The Mother Of It All Podcast

Jessica Grose On What MAHA Momfluencers Get Right, What They Get SUPER Wrong & Where We Go From Here "I'm not trying to say the medical system is perfect, far from it. But what's going on with the anti-vax movement is, as a professional term, cuckoo bananas."

Sarah and I were basically star struck to have @jessgrose.bsky.social join us on the podcast this week to talk about the mindf*ck that is 'MAHA' motherhood, how we got here & where we might be headed. Tune in here:

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Amanda Hess On Pregnancy & Parenthood In A Digital World Podcast Episode · The Mother Of It All · 04/14/2025 · 1h 12m

Today! Amanda Hess joins us to talk about her new book, Second Life: Having A Baby In The Digital Age (which RULES). We get into everything from prenatal testing to freebirthers to whether she took a Lorazepam to interview Parker Posey. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Wisdom of Disabled Parenting 2.0 with Jessica Slice We reunite with author and parent Jessica's Slice ahead of the release of her tremendous book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World, to learn how her life with a second…

Disability has informed @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s parenting. It has taught her to slow down, to give up control, and to accept that there’s no one way to be a parent. It’s very freeing. #DisabilityVoices @motherofitallpod.bsky.social

We’re plotting a quick turnaround episode (hopefully) with someone who knows a lot about how federal education funding works about the Dept of Ed cuts (closure?!).

Parents with kids in public school: What do you all want to know? What are you freaking out about right now?

Does YouTube Deserve Our Kids Attention? With Amil Niazi Podcast Episode · The Mother Of It All · 03/17/2025 · 1h 4m

This week! @amil.bsky.social talks about weaning her kids off YouTube. Like everything else in parenting, it takes a village. Plus period cups, various chit chat, and more!

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Any excuse to talk to @kjezermorton.bsky.social is great, but it is going to our JUST A LITTLE BIT that she included our Covid parenting survey data in her latest (brilliant as ever) Brooding column for The Cut: linkst.thecut.com/view/5ffbc81...

Pandemic Parents, 5 Years Later: The mom who had foster kids in 2020 Podcast Episode · The Mother Of It All · 03/10/2025 · 18m

The latest mini-episode of our pandemic parenting series is live! You should listen to the whole thing, but if you only take away one little sound byte, Ashleigh mic-drops it at the end:

“We made it through because of other people.” YEP.

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Where Were You in March 2020? And how are you now?

Our pandemic parenting series starts now! All March, we’ll share a series of rich, wonderful conversations with parents as they reflect on their pandemic parenting experiences, and how that time impacts their family life 5 years later:

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That Pandemic Drowning Feeling Is Back We’re five years “post-COVID.” How is parenting still just as hard? How is anything?

Thanks @amil.bsky.social for giving our pandemic parent survey a shout in her column! Stay tuned: Next week, we launch a podcast series marking the 5 year anniversary of the pandemic shutdown w/ rich conversations with parents reflecting on their pandemic experiences. www.thecut.com/article/pare...

Summer Better with Katherine Goldstein The Double Shift’s Katherine Goldstein joins Sarah and Miranda to talk about her creative solution to the problem that is American summer, why parents are set up to fail in finding summer care, and ho...

Katherine Goldstein had *pandemic twins* but, incredibly, she joined us on the podcast to talk about something else: her creative solution to finding summer childcare in America, and how we can create the kind of community we need to build a better summer.

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What If We're The Helpers? With Elizabeth Doerr Finding possibility at the intersection of preparedness and optimism

Things are getting weird. We're determined to keep you company, and keep your brain + heart fed and supported through it all.

Start here: With our latest ep! A warm, empowering conversation about parenting + climate change w/ @elizabethdoerr.bsky.social

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The Rotten Roots of Modern Parenting Advice with Nancy Reddy Podcast Episode · The Mother of it All · 12/09/2024 · 1h 2m

New episode: Busting motherhood myths with the one and only Nancy Reddy! Her new book, The Good Mother Myth, is all about the roots of our modern ideas about what makes a mother “good,” and it turns out they’re a little murky! Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Covid Pandemic Five-Year Parent Check-In Thank you so much for completing this survey on the legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic, five years out, for parents. We are two writers (Sarah Wheeler and Miranda Rake) interested in understanding the la...

My friend Miranda Rake who writes about parenthood and produces the @motherofitallpod.bsky.social, is doing an anonymous survey of parents about their experiences of the covid shutdown, five years later. Here's the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We've arrived!

We're not exactly technically a literary podcast, but we are pretty darn book-ish. If it counts, we'd love to be added! And thank you for the pack!