You're Doing Great Mom
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago -Motherhood is something that all women will think about at one point in their lives. For many, it’s not even a thought. It’s a ‘when’. For some, it’s a clear ‘not for me’. For every other woman who falls in between, there was a journey which led them and may still be leading them to the ultimate conclusion. And, as we know, the experience of motherhood always keeps flowing, changing, and growing along with our children. Almost all of us can say it’s the hardest thing we’ve ever done, and it’s true when we say it takes a village. Using that analogy and today’s technology, this podcast is for women, mothers, and (sometimes) for men so they can listen and hear personal and heartfelt stories told by real, everyday women.
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Be The Change with Julie Foubert
July 12, 2024 14:19 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBIt's been over 5 years since my last podcast episode. Now, after lots of time off from podcasting, my wonderful friend Julie Foubert is with me to re-launch my podcast! Julie Foubert is a certified ethical leadership consultant, parenting coach, speaker and trainer. She teaches and coaches in both English and in French. Based in Nice, France, she coaches parents worldwide thanks to the magic of online meetings. Her speciality for guiding future and young parents of babies and children 0-3 ...
YDGM Ep 32: Chantal Challenger, life as a mum and an expat.
October 30, 2018 09:40 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBChantal Challenger lives a different life from many of us, traveling around the world with her husband and two kids. She and her husband work in the hospitality/hotel industry, and have chosen a life as expats currently living in Jakarta. She shares about how they chose to move from their home in Australia, and how they’ve adapted to raising their family in a different culture. She had her children in Singapore, which is a very different birth culture where up to 45% of births are c-sectio...
YDGM Ep 31: My husband Julian Wiseman talking about his book on Port Vintages.
September 11, 2018 12:58 - 51 minutes - 40.9 MBAnyone who has written their own book deserves lots of congratulations. And lots of book sales. Especially if it took them ten years to research and write it. Well, that's what my husband Julian Wiseman has just completed. And it's now on sale. It's called Port Vintages. There's a lot of things that I didn't know about port wine. For example, I had no idea that it's not made every year. You'll learn more about that from this episode. I also didn't know what the differences are betwee...
YDGM Ep 30: Keith Wassung
June 11, 2018 10:57 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBKeith Wassung's got one of those stories. Ex-navy, super athlete, weightlifting champion, and on his way to fame, life was on a pretty extraordinary path. Then, at age 22, his body started to slowly break down, first with sinus headaches, then digestion problems, loss of hearing, and more, which eventually led him to be dependant on 18 different drugs. His health deteriorated so badly that he lost nearly all hope. He thought that was it. What more could he do? What saved him was a random cha...
YDGM Ep 29: Thomas Waller DC
April 03, 2018 15:23 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MBTom’s the kinda guy that you can hang out with, have a beer with, and chat about anything. His energy fuels you each and every minute. He’s also the guy you could call up and ask his advice and he’d give you his 100% with a solid answer. And he’s also the guy you’d see on a stage in front of thousands of people. He’s unstoppable. In this episode, I’m speaking with Thomas Waller. He’s a dynamic successful chiropractor in Lincoln, UK and he owns and runs his practice with his wife Sarah (at ...
YDGM Ep 28: Craig Peterson, an American living in Rome
February 21, 2018 16:04 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MBCraig Peterson is American who lives in Rome Italy. He’s 35 years old and he’s a Network Spinal Chiropractor. He is not a father, and he’s in a relationship with a woman who doesn’t want children. He’s thought about having kids, and it was his current girlfriend who gave him the deeper thought of why he wants kids, and why not live life without having kids. Check out Dr Craig's website: www.chiropraticauniverale.com For more information on Network Spinal Chiropractic, go to htt...
YDGM Ep 27: Brendan Waddington on Fatherhood
February 01, 2018 22:48 - 45 minutes - 38.4 MBBrendan Waddington continues the conversation of fatherhood into the second episode of the series speaking to men. There are so many people on this planet, and it's always such a joy and so much fun to speak to someone who you know is making a difference in the world. I just met Brendan and to me, he is an all around great guy. Intelligent, interesting, fun, totally got his shit together, and he has even written a book about no-bullshit health. His new book is called “The Wellness Bible...
