This week on the Not a Mama Yet podcast, I’m so excited to share my conversation with Jessica Diamond. Jessica is a registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in moms, kids, and babies, and a mom to 1. When Jessica became a dietitian in 2009, she noticed a disconnect between the complex concepts she studied and the kind of nutritional and parenting information available. All the information existed, but it wasn’t easily accessible to the majority of families. She has done an incredible job breaking down these complicated principles into easy-to-understand practices. Her passion is teaching parents how to raise mindful children and how to feed their kids through a simpler approach that creates less picky, intuitive eaters. On this episode, we talk about reproductive health, foods and tips that support fertility on your pre-conception journey, her manageable tips and tricks truly make you feel like you’ve got this, which is her go-to affirmation for all people, clients, and especially fellow parents. We also discuss prenatal vitamins, detoxing, postpartum hormone balancing, and releasing control. This is a great episode I know I will continue to come back to and listen to over and over again. Check out the podcast notes on how to get in touch with Jessica on her website and podcast with Haley Hubbard, Meaningfull Living. That’s meaningful with two L’s. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this episode of Not A Mama Yet with Jessica Diamond! LINKS: https://meaningfullliving.com https://meaningfullliving.com/podcast/ Avocados: https://meaningfullliving.com/avocados-the-nutrient-all-star/ Prenatals Explained: https://meaningfullliving.com/prenatal-vitamins-explained/ Perelel: https://perelelhealth.com/collections/all Ritual: https://ritual.com/products/essential-prenatal-multivitamin Pink Stork: https://pinkstork.com/collections/fertility Thorne: https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/basic-prenatal Whitney E., RD: https://www.whitneyerd.com, https://plantbasedjuniors.com Ditching Diet Culture: https://meaningfullliving.com/ditching-diet-culture-how-we-can-do-better-for-our-kids-2/ Feeding your Baby Solids Course: https://meaningfullliving.com/feeding-baby/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

This week on the Not A Mama Yet podcast, I am speaking with Melissa Salmeron. As a mother of 3, Melissa reached a point where she didn’t recognize herself anymore and she felt stuck in a pattern that wasn’t serving her, her partnership, or her family. So Melissa decided to take a step back, reassess what she needed vs what she was doing in her daily life that wasn’t working and she really figured out how to reset on a better path forward. With that experience and knowledge, she developed the CARE method to help other moms finding themselves in similar situations create conscious connection and communication, bring more awareness to their lives, re-energize, and feel more empowered from within. Being more present, finding a more manageable work/life balance, and stepping into the person, woman, and mom you want to be and know you are, has helped her clients completely change their reality for the better. In this episode we talk more about her life before versus her life now, how people without kids can benefit from this knowledge to help them potentially avoid this, and communication tools that have really helped her and her husband. This was an enlightening conversation that I thoroughly enjoyed having with Melissa and I hope you enjoy it too! Links:  Melissa's website: https://www.melissasalmeron.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissa_momcoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.newellsalmeron  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today on the Not A Mama Yet podcast, I am speaking with Dr. Inderpal Randhawa. Dr. Randhawa is a leading specialist in internal medicine, pediatrics, immunology, allergy medicine, and pulmonology with fifteen years of experience. Dr. Randhawa is also the founder of the Southern California Food Allergy Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to providing innovative and safe treatment for the six million children in the U.S. who suffer from food allergies. His incredible algorithm and ever-growing database is putting people in remission from severe allergy, allowing them to eat all of the foods that use to be potentially fatal for them to even be around. He is a special person helping so many people. I loved recording this episode. We get into so many subjects surrounding food allergy, from the physical to the emotional side effects, how foods are connected to each other in the development of certain allergies, to his incredible data-based approach, and how other illnesses such as IBS could be linked to food anaphylaxis. And of course we spoke about pregnancy, breastfeeding and newborns when it relates to doing what we can to prevent these allergies from developing in the first place I learned SO much in this episode, and as someone who has only dealt with mild allergies, and we are talking sneezing from dust or pollen, it was amazing to learn more about what it can be like for people who suffer from severe food anaphylaxis. If I am ever around a friend, a peer, a parent who is worried about an allergy  they have or their child has, I will do my absolute best to make myself aware and do whatever I can to keep them safe. This is not something to be dealt with alone. