Katie is back for part 2 of her story. If you haven't listened to part 1, go back to episode 45 & listen. It is all about her traumatic loss and how it led her to the start of her rainbow miracle.

Part 2 is her testimony about how God can turn evil for good. The doctors recommended termination of pregnancy and said the baby would not be viable. She trusted God for a miracle and oh did, he came through.

Between lots of tears, laughter & even the lawn mowers in the background, Katie is such a good story teller & her stories are very detailed.

This episode is heavy but has multiple blessings throughout with God's hand on them the whole time. I suggest not listening to it with little ears.

If you are going through a dark time & not knowing what is happening or what is next, this is a great story to be able to relate to & see how powerful the power of prayer really is.

Katie is just a normal small town girl, who loves to help people learn to live healthy lives while also encouraging them to learn to love themselves. Specifically mamas after birthing learn to recover, implement a healthy approach to getting their body feeling good and feeling comfortable in the new skin they are in.

She has 1 beautiful daughter who is 4 years old. She is their rainbow baby after a few losses and a complete miracle. Between lots of tears, laughter & even lawn mowers in the background, this episode is only Part 1 of her story.

Part 1 is the beginning of her pregnancy journeys with stories about her traumatic losses.

Katie is such a good story teller & her stories are very detailed.

This episode is heavy but has multiple blessings throughout, with God's hand on them the whole time. I suggest not listening to it with little ears.

If you are going through a dark time & not knowing what is happening or what is next, this is a great story to be able to relate to & see how powerful the power of prayer really is.

It's not easy juggling your to-do-list...

Everybody needs you every second of the day.

Your feelings of overwhelm and frustration pour out onto your family.

Eyes fill up with tears, feeling like there is not enough time in the day...

Cleaning up one mess after another, running one kid to soccer and the other to dance...

Feeling like you're failing in motherhood one day after another...

MAMA, your needs and mental health are important! You can make time for you,

Setting boundaries and building good habits in your family will help you have time for your needs.

In today's episode, I share 5 things that have helped my family to be organized, work as a team, so I don't feel like I am behind and overwhelmed in life.

I want you to feel confident in motherhood! It is possible, mama!

Tune in and hear these tips. Try them in your family. If they don't work that's okay, try different things that work until you feel like you are thriving and not just surviving!

Emily is an Instagram Strategist + Business Mentor who specializes in making marketing and growing your business SIMPLE.

She is a mom of 3 very smart boys. Emily was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 16. When she had her first son, she was on high alert in watching for signs.

She knows now as an adult; this diagnosis changed and helped her through life.

Now with her oldest boy being diagnosed she is here to educate us mamas in what to look for, how to help yourself & your child with ADHD & how it doesn't always have to be this "bad thing".

Her second son has a speech delay & she truly is an inspiration in loving and helping the child you have not the child you want.

She is a believer in Finding your minimum in life/motherhood & business, Emily energy is magnetizing, I enjoyed our conversation & I know you will too.

Laura Davis is a corporate powerhouse turned time management strategist. As the creator and founder of Time Management Academy, she shows moms how to keep all the plates spinning AND enjoy every aspect of life no matter how busy.

On today’s episode. we talk about the following:

•Time Management has to be learned

•How you can learn it.

•Time Management skills can help you in all aspects of life

•Motherhood, Marriage, Business, etc.

•BACK-TO-SCHOOL

•3 secrets to thrive not just survive

Listen to this episode and learn time management skills and to see how Back to School can be an easy transition for your family, not a stressful one.

Cameron Normand is Founder of This Custom life and host of The Stepmom Diaries podcast, where she provides advice and tools to help stepmoms manage their blended family lives.

She is also co-founder of The Stepmom Summit and co-CEO of Stepfamily Magazine. Cameron is a Certified Stepparent Coach, the creator of the BLENDED Family Formula For Stepmom Success, and author of The Stepmom’s Gratitude Journal.

Today she is on the podcast to encourage and help blended families come together in the best way they know how, to be the best parents they can for the KIDS! We discuss roles in the family and how to navigate boundaries. The bottom line is to help each other towards giving the kids a healthy and safe environment to live in.

How can we as wives & mother's set up our husbands for success??

Have you ever thought about that?

We are a team. If we support and help each other, we both win, right?

Communication

Being a TEAM & supporting each other NO MATTER WHAT

Talk good about him to your children

Praise & Encourage: Tell him where he is thriving as a husband and father.

Trust him, even when it's hard.

Pick battles, but also telling him what's truly important to you about raising your children.

I hope this episode can help you set up your husband up for success. If he wins, you win & we all win as a family.

