

The Mother Daze with Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer
Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer
Sarah Wright Olsen (American Made, Parks and Recreation) and Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies, Hacksaw Ridge) are two moms, from opposite ends of the world, meeting for an hour every week to discuss the mayhem, magic and madness of raising their 8 children between them. Motherhood can feel overwhelming, exhausting and isolating but you don’t have to do it alone! Follow along as they attempt to navigate, ask questions, share stories, break down the everyday challenges and hopefully keep you from googling phrases like “What does it mean when my baby’s poop is green?” Grab your coffee, tea, Kombucha or favorite libation and join as they discuss mom fails, poop talk, pillow talk, and much more. These moms will engage in some brilliant interviews with celebrity friends, parenting experts and listeners like you! From the creators of the celebrated Your Zen Mama community, Sarah Wright Olsen and Teresa Palmer bring you “The Mother Daze”, a refreshing and real look in to the wild and wonderful days of Motherhood. Subscribe so you never miss an episode, whether you’re listening sitting in your minivan or taking some me time in the tub.
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Jun 12, 2025 • 1h 4min
Vacay Vibin, Hospital Bag Packing & Baby Ready!
It’s just us gals this week! Sarah’s officially on baby watch and unpacks her hospital bag while chatting all things bump, birth, and beyond. Teresa checks in from her vacay, we dive into labour prep, sprinkle in some unexpected tears, and—as always—serve up plenty of lols. It’s cozy, candid, and classic Mother Daze.
Resource links:
NAGHEDI
Dazed but Amazed Pure Linen.
Oso & Me
Francis & Henry
This episode is proudly sponsored by Miles and Storyworth!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 5, 2025 • 1h 4min
Spirit babies, Name Charts & Soul Contracts with Emily the Baby Medium
We’ve got a returning fan fave on the pod this week—none other than the queen of spirit babies herself, Emily the Baby Medium! This time, she’s bringing a whole new vibe: soul-aligned baby names. Yep, Emily’s now reading name charts to help parents find the perfect energetic match for their little one.
In this ep, she dives into our name charts, explores the deeper meaning behind our own names, and gives us the scoop on spirit baby personalities from the other side. It’s woo-woo meets wildly insightful (just how we like it!)
Resource links:
Emily the Medium
Follow Emily on IG: @emilythemedium
This episode is proudly sponsored by OSEA!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 29, 2025 • 53min
Bumps, Bodily Fluid & Baby Biz Sneaky Peaks
This week on The Mother Daze, we’re two little sickies sniffling our way through the chaos.
There’s some diarrhea (because of course there is), more Slim Shady dreams, Britney dance moves, and all the usual unfiltered real talk. Teresa’s hit the 25-week mark and may have tried to sneak a peek for any signs of baby bits , while Sarah—9 months pregnant and unstoppable—went to a bowling party and annihilated everyone in sight. We’re diving into old wives’ tales about gender predictions based on your hands (yep, apparently that’s a thing), plus a deep spiral into the nesting vortex—baby clothes galore!
It’s messy and wild, as per the norm.
Resource links:
Oso & Me
Sapling Child
SUMMER and STORM
Grown
This episode is proudly sponsored by Hungryroot, Storyworth and OSEA!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 22, 2025 • 1h 5min
Reclaiming Your Birth, Baby Positions & Big Feelings with Ann Marie Gilligan
Uhhh yep, we’re going there—all things BIRTH with the magical Ann Marie Gilligan, creator of The Gilligan’s Guide to Optimal Birth. From shoulder dystocia and vaginal tearing to home birth transfers, cesareans, and belly mapping—we cover it all. Ann walks us through the body wisdom behind a smoother, more connected birth, including hands-on tools for achieving optimal birthing positioning for our babies in utero. Ann even walks Sarah (who’s in her third trimester) through practical prep! We also revisit our not-so-to-plan first births, share big feels about our upcoming 4th & 5th births, and talk about what it really means to reclaim your power in the birth space. This one’s for anyone healing from a birth or prepping for one—it’s informative, grounded, and full of reminders that you get to own your story.
Resource links:
The Guide - Gilligan’s Guide
Follow Ann on IG: @gilligansguide
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
This episode is proudly sponsored by Hungryroot!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 15, 2025 • 1h 4min
Sex scenes, Swingers & Blubber!
