Explore every episode of the podcast Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth Natale

This week, I’m joined by Michelle Maros, one half of Barb & Michelle. Barb is her actual mom, they work together, and I have questions about how that arrangement survives a disagreement. Can you tell your mom she’s overstepping without making her feel like she failed at parenting? Does every uncomfortable conversation need a boundary? And have we gotten so good at protecting our peace that we’ve forgotten how to tolerate each other? Michelle isn’t a mom, which is part of why I wanted this conversation. She’s here as the adult daughter. As a new mom, I’m very interested in what our kids might eventually wish we understood. We get into the difference between setting a limit and trying to control someone, why our moms can still make us feel 15, and what happens when your mother is also the person you have a work deadline with. We also talk about perfectionism, how a parent can help an adult child unlearn it, and whether being close means telling each other absolutely everything. And in Good Mom, Bad Decision?, we debate declining your mom’s advice, letting her be disappointed, and apologizing to your child when you got it wrong. — Topics include: - Working with your actual mother - Boundaries versus punishment - Why advice from Mom can feel like criticism - Letting someone be disappointed without fixing it - Unlearning perfectionism together - Privacy in a close mother-daughter relationship - Giving parents room to change - What adult children want their moms to understand - You can love your mom and still need to end the phone call. — Thank you to our sponsors: - Ladder - If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/GOODMOM and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join. - Toothpillow - Head to https://www.toothpillow.com/goodmom and use code GOODMOM.  - Tonies Toys - Visit tonies.com to learn all about Toniebox Lite. - Exponent Beauty - Visit www.exponentbeauty.com and use code GOODMOM20 for 20% off orders of $75+. - Merit Beauty - Go to meritbeauty.com to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I’m joined by Kay Dudley, one half of Kay & Tay, and I have a lot of questions about what motherhood actually feels like when millions of people are watching. Did you know what you were signing up for? When did it start feeling strange? And how do you protect the messy, private parts of being a mom when sharing your life is also your job? I’m asking as a mom who posts online, too, and as someone who still has plenty of days where I’m not sure I’m getting it right. We talk about where Kay draws the line, the comments that can make you question yourself as a mom, and the advice we’d give each other on the days the self-doubt creeps in. We also get into the funny side of being recognized by someone who already knows so much about you. Plus, parenting with lupus: what helps on the days she feels awful, and whether talking about her health makes her feel supported or responsible for keeping everyone updated. And in Good Mom, Bad Decision?, we debate asking Grandma to take a photo down and sharing a hard parenting moment that your child could read someday. — Topics include: - Becoming a family people recognize - The parts of motherhood that don’t get posted - Where Kay draws her boundaries - Second-guessing yourself after reading comments - Children’s privacy as they grow up - Letting people see the hard days - Motherhood with lupus - Advice for the days you feel like you’re failing - You don’t need a huge following to wonder whether you’re doing this right. — Thank you to our sponsors: Larineco - Right now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at ⁠buylarine.com/goodmom⁠ Right now, Orion is offering our listeners 15% off at ⁠orionsleep.com/goodmom⁠ Shop our picks at⁠ Target.com⁠ and get same-day pickup or delivery. If you think your baby may have CMPA, talk to your pediatrician about whether Pepticate or Neocate could be right for them. Learn more at ⁠Neocate.com⁠ or ⁠Pepticate.com⁠ Primal Kitchen — Find Primal Kitchen dressings, sauces, and condiments at your local grocery store or at ⁠primalkitchen.com⁠ Visit ⁠tonies.com⁠ to learn all about Toniebox Lite. Visit ⁠www.exponentbeauty.com⁠ and use code GOODMOM20 for 20% off orders of $75+. — 📺 Subscribe: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth⁠ 📖 Newsletter: ⁠https://substack.com/@lobosworth⁠ 🛍️ Love Wellness: ⁠https://lovewellness.com⁠ 📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth⁠ 🎵 TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth⁠ — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the ⁠Dear Media⁠ podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I’m joined by my friend, chef and fellow mom Sophia Roe, because feeding your baby somehow comes with more homework than feeding yourself ever did. What do you actually make? Does everything need to be homemade? And what happens when you’re a professional chef and your baby has absolutely no interest in what you’re serving? I’m asking as a new mom who wants to feed her baby well without turning every meal into a performance review. We get into making food for a tiny person with opinions, the pressure to get it all right, and which parts of feeding our kids we’re making harder than they need to be. Plus, feeding yourself when you’ve spent the entire day thinking about what someone else needs to eat. We also make room for Sophia’s experience of pregnancy and postpartum as a Black woman, and what it means to feel heard when you’re the one who needs care. And in Good Mom, Bad Decision?, we get into store-bought shortcuts, dinner that doesn’t look like Instagram, and taking your baby’s review of your cooking a little personally. — Topics include: - What a chef actually feeds her baby - Homemade food and store-bought shortcuts - Introducing new foods without making every bite a big event - When your baby rejects what you made - The pressure to be a “good” food mom - Feeding yourself, too - Sophia’s maternal health experience - Making mealtime feel manageable - Your baby does not know you saved that recipe on Pinterest. — Thank you to our sponsor: Give your clothes a second life with Vinted. Download the Vinted app for free to start selling with no seller fees, so you keep everything " you earn. