The Mothers

Former First Lady of Massachusetts Lauren Baker joins The Mothers this week. Today, she’s also the Founder & CEO of The Wonderfund, a nonprofit enriching the lives of 30,000 kids engaged with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF).

Lauren’s journey has taken her from an MBA at Northwestern and a career in advertising at Hill Holliday, to becoming First Lady alongside her husband Charlie Baker’s governorship,...

This week, Sara & Vee talk with Jarret Zafran, attorney, father through surrogacy and egg donation, and Founder & Executive Director of Brownstone Surrogacy. After navigating his own journey to parenthood, Jarret left WilmerHale and “Big Law” to launch what he wished he'd had: a surrogacy agency rooted in compassion and personal connection for everyone involved.

It’s a conversation about parenting roles, rewriting ex...

This week we have a life-long creative, tech executive and Mother who is doing it all while navigating life with OCD & anxiety — Corrie Pappas! This was, as Brené Brown would say, a wholehearted discussion. So many parents will see and hear their truest selves in Corrie’s experience that she was bravely willing to share with us.  

In this episode:

🎭 Walking the non-linear path from acting to hospitality to writing and tech

🧠 How...

It’s here! Season 2! And school! And heightened work expectations. 😬 To help us feel grounded and more purposefully motivated this time of year, we have executive coach, author AND Mother of three Arivee Vargas. Arivee, like so many of us, has grappled with ambition & success alongside just wanting to be fulfilled & happy (too much to ask!?). Thankfully she is here to tell us how she’s found her way to alignment and, in he...

Sara & Vee reflect on what they’re loosely calling “Season 1” – all 28 episodes and 25 incredible Mothers they’ve interviewed – as they gear up for Season 2. Thank you for being a part of this journey and growing community of badass Mothers making dents in the universe AND raising the next generation!

In this episode:

✨ Lessons from season 1 (and all 25 Mothers!)

🙅‍♀️ Sara’s crusade to end mom guilt for all of us

🤝 Where we can a...

Milestone episode out today with Elin Hilderbrand (NYT Bestselling Author & Producer), Bess Clarke (CEO of Nantucket Looms) and Wendy Rouillard (Author & Owner of Barnaby’s). On July 22 we hosted our sold out and very first live recording at Sister Ship Nantucket and we are thrilled to share the conversation with the world, featuring the incredible Mothers behind some of Nantucket’s most iconic brands. We laughed, we cried,...

We have another tech star on the pod this week! Tamara Hinckley is a former Director of Product at Pinterest, where she spent nearly a decade leading teams at the intersection of tech and business. She’s the author of Half Moon Hustle, a newsletter about motherhood, ambition, and living with intention, which has grown into her new venture Momentum Rising, designed to help ambitious women navigate the transition into motherhood thro...

This week Sara & Vee are joined by Dr. Lindsay Gittens, an anesthesiologist at Tufts Medical Center and the Director of Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery. A Boston native and former competitive soccer player, Lindsay now balances medicine, investing, and single motherhood with intention and on her own terms.

After separating from the father of her children, Lindsay wanted to find more freedom in her schedule and do more than “ju...

Jenny Rossman, a distinguished attorney for victims of sexual abuse, joins the podcast this week to explain to all of us how she does this work while raising two young kids. Jenny is currently the lead trial attorney at Herman Law, but was previously the Bureau Chief of the Sex Crimes & Child Abuse Unit of the State Attorney’s Office for Florida’s 9th Judicial Circuit (Orlando) and served as an Assistant State Attorney i...

Katherine Jetter is a gemologist, jewelry designer, and the founder of The Vault Nantucket — a curated boutique spotlighting designers from around the globe. She’s known for reintroducing opals to the luxury market, blending bold design with deep expertise, and building a brand that’s as innovative as it is elegant.

She’s also the mother of one daughter and three stepdaughters — and the kind of woman who brings her newborn to a gem ...

Rebecca Love of Rebecca Love Photography is a portrait and wedding photographer on Nantucket and Mother of three. She and her husband Jonathan also produce ACK & Beyond. Rebecca’s work has been featured in Town & Country, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Magazine and Forbes Travel Guide, but the journey behind it is just as striking.

In this conversation, Rebecca talks:

🍼 Launching what became “the family business” shortly af...

Nicky Bandera built a mission-driven brand out of her kitchen in the middle of a pandemic to set an example for her young daughter and hasn’t stopped opening doors since. In this episode, the founder of Project Paulie gets real about invisible labor, pandemic pivots, and the myth of doing it all – and shares how motherhood turned her passion into a purpose-driven movement.

You’ll hear:

🤯 Why she went back to work nights just 3 weeks...

The unstoppable and ever-joyful Meghan Joyce joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week! Meghan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Duckbill, pioneering a hybrid AI-human personal assistant model. Previously, she was COO at Oscar Health and held key leadership roles at Uber. Meghan serves on the boards of The Boston Beer Company and Guardant Health. She is also a Henry Crown Fellow and member of the Aspen Institute's Global Leadership Netw...

Jessica Gelman is a trailblazer in sports, data, and leadership — and one of a few women at the helm of the business side of professional sports.

As CEO & co-founder of Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), co-founder & co-chair of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and investor in women's sports, Jessica has spent her career changing how the sports industry thinks about fans, data, and leadership.

In this episode, Jessic...

Tufts University Field Hockey Head Coach Tina McDavitt Mattera joins the pod to share her unfiltered experience building one of the most dominant programs in the country AND raising kids – and finding time to hang with her husband and friends at the beach. Tina is entering her 21st year with Tufts. Under her leadership, they won the NCAA championship in 2012 – the first NCAA title won by a women’s team at Tufts, earning them a spot...

Drumroll for greatness – Lexi Reese joins the pod this week! Lexi is the co-founder and CEO of Lanai, an AI Empowerment Platform that helps enterprises transform AI experiments into systematic success. Before Lanai, she led the Global Programmatic Ad Business at Google and then jumped to be the COO of Gusto (a unicorn, but don’t call it a unicorn as you’ll hear Lexi explain in our interview). Always one to look for ways to do more ...

Get ready to fill up your cup! Tracy Skelly, founder of Little Cocoa Bean Co., joins Sara & Vee on the pod this week. Tracy is a Boston-based entrepreneur, educator, and advocate for health equity & food access. Forever committed to service, Tracy started her career in education with Teach for America before getting her Masters in Education at Harvard and jumping into the private sector with Ellevation Education. After help...

Laura Green, perhaps better known as @lauramcgreen, joins Sara & Vee this week. And honestly thank goodness because it’s been a cold & dark few days in New England and we need some sunshine and levity!

Laura is a comedic content creator in the run space, producing reels that make fun of herself as a lifelong runner and all the quirks that come with that. She loves writing and producing short skits, hosting events, and hangin...

We dreamed about this on episode 3 and now here she is! Today we’re talking to Dr. Kate White, Chief of OB/GYN at Boston Medical Center and Professor & Chair of the Department of OB/GYN at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Kate completed her residency in OB/GYN at Tufts/Baystate Medical Center and her Fellowship in Family Planning at Columbia University (where she also received her masters ...