YDGM Ep 26: Julian D A Wiseman AKA My Husband
January 23, 2018 21:24 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBThis is the first episode in my 3rd series on my podcast, You're Doing Great Mom. I decided to include my husband and to have his episode kick off the series talking about fatherhood. This series is centered around the topic of fatherhood, where men from all walks of life share their views on the subject. My husband and I sat down together on a Saturday with our kids running around. It took us all day to get some good solid recordings down without too much interruption. Topics included: F...
YDGM Ep 25: Lillian Lartey
December 23, 2017 17:55 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBLillian Lartey is my guest in this last episode of 2017. She’s a personal trainer, massage therapist, and I consider her a life coach for women because she is so grounded in her values and commitment to having an extraordinary life. She came over to record this episode, and it was wonderful to spend those 90-minutes together. So much of what she said was illuminating for me about womenhood, and motherhood. Lillian isn’t a mother, and yet, she has so much wisdom about it! “If we look from t...
YDGM Ep 024: Drea Clark
December 05, 2017 13:35 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB“I like to think I lead a very intentional life. And that isn’t that it’s not open to surprises or spontaneity. But I very deliberately chosen … and I’ve been very lucky, I realize that when I say that. Not everyone gets to choose as much ‘cause there’s inherent struggle with being able to just to afford doing things like that. I get that. I love living by myself. I love setting my own hours. I love being able to keep everything clean and neat and how I want it. There’s intention to those th...
YDGM Ep 023: Angie Dairou
November 27, 2017 16:14 - 1 hour - 62 MBAngie is a successful therapist, working with individuals as well as companies, big and small. This episode was awesome, with so many interesting and thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom, ideas, and stories about motherhood and how we can shift our perspectives about it in the context of applying it to roles of leadership and life in general. “That’s part of my mission, really, in working with everybody I do, is trying to get the word out that the more you can be with ‘stuck’ the more you’r...
YDGM Ep 22: Michelle Dry
November 13, 2017 15:10 - 53 minutes - 44.6 MBI don't think I've laughed so hard recording an episode. Michelle Dry is my guest today, continuing the series about women who are not mothers. Michelle is hilarious, multi-talented, creative, and full of life as she travels the world in her job as a communications director on a cruise-line. She is also a prolific writer/author of many books, already published by herself and available on Amazon. Her most successful book is The Hairy Legged Mystery, a children's book about a mysterious crea...
YDGM Ep 021: Rachael Talbot-Frank
November 06, 2017 16:23 - 55 minutes - 48.5 MBMy guest this week is Rachael Talbot-Frank. Rachael doesn’t have children of her own and is not a mother. These last few weeks and in the next few episodes, the topic has been about women who do not have children. I’ll be speaking to women who share their story of not becoming a mother. It’s something I think people should hear about. There’s always that uncomfortable, politically correct awkwardness that looms over us when we address it. There’s always the elephant in the room and the cur...
YDGM Ep 020: Noreen Sumpter
October 28, 2017 21:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBNoreen Sumpter is a personal life coach who lives in Brooklyn. She and I have been close friends for nearly 20 years. She talks about how, since the age of 13, she knew she did not want to have children. I wanted to open up this conversation because it's just not something people often talk about. Maybe because it's not a very comfortable subject. Maybe because people just don't know what to say. It's not like you can just ask a woman (who isn't a mother), "So why don't you have any children...
YDGM Ep 019: Samina Courtin
October 12, 2017 11:08 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MB“I think subconsciously I was looking for an outlet. I think I wanted a way out, and I wanted something more in my life, a creative outlet because I knew I wasn’t getting that from my career. So I was happy to take that time away, and then I had Noah and then it was just me at home with Noah and Yasmin. And I look back at that time and oh my gosh, it was so special.” Samina Courtin is the creator and owner of Mon Dessert, a London-based patisserie company. She specializes in beautiful and ...
YDGM Ep 018: Professional Singer and Performer Lara Martins
July 16, 2017 11:57 - 46 minutes - 37.5 MB[This episode is about miscarriage. Please understand that it may trigger sensitive emotions while listening, although the purpose of this episode is to spread the information about this topic so more women can learn about how common miscarriage is.] Lara Martins is a principle in the London production of “The Phantom of the Opera”. Lara is from Portugal, and studied theatre in the UK, and has been living in the UK for the last 20 years. I’m so happy to have Lara here with me for this ep...
