Mama Making Podcast

Jessica Lamb
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The Mama Making Podcast is a space for moms making impact - in their communities, in their work, and in the everyday spaces that shape the world. Hosted by Jessica Lamb, this show features honest conversations with women building, leading, creating, and mothering in ways that ripple outward. Each week brings a mix of solo reflections, expert interviews, and real stories from moms navigating growth in every season — from pregnancy and postpartum to leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and beyond. Because motherhood doesn’t pause growth. It often reshapes it.

  1. 5d ago

    Katrina Ostmeyer | More Than a Diagnosis: How Beyond the Individual is Changing the Way We Support Neurodivergent Kids and Families

    What does it look like to build a practice from the ground up — not to fit the system, but to actually serve the people in front of you?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Katrina Ostmeyer, licensed psychologist, board certified behavior analyst, mom of two neurodivergent kids, and founder of Beyond the Individual. From a difficult pregnancy and a preterm birth that shifted her entire trajectory, to building a practice that serves children, families, and schools across complex behavioral and mental health presentations, Katrina brings the expertise of a researcher, the honesty of someone who has made every mistake, and the heart of a mom who knows firsthand what families navigating neurodivergence actually need. This is a conversation about doing things differently — and why it matters. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Katrina's winding path from pre-med to research psychologist to nonprofit director to private practice founderHow a difficult pregnancy and preterm birth shifted her priorities from academia to family and communityMaking her own PhD internship to get back to Kansas City — and what it taught her about forging your own pathLeading a not-for-profit expanding autism services in Kansas — and why quality versus scale became a values conflictStarting Beyond the Individual with a van, no plan, and a willingness to figure it outOpening a brick and mortar clinic in July 2020 — and everything that happened nextExpanding to multiple locations, then pulling back — what she learned from scaling too fastThe decision to leave the insurance model behind and serve a niche, complex populationJoining the University of Kansas as associate faculty — and the three most successful years of the businessLeaving academia again to return to Beyond the Individual full timeThe transdiagnostic approach — what it means and why specialty diagnoses miss the full personHow Beyond the Individual works across home, school, and community systemsSupporting parents of neurodivergent kids: acceptance commitment therapy, emotion regulation, and advocacyThe birth to five program (Beyond Beginnings) — why early intervention is paramountServices available across 44 statesHOW TO CONNECT WITH KATRINA OSTMEYER  Website: http://beyondtheindividual.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/beyondtheindividual/Services available across 44 statesThis episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  2. Aug 26

    Courtney Naliboff | Confident, Sloppy, and Loud: Motherhood, Punk Music, and the Postpartum Recovery Guide You Actually Need

    What if the book you needed in postpartum didn't exist — so you wrote it yourself?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Courtney Naliboff — writer, teacher, EMT, musician, and co-author of Your Postpartum Body: The Complete Guide to Healing After Pregnancy — for a conversation about refusing to lose yourself in motherhood, processing identity through punk music, and the postpartum information gap that prompted her to do something about it.  From living and parenting on a remote Maine island to starting a feminist post-riot punk band at 37 to writing the book she desperately needed after her own birth experience, Courtney is living proof that becoming a parent doesn't have to erase any part of who you are. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Moving to North Haven Island at 24 — and the challenges of building identity in a condensed, fish-bowl communityBecoming a parent nine years into island life — and how it expanded and contracted her world simultaneouslySix weeks of maternity leave, a half-year sabbatical, and why she was so ready to go back to workNursing with one arm and typing a memoir with the other — what intentional creative identity looks like in early motherhoodHow she found community on the island through shared parenthoodStarting Bait Bag — a feminist post-riot punk band — at 37, in 2018, because she had a lot of anger to processWhat modeling creative expression and collaboration means for her daughterThe song "Tear Me in Two" — and the chorus that became the seed of a book: nobody told meThe postpartum information gap — pelvic floor, bladder changes, returning to running, and everything nobody explainsCo-writing Your Postpartum Body with pelvic health PT Ruth MacyHow a summer-resident literary agent changed the trajectory of the projectThe book's core thesis: centering the postpartum person regardless of gender or parenting statusToxic productivity culture, body image pressure, and why so much postpartum experience is still hush-hushCourtney's current diagnosis — breast cancer, curative treatment, great prognosis — and her Substack Mud PuppyHOW TO CONNECT WITH COURTNEY NALIBOFF Book: Your Postpartum Body — available at Amazon, Bookshop.org, and wherever books are sold (https://bookshop.org/p/books/your-postpartum-body-the-complete-guide-to-healing-after-pregnancy-courtney-naliboff/a8bd729776629857)Substack: Mud Puppy — courtneynaliboff.substack.comInstagram / Threads / Facebook: @chnaliboffBait Bag Instagram: @baitbagtheband https://www.instagram.com/baitbagtheband/Bandcamp: baitbag.bandcamp.com | Streaming everywhere except SpotifyDeery Band Instagram: @deeryband https://www.instagram.com/deeryband/This episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  3. Aug 19

