Come To Mama

Kalimba Bennett Tuck & Karen Valby
  • 5.0 (29)
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Come To Mama

Welcome! We are Kalimba Bennett Tuck and Karen Valby, best friends for over a quarter century trying to survive this f****d-up world with our joy intact. We are mothers, writers, whiners, and strivers holding space for a weekly sleepover-style, deep, absurd and big-humored conversation with each other, and anyone else who can bear us. So if your own mother isn't available or can't offer unconditional ears...COME TO MAMA. If your friends have lost patience with your mess....COME TO MAMA. If you need reassurance that we too are struggling with some of the same crazy thoughts in your head... COME TO MAMA. Want the mama’s thoughts on your drama? Email us: cometomamapod@gmail.com Instagram: @cometomamapod Twitter: @cometomamapod

  1. 01/16/2023

    EPISODE 33: BE THE PANINI

    The Mamas are riding high this episode, with Karen celebrating a dear friend’s cancer-free scans. Just in case all this joy gets you sweaty, like Karen in her faucets-on 20s, Kalimba has a deodorant rec for you. In Listener questions, a bride wonders how much she owes her fiancé’s family when it comes to their demands and a friend wonders how to deal with a loose-lipped betrayal. The Mamas role play the art of awkward confrontation.

    1h 10m

  2. 12/31/2022

    EPISODE 32: BITCHES AND DITCHES

    It’s the last episode of the year so gather ‘round Listener for some conversational nog. As the Mamas turn the page on 2022, they share what they’re sick of,  what they’re releasing, what they want to heal, and what they’re ready to embrace. Onwards, upwards, sideways into the great unknown.

    43 min

  3. 12/06/2022

    EPISODE 31: INCURABLE JOY

    This week The Mamas welcome Joy Campbell - podcaster, writer, life coach, and mama living an accelerated life with an incurable diagnosis - to discuss the silver linings of Cancer 2.0, how to manage your most constant companion (your mind), how to love on those on a medical journey the right way, and how to get Oprah, Augusten Burrows and Misty Tripoli on your support dream team.

    1h 6m

  4. 11/14/2022

    EPISODE 30 WANTED: BABYSITTERS

    This week, the Mamas turn their attention on their squalling, needy, tender, petty babies. Not their actual sons and daughters, mind you, but their dum dums within. Are our inner wounded babies a good hang? Not if you live with them! But maybe Listener could benefit from making a playdate for her baby with ours. No spanking. No time-outs. Lots of snacks.

    1h 6m

  5. 10/31/2022

    EPISODE 29: LIFE AS WE KNOW IT

    Is there such a thing as dancing out your Daddy issues? Kalimba reports back from a movement therapy studio with a  tender review. Maybe there's room in that dance studio for Karen's family of four plus five animals, because after 15 years in a rent-stabilized house your Mama needs a new roof over her head. What is more destabilizing than a move? Death! The Mamas and Katherine Heigl are here to lecture and shame and bribe you with Halloween candy to put your estates in order if they aren't already.

    58 min
  6. EPISODE 28: BEWARE OF "NICE GUYS"

    10/21/2022

    EPISODE 28: BEWARE OF "NICE GUYS"

    Listener, we’re back! Unfortunately we still have families, gross. Take a break from yours with a chat about birthday parties, boundaries, and a wellness culture that demands we claim our caption-ready worth even when we don’t feel it. In questions, a woman needs help dealing with her dead parents and a man doesn’t understand why he can’t get laid.

    1h 1m

  7. 09/26/2022

    EPISODE 27: GROW AS WE GO?

    Kalimba went to see her therapist Ben Platt and he’s helping her deal with her anxiety. A tarot card reader reached out to Karen, who dared hope the universe wanted to advise her on how best to parent her teenager. Then things got weird. Pour yourself a glass of potato salad and come sit a while with the Mamas. Link to Ben Platt's Grow As We Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDeNQNtW1f8

    1h 1m

  8. 09/13/2022

    EPISODE 26: THEY JUMP INTO A PETRI DISH, THEY JUMP INTO A PETRI DISH

    Kids are back to school, and Mamas are feeling loopy. A chance encounter with a college alum takes them back to their younger days when Karen was in the dirtbag dorm and Kalimba was keeping it cute with the James Avery girls. Switching gears, sloppily!, the Mamas have a few things to say about the fragile male ego. It is omnipresent and malignant when unchecked. Permission granted to tell an 8-year-old boy or a 50-year-old husband to get over themselves.

    1h 6m
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About

Welcome! We are Kalimba Bennett Tuck and Karen Valby, best friends for over a quarter century trying to survive this f****d-up world with our joy intact. We are mothers, writers, whiners, and strivers holding space for a weekly sleepover-style, deep, absurd and big-humored conversation with each other, and anyone else who can bear us. So if your own mother isn't available or can't offer unconditional ears...COME TO MAMA. If your friends have lost patience with your mess....COME TO MAMA. If you need reassurance that we too are struggling with some of the same crazy thoughts in your head... COME TO MAMA. Want the mama’s thoughts on your drama? Email us: cometomamapod@gmail.com Instagram: @cometomamapod Twitter: @cometomamapod

Information

  • Creator
    Kalimba Bennett Tuck & Karen Valby
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022
  • Show Website
    Come To Mama

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