YDGM Ep 017: Part 2 of 2 with Dr Kelly McLaughlin and Dr Sarah Farrant
July 09, 2017 22:06 - 1 hour - 53 MBIf you have wondered what chiropractic care is, and how it can benefit you and your family, this is a great episode to listen to. Dr Sarah: “Self-responsibility [in regards to their health]: the allopathic health approach, as it’s starting to implode on itself, more people are looking for that level of self-care which coincides with self-responsibility like, I’m going to take my health back into my own hands, then we’re the perfect health profession [chiropractic] to be there to meet them ...
YDGM Ep 16: Dr Kelly McLaughlin and Sarah Farrant
July 02, 2017 20:24 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBThis is Part 1 of 2 with Dr Kelly McLaughlin and Dr Sarah Farrant, who are both chiropractors and mothers. Dr Kelly McLaughlin is from Reading UK, she has 3 boys, all home births, and she home-schools them as well. You can reach her at [email protected]. Dr Sarah Farrant is also a chiropractor, and lives in Wiaheke New Zealand (which is an island just east of Auckland). She has 2 boys and a girl, all homebirths, and all home-schooled as well. You can reach her at http://vitalmoms.com/...
YDGM Ep015: Harriet Waley-Cohen
June 22, 2017 14:34 - 1 hour - 60 MBI love recording an episode in person. It's always fun. Plus, guests can bring their adorable puppies. Harriet Waley-Cohen came in with her little adorable puppy, who ended up sitting right in between us gnawing on her bone (which is what the sporadic faint clicking noises are in the background). We had a wonderful time talking about motherhood, adversity, learning to love life, being at the forefront of being unstoppable, and the concept of having it all. "... because mothering isn't a...
SPECIAL GUEST: Husband time
June 20, 2017 22:03 - 29 minutes - 26 MBFor the first time ever, and after a long period of discussing this, my husband (Julian) sits down with me and we record ourselves having one of our many conversations. My husband is an intelligent dude. He went to Cambridge. He's a self-professed geek. He's good at math. And he also knows about a lot of things. People who know about a lot of things almost always think they are right. Trouble is, they aren't always right and it's nearly impossible to debate with these people. I'm smart...
YDGM Ep013: Mandy Adams - The Menstrual Cycle
June 11, 2017 23:20 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB“It’s coming from an approach of really trusting what’s really right for us, and hence the work that I’m standing in is allowing women to find their own unique voice, and the more that we stand in that as individuals then we become this collective awakened force of the feminine.” Mandy Adams is a menstruality educator. What the hell is that, you ask. Well, I seriously believe that if every woman and man understood this information that Mandy teaches and shares, the world would be in a ...
I am Wonder Woman
June 08, 2017 21:31 - 17 minutes - 14.4 MBI've loved Wonder Woman all my life. And for most of that time, especially since Lynda Carter stopped being Diana Prince and Wonder Woman, I never stopped wondering and waiting for the next time we'd see another production of Wonder Woman. Well, finally, the movie is here. And I saw it last weekend. This is my review of it.
YDGM Ep 011: Callie Burke
June 04, 2017 22:18 - 56 minutes - 45 MB“Growing up I had a lot of problems with period pain and things like that every month. I ended up going and seeing a specialist and was diagnosed with quite severe endometriosis. So from that I had operations such as laparoscopies, and things like that, and was told at 15 point blank by an OBY-GYN that I would not be able to have kids. And at 15, that’s not something you take on very well. I was mortified.” Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women from as early as menarche, the first period in...
YDGM Ep 010: Maryellen Stephens
May 23, 2017 22:04 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBWhen I was a kid growing up, my mother used to always say to me one of Nietzsche’s phrase, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” For the most part, I think that’s definitely true. When I have these conversations with these women for my podcast, resilience and determination are what I think about. And something about Maryellen felt so close to me, even though I never experienced much of what she did. You could call it chemistry, and I had that connection with her almost instantly...
YDGM Ep 009: Sarah Keen
May 11, 2017 14:08 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBSarah Keen had no idea her first pregnancy would end up being one of the most challenging experiences in her life. Her son was born premature at 33 weeks. “Having had a cesarean and, you know, an emergency cesarean, without any labor because a lot of people said, ‘oh, did your waters break? and did this happen, and how often were your contractions,’ and I didn’t have any labor at all. I was literally pregnant, rushed into theatre, and then the next minute in the recovery room, and withou...