    Ashley Wall | The Publishing House Built on Purpose: Equity, Adventure, and Books for Every Child

    What does it take to build a children's publishing house rooted in imagination, equity, and purpose — while raising two kids and learning the industry from scratch?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Ashley Wall, founder of Mama Bear Books and award-winning children's author, to talk about the books she was called to write, the under-resourced classrooms that shaped her mission, how she found balance between purpose and profit, and why she believes every child deserves a book that sees them. From screen time to storytelling, from math teacher to publisher, this conversation is for every mom who has a big idea and hasn't quite let herself go for it yet. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Ashley's journey from middle school math teacher to stay-at-home mom to children's publisherWhy imagination is the foundation of innovation, confidence, and change — and what happens when kids don't have itThe under-resourced classrooms that shaped Ashley's mission around equity and accessPartnering with the Barbara Bush Foundation to get books into the hands of kids who need themScreens vs. books — what Ashley has observed, and the practical advice she gives to parentsHow she found balance between purpose-driven mission and business sustainabilityWhat happened when the business started consuming her — and how she pulled backBatching work, setting hours, and involving her kids in the business in age-appropriate waysBuilding a publishing house as a co-founder with her husband — and how they keep family and business separateThe Day I Had series, Vix's Balloons, and the Wildflower Girls chapter book seriesAshley's mission to build confidence in girls through the Wildflower Girls initiativeWhere to find Mama Bear Books — Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Target, and local storesRESOURCES MENTIONED Puddle Jumpers — parenting book on raising leadership and confidence in kids, recommended by AshleyBarbara Bush Foundation — literacy nonprofit Ashley partners with to get books to kids in needHOW TO CONNECT WITH ASHLEY WALL Website: https://www.mamabearbooks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamabear_books/Books available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Target, and local bookstores https://www.mamabearbooks.com/collections/all-booksThis episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  4. Aug 12 ·  Video

    Erica Bunton | The App Every Pregnant Woman Needs: Nutrition, Food Safety, and Making Healthy Eating Simple

    What if you could scan any food in any grocery store and instantly know whether it's safe for where you are in your pregnancy?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Erica Bunton — co-founder of Good Roots, a pregnancy nutrition app backed by FDA, CDC, and ACOG data — to talk about the app she built after her own scary prenatal health scare, the statistic about Black women and childbirth complications that drove her mission, and how Good Roots is helping pregnant and postpartum women make more informed, confident nutrition choices — from the family dollar store to their home kitchen.  This one is equal parts health education and entrepreneurship story, and every mom planning or expecting a baby needs to hear it. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Erica's background in pharmaceutical and medical device sales — and how it shaped her approach to healthcarePassing out during her first trimester in Denver — discovering severe anemia she didn't know she hadThe statistics about Black maternal mortality and preventable complications that drove her to actWhat Good Roots is — a pregnancy nutrition app that lets users scan any barcode for gestational safety scoresHow the app works: scanning packaged goods, generating recipes, building grocery lists, and allergen flaggingWhy the app is built on FDA, CDC, and ACOG data — and why that mattersServing women in under-resourced areas — how the app helps people make better choices anywhere food is availableHow Good Roots is being used by OBGYNs, doulas, and private practices as a between-appointment resourceThe pivot from wearables to nutrition — and what providers taught her about what women actually needThree active pilot programs: doula organization, hospital, and large private practice in the DMVBuilding a business with her husband as co-founder and CTO — and what that's actually likeWhat's coming next: community features, registry partnerships, and more under the Maternal Health AI umbrellaAdvice for any entrepreneur: don't lose sight of the star — know why you built itHOW TO CONNECT WITH ERICA BUNTON Website: https://usegoodroots.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/usegoodrootsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@usegoodrootsEmail: erica@maternalhealth.aiDownload Good Roots on the App Store or Google Play: https://usegoodroots.com/downloadThis episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  5. Aug 6 ·  Video

    Amanda Kingsley Malo | Democracy is For You: How PoliticsNow is Getting More Women to Run — and Win

    What if the most powerful thing a mom can do is understand that politics and motherhood are not separate?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Amanda Kingsley Malo — civic educator, democracy advocate, and founder of PoliticsNow — for a conversation about making civic engagement accessible, getting more women into office, and why not voting is also a political choice.  Amanda has helped elect 60 women across two election cycles in Ontario without pushing any political agenda — just by giving people the tools, language, and confidence to participate. From managing news overwhelm to her daughter forming a union in second grade, this is one of the most energizing conversations the Mama Making Podcast has ever had. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Growing up in a household where politics was discussed like weather — and why that's rarer than it should beFrom teacher to campaign volunteer to founder of Politics NowWhy municipal politics is the most tangible and immediate form of civic engagementHow Politics Now has helped elect 60 women across two Ontario election cyclesWhy accessibility is the most important thing missing from political participationThe public transit analogy: how to think about voting, parties, and changing your mindWhat it actually takes to get more women to run — campaign schools, workbooks, and meeting moms where they areManaging news overwhelm: Amanda's daily radio routine and how she protects her mental healthNot voting is still a political choice — why that mattersThe unique gifts every mom can bring to civic engagement right nowNon-traditional ways to support campaigns: making dinner, babysitting, bringing coffee on election dayTime, talent, and treasure: how to contribute at whatever capacity you haveWhy politics is not over there — it's in the air you breathe, the schools your kids attend, the parks you visitHer daughter forming a union in second grade — and what that says about raising civically engaged kidsFree campaign schools coming up in Ontario ahead of municipal electionsHOW TO CONNECT WITH AMANDA KINGSLEY MALO Website: https://www.polinow.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polinoworg/ | https://www.instagram.com/kingsleymalo/Free downloadable resources: available at polinow.org https://www.polinow.org/resourcesThis episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  6. Aug 3 ·  Video

    LIVE RECAP: Maternal Mental Health Demystified: Breaking the Silence, Building the Village

    What happens when a therapist, a doula agency founder, and a community of perinatal providers decide that maternal mental health has been silent long enough?  In this live recap, Jessica sits down with Liz Gray — therapist and founder of Maternal Trauma Support Network — and Anna Rodney — founder of Chicago Family Doulas and Birth and Baby University — to recap their second annual Maternal Mental Health Demystified panel. They cover the barriers families face in getting support, the providers most people don't know about, the gaps in how the medical system handles perinatal mental health, and what both organizations are building to change it. This one is for every mom who has ever felt alone in the hardest parts of pregnancy and postpartum — and every provider who wants to serve them better. MAIN TOPICS COVERED The origin of the Maternal Mental Health Demystified panel and why Liz and Anna joined forcesWhy isolation breeds shame — and what happens when we create space to talk about itThe unique value of combining a therapeutic lens with boots-on-the-ground doula supportHow doulas are trained (and often anxious) to recognize and address mental health concerns in the homeThe barriers to postpartum mental health support: financial access, provider shortages, and normalizing the harmfulWhy common doesn't mean there's no support — and what families deserve even in "normal" hard seasonsThe gap in pediatrician and physician training around lactation, tongue ties, and perinatal mental health screeningsThe providers most families don't know they need: IBCLC, pelvic floor PT, chiropractor, OT, therapist, psychiatrist, doulaSearching for a PMHC-certified therapist through Postpartum Support InternationalThe Trauma Informed Maternal Health Directory — what it is, who it's for, and how to use itChicago Family Doulas, Birth and Baby University, and the new Project Bold nonprofitHow education empowers families to ask the right questions and advocate for themselvesThe power of lived experience alongside professional expertise on a panelWhat's coming next for both organizationsRESOURCES MENTIONED Postpartum Support International (PSI) — directory for finding PMHC-certified perinatal therapists HOW TO CONNECT WITH LIZ GRAY Website: https://www.maternaltraumasupport.com/Instagram: @maternaltraumasupport https://www.instagram.com/maternaltraumasupport/Trauma Informed Maternal Health Directory — free to search at https://directory.maternaltraumasupport.com/search/HOW TO CONNECT WITH ANNA RODNEY Chicago Family Doulas: https://chicagofamilydoulas.com/Birth and Baby University: https://birthandbabyuniversity.com/Quarterly events: Doctors & Doulas events and Meet the Doula events — https://chicagofamilydoulas.com/events/This episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  7. Jul 29 ·  Video

    Beth Mazza & Victoria Sivrais | Entrepreneur Like a Mother: Nine Kids, Two Exits, and the Roadmap They Wish They'd Had

