

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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Jul 13, 2023 • 58min
Insane Road trips, poo disasters and summer festivities!
Helloo helloo we are back with another solo episode and take you on the last couple weeks of adventures in our lives. From disaster road trips (snails in tow) to changing diapers in a patch of grass outside Costco, to our summer in the US and winter in AUS festivities we get very candid with the partner struggles, parenting fails and all the stuff happening right now. Send us your road trip stories dazies we love to hear from you!Resource Links:Yuka.ioAvocado ZincBaeolovewell.earthFollow 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

Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 1min
The tattooed heretic of birth and death with Dr. Nathan Riley
Dr. Nathan Riley, a trailblazing visionary in holistic midwifery care, challenges conventional norms and redefines boundaries of birthing experiences. They discuss the profound nature of birth and death, psychedelic experiences, and the transformative power of giving birth. The autonomy of women in hospitals and the flaws in the current maternity care system are also explored. It emphasizes the importance of empowerment, informed decision-making, intuition, spirituality, and holistic health.

Jun 29, 2023 • 37min
“Ask us anything” parenting triggers, stretch marks, twin birth, and a sliver of healthy eating
Today’s “ask us anything” is packed with some of our favourite topics. This is one of our shorter episodes where you ask and we answer the most pressing questions!! Ones that we are still learning (parenting triggers) , ones that we have learned to love (our stretch marks) , ones that we know little about but Teresa is dying to try (twin birth) and a little teaser for our next Ask us Anything where we start the conversation about healthy eating habits with our kids. Follow us at @themotherdazepodcast for our next round of questions, DM us anything on your mind, or send us an email! And if you love our podcast leave us a review and share with your friends!! We love you dazies!!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

Jun 22, 2023 • 1h 5min
Relationships before and after baby with Dr Stan Takin
This week on The mother daze we have a special guest; Marriage and Family Therapist, Doctor of Psychology, bestselling author and Teresa and Mark’s couples “tune-up” therapist Dr Stan Takin. Revered globally for his expertise in attachment strategy Dr Tatkin talks to us about his unique approach to working with couples, whether it’s helping them to lovingly uncouple or to find a way back to each other again. From postpartum relationship disconnection to having each others “user manuals”, he offers up some game changing insights in to how to keep our romantic relationships feeling nurtured. So grab your partnership toolbox kits Daisies, you’re about to add some new and potent supplies!Resource Links:Book’s mentioned:Wired for LoveBaby BombIn Each Other’s CareYour Brain on LoveFollow Dr Stan Atkin on IG: @drstantatkinThe PACT InstituteFollow 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

Jun 15, 2023 • 57min
Surprise twins! A homebirth story with New Earth Mama’s Emma Johnston
Never before have you ever heard a birth story like this. New Earth Mama’s, Emma Johnston, walks us through the remarkable moment immediately after freebirthing her fourth baby at home, when she discovered there was another one coming!!From devastating landslides, floods and illness in the first few weeks of her pregnancy, to a rapid expansion of her business halfway through, Emma Johnston anchored to her intuitive inner voice throughout the unfurling of this pregnancy. Join us as we celebrate her story, delve into the inspiration behind her global parenting movement, The Reconnected, discuss the importance of breath, and hear what life looks like being a mama to Atlas, Solaris, Venus, Faedra and Halo.Resource Links:Listen to Resonate by The Reconnected podcast on Apple Podcasts or on SpotifyFollow The Reconnected on IG: @the_reconnectedFollow Emma on IG: @newearth.mamaFollow 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

Jun 8, 2023 • 58min
Sibling Rivalry, The Bedtime Struggle and Finding our Zen
In this week's episode of The Mother Daze we tackle sibling rivalry, sleep woes and insomnia (also known as amnesia in the Palmer household), talk pickleball championships, active participation in Reddit snail threads (along with 56,331 other snail enthusiasts), kids triggering the Fk out of you and your “zen parenting” and all the other randomness that parenting brings. A fun, fly by the seat of our pants solo episode with the dazey gals.Resource Links:lovewell. DREAM drinkNew Horizon | Meditation & Sleep StoriesFollow 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

Jun 1, 2023 • 52min
Fevers, viruses and how food is medicine with Dr Manasa Mantravadi
This week we are thrilled to have Ahimsa Home founder Dr Manasa Mantravadi with us! After months of sick kids we ask some burning questions about this year's cold season, the fear of fevers, how we can help our kids immunity and what are some of the things we should stop worrying about. We also discuss toxins in our bodies and learn about the amazing birth of Ahimsa home and Dr Manasa’s mission to bring clean dinnerware to children and schools.Resource Links:ahimsahome.comStainless Steel Cafeteria TrayFollow on IG: @ahimsahomeusaFollow 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

May 25, 2023 • 56min
Hottest beauty trends, injectables & reiki facials from celebrity fav Nurse Nousha
Nurse Nousha walks us through the most dynamic beauty trends of the year, options for a more holistic approach to injectables, her light-touch Botox approach and blending meditation, reiki and beauty. We also discuss how she prepares her celebrity clients for events like The Met Gala, the most exciting beauty developments to hit the industry, Instagram realness and the fallout of the overused (and under-discussed!) filters. What a brilliant episode, take notes folks! Her at-home must haves have already entered our shopping carts and made their way onto our bathroom shelves. Game changing stuff Dazies! Resource Links:IT CosmeticsKORA OrganicsObagiIs ClinicalLiving Libations The Reset BaeoFollow Nousha on IG: @nursenousharejuvenatewithnousha.comFollow 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

May 18, 2023 • 58min
90s heartthrobs, rebellious youth, and potty training?!
This week on the mother daze podcast we are taking it allll the way back to Leo DiCaprios ‘the fish tank’ moment, major 90’s nostalgia, manifesting Jennifer Love Hewitts smile, smoking weed, modeling in Japan at 16, all the (innocent) rebellion, and kissing girls ?? We also get down to business with our favorite potty training tips, so slap on your teen spirit, grab your favorite pleather skirt and meet us on the pod with your cherry cola lip balm. Resource Links:Hanna Anderson | Training Underwear Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsenFollow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmerFB: 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 11, 2023 • 1h 1min
The Business of Being Born with Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein
Happy 15th anniversary to The Business of Being Born and a pinch me moment as we celebrate with this week's guests, Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein!! This film deeply impacted Teresa and Sarah and set the course for their soul searching birth journeys! We talk about the maternal mortality rate, how we desperately need this film in our lives again and how much home birth, doula and midwifery care has grown since the film’s release in 2008. We are honored and over the moon to help champion the free streaming week May 10th-14th for Mother’s Day and hope that all of our dazies will listen to the episode, watch the film and spread the word!!Resource Links:
Join on May 10 - 14 for a free global anniversary screening of The Business of Being Born
thebusinessof.lifeFollow 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