Dear Moms Pod

Interview with Charlene Cebell

Jenny and Lisa interview Charlene in this weeks episode.
Charlene is a mom, a grandma, and was the very first female school principal in her small town in Washington State. She shares stories of motherhood and what it means to her to be a "guide on the side." She also speaks to the challenges and comedy of working as the only woman in a board room of men. Listen to this delightful interview!
Be sure to also listen to the post show where Jenny and Lisa get real about their own challenges as mothers and in life.

Interview with Mindy Brouse Part 2

In part two of Mindy's interview, she shares her adoption story of a beautiful baby girl with Down's Syndrome. It is fascinating how her and her husband's adoption story of this baby girl intricately connects with the beginnings of her story she shared in part one! She shares the joys and challenges of being an "older mom", inducing lactation, and straddle parenting, and teaching skills to her kiddo with special needs. 
She shares the challenges of finding community for her child with special needs and the importance of taking care of each other.
In the post show, Lisa shares her experience of fostering a child. Jenny and Lisa talk about the traits we are born with and the challenges of that.
Jenny and Lisa also discuss what it means to them individually to be either pro life or pro choice and have an honest and vulnerable conversation of the differences and similarities they hold.
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Interview with Mindy Brouse

This week, Dear Moms introduces part one of two interviews with Mindy Brouse.
In this part 1 interview, Jenny and Lisa talk with Mindy about her career/calling as deaf educator, and how this led to her and her husband fostering a deaf child for 6 years. Mindy speaks to the complexities of fostering an older child and the impact on her, the child and her family. She also shares insight into her life as a camp director, camp mom and a camp wife while raising her growing family. In our pre-show, learn how Jenny and Lisa met and how they became friends! We also introduce our new format of dividing our interviews into two parts with a pre and post show! In our post show, we talk about some tender topics like how it feels like society often blames moms for things that happen with our kids. We also learn how Lisa is becoming brave and discover Jenny's one flaw.  Enjoy the episode!

Interview with Amanda

Jenny and Lisa interview Amanda in this honest and vulnerable conversation. Amanda shares her experience in the military where she did static line jumping, as well as her unique journey with creating a blended family with her wife, Anya. She is the cool mom that jumps out of planes and can also speak to some very real and raw topics. You don't want to miss this episode! Be sure to listen to the post show, where Jenny and Lisa talk some personal facts in their own lives. The topics include Lisa's feelings about her son's name change as a teen, how Lisa had a coca cola during her long labor with her first child, homebirths and hospital births, and Lisa and Jenny's different takes on faith. It is an excellent episode!

Interview with Bethany

Jenny and Lisa interview Bethany about her experience as a surrogate and opens up to us about her story as a young mom to twins. Her story is powerful and an important one. There is discussion about addiction, losing a parent, and post partum depression. Also make sure to listen to the post show at the last 10 minutes where Jenny and Lisa discuss the differences between their respective health classes in high school and if Jenny would be a yacht stewardess and why in the world Lisa sprayed mace in her car driving alone as a young woman.

Interview with Melissa Wood

Jenny and Lisa interview Melissa Wood and discuss the fun of parenting adult children, Melissa's foster care journey and the challenges of eating gluten free and celiac disease. Listen in!

Interview with Shayna

Jenny and Lisa have a great conversation with Shayna! We discuss being an EMT, her views on motherhood and her struggles with infertility. We discuss how she became a mom and how she was told at an early age that she would not be able to have children.

Introduction to the Dear Moms Pod

This episode introduces Jenny and Lisa to our podcast community.