    What if you didn't have to choose between being a great mom and building a great business?  Beth Mazza and Victoria Sivrais — co-founders of Female Mavericks and authors of Entrepreneur Like a Mother — are living proof that you don't. Together they've built and sold two services businesses, raised nine children across their combined entrepreneurial journeys, and built a 20,000-strong community of mompreneurs.  In this episode they talk about the moment each of them took the leap, the power of a kitchen cabinet, why corporate America is not as safe as you think, and the practical roadmap in their book for getting from idea to scale without apologizing for being a mom while you do it. This one is for every woman who has been sitting on the sidelines waiting for permission to go. MAIN TOPICS COVERED How Beth and Victoria met, built two services firms together, and sold both to large consulting firmsNine children between them — all born during their entrepreneurial yearsThe green flags that told them they were on the right pathWhy corporate America is not as safe as we think — and why starting earlier has long-term benefitsBuilding a business when your kids are young vs. when they're teenagers — and what each season actually requiresThe power of a kitchen cabinet: cheerleaders, executors, and the people who won't let you spiralOvercoming outside critics — including the people closest to you who think it's too riskyThe freedom number: how to calculate if you can actually make the leapWhy they wrote Entrepreneur Like a Mother — and what made existing books fall short for momsBeing mom forward in the boardroom — and refusing to hide itFemale Mavericks: the community, the book, the course, and the mission to get 10,000 women to seven-figure businessesEntrepreneur Like a Mother — available for pre-order September 22ndHOW TO CONNECT WITH BETH & VICTORIA Website: https://femalemavericks.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femalemavericks/LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/femalemavericksNewsletter: Founders Files https://femalemavericks.com/founder-files/Entrepreneur Like a Mother — pre-order available at femalemavericks.com, launches September 22nd https://femalemavericks.com/entrepreneur-like-a-mother/This episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

  8. Jul 22 ·  Video

    Renata Heringer | Grief, Immigration, and Açaí: The Story of Starting Over and Building Something Beautiful

    What do you do when you lose your entire immediate family four months after giving birth, in a country that isn't your home, with no roadmap for what comes next?  If you're Renata Heringer, you grieve — and then you build. In this episode, Jessica sits down with Renata, a former physician from Brazil who immigrated to Canada, navigated unimaginable loss, and launched Tupi Açaí from her home kitchen while still on maternity leave. Today Tupi has four storefronts across Alberta and a community of Brazilians and Canadians who show up — rain, snow, or minus 40 — because what Renata built tastes like home. This is a story about grief and joy coexisting, about community as survival, and about what happens when you take the first step anyway. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Renata's upbringing in Vila Velha, Brazil — daughter of a physician and pastor, raised by the oceanImmigrating to Canada alone in 2018 for a master's degree at the University of AlbertaBecoming a mom for the first time during the pandemic — and what early postpartum felt like far from familyThe tragedy that changed everything: losing her mom, dad, and brother when her son was four months oldWhat grief actually looks like — and why it doesn't work the way we're taughtJoy and grief coexisting — and what that taught her about resilience and motherhoodBuilding community as an immigrant from scratch — and why it requires intentional effortThe Brazilian mom group that changed everything in her early motherhood yearsHow a conversation with her husband planted the seed for Tupi AçaíStarting from her home kitchen and growing to a farmers market booth, then four storefrontsPartnering with a Brazilian entrepreneur who found her on InstagramWhat it means to give immigrant workers their first job in a new countryHer advice for moms afraid to reinvent themselves: start small, test your idea, take the first stepThe grocery business that failed — and why she's grateful for it anywayHOW TO CONNECT WITH RENATA HERINGER Tupi Açaí Bowls Website: https://www.tupibowls.ca/Tupi Açaí Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tupibowlsca/?hl=enThis episode is sponsored by Collabs Creative - a boutique digital marketing company helping small business owners and creatives tell their story. Follow The Mama Making Podcast on socials on Instagram and Facebook! Share and subscribe to the podcast: click this link Watch on YouTube: Click here!

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The Mama Making Podcast is a space for moms making impact - in their communities, in their work, and in the everyday spaces that shape the world. Hosted by Jessica Lamb, this show features honest conversations with women building, leading, creating, and mothering in ways that ripple outward. Each week brings a mix of solo reflections, expert interviews, and real stories from moms navigating growth in every season — from pregnancy and postpartum to leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and beyond. Because motherhood doesn’t pause growth. It often reshapes it.

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  • Creator
    Jessica Lamb
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    181
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Mama Making Podcast
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