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The Modern Mommy Doc Podcast

Wouldn’t it be great to find a podcast for the Modern Working Mom that addresses life as a mom, life as a working mom with an ambitious career and life as a mom who wants to also have time for her own life? That is what the Modern Mommy Doc podcast is all about.
We live in a world where we are supposed to raise kids as if we don’t work and work as if we don’t have kids (and don’t even mention that we may also want to fit in some time for ourselves to read a book or take a SoulCycle class.)
Everyone has an opinion on what it takes to be the perfect Working Mom in today’s society. Most of the advice is unattainable, anxiety-provoking and certainly doesn’t address how the modern working mom is supposed to make time for her own life. The Modern Mommy Doc Podcast helps working moms say “no” to unrealistic expectations for a perfectly-balanced life and say “yes” to what really matters. You’ll hear inspiring interviews with experts in each of the core areas modern working moms who parent with intention know are critical for success –dreaming big, spending time on things that matter, making space for themselves, investing in their mental and physical health, parenting in partnership, and being intentional about the way they parent their kids.
Your host is Whitney Casares, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P. She’s a Stanford-trained, board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker, blogger @modernmommydoc, mom of two and avid Peloton-er. Drawing on her own experience as a working mom in the modern world, she’s curated a group of expert guests to help you find the credible advice you’re looking for when it comes to taking care of your child, your career and yourself.
We live in an era filled with so many questions around Working Mom Life and finding balance. On the Modern Mommy Doc Podcast, you’ll find the focused answers you’ve been looking for to truly have it all.

Copyright: © Copyright 2021 Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP

Latest Episodes:

How to Nurture Your Child's Natural Positive Instincts and Nurture Them to Their Full Potential | BONUS EPISODE Jul 20, 2021

Show notes

When we can focus on our children’s strengths - instead of their weaknesses - we can help them to truly reach their full potential.

Dr. Sam Goldstein and Dr. Robert Brooks are the authors of Tenacity in Children, a book that provides a framework to raise resilient and happy children by nurturing the seven instincts for lifetime success.

Listen in as we go through the seven instincts that children are born with and how we, as parents, can provide opportunities to nurture those instincts to cultivate tenacity, and ultimately success, in our children.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2UDrBNv

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

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How We Can (Actually) Create Positive Change For Working Moms Jul 15, 2021

Show notes

Mary Beth Ferrante is the Founder and Managing Partner of WRK/360, a platform designed to create workplace cultures that actually care by promoting flexible work, empathetic leadership, and doing away with parental bias. Her work has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Working Mother, ScaryMommy, and more.

We’re diving into something that is truly near and dear to my heart: affecting positive change for working moms. Mary Beth shares her experience hitting that maternal wall that so many of us have faced and what she is doing now to change the work culture that so often fails working moms.

We’re talking about one of the silver linings of the pandemic (yes, there is one!) and how it really shed a new light on the issues that working moms face. Mary Beth also shares what she sees as the actionable steps that can make it better, how companies can better support working women, and why we need to stop being afraid to parent out loud and demand more equity in the workplace - regardless of our parental responsibilities.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2T15gch

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

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Choosing the Life You Want with Lauren James (Author of Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go) Jul 08, 2021

Show notes

Laurie James is a mother, caregiver, and divorcée turned author and transformative coach. She wrote the book Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, and she joins me today to share her story in the hopes that we can all learn from her experience.

Listen in as Laurie describes what it was like to struggle to “do it all” while her ideal life and family crumbled around her, the epiphany she had that changed everything for her, and the importance of understanding our worth as human beings.

Motherhood is hard, and Laurie gives some great advice for those listening who may be struggling with their own motherhood journey, so get comfortable and listen in to Laurie’s message about getting unstuck and finding the life you belong to.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2U13acm

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

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How Do Physical Pain and Injuries Intersect with Mental Health for Moms with Expecting and Empowered Jul 01, 2021

Show notes

We’re keeping it real AND getting back to the basics in this episode!

We all know that mental health is important, and it’s fantastic that there is so much awareness around it, but it’s crucial that we also remember our physical health is just as important.

Krystle Howald is co-founder of Expecting and Empowered, whose mission is to empower ALL women to feel confident in keeping their baby safe during pregnancy and heal their body properly after birth.

