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The Mother Of It All

Sarah and Miranda

We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. The Mother Of It All is a podcast where we dive deep into the culture of modern motherhood. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. motherofitall.substack.com

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Episode 14: Priya Joi On Mothering, Race & Identity

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2024/03/04

Sarah and Miranda are joined by Priya Joi, a Barcelona-based science journalist and the author of the memoir M(other)land: What I’ve Learned About Parenthood, Race, and Identity. Joi was born in the UK, spent part of her childhood in India, and is raising her own daughter in Barcelona. In this episode we explore how motherhood made questions of race, belonging and identity that Joi had spent her life navigating even more urgent and complex. Links: Motherland: What I’ve Learnt about Parenthood,

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00:52:43

FEB MOVIE CLUB: Baby Boom with Jo Piazza

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2024/02/26

We’re giving our listener’s a little treat – a free February Movie Club episode! Author and podcaster Jo Piazza comes on the pod to break down the beloved 1987 working-mom classic, Baby Boom. We talk overt vs. covert misogyny, why it’s time to retire the phrase “having it all,” and of course, the brilliance of style acumen of Diane Keaton. Subscribe to our Patreon to get access to past and future Movie Club episodes! Links: Pre-order Jo’s new novel, The Sicilian Inheritance Subscribe to Jo’s

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01:08:46

Episode 13: Kathryn Jezer-Morton On How Social Media...

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2024/02/19

Sociologist and writer Kathryn Jezer-Mortonjoins Sarah and Miranda to talk about the intersection of motherhood and what she calls “technological storytelling,” or, the way we construct our identities in the age of social media. We talk about her recent piece on the “core memories” trend as a microcosm of our desire to control our kids’ perception of childhood, why we imitate the visual language of influencers and brands in our personal content, and if doing so influences the way we understand the

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00:58:18

Episode 12: Tamarin Norwood On Grief, Writing & A...

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2024/02/05

Precise, poetic and deeply moving, Tamarin Norwood's much-anticipated book, The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry, chronicles her experience of having a son, Gabriel, who lived just 72 minutes. In this episode, she joins Miranda and Sarah to share and reflect on passages from her gorgeous book, talk about the ultimate "taboo within a taboo" that is infant loss, as well as the urgent, wonderful work she is doing today to help other bereaved

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00:03:08

Patreon Movie Club Sneak Peek

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2024/01/27

Every month for our Patreon members we release a special Movie Club episode where we take on movies through the lense of motherhood, and motherhood through the lense of movies. This month, we discuss the Oscar nominations with Tracy Clark Flory. Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to hear the full episode!

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01:07:51

Episode 11: The Wisdom of Disabled Parenting with...

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2024/01/22

Author and speaker Jessica Slice talks to Sarah about how disability culture has taught her to reject perfectionism, how internalized ableism makes parenting harder for all of us, and the beauty of building a family where everyone accepts and expresses their needs. Links: Jessica’s website and Substack newsletter Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong Lucy Webster’s The View From Down Here Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight We've Got This: Essays by

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01:02:49

Episode 10: A Better Birth with Rebekah Wheeler

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2024/01/15

Midwife, birth trauma healer, and beloved big sister Rebekah Wheeler breaks down what we get wrong about birth trauma, why there is no wrong way to give birth, and what we can do to truly support people through the birth process. Also, Sarah confronts her about never letting her borrow her Oasis t-shirt in middle school, and Miranda gets some free birth healing. Links: Rebekah’s website Review of Alison Yarrow’s Birth Control in The Nation The Body Keeps The Score Recs for kids: Half Magic Wayside

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01:05:47

Episode 9: Resisting Covert Grind Culture: Evie Ebert...

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2024/01/08

In which Miranda & Sarah define the many reasons they love Evie Ebert’s motherhood writing, and Evie responds to all the flattery by giving an exceptionally satisfying answer to our “where are your kids right now” question. Then we dig into resolution culture, wondering out loud if maybe (MAYBE) we’re done treating resolution season as the super bowl of self-loathing. Instead, we just might be ready to mess around with stuff like earnestly-selected, loosely-defined slacker-level mind-set

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00:56:55

Episode 8: Motherhood Is Sobering: Drinking, The...