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode with Dr. Randhawa. Thank you for listening! Links we mentioned: Ultra-filtered milk: https://fairlife.com https://www.socalfoodallergy.org https://www.socalfoodallergy.org/about#8 https://www.instagram.com/socalfoodallergy/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today on the Not A Mama Yet Podcast I am speaking with Caroline Sanchez! Last year, Caroline left her 9-5 job as a graphic designer and decided to establish her own business educating individuals on the importance of living a more non-toxic and sustainable lifestyle. Her partnership with Enagic and her social media presence sharing the importance of knowing what’s in our drinking water, sparked my interest in wanting her on the show. On this episode we discuss important facts about water you might not know, tools to educate yourself on finding out what’s in your water based on where you live, the surprising statistics about bottled water, and how to pick the best water filtration option for you. This episode was pretty eye-opening to me and I hope you have some valuable takeaways as well. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Not A Mama Yet! Products and Links in the episode: Hydroviv This is the company that builds custom filters for you based on your zip code and the issues that impact your specific water quality. https://www.hydroviv.com/ Reverse Osmosis Water Supplier This one kind of depends on the your location and will require some additional research on your end. Depending on where you live, there are water storefronts that offer various types of water for you to fill up with. Here is a link to an in-home RO system with remineralization.  https://ionfaucet.com/reverse-osmosis-with-remineralization/ Mineral Additives for RO Water Here is a link to those trace minerals we were talking about. This specific product happens to be from Thrive Market, but you can find these types of minerals on various online stores like Amazon as well. Please look for a product that offers a full spectrum of minerals to ensure the body is receiving everything it needs to function properly and read the dilution directions carefully. https://thrivemarket.com/p/trace-minerals-concentrace-trace-mineral-drops?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla_smart&utm_campaign=Shopping_Engagement_Smart_Members&utm_content=878941000058&utm_term=na&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5oiMBhDtARIsAJi0qk3VPkMCEE1E-2ILAVl21-VfwdYQCxWW_exMCBRaN8nfyjm5NF0eo_gaAs6yEALw_wcB https://www.amazon.com/Trace-Minerals-Research-Concentrace-Mineral/dp/B005BP5UCM?th=1 Enagic Here is Caroline's partner company's website for the water ionizer. You can view their full product line and pricing using this link. In order to add an item to your cart, viewers will need to log in with a distributor ID number to complete their purchase. If they are not logged in under a distributor ID the website will notify them that, “This product is not allowed to be purchased.” Caroline's ID number is: 8722635 https://www.enagic.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

This week on the Not A Mama Yet Podcast, I am speaking with Veronica of @HikingWithHarps. Veronica came across Montessori after having her daughter and realized how the method not only translates to children but into her day to day at home with all adults. When she transitioned from working full time to staying at home full time with Harper, her daughter, she found it was hard to stay connected to like-minded moms. The pandemic also made it more difficult in the earlier months of motherhood so she created her account to share her story, where she quickly realized how many parents were inspired by her story. Veronica believes that children are much more capable than most people believe and that we can support them best by guiding them without interference. In this episode, Veronica shares how Montessori has taught her so much about herself, parenting, and her community. She is self taught and has taken courses from The Prepared Montessorian and has read countless books. She wants caretakers and future parents to know that Montessori is and should be accessible for all. By focusing on following your child and outdoor play, all children can have a Montessori home. I wanted to speak with Veronica on this topic because there are a lot of ways to approach parenthood and everyone needs to find what works for them. As I get closer to the time of having my own kids, I am always curious to see how parents interact with their children to see what I really like. I have loved seeing Veronica and Harper play and enjoy the outdoors, I have learned so much. You’ll see in this episode why patience is so important with this approach, something that I think is a great reminder, personally as well. I hope