After struggling with infertility for over 10 years, Jesse founded a non-profit serving the infertility community. Uniquely Knitted now serves hundreds of people around the world through unique therapeutic process groups for people experiencing infertility. She lives in Orange County with her husband and two adopted children. They tried multiple infertility treatments with no success. After years of trying they felt beat up and so over the process. It was shattering to realize she could possibly never become a mom. After years of infertility and many therapy sessions, they decided to pursue adoption. They have done everything under the sun when it comes to adoption. Eventually, they become Foster Parents and are adopted through a long-term foster placement. Becoming a mom looked different for everyone, this process has changed Jesse's life & so many others, she helps walk them through their infertility struggles.

Are you just trying to survive the everyday life of motherhood & by adding the Summer expectations on top makes you feel overwhelmed? In this episode, I encourage you to let go of the expectations, perfection, & the stress the summer can bring. You will hear tips for schedules, activities, chores & organization to help keep your sanity.

Paige Harper, is a Certified Master Life & Performance Mindset Coach, a mom of 2 toddler boys, a wife, and a pharmacist! She works specifically with women entrepreneurs within Network Marketing companies.

She helps them see success in their business and reach their goals by focusing specifically on mindset!

We talk about the power of affirmations in your everyday life and how mindset shifts can change your everyday life in motherhood, business, & relationships.

Motherhood is hard & taking a leap of faith into something you want to do for yourself is scary. She explains how your head voice & your heart voice help you get out of your comfort zone and take action into being and doing what your heart desires.

Don't let fear paralyze you from doing what you love. Each step is a learning lesson and is molding you into who you want to be.

Paige is also offering a FREE 1:1 session to dive into any specific struggles you are having — whether that is in life, business, motherhood, health/fitness, etc.

She is also offering free mindset training for companies/teams! If interested, DM her on Instagram.

At 4 months old the pediatrician diagnosed my son with torticollis & plagiocephaly.

The PT suggested he get a helmet (band) to correct his head shape. As well as therapy stretching on his neck.

Have you ever heard of torticollis or plagiocephaly?

Ali Flynn, the creator of Hang in There, Mama, is on the podcast today.

She is excited to be able to come on and share with you today the joy and hardships of raising teens with an open heart, honesty, and some tears.

She is a mom to four daughters who offers daily encouragement and support to moms while keeping it real and letting them know they are not alone on their motherhood journey.

TOPICS:

How to connect with your teen and also college kids while letting them go at the same time.

Not listening to the chatter and doing what is right for your family and trusting those whispers while also believing that as a mom you are enough.

Discipline, Expectations, & Social Media

Encouraging you to stay connected with yourselves throughout your motherhood journey.

Ali has a FREE e-book of 52 Weekly Affirmations for Moms.

Even if you don't have teens yet, this is a great conversation to give you hope for the future. Raising Teens does not always have to be negative & bad. It can also bring a lot of positivity. light and laughter. Ali talks all about this inside the episode.

If I could go back in time and give myself some advice as a NEW MOM, I would tell her...

perfection does not exist,

lead with your heart,

burn the "What to Expect" books,

push the mute button on people’s opinions

& never say “I’m a bad mom”!!!

Being a NEW MOM is so exciting, but can also be scary, tiring, and isolating.

Inside this episode, I share 10 things I wish I would have done/ known as a new mom.

Whether you are a mom-to-be, a first-time mom or you have been around the block a few times & pregnant again, this is a great episode to remind you; you are the perfect mama for your babies & no matter what, you are doing a GREAT job!

Episode 33- Meet the Yanez Family (PART 2) - All about Marriage

Today is Part 2 of Meet the Yanez Team. Part 1, was episode 31. Jared & I talked all about personalities and how you parent a child who is so different from yourself & how we parent together even though we may do things differently at times. If you haven't already, listen to that episode.

Today we dive into our marriage and how we have strengthened our marriage over the years. Marriage with kids is hard. It takes a lot of work. A lot of late-night conversations after the kids are asleep. We are not perfect by any means, but at the end of the day we are a team and we work really hard at our marriage.

In this episode, we talk about what has worked and not worked and what we have learned over the years. Jared gives his advice to all the dads out there & flips the script of encouragement to dads...

After you listen, share with your husband, let's see if they can relate.

Episode 32- Infertility Week Awareness with IVF, Verbal Abuse, Naturopath Warrior, Erin Bulcao

Erin Bulcao is 38 and has been dealing with unexplained infertility since she was 26! She is a true testimony of going through infertility & marital struggles, to coming out stronger in her marriage & truly knowing her body.

In this episode, she shares her story:

~From IUI triplets to twins

~Verbal abuse in marriage

~IVF struggles

~Naturopath Doctor & having regular periods without hormones.

