Cashing Our Trillions

As someone who suffered from anxiety and postpartum depression, Amy found great relief with CBD. After seeing the difference in herself, she knew she had to help others understand how plant medicine could help in their overall wellbeing and spearheaded her journey to become a CBD Educator. Calm Better Days guides CBD Curious folks on how to assess the benefits of plant medicine. In this episode, Amy will educate you how CBD works i...

In this episode, I’m going to attempt to demystify Web3 for y’all. Who better to bring on and explain this space than a mom who has been doing just that: creating a community by and  for moms in Web3. 

My guest today is Sarah Monson, the Founder and CEO of GenX NFTs who is here to usher 65M+ Gen-X 80s kids (and those who wish they were) into Web3, through relatable education and core memories from childhood. Sarah’s Latch Key Kids ...

Today we’re taking our podcast up north to Vancouver, British Columbia in CANADA! 

We’ve all heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child” But what if you LIVED in an intentional community that mimicked this village mindset?  I got in touch with Jo and Kim, both moms from Little Mountain Cohousing.  Jo and Kim are both moms who sought out cohousing early on in their momming journey for the support and familial community of...

In honor of Father’s Day, we’re taking a break from regular programming to celebrate my Sound Engineer, and new dad, Shen!  Short of having a producer, Shen is my sounding board. He has listened to every episode in draft format.

Middle Voice is an article and podcast episode I published with the Arizona Daily Star earlier in the year and part of a series, Dacapo Presents, that Shen and I collaborate on in our "spare hours."

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 My guest today is Gretchen Salyer, CEO and Founder of June Care, a company she started during the pandemic to tackle our childcare crisis by connecting families who need childcare with stay-at-home moms who can care for their kids.  Gretchen’s entire business model is centered on valuing and paying moms for the care work we do, and in the process, creating a private sector solution to our childcare crisis–one that leaves over 50% ...

In 2018, Aisha Nyandoro, the Founding CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, created the Magnolia Mother’s Trust –  a new initiative that provides low-income, Black mothers in Jackson, Mississippi $1,000 cash on a monthly basis for one year straight, no strings attached. Now, it's  the country’s longest-running guaranteed income program, and the only one in the world to focus on Black women.

Aisha executes this work with whole hear...

This episode is about the craziness that revolved (or devolved) around our school board elections last November. I published it with our local paper, the Arizona Daily Star on the eve of our school board elections as a PSA about the extremism that was creeping into our community.

 Through the advocacy of my mom friends, our three pro-public school candidates won by an overwhelming majority.  Unfortunately, our school board meetin...

Mallory McMorrow became the youngest woman ever elected to the Michigan Senate after defeating a Republican incumbent in her first-ever run for office in 2018. Mallory has been a vocal advocate for gun violence prevention, public education, and standing up against hateful rhetoric that aims to scapegoat already marginalized people. In this episode, Mallory speaks candidly about some of her new mom moments, the moment that made her ...

 Reshma Saujani  is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First. She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently advocating for policies to support moms impacted by the pandemic. Moms First is a national movement with the purpose to enact sweeping cultural change to value...

Moms are the backbone of our society and the stars of Cashing our Trillions.  

Join host, Yvonne So, a full-time stay-at-home-mom of 3 school aged boys as we discuss all things mom: how we sustain a $1.5 Trillion economy of unpaid female work, and the social and structural changes needed to prioritize us!

You will hear from inspiring moms who are creating solutions for us to thrive socially, politically, and econom...