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I’m joined by Tiffani Thiessen for a conversation about mom intuition, raising teenagers, and a question I’ve been wanting to ask: are all moms actually witches? With her new show, Coven Academy, as our starting point, we get into the things moms notice before anyone says a word. That change in your kid’s voice. The “I’m fine” that doesn’t sound fine. The feeling that something’s going on before you know what it is. But trusting your instincts gets more complicated when your kids have opinions—and instincts—of their own. We talk about knowing when to step in, when to listen, and when your own worry might be filling in the blanks. Tiffani grew up on television, and now she’s raising a daughter around the age she was playing Kelly Kapowski. We get into what she wants her kids to feel comfortable saying no to, how we talk about our bodies around them, and making room for yourself as they become more independent. And, of course, we bring a few decisions to the group chat: is a bad feeling enough to cancel a sleepover? Does mom intuition justify reading your teenager’s messages? Loving your kids is the easy part. Figuring out where to draw the line is a little more complicated. If you’ve ever known something was up with your kid and couldn’t quite explain how, this one’s for you. Because sometimes “Mom just knows” is real—and sometimes we need to let our kids tell us.  — Topics include: - Mom intuition—and when worry gets mixed in - Witchy interests and *Coven Academy* - Raising a teenager after growing up in the spotlight - Teaching your kids to trust themselves - Body image and what our kids hear us say - Making more room for yourself - The line between protecting your kids and respecting their privacy — Thank you to our sponsors: Shop our picks at Target.com and get same-day pickup or delivery. Larineco - Right now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at buylarine.com/goodmom If you think your baby may have CMPA, talk to your pediatrician about whether Pepticate or Neocate could be right for them. Learn more at Neocate.com or Pepticate.com Merit Beauty — Go to meritbeauty.com to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. Go to oseamalibu.com and get 10% off your first order with code goodmom. Visit tonies.com to learn all about Toniebox Lite. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, it’s just me—and we have a lot to catch up on. I just turned 40, Love Wellness is turning 10, and I’ve been a mom for almost a year. So I wanted to make a little time capsule of how I got here, what I’m proud of, and what I’m still figuring out. We’re going back to Laguna Beach: getting cast at 15, filming with my actual friends, and, yes, the Jetta. Then I get into balancing UCLA with The Hills, why those two shows felt so different to be part of, and moving to New York when I was ready to start over. I also look back at the early days of Love Wellness, including my decision to host the launch in my apartment and what it felt like to be called “the vagina lady.” Women were emailing me because they were relieved someone was talking openly about their experiences. Other people were laughing. Ten years later, I understand those reactions differently. But becoming a mother brought me to something I wasn’t expecting. After spending a decade encouraging women to talk about their bodies and ask for help, it took me months to acknowledge my own postpartum depression. I talk about that disconnect, what it meant to hear that I wasn’t failing, and how this year has changed the way I understand my work. And there’s the life I have now: my daughter, my husband, a company I still believe in, and a bedtime that would probably disappoint my younger self. If you’re approaching a milestone, starting over, or finding that a life you love can still be really hard sometimes, this one’s for you. — Topics include: - Getting cast on Laguna Beach at 15 - UCLA, The Hills, and growing up on television - Moving to New York and figuring out what came next - Building Love Wellness and being called “the vagina lady” - Ten years of talking openly about women’s health - Motherhood, postpartum depression, and asking for help - Turning 40 without having everything figured out - I’ve spent ten years telling women they deserve to be heard. This year, I needed help hearing it myself. — Thank you to our sponsors: Little Spoon — Get 30% off your first order at littlespoon.com/GMOM with code GMOM If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/GOODMOM and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join. If you think your baby may have CMPA, talk to your pediatrician about whether Pepticate or Neocate could be right for them. Learn more at Neocate.com or Pepticate.com Head to https://www.toothpillow.com/goodmom and use code GOODMOM.  Visit tonies.com to learn all about Toniebox Lite. Shop our picks at Target.com and get same-day pickup or delivery. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does having four kids make you feel like you finally know what you’re doing? According to Sarah Wright Olsen: absolutely not. Sarah is an actress, author, co-host of The Mother Daze podcast, and mom of four. I’m still in my first year of motherhood, so I had questions. We talk about the postpartum anxiety she didn’t recognize with her first baby, why the child who made her feel like an amazing parent turned out to be naturally chill, and what changes when baby number two arrives. I also tell her about sobbing on my first trip away from Nelle—which leads us to her new children’s book, When I Am Not With You, and a little reminder I think parents need just as much as kids do. — In this episode: - Why the same parenting approach doesn’t work for every child - Recognizing postpartum anxiety and intrusive thoughts - The fear that a second baby will change your bond with your first - Mom guilt around travel, work, and leaving your child - Sarah’s honest experience of postpartum recovery after four babies - What new moms can stop worrying about (including the wipes warmer) - A quick-fire round of “Am I a good mom if…?” — Thank you to our sponsors: If you think your baby may have CMPA, talk to your pediatrician about whether Pepticate or Neocate could be right for them. Learn more at Neocate.com or Pepticate.com Honest - Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/GOODMOM and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join. Right now, Orion is offering our listeners 15% off at orionsleep.com/goodmom Merit Beauty — Go to meritbeauty.com to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. Honeylove - Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/GOODMOM! #honeylovepod — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who teaches us what to do when we know something is wrong with our baby, but we don’t know