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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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21:37

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 176 W/Toni King

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

2025/12/22

Toni King is a Texan mom who has a goal to help the world navigate medicare. She has experienced being a part of the "sandwich generation" where we are caring for our kids and also our parents. She was talking to a gentleman who was confused about his benefits and his experience made her realize she needed to help more people with Medicare. She wrote a book called Medicare Survival Guide and you can find it at tonisays.com. If your parents or grandparents are going on Medicare, you can help them

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32:41

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 175 W/Stacy...

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2025/12/15

Stacy Price is a Colorado native and the mother of two angel babies. She splits her time between Colorado and Virginia, working as an accountant and volunteering with several nonprofits, including serving as a Director on YANA's Board. Stacy experienced her first pregnancy loss at 22 and, due to age and circumstance, grieved quietly and without support. After years of difficulty conceiving, she became pregnant again in June 2024, only to experience a second, more traumatic loss that required

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34:45

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 174...

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2025/12/08

Caroline Kalicki's focus is making moms to be the best human they can be (not just mom). "Where are YOU on that list of things you are doing." If you don't take care of YOU first, there is no room to take care of others. Her wife and her took 5 years just to have her first. It was a long, heartbreaking journey and had miscarriage and 17 IUI's, they were finally successful through IVF. These 5 years made them THINK they were prepared for all of it but postpartum hit them like a bus. Not only was it

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45:47

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 173 W/Katie...

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2025/12/01

Katie Dwyer is a mom of a very big spirited 8 year old named Hazel Rose. She lives in NYC and today released her third album! She runs participation classes for babies and mamas. She is working on building confidence in children through music. She writes all of her own music that she sings. She grew up singing in youth choir and really enjoyed music but reading music wasn't her thing because she performs by ear. She has many connections to Broadway and the world of the arts in NYC but being a mom

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30:11

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 172 W/Yara Ortiz

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2025/11/24

Yara N. Ortiz is the owner and CEO of Bookkeeping Consulting Services and founder of Money Moves with Yara, and is a mama. She is a financial consultant working with small businesses and nonprofits to get their books in order. She's also a master personal financial coach who works with single moms to help them manage their finances to fit their lifestyles. She believes in experience over education even though she absolutely believes in higher education. She had her only son at the age of 30 and

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42:19

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 171 W/Sabrina...

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2025/11/17

Sabrina Wright-Hobart is an advocate for women in crisis through the Crisis Center and also a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed at 37 years old and has been a huge advocate for care for women experiencing that diagnosis. She has always dedicated her life to nonprofit support with mamas and women in need of domestic violence resources. All of her programs are evidence based and anonymous. Domestic violence is the number one crime in counties all over the world because it is 100% about

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31:37

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 170 W/Julie Vera

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2025/11/10

Julie Vera is a mom of two and the host of the Mom Walk Collective, a free space for mamas to walk, get to know each other and walk together. She has started a consulting business where she helps moms who need some operational efficiencies in their own businesses. She wants moms to set up a path for success by helping people on the operational backend. The Mom Walk Collective was created in California and now in 400 cities globally!! Julie became a mom right before turning 30 and pretty much knew

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35:45

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 169...

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2025/11/03

Mackenzie Kryzer has a 9 month old daughter and is adjusting to working full time for AllHealth Network working in the substance use/mental health world. She is in Colorado but moved from Minnesota and wasn't really sure she wanted to be a mom all of her life. She was born with a 10% chance of survival. She was in the hospital for 3 weeks after birth because she was born with diaphragmatic hernia or other. Many of the people in her sphere had very traumatic birthing situations so she was not sure

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41:05

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 168/Mahri Relin

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2025/10/27

Mehri Relin has had a fitness company, operating out of NYC and Denver. She works with women throughout their pregnancy, postpartum journey and beyond. The idea is to address how your body changes throughout all of those times through the life of a mama. She runs that program still but is also a therapist working with many different populations. She started working with children and worked on how their brains developed. She likes helping women weave their opportunities as a mom into their lives

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39:59

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 167 W/Emily...