YDGM Ep 008: Rebecca McColl
May 05, 2017 18:06 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBIn adversity, determination, resilience, purpose and conviction will get you out of it with flying colors. No one said life is easy, and one of my most important mantras is, "Stop making excuses." As human beings, we are often 'stuck' in our stories, keeping ourselves from creating a life that is meaningful, purposeful, and gratifying. Rebecca lives by this full-on. She's a perfect example of someone being accountable for her choices and actions. "Funnily enough, I planned to have a ba...
YDGM Ep 007: Dr Melissa Longo
April 27, 2017 19:45 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBI remember being in my early 20s as a student in chiropractic school when I’d go to as many seminars as possible because the fees were so low for our student rates. I’d sit and listen to many different speakers present, and I was always incredibly inspired by the women chiropractors who spoke about their lives, their practices, and their kids, and how they juggled everything. I sat there thinking, “I wanna be just like them.” To grab her phrase from her podcast, Melissa is one of those roc...
YDGM Ep 006: Charlotte Lomas
April 20, 2017 13:17 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB“No one wants to say vagina. I didn’t even know it was called a vagina ’til I was about 14 year old. I thought it was called a tuppence.”
YDGM Ep 005: Nicole Cowley
April 10, 2017 17:55 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB“I was diagnosed with ITP, an autoimmune disease, the weekend before my husband and I got married. Literally, I spent the weekend before our wedding in the hospital.” Nicole lives in Indiana with her teacher husband and her two-and-a-half-year-old toddler son. I had no idea what her story was, and when she shared her story, I was so impressed with her determination, her positive energy, and drive to create such a fulfilling life for herself and her family. She talks about her diagnosis a...
YDGM Ep 004: Melissa Sandford
April 06, 2017 15:22 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBOne of my biggest take-homes from this conversation is this. Melissa explains, “I think the mistake we make is that it’s not our births. It’s our children’s births. We don’t even know who they are yet. We don’t what their personality is. We don’t know anything about them. And it’s their journey and we’re just the vehicle for that. So being able to connect with them and let them have their journey is kind of really where it’s at. And when we try and make it about us, the birth, about mak...
He calls Trump a "Turkey Vagina"
March 31, 2017 21:14 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBRea Frey Holguin She was my guest on this episode. We had such a great connection, and it was so much fun talking to her. (Every woman I've spoken to so far has been amazing!) She's from Nashville Tennessee, is a fitness and nutritionist expert, an author, a wife and a mom. We had a great time chatting about pretty much everything including President Trump. Her husband has an interesting nickname for him (The Human Turkey Vagina). That's another episode in itself. Maybe we'll pass o...
YDGM Ep 002: Susanne Grant
March 22, 2017 23:40 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBTrauma and abuse often lead to post traumatic stress disorder if the body, mind, brain, and nervous system cannot cope and process and heal from the experience. Susanne Grant shares her story of how she suffered for over 10 years, not sleeping, not able to absorb proper nutrients from the food she ate, and unable to remember anything short-term. She crashed and broke at 17, being 20 kilos lighter than when she when she was 12. She wanted to go into mathematics and physics, but with her P...
YDGM Ep 001: Jennifer Cassetty
March 17, 2017 15:00 - 49 minutes - 40 MBHere is it people! YDGM's first podcast episode! Jennifer Cassetty was my personal trainer when we lived in NY. I met her when I was pregnant with my second child, and I knew I needed someone to help my motivation to exercise properly. On this podcast, we speak for the first time, after eight years. She opens up about her experience and journey into becoming a mother. She shares: "I remember growing up, in college, my whole goal, by the time I was 24, and this is a true story, is...
I will always love you unconditionally, but sometimes, I really don't like you
March 14, 2017 15:35Today was the first recording of the podcast for "You're Doing Great Mom". I have to admit. I was really nervous. And she told me she was too! I guess being nervous is a good thing. Right? The nervousness gives me the energy to move forward. All that adrenalin. Anyway, my equipment was all set up. Mic, computer, the correct software to record, comfy seating, headphones. I was all geared up. I've even been reading and researching about how to start up your own podcast,...