what? When Nelle was struggling, figuring out that she had cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA)—and then finding the formula that finally gave her relief—felt like jumping through hoop after hoop while questioning myself the entire time. In this episode, I sit down with pediatrician Dr. Michael Milobsky to talk about CMPA, how it can look like colic, the formula options available, and how parents can advocate for answers when their baby is uncomfortable. We also talk about our own experience with Nelle, why Neocate ultimately worked for her, and what I wish I’d known when we were in the thick of it. — In this episode: - The difference between colic and cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA) - Signs and symptoms worth discussing with your pediatrician - How to talk to your doctor if you suspect CMPA - The benefits of extensively hydrolyzed (eHF) and amino acid-based formulas - The difference between Pepticate and Neocate formulas - How our family ultimately found the right formula for Nelle — This episode is in partnership with Nutricia, makers of Pepticate and Neocate. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this rerun episode: I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that. I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven. Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on MTV aren't here anymore. Kailyn is. She has millions of followers online, has built three podcasts, a podcast network, a book club, a publishing imprint, and a physical sports business in Delaware while raising seven kids with five different men. She also lives next door to one of her exes. They share a driveway. He can see into her kitchen window. Yes I asked her what that's like. We get into the baby daddy speed round (one word per ex, you're welcome), how she found out about the cheating on TikTok and turned the whole thing into a three-part Patreon special because everybody else was profiting off her pain so why wouldn't she, the c-section shelf, the beads she bought at Hobby Lobby because of her ADHD, and why she has to apply a full year in advance to move out of Delaware. Kailyn is one of the sharpest business minds I've sat across from. She also might be a little unhinged in the best possible way. Buckle up for a fantastic convo. — Thank you to our sponsors: Honest - Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target Wacoal - Visit WACOAL.com and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/GOODMOM and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join. If you think your baby may have CMPA, talk to your pediatrician about whether Pepticate or Neocate could be right for them. Learn more at Neocate.com or Pepticate.com — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re told to validate every feeling, regulate our nervous systems, avoid trauma, limit screens, and somehow raise independent, resilient humans. So… have we made parenting way too complicated? This week, I’m sitting down with clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and conscious parenting expert Dr. Shefali to talk about why being a “good mom” has a lot less to do with perfect parenting than we think. We get into conscious vs. gentle parenting, how our own childhood wounds show up in our kids, and why trying to get everything right might actually get in their way. Plus, we talk about the “manosphere,” smartphones and social media, the mental load between moms and dads, postpartum pressure, and why sometimes the best thing we can do as parents is simply calm down and trust ourselves. — In this episode: - Conscious parenting vs. gentle parenting - How childhood wounds affect parenting - Regulating yourself before your child - The rise of the “manosphere” - How we raise boys vs. girls - Postpartum pressure and asking for help - Why good moms can have struggling kids — Thank you to our sponsors: Hatch Baby - Head to hatch.co/baby to shop and learn more, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries Wacoal - Visit WACOAL.com and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. Honest - Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target Square - Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/goodmom Larineco - Right now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at buylarine.com/goodmom — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk a lot about what happens to women when they become mothers-but what happens to men when they become dads? This week, I’m sitting down with dad of four, attorney, entrepreneur, and Come Together podcast host Abe Lichy for a conversation about the side of parenthood we don’t hear nearly enough about: what dads are actually going through. We talk about the pressure men feel to provide, protect, and quietly fix everything, why keeping that stress from your partner can actually create more distance in a marriage, and the surprisingly simple ways we can make each other feel seen after having kids. Plus, we get into raising children in a world of iPhones, Roblox, social media, and AI, why Abe wants his kids to have as much of an analog childhood as possible, and what reality TV has taught both of us about identity, attention, and knowing who you are outside of the version people see on screen. — In this episode: -Why dads often hide their stress instead of talking about it -How trying to “protect” your partner can create resentment in a marriage -The pressure men feel to provide, protect, and hold everything together -Why acknowledging your partner can make a bigger difference than you think -Raising kids without smartphones and social media -Why Abe refuses to give his 11-year-old an iPhone -The problem with Roblox and the endless-loop economy of kids’ technology -Giving kids an “analog” childhood in an increasingly digital world -Reality TV, identity, and the danger of becoming addicted to attention -What Abe hopes his four kids will someday say about him as a dad — Thank you to our sponsors: Little Spoon — Get 30% off your first order at littlespoon.com/GMOM with code GMOM Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target Visit WACOAL.com and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. If you have an iPhone, head to ladder.fit/GOODMOM and take a quick quiz to find your perfect Ladder plan. Use my link and get a free 7-day trial with NO credit card, and $10 off your first month if you join. Head to https://www.toothpillow.com/goodmom and use code GOODMOM.  