If you feel like you are carrying a lot all the time, you are. The mental load of motherhood is so much. Too much.  You become somewhat numb to it over time. You don’t realize you’re chronically tired, overwhelmed, anxious and emotionally drained because it feels normal. Because it is normal, sadly.  This is motherhood. That feeling that you don't recognize yourself, you can’t remember who you were before kids and you’re not sure who you’ll be when the kids no longer need you? Normal.  The whiplash from the rapid changing of hats from mom to professional to family project manager to community caregiver that has your head spinning? Normal. The realization that you’re always making trade-offs that come at a cost to your time, energy, and joy? Normal.  I’m not saying this to make you feel worse - only to point out how normal this is. You are not alone.  What if in acknowledging all of this, you could see that change is necessary and possible?  In this episode, we talk through 4 ways you can navigate the mental load of motherhood in order to find more mental ease, more joy, and more comfort in your daily life. Links mentioned: Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and well-being of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com Other SMA episodes about the mental load of motherhood: Ep 305: 4 Ways to Manage the Mental Load of Motherhood  Ep 411: How to Create More Mental Space in Motherhood We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsorInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to ONE SHAMELESS THING! I am bringing you this short form podcast, a minisode if you will, as a part of a mini-series. If you love this 3rd shorty episode each week, please let me know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, dropping a comment, or DMing me. If I get great feedback from you, I might just continue sharing a 3rd ep each week :)ONE SHAMELESS THING is created with one thing in mind - to give you ONE thing - just ONE thing - to make today a better day. My purpose is to give you the hope, optimism, and POWER you need to make today whatever you want to make it - even if life is throwing you one curveball after another. This week I am giving you ONE SHAMELESS THING to Practice Forgiveness. Enjoy. And know that I am in this with you. Always. Link mentioned:Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and well-being of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Amy Conrad is a board-certified pediatrician, founder of Kinder Digital Pediatric Clinic, host of Ask Doctor Amy (Youtube, podcast), anthropologist, and believer in good information that empowers modern parents to raise healthy kids. As a working mom, she understands the struggle parents face today with an overabundance of conflicting information. Instead of adding to the noise, Dr. Amy cuts through the clutter to pave a more natural, instinctive path to parenting by putting the focus back on the child and family.Dr. Amy and I had a fantastic conversation about how to support your child’s physical and mental health.  Listen in to hear Amy share: 3 things parents can do to give their kids a healthy foundation in life The importance of modeling health, not just preaching health The significance of modeling imperfection - that it’s ok and normal to be imperfect in your habits How to help your kids make positive choices around their physical & mental health as they get a little older How we can nurture our kids’ mental health and give them the “anchors” they need to feel supported and connected The current culture of parenting in Western culture and how we can choose from a variety of options and alternatives rather than accepting the Western culture status quo What modern working parents need to support their kids in a society that offers them so little time & resources to support  The importance of your child having multiple attachment figures Links mentioned: Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and well-being of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com Connect with Dr. Amy: Askdoctoramy.com Dr. Amy on Youtube: @askdoctoramy  Dr. Amy on IG Dr. Amy on LinkedIn Podcast: Ask Doctor Amy  Book: Hold Onto Your Kids by Gabor Mate and Dr. Gordon Neufeld Book: Bringing up Bebe We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsorInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For 750 episodes (750!!!) I have been preaching to you about shining.  “STOP SHRINKING and START SHINING”, I have said over and over again.  Today, I want to acknowledge there is a cost to the shining if we don’t keep an eye out for our own physical, mental and emotional regulation and restoration. We need to give ourselves time and space to rest and recover after we run all over town shining like a mother.  What does shining look like to you? Perhaps something like this: Trying something new that is physically, mentally or emotionally taxing Stepping into a new level of visibility or exposure in your community or work Being vulnerable in front of your peers Having a hard conversation  Doing something you’re scared of Showing up for intense work Holding space for others When you challenge yourself to show up and SHINE in any of these ways, it’s equally important to show up and REST afterward. Today, we talk through 4 ways you can recover from your extra bright, shiny (and awesome) endeavors, so you can keep going without burning out on shining.  Link mentioned:Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and wellbeing of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsorInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tanmeet Sethi, MD, is a board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician who has spent the last 25 years on the frontlines locally and globally practicing primary care and trauma work with the most marginalized communities. As a mother, she has received the impossible news that her youngest son has a fatal degenerative disease. She weaves together the expertise of both acquired knowledge with lived experience and translates them accessibly through the blend of ancient spiritual traditions and modern neuroscience. She is trained in Psychedelic Medicine, Integrative and Functional Medicine, and is a clinical researcher of psilocybin at the University of Washington.Tanmeet and I had such a fantastic conversation here that we immediately scheduled a time to meet in person following this interview. A couple of weeks ago, I got to go on a walk with her and her dog (who is the cutest thing in the world - don’t tell Piper). It was such a fun and inspiring conversation that brought me so much JOY. Tanmeet radiates joy in so many ways and I’m so grateful to call her a new friend.If you’re in Seattle, please come meet Tanmeet, Ijeoma Oluo, and me in person at her book launch at Elliott Bay Books on May 3, 2023.Listen in to hear Tanmeet share: How she came to embrace joy as an act of resistance and self-identify as a Joy Activist  How she has navigated mothering her son, Zubin, who was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disease at age 3 The expansiveness of joy vs the narrow path of suffering The important difference between happiness and joy What her joy practice looks like when every day she sees there is something new to lose as her son’s condition worsens How to fight against whitewashed wellness (“looking on the bright side” or “finding the silver lining" and how this dampens our power) How to show up for people in your life who are going through grief - and things to avoid saying The role of our nervous system in joy How can we all step into joy activism and make your joy revolution your own Links mentioned: Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and well-being of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com Meet Tanmeet, Ijeoma Oluo (and me!) at Tanmeet’s Book Launch on May 3rd: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20230503 Connect with Tanmeet: www.tanmeetsethimd.com Tanmeet’s Book: Joy is my Justice Tanmeet on IG Tanmeet on FB We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsorInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you could carry around all the hard things you’ve done in your life as little stones of courage in your purse/backpack/fanny pack/back pocket?What if you could hold the hard things you have endured in reverence as a means of honoring how they have informed who you have become up to this date in time?What if you could see the hard things you have achieved as proof and evidence of all the incredible things you are capable of from this day forward?I want to invite you to collect hard things as proof, as evidence, as defining moments, as resume builders that give you power each and every day as you step into all the possibilities that are stretched out ahead of you.In this episode, I talk about what it means to “collect hard things” and all the benefits of collecting hard things when it comes to building resiliency, tenacity, and self-trust.  Link mentioned:Parent Prep for Pride Month 2023! Join me on Tuesday, May 16th for a virtual panel to learn how to use this Pride Month 2023 as a powerful way to increase the safety and wellbeing of our LGBTQ+ youth:  www.PrideandJoyParents.com We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsorInterested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Amy Porto is an anti-diet registered dietitian, nutrition professor, and certified intuitive eating counselor. As an expert in her field with over 20 years of experience, Dr. Porto speaks the truth about nutrition. Her purpose is to disrupt mainstream diet culture with real science, a dash of humor, and a little bit of common sense. And while she holds a BS in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Nutrition Science, she believes you shouldn’t need a Ph.D. to decode food labels at the grocery store. Breaking down complex information about food and nutrition into digestible bite-sized pieces of information is her passion — plus, she loves a good pun. Amy’s ultimate goal is to help you trust your body and reclaim your relationship with food.Listen in to hear Amy share: The cultural impact of podcasts like Maintenance Phase and why accessible & approachable anti-diet, anti-fat bias information & content is so critical right now The process of unlearning when learning about nutrition The importance of language around food, and how we talk about food as it relates to ourselves and, even more importantly, to others The morality of “optimal health” The elitism of diet culture, cleanses, detoxing, and fasting Nourishing yourself from a place of self-care/self-love vs self-control Links mentioned: Connect with Amy: www.amyporto.com Amy on IG Amy on FB Podcast: Maintenance Phase Thank you to our sponsors this month:Fearless Finance: Get on-demand, comprehensive financial planning by the hour without all the headaches, high fees, and commitments that come with traditional financial advisors. Go to fearlessfinance.com and use the code SHAMELESS to save $50 on your first planning meeting.Heather Chauvin: If you’re ready to feel energized, encouraged, present, confident, intentional, and aligned, take Heather’s Energy Finder Quiz: Heatherchauvin.com/shamelessiHerb: Get your health in check with great products and great pricing. Get 22% off your first order when you use the code SHAMELESS at iherb.com. Luvbuglearning.com: Support your child’s social-emotional learning with the world's first social-emotional gaming platform. Go to Luvbuglearning.com and sign up for a 7-day free trial, or simply download from the APP store and subscribe.Peloton: Get access to a massive workout library and save up to $400 on Bike, Tread, and Row packages before April 2, 2023, at onepeloton.com.Ritual: Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ is a multivitamin you can actually trust. Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/shameless10 to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.Rothys: For stylish, comfortable, sustainably made shoes, shop Rothy’s. Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/SHAMELESSMOM. StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast!: Need another podcast in your parenting podcast library, check out StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast! wherever you listen to the SMA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erika Tebbens is a Growth Strategist for visionary entrepreneurs, leaders, and changemakers looking to make their mark doing things differently—and leave a legacy of meaningful impact. She works with established service providers, consultants, and coaches to create customized growth plans without complex systems, sleazy sales tactics, or working more hours.Erika recently released her first book, You’ve Got This!: A Counterintuitive Guide to Powerful, Inevitable Changemaking and  is also the host of the Sell it, Sister!® podcast.With nearly 20 years of experience running successful businesses, from solo operations to multimillion-dollar retail teams, she knows there’s no one “perfect” way to operate — only one that’s perfectly aligned with your strengths, values, and vision. And she’s passionate about helping women & gender-expansive business owners grow their revenue with more ease because money has the power to make positive change.Listen in to hear Erika share: How her book was inspired by people who were taking action after seeing her take action - and the discomfort she has around “being an inspiration” to others How we settle and minimize our impact on the world when we under qualify ourselves over the course of our lives How women can start to get over this notion that we have to “be somebody” to be qualified to be a changemaker in this world The importance of owning and honoring your stories in order to qualify yourself in powerful (and perhaps more public) ways How life could be different if we normalized being deeply flawed people How the smoke & mirrors of social media hold us back from being changemakers Why you might need to be selfish if you want to be a changemaker Links mentioned: Connect with Erika Download a free chapter of Erika’s book: ErikaTebbens.com/book  Get Erika’s Book: You’ve Got This!: A Counterintuitive Guide to Powerful, Inevitable Changemaking Erika on IG Thank you to our sponsors this month:Fearless Finance: Get on-demand, comprehensive financial planning by the hour without all the headaches, high fees, and commitments that come with traditional financial advisors. Go to fearlessfinance.com and use the code SHAMELESS to save $50 on your first planning meeting.Heather Chauvin: If you’re ready to feel energized, encouraged, present, confident, intentional, and aligned, take Heather’s Energy Finder Quiz: Heatherchauvin.com/shamelessiHerb: Get your health in check with great products and great pricing. Get 22% off your first order when you use the code SHAMELESS at iherb.com. Luvbuglearning.com: Support your child’s social-emotional learning with the world's first social-emotional gaming platform. Go to Luvbuglearning.com and sign up for a 7-day free trial, or simply download from the APP store and subscribe.Peloton: Get access to a massive workout library and save up to $400 on Bike, Tread, and Row packages before April 2, 2023, at onepeloton.com.Ritual: Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ is a multivitamin you can actually trust. Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/shameless10 to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.Rothys: For stylish, comfortable, sustainably made shoes, shop Rothy’s. Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/SHAMELESSMOM. StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast!: Need another podcast in your parenting podcast library, check out StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast! wherever you listen to the SMA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tameka McNair is the author of Conquering Uncertainty - Don’t Concede Too Soon, Your Victory Awaits You. She holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus in Human Factors and an MBA with a focus in Leadership. Currently, she is a Director at Microsoft driving digital employee experience success.Her unique style, personality, and commitment to walking in her authentic truth have all played a major role in navigating her life and career. Inspired by her own journey from poverty to becoming a powerful thought leader, Tameka encourages others to pursue their dreams despite the various challenges they may face. Tameka is a long-time advocate of DEI work and has helped establish employee resource groups to push DEI initiatives. She is an active mentor to both adults and youth in underserved communities and is passionate about encouraging youth and minorities to explore STEM careers. She is also the co-founder of the Women In Energy Conference.Always looking at what’s ahead of her, Tameka aspires to become the CEO of a Fortune 100 company.Listen in to hear Tameka share: Her mission statement: to empower everyone she encounters and help them discover their purpose Her experience being an engineering student and a single mom to twin boys - one of whom had a stroke at 6 weeks old How she went from being a little girl in poverty to a single mom in survival mode to thought leader and mission-driven leader The significance of owning your stories and writing them in a way that gives you power - even in moments where you might feel powerless How to use being underestimated as a form of fuel Her goal to be a CEO of a Fortune 100 Company - in order to make space for others to dream Her decision-making to conscientiously be the “1st generation of many things” in her life in spite of judgment from others  How your success will make other people uncomfortable and what to do about it Links mentioned: Connect with Tameka: www.tamekamcnair.com Book:  Conquering Uncertainty: Don't concede too soon...your Victory awaits you Tameka on Linkedin Tameka on Tiktok Tameka on Instagram:  Tameka on Twitter Thank you to our sponsors this month:Fearless Finance: Get on-demand, comprehensive financial planning by the hour without all the headaches, high fees, and commitments that come with traditional financial advisors. Go to fearlessfinance.com and use the code SHAMELESS to save $50 on your first planning meeting.Heather Chauvin: If you’re ready to feel energized, encouraged, present, confident, intentional, and aligned, take Heather’s Energy Finder Quiz: Heatherchauvin.com/shamelessiHerb: Get your health in check with great products and great pricing. Get 22% off your first order when you use the code SHAMELESS at iherb.com. Luvbuglearning.com: Support your child’s social-emotional learning with the world's first social-emotional gaming platform. Go to Luvbuglearning.com and sign up for a 7-day free trial, or simply download from the APP store and subscribe.Peloton: Get access to a massive workout library and save up to $400 on Bike, Tread, and Row packages before April 2, 2023, at onepeloton.com.Ritual: Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ is a multivitamin you can actually trust. Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/shameless10 to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.Rothys: For stylish, comfortable, sustainably made shoes, shop Rothy’s. Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/SHAMELESSMOM. StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast!: Need another podcast in your parenting podcast library, check out StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast! wherever you listen to the SMA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you burnt out on parenting?The root cause of parenting burnout is an imbalance between the demands of parenting and the rewards. How often do you get to the end of a day of parenting and think, “This was a really hard day.” If that’s happening more often than not, listen up…Parenting burnout is very common, but not so commonly talked about. It’s not super cool to run around town letting folks know you're burned out on raising your kids. But the truth is… you may very well be burned out on raising your kids!A May 2022 study by Ohio State University researchers surveyed 1,300 parents and found 68% of female parents were burned out and 42% of males parents were burned out. They also found two-thirds of working parents reported being burned out.Additionally, 75% of parents with a history of personal anxiety reported experiencing parenting burnout. And, parents whose children had been diagnosed with ADHD or anxiety were more likely to experience burnout.You can tell by these numbers that parenting burnout is very real - even if no one is talking about it. So, let’s talk about it and normalize it, shall we?! This will allow us to all lean on one another and perhaps even heal.In this episode, I talk through the symptoms of parenting burnout, factors that increase parenting burnout, and strategies to start healing from parenting burnout.  This is an important episode. Listen in and share with others you think may need support around this topic. Link mentioned:Article: Identifying Signs & Symptoms of Parental Burnout  Thank you to our sponsors this month:Fearless Finance: Get on-demand, comprehensive financial planning by the hour without all the headaches, high fees, and commitments that come with traditional financial advisors. Go to fearlessfinance.com and use the code SHAMELESS to save $50 on your first planning meeting.Heather Chauvin: If you’re ready to feel energized, encouraged, present, confident, intentional, and aligned, take Heather’s Energy Finder Quiz: Heatherchauvin.com/shamelessiHerb: Get your health in check with great products and great pricing. Get 22% off your first order when you use the code SHAMELESS at iherb.com. Luvbuglearning.com: Support your child’s social-emotional learning with the world's first social-emotional gaming platform. Go to Luvbuglearning.com and sign up for a 7-day free trial, or simply download from the APP store and subscribe.Peloton: Get access to a massive workout library and save up to $400 on Bike, Tread, and Row packages before April 2, 2023, at onepeloton.com.Ritual: Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ is a multivitamin you can actually trust. Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/shameless10 to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Rothys: For stylish, comfortable, sustainably made shoes, shop Rothy’s. Get $20 off your first purchase at rothys.com/SHAMELESSMOM. StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast!: Need another podcast in your parenting podcast library, check out StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast! wherever you listen to the SMA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices