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Baby and Toddler Language Development With Samantha Ecker Dec 10, 2020

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Samantha is a speech-language pathologist with over 10 years of experience. She's also a mother of three, with a preschooler, a toddler, and an infant. In this episode Samantha and I talk about language development in babies and toddlers, the milestones to look out for and when you might want to seek a professionals help if you are concerned about speech development.

Highlights from this episode include:

A discussion about language milestones during your child’s first few years
Development to consider as your child grows
How to recognize whether your child might need some extra help with speech
Knowing it’s okay that your kids might develop at different rates

Samantha started Toddler Talking Tips to give parents the confidence and knowledge they need to teach their toddlers to talk. She specializes in teaching parents simple but powerful techniques that they can use in their everyday activities. Samantha holds a certificate of clinical competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and is licensed by the state of New Jersey as a speech pathologist. Her original research is published in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. Samantha believes there is power in communication, in scientific research, and in making toddlers laugh. She believes that, with a little guidance, parents are the best people to develop their toddlers' language skills.

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Loving Your Body with Nicole Miller Dec 03, 2020

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Nicole Miller is a working mom who also runs a Health and Mindset coaching business helping women heal their relationship with food and with their body. She passionately believes that life is too short to be lived obsessing and feeling guilt over food and hating your body. She believes we must heal the beliefs that tell us we are not enough and that our body defines our worth.

On this episode, we talk about the importance of a positive body image and letting go and breaking free of the pressures to look a certain way so you can live freely. We talk about choosing self-love and the importance of modeling positive self image to your children.

Highlights from this episode include:

We talk about the societal pressure to “bounce back” after baby
Recognizing the pressures to look a certain way and learning to break free from feeling inadequate
Choosing self-compassion and love over self-criticism to start healing body image
Body image issues related to pregnancy and postpartum and how to cultivate self-acceptance

Nicole is the founder of “The Life I Crave”. Nicole helps women transform their relationships with food and their body. As someone who overcame years of chronic dieting and negative self image, she has a deep passion for helping other women discover their own true worth so they can live from a place of joy and confidence. Between coaching and her 10+ years working as a counselor Nicole has helped hundreds of people transform their lives. Nicole is a mom, an avid Crossfitter and a wife. She enjoys the outdoors, cooking and traveling with her family.

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Cultivating Resilience with Jillian Van Ness Nov 26, 2020

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Covid depression and fatigue are affecting so many parents, Jillian discusses how we can build and foster resilience and shares her personal journey to finding balance in motherhood.

Jillian is a mother, founder of "Resilient Families," and your pandemic-parenting Fairy Godmother! With years of experience as a pediatric massage therapist, student music therapist, and GroovaRoo™ Babywearing Dance instructor, she's here to help new and growing families build their resilience muscle and thrive through the modalities of touch, sound, and movement...all for just $25. Pandemic parenting is hard. Jillian is on a mission to ensure that we don't do it alone.

Highlights from this episode include:

Fostering resilience through difficult times including during the current pandemic
Finding resilience through the three modalities of touch, sound and movement
Meeting needs for connection and support both for your children and you at the same time
Jillian’s personal journey and steps she took to finding balance and resilience in motherhood

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Six Weeks Too Soon - My Premature Birth Story Nov 19, 2020

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At the end of July in 2016 my water broke in the middle of the night when I was just 7 1/2 months pregnant. I delivered our son six weeks early in a thankfully uncomplicated birth. On this episode, I'm sharing our personal experience with preterm birth.
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Navigating the Role of Stepmom with Tracy Poizner Nov 12, 2020

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Tracy Poizner is a parenting coach and the host of the weekly Essential Stepmom Podcast. She is a biological mom and a stepmom and has been through it all, from long-distance parenting to parental alienation, legal difficulties, mental health issues, total loss of contact and full-time physical custody. After finding the light at the end of the tunnel, she wanted to share her experiences with others who were still behind her on the same path. Tracy has a special perspective on emotional healing and how to meet our own personal needs as stepmoms in the everyday chaos of this challenging lifestyle. She helps stepmoms and families minimize conflict and disruption in their lives and find calm, peace, harmony, gratitude, respect and affection and achieve justice in the face of divorce and custody conflicts. Find out more about Tracy at essentialstepmom.com.

Highlights from this episode include:

What if you don’t love your step kids?
Blending families - navigating step kids and having children of your own
Dealing with differences in parenting after divorce
The emotional journey kids go through when they gain a step-parent
Staying grounded and finding positivity during relational transitions

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Creating Healthy Habits with Dr. Orlena Karek Nov 05, 2020

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Often times busy Moms put themselves last and what suffers is their health and wellness. In this episode Dr. Orlena Karek talks about creating healthy habits and systems to bring your health and wellness as a Mom forward. We also talk about strategies to get your kids eating healthy and eating well - something on so many parents’ minds.

Dr Orlena Kerek (MBChB from the University of Bristol, UK) trained as a pediatric doctor. She is now a family health advocate, empowerment mentor, pioneer, author, educator and mother. She helps families create healthy habits they love so they can all feel fit and fabulous without having to think about it

Highlights from this episode include:

Creating habits and systems for healthy living as a busy Mom
Differentiating between discipline in your lifestyle and healthy habits
The four healthy pillars to integrate into your life
A conversation around how to approach kids that are picky eaters

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Cooking With Your Kids with Chef Kibby Oct 29, 2020

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Chef Kibby is a professional chef and culinary instructor with over 25 years in the food industry. He is also a biological, foster, and adoptive dad who seeks to use his brand, Cookin’ with Kibby, to show other parents how to use the shared act of cooking and eating with their kiddos as a way to build deeper relationships, stronger attachments, and more resilient young people.

Highlights from this episode include:

Thinking about cooking with your kids as a tool for connection and to help kids feel loved, safe, valued, accepted and accomplished
Simple and easy ways to invite your kids into the kitchen with you and simple tasks they can help with
Social and emotional benefits of cooking with your kiddos
Taking the intimidation away and rethinking kids in the kitchen

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Perinatal Mood Disorder with Alison Brown Oct 22, 2020

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Alison Brown is a homeschooling mom of five. She started studying emotional intelligence ten years ago in order to teach her kids about their feelings. When she had to deal with three bouts of prenatal depression, she realized that she needed better techniques to handle her own emotional ups and downs. Her research led her to develop the Power Emotions system to help people get in touch with the healthy forms of anger, sadness, and fear - instead of trying to suppress them - and use their power to experience more calm, confidence, and happiness.

Highlights from this episode include:

Her experience with Perinatal mood disorder through three out of the five of her pregnancies
Discussing the warning signs of prenatal depression
Differentiating a mood disorder from the stressors of parenting and typical pregnancy symptoms
Managing feelings and emotions as a Mom
Discussing the roots of “mom rage”

You can join her upcoming FREE challenge designed to help parents transform frustrating moments with their kids into opportunities for love and connection in her Power Emotions Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/poweremotions/.

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Conscious Parenting with Barby Jimenez Oct 15, 2020

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When Barby Jimenez's son was just 7, he confronted her about the way he thought his Mom was parenting which set her on the path to find a different way to parent her children. While on her journey to transform her parenting from one of control to one of connection built on authenticity and inner inquiry, she decided that her new mission was to support parents and help guide them on their path towards Conscious Parenting. She was trained and certified by Dr. Shefali Tsabary in her Conscious Parenting method and has been living her dream of coaching and guiding parents on their journey.

Highlights from the episode include:

Recognizing that your children are different than you and working through how to parent a child very different than yourself
Parenting from a calming center, moving away from the yelling and fight or flight approach
Perspective and advice on how to navigate if you parent differently than your spouse or partner
How to take steps to shift the way that you parent
Dr. Shefali’s theory on “conscious parenting” explained

Barby and her husband have two children, a son who is 14 and daughter who is 17. After earning her Bachelors in Elementary Education and Masters in Reading Education from FIU, she taught Kindergarten and First grade in the public and charter school setting for eight years. When her eldest was born in 2003, she decided to stay at home with her children for several years. Later in 2009, she founded Natural Beginnings Homeschool, a home-based early childhood program incorporating nature, play and social emotional development focused on the whole child.
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Movement During Pregnancy and Postpartum with Wendy Ng Oct 08, 2020

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Wendy Ng is a Dance and Movement Coach who guides women to live consciously and confidently using mindful movement and dance through her signature program, Moving into Joy.

Highlights from this episode include:

Prioritizing taking care of yourself as Mom
How to think about movement during pregnancy amidst your body going through tremendous change
Setting attainable goals and amounts of time to get moving
How exercise and movement can look different in different pregnancies and postpartum recoveries
Setting your priority to feeling good during postpartum recovery instead of the emphasis on looking good

Passionate about movement, Wendy holds a BSc in Kinesiology and has trained in various forms of dance, Muay Thai kickboxing, and yoga. Wendy uses her experience in movement and a combination of mental and physical strategies to help her clients shift their thinking, reconnect with their intuition, and build their confidence.

Prior to starting her business, Wendy worked 10+ years as an occupational therapist, helping clients adapt to change and live independently doing the things most important to them. In her free time, you can find Wendy hanging out with her 3 kids and husband playing board games, having family paint nights, or being a chef at home.
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