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Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys

Motherhood is hard. We don"t allow moms to be real about their feelings, frustrations and needs. You can read about child psychology and human development but the REAL stuff comes when you live it. The mamas you will hear from in this podcast are real. They have struggled, had their share of hard times but also amazing mama moments. These interviews are meant to inspire, educate and entertain while giving you the opportunity to hear things that will make you think, "I get it."

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 158 W/Kathy...

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2025/08/18

Kathy Allen is a mom of a 56 and 55 year old as well as her first great granddaughter! She is a nurse and has started a group called the gutsy nurses. She was the second oldest of nine kids so she was very well prepared to be a mom! Her mom ran a daycare so she was very ready to be a mom! She thought having only 2 and a step son so three in her home and her challenge was to not be so responsible and play more. She was the team mom, the classroom mom and was very involved with them and her biggest

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 157 W/Barb Stone

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2025/08/11

Barb Stone is all about creating things from life stories to be able to help people on their journey. She left her career 6 years ago to become a leadership development coach to help teams on their path. She has found that we all need some guidance and she loves to do that with a vast amount of people. She has published a book called “Lessons to Drool About.” Sometimes we get into a victim mindset where we think there is nothing we can do about that. BUT she says that life can happen FOR you, not

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 156 W/Jeni...

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2025/08/04

Jeni Golomb is a mom of 2 boys ages 19 and 16, a wife of 25 years and a Harvard MBA with a new adventure in a marketing start up nonprofit. She was 28 and 31 when she had her kids because those were the same ages her mom was when she had kids. She thinks that putting your children’s needs ahead of your own is how you create amazing humans and if you are too young and don’t have a completed frontal lobe, you can’t necessarily handle that. She thought that being 28 as a new mom was the best age BUT

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 155 W/Beatty...

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2025/07/28

Beatty Carmichael is a dad of three adult children, missing littles running around and married to his wife for 32 years. He and his wife have never had a large argument! He comes from a family of doctors and decided he wanted to pivot into helping people have blessed lives. As a business owner, you don’t always know what you are doing so it’s a learning process every day so he looked at parenthood like that too. He gives a lot of the credit to his wife who read all the books on parenthood and he

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 154 W/Sally...

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2025/07/21

Sally Raymond, from Santa Barbara, California, living near the ocean AND the mountains and at the age of 82, and believing that aging is a choice, she stays present. She was married at the age of 19 and had two kids as a young mom. She realized that children are here to teach us. Her first born, at the age of 2, read the sign outside the car, Texaco! She realized he was a genius and she was NOT prepared for a genius son. With 45 minute debates at the age of 4 about why he didn’t need to make his

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 153 W/Bill...

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2025/07/15

Bill Williams is a dad of two after having many different jobs including photography, managed a TV network, and a TV station in Bowling Green Ohio (thinking there were mountains there). He decided to set up his own communication consultant business but since everything went digital he decided to change his whole life and became a dad! And then became a financial advisor. He has been doing that for years but also found publishing and started sending out a thought for the day in email and 30 years

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29:29

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 152...

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2025/07/07

Meredith Cole is the owner of the Denver Village, an inclusive environment near the Stanley Marketplace where they bring together many different practitioners to support people, but especially moms. She and her husband have two sons and had the second during the pandemic. She says things seem really hard at the time but memories seem to fade a little and each new stage is a new shift and that’s really hard. Having the support of her husband has been amazing but her mama friends and “village” is also

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 151 W/Hollie...

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2025/06/30

Hollie Wildehorn is from Australia and had her first baby at the age of 21! She was a very young mom and the town she was in was a very business oriented city (Cambria) and she was really mostly on her own. She was part of the alternative industry and she was part of a great community of moms and now with a 18 and 21 year old, she has a great relationships with her kids. Her biggest challenge was the fact that she didn’t know what the heck she was doing and you don’t know what you don’t know! How

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 150 W/Sharon...

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2025/06/23

Sharon Harmon, from Nashville, Tennessee who works with highly sensitive people using frequencies to help people figure out what’s going on with them. As a New York native, she met her husband in NYC. She had her son at the age of 42 and they weren’t preventing pregnancy but also weren’t planning on it. As the eldest of five kids, she was the only girl and the “second mom” so that was like being a mom! She had a home birth and did everything holistically and didn’t plan for after the pregnancy. The

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 149 W/Katie...

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2025/06/16

Katie Fenske is a mom of 3 with three boys at home! She is enjoying having all three in school, but also it’s hard to let go sometimes. She was 33 when she had her first kiddo and THOUGHT she knew what she was doing and then she had kids. The biggest challenge she experienced was self judgement. She didn’t think others were judging her but SHE was worried what others would think. She sees a mom struggling and doesn’t think at all about that mom being a bad mom…so why are we so hard on ourselves

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 148 W/Alessia...

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2025/06/09

Alessia Lloyd is the mom of three amazing kids who are everything she ever dreamed them to be. She started when she was 22 with her first son and although he wasn’t planned, he has always been loved and wanted. She was not in a healthy relationship when she had Alexander but after finally getting the strength to get out of the relationship. She is in a much better place now with two other children with her husband outside of Cleveland, Ohio. She works for a nonprofit helping the unhoused and the

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 147...

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2025/06/02

Samantha Foote is a mom of three, all with neurodivergent conditions and is near Boise, Idaho. All three of her kiddos have autism and ADHD combined. She was 28 when she started having kiddos and they are 10. 8 and 5. Her SEVERE Postpartum Depression (PPD) was her biggest challenge. No one listened to her or took her seriously and she struggled a lot. It took way too long for her to get help. The “baby blues” was all doctors kept telling them. She was diagnosed with OCD after having her first

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 146 W/Karen...

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2025/05/26

Karen Peterson is a grateful mama and is a co-founder of a nonprofit called Couve Collective, community centers for people in recovery. Her and her husband are excited to be grandparents very soon! She worked for Boeing for years but decided she needed to give back to families who experience addiction and the effects that has on their family. She lives in Vancouver, Washington and is grateful for the sunshine when it happens! She had her son in her late 20’s but she wasn’t as thrilled to be a

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 145 W/Jason...

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2025/05/19

Jason Gibler is a psychotherapist who works with moms, dads and getting people to tap into a deeper healing. He works often with perinatal families, including before, during and after having kids. Even dads get Postpartum depression and many people don’t know that. Depression and anxiety are linked and many times that affects dads because we have more conscious fathering. The old paradigm of success vs. failure also is pulling at them. The paradigm is that dads aren’t always “good” at being a dad

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 144 W/Keri...

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2025/05/12

Keri Henson is a 6th generation Texan and a mom of SIX kiddos! She has a brand called the “Mom’sDay Prepper.” These are moments that happen when you don't see them coming! Managing relationships within all of the motherhood journey needs are instrumental in motherhood! She became a mama at the age of 24 and has had six kiddos from ages 21-7 with one of them who was diagnosed with cancer and another hit by a 1 ton truck! Her biggest challenge has been being married to an addict (and this was

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 143 W/Dr....

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2025/05/05

Dr. Tamara Beckford is an ED doctor with her own weight loss business in Houston. She helps women get rid of emotional and physical weight. It’s 100% online and has been an entrepreneur for years. As a mom at 36 and 38 (considered old in the birthing world) she felt the itch at 2 years and understands why so many people are 2 years apart! She started having babies later in life because she went to school “forever and ever amen.” Motherhood came to her like flipping a switch and she was ready

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 142...

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2025/04/28

Fernanda Shoup, originally from Argentina and turning 40 with two toddlers at home! She married her wife during Covid outside at a barn in Parker but was supposed to be in Argentina! Talk about a different environment. When she connected with her wife, she wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mom but when she realized that she would parent with HER and that was what changed the whole thought about motherhood! When you have a wife, everything changes. Her wife didn’t want to be pregnant and Fernanda

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 141 W/Emily Hill

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2025/04/21

Emily Hill is a hospice chaplain and licensed social worker. She developed a love for hospice when she was 7 years old because of her grandfather. She was so blown away by how hospice people change the world of the family of the person passing on. She earned a Master’s of divinity and connects with death doulas and how to make people comfortable. Regardless where you fall in the spiritual spectrum, death is a kind of rebirth into the next steps. She has two children and grew up as a pastor's kid

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 140 W_Deborah...

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2025/04/14

Deborah Mallow never thought she wanted kids but after spending time with her friends and their kids, she fell in love with the idea of being a mom. She is one of the positive, happiest people you have ever met! In fact, she has written a book called 6 Steps to Fewer Days That Suck. What a great title! She was 38 when she had her son and now he’s in his 20’s, living in Minnesota. She struggled with balancing it all. She was exhausted through motherhood because she was so stressed about making

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 139 W_Dr....

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2025/04/07

Dr. Jann Blackstone is a Jan of all trades as a behavioral scientist because she studies people's behaviors. She likes to call it mediation to bring people together. She predominantly works with co-parents to get families to be able to parent in a cohesive way for everyone in the family. A bonus family is basically a step-family but she didn’t like the word “step.” That word was just too negative. THe biggest need of a bonus family is acceptance. All of the people in the family need to feel

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