Mama Making Podcast

Jessica Lamb

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 ·  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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

  5. 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!

  6. Jul 15 ·  Video

    Bronwyn Barry | Functional Fitness for Real Life: How to Stop Chasing Fads and Start Moving for the Life You Actually Have

    What if the reason your fitness plan isn't working isn't your discipline — it's the plan?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Bronwyn Barry, founder of BU Fitness and Nutrition, a functional fitness and nutrition practice built for people the wellness industry forgets: new parents, women in life transition, and anyone over 35 who's tired of being sold results they never actually wanted.  Bronwyn shares her journey from professional dancer and aerialist to nutrition scientist and fitness coach, what a broken toe taught her about taking care of herself, and the practical framework she uses to help busy moms and women in transition prioritize their health without perfect conditions, perfect schedules, or a plan that falls apart the second life gets in the way. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Bronwyn's path from professional dancer and aerialist to cruise ships to nutrition science and personal trainingDisordered eating, body image pressure in the performing arts, and the mindset shift that finally got her hiredHow a broken toe changed everything — and became the foundation of her coaching philosophyWhy the wellness industry's advice is designed for a version of you that no longer existsThe "windows of opportunity" framework — and why flexibility is more powerful than a perfect scheduleDecision fatigue and the mental load — why moms need fewer choices, not moreStrength training as the anchor: why it works for 45 minutes three times a week or 10 minutes five times a weekWhat to look for — and what to avoid — when choosing a fitness program or coachTaking up space: building pride in what your body can do, not what it looks likeFunctional fitness in action: a client caring for an elderly parent and finding sanity through strength trainingFitness culture in Ireland vs. the US — and the power of sport as a lifelong communityThe Function program — a six-month periodized fitness plan for tired humans who want to function betterHOW TO CONNECT WITH BRONWYN BARRY Website: beufitnessnandnutrition.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/be.ufitnessandnutrition/Start your fitness journeyFUNCTION FoundationBe(ing)U Blog and Be(ing)U Pod 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 8 ·  Video

    Julie Jancius | The Angel Medium: Trusting Your Intuition, Following Divine Signs, and Building a Life You Love

    What if the voice you've been ignoring is the most important one you have? In this episode, Jessica sits down with Julie Jancius — known as the Angel Medium, host of the top-ranked Angels and Awakening podcast, founder of Angel Reiki School, and author of the upcoming Angel Signs — for a conversation about intuition, divine guidance, and what it means to stop shrinking yourself and start living the life you're actually here for. Julie talks about leaving corporate life, building a thriving spiritual business, what angels actually are and how to connect with them, and the practical tools every busy mom can use to start trusting her gut again. This one will make you want to put down your to-do list and start daydreaming. MAIN TOPICS COVERED How Julie went from corporate career to angel medium — through a breakdown and a breakthroughLife as chapters: why God moves you on even when you're succeedingWhat angels actually are — and why Julie believes everyone can connect with themWhy spiritual teaching written by men often doesn't apply to moms doing everything at onceThe expansion and contraction method — using your body's energy as a yes or noSigns from God and the angels — what they mean and what they don'tJoy as a form of intuition — and why tuning into your own desires opens the channelHow motherhood turns on your intuition — and why we need to keep it onThe last six months: hiding away after something painful and choosing to come backPractical tools for busy moms to start reconnecting with their intuition todayAngels and Awakening podcast, Angel Reiki School, and the upcoming book Angel SignsRESOURCES MENTIONED The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren — referencedEckhart Tolle's concept of being the observer of your thoughts — referencedThomas More — referenced as a male spiritual teacher whose work resonatesHOW TO CONNECT WITH JULIE JANCIUS Website: http://theangelmedium.comPodcast: Angels and Awakening — available everywhere you listen to podcasts https://pod.link/1451424894Angel Reiki School: https://theangelmedium.com/get-certifiedBook: Angel Signs — coming spring 2027 - https://theangelmedium.com/buy-the-bookThis 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 1 ·  Video

    Thomai Roi | Arguably Feral: Three Burnouts, a Divorce, and Finally Building the Life She Actually Wanted

    What happens when you do everything right — and still feel like a stranger in your own life?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Thomai Roi, former pharmacist, founder of Arguably Feral Women, and divorce doula, for one of the most honest conversations about identity, burnout, and rebuilding this podcast has ever had. Thomai navigated three burnouts, three shuttered businesses, postpartum depression, a first marriage that wasn't right, and a total reinvention — and built her most successful work on the other side of all of it. She talks about identity residue, the sunk cost of the checklist life, why financial independence is the foundation of everything, and what it actually means to build from a place that's yours. This one is for every woman who has ever looked up and thought: how did I get here? MAIN TOPICS COVERED Growing up with an inherited vision of what life should look like — and following it without questioning itGoing from pharmacist to stay-at-home mom to accidental entrepreneur to divorce to reinventionPostpartum depression, clinical obesity, inflammatory arthritis, and the body's way of screaming for attentionWhat identity residue is and how it shapes the life we build without realizing itThe sunk cost fallacy of the checklist life — college debt, early marriage, and decisions made at 18How divorce became the catalyst for the most profound version of herselfWhy she says there's no right or wrong — only who you're being in the momentFinancial independence as the foundation of every woman's freedomThe sunny day trap — the weight moms put on themselves to perform perfect motherhoodWhat it actually takes to rebuild: accountability without shame, and presence without past-castingArguably Feral Women, the podcast, and the free divorce support community on SchoolWhat it means to be a divorce doula and who that work is forHOW TO CONNECT WITH THOMAI ROI Website: www.thomairoi.comPodcast: Arguably Feral WomenInstagram: @thomairoiofficialTikTik: https://tiktok.com/thomai.roiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomairoi/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thomairoi Threads: https://www.threads.com/@thomairoiYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArguablyFeralWomenFree divorce community on SkoolThis 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
    178
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Mama Making Podcast
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