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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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01:11:20

Episode 72: Kelsy Parkhouse: The Swap Meet

Mutha Life ·

2026/01/07

Let's hang with someone I've known for 20 years, but who I only actually got to know by doing this interview. Kelsy Parkhouse is the owner and founder of CARLEEN, a clothing brand steeped in nostalgia and a celebration of American textiles. Her one of a kind pieces have been gracing runways, editorial shoots for Vogue (peep a baby Kendall Jenner in Carleen, in the show notes), and the streets of big cities around the world since its debut in 2012. Her story, to me, feels like true LORE, a slow and

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Episode 71: Bye Snake, Hello FIRE Horse!!!

Mutha Life ·

2025/12/31

Come hang in the closet for a special New Year's Eve episode. We go into the highlights of 2025, featuring reflections on the challenging yet transformative Year of the Wood Snake. We are going to march through some takeaways from 2025's 46 guests. We also look ahead to the Year of the Fire Horse and take a moment to remember NYE through the eyes of when Harry Met Sally, reimagining love for kids - and remembering Rob Reiner. Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com

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Episode 70: Solo Pod: Is Santa a fun uncle?

Mutha Life ·

2025/12/24

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…muthas were getting ready. Welcome to this year's Christmas episode! Come hang in the closet for a solo episode where I cover a lot of ground - we go from a re-imagining of St. Nick and his role in the family to broken fingers, chronic illness, love of diet coke and solo travel…and feeling all of the feelings that come with the holidays. I also cover gift giving, being chief magic maker and so much more. Come cozy down while you tick some

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01:10:42

Episode 69: Dr. Jessica Combs: The best Metacine

Mutha Life ·

2025/12/17

Let's hang with Dr. Jessica Combs. She's the Co-Founder and CEO of Dr. Diamond's Metacine - a medically inspired skincare line that is taking the skincare world by storm. And YES, it IS that Dr. Diamond. The one from Dr. 90210 and Celebrity Plastic Surgeons. He's also known as her husband and their love story rivals a plot line from Gray's Anatomy. Together the couple have built empires and legacies - a world renowned facial plastic surgery practice, an institute and a skincare line that's changing

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01:08:07

Episode 68: Julia Boorstin: A Leader

Mutha Life ·

2025/12/10

Come hang with a true leader today. Julia Boorstin is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and author of acclaimed book on leadership, When Women Lead. She's been called 'A pioneer in tech and media reporting.' In 2013, Boorstin created and launched CNBC's Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting the private companies transforming and disrupting the economy. She also recently launched a podcast inspired by her book, CNBC's Changemakers and Power Players. Navigating professional

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01:09:54

Episode 67: Natasha Oiye: Kenya's great export

Mutha Life ·

2025/12/03

Natasha Oiye is a multi-hyphenate who has lived so many chapters in her life. She's a newborn care specialist that has helped so many families navigate the early days of sleepless newborn nights - coming into the home as a sleep doula fairy god mother. She's also the founder of motherland stuff, which brings stunning handmade jewelry and accessories from Kenya to the US, paying artisans fair wages along the way and celebrating their craft. In addition to those two jobs - literally a day job and a

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01:14:08

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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01:04:48

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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01:15:52

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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01:22:26

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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01:23:48

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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