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2023/12/18

Miranda and Sarah welcome Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change and Like A Mother, to the show this week to talk about drinking, sobriety, and the fuzzy, fine lines that we trace around substance use in motherhood. Though it feels like sober curiosity — or full on sobriety — is on-trend, a recent CDC study indicated that more women than ever are binge drinking and dying from alcohol-related diseases. How should we think about drinking and self-care? What does my choice

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00:59:42

Episode 7: The Mother Culture Origin Story

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2023/12/18

It’s the Mother Culture Origin Story! Sarah and Miranda (that’s us) divulge a little more about who we are, what we’re doing here, how we found each other, and why motherhood continues to earn its place as the focal point of our most obsessive curiosities. We talk pregnancy, anxieties, traps, tenderness, and how we think about what happened to us when we became mothers. What should we tell new moms? What would we have told ourselves? And is anyone listening to this motherhood discourse we love so

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01:02:13

Mother Culture Movie Club: Home Alone with Nancy Reddy

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2023/12/15

The lovely writer Nancy Reddy joins Miranda and Sarah to talk (and cry a little bit) about the infamous John Hughes Christmas movie extraordinaire, Home Alone. We get into the weeds of Kate McAllister’s power-mom parenting choices, realizing that this bananas plot line actually feels pretty relatable, WTF a “hyper mom” might be, and the gray areas of our collective nostalgia for all things ‘90s. The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood edited by Nancy Reddy and Emily Perez Ordinary Insanity:

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00:54:59

Episode 6: Are The Holidays Fun? It’s The MC Holiday...

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2023/12/04

Switch on the twinkle lights, it’s the Mother Culture Holiday Episode! In which Sara P. (author of Momfluenced and the beloved substack, In Pursuit Of Clean Countertops) shares hot tips for Santa training your kids, Sarah W. finds out about Elf On A Shelf’s Jewish cousin. Then, Miranda tries to make everyone talk about big questions — like who and what the holidays are even for, and what ritual does for human beings — and little nice things, like actually really loving the holidays despite the

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01:09:56

Episode 5: Are We Watering Down Feminism?

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2023/11/27

What do we really mean when we say capitalist patriarchy, gender politics, or even, feminism? Sarah and Miranda bring on a badass professor of feminist economics to school us on all this, plus the good, bad, and ugly of how this shows up in modern motherhood discourse. Katherine Moos is a professor of feminist political economy at UMASS Amherst. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research. Links: Mevre Emre in the New Yorker Fair Play The Second Shift: Working Families and

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00:59:52

Episode 4: The Woman in Me in Us (The Britney Episode)

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2023/11/20

Miranda and Sarah are joined by Amanda Montei, the author of the recently published Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent and Control, to talk about the Britney Spears memoir and what it means for moms. Links: Amanda Montei in her Substack Newsletter Mad Women Jessica Grose in the New York Times Amanda Hess in the New York Times Lyz in Men Yell at Me Virginia Sole-Smith in Burnt Toast Miranda on Postpartum Mood Disorders’ Exclusion From The DSM NY Times piece on kids being taken away from

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01:18:49

Episode 3: Would More Freedom Make Our Kids Happier?

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2023/11/15

A recent paper in the journal Pediatrics suggested that parents hover more than they think they do, and that the increases in kids’ anxiety and depression might be related to that lack of independence. Miranda and Sarah explore the implications of this way of thinking about our kids’ well-being, the possibility that they themselves ‘helicopter’ more than they mean to, and what it is about modern parenthood that makes us want to wrap our kids in bubble wrap. Plus, an update on Harriet The Spy, what

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01:12:00

Episode 2: When Teachers Strike

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2023/11/15

The Portland teachers are going on strike and Miranda is in her feelings about it. Luckily, Sarah invited educator and mother Andria Kemp-Sellers on to talk about the possibilities of growing closer in conflict, the resilience of young children, and the joys of civic engagement. Sarah’s newsletter about the Oakland Teacher’s Strike Why US Teachers Have Been Walking Out of Schools Nationwide Garrett Bucks: Does Your Tiny, Insignificant Protest Matter? Kid-culture Recs: The Wild Robot Series Newsies

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01:07:58

Episode 1: Can We Reject The Crushing Time Pressure...

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2023/11/15

Miranda and Sarah discuss Oliver Burkeman's book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and their own struggles with attention, loss, and letting go. Links: Olver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks Allison P Davis on friends with kids Why I Don’t Feel Guilty for Not Playing with My Kids Sarah’s parenting column, Good Enough Parent Alison Gopnik What do Babies Think? Judith Viorst’s Necessary Losses The Happiness Project Kid-culture Recs: Harriet the Spy Mac B Kid Spy Project Runway

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00:02:38

The Trailer

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2023/11/05

We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. Mother Culture is our place to go deep into the culture of modern motherhood and have the conversations that truly challenge, feed and excite us. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. We're diving into the grey areas beyond the tropes — the wine moms, the rage moms, the anything moms — to spend real time with

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