Raunchy AF this week during our solo episode, we describe what a penis sock is, an alternate use for a deflated Pilates ball, that one time in Bali when … well let’s just let the story speak for itself, our #metoo experiences, ADR nightmares, simulated sex, awkward tv show moments with kids, growing bodies, bellies and boob sweat, nipple changes, blubber and naked women on zebras! Yes the Mother Daze gets weird & wild this ep!
Resource links:
Loco Love
This episode is proudly sponsored by Storyworth! https://storyworth.com/motherdaze
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 8, 2025 • 1h 9min
‘Menifestation’, Cervical Orgasms and Primal Psychology with Amber & Hilary!
Manifesting—but with a twist! This week on The Mother Daze, we’re joined by Amber & Hilary of Twin Transmissions to explore their next-level approach to creation: Menifestation. It’s all about tapping into your feminine power, decoding primal psychology, and working with quantum energy to call in the dream life—whether it’s a house full of divine furniture, a cervical orgasm, selling your home, snagging that dream gig, financial overflow, or getting EXACTLY what you want and need from your man. This ep is juicy, powerful, and packed with real-life magic. You’ve never heard manifesting explained like this.
Resource links:
The Surrendered Wife - Laura Doyle
Follow Amber & Hilary on IG: @twintransmissions
menifestations.com
This episode is proudly sponsored by Storyworth!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 1, 2025 • 54min
When Lice Attacks! Soul Babies & Intrusive Thoughts
This ep is a wild ride—think lice. Yep, they’re back, they’re savage, and they’ve made themselves right at home on Sarah’s head (and on pretty much every child in the Northern Rivers). But these pesky invaders are no match for our girls and their arsenal of potions and lotions. We also dive into pregnancy updates, gender dreaming, soul baby connections, and the messier bits too—like intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that can follow pregnancy loss. It’s itchy heads and full hearts this week, and we’re here for all of it.
Resource links:
Lice products
Emily the Medium
This episode is proudly sponsored by OSEA!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer
FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 24, 2025 • 51min
All About Brains: Lake Bell on Neurodiversity, Motherhood & Nova’s Journey
This week on The Mother Daze, we’re sitting down with the brilliant Lake Bell- actor, author, director, screenwriter, and mama; to dive into her powerful new children’s book All About Brains!, inspired by her daughter Nova’s epilepsy journey.This heart-led convo opens up the world of neurodiversity for kids, celebrating the many magical ways our brains work.Lake shares what it’s been like navigating Nova’s diagnosis, co-parenting with Nova’s dad, and becoming the ultimate information gatherer to both advocate for and empower her daughter. We talk emotional hurdles, the drive behind writing this book, and how community and connection have helped her through.It’s real, raw, and full of heart (just like Lake herself!)This episode is proudly sponsored by Lumen and Branch Basics! Resource links:Follow Lake on IG: @lakebellPurchase All About Brains by Lake BellFollow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsenFollow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 17, 2025 • 50min
Wrinkles, Aging & Birth Prep
It’s another solo episode where we discover new wrinkles, gag over strange illusionists performing questionable tricks, accidentally flip a nip, get our sexy time on, talk about spinning babies and labor creeping closer, throw in some fresh celebrity rooting dreams and wrap it all up with the usual chaos… because it’s us! And that’s how we roll.Resource links:Avocado ZincSpinning BabiesBimby + RoyMamooshFollow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsenFollow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 10, 2025 • 51min
Changing Career Paths, Pregnancy Loss & Supporting Friends Through Grief
This week of TMD Tez and Sarah are joined by Tez’s dear friend — actress, filmmaker, and mama of three — Tahyna Macmanus, along with her friend and colleague - the beautiful twin mama Pippy Pomeranz. We dive into Tahyna’s powerful and healing documentary The Misunderstandings of Miscarriage, now available worldwide. It’s a deeply cathartic film that opens up the conversation around pregnancy loss and reminds us we’re never truly alone in our grief.Pippy shares her incredibly moving story of losing her twins via surrogate in the second trimester, and the emotional journey that followed as she welcomed her rainbow twin babies. Tahyna and Tez also chat about their early days in Hollywood, living together in LA, and Tahyna’s inspiring shift from in front of the camera to behind it as a prolific filmmaker.You’re in for an honest, vulnerable, and deeply connective episode — full of shared stories, strength, and the healing power of community.This episode is proudly sponsored by StoryWorth!Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsenFollow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices