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How To Create At-Home Routines So You Can Live With Intention (And Get Stuff Done!): Voices 55
December 04, 2020

Routines: everyone has them, whether you've created them intentionally or fallen into them by chance. In today's episode, Meagan talks with Ashley Brown, a full-time working mom of two girls ages 3 and 1, enthusiastic Enneagram 1,

Listener Questions (Vol. 29): Episode 289
December 01, 2020

A preschooler is obsessed with screen-time after some COVID-related relaxation of the rules; how can the family get back on track? Another mom wonders how to meet the very different needs of multiple kids at the same time,

Listener Questions (Vol. 28): Episode 288
November 24, 2020

When friendships are strained by politics and the pandemic, how can a lonely mom re-envision her social life? What ideas do we have for family bonding as kids get older? Can Meagan distill her best parenting advice into five minutes or less?

More Than Mom: Totally Inconsequential Holiday Debates
November 22, 2020

There's plenty to debate about the holidays in 2020 - and it doesn't ALL have to be gloomy and stressful. We're kicking off Thanksgiving week with very lively, mostly half-baked debates about holiday controversies that bear little consequence on anythi...

A Judgement-Free Conversation About Shopping More Mindfully This Holiday Season: Episode 287
November 17, 2020

Shopping mindfully or practicing conscious consumerism can be a powerful way to show our support to struggling or underrepresented businesses this holiday season. It can also be, to use a phrase we lean on more and more these days, A LOT.

Pandemic Puppies, Foster Kittens & A Small Animal Pet Debate: Episode 286
November 10, 2020

The animals in our lives have certainly had an interesting year, what with all the working and learning from home. Many families whose work/life situations previously caused them to hold off on pet-ownership took the plunge and got a pandemic puppy.

More Than Mom: Getting Cozy
November 08, 2020

We know that winter 2020-2021 will require all the tips and tricks to keep us going--and it's not even mid-November yet! Today's More Than Mom episode is all about the concept of COZY, and how Meagan and Sarah like to bring it into our wardrobes,

Time Management & Productivity Tips For Savvy Working Moms: Voices 54
November 06, 2020

When Whitnee Hawthorne was a new mom working a full-time corporate job she had trouble finding resources for women in her position--so she set out to create them. Now a mom of two and still working full-time for a Fortune 500 company,

Emotional Labor, Burnout & Completing The Stress Cycle: Episode 285
November 03, 2020

We've all heard the terms 'mental load' and 'emotional labor,' but it's easy to toss them around without pausing to really understand what's happening in our minds and bodies when we carry prolonged stress with us in our roles as mothers and household ...

Stocking Your Family’s Medicine Cabinet For Cold & Flu Season: Episode 284
October 27, 2020

Listener Alana wrote to us recently to ask if we have a handy list of medicine cabinet must-haves for cold and flu season. We do not have such a list, but we have much to say! In Episode 284 Meagan and Sarah talk through various ages, stages,