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Ep 74: Living and Loving with Authenticity with Hands Free Mama Rachel Macy Stafford
I’m honored to share today's episode, a conversation three years in the making with Rachel Macy Stafford, that arrives during remarkably challenging times, just as we need Rachel’s wisdom most. Rachel is a writer with one goal: to help people choose love as much as...

Ep 72: Seeking Asylum is a Human Right with Bay Area Border Relief’s Belinda Arriaga
I’m honored to share this episode, the first I’m releasing after our lives have changed in immense ways due to this global pandemic. At a time when we realize how interconnected we all are, I’m honored to bring you a conversation with Dr. Belinda Arriaga, a leader at...

Ep 68: Trust-Based Parenting and Philanthropy with Pia Infante
I’m so honored to bring you this reflective conversation about investing from a place of trust in our dreams of becoming mothers, in our children, and in the causes we believe in, with someone who has been a dear friend and colleague for over a decade, Pia Infante. As...

Ep 63: A Maker’s Journey to a Good Life with Jonathan Fields
I’m so thrilled to bring you this full circle, Father’s Day special with someone whose podcast, community, programs, and even summer camp, have impacted me deeply, Jonathan Fields of the Good Life Project. Each Father’s Day, I interview one or two men for a change for...

Encore: Living Out Loud with Jenjii Hysten
I’m honored to bring you a final episode in a weekly series I’ve released this May in honor of Mother’s Day and the Mother’s Quest Manifesto Challenge I facilitated in the private group. The other morning, as I searched my intuition for what episode to end the month...

Encore: Embrace Your Shape and Evolve Your Life with Democracy Clothing’s President Caren Lettiere
In honor of Mother’s Day 2019, I wanted to share this episode on the feed again with my sister Caren Lettiere, founder of Democracy Clothing, and an amazing update about the events that unfolded after we released this episode. As you’ll hear in this conversation as...

Ep 27: Courageous Conversations about Race with Nicole Lee
Hello and welcome to Episode #27 of the Mother’s Quest Podcast and the first of several I’ll be sharing for an initiative I’ve launched called Women Podcasters in Solidarity. The Initiative is a commitment I’ve made, alongside some other amazing women podcasters, to...

Ep 25: Change the Conversation: Podcasting as a Tool for Transformation with Elsie Escobar
I’m excited to bring this Episode #25 of the Mother’s Quest podcast to you with a podcasting leader, mentor and community builder extraordinaire- the insightful and passionate, Elsie Escobar. A podcaster herself since 2006, at the time of this recording, Elsie is...

Ep 16: Rising Up with Paola Mendoza
The value of putting yourself in someone else’s perspective, with compassion, is something that this week’s guest, filmmaker and activist Paola Mendoza, consciously creates through her storytelling. And, boldly moving forward through difficult times is something Paola...