Mommifaceted: Black Working Mom Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Mothering the Mother: Time to Start Nurturing Ourselves Oct 09, 2020

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How much do we nurture our families while neglecting ourselves? Join me next week on Instagram Live as we delve into what nurturing yourself can look like!

Being a Modern Mom in Corporate America with Latisha Roberson Oct 02, 2020

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Latisha Roberson is Accenture’s Inclusion & Diversity Strategic Partnerships Lead and also a full time mom and wife. Being a mom in corporate America is difficult because of the stigma and myths about what moms can do in the workplace. She juggles the responsibilities of a demanding job and a home life by keeping her morning routine in tact, no matter what and by setting boundaries with the people around her.

In this episode we discuss:

Becoming great friends with your children

Allowing our children to express how they feel

How to deal with workplace issues while being a working mom

Finding a morning routine that is untouchable

Feeding Your Children While At Home Made Easy Sep 17, 2020

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When we're home during the day it's a constant struggle to answer the question, what is there to eat! I talked with Leslie Antonoff of Haute Mommie and Co-Host of Butter and Brown about how to make healthy and easy meals when you're the chef morning, noon, and night.

Creating a Close Family Bond by Setting Intentional Time Sep 11, 2020

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As a wife, mom, full time employee, founder of Mommifaceted and freelance writer - I know that my priority is my family. In order to make them a priority I have to spend time with each person individually so that they know that our family is close and we can create that bond.

I want to build these relationships between my nuclear family so that my boys know they will always have each other, my husband, and myself. Growing up we were close knit, my sister, mother, father and I. We didn’t have extended family who lived close to us and had to travel to see family. Our bond continues today, my immediate family remains close.

For my children, I want that closeness. I'm also working for extended family to get closer, that’s part of why we moved to Texas. To do this, I work to spend specific time with each person. Some of it works, some doesn’t. I’m still working hard on this and figuring out the best way to do this.

This is how I’m starting. On this podcast episode, I'm sharing what I do for each family member.

How We Can Root our Children in Christ Daily With Christina Acosta-Martinez Aug 31, 2020

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Christina Acosta-Martinez, founder of Growing Up Gorgeous is a homeschooling mom and wife that makes it a daily task to share her faith and encourage a relationship with Christ. We discuss the answer to how we can share this with our children and how she has overcome challenges in early motherhood.

Key takeaways:

You have to work to find your meaning in motherhood
Part of Christina’s identity is being a mom but it’s not all that she is
Easy ways to share faith with your children throughout the day

How to Know When You Are Burned Out and How to Recover with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith Aug 21, 2020

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Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith was singularly focused on her career when she was younger. Once she became a mother she didn't let up on work - writing a book, working a full schedule, being a wife and mom and this led to her experiencing burnout. If you are experiencing a period of being burnout or don't know if you are or not - take a listen and find out. Plus, Dr. Dalton-Smith shares how she got out of it and how you can to.

To get through the burnout period she realized that getting sleep was not going to be enough to help her, she had to fully work through what she found were 7 types of rest.

Are you experiencing burnout?

Here's the way to recover - get fully rested. Working through the 7 types of rest can lead you to the way out of burnout.

The 7 Types of Rest

physical
mental
spiritual
emotional
sensory
social
creative

Listen to this podcast to figure out if you are experiencing burn out and how to recover from that to become a better mother.

Introducing Your Children to Good Money Management Habits Aug 14, 2020

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Family finances can be a major factor in the success of your family. Just like you model your relationships, your education and work habits, you have to model how you handle money for your children to set them up for success. I talked with Carmen of Money Choices Today about all of this.

How to Successfully Manage Family & Finances Together- this is all about getting everyone on the same page and creating efficiencies in the money management process.

We discussed a full plan for success:

get everyone on the same page - sit down as a family, include the children
come up with family goals
family money mission statement
responsibilities and jobs for each family member
have family money meetings with the children there

Why You Should Be Tapping Into Your Feminine Energy with Muffy Mendoza Aug 06, 2020

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Muffy Mendoza is the founder, creative and business woman behind Brown Mamas, a sisterhood that connects thousands of moms with resources, advice and, best of all, each other. Muffy has created a line of educational books and products focused on helping Black moms be the best moms. Her first book, The Brown Mama Mindset: A Blueprint for Black Moms on Life, Love & Home, was featured at the Essence Festival and is currently sold in various cities across the U.S.

Key takeaways

Don't leave your self and soul behind while being a mother, take your self into consideration
Finding a complimentary spouse allowed her to be feminine and not have to do everything for her child, she could then heal
Healing is about allowing - allowing yourself to think differently about your past, recognize your past experiences, allow you to love yourself and others to love you

"Once I realized my life was all about him, it was like a gun shot went off... What can I do to make sure this child has everything they need and could want and I didn't realize that I left my whole self and soul at the starting line."

Muffy Mendoza

Take Your Tail to Bed! Why You Aren't Getting Enough Rest Aug 01, 2020

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I had a terrible night of rest the other day. My youngest son wanted to stay up and keep nursing all night long. Needless to say the next day I was dragging. I had to take a nap, something I never get to do, and it was great!

I'm intentionally working on getting more rest because it's necessary for me to function the way I need to.

What happens to your body when you don't get enough rest:

You may get sick
You gain weight
You forget things and get foggy
You are accident prone

Reasons why you aren't getting enough rest:

You take sleep for granted
You rely on caffeine and alcohol
Eating and drinking late
Failing to wind down before bed

Listen to this episode for my top tips for getting rested more often.

Getting Comfortable With Your Parenting Style with Rhea Plummer Jul 23, 2020

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We all parent differently, and maybe even differently than our parents did - so we have to get comfortable with our parenting style. Rhea Plummer went through this when she became a parent and realized she wanted to do things differently. Today on the podcast Rhea chats about how she got comfortable just being herself in motherhood, and all about the Fab Wives community that she built out of seeing a gap.

Key takeaways:

Why we have to work on getting comfortable with her style of parenting - being a mom her way
What is a Fab Wife and why every wife needs a non judgement safe space
How to intentionally show healthy marriage to our children