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Mutha Life

The Mutha Life podcast is your place for exploring the near impossible balancing act of career and parenting. Each week, we talk to a badass parent who is pursuing their passions and career dreams, while also showing up for their kids. We talk through their childhoods, their jobs, relationships, support systems, philosophies on parenting and all of the messy stuff that comes up along the way.

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EPISODE 66: Diana Sokal: Proof of concept

Mutha Life ·

2025/11/26

Let's hang with my former SUMMER CAMP CAMPER and now full fledged adult and mutha, Diana Sokal. She's the Director of Communications for Apa Aesthetic - THE destination for A listers wanting to give their smiles an upgrade. I promise you - I have never seen dentistry looks this sexy, luxury or elite in my life. Before joining Apa's army transforming the field of dentistry, Diana worked in PR and celebrity dressing at Harry Winston dressing our favorite celebs in the world's most precious jewels for

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Episode 65: Mica Keeney: Mutha Bear

Mutha Life ·

2025/11/19

Mica Keeney is on the pod this week and she had me thinking about the poignance and occasional annoyance of TIMING. She's the founder of Keeney & Co. a brand marketing consultancy that's worked with the brands we all know and love - from CARE BEARS to Tiffany and Netflix - Mica's work has been recognized by her peers, winning a Cannes Young Lions award among a laundry list of other accolades. Outside of her day job, Mica writes about motherhood, in all its complexity, both on her own Substack

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01:11:54

Episode 64: Laura Krafft: Bubblegum in the briefcase

Mutha Life ·

2025/11/12

Come hang with professionally funny person, Laura Krafft. Laura is a comedic writer, actress and dedicated aunt to her 22 nieces and nephews. Her work comes to us by way of a storied era of improv in Chicago - coming up with comedians like Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Adam McKay, Horatio Sanz, and so many more. When she landed in LA, her work moved from the stage to the screen and she's been a writer for some of our favorite shows for more than 20 years, including well over 300 episodes of the beloved

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Episode 63: Nicole Lyn: Seasons of love

Mutha Life ·

2025/11/05

Today we are traveling from Canada to Jamaica, from New York to LA, with Nicole Lyn (aka Ms. Nix). She is an actor, a DJ, and a creative. She started in the acting and modeling world YOUNG and by 12 was working regularly on a range of popular Canadian TV shows - from Ramona and Eric's World to later on Student Bodies with appearances on a range of shows we all know and love - Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Kids in the Hall, West Wing, and so many more. As creative second act, Nicole's DJ career has

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01:07:50

Episode 62: Dr. Aegean Chan: Fine lines

Mutha Life ·

2025/10/29

Let's go SKIN DEEP…maybe even deeper with Dr. Aegean Chan today. Dr. Chan is a badass double board certified dermatologist and dermapathologist. She's a mom of three. She runs her successful Santa Barbara practice alongside her husband. She's educating the masses through her engaging and EVIDENCED take on her instagram account…and she's been featured in The New York Times, Allure, Vogue, Prevention, and Well+Good for her efforts…and there's some more exciting stuff to come from her in the pipeline

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Episode 61: Barbora Samieian: A family brand of cozy

Mutha Life ·

2025/10/22

From Slovakia to Canada to your living room, come get cozy with Barbora Samieian. She’s one of the co-founders of the fan favorite Sundays Furniture, the newly launched furniture brand Hetta, and Vancouver’s fave lunch spot, Field and Social. Her story as a founder and as a parent to her 4 kids is integrally linked to her own brand of cozy, cultivated over borders, across cultures, and now into our homes. In this chat, Barbora and I cover everything from what it was like growing up in Czechoslovakia

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Episode 60: Solo Pod: Learning to chill in sweata weatha

Mutha Life ·

2025/10/15

Welcome to our second ever SOLO POD for the big episode 6-0. We cover a wide sprawl of topics that span my brain and yours - I answer some listener questions and dive into what’s been going on around here lately. Specifically, we talk about making ‘mom friends’ - and where I think we are getting that one a bit wrong in how we think about it. We talk about how a new school transition can take just a big a toll on us as it does our kids (if not more?), recent birthday party wins, why cliches are so

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Episode 59: Evan Lovett: The Valley Boy’s Love Letter

Mutha Life ·

2025/10/08

Evan Lovett REPS HARD FOR LA. He’s LA’s biggest cheerleader and is the creator of LA IN A MINUTE - the viral social media sensation sharing snapshots of different LA neighborhoods and points of interest in a way that is truly celebrating the city where he was born and raised - and where he’s now raising his son. With his successful pod, IN A MINUTE WITH EVAN LOVETT, Evan has managed to wrangle the most prominent politicians in LA, as well as athletes and artists and everyone in between to both hold

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Episode 58: Whitney Wagner: Marked safe

Mutha Life ·

2025/10/01

Today we are hanging out in the closet with Whitney Wagner Hartley of HELLOWHITNEY fame. She is a retired model, a wellness and beauty influencer and….has become a vocal critic of the MAGA and MAHA agendas. Her videos have amassed millions of views where she crushes a skincare or makeup routine WHILE ALSO explaining in very accessible terms how our consumer dollars - and how we decide to use them - can be an act of resistance. This episode has it all. From near run-ins with Joshua Jackson,

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01:22:03

Episode 57: Billy Mann: The long game

Mutha Life ·

2025/09/24

Come hang with Billy Mann immediately. Billy is a Grammy Nominated multi-platinum multi-hyphenate. He’s a songwriter, producer, artist, executive, podcaster, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Philadelphia-loving husband and father of 4 (Go Birds?). From his longstanding collaboration with PINK to his work with Sting, Celine Dion, Cher, Backstreet Boys, David Guetta, Robyn, Carole King, Hall & Oates, and SO MANY MORE, Billy has been an integral part of shaping so many moments of our lives with his music

