Like a Mother

Who you surround yourself with matters. Science is on my side with this. If your friends smoke, you are more likely to smoke. If your friends are overweight, you are likely, too. Divorced? Your fri…

Last month Lizanne Falsetto, 52, sold her protein bar company, ThinkThin, for $217 million -- a huge triumph for this single mom without a college degree.

For the past 10 years Free-Range Kids' Lenore Skenazy,  New York City journalist and mom of two, has been taking one for the team. The Free-Range Kids author and blog founder has been on a one-woman …

I love Lauren Greutman. I mean, who else can talk about coupons and budgeting and you still like her after? Lauren and her husband Mark run IAmThatLady.com, a site devoted to teaching families how to…

I've been friends and a fan (fran?) of Christelyn Russell-Karazin for a long time. A mom of two, freelance writer and founder of BeyondBlackAndWhite.com, Christelyn has impressed/shocked me with he…

I'm a traveler. Starting at age 15 when I took off for a year of study in France, hopping on a plane, navigating around a new city, chatting up the locals and finding my way around a bus terminal or …

When I was growing up in Sycamore, Ill. (pop. 10,000), I dreamed of moving to New York City to be fabulous: To have a fabulous career, attend fabulous events, and hang out with fabulous people.

My dr…

I first saw Cocoa Brown in Tyler Perry’s Single Mom’s Club, in which she plays a down-and-out mom with a husband and son in jail and struggling to find child care while she waited tables at the local…

Two years ago, Jenn Scalia, 34, was a recently divorced New Jersey mom, unemployed and living with her parents -- and miserable. This year she will bill $500,000  ($400,000 profit) from her coaching …

Growing up, one of my fondest memories is waking up on school mornings in the winter, lured from my cozy bed to the still-chilly house by the smells of breakfast cooking. Every single morning of my c…

In being so open about my romantic life and divorce, people -- strangers, even -- often confess to me the very personal, dirty details about their own personal lives. One big theme I hear again and a…

I've known Samantha Ettus for three or four years now -- long before people had a reason to take my calls or do me favors. And she always took my calls, and supported me with advice and social media …

Would you pay $3,000 to have lasers shot into your vagina to tighten it up?

What about $1,900 to have stem cells shot into your clitorious to improve sexual pleasure?

Hundreds of women each year get…

For several years now, we know the traditional, nuclear, two-parent, married hetero family is the minority. Instead, as many of us have suspected, the majority of kids in this country are being raise…

Tammy Tibbetts, 29, bucks common assumption that millennials are a bunch of entitled brats.

Six years ago Tibbetts launched She's The First, a nonprofit that supports girls' education in developing…

People, this is ridiculous. Women everywhere whine that there are no decent dudes out there. Men bitch there are no good women out there. Hogwash to all of it!

In this episode I chat with my friend B…

Gay men are richer than everyone else, right? After all, they're men, so they automatically earn more than women, and they are less likely to have kids, which of course are the biggest bucks-suck of …

Moms and money! In this episode I interview two amazing women: 

Mandi Woodruff, 27, is personal finance correspondent at Yahoo! and podcaster at Brown Ambition (with recent Like a Mother guest Tiffan…

Raised on public assistance, Kimra Luna and her husband found themselves living with his parents and relying on welfare to support their tiny kids.

Eventually, Kimra's husband landed a FedEx job,…

Vin Armani is the star of Gigolos, the Showtime hit reality drama about male escorts. In other words: Vin Armani is America's No. 1 most known gigolo. 

The male escort profession elicits giggles upon…