Let's Be Real: Mama Journeys

Beatty Carmichael is a dad of three adult children, missing littles running around and married to his wife for 32 years. He and his wife have never had a large argument!  He comes from a family of doctors and decided he wanted to pivot into helping people have blessed lives. As a business owner, you don’t always know what you are doing so it’s a learning process every day so he looked at parenthood like that too.  He g...

Sally Raymond, from Santa Barbara, California, living near the ocean AND the mountains and at the age of 82, and believing that aging is a choice, she stays present.  She was married at the age of 19 and had two kids as a young mom. She realized that children are here to teach us. Her first born, at the age of 2, read the sign outside the car, Texaco! She realized he was a genius and she was NOT prepared for a genius s...

Bill Williams is a dad of two after having many different jobs including photography, managed a TV network, and a TV station in Bowling Green Ohio (thinking there were mountains there).  He decided to set up his own communication consultant business but since everything went digital he decided to change his whole life and became a dad! And then became a financial advisor. He has been doing that for years but also found...

Meredith Cole is the owner of the Denver Village, an inclusive environment near the Stanley Marketplace where they bring together many different practitioners to support people, but especially moms. She and her husband have two sons and had the second during the pandemic. She says things seem really hard at the time but memories seem to fade a little and each new stage is a new shift and that’s really hard. Having the ...

Hollie Wildehorn is from Australia and had her first baby at the age of 21! She was a very young mom and the town she was in was a very business oriented city (Cambria) and she was really mostly on her own. She was part of the alternative industry and she was part of a great community of moms and now with a 18 and 21 year old, she has a great relationships with her kids. Her biggest challenge was the fact that she didn...

Sharon Harmon, from Nashville, Tennessee who works with highly sensitive people using frequencies to help people figure out what’s going on with them. As a New York native, she met her husband in NYC.  She had her son at the age of 42 and they weren’t preventing pregnancy but also weren’t planning on it. As the eldest of five kids, she was the only girl and the “second mom” so that was like being a mom! She had a home ...

Katie Fenske is a mom of 3 with three boys at home! She is enjoying having all three in school, but also it’s hard to let go sometimes. She was 33 when she had her first kiddo and THOUGHT she knew what she was doing and then she had kids. The biggest challenge she experienced was self judgement.  She didn’t think others were judging her but SHE was worried what others would think. She sees a mom struggling and doesn’t ...

Alessia Lloyd is the mom of three amazing kids who are everything she ever dreamed them to be. She started when she was 22 with her first son and although he wasn’t planned, he has always been loved and wanted. She was not in a healthy relationship when she had Alexander but after finally getting the strength to get out of the relationship.  She is in a much better place now with two other children with her husband out...

Samantha Foote is a mom of three, all with neurodivergent conditions and is near Boise, Idaho. All three of her kiddos have autism and ADHD combined. She was 28 when she started having kiddos and they are 10. 8 and 5.  Her SEVERE Postpartum Depression (PPD) was her biggest challenge.  No one listened to her or took her seriously and she struggled a lot. It took way too long for her to get help. The “baby blues” was all...

Karen Peterson is a grateful mama and is a co-founder of a nonprofit called Couve Collective, community centers for people in recovery.  Her and her husband are excited to be grandparents very soon!  She worked for Boeing for years but decided she needed to give back to families who experience addiction and the effects that has on their family. She lives in Vancouver, Washington and is grateful for the sunshine when it...

Jason Gibler is a psychotherapist who works with moms, dads and getting people to tap into a deeper healing. He works often with perinatal families, including before, during and after having kids. Even dads get Postpartum depression and many people don’t know that. Depression and anxiety are linked and many times that affects dads because we have more conscious fathering. The old paradigm of success vs. failure also is...

Keri Henson is a 6th generation Texan and a mom of SIX kiddos!  She has a brand called the “Mom’sDay Prepper.”  These are moments that happen when you don't see them coming!  Managing relationships within all of the motherhood journey needs are instrumental in motherhood! She became a mama at the age of 24 and has had six kiddos from ages 21-7  with one of them who was diagnosed with cancer and another hit by a 1 ton t...

Dr. Tamara Beckford is an ED doctor with her own weight loss business in Houston. She helps women get rid of emotional and physical weight. It’s 100% online and has been an entrepreneur for years. As a mom at 36 and 38 (considered old in the birthing world) she felt the itch at 2 years and understands why so many people are 2 years apart!  She started having babies later in life because she went to school “forever and ...

Fernanda Shoup, originally from Argentina and turning 40 with two toddlers at home!  She married her wife during Covid outside at a barn in Parker but was supposed to be in Argentina!  Talk about a different environment.  When she connected with her wife, she wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mom but when she realized that she would parent with HER and that was what changed the whole thought about motherhood!  When you ha...

Emily Hill is a hospice chaplain and licensed social worker. She developed a love for hospice when she was 7 years old because of her grandfather.  She was so blown away by how hospice people change the world of the family of the person passing on. She earned a Master’s of divinity and connects with death doulas and how to make people comfortable.  Regardless where you fall in the spiritual spectrum, death is a kind of...

Deborah Mallow never thought she wanted kids but after spending time with her friends and their kids, she fell in love with the idea of being a mom.  She is one of the positive, happiest people you have ever met!  In fact, she has written a book called 6 Steps to Fewer Days That Suck.  What a great title! She was 38 when she had her son and now he’s in his 20’s, living in Minnesota.  She struggled with balancing it all...

Dr. Jann Blackstone is a Jan of all trades as a behavioral scientist because she studies people's behaviors. She likes to call it mediation to bring people together. She predominantly works with co-parents to get families to be able to parent in a cohesive way for everyone in the family.  A bonus family is basically a step-family but she didn’t like the word “step.”  That word was just too negative.  THe biggest need o...

Angela Tipton runs a website called fireyourcareer.  She believes in empowering other women to live their truths.  She became a mom at the age of 30 because she focused on creating her career. She had a tough time balancing her career and personal ambitions with being a mom. She didn’t want to set aside her career but finding the time to be 100% at both. Her husband has been her biggest supporter and was truly her 50% ...

Riana Milne is a coach and psychotherapist for parents. She specializes in childhood and
relationship trauma. 100% of us have childhood trauma because sometimes it comes from 3 generations. She is a mama of two very empowered ladies as a single mom. She uses the
theory of mindset for success, she created a modeling agency. She has written 13 books and has a podcast all about relationships. She believes in empowering women to be hea...