Motherhood changes us. As the generation who were told we could do anything and be anything we want to be, accepting the changes that come with motherhood can be very difficult. This podcast is a collection of stories of matrescence, motherhood, womanhood and change, told by our Mama Rising coaches and mothers around the globe. Through our stories and community, we hope that the wisdom of the rite of passage of matrescence spreads far and wide, and that we can begin to change the way we see, ...
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#280 | WHY IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT YOU FEEL THIS WAY | WITH ERIN SPAHR
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Welcome back, Mama's, to this week’s episode of The Happy Mama Movement Podcast. This week’s guest is Erin Spahr, a licensed therapist, maternal mental health advocate, and podcast host based in Raleigh, NC, who uses a feminist lens in her work to help mothers break free from societal pressures and cultivate self-compassion. We get serious about: T…
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#279 | NAVIGATING SECOND MARRIAGES AND A NEW MATRESCENCE | WITH SOPHIA PALLAS
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Welcome to this week’s episode of The Happy Mama Movement Podcast. This week’s guest is Sophia Pallas, an astrologer, copywriter, and online business strategist who pivoted her entire career to focus on the ancient practice of astrology after discovering its profound impact on her life. Sophia and I get into the nitty-gritty on: How astrology helpe…
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#278 | TAKE THE MIC | FOSTERING A CULTURE THAT HONORS THE RESILIENCE OF MOTHERS | WITH DUSK LINEY
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Welcome to this week’s episode of 'The Happy Mama Movement Podcast'. This week’s guest is Dusk Liney, a trauma-sensitive birth doula and Mama Rising Facilitator. Dusk shares with us: How her personal experience led to the creation of 'Dear Dusk.' The transformative power of understanding matrescence, especially for survivors of trauma. Unique chall…
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#277 | MANAGING THE MENTAL LOAD | WITH DR ROBYN MILLER
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Dr. Robyn Miller, a medical doctor and founder of The Mental Load Project, who is dedicated to helping mothers share the mental load that leads to exhaustion, resentment, and overwhelm. We talk about: How the mental load affects mothers and their well-being. The…
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#276 | REDEFINING SUCCESS AND COMPETITION THROUGH MOTHERHOOD | WITH SAM AND SARAH
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guests are Sarah de Boer and Samantha Sutherland. Sarah is a Facilitator, Marketer, Matrescence Advocate, and mother of two, who co-founded Beyond the Break to address the barriers women face in the workplace and help organizations meet their gender equity goals. Samanth…
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#275 | LESSONS ON MOTHERHOOD FROM A MILLION+ DOWNLOADS | WITH ZOE BLASKEY
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Zoe Blaskey, a mum of two, qualified transformational coach, and Founder of Motherkind. This week we talk deeply on: How Zoe approaches shifting from guilt and exhaustion to confidence and calm. The impact of societal pressure and judgment on modern motherhood. …
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#274 | TAKE THE MIC | OVERCOMING POSTNATAL DESPRESSION AND SUPPORTING LOCAL MAMAS | JODIE ABRAHAM
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s "TAKE THE MIC" guest is Jodie Abraham, a Nutrition, Health, and Wellness Coach, a certified Mama Rising Facilitator, and a Women’s Health and Hormones Coach. Jodie shares with us: Her personal journey and experiences as a mother. Her experience with Postnatal Depression …
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#273 | THE UNEXPECTED MAGIC OF CARING FOR OTHERS | WITH ELISSA STRAUSS
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is a writer who has been exploring the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years. The marvelous Elissa Strauss. We cover a lot of ground, including: Insights from her book,'The unexpected magic of caring for others' How we can ins…
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#272 | A NEW APPROACH TO MOTHER'S GROUPS | WITH COURTNEY WHITTLE
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Courtney Whittle, a motherhood support facilitator and the founder of The Georges River Motherhood Network. We explore: Courtney’s journey in overcoming Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. How to concept of Matrescence changed everything for her and what she sees…
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#271 | HOW DO WE DO THIS WHEN WE HAVE NO EXAMPLES AROUND US? | WITH GABRIELLE NANCARROW
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Gabrielle, the mother of three beautiful children, an author, a doula, and the founder of Gather, a space and community for women in Melbourne, Australia. We talk about: How we can support families through conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. The import…
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#270 | BECOMING COMFORTABLE WITH THE TYPE OF WORKING MOTHER YOU ARE | WITH VICKY WREN
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How do we make peace with the type of mother we want to be when we also crave our careers or our own ambitions and dreams? That's exactly what this week's podcast is all about when Amy speaks with Vicky Wren, a mother of three, an accountant with over 20 years of experience, a Mama Rising Facilitator and Coach, and a soon-to-be-published co-author …
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#269 | ALCOHOL, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE PROMISE OF WINE O'CLOCK | WITH SARAH RUSBATCH
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Sarah Rusbatch, a multi-award-winning Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, and a menopause coach. We talk about: - How Sarah's journey to sobriety began and the impact it had on her life. - The importance of understanding and addre…
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#268 | TAKE THE MIC | INSANE MAMA MOMENTS | WITH ELIANE POLEK