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Episode 56: Jamie Greenberg: Broad strokes

Mutha Life ·

2025/09/17

Come hang in the closet with celeb makeup powerhouse, Jamie Greenberg of Jamie Makeup. She’s the go-to artist for so many of Hollywood’s funniest and most talented women - Rashida Jones, Kaley Cuoco, Chelsea Handler, the list goes on and on…but today we get down to the FOUNDATION of the person behind the brush. We focus on taking off the CONCEALER and getting the BAREFACED story of what kind of childhood and life story has given us this wonderful new pal (see what I did there? Moms can make puns

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01:18:15

Episode 55: Victoria de la Fuente: A rebrand for...

Mutha Life ·

2025/09/10

Today we get to hang in the closet with Victoria de la Fuente. She’s a brand strategist. A tech entrepreneur. A fashion girly. And an absurdly successful substacker with her stack Zillion Trillion. We start with what it was like growing up in Peru, what happens when your mom becomes one of the most famous women in Latin America in your teenage years, navigating the international fashion scene, and how starting a family might be her biggest creative and important venture yet. Full show notes with

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Episode 54: Shawn Stockman: From boy II man

Mutha Life ·

2025/09/03

I HOPE YOU ARE SITTING DOWN. Today on the pod we have Shawn Stockman - a 4-time Grammy award winner and a member of the most commercially successful R&B group of all time, BoyzIIMen. We start with Shawn's childhood in southwest Philadelphia - we go from singing in THE Boys Choir at age 8 to attending the prestigious Creative and Performing Arts High School. Then we talk about growing up and into adulthood under the watchful eye of the whole world - Shawn covers so much in a new light. From his

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Episode 53: Chana Blugrind: Running on faith

Mutha Life ·

2025/08/27

Let’s go hang with Chana Karna Blugrind - she has been an early childhood educator for 25 years and is the Director of a pre-school in Los Angeles. She’s also a mom to four kids and step mom to two more. She’s an ultramarathoner. A doctoral candidate. A Danish woman living in America….A woman with many layers, all of which are tied together with her faith. And tattoos. Lots of tattoos. We follow Chana from growing up in Denmark - a kid with undiagnosed ADHD whose parents never made her feel like an

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Episode 52: Kari Selander: Robots and Unicorns

Mutha Life ·

2025/08/20

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FAM! They say for a first anniversary you should get your beloved paper, but I think substack and a podcast is the modern day equivalent, right? This episode is the product of your requests to get MY story. I couldn’t think of anything more cringe than talking about myself at length, but our repeat guest and friend of the pod SOSUPERSAM wasn't going to let me off the hook. So here we are. A long ass episode where Sam gets in the interview chair while I sit down in the hot seat and

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01:15:33

Episode 51: Dr. Puja Khanna: The star of career day

Mutha Life ·

2025/08/13

Is it just me or is the dream to flip the script on your doctor and ask THEM the personal questions? Well, cha ching. Today’s the day for me. Not too long ago I started with a new doctor to work out the latest challenges and question marks around my Crohn’s disease. She came highly recommended by my doc as THE woman to talk to about BEING a woman with Crohn’s, especially around the hormonal roller coaster of having kids and post partum. But it wasn’t until almost 17 million views of a procedure I

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01:37:43

Episode 50: Bennet Kaspar-Williams: On purpose

Mutha Life ·

2025/08/06

Today we are hanging out in the closet with Bennett Kaspar-Williams, the multi-threat. Lawyer, activist, writer, creative…and seahorse dad. If you don’t know what a seahorse is, you’re in the right place today to learn from source. Bennett is trans and was the gestational carrier for his son (get it? male seahorses are famously the gestational carriers). In talking to Bennett about his life - from Texas to Seattle to New York and LA, each chapter has provided stones for his life’s foundation. We are

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Episode 49: Emily Tucker: Everything in its place

Mutha Life ·

2025/07/30

This week we have Emily Tucker in the virtual closet all the way in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Emily is the founder and face of Emily Tucker Design - an insanely talented firm building projects that would be right up my alley if my house wasn't a toy vomit factory. On this episode, I use Emily as my personal guru for all things - from understanding how interior designers actually work with clients to what she does in her own home to make her kids get along. We talked about what it means to be

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01:09:33

Episode 48: Charlie Curtis: Running on protein

Mutha Life ·

2025/07/23

This week in the closet we have celebrity trainer/founder of Bad Badger Treats, Charlie Curtis. You may know him as ‘Perfect 10 Charlie’ of Armchair Expert fame. Or maybe as the founder of Indoorphins, the online high intensity workout community. Orrrrr that guy who seems to live at the little league field. Maybe you don’t know him at all and you’re here because you just want to hear how someone who is actively involved in raising his two boys also manages to juggle his own fitness and professional

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01:06:36

Episode 47: Lily Walla: The group chat goes big league

Mutha Life ·

2025/07/16

This week we get down and dischargey with the founder of Auggie, the parent platform so many of us want and need. Lily Walla’s childhood story is one of contrasts - bouncing between her parents’ apartments, sleeping on pull out beds and sharing tight spaces - all while going to one of the country’s most elite private schools and running around with classmates with literal mansions to call home. Today, we find Lily the fully actualized person, in Brooklyn with her family. She’s a million weeks

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