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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 99 W/Kandra...

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2024/07/01

Kandra is a sleep expert who helps people with their sleeping journey with their children. At the age of 27, she started her mama journey after going through infertility for years. Shaping her journey as a wife and mother, infertility needs to be understood on another level. She had really hard pregnancies and was in and out of the hospitals and threw up every day all day long. Being on the other end of that journey feels really good because it was really difficult. “Being a mom is a growing journey

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Let's Be Real- Mama Journeys - Episode 98 W/Dina Tibbs

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2024/06/24

Dina was a corporate America person but now holds space for women who are going through transitions. Her one kiddo will be 19 soon and she believes her soul was matched with the two souls who left before she could be their mother on earth. Her wisdom councils and circles change lives and give moms the permission to honor their mama journey’s. Giving up some of the plan you have in mind in motherhood, both birth and motherhood is essential. Don’t grip so hard! The control isn’t always in your

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 97 W/Kristina...

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2024/06/17

As a mama who had her first baby at the age of 35, she wasn’t sure she wanted kids. She was very driven in her career and wasn’t certain kids were in her future. But when she got married at the age of 34, 2 months into the marriage, they were pregnant! She is not a huge fan of kids, except her own! She joined some mom groups through a nonprofit that turned into a store and found her people. With her second baby, she was involved in her church and all the moms were amazing supports. In Canada you

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 96 W/Kelly Fox

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2024/06/10

Kelly has lived in Colorado since she was 8 and lives in Centennial. She works for a payroll company called PNIHCM and is passionate about her community. The job of being a mama and wife is a 24/7 job. She met her husband way back when she was 19 and got lots of stuff “out of the way” before she had her son. She had her son at the age of 35 and what an adjustment it was! Her pregnancy was a complete surprise because she was on birth control and didn’t expect to get pregnant! At 16 weeks pregnant she

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 95 W/Brenna...

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2024/06/03

Brenna is a single mom of 2 and closing in on 40 and so excited about the possibilities of the “rock star decade!” She is a police dispatcher for the Colorado State Patrol and her hours are nuts! She also put her application in to be a State Trooper and is starting that process! She became a mama at the age of 22 and her kiddos have different dads. Not knowing what a healthy relationship looked like, she struggled to find true love. Having two kids on her own, her mom homeschooled her and her

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 94 W/Michelle...

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2024/05/27

Michelle is a mom of 2 living in Arvada, Colorado and works with companies to help them with their expansion plans. She is a member of YANA’s Board of Directors and has been an amazing asset to our program. She started her parenting journey later in life and had her son at the age of 40. She was a corporate climber so starting at the age of 40 was a little rough. She had 2 small kiddos for the global pandemic! She made some changes to her career in that time and switched lanes in her work/life

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 93 W/Susanna...

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2024/05/20

Susanna Peace Lovell is a mama and a life coach and advocate for families with kiddos with disabilities. She has a daughter with many extreme needs and it led her to this work. Her daughter is about to turn 18, living in LA and her and her ex-husband raise her collectively. She had ALL the motherhood answers before she became a mom (like a lot of us do) and then reality hit! Her daughter was diagnosed with a plethora of medical conditions and her mamahood journey was NOTHING like she was prepared

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 92 W/Dianna...

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2024/05/12

Dianna is a classical homeopath in Littleton who wrote a book about newborn death. She does a lot of grief work with mamas who have experienced a loss. After four pregnancies, she has one living child and her unique experience is what helps her share with other mamas. There are over one million babies who die before their first birthday EVERY YEAR! Grieving is something we don’t talk about in this country. She is a member of the Colorado End of Life Collaboration and it is an organization she is

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 91 W/Erin...

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2024/05/06

She and her husband are high school sweethearts and she was married at 20! She wasn’t sure she wanted kiddos but after 10 years of marriage, they decided they did! She was in the hospitality industry during the pandemic but that wasn’t ideal as a new mom. Hotels are open 365 days a year and 24 hours a day! That wasn’t working for her and her family so she decided it was time to realign her priorities and change her career on top of a pandemic and being a new mama! Her biggest realization was

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 90 W/Kelli...

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2024/04/29

Kelli is a badass CEO of a Colorado nonprofit called BCC Evolution (now Make Mental Health Matter), a mental health and suicide awareness nonprofit. They focus on the education aspect after her sister took her life. Kelli was a teen mom at the age of 16 as a junior in high school. She put her daughter up for adoption because she watched her sister go through it as a teen mom and didn’t want that for her life. So she asked for an open adoption and is in contact with the family with lots of

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 89 W/Lindsey...

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2024/04/22

Lindsey is a mom of 2 girls and the program director of the Backcountry Wilderness nonprofit for our Community Association. She is passionate about protecting our wildlife in Colorado. She was in a hurry to be a mom and had baby number one at the age of 26 right after her husband graduated from PT school. She is a Colorado native who returned in her adult years because she LOVED the mountains and Colorado as a whole. Her biggest challenge as a mom has been doing parenthood the way that SHE wanted

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 88 W/Marta...

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2024/04/15

Marta is a mom of 3 and a full time student pursuing her graduate degree in Social work. As an intern for YANA, she has contributed a TON of knowledge to our organization and she is a huge asset to us! They live the farm life and are encouraging her three kids to find happiness in whatever that is, even if it isn’t higher education. Healthy relationships have healthy conversations and discussions that show conflict resolutions that show them what the real world looks like (as unfortunate as that

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 87 W/Ellen...

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2024/04/01

She is a stay at home mom but was a theater actress and CEO of a Yoga studio for years. Her journey started at an advanced maternal age. Her home birth was magical and was exactly what she wanted it to be. She had 2 midwives, a doula, a birth photographer and her husband for her birth and LOVED it. She was radically supported and was only in labor for 5 hours as opposed to the 40 hours of the first birth! Her birth stories are unique and different but also HERS and she takes pride in that. Her first

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 86 W/Lainne Love

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2024/03/25

Lainne had a natural home birth with her son at the age of 36. She has had a lot of chaos in her mama journey and didn’t know the father well and she does not have a relationship with him so being a single mom was quite the challenge. She was shocked at her numbness during pregnancy and because of her traumatic childhood, she was not as prepared to be a mom as she wishes she would be. She didn’t recognize herself when she became a mom and realized her ancestral karma was holding her back

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 85 W/Lori...

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2024/03/18

As a mama of one and a son who joined the military, that fear was encompassing because she had no idea how to handle that. When she was a new mom, she was on her own as a single mom. She had support from her parents when her son grew but lost both of her parents to cancer. She feels that she has grown closer to her mom since she passed because she learned about her moms past and her life trauma and how that made her who she was. Blessed with the most amazing son and having such amazing memories of

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 84 W/Candace...

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2024/03/04

Candace has been a working mom for many years and owns Holistically Well (insert tag here). Even though she wasn’t always 100% sure she wanted to be a mom. She envisioned herself as the professional woman in New York City, living the dream of being a working woman who blew your socks off. After five years of trying, she finally got pregnant and were now a military family. The military doesn’t really support infertility and the struggle of it. After a miscarriage on her own, in her own home all

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys -Episode 83 W/Diane Smith

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

2024/02/26

As a lifelong educator, she has dedicated her life to the education of children. She started her mama journey just before turning 30. With grown kids, she remembers having very little support throughout having little ones. She moved to Colorado with no family there and struggled with the lack of help. Even though she was in education and taught while having kids, she didn’t ever teach her own children. Her neighbors were her biggest supporters and they created her own village. As she grew as a mom,

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 82 W/Samantha...

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2024/02/19

Samantha and I have a long history and it was such a joy to chat with her. She was a flower girl in our wedding way back in 1995! Samantha was 26 when she had number one and after having number one, number two was a whole different story and it was hard letting go of not having control over the unknown. The mom guilt for number one was really hard to navigate as well. Her biggest supporter was her mama (who happens to be my BFF!). She loved hearing from her that she is doing a good job! As a mama

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 81 W/Marissa...

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2024/02/12

Marissa is running for MAYOR of Lone Tree, Colorado and is kicking off her journey into the crazy world of politics! She is a mom of 2 girls and is passionate about leaning into her community. As a mom of one, her biggest challenge with having her second child was the unknown of how to handle things when your baby isn’t meeting the same milestones as your first. Where do you turn? Who do you tell? As the mom, we are supposed to “know” and it wasn’t until someone in her hairstyle chair said to her,

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journey's - Episode 80 w/Trista...

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

2024/02/05

Trista is a coach of women and focuses on empowering women. She gave birth in Costa Rica at home as a single mom. She lived in Costa Rica for seven years to learn a new culture, Spanish and more about sustainability. She is one of six kids and always wanted to give birth at home. One of her biggest challenges was going from having the baby in her belly to always having him on her boob. The demands are huge to moms and never ending. When her son started to mirror her yoga practice, she saw the

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