Thank You, Mama

In this solo episode, your host Ana Tajder talks about her mama, Jagoda Kaloper. Mama Jagoda was a celebrated actress and visual artist from Croatia and the reason Ana started this podcast. Ana share…

Mindset coach Dr. Manuela Powell, a former breast cancer surgeon at the famous Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC, talks about her Brazilian mother Andrea, a psychologist who taught her to stop and thin…

Wanjiku Kiarie, an accountant and podcaster from Kenya, talks about her mama Frasia, a teacher who raised and supported her four daughters during her husband’s battle with drinking. The episode is bu…

Stephanie Mitchell, a game producer from Seattle, talks about her mom Tanya who raised her three children as a single mother while working as a bar tender. We learn about hard work, being a people’s …

Monica Cermeno, former performance testing engineer at Boeing, talks about her Mexican mama Fina, a seamstress who became a business owner. We learn to control our actions and not other people’s, tha…

In this special mini episode, seven little girls, Olivia, Elise, Gabriella, Lola, Sophia, Penny and Bailey, share the lessons they learned from their mothers. You will learn how to protect lettuce fr…

Writer and podcaster Ronit Plank talks about her mom who left to follow Guru Bhagwan in India. We learn that while most people don’t change, some do; that the way people treat you shows who they are,…

Karen DiConcetto is a TV-writer and a former pop-star from New York. Karen talks about her New Jersey mom Kathy, a nurse who bounced back from a divorce in her sixties and is now happily married. We …

Roxanne Derhodge, a therapist and consultant specialized in resilience, talks about her mother Carol from Trinidad who had six children, and teaches us about caring for others, unconditional love, bu…

Kathryn Sermak was Bette Davis’ personal assistant and best friend during the last ten years of Davis’ life. Davis wasn’t Sermak’s mom, but we’re making an exception for the Hollywood legend, and cel…

Doris W Lee, a former marketing expert, now a busy mom of three, is sharing her mama Sophia, a nurse from South Korea who is teaching us about being brave but also kind and sweet, having a healthy su…

Jaynie Jackson, a music talent manager from Los Angeles talks about her mom Florence who beat cancer in her seventies, and raised her nine children with a strong sense of religion, altruism and love …

Claire Bidwell Smith, best-selling author of three books on loss (The Rules of Inheritance, After This, Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief), a grief therapist, and a Charleston-based mom of three (o…

Rupa Chawla, a retired United Nations employee from Austria and India, talks about her Burmese mother Ada who, at 86, is still the pillar of the family. Ada still meditates and practices yoga every d…

Our mothers’ lessons are an immense treasure, which so many of us never articulate. This podcast does just that: award-winning author and journalist Ana Tajder talks to women of different backgrounds…