MILK: MOMS I'D LIKE TO KNOW
MILK Podcast talks to moms with honesty and humor about what it's like to evolve as a person after becoming a mother. Our conversations help us feel less isolated, less competitive, and more tethered to each other.
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A mini episode -- a monologue actually. Remembering Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author, creator, filmmaker, connector, mother, wife, daughter and friend. She wrote things, she read things, she made things and she did things, so many wonderful things.
She even made Mallory a portable radio out of a milk carton once. She was herself a MILK and should have been on this podcast.
Allison Task joins me in the MILK Studio to talk about her career path from the early, heady dot com days, to cooking, writing cookbooks and TV hosting, and now to career and life coaching.
Longtime friends Mal and Al remember their first year sharing a one bedroom apartment in NYC, and Allison tells stories about working for (and working out with) Martha Stewart.
We find out the benefits of parents defining exactly what they are looking to accomplish, especially when we feel like we can barely keep it all together. And we go meta when Mallory gets coached by Allison -- goals are stated and no doubt Allison will make Mallory accountable.
Julie Scelfo, journalist and author of “The Women Who Made New York" is in the MILK studio with me.
A collection of written portraits of the Nasty Women who built this city, illustrated with flair by artist Hallie Heald, TWWMNY is a must read at this moment in history.
Julie tells some choice anecdotes about MILKy women featured in the book – activists like Margaret Sanger and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, artists like Joan Rivers and Yoko Ono, and writers like Joan Didion. We discuss why media literacy and empathy matter so much right now, and how Julie is driven to tell stories about how we all live.
Illustrator Samantha Dion Baker creates a page a day of hand drawn images and words in a series of beautiful sketch journals she then shares with her massive Instagram following.
She's in the MILK studio talking about discipline, intimacy and catharsis, drawing garbage cans and coffee cups and always having her notebook and her tools with her while trying to watch her kids play soccer.
Photographer Marsha Lebedev Bernstein on receiving fashion advice from her deceased mother, the constant urge to take pictures on the street, and instilling confidence in tween girls and senior citizens -- in the MILK Studio with me.
Actress, Show Host, Real Estate Agent and mom Kelly Deadmon is in the MILK studio with me, talking about nude scenes with Joshua Jackson on The Affair, how becoming a mom messed with her body and mind, and how humor is a salve.
Writer, editor and athleisure lover Elizabeth Wallace is in the MILK studio with Mallory. Liz is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life (Viking, 2018).
Wallace worked for over a decade as an editor at fashion magazines including Vogue, Lucky, Nylon, InStyle, Seventeen, and Us Weekly. She is now a freelance writer who contributes regularly to Architectural Digest and Domino, and has been published in The Atlantic, Lenny, Refinery29, Travel + Leisure, Departures, and Redbook. In addition to her work in editorial content, Wallace collaborates on advertising campaigns and branded content for fashion, automotive, healthcare, food/spirits, and financial clients. Find her @lizardwallace on Twitter and Instagram.
Author/teacher/mother Amy Shearn multitasks like a mofo with heart, mind, and fantastic sense of humor.
Her past novels include "The Mermaid of Brooklyn" and "How Far is the Ocean From Here." She is really fun to follow on social media but somehow gets A LOT done in a day.
Prema Yoga's Amanda Harding is in the studio with Mallory. They talk glitter jars, meditation, anxiety, and moving towards action.
Amanda elegantly handles motherhood, her business, and creating a community within a community with grace and beauty, and Mallory loves getting to interview her yoga teacher.
Chanteuse Jamie Leonhart, the inaugural MILK Podcast guest, sits down in the MILK studio to talk about her one-women show, Estuary. It is a musical song cycle about balancing motherhood and artistic expression, and it is wonderful.
Jamie talks working out her stuff on stage with her husband/musical director, how she balances her love of music with the love of her son, and how train rides along the river are perfect spots for meditating.