The WonderMama Coffee Chat | Real Conversations for Moms

Leonne Sherr
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The WonderMama Coffee Chat is a weekly conversation for moms who are carrying a lot and want to feel calmer, more resourced and more like themselves again. New episodes every Wednesday. Each week, I sit down with a guest who brings real experience and grounded insight into the things we carry as moms: the mental load, burnout, money stress, mom guilt, raising confident children, relationships, self-worth and finding ourselves again after years of giving so much of ourselves to everyone else. These aren’t quick fixes or parenting tips. They’re honest conversations about motherhood, identity and how we lead our homes and our own lives through pressure, uncertainty and every season of change. Hosted by Leonne Sherr, founder of The WonderMama™. Join us inside The WonderMama Community: https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827

  1. 1d ago

    Capable but Running on Empty? Self Regulation for Moms | Hanna Curman | WonderMama Coffee Chat Ep 44

    If you are capable of carrying everything and still running on empty, this conversation is for you. Hanna Curman explains how the brain shapes calm at home and at work. Hanna Curman joins me all the way from Sweden. She is an executive advisor, a brain based coach and a connector with more than 26 years in leadership and organizational transformation, and she is the creator of The Clarity Chain. Hanna believes capability is only a strength when you have the capacity to go with it, which is something so many of us who are raising children, holding our families together and building our work quietly forget. We talk about why our brains are still wired for safety the way they were thousands of years ago, and why the people around us, our children included, mirror whatever state we walk in with. Hanna shares why the most responsible thing a leader or a mother can do is regulate herself first, how a few minutes of breathing before you walk through the door can save you hours, and how she taught her son from a very young age to notice where a feeling lives in his body. We also talk about interoception, The Clarity Chain, and why the strongest people are the ones who let themselves be supported. Connect with Hanna Curman Email: hanna@hannacurman.se Website: https://hannacurman.se/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannacurman Next week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat, I sit down with Ilze Krastina to talk about health and how we can take real ownership of our own well being. Next week: Ilze Krastina New episodes of The WonderMama Coffee Chat go live every Wednesday at noon EST. I'm Leonne Sherr, and I guide moms and founders back to calm, clarity and a life that feels like their own. Find more at TheWonderMama.com If this conversation helped you breathe a little easier, like, share and subscribe so the next mama can find it too.

  2. Oct 28

    Courage Before Confidence: A Mom of Seven on Doing It Scared | Sherri Sladek (Ep. 43)

    What if confidence isn’t something you wait for, and courage is what builds it? On this episode of the WonderMama Coffee Chat, I sit down with leadership strategist Sherri Sladek, a mom who has adopted seven children with disabilities from the foster care system. We talk about why moms are so courageous for their children and so hesitant to be courageous for themselves and their businesses. Sherri shares the moment she and her husband chose to bring home a medically fragile baby without knowing whether they could do it. She explains why an IEP meeting can work like a mastermind, and how her Meridian event and roundtable create safe tables for leaders who feel alone at the top. She also gives us a simple tool every mom and mompreneur can start today: the evidence journal. If you’re a mom, a founder or an entrepreneur waiting to feel ready, this conversation is for you. In this episode 0:00 Welcome to the WonderMama Coffee Chat 1:50 Sherri’s story: seven children adopted from foster care 7:10 “I never want to tell him we didn’t try” 11:00 The Meridian event and roundtable for leaders 14:50 What an IEP meeting teaches us about masterminds 19:00 For the mompreneur who feels stuck 24:50 Start an evidence journal 27:10 Your business grows when you do 28:40 How to connect with Sherri Connect with Sherri Sladek Book a free 30 minute strategy call: https://sherrisladek.com/connect Website: https://sherrisladek.com Email: connect@sherrisladek.com Connect with Leonne Sherr Let’s Talk: https://calendly.com/leonnesherr/coffee-with-leonne Join The WonderMama Community: https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827 Free monthly masterclass, Your next season roadmap: https://leonnesherr.com/webinar Books and tools: https://leonnesherr.com/books Website: https://leonnesherr.com and https://thewondermama.com Email: Leonne@LeonneSherr.com The WonderMama Coffee Chat is live every Wednesday at noon Eastern on Facebook, then on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity #CourageBeforeConfidence #MomEntrepreneur

