343- When Friendships Change: Life After Kids with Lindsey Simcik

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and in this episode, I got to hang out with my friend Lindsey Simcik.—creative force, co-founder of the Almost 30 Podcast , and co-author of the incredible book Almost 30. We dove into what happens when friendships shift, especially after becoming a parent. This convo was incredible—our podcast editor even messaged me mid-edit to say, “Wow, this is so powerful.” Lindsey shared something she’s never shared before, and so did I. It felt like sitting in a cozy, safe space together, talking honestly about identity, motherhood, and change. If you've ever gone through a life shift—or know one is coming—Almost 30 is for you. It’s raw, beautiful, and real. 10/10 recommend snagging Almost 30.. All right folks, let’s dive in. Connect with Lindsey: Instagram: @almost30podcast Website: https://almost30.com/ Order the book: Almost 30: A Definitive Guide to a Life You Love for the Next Decade and Beyond Podcast: Almost 30 The Podcast Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's NEW Regulation Questionnaire: Take the Quiz Pre-order Big Kids, Bigger Feelings now! Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Voices of Your Village and today I got to hang out with Shang Saavedra and we got to chat about the emotional roots of money stress. Let's get real– money comes with so much emotion and I love how she breaks down the root causes of money issues and how to navigate them.  We all come to the table with different stories about money and I love how Shang talks about what it looks like not just to address finances, but to look at the emotional lens of finances in order to long-term address this and create a comprehensive plan for ourselves. I also loved getting to chat with Rach in the breakdown about this and what it looks like in our partnerships and our marriages, and also what it looks like to teach our kids. I'm so stoked for you to dive into this episode and learn more about navigating the emotional roots of money stress.  All right folks, let's dive in. Connect with Shang: Instagram:@savemycents Website: https://savemycents.com/  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@savemycents  Order the book: Wealth is a Mindset Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's NEW Regulation Questionnaire: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today we are sharing an episode that we recorded a little while ago with Dr. Mariel Buqué about breaking cycles from our childhood. Let's get real. This can be a doozy and her book slays at teaching us how to do this. It's called Break the Cycle. It's a book that focuses on healing wounds of intergenerational trauma. We all come to adulthood with different things from our childhood that we might wanna pass on to our kids and carry forward, and some things that we don't wanna pass on or carry forward. She helps us navigate what this looks like in practice. She's brilliant and I'm so jazzed to share this episode again, and then get to share the breakdown afterward with Rach. Stay tuned for the breakdown at the end. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Dr.Mariel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.marielbuque/ Website: https://www.drmarielbuque.com/ Order the book: Break the Cycle Podcast: Break the Cycle with Dr. Mariel  Connect with us: Instagram: Tiny Humans, Big Emotions (@seed.and.sew) Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Music by: Bensound Seed and Sew's NEW regulation profile: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we dive in: the breakdown of this episode includes a brief discussion of sexual assault. Please take care while listening. You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with Dr. Alissa Jerud. She wrote the book Emotion-Savvy Parenting. I loved getting to chat with her specifically about anxiety and what it looks like to experience anxiety without being consumed by it and had to parent a child who is experiencing anxiety. Alissa Jerud has a PhD and is a mom of two kids. She's a licensed clinical psychologist, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Emotion-Savvy Parenting, which is a compassionate science informed guide for relating more skillfully to painful, unwanted emotions in her private practice. Dr. Jerud specializes in highly effective exposure based treatment for anxiety related disorders, including OCD, PTSD, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias and generalized anxiety disorder. Additionally, she specializes in DBT, dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training, and particularly enjoys helping other parents learn research back strategies for accepting, regulating, and tolerating their emotions as well as their children's. Dr. Jerud also trains other clinicians in exposure based treatments and frequently gives workshops on anxiety, stress, mental health, parenting, and social support to companies large and small. Alright folks, let's dive in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with Dr. Cathryn to chat about some of my favorite humans. We got to dive into toddlers. Dr. Cathryn has over 35 years of experience as a pediatrician and mother of four, and the founder of Healthiest Baby with 1.2 million followers over on Instagram.  Dr. Cathryn has dedicated her career to raising emotionally strong and happy kids. She's the author of three parenting books and the host of Toddlers Made Easy Podcast where she shares big hearted insights and strategies to simplify parenting. Dr. Cathryn has chosen to specialize in toddlers because this crucial, informative period is often misunderstood. Her mission is to demystify toddlerhood for parents everywhere, providing the tools and knowledge to navigate these years calmly and confidently. Check out her book. Toddlers Made Easy to dive deeper into this and in the breakdown with Rach, I shared about a resource that is totally free. Head on over to seed quiz.com to take our free questionnaire and learn more about your child's unique nervous system. Bonus points for learning more about yours too. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Dr. Cathryn Tobin: Instagram: @healthiest_baby Website: https://www.healthiest-baby.com/ Order the book: Toddlers Made Easy  Podcast: Toddlers Made Easy Podcast  Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's NEW Regulation Questionnaire: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Voices of Your Village. Today I got to hang out with Jessica Joelle Alexander. She's the bestselling author, cultural researcher, parenting expert, and co-founder of Raising Digital Citizens. Jessica's work around emotional wellbeing and positive digital habits has been featured everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to BBC World News, and her book, The Danish Way of Parenting, is one of my all time favorites. It's no wonder it's been translated into over 33 languages. In this episode, we dive into the Danish approach to parenting and screen time, exploring how we can foster healthier, more connected relationships with technology for both ourselves and our kids. I love Jessica's work. It is truly life-changing for me. I've taken so many bits and pieces into my everyday life. I've learned so much from her, and I'm so grateful for this and am jazzed for her new book The Danish Way Everyday. Remember to stay tuned for the breakdown with Rach at the end. This one is full of goodness today. Alright folks, let's dive in. Connect with Jessica: Instagram: @jessicajoellealexander @raisingdigitalcitizens  Websites: www.raisingdigitalcitizens.com , https://thedanishway.com/ Order the book: The Danish Way Everyday Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's NEW Regulation Questionnaire: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we dive in: this episode includes a discussion of miscarriage, pregnancy loss and also discusses sexual assault. Please take care while listening. You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I get to hang out with Jessica Zucker. She's an LA based psychologist specializing in reproductive health and the author of the award-winning book I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement. Jessica's the creator of the viral hashtag #IHadaMiscarriage campaign. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Mag, Vogue, Harvard Business Review, among others. She's also been featured on casual things like NPR, CNN, the Today Show, Good Morning America. She earned her advanced degrees from NYU and Harvard, and her second book is out now: Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women's Lives. I found Jessica when I was deep in my miscarriage journey, and her account was such a light for me. It was truly an honor to get to dive into this conversation with her and talk about what this looks like and why are we living in shame and in silence and secrecy, and what does it look like to raise kids who don't have to do that? How can we lead the way? What are conversations we can be having now? Oh, I love this episode so much and I'm so excited for y'all to tune in and to snag your copy of Normalize It. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Jessica: Instagram: @ihadamiscarriage Website: drjessicazucker.com Order the book: Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women's Lives Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's NEW Regulation Questionnaire: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we dive in: this episode includes a discussion of sexual assault. Please take care while listening. You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and in this episode, I got to hang out with my pal, Jon Fogel, to chat about helping kids navigate punishment, reward based environments, even if that's not what you have in your household. That what if they go to school and that's what they're exposed to or out into the world, how do we help them navigate that? Jon is a parenting influencer, a husband and a dad of four who knows that parenting is not about perfection. He has a following of over 1.5 million by making neuroscience and psychology research practical and applicable. Jon's the author of  Punishment-Free Parenting: The Brain-Based Way to Raise Kids Without Raising Your Voice. He is the host of The Whole Parent Podcast and founder of The Whole Parent Academy where he helps thousands of parents from all over the world ditch the power struggles and build relationships that actually work. Jon and I got into some nuance that you don't generally see on social media. I love that about him. Sometimes we dance on some topics and often find that we have the shared values at the root of each topic. Thank you, Jon, for joining us for this conversation. I'm super jazzed for y'all to tune in. Come on over to the gram. You can snap a screenshot of you tuning in and tag Jon @wholeparent. Tag us @seed.and.sew, and let's continue the conversation over there. I wanna hear what your biggest takeaway is after you tune in. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Jon: Instagram:@wholeparent Website: wholeparentacademy.com Order the book: Punishment-Free Parenting: The Brain-Based Way to Raise Kids Without Raising Your Voice Podcast: The Whole Parent Podcast Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's Regulation Quiz: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we dive in: this episode includes discussion of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Please take care while listening.  You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with Dr. Rebecca N. Thompson. She's a family medicine and public health physician who specializes in women's and children's health, and she's the author of Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love. She's joining us today to talk about the experience of going through pregnancy complications and losses as a doctor herself, and the many ways that family building challenges can shape our identities and how exploring the unexpected in family life led her to a decade-long collaborative storytelling project with her patients, friends and medical colleagues. We had a really vulnerable conversation here, and we talked about a lot of different things and what that journey to motherhood looked like for me, what the messy middle looked like when I was navigating miscarriages and challenges in getting pregnant. And I'm so grateful for Becca for having these conversations so vulnerably with so many humans and hope that this feels as validating as it did for me and really would've in those seasons before I was able to enter into motherhood. When you are snagging her book Held Together, you can go through the website, we're gonna link it below, and if you order through an indie or from the Amazon link on the website, it supports Postpartum Support International. I just absolutely adore that. All right, folks, let's dive in. I just absolutely adore that. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Becca: Website: www.rebeccanthompson.com Order the book: Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love *If you order the book through Becca’s website a portion of the proceeds will go to Postpartum Support International. Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's Regulation Quiz: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we dive in: this episode includes a discussion of sexual assault. Please take care while listening. You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with my friend Melissa Pintor Carnagey. Melissa's newest book Growing Into You is so phenomenal. Melissa's a renowned sexuality educator, bestselling author, and leading national voice for sex positive education in youth and families. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post Parents magazine, CNN, New York Times, Buzzfeed and reaches thousands of families around the globe via an engaged social media following and monthly live workshops through their Growing Into You virtual puberty education programming. Growing Into You is a book that is currently just like living in my house because I feel like, and you'll hear it in this interview, I just have so much learning to do in this space. It's something I did not grow up with. It's something that often feels uncomfortable for me. I find myself often having more questions than answers, where I don't know how to respond to this thing that my child just said and I need resources and support on it. And Melissa is my very first place I turn for that and has been for such a long time. I followed them on Instagram for years and it was so nice to get to sit down and ask these questions and dive into this with them. I'm super excited to share this episode on Setting the Stage for Shame-Free Puberty with Melissa. All right, folks, let's dive in. Connect with Melissa: Instagram: @sexpositive_families Website: sexpositivefamilies.com Order the book: Growing into You!: An Inclusive, Shame-Busting, Get-Real Guide to Your Changing Body and Mind Books Melissa Recommends: Your Whole Body: From Your Head to Your Toes, and Everything in Between by Lizzie DeYoung Charbonneau My Body! What I Say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept by Jayneen Sanders What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg The Science of Babies  It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn Browse more great resources by topic, age, and type at sexpositivefamilies.com/resources Connect with us: Instagram: @seed.and.sew  Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's Regulation Quiz: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Website: seedandsew.org Music by: Ruby Adams and  Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices