freemom, conversations for modern mothers

There’s this reel that always pops up in Instagram feed, I’m not sure if you’ve seen it but people upload videos of their daughters along with a voiceover that says “to all the parents of stubborn li…

I’m not going to beat around the bush. Today’s episode is about menopause. 

It seems a bit crazy to me, I mean menopause? That’s for older, or rather “mature” women, right? We are young, we have littl…

Being a mother and raising kids while looking after a household is really tough right now. Throw in a full-time job, and life can seem pretty close to impossible some days. They say “the struggle is …

I read an article recently that brought a lot of new mom insecurities flooding back to me and I’m honestly a bit ashamed to admit it. I was one of the last of my group of friends to have a baby and a…

I’m going to be really upfront here and tell you that I was never interested in politics until I became a mom. I’m embarrassed about it now but honestly, I found it all to be super boring. Mostly whi…

According to a study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, a whopping 67% of couples say they are discontented with their marriage after they have a baby. Are you surprised? Probably not. Af…

It’s no secret that corporate America kind of treats women like crap, with men earning roughly 16% more than us for doing the exact same jobs over the exact same time. If that doesn’t sound like a lo…

One of the things I have found most amusing in my current stage of parenting is just how absorbent my little people are. My kids repeat nearly everything they hear, including the rogue f-bomb, a habi…

The thing I love most about hosting this podcast is getting to speak with women all over the country who have been transformed by motherhood. Many of my guests are experts in their field fighting for…

Here on the show, we talk a lot about how tough it is to raise kids, but if we’re being honest, sometimes it feels like the world is stacked against us from the moment we get that positive sign on a …

Have you ever heard the phrase “mom guilt”? If you’re responsible for any human beings and you also happen to work in some way, shape, or form, have a relationship that you’d like to keep, and live i…

I was thinking back to why I started this podcast, which for those of you who are new was because I wanted to create a community to discuss topics that modern moms should be paying attention to. I wa…

Welcome back freemoms! We are absolutely thrilled to have you with us for Season 2. This batch of episodes promises to get you motivated about motherhood with experts and everyday moms who are making…

When you host a podcast like this, one of the benefits is having really interesting conversations with people you barely know, and ones that have been in your life for ages. The latter happened recen…

So I had a thought. We get pregnant and we feel kind of crazy. Blame it on the hormones. Then we have our babies and we still feel pretty crazy. Blame it on the hormones. But then we hit that magical…

I don’t know about you, but back when I was in school, lunch was a bit of a free-for-all. I was lucky enough to have parents who educated us pretty diligently on making good food choices, but sometim…

There is no denying the mental health crisis that is enveloping our kids today. Even before the pandemic, 13 percent of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, which is 60 percent hig…

So here is the deal. Women live about five years longer than men on average, which doesn’t seem like it’s a bad thing, until you look at it from a financial perspective. It has long been documented t…

Having children means that you can always expect the unexpected. One of my first big surprises becoming a mother was just how confusing it was to have kids in the first place. There were decisions to…