you enjoy this episode with Veronica! Thanks for listening! Links:  @HikingWithHarps: https://www.instagram.com/hikingwithharps/ Veronica's Amazon storefront with tons of great items: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hikingwithharps Books Veronica recommends: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hikingwithharps?listId=1JG9W4OZ55JTE&ref=cm_sw_em_r_inf_list_pub_hikingwithharps_dp_xN7VuTbV9IKGj Veronica's Links: https://beacons.page/hikingwithharps --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today on the podcast, I am speaking with Dr. Kristin Pauker. She is originally born and raised in Hawaiʻi and became fascinated with exploring how a person’s immediate environment and culturally-shaped theories about race impact basic social perception, social interactions, and stereotyping in childhood and throughout development. She loves to discover new ideas through her novel research studies and applying those insights toward creating interventions to mitigate stereotyping, interpersonal friction, or persistently biased social perception. Her research examines how motivations, social context, and individuals’ lay theories impact social perception and their resultant consequences for intergroup relations. Spanning both Social and Developmental Psychology, her research has been featured in journals including Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Developmental Psychology. She was also my Psychology professor at the University of San Francisco and I actually assisted her on some of her research at the time, which we touched on in our conversation. In this episode, we discuss the danger of color blindness, an interesting preschool activity that would definitely test any parent during an important teaching moment, a few of Dr. Pauker’s recent studies and the interesting findings that teach us more about the ways children think and perceive, and some moments she has had as a mom talking to her son about race and appearance.  Enjoy! Dr. Pauker on the University of Hawai'i Mānoa's website  Dr. Pauker's research --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today on the podcast, I am speaking with Melissa Buchan, a National Board Certified Integrative Health & Wellness Coach, and Neo Fertility Advisor. Over the past 15 years, Melissa has helped empower women to better understand their fertility and manage their reproductive health. She is the co-developer of Chart Neo, a medical management model app for secure cycle charting. Navigating your menstrual cycle is a powerful daily practice that provides insight into managing and balancing your hormonal health. Medical literature states that a well-charted cycle is the fifth vital sign in women. Melissa helps her clients map their cycle for infertility evaluation, women’s health assessment, or family planning and evaluate their unique patterns to create a customized plan to optimize their healing journey. Melissa believes in a root-cause, solution-based approach to dealing with infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, and hormonal imbalances. A balanced cycle is a sign of health and vitality and Melissa’s mission is to help her clients get there. Today we are talking about how Melissa’s personal experiences led her down this career path, empowering women from a young age to understand external cues that inform them about what is happening internally, natural birth control and the charting lifestyle to cycle sync and bio hack your cycle, how to manage stress, and Melissa shares some great advice for women as a mother and expert in this space. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Not A Mama yet with Melissa Buchan! Links below! Not A Mama Yet: www.notamamayet.com Not A Mama Yet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notamamayet/ Melissa's Website: https://www.melissabuchan.com Melissa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virtusfertilitycare/ Thank you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today I am speaking with Mr. Chazz Lewis. Mr. Chazz helps parents and teachers with their children. If you are already following him on Instagram, you know how enthusiastic he is to help parents, caregivers, and teachers so many great tools to break generational cycles and, in his words, SEE, GUIDE, and build TRUST with children. I wanted him on the podcast because a lot of learning about how to be around kids and understand how they think and learn, requires adults to unlearn a lot of what they’ve been raised to think and feel. That requires hard work, patience, and practice people without kids can work on now. Understanding child development is so important to communicate and connect with your child, or any children for that matter! Of course, there is the intuitive part of this that can come naturally, but when it gets hard and you and a child are not seeing eye to eye, Mr. Chazz has great tools to take the pressure off and find smoother sailing going forward. We discuss how kids think and that we have just as much to learn from children as they have to learn from us. We talk about ADHD and kids with more energy. We talk about modeling versus verbal communication and teaching. And we talk about his article on protesting with children and talking to kids about race and racism. I really enjoyed speaking with Mr. Chazz on this episode of Not A Mama Yet. Enjoy!  Please find all the ways to connect with Mr. Chazz below and don't forget to DM him with your thoughts on the episode! Instagram: @mrchazz Mr. Chazz's Leadership, Parenting and Teaching Podcast Patreon Protesting with Children Article on Exchange  TikTok --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

Today on the podcast I am sharing an amazing, super educational conversation about breastfeeding with International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Kristen A Rossi. Kristen has her Master of Science Degree in Education and has training in Maternal & Infant Assessment, as well as the core areas of lactation. She was one of the lactation consultants at her local hospital and worked on the maternity floor for over 7 years before shifting her energy towards building her private practice. In addition to working with both in/outpatients, Kristen has been trained and certified in Lamaze, and has both written and facilitated a comprehensive and evidence-based childbirth education curriculum. More importantly, she is the mother of three children and you’ll hear more about how she became so interested in this space after the birth of her first son, on this episode. We talk about preparing for breastfeeding even before giving birth, the benefits of skin to skin after birth, a baby’s first feed, physiological scenarios that might impact breastfeeding, the truth behind lactation cookies and how to increase milk supply naturally, eating schedules, pumping and dumping, colic, and so much more! We cover ALOT and barely scratch the surface. I have a feeling there are going to be follow up episodes to this one and I know I’d love to hear from everyone listening if that is something you would like too, because I know I would! Kristen really is a doula for breastfeeding in my opinion! I hope you enjoy this episode, stay tuned for a discount code to one of Kristen’s courses and please let us know what your biggest takeaway was in my latest Instagram post on my page, @notamamayet. Enjoy! Kristen’s website and social media accounts: Instagram: @kr_lactation_support Facebook: /krlactation TikTok: @kr_lactation_support www.krlactation.com Kristen’s course: How to Boobie your Newbie Discount Code for 10% off: MAMAPODCAST https://kristenrossi.podia.com/how-to-boobie-your-newbie-a-breastfeeding-crash-course-for-success --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support

This week on the Not A Mama Yet Podcast, I am speaking with Kiara Orbe of Kiara Marie Wellness. Kiara is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and currently receiving her certification as a Root Cause Consultant to help her clients dig even deeper into different protocols.  Kiara is not only so easy to talk to, she has been on the other side of the phone, the Zoom, whatever it might be, because she was the patient and she was not finding the answers or support she needed. She used to experience a whole host of symptoms including chronic GI pain, distress, hormone imbalances, anxiety, irritability, low energy, acne, infertility, and a sluggish thyroid, all of which ended up being the result of a wrecked metabolism.  As a Gut + Hormone Health Practitioner, Kiara teaches women how to restore their metabolisms, terminate digestive issues and balance their hormones using real food to step into their true power.  In this episode, we talk about inflammation and the different ways it can appear, some might surprise you! We talk about our liver, hormone detoxification, the various labs that can help you and your care provider see what’s going on inside your body. We also talk about fertility, pregnancy and postpartum support by someone like Kiara, as you all know, my favorite three topics to cover wherever I can are fertility, pregnancy and postpartum. This is a great episode, and you can check out the podcast notes for all of the books we mention and the different ways you can connect with Kiara!  One last thing before we get this episode going, I have a favor to ask! My 30th birthday is in two months. The only thing I want is to hit 5000 subscribers on this podcast. In order to do that, I need your help. If you like this episode and have been a listener of this podcast, if you can please head over to the Apple podcasts app and rate and leave a review, a nice one please!, that would mean the world to me! And one last request, please share it with a friend. It helps so much and I love doing this and would love to keep doing this for a long time!  Thank you so much!!  Kiara's Website Instagram Kiara's Podcast Books we mention during our discussion:  The Root Cause Protocol, Morley Robbins Taking Care of Your Fertility by Tony Weschler The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your FertilityBy: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack The Body Keeps Score, By: Bessel van der Kolk M.D. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notamamayet/support