  3. Oct 22

    Please Don’t Say That: How to Show Up for Someone Who Is Grieving | WonderMama Coffee Chat (Ep 42)

    What not to say to someone who is grieving, and what to offer instead. Marilyn Morales and Nicky Cuesta join the WonderMama Coffee Chat to talk about Please Don’t Say That: Stories of Loss, Love, and Legacy, the new grief anthology launching October 24, 2026. Some of the most painful words a grieving person hears come from people who love them and never meant to hurt them. Fellow contributing author Ami Maikoski, who wrote chapter 22, joins us too, and I am honored that my own chapter, chapter 23, “This Beautiful Scar,” is the first time I have shared the story of my first son, Muhammad. Marilyn, a nurse of nearly 40 years, shares the story of her daughter Isabella, who was diagnosed with a rare leukemia at seven months old. Nobody in the family was a match for the stem cell transplant she needed, and Marilyn learned how few Latino, Black and mixed heritage donors are on the registry. That discovery became her first book, When the Answer Is No: Finding Purpose Through Pain, and her nonprofit, Izzy’s Legacy, which supports families on a cancer journey. Then, at three o’clock one morning in June, she woke with the title, the cover and the guidebook for Please Don’t Say That, and called the one person she knew could help her bring it to life. That person was Nicky Cuesta, founder of BALM Global, who coordinated, edited and published all 31 chapters in under four months, while honoring her own brother, Milton, in chapter 8. Ami shares why, after years of holding space for others at the end of life, she wrote about the hardest goodbye of all, her own mother’s. In this conversation, we explore the words that wound people who are grieving, and what to offer instead, why this book is meant to be read slowly, one story at a time, how one mother’s loss became a movement, and why every one of us will need this conversation one day. Every purchase gives back. 100% of the proceeds support the families Izzy’s Legacy serves through its partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a portion goes to the Miguel Soto Memorial Fund, which will sponsor a young person through their GED and high school diploma. Get your copy of Please Don’t Say That and the companion guidebook: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/izzys-legacy-incs-shop Connect with our guests Marilyn Morales, Izzy’s Legacy Inc.: https://www.izzyslegacyinc.org Nicky Cuesta, BALM Global: https://balm-global.com Ami Maikoski: https://amimaikoski.com Connect with Leonne Sherr, https://LeonneSherr.com Join us The conversation continues every week inside The WonderMama Community, where members join our private Q&A with each guest after the live show. https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827 The WonderMama Coffee Chat is live every Wednesday at noon EST on Facebook, then is posted to YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity

  4. Oct 14

    AI for Moms: Stop Fearing AI and Keep Your Kids Safe with Matt Zembruski (Ep. 41)

    If the world feels like it is changing faster than you can keep up with, for yourself and for your kids, this conversation was made for you. Matt Zembruski, founder and CEO of AI Agility and host of the AI Accelerator Podcast, sits down with Leonne Sherr to talk honestly about the fear so many moms carry around AI, and how we can move through it with intention instead of waiting on the sidelines. Matt grew up with two parents who spent their whole careers in human resources, and that is how he is wired, with more than thirty years of helping people through change and a belief that technology should make us faster and happier at the same time. He shares why fear around AI is completely natural, why we are still in the very early days, and why freedom so often lives on the other side of being scared. Together they explore how to begin by playing on purpose, getting clear on what matters most to you before you ever open an AI tool, and how parents can become the layer of safety their kids need right now while the technology is still catching up. Leonne asks whether a parent could set up a Strategic Command Center with clear rules for their child inside Claude or ChatGPT, and Matt explains how that can work. The conversation closes where it always should, with the reminder that no technology replaces the human connection we share with our children. Connect with Matt Zembruski Website: https://leadingaiagility.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattzembruski Podcast: The AI Accelerator Podcast, on Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen Connect with The WonderMama The conversation continues inside The WonderMama Community, where we gather for real conversations, support and our private Q&A after every live show. The door is always open: https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827 Website: https://TheWonderMama.com New episodes go live every Wednesday at noon Eastern on Facebook, then on YouTube @TheWonderMamaPlace and wherever you listen to podcasts. #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity

  5. Oct 7

    How to Raise Kids Who Connect in a Screen Time World | Scott Schilling (Ep. 40)

    How do we raise kids who can look someone in the eye, really listen, and build relationships that carry them through life, when so many eyes, ours included, are fixed on a screen? On this episode of the WonderMama Coffee Chat, I talk with speaker, author and coach Scott Schilling about raising great connectors, setting healthy screen time boundaries, and why our kids learn connection from what they watch us do far more than from anything we tell them. Scott shares why connection is a skill kids and moms can both learn, why his phone goes down every night at 6:30, what the pandemic years changed for our kids' social skills, and how the small everyday moments at home quietly shape who our children become. It's a warm, honest conversation for moms who want to model the connection they hope to see, with no shame in starting exactly where you are. Chapters 0:00 Welcome and meet Scott Schilling 2:09 Kids, eye contact and screens 3:10 Phone boundaries: "If you don't control them, they will control you" 5:16 What real connection feels like 7:04 Pandemic kids and learning to reconnect 9:50 Why connection is a learnable skill 11:07 Kids learn what we model 13:26 How to start building the skill at home 15:05 Motion is lotion: decisions that change everything 16:56 Act as if you're on camera, because kids are always watching 18:49 What children witness at home 22:18 Moms as their children's first leaders 24:34 How to connect with Scott 27:03 Notice, decide, move Connect with Scott: ScottSchilling.com · scott@scottschilling.com Join us in The WonderMama Community: skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about Learn more: TheWonderMama.com #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity

  6. Sep 30

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Julie Janphear - The Person Who Sees the Need (EP 39)

    The Person Who Gets Help Is the One Who Sees the Need: Julie Lanphear spent years watching her husband's health come apart under job stress, and then watching him reach for prescriptions and alcohol to steady himself, and for most of that time she believed the only thing that would fix her life was him getting better. She sat in a library one afternoon because she could not bring the books home, and she read a sentence that changed the direction of everything, which was that the person to get help is the person who sees the need for help. In this conversation Julie talks about what it actually took to go get that help, including the night she asked a friend to invite her to dinner so she would have something to tell her husband about where she had been, and what she found when she finally walked into a room she had been calling the club nobody wants to join. She talks about learning that happiness is an inside job, about putting the locus of control back on herself, and about why she now believes that help is everywhere and that there are at least a hundred solutions to any problem. Julie is the founder of Julie Lanphear Coaching, and she brings more than twenty five years across education, healthcare, leadership and coaching to the work of helping people find their footing when life throws changes they did not ask for. Some of what we cover: * Why you do not have to have the whole map, only your next brave step * What it means to hold space for someone without handing them advice they cannot use * Why repressed feelings surface in the grocery store and on client calls, and why that is survivable * Why she starts with people one on one before she ever invites them into community * The question that starts everything, which is whether you are willing to be willing Connect with Julie Lanphear julielanphear.com linkedin.com/in/julie-lanphear The WonderMama Coffee Chat goes live every Wednesday on Facebook, and afterward we drop into a private conversation inside The WonderMama Place with the women of our community. TheWonderMama.com skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about #TheWonderMama #TheWonderMamaCommunity

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Julie Janphear - The Person Who Sees the Need (EP 39)

  7. Sep 23

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Tauna Petersen | It’s Caught, Not Taught Moms, Money, Family (Ep.38)

    Tauna Petersen joins Leonne from Colorado to talk about what we learn about money long before anyone sits us down to explain it. Tauna is a financial strategist and the founder of Ohana Financial, and ohana means family, which turns out to be the whole point. She grew up one of eight, went to cosmetology school out of high school because she loved helping women feel good about themselves, and found her way into money through the mortgage industry and a credit union, where she discovered how little financial education anybody is ever given. She was also a single mother doing hair out of a one bedroom apartment while driving for Uber, with her son in the only bedroom and herself in the living room. That part matters, because when she talks about a scarcity mindset she is not describing someone else. In this conversation we get into the three rules of money she teaches every client, what to do when saving twenty five cents is genuinely all you can manage, and why she believes the work is mindset before it is ever maths. Leonne shares the night the lights got shut off and what her sons remember about it, which is not what she remembers at all. Tauna's line, and the one that stayed with us: it's caught, not taught. Come and find us: The WonderMama · https://thewondermama.com The WonderMama Community · https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827/about Find Tauna Petersen on LinkedIn. The WonderMama Coffee Chat goes live every Wednesday.

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Tauna Petersen | It’s Caught, Not Taught Moms, Money, Family (Ep.38)

  8. Sep 16

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Gail Harris | We are more than our stories. (EP 37)

    This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat I sat down with Gail Harris, a certified ghostwriter who works with women on their memoirs and who calls herself a story doula. We all have a story, and I have been thinking about how much of the story we tell ourselves was actually written by us. Some of it comes from what happened to us, and some of it comes from our families, our relationships, the roles we took on, the work we built, and the expectations other people set down in front of us. Somewhere along the way all of that becomes a story about who we are, and most of us never stop to ask who was holding the pen. Gail's answer is that we get to decide what we carry forward and what we set down, and that discovering who we really are begins with letting go of who we are not. She talks about why so many women believe their story could not possibly matter to anyone, and why that is almost never true, because our outward experiences are different but our lessons underneath them overlap, which is exactly why reading someone else's story can make you feel less alone in your own. She also shares her own. The divorce at fourteen that turned her into someone who braced for the worst, the years of not trusting the voice she could already hear, and the book she finally could not not write. She tells us about an author named Brandy and the way a story she was helping someone else carry turned out to be preparing her for something in her own life years later. And then, with a generosity I am still sitting with, she reads a poem she wrote after losing her twin daughters, Susanna and Sophia, and she explains how putting the grief on the page was the thing that let her begin to accept it. Near the end I asked her to describe the woman she most loves working with, and her answer is worth staying for, because if she is describing you, you will know it. If you have ever wondered whether there is a book in you, or whether your story is worth telling, or if you have simply been carrying something you do not know how to put down, this conversation is for you. Writing heals. Even if all you do is open a journal and let the pen start. Connect with Gail Harris Golden Ghostwriting goldenghostwriting.com gail@goldenghostwriting.com LinkedIn: Gail Harris @goldenghostwriting Connect with Leonne Sherr thewondermama.com leonne@thewondermama.com linktr.ee/CoachLeonne The WonderMama Coffee Chat is live every Wednesday at noon Eastern on Facebook, and the conversation continues afterward inside The WonderMama Community. Come be with us at thewondermama.com.

    WonderMama Coffee Chat with Gail Harris | We are more than our stories. (EP 37)
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The WonderMama Coffee Chat is a weekly conversation for moms who are carrying a lot and want to feel calmer, more resourced and more like themselves again. New episodes every Wednesday. Each week, I sit down with a guest who brings real experience and grounded insight into the things we carry as moms: the mental load, burnout, money stress, mom guilt, raising confident children, relationships, self-worth and finding ourselves again after years of giving so much of ourselves to everyone else. These aren’t quick fixes or parenting tips. They’re honest conversations about motherhood, identity and how we lead our homes and our own lives through pressure, uncertainty and every season of change. Hosted by Leonne Sherr, founder of The WonderMama™. Join us inside The WonderMama Community: https://www.skool.com/the-wondermama-cycle-breakers-5827

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