Episode 55: Victoria de la Fuente: A rebrand for motherhood
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 alll the links: muthalife.substack.com Instagram: @mutha.life @victoriadela_fuente Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 54: Shawn Stockman: From boy II man
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 partnership with his wife to what it's like to parent a child on the spectrum, and what lessons he took from his own childhood into his approach to parenting, there is so much to dig into here. We answer some listener questions, talk about his new music collab with fellow CAPA alum Billy Mann - Chosen Family - I get a lesson on water ice, and we talk about the fine line between giving your kids what you didn't have while also figuring out how to keep them grounded. Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com Instagram: @mutha.life @shawnstockmanofficial Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 53: Chana Blugrind: Running on faith
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 inconvenience. We follow her through her (double) conversion to Judaism, her time spent as a member of an ultra-orthodox community, escaping an abusive relationship and finding new purpose through running. We cover a lot in this episode - from how different it feels to parent when society is set up for families to succeed. How hard it can be to leave a community - even a bad one - if you don’t have a community to help you overcome the transition. And how focusing on joy, despite being dealt repeated shitty hands, can make every day worth living. Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com Instagram: @mutha.life Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 52: Kari Selander: Robots and Unicorns
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 we chop it up - all of the standard Mutha Life topics are on the table. From Tampa, Florida to my closet in Los Angeles and the more than fifty countries in between, let’s figure out why I am so obsessed with bodily fluids, parenthood and other people’s life shit. Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com Instagram: @mutha.life @sosupersam Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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Episode 51: Dr. Puja Khanna: The star of career day
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 did for this new doc, a capsule endoscopy, went viral that I really took the plunge and asked my doc out on a POD DATE. Dr. Puja Khanna is the Clinical Director of Women’s Health of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedars-Sinai. She’s a research powerhouse who specializes in women with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. AND she’s got three kids of her own. The first half of the ep is the classic MUTHA LIFE fare you’ve come to know and love - then we get into all of the listener questions around gut health. Come hang. Let’s talk about poop and butts. Full show notes with alll the links: muthalife.substack.com Instagram: @mutha.life @poojakhannamd Produced by: Mutha Life Music by: Ronen Landa
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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