Listen in as we dive into something so many of us don’t give much thought to: our own body mechanics in the postpartum period through the toddler and elementary school years. What does that mean? How we carry our kids, how we breastfeed, how we stand, and even how we pick them up can leave us moms with challenges when it comes to how our body feels - and challenges with our mental health as a result.

Krystle will give us tips to keep our body mechanics in shape from birth, including how to carry your kids in the most physically beneficial way for your body, how to balance your core, and how to conserve your energy (including some hacks to make laundry easier!) She also gives advice on what to do if you’re already having mechanical problems, and shares the most common mechanical areas that moms can improve on.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3vx4Mbd

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

I'm an Angry Mom. Help! Jun 24, 2021

Show notes

Mom rage. What is it? Why do we feel it? And what can we do to prevent it?

No doubt if you’re a mom you have at some point experienced the inexplicable rage that we have come to know as “mom rage.” In fact, it’s so common that it even made the New York Times in 2020 during the height of the pandemic (though don’t worry if you were too busy trying to juggle everything during a global pandemic to read it).

Christina Furnival is a mental health therapist, writer, public speaker, and children’s book author. She is also a wife and mom of two, and she joins me today to discuss all things mom rage. We’re talking about what it is, why we feel it, and how to deal with it.

We’re also discussing some of the many reasons why mom rage has become so common and why our mothers and grandmothers did not share the same struggle (hint: social media and mom guilt, anyone?) If you struggle with mom rage, or have ever struggled with mom rage, this is an episode you definitely won’t want to miss!

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3zGuHAz

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

Teaching Your Child to Play Independently Jun 17, 2021

Show notes

Would you love for your kids to play more independently? Are you worried about lasting effects from the pandemic on your kids’ well-being? Do you feel guilty about how much screen time your kids are getting, especially during the pandemic?

We’re talking about all of this today with Erin O’Connor. She is the co-founder of Scientific Mommy, a resource for parents that sifts through the data and presents research in an honest, accessible, and most importantly, an evidence-based way.

We’re talking about independent versus collaborative play, why independent play is a good thing (so you can stop the mom guilt!), and how to foster independent play in your kids.

Erin also shares the research on how the pandemic may affect kids, including whether masks are detrimental for their development and whether we should be worried about any long-term effects from a lack of collaborative play during lockdowns.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/53

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Finding Your Worth and How to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Money Jun 10, 2021

Show notes

Money, money, money. It’s such an important part our lives, but it’s also an area that many of us spend a lot of time worrying about and not a lot of time talking about - at least not publicly. In this episode, Dawn Dahlby shares the foundational steps that most people are missing when it comes to financial health, what the key is to growing wealth, and how much we should all be putting away towards our savings. We also discuss why having spending freedom today and financial security tomorrow are not mutually exclusive and how to make your money work for you, instead of against you.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/52

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

How the Bravo Effect™ Can Transform Your Relationship with Your Child Jun 03, 2021

Show notes

Dr. Lisa Bravo is an acclaimed psychotherapist, speaker, author, and teacher who has worked in the field for over 20 years and has a passion for working with teenagers and their parents to ease extreme behavior. We’re discussing the reasons behind why kids of all ages act out, how to interpret their behavior, and how to discipline in a way that doesn’t further push your child away. Lisa also shares when the right time is to deliver discipline and what the first step is to shifting away from a discipline approach (and why you should!)

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/51

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

How to Find Your Path Out of Mom-Life Crisis May 27, 2021

Show notes

Nina Restieri is the author of Overcoming the Mom-Life Crisis and founder and president of momAgenda. In this episode, Nina shares what exactly the “mom-life crisis” is, how to know whether you might be experiencing it, and what to do about it if you are. We also talk about the day that Nina’s life changed, why it’s important to get clear on our own priorities (not just what we want to do, but how we want to feel!), and we discuss the importance of knowing the bigger purpose behind what you’re doing and why.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/49

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

How to Set and Preserve Healthy Boundaries May 20, 2021

Show notes

Chastity Holcomb is a therapist, enneagram coach, and founder of Momfully You Academy, a private online community that teaches moms how to reclaim their identity after kids and love the authentic version of themselves. In this episode, we’re talking all about boundaries: what healthy boundaries look like, what the first step to setting (and keeping) boundaries is, and why

we need to change the narrative and start to think of boundaries as acts of kindness for ourselves and others.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/49

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

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