Merit Beauty — Go to meritbeauty.com to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seven months postpartum, and I’m finally starting to feel a little more like myself- but motherhood has a funny way of making every step back toward yourself feel complicated. In this solo episode, I’m sharing an honest update on where I am now: taking my first girls’ trip without my daughter, navigating the guilt of going back to work, rebuilding my strength after pregnancy and a C-section, and realizing just how long “postpartum” can actually last. We talk about the pressure to be everything at once, why taking care of yourself can feel strangely selfish after becoming a mom, and the village that’s made it possible for me to find a rhythm that finally feels sustainable. Plus, an update on Nell, what we’ve learned about her CMPA, and a few of the baby products we’re loving right now. — In this episode: - The anxiety and guilt around leaving your baby for the first time - Going back to work and missing the moments you’re not there for - Rebuilding strength after pregnancy and a C-section - Why I regret not exercising more during pregnancy - Pelvic floor health and the things women should be taught much earlier - Why postpartum can still feel very real seven months later - Building a village, asking for help, and finding a sustainable rhythm - An update on Nelle, CMPA, solids, sleep, and our current baby favorites — Thank you to our sponsors: Hatch Baby — Head to ⁠hatch.co/baby⁠ to shop and learn more, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries Visit ⁠WACOAL.com⁠ and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target Go to ⁠oseamalibu.com⁠ and get 10% off your first order with code goodmom. Right now you can get 10% off the Night Pro Bottle Warmer and 10% when you pre- order the DeepClean Bottle Washer D8 at ⁠momcozy.com⁠ with code [GOODMOM]. Give your clothes a second life with Vinted. Download the Vinted app for free to start selling with no seller fees, so you keep everything " you earn. Right now, Orion is offering our listeners 15% off at ⁠orionsleep.com/goodmom⁠ — 📺 Subscribe: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth⁠ 📖 Newsletter: ⁠https://substack.com/@lobosworth⁠ 🛍️ Love Wellness: ⁠https://lovewellness.com⁠ 📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth⁠ 🎵 TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth⁠ — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the ⁠Dear Media⁠ podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caissie Levy won a Tony Award this year after more than two decades on Broadway. The speech went viral — not because of who she thanked, but because of who she didn't forget. The babysitters. The young women who traveled with her, lived with her family, and loved her kids when she couldn't be there. It was the most honest thing said on that stage all night. In this episode, Caissie gets real about what it takes to build a life on Broadway while raising two kids — the schedule that keeps you from bedtime six nights a week, the moment she walked away from a new show because her son needed her, and why becoming a mom made her better at her job, not worse. — In this episode: - Why Caissie thanked the babysitters at the Tonys — and what they actually meant to her career - The Broadway schedule nobody talks about and what it costs you as a mom - The moment she chose her son over a new show — and what happened next - How motherhood made her braver, not more cautious, in her career - Why the heartbreak and the joy of being a working mom always seem to show up at the same time — Thank you to our sponsors: Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/2oqydk8g #CashAppPodCash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Cash App Green features, Savings, Direct deposit, Round ups, Overdraft coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Visit shopstakt.com/GOODMOM and use code GMOM at checkout for 20% off your purchase.  Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target Merit Beauty — Go to meritbeauty.com to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. Right now, Larineco is offering our listeners up to 50% off at buylarine.com/goodmom Visit WACOAL.com and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who teaches us how to become parents? For Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, the answer starts with her own mom. We talk about the family values she hopes to pass down, the traditions she wants to recreate, what motherhood has revealed about herself, and the kind of mom she hopes her daughters remember decades from now. It's a thoughtful conversation about raising good humans, letting go of perfection, and focusing on what really matters. — In this episode: -The parenting lessons Katherine learned from her own mom -The values she hopes define her family -What motherhood surprised her most about -The parenting advice she thinks moms need to hear more often -The kid products she actually can't live without — Thank you to our sponsors: Hatch Baby — Head to hatch.co/baby to shop and learn more, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries ResortPass — Visit resortpass.com/goodmom for $20 off your first booking of $100 or more Primal Kitchen — Find Primal Kitchen dressings, sauces, and condiments at your local grocery store or at primalkitchen.com Visit WACOAL.com and use code GOOD MOM at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Offer valid for new customers only. Limit one code per customer. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of moms know Yuri Lamasbella for the videos that make you laugh and immediately send them to the group chat. But behind those relatable moments is a new mom navigating postpartum in real time. We talk honestly about the surprises of early motherhood, the moments every parent thinks they're alone in, the baby products she's actually loving, and why sharing these experiences helps all of us feel a little less alone. — In this episode: -The postpartum moments nobody warned Yuri about -The universal new-mom experiences we all think are "just us" -The baby products she actually reaches for every day -Why honesty (and humor) make motherhood easier to navigate — Thank you to our sponsors: BON CHARGE — Go to boncharge.com and use code GOODMOM to save 15% Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart, Target, and honest.com Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/goodmom — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's one piece of advice that could save you five years of heartache? Holly Madison joins me for an honest conversation about the lessons she learned the hard way—from dating and relationships to confidence, motherhood, and the beliefs she's completely changed her mind about. Instead of looking back at her story, we focus on what she knows now—and what every woman deserves to hear sooner. — In this episode: -The dating red flags Holly would never ignore today -The relationship advice she thinks women should stop believing -How becoming a mom completely changed what she cares about -The one lesson she wishes every woman could learn sooner — Thank you to our sponsors: Little Spoon — Get 30% off your first order at littlespoon.com/GMOM with code GMOM Roller Rabbit — Visit rollerrabbit.com and take 20% off your purchase of $150 or more with code GOODMOM20. Terms and exclusions apply. BON CHARGE — Go to boncharge.com and use code GOODMOM to save 15% ResortPass — Visit resortpass.com/goodmom for $20 off your first booking of $100 or more Hatch Baby — Head to hatch.co/baby to shop and learn more, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries Primal Kitchen — Find Primal Kitchen dressings, sauces, and condiments at your local grocery store or at primalkitchen.com Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finding time to exercise after having a baby feels impossible—but what if you only needed 15 minutes? Stakt founders Taylor and Millie built one of the fastest-growing fitness brands by designing products for the way women actually move today, and then they became moms themselves. We talk about postpartum fitness, body image, c-section recovery, pelvic floor PT, and why "getting your body back" might be the wrong goal altogether. — In this episode: - How to actually fit movement into life with a newborn - The truth about the "c-section shelf" and scar recovery - What to do if your partner makes negative comments about your postpartum body - Why postpartum care still leaves too many women figuring it out alone — Thank you to our sponsors: Visit shopstakt.com/GOODMOM and use code GMOM at checkout for 20% off your purchase.  — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Am I burnt out, or am I actually depressed? Tay Lautner — mental health advocate, former COVID nurse, and co-host of The Squeeze — knows how blurry that line gets, and she's built a whole life out of saying the quiet part out loud. Now 27 weeks pregnant with her first baby girl, Tay gets real about anxiety, PTSD, and why your brain sometimes protects you by blocking out the hardest moments — the kind she watched play out on the worst nights of a hospital shift. We dig into your group-chat questions: how to show up for a friend who's a brand-new mom, how to stay sane when the world feels bleak, and how to actually tell exhaustion apart from depression. It's the 2 a.m. spiral conversation that leaves you 10 pounds lighter. — In this episode: - The "basics checklist" Tay runs when her mental health dips — and why it starts with water - Why you can't remember the weeks after a traumatic C-section, and why that's your body protecting you - How to be a good friend to someone deep in newborn survival mode - The one question that separates burnout from depression: does rest actually fix it? - Here's a clean sponsor block to paste at the bottom of your episode description — copy-paste ready: — Thank you to our sponsors: - ResortPass — Visit ⁠resortpass.com/goodmom⁠ and use code GOODMOM for $20 off your first booking of $100 or more. - Honest — Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart, and Target. - Hatch Baby — Head to ⁠hatch.co/baby⁠ to shop and get real-time sleep support. Also on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries. - BON CHARGE — Go to ⁠boncharge.com⁠ and use code GOODMOM to save 15%. - Quince — Go to ⁠quince.com/goodmom⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. - Primal Kitchen — Find Primal Kitchen dressings, sauces, and condiments at your local grocery store or on ⁠Primalkitchen.com⁠. - Merit Beauty — Go to ⁠meritbeauty.com⁠ to get a free Signature Makeup Bag with your first order. — 📺 Subscribe: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth⁠ 📖 Newsletter: ⁠https://substack.com/@lobosworth⁠ 🛍️ Love Wellness: ⁠https://lovewellness.com⁠ 📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth⁠ 🎵 TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth⁠ — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the ⁠Dear Media⁠ podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk endlessly about pregnancy and babies—but almost never about intimacy. In this episode, the Spread the Jelly founders join me for a candid conversation about motherhood, relationships, sex after kids, and the experiences that leave so many women wondering, “Is this just me?” It’s funny, vulnerable, and the kind of conversation more parents are craving. — In this episode: - Why intimacy changes after kids (and why no one talks about it)   - The invisible mental load of modern motherhood   - Different paths to becoming a mother   - What parents wish they’d known sooner — This episode is brought to you by:   - Grow Therapy: Find a therapist covered by your insurance at growtherapy.com/GOODMOM - Honest: Shop Honest on Amazon, Walmart and Target - Hatch Baby: Shop at hatch.co/baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target, and Babylist registries - ResortPass: Get $20 off your first booking of $100 or more at resortpass.com/goodmom  - Roller Rabbit: Take 20% off your purchase of $150 or more with code GOODMOM20 at rollerrabbit.com (terms and exclusions apply)   - Skylight: Get $30 off your 15 inch Calendar at myskylight.com/GOODMOM — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four kids under five, including twins. Nia Sanchez of The Valley and former Miss USA joins Lo to get brutally honest about what raising a big family in 2026 actually costs, financially, maritally, and personally. While every headline says people are having fewer kids, Nia is living the opposite choice, and she's not pretending it looks like the highlight reel. She and Lo dig into the parenting expense that shocked her most, what really causes fights in a house with four kids, and why women are so afraid to admit they have help. — In this episode: The double standard: what society expects from mothers but never from fathers What would happen if all of Nia's help disappeared tomorrow The part of motherhood women are quietly struggling with but nobody says out loud The biggest lie social media tells mothers — This episode is brought to you by: ResortPass: Get $20 off your first booking of $100 or more at resortpass.com/goodmom Skylight: Get $30 off your 15 inch Calendar at myskylight.com/GOODMOM Roller Rabbit: Take 20% off your purchase of $150 or more with code GOODMOM20 at rollerrabbit.com (terms and exclusions apply) Rythm: Get 15% off your first month plus free shipping at rythm.health/goodmom BON CHARGE: Save 15% with code GOODMOM at boncharge.com — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I'm answering your Group Chat questions on the medical care gap for women. It's real, we all experience it, it's not your doctor's fault (but maybe sometimes it is - I have personally experienced that before), and IT SUCKS. The system should do better and today I'm getting into all of it from how to get your doctor to take you seriously, to gaps in postpartum care, to how we need to be paying more attention to Dad's mental state. I got hundreds of inbound questions and stories on this topic and this episode is a must listen.  — Sponsors: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Visit shopstakt.com/GOODMOM and use code GMOM at checkout for 20% off your purchase.  Go to boncharge.com and use code GOODMOM to save 15% Visit rollerrabbit.com and take 20% off your purchase of $150 or more with code GOODMOM20 at checkout Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/goodmom Visit GrowTherapy.com/GOODMOM today to get started. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I'm joined by Cameron Oakes Rogers (aka Freckled Foodie) for a conversation that felt less like a podcast and more like the group chat every new mom wishes she had. We talk about the parts of motherhood nobody really prepares you for: postpartum depression, intrusive thoughts, identity shifts, medical trauma, the shock of pregnancy, and the reality of bringing a baby home when everyone seems focused on the baby—but not on you. Cam shares her experience with postpartum depression after her first child, why her second postpartum experience was completely different, and what changed. I open up about my own postpartum depression, the complications surrounding my delivery, and the lingering questions that come with medical trauma after birth. We also get into the massive gaps in postpartum care, why women are still left piecing together so much information on their own, and the pressure to have the "right" motherhood experience when the truth is that every journey looks different. And because no mom conversation is complete without it, we answer your questions about mom friendships, mom cliques, and the baby products we actually think are worth buying (and the ones we absolutely don't). If you've ever found yourself wondering, "Is this normal?"—this episode is for you. Topics include: Postpartum depression and anxiety Intrusive thoughts and maternal mental health Pregnancy expectations vs. reality Medical trauma after birth Why postpartum care is still failing women The identity shift of becoming a mother Mom friendships and social pressure Baby products worth the money (and what to skip) Because women deserve the truth about motherhood—and nobody should have to figure it out alone. Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here. Right now, Merit Beauty is offering our listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at merit beauty dot com. Right now, Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15 inch Calendars by going to My Skylight dot com slash GOODMOM. Grow Therapy: Visit GrowTherapy.com/GOODMOM today to get started. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Huda Mustafa is one of the most fun hangs I've had on the show. This week we get into all of it: becoming a mom young at 19 and single motherhood, the wild ride to fame, and what it's actually like to figure yourself out with the entire internet watching. It's honest and real — but mostly, it's just a blast. Then I open up The Group Chat to answer your questions about doing it alone in every sense. The literal kind, like how a new mom is even supposed to start dating again. And the sneaky kind — the mom who has a partner and somehow still feels like she's running the whole show solo. The thread tying it all together: making time for yourself isn't selfish. It's the whole point of how you make motherhood really work. — Sponsors: Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at https://rythm.health/goodmom Bon Charge: Go to https://boncharge.com and use code GOODMOM to save 15% 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few months postpartum with her daughter Claude, Hannah Bronfman folded a $40 million venture fund she'd spent two years raising. In this episode, she tells me exactly why, and the answer is not what I expected. We talk about what it means to walk away from something you spent two years on. About the moment your body starts telling you a job is wrong, and what it takes to actually listen. About fundraising as a woman investing in women's health in a market that quietly killed the girl boss. About being a wellness founder and not always feeling well, and the weird specific trap of selling health while privately falling apart. If you don't know Hannah, she's a wellness entrepreneur, investor, mom of two, and one of seven women starring in The CEO Club on Prime Video. She founded Beautified, has been creating on the internet for fifteen years, and is also one of my real life friends. We're both two-time IVF moms, so this one wanders. We get into peptides and the article that found lead in injectables. Progesterone shots and the hives she got on her butt. Whether you should put your kids on the internet, and what happens when one of them goes missing at preschool (it was a braid, not a child, relax). But the part I keep thinking about is the bigger question underneath all of it. Sometimes the version of success you've been chasing is the one quietly pulling you away from your kids. And walking away isn't failure. It's the mom move. Hit follow wherever you're listening, and I'll see you next week. — Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Grow Therapy: Visit GrowTherapy.com/GOODMOM today to get started. Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you read Crib Sheet during pregnancy or kept Expecting Better on your nightstand, you already know Emily Oster. She's the economist who reads the parenting studies the rest of us pretend to. The one who told a whole generation of women, with actual data, that we could relax about a lot of things we had been losing sleep over. I've been a fan for years. So when I got to sit down with her, I asked her every question I've had since I gave birth. We got into the breastfeeding thing. The part where she'll tell you formula is fine, and she'll also tell you she breastfed her own daughter and worked too hard at it because the pressure got to her too. We got into sleep training, and why a lot of the loudest voices yelling about it online happen to have a sleep course to sell. We got into the fact that one woman alone in a house with a newborn was never how this was supposed to work, and yet that's somehow the standard we're all being measured against. She also has a new book out called The Unexpected, about pregnancy after complications, which I have a lot of feelings about because that was my pregnancy too. If you've been quietly carrying guilt about how the early days went, or you're about to be in the early days, this one is for you. — Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at rythm.health/goodmom. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that. I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven. Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on MTV aren't here anymore. Kailyn is. She has millions of followers online, has built three podcasts, a podcast network, a book club, a publishing imprint, and a physical sports business in Delaware while raising seven kids with five different men. She also lives next door to one of her exes. They share a driveway. He can see into her kitchen window. Yes I asked her what that's like. We get into the baby daddy speed round (one word per ex, you're welcome), how she found out about the cheating on TikTok and turned the whole thing into a three-part Patreon special because everybody else was profiting off her pain so why wouldn't she, the c-section shelf, the beads she bought at Hobby Lobby because of her ADHD, and why she has to apply a full year in advance to move out of Delaware. Kailyn is one of the sharpest business minds I've sat across from. She also might be a little unhinged in the best possible way. Buckle up for a fantastic convo. Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, subscribe on Spotify, and tell me your version in the YouTube comments. The longer read drops Sunday at lobosworth.substack.com. Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at rythm.health/goodmom. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I cried in the back of an Uber after my first dinner out post-baby. I'd had one and a half martinis (a mistake), I'd left my husband at home with the baby (he was thrilled for me to go), and I felt so guilty I genuinely couldn't stop sobbing. Mom guilt, right? That's what we'd call it. Except according to Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist, founder of Good Inside, and probably the most followed parenting expert on the planet, what I was feeling probably wasn't actually guilt at all. It was something else, and almost nobody talks about it. This week she sat down with me to talk about the weeks of motherhood nobody warns you about. Why your thoughts the first weeks postpartum are mostly about you, not your baby (and why that's normal, not a character flaw). Why intrusive thoughts about your baby are a sign of how much you love them, not a sign you're dangerous. Why the doer identity you bring into motherhood is going to crash, and what to do when it does. Plus the reframe she dropped at the end of our conversation that I haven't stopped thinking about since: the sentence that starts with "I'm a good mom who..." and how it changes everything. Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, subscribe on Spotify, and tell me your version in the YouTube comments. The longer read drops Sunday at lobosworth.substack.com. Sponsors: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Grow: Visit GrowTherapy.com/ GOODMOM today to get started — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first community episode of Tell Me I'm A Good Mom. I read hundreds of stories that came in through the Q+A form, and the theme I couldn't stop reading was the part of motherhood that happens years before the baby arrives. The IVF cycles. The miscarriages. The diagnoses that blindside you. The appointments where a doctor asks you a question you don't have the vocabulary for yet. In this episode I share three community stories with permission. Sherri, on seven IVF cycles and signing surrogacy papers in Mexico City at thirty-nine. Meghan, on a gestational diabetes diagnosis, a uterine infection after birth, and an OB phone call a week postpartum telling her half of her placenta was scar tissue. And Krystal, who miscarried alone in Cancún at a meditation retreat and chose radical openness on the other side of it. I answer three listener questions, including one on vaginal microbiome health and fertility that is the reason I started Love Wellness ten years ago. If you are in the middle of any of this, I hope this one finds you. Follow the show, and if you want to submit for the next one, the form is in my Instagram highlights. Sponsors: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Hatch: Head to hatch.co/baby to shop and learn more Cozy Earth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off Merit Beauty: Merit Beauty is offering our listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at meritbeauty.com Skylight: Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15 inch Calendars by going to MySkylight.com/GOODMOM — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The day after I had the baby, I fainted in my hospital room. Blood pressure skyrocketing, doctors running in, a brain aneurysm fear I couldn't shake, a day-old baby at the foot of the bed. I was convinced that was how my story ended. It wasn't. And it turns out most new moms have some version of this story. Nobody warns us. This week I sit down with writer Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, the book that started telling the truth about new motherhood a decade before the rest of us were ready to hear it. We get into the C-section I elected, the C-section shelf nobody warned me about, the fear of leaving your baby that you don't tell anyone about, and the identity shift that is not about your kid even though everyone assumes it is. It's honest. It's specific. It's not light. You will recognize parts of yourself in it. Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, Spotify, or subscribe to my channel on YouTube for video episodes. Find me on Substack where I go deeper on every episode. Sponsors: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The number that broke my brain wasn't the birth cost. It was the daycare quote.Vivian Tu, finance expert, Your Rich BFF, and New York Times bestselling author, came on to talk about the actual financial reality of becoming a parent — not the "start a 529" version you've heard a hundred times. The version where even financially stable people feel underwater in year one, and why that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.We got into the STRIP method (her framework for getting your money actually organized), why retirement has to come before your kid's college fund, what "net new costs" look like when you're a new parent, and how the money stories you inherited before age 7 are still running your financial life right now. No fluff. No shame. Just the honest conversation about money and motherhood most people aren't having. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I went through three egg retrievals, an endo surgery, and one transfer to get my daughter. Here's everything I wish I'd known before I started. I sat down with Dr. Sheeva Talebian, reproductive endocrinologist at CCRM Fertility New York, to talk about what IVF actually looks like from the inside. The math nobody warns you about. The lifestyle changes that actually move the needle on egg quality. What NAD+ therapy does for fertility and why more western doctors are finally paying attention. And why the number of eggs you retrieve is almost never the number that matters when it comes to viable embryos. If you're navigating IVF, egg freezing, unexplained infertility, endometriosis, or just trying to understand your fertility before it becomes urgent — this episode is for you. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm 8 weeks postpartum and I'm not okay. Not in a crisis — but not in the version of this that gets posted online either. I'm in the messy, unglamorous, nobody-talks-about-this middle of it. And I wanted to put it on record, in real time, because I genuinely could not find content that showed me what this actually looks like when you're living it. I have a retained placenta. A large ovarian cyst. Bleeding that won't stop. Hormones so destabilizing they feel, I'm not exaggerating, like a psychedelic experience. And on top of all of that, a body I don't recognize, clothes that don't fit, and a version of myself I'm still trying to locate somewhere underneath all of it. The six-week appointment comes and goes and the world acts like that's the end of the story. It is not the end of the story. For a lot of us it's barely the beginning of understanding what just happened to our bodies and who we are now inside them. I made this episode because I was desperate for it and it didn't exist. Nobody shows you this part. The books don't cover it. The instagram posts skip it. The doctors send you home with almost nothing. I have nearly 900,000 followers and when I asked for postpartum expert recommendations I got four responses. Four. Here's what I want you to know: the discomfort is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a side effect of what your body just did. The hormonal chaos, the physical recovery, the identity shift, the grief, the joy, the confusion of feeling all of it at once. This is postpartum. Very few women get to skip it. And because almost nobody talks about it honestly, so many of us move through it thinking we're alone or behind or broken. We are not. I'm sharing this because I think new moms deserve more than a six-week checkup and a pamphlet. You deserve to see what this actually looks like in real time, so that when you're in it, you feel less alone and more supported. I know I'm going to be okay. I really do. But right now I'm in it, and I want you to know that it is okay to be deeply uncomfortable. You are allowed to struggle. You are allowed to not have it together. That is not failure. That is postpartum. You are a good mom. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've been sharing my life publicly since I was 17 — first on Laguna Beach, then The Hills, then a decade of building Love Wellness by being honest about my body and my health. So when I got pregnant, keeping it private was never really the question. And I get into my TV origin story on today's episode.. But being pregnant online is different. This episode is part manifesto, part cultural riff on why the instinct to share a moment this big has always existed — long before the internet gave it a new address. I get into my own fertility journey, the IVF and endometriosis surgery that I think actually got me here, and the women online whose stories gave me language for things I didn't know how to name yet. And the question every modern parent is quietly wrestling with: what's actually okay to share about your kid? No agenda. No lectures. Just honest conversation. —————————————————— Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness —   Subscribe:   / @lobosworth   Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth  Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com  Instagram:  d / lobosworth    TikTok:  c / lobosworth   — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network.ed by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I had a plan. Birth had other ideas. I'm starting this podcast the only way that felt right — with the story that started everything. In this episode, I'm sharing the birth plan I made, the vaginal birth I hoped for, and the emergency C-section I didn't see coming. This is my birth trauma, my recovery, and the moment I realized motherhood was never going to go the way I expected. If your birth story didn't go according to plan, this one's for you. —————————————————— Newsletter— where I break down every episode and say what I wish I had said: https://substack.com/@lobosworth Follow me IG: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth Follow me TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth GO SHOPPING, HONEY... NEW Quick Melt Strips: https://lovewellness.com/products/quick-melt-strips-sleep Viral Intimate Skin Support Spray: https://lovewellness.com/products/intimate-skin-support —————————————————— Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pregnancy and motherhood come with pressure, opinions, and plenty of advice, but very few honest conversations about how it actually feels to be a mom. “Tell Me I’m a Good Mom” speaks to the pressure to get it right and the fear of being judged when we don’t. Through her own transition into motherhood, Lo Bosworth Natale explores the identity shift, expectations, emotional plot twists, and educational hacks that make the journey lighter, all while navigating a culture that performs, posts, and rates motherhood online. This is not about perfect parenting. It is about becoming a mother, for real. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices