roberta’s goal is to assist women on the grand adventure of motherhood by empowering them through movement, education, discussion, and trust. She is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher since 2002 with a registered prenatal yoga teach credential in 2014 and her postnatal yoga teacher training in 2018. In this episode, she talks not only about yoga but about the grace and acceptance women need to have around their amazing bodies as well as the power of positive affirmations. There is so much more discussed than just yoga so tune in!

Check out Roberta’s classes and information: https://www.borntobreathe.net/ You can also follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/born2breathe/ or on her Born to Breathe Facebook page.

Find a yoga teacher in your area: https://www.yogaalliance.org/

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Breastfeeding Twins and Pumping at Work Feb 10, 2020

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Jenny gets pumping tips, tricks, and advice from Rebecca. Rebecca is a Clinical Social Worker in the Behavioral Health field. She is also a mother of twins and a blogger. Rebecca breastfed her twins for fourteen months and ten of those months were spent pumping at work. She shares her experience and the knowledge she's acquired during her breastfeeding journey. She talks about the importance of knowing your rights as a pumping employee and how to be as efficient as possible in those short windows of pumping time.

Check out Rebecca’s blog where she shares her journey raising twins. Her most recent post features her essentials for pumping at work: https://www.twinmombrain.com/home/7-essentials-for-successfully-pumping-at-work

You can also follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twinmombrain/

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Mom's Night Out Feb 03, 2020

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Jenny chats with her friend, Meghan, during a Mom’s Night Out. Both Meghan and Jenny take one night a week off from their parenting responsibilities. This has been a game changer for both of them! Listen to their take on a Mom’s Night Out. Their conversation also takes some tangents about breastfeeding, lip ties, Meghan’s competitive pumping experience, and how it feels to be a mom who doesn’t want to miss anything.

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Mompreneur Maddie Gartmann of Garty Goodies Jan 27, 2020

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Jenny interviews Maddie Gartmann from Garty Goodies. Maddie was a high school English teacher for 8 years when she abruptly left her job to begin her own baking business. She found herself navigating the world of business while learning the daunting role of motherhood with her three month old. She currently runs Garty Goodies, a custom cookie company, and teaches public, private, and corporate cookie classes in the Minneapolis metro area.

Maddie is so talented and creative. She made manatee cookies for my sister’s bridal shower and they were to die for. Check her out on Instagram @gartygoodies or look for my post on @careermompodcast to see these adorable cookies.

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The Mental Load Project with Robyn Miller Jan 20, 2020

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Jenny is interviewing Dr. Robyn Miller for an exciting episode talking about how moms can shift the mental load of motherhood. If you are overwhelmed and not sure where to start to alleviate your overwhelm this podcast is it! Robyn’s motto is “Division Not Delegation” so learn how to get started to alleviate some of your mental load. Robyn realized that to continue to succeed in her professional career, and be a happy wife and mother, she and her partner needed to learn to truly share all this invisible labor. When she couldn't find the any solutions or strategies on-line or from friends and colleagues, Robyn drew upon her own skills and experience to develop a unique formula to achieve mental load equality. Her strategy worked so well, Robyn has now turned it into an on-line course to support other women and couples struggling with true division of invisible and visible labor.

Check out Robyn’s website: www.mentalloadproject.com/careermom Listeners can receive a free guide to mentally unload plus receive an exclusive 25% off discount code for her course.

Robyn references Emma’s cartoon early in the episode – check it out here: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/

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Mental Overwhelm Jan 13, 2020

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Jenny explains what a day in the life of her overwhelmed mom brain sounds like. If you’re a mom then you know that majority of the administrative tasks of managing a family falls on the mother. When I had my son I had a new load of things to do and think about to keep a child alive and a household functioning. I also uncovered self-doubt and guilt that I had never experienced before. Then I went back to work and when the mental tasks of my full-time job combined with the family tasks my mind exploded. Overwhelmed career moms – You are not alone!

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Music Credit: Campfire by Scandinavianz https://soundcloud.com/scandinavianz

Why Moms Need to Take a Girls Trip Jan 06, 2020

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I have been taking a trip with my best friends, Laura and Denise, for 5 years in a row. Our girls trips are so special to us and one of the ways that we stay connected. We’ve made these trips a priority throughout marriages, babies, and crazy work schedules. This episode was recorded on our last girls trip and we discuss the reasons these trips are so important to us.

Top 5 reasons moms need to take a girls trip:

It is important to nurture your friendships.
Taking trips is a way to model to our children the importance of friendships.
Giving our children and partners an opportunity to bond and run the household while mom is gone!
Mom needs a break; sleep in, relax, and enjoy your friends.
The memories you make together can sustain long distance friendships and the isolation of motherhood.

When's the last time you had a girls trip? You deserve one!

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Are you overwhelmed being a working mom? Answering the fundamental questions of identity will help you explore, understand, and redefine your working mom identity. Leading to less overwhelm and mom guilt! I’ve created a free working mom identity workbook and an accompanying podcast episode to help you take the first steps to understand your identity. Listen here to the episode.

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Unplanned Pregnancy Leads to the Birth of a Momprenuer Dec 29, 2019

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Megan Nicole’s unplanned pregnancy interrupted an intense 3 year fellowship training program in public health. It changed her career path entirely. While the pregnancy was a shock and she wasn’t originally “happy” like one always imagines, it lead her to start a successful business.

We discuss:

Processing an unplanned pregnancy
Making career changes and decision due to her pregnancy
Transitioning into working mom life
How her business was started and being a momprenuer

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Overcome Working Mom Guilt Dec 22, 2019

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Being a working mom is hard. The pull of family and work causes working mom guilt. This episode will help you overcome working mom guilt. I talk with Emily, an IT project manager and Ashley, a teacher, about all the things that bring on working mom guilt and how we have overcome those things.

The biggest source of mom guilt:

Daycare
Sick Days
Lack of time

How to overcome working mom guilt:

Mindset is everything! Find the positives in working motherhood.
Ask yourself: Has anyone actually said something about what I'm feeling guilty about?
Give yourself plenty of grace - Mom guilt can sometimes be self-inflicted.

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Navigating the Working Mom Identity Crisis with My Work Bestie Dec 16, 2019

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Becoming a working mom was an isolating experience for me. Once I had my “ah-ha” moment of motherhood; that I had a working mom identity crisis. I couldn’t stop talking about it. Navigating the working mom identity crisis is challenging. My work bestie, Patty, was the main person I would talk about this with.

I told her everything I’d learned about identity shifts and we had amazing, honest, vulnerable conversations that would end with “why isn’t there a podcast about this”. Patty is a big reason why I started Career Mom!

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