My special guest today is... my husband, Jared!!!! Today is our 8 year wedding anniversary, what better way to celebrate than having him on the podcast. Our conversation was so good, I had to break it down into two episodes.

This is Part 1 of Meet the Yanez Team!

Today we talk about parenting and what we "thought" parenting would be like and how it "really" is.

When your child's personality is different from yours, you are stretched to learn and adapt in your way of thinking and teaching. Jared shares how this has helped him be a better person in learning to be more open-minded.

Jared and I have two totally different personalities and we share how we have learned to focus on each other's strengths in order to parent and work as a team.

Parenting is hard & we are not afraid to talk about our mess-ups. This episode is great to hear a Dad's perspective on parenting.

Therapy has this big stigma around it that like if you go to therapy, you are crazy and you're weak.

Most people that are going to therapy are not weak because they know they need some help. I think it’s really strong and courageous that they are putting themselves out there and actually going for it.

Every day we wake up; we have something to learn and something that we can grow from. God's plan is greater than we could ever imagine. So this is my belief, my journey, and why I believe in it.

The biggest took away and the biggest thing I learned about myself in therapy, is I was struggling with being a perfectionist. My standards for myself and my child were so high, not realistic, I felt like I was failing every day, all day long.

In this episode, I share my journey through therapy & how it has helped me become a better mom, wife & woman. I share the NUMBER ONE TIP I LEARNED & how it will help you as well! We are not meant to do life alone. Listen to my story here.

Allie Schwartz is a mom to Aiden. Aiden is eight months old now. She's been married for two and a half years. She's just a normal mom trying to survive motherhood, & saving money for her kids' therapy.

In this episode, we talk about a "controversial topic". Hating being pregnant! A lot of people are afraid to talk about this topic in fear of being judged as a "bad mom". Allie dives right in and she is brutally honest. I think that we need a little bit more of that or just a safe place or person to be able to come to and talk about how you really feel.

Not liking being pregnant, doesn't make you not want your baby. It doesn't make you a bad mom.

She also talks about mourning her past life, her old life, pre-baby, and how she's adjusting to the new baby life. She shared with us her experience with her placenta pills, and how it helped her with postpartum and anxiety.

She shares advice about sleeping & going with your mama gut.

This is a great episode, especially if you are scared to get pregnant, not excited about pregnancy, or you're grieving the life before baby. It is real and honest.

Baby & Infant Sleep Schedules & Sleep Regressions w/ Baby Sleep Consultant Emma Purdue

Emma Purdue is a baby sleep consultant in New Zealand, babies, and their sleeping habits are her passion. After nearly 10 years of helping mothers get their babies off to sleep she has lost count of the number of people she has helped.

With three children of her own, she has lots of experience, and fully understands the conflict many parents feel – torn between exhaustion and the love you feel for your baby.

In this episode, she explains new born's sleeping patterns & how their brains are wired, placing a factor. We talk about a huge topic every mom stresses about & how we make it more stressful than it needs to be, by reading & downloading apps that tell us exactly how it should be... it's Sleep Regressions!

We also dive into the judgment of sleep training & self-soothing. She is even an expert in toddlers & how to prevent them from yo-yo-ing back and forth from the bed into the hallway. What I would have done to hear this episode 6 years ago when I was a new mom.

Overcoming Postpartum Salt by Seeing the Light in Motherhood w/ Lindsey Goodyear

Lindsey Goodyear is a wife, and a mama to a sweet, 2-year-old named Jackson with their second due in May! She is a part-time nurse practitioner and a full-time Southern mama born and raised in South Louisiana.

After giving birth to her son, she struggled with the transition into motherhood. She had significant postpartum anxiety. She set unrealistic expectations for herself & felt victimized by comparison. She was exhausted. Overwhelmed. & she had just lost her joy and felt like a complete failure as a mom.

She kept thinking, “I cannot be the only one struggling with this.” So she started reaching out to friends, talking openly about the challenges she was facing, and tackling issues head-on with therapy. The more she talked, the more she discovered that, in fact, she was NOT the only one. SO MANY of the women she talked to were struggling with the same issues and were feeling unfulfilled in motherhood as well.

She created the Salt & Light Motherhood Co. as a safe place to discuss motherhood- REAL motherhood- not the filtered version we usually see on social media. She values authenticity, vulnerability, and honesty and strives to celebrate the individual motherhood journey that each mama takes on. All while simultaneously providing her with the support, education & resources she needs to empower her to CONFIDENTLY make decisions, step into her role as a mother, & rest on the path she has chosen for herself and her family.

In this episode, we talk about her postpartum anxiety journey and how she is still working on it daily. She shares how marriage has changed after kids but how they still keep their marriage strong. She gives advice to the mamas struggling with postpartum, perfectionism & letting go of control.

This is a great REAL conversation!