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Welcome to this week’s episode of "Take The Mic". This week is Eliane Polek, who created her first blog, ‘The Insane Mama,’ during the first COVID lockdown, driven by her own experiences and struggles with motherhood. She share's with us: How Eliane's journey through motherhood and feelings of maternal anger and rage inspired her blog and her work …
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#267 | BREAKING THE MYTH OF WORK LIFE BALANCE | WITH PAULA MAIDENS
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Welcome back, Mamas, to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement Podcast. My guest this week is Paula Maidens. Paula helps entrepreneurs build high-performing teams so they can scale with ease, get their time back, and create the balanced life they deserve! This week we dig deep into Paula's strengths as a Business Coach and discuss: - Ways t…
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#266 | CREATING CHANGE FOR FATHERS IN THE WORKPLACE | WITH JEREMY MACVEAN
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Welcome Mama's and perhaps some Fathers, to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast. This week’s guest is Jeremy Macvean who co-founded, 'The Father Hood' which aims to build tribes of healthier, happier men through his work with Movember. This week we discuss: The unacceptable pay gap between men and women, and exponentially as the …
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#265 | TAKE THE MIC | BEYOND THE 6 WEEKS OF HEALING | WITH RACHEL BETTINZOLI
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Where did we get this idea that six weeks after birth, a woman is completely healed and ready to re-enter the world? Why do we rush this process, simply checking in how her body is feeling, and even suggesting she is now ready for sex again? Imagine what would happen if we looked at a mother's becoming as something way beyond the first six weeks, a…
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#264 | WHAT WOULD MATRESCENCE-INFORMED PUBLIC POLICY LOOK LIKE? | WITH SARAH CLEGGETT
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What would our world be like if we had matrescence-informed public policy? What would those policies even look like? And what impact would they have on our experience of becoming a mother - and the wider experience of parenthood? In this week's episode, mama of 2 Sarah Cleggett share's her own personal experience of becoming a mother, and how that …
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#263 | NAVIGATING BELIEF GRIEF IN MOTHERHOOD AND RELATIONSHIPS | WITH ABBY KAMEN
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No matter what you believe BEFORE you go into motherhood, there is always a moment when you realise: this isn't what I thought it would be. Maybe it comes immediately - birth was nothing like you thought, the first days were completely different. Or maybe it comes years later, when you think your life - and that of your children or your relationshi…
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#262 | REFLECTING ON A DECADE OF COACHING MOTHERHOOD | WITH AMY TAYLOR KABBAZ
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In this episode Amy takes a moment to reflect on ten years of coaching mothers, and both her personal journey to get to this point, and how she sees the focus on mothers changing. Just a few short months after becoming a mother 16 years ago, Amy started writing and researching the question: what happens to us? Why does it feel this way? How can we …
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#261 | MANAGING MATRESENCE AND MENOPAUSE | CICI GOKTAS
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Throughout a woman's life, she experiences so many metaphorsis and change - and until very recently, most of these have been hidden and unspoken. Like matrescence - and menopause. Why is that? Why is it that we, as a society, have kept so many of these huge transformations hidden? And what does that do to a woman as she experiences it? And imagine …
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#260 | TAKE THE MIC | FINDING THE WORDS TO HEAL THE ANGER | Elena Sánchez Martín
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In today's Take the Mic episode, we hand our mic over to Elena. Elena bravely shares her experience of matrescence, and her vision now for her work - and in particular, her desire to create a space for the mothers in her community and in her country to be vulnerable about their own experience, free from judgement. But as she asks so beautifully in …
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#259 | REDEFINING INTIMACY IN PARENTHOOD | WITH DANIELA STEVENS
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We've spoken with a number of relationship and sex experts over the years on this podcast - and there's a reason for that. Babies can change so much. For both partners. How do we connect after so much has changed? How do we even know what we want anymore when our bodies feel so different and the time and space we had for our partner has evaporated?…
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#258 | HEALING OUR FAMILY STORIES THROUGH MOTHERHOOD | WITH NGOMBO CHANSA
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The beautiful - and confronting - thing about matrescence is it often leads us deep into our own familial story, and how we were mothered. Sometimes, without even knowing it, it can be the portal into looking at our mothers, and our mothers' mother's experience of being a woman and a mother... which, without the proper support and understanding, ca…
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#257 | THE SPIRITUAL ASSIGNMENT OF MATRESCENCE | WITH KELLY VAN ZANDT
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What if we were to view the experience of Matrescence as a spiritual assignment? How would we feel if we knew that all we are going through is actually here to help us grow? Would that make this wild ride any different? Over the years, I have interviewed many different authors and experts about matrescence and motherhood - but rarely have I been so…
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#256 | TAKE THE MIC | WITH CAROLINA SALDARRIAGA
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Imagine if we could translate the word Matrescence into all the different languages, ensuring that this powerful new understanding of the rite of passage of motherhood is deeply understood by each and every women? Imagine if it was not only translated, but also shared through local cultures and traditions, bringing back a connection between mothers…
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