by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast, Books for Adults
What is the “Janet Jackson rule” exactly? Let’s just say it could really help you succeed in your career (and has nothing to do with wardrobe malfunctions that were entirely the fault of a guy but that’s another story). If you’re a...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
We’ve talked a lot about self care these days, and our need for our community and village (hello, We Time project), but… we haven’t actually put the concepts together, even though they are most certainly intertwined. That’s where our guest,...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
As parents, we have a general idea of the conversations we need to have with our kids before they to the throes of teendom – like the sex talk, and the drugs and alcohol talk – for example. But there are actually a whole lot more conversations that we...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
It’s a bit of a statement say we fan-grilled a bit over this week’s guest on the Spawned Parenting Podcast, two-time Newbery award-winning author Kate DiCamillo. Surely you know her incredible children’s books like The Tale of Despereaux, Because of...
by Liz Gumbinner | Doing Good
Today on International Women’s Day, I’m feeling more hopeful than I have been for a while. For the past four years, it’s been rough, and now here we are, with our first ever woman elected into the White House, hope for some important new legislation...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
Fair warning: This episode may really make you miss your IRL get togethers with your favorite mom friends, because that is exactly what this conversation with Dr. Janice Johnson Dias feels like. We knew that talking to Janice would be helpful, but to be honest, we had...
by Liz Gumbinner | Spawned Podcast
Every night [I] had the fear of going to bed. Because at dinnertime, members of the white supremacist Group, the Ku Klux Klan, would call. every single evening at dinner. Not some nights, but every single night once we moved to Atlanta, and threaten to kill us. My...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
With a lot of insanity in the world, it may feel weird to talk about organizing solutions right now. But that’s exactly the reason we’re talking about it. We have so little control in our own lives — in the world — and it’s disorienting...
by Cool Mom Team | Spawned Podcast
We’ve talked a lot about self-care over the years — the last year in particular — but not as deeply honest as we did during this recent conversation with our dear friend, author, and podcaster Dr. Christine Koh. She’s been sharing her own...