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2025/10/20

Emily Redondo is an author, a stay at home mom with four kids who are teenagers and young adults. She worked as a nanny, care salesperson but since she was married she really wrapped her identity around being a mom. She became a mom when she was 23 and the last when she was 34. With her first, she was a single mom and moved back home for help but with the other three she had a different support system. In the beginning she had this perfect picture of what motherhood was going to be like but then

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40:07

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 166 W/Luba...

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2025/10/13

Luba Patlakh Kaplun is a mom of three, speech language pathologist and a small business owner called Kidology. She is also an advocate for parents with children with IEP’s. She became a mom at the age of 28 and she has three under the age of 10, the loves of her life. She was born in Ukraine but immigrated to the US when she was 2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is her hometown and where she currently resides. Her biggest challenge of mamahood was raising her business while raising her kids. The juggle

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33:07

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 165 W/Dana Dose

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2025/10/06

Dana Dose, THE Family Nutritionist Pro sees patients nationwide where she works with them online to reduce the stress of making meals and being nourished. She has two kids and became a mama at the age of 33. Her biggest challenge of becoming a mom was figuring out her new place in the world and doing it without any sleep. She lost her lifelong best friend 2 months after the birth of her first baby and that rocked her world. Her biggest supporter was her husband (even though there were days that

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42:53

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 164 W/Alison...

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2025/09/29

Alison Beder Solway is an Canadian mom of 4, a fitness professional with an online fitness platform called www.absfitness.ca. Her new book is called The Miles we Run and can be found HERE. She had a long infertility story and wrote a book about it to help explain the obstacles and hurdles that she overcame with that journey. With fertility, anything can be “normal” because every body is different and every journey is also different. Starting at the age of 27, she birthed baby number one after no

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30:49

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 163 W/Jean...

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2025/09/22

Jean Alfieri is an author, speaker and a dog fan. She is in Colorado Springs and works with Pikes Peak Animal. She is a step-mom of a little boy and he was the “best part of th deal” when she married her husband. She learns so much from her adult step-son and believes that we can learn so much from our kiddos if we are open to hearing it. She wrote a book about how to handle the loss of a pet. She was visiting a 2nd grade class and a little boy asked if she ever had a dog that died. That started

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 162 W_Jamie...

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2025/09/15

Jamie McClung is focused on making mamas a priority in their own life. Her number one focus is self care because that was the game changer for her own life. “Beauty and health from the inside out” as a mom of 2 boys 17 years apart is a huge part of what she talks about with her clients. The excuses people, especially mamas, make about how they cannot do self care for whatever reason is something we need to talk about. Jamie became a mama when she was 19 and had him at the age of 20 and although she

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Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 161 W/Emily...

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2025/09/08

Emily Markley is a Clinical Psychologist, a nonprofit Executive Director and a mama of 3. Her nonprofit, Ardent Grove is a partner of YANA’s and is doing amazing work in our community. As a mama of three littles, she started having her babies at the age of 32 after struggling with fertility for 2 years. She always knew she wanted to be a mom and the rest of her goals and path came after that as secondary priorities. Being a mom was always her first priority. Her second and third pregnancies didn’t

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33:29

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 160 W/Gerard...

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2025/09/01

Gerard Wouters, a therapist in Holland who specializes in all things therapy. 98% of his clients are women. He is a dad of a little girl and his therapy was covered by their insurance in Holland but as of 2010 it is not. He developed a kind of therapy that is based on the Taoist religion. This monk took one look at him and knew everything Gerard needed and invited him to stay for five weeks. After about seven years of learning from the Taoist way, he created a treatment for outside the monastery

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29:09

Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 159...

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

2025/08/25

Kimberly J. Ward has been many things but being a mom has been her favorite title! She has written a book, lived on a boat for 2 years and became a mom at the age of 35. She was a late bloomer and had her first baby late in life but now is loving watching her daughter become an adult (she is turning 21 this year). She says the best things she has given her daughter are roots and wings and Nikki will be using that! She wasn’t a fan of the newborn stage because the baby had colic and she really

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31:31

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

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

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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22:03

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

Let"s Be Real: Mama Journeys ·

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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