Never The Empty Nest

Yoda Mom freaks out this week as we’re joined by Asha Walker, whose dad is the OG (Original Gardner), Dr. Marvin Dunn. Asha’s organization, Health in the Hood, brings abundance, education, nutrients …

As Vanessa welcomes a new pup into her nest, Maman falls hard, and Nicole goes brunching, we welcome Bad Papi! Amelia Leon, whose drag name is Bad Papi, and who shares their journey from abuse to sel…

In this episode, we discuss that ever-present, ever-frustrating, unbreakable, annoying, beautiful, one-of-a-kind bond between…hermanitas! Sisters, sisters! The fighting, the make-ups, the anecdotes o…

Ruben Rabasa, who just played Uncle Walter in the 2022 remake of Father of the Bride, alongside Andy Garcia, is about to take the stage in his one person show, at 84-years-old. The show tells us the …

Mom is still gone because she’s got some protruded discs. Ouch! Rest-up Yoda Mom.  Niko turns into a massive Mamma bear who actually has to get bleeped. Oops. Let’s just say there’s trouble in the fi…

Nicole’s husband, Jonathan, broke his jaw! Vanessa’s releasing @theamparoexperience on Instagram. Mom is missing (don’t worry, she’ll be back), but their guest, Natalie Cabo, who has acted with the G…

Richard Blanco was President Obama’s Inaugural poet, but he also means a whole lot to the Nest Crew personally because his poetry resonates on so many levels. This week, Blanco joins the nest to talk…

Work/Life balance, it’s a thing. Jackie, Vanessa, and Nicole take a work/life balance test on air. Follow along with them, or just laugh with (at?) them as yoda mom gets called out for her secret-tor…

The nest processes a problem they are having “live” on the program: When to get a caretaker for Maman (Jackie’s mom; Vanessa and Nicole’s Grandma). Jackie is in denial, Vanessa wants to do a family v…

Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, Material, Spacial, and Sexual boundaries – the ladies hash all of them out in the hopes that breaking a few eggs will make an omelet and not a disaster. Meanwhile, …

Today’s nest-guest takes all of us on a journey from the divine feminine to the Black Madonna, who represents transformation through fire. In fact, the very core of this episode is about transformati…

While Vanessa is away at the Latin Grammys, the authors and creators of the book Designing Motherhood join the nest to talk about the framework of reproductive justice, about how their own nests have…

Vanessa, Nicole, and Jackie, have had a conflictive couple of weeks. They talk about the how, the why, the what, and whether they were actually having conflicts or crises – there’s a difference (Yoda…

Vanessa is still away, this time she’s on a biz trip with her husband, and let’s just say mom and sister do a little behind-her-back gossiping. What starts out as an episode about how the pandemic ha…

This week it’s just Jackie and Nicole talking about the decision to stay home with the kids, losing yourself, finding yourself, and making your way back into the workforce.  Mostly, they talk about t…

So many theories throughout the years. Piaget, Maria Montessori, and, let’s not forget, good ‘ol Doctor Spock (not to be confused with Spock, Leonard Nimoy’s character on Star Trek, although child-re…

In this episode the ladies discuss what it means to "go with the flow," and boy does flow meander across some tricky channels and pretty broad oceans. Also, Taika has the croup and we discover that N…