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. 3d ago ·  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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

  5. Jun 24 ·  Video

    Ushta Canteenwalla | What Your Genes Are Trying to Tell You: A Genetic Counselor's Guide to Pregnancy, IVF, and Reproductive Health

    Most of us walk into our first OB appointment with an arm out for blood work — and no idea what we're actually being tested for.  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Ushta Canteenwalla, board-certified genetic counselor and founder of Find Genetics, to demystify prenatal and reproductive genetic testing from the ground up. From carrier screening before pregnancy to NIPT during, from IVF embryo selection to donor health profiles, Ushta walks through what's available, what it means, and how to make the decisions that are actually right for you — not your friend, not your OB's standard protocol, but you. This is the conversation every person planning a pregnancy deserves to have before they're sitting in that waiting room. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Why Ushta left a high-powered clinical role to build a telemedicine genetic counseling practiceThe gap in genetic counseling access — and why so many people never get offered testing they could have hadThe difference between carrier screening before pregnancy and testing done during pregnancyWhat NIPT (noninvasive prenatal testing) actually is — what it looks at, what it misses, and what false positives meanAmniocentesis and CVS — what they are, when they're done, and what risks they carryThe 20-week anatomy scan and what genetics has to do with what they're looking forIn utero therapy — conditions where treatment is possible before birthIVF, embryo testing, and selecting against serious genetic conditionsDonor egg and donor sperm — what genetic counselors look for in donor health historiesThe designer baby misconception — and what people are actually selecting forPersonal values, religious beliefs, and the role they play in genetic decision makingWhat a session with Ushta looks like — and what she's building next at Find GeneticsHOW TO CONNECT WITH USHTA CANTEENWALLA Website: findgenetics.comInstagram: @findgeneticsLinkedIn: Find Genetics or Ushta CanteenwallaThis 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. Jun 17 ·  Video

    Paulina Roe | The Mami Collective: Building a Community Where Ambitious Moms Don't Have to Choose

    What if being a little "selfish" actually made you a better mom?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Paulina Roe — Chicago radio personality, podcast host, and founder of the Mami Collective — for a candid, energetic, and deeply relatable conversation about ambitious motherhood, identity after baby, and why community changes everything. From her decade on Chicago radio to building a nationwide platform for moms who want more, Paulina shares her unfiltered take on postpartum identity, the myth of the selfless mom, and what it looks like to build the community you couldn't find. This one is for every mom who still wants it all — and knows she can have it. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Paulina's path from cassette tapes and UIC radio to the Fred Show and syndication across the countryStarting her first podcast in 2018 before podcasting was mainstream — and why she built the one she was looking forHow becoming a mom changed and elevated everything — without erasing who she wasThe fear of losing her identity in motherhood — and how she made sure that didn't happenWhy being called "selfish" at nine months pregnant became her philosophyThe connection between self-prioritization and a genuinely great postpartum experienceWhat the Mami Collective is — and how it evolved from brunches to summits, dinner series, grants, and media opportunitiesThe directory, the private newsletter, and how Paulina connects moms to real opportunitiesThe annual summit — what it is, what's coming in October, and who it's forWhere she wants to take the Mami Collective next — and why she's putting it into existence out loudRESOURCES MENTIONED Create and Cultivate — referenced as a summit model Paulina admiresBrio Skin — success story from the Mami Collective directoryGrief Magazine — featured Mami Collective memberHOW TO CONNECT WITH PAULINA ROE Website: themamicollective.comInstagram: @paulinaroe (personal) | @Mamicollective (community)Annual Summit: October 1st — tickets at themamicollective.comNewsletter: sign up at themamicollective.comThis 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. Jun 10 ·  Video

    Maria Ahmad | Borders, Babies, & Building Bridges: A Humanitarian's Guide to Migration, Motherhood, and Global Sisterhood

    What does it mean to raise globally conscious children in a world full of noise, misinformation, and borders — both literal and cultural?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Maria Ahmad, humanitarian, multilingual professional, journalist, and mom of two, whose life has spanned Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Latin America. Maria shares her journey from BBC radio journalist covering terrorism and elections to leading migration work for the United Nations, the realities of immigration that mainstream media gets wrong, what it looks like to raise sons who understand the female experience, and how moms everywhere — regardless of geography — can build the alliances that change the world. One of the most expansive and important conversations this podcast has ever had. MAIN TOPICS COVERED Maria's upbringing in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East — and how questioning gender restrictions shaped her worldviewFrom BBC radio journalist to UN migration expert — the career path she never plannedCovering terrorism, the Obama election, and the assassination of Benazir BhuttoHow becoming a mom transformed the way she experienced the worldMotherhood across continents — what she observed about family, community, and village across culturesRaising sons to understand and advocate for women — the conversation we're not having enoughThe cycle of abuse that gets passed down — and why the work starts with men, not just womenWhat migration actually is — and why everything in mainstream media is misinformationWomen and children in the migration system — why mothers flee, and what happens when they're separated from their childrenHow privileged moms can build alliances and take action for migrant familiesMedia literacy for busy moms — how to navigate the noise and find trustworthy sourcesCommunity protection, child safety, and what grandmothers can doThe global unpaid care labor crisis — and why it's a policy issue, not a personal oneRESOURCES MENTIONED NPR and PBS — recommended as starting points for trustworthy newsThe Daily Show — referenced for accessible political commentaryInternational Organization for Migration (IOM) — UN body on migrationUN Women — referenced for care labor advocacyBaby Voyage — company founded for traveling parentsThis 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. Jun 4 ·  Video

    Jenny Tucker | The Centerline Community: Matrescence, Community, and Finding Your People in Motherhood

    WELCOME TO SEASON 5: Moms Making Impact  🎉 What if the hardest parts of postpartum aren't a sign that something is wrong with you — but a sign that something is finally waking up?  In this episode, Jessica sits down with Jenny Tucker, founder of Centerline Community, a support space for new and expecting moms navigating postpartum and matrescence. Jenny brings her background in mental health counseling and yoga to a conversation about the good mother myth, the portal of postpartum, generational healing, and why building a village isn't just nice to have — it's biologically necessary.  This one is for every mom who has ever felt alone in the hardest season of her life. MAIN TOPICS COVERED How Centerline Community started as a prenatal yoga Zoom call in March 2020 — and grew to 500+ momsWhy existing postpartum support is mostly baby-focused — and what moms actually need insteadThe portal of postpartum — what gets unearthed when a baby is bornThe good mother myth and the facade of perfect mom lifeMatrescence as an opportunity for generational healingWhy moms are biologically not designed to be alone with their babies all dayThe people-pleasing conditioning that makes postpartum harder than it has to beRunning a business from a feminine energy frameworkHow to find your village when you're new, isolated, or introvertedWhat it looks like to stop outsourcing your own wisdomThe Centerline Community membership — weekly Zoom groups, in-person meetups, and the MothershipHOW TO CONNECT WITH JENNY TUCKER Website: centerlinecommunity.comInstagram: @centerlinecommunityFree month trial code: welcomemamaThis 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
    174
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Mama Making Podcast
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