Bare Naked Moms

When actress Jordana Brewster rocketed to fame in The Fast and the Furious franchise in her 20s, she says she second-guessed every move she made. Over the years, as she continued to land major roles in movies and on TV, she became a mom to two sons, and these days, she finally knows what she values – as a person and a parent.  On the show, Jordana opens up about her Mom wins and woes: unexpected insecurities that bubbled up from having kids through surrogacy, pushing back on today’s insane expectations for kids to pick a lane early on and the freedom that comes from ditching perfection. Jordana is currently starring in the psychological thriller Cellar Door as a woman who struggles with infertility.  In This Episode: * Navigating modern pressures for kids to find their passion early on.  * Negotiating insecurities that can emerge after becoming a parent through surrogacy.  * Processing failure.  Please follow us: @barenakedmoms [https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/] Follow Jordana: @jordanabrewster [https://www.instagram.com/jordanabrewster/?hl=en]

Big Time Adulting’s Caitlin Murray is the Nora Ephron slash Larry David of today’s mom culture. The not-to-be-messed-with mom of three (whose oldest is a cancer survivor) points out the nonsense in everything from Daylight Savings to palate expanders. The only thing missing from her side-splitting insights on the absurdities of modern mom life are flying f*cks.  In addition to her ninja kitchen dances and daily pearls of witty wisdom on Instagram, Caitlin recently started a weekly newsletter called Soul Snacks. And she’s currently writing her first book. On the show, she opens up about her evolving relationship with alcohol and being sober-curious these days. We get into the slippery slopes of tween girl fashion. She talks about how she’s navigating her newfound fame and how having a child who survived cancer changed everything about her as a mom. In This Episode: * Our relationships with alcohol and being sober curious * Drawing boundaries around tween girl fashion  * Being a normal mom who suddenly becomes super famous  * What good days and bad days look like after your child has survived cancer Please follow us: @barenakedmoms [https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/] Follow Caitlin on Big Time Adulting: @bigtimeadulting [https://www.instagram.com/bigtimeadulting/]  Check out her Soul Snacks newsletter: https://bigtimeadulting.beehiiv.com/ [https://bigtimeadulting.beehiiv.com/]

Lydia Fenet is one of the world’s top auctioneers, having raised over one billion dollars for charity organizations. Her success is fueled by an abundance of confidence. She joins us to talk about how she’s now trying to build confidence in her three kids and how she maintains her confidence as a mom despite all the demands of her career.  Lydia is the author of two bestselling books, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You [https://www.amazon.com/Most-Powerful-Woman-Room-You/dp/198210113X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] and Claim Your Confidence [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Claim-Your-Confidence/Lydia-Fenet/9781982196691], and hosts a podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/claim-your-confidence-with-lydia-fenet/id1647588906]. She and her husband are raising their family in New York City.  In This Episode: * Lydia vs. Mom Guilt  * How letting kids fail allows them to become confident Please follow us: @barenakedmoms [https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/] Follow Lydia Fenet: @lydiafenet [https://www.instagram.com/lydiafenet/?hl=en]

What the hell happened to Youth Sports? What happened to the days of a couple practices a week and one game on the weekends? These days, it feels like sports have become careers for our kids—and full time jobs for us parents to manage those careers. When and how did it get: so serious, so nonstop, so expensive?  We get into the nitty gritty with Predators Lacrosse founder, Mike McCall. McCall breaks down the bigger game here—who the players are, and how to know if you’re a winner or a loser in it.    In This Episode: * How to assess the value of travel sports at every age  * What the end game is in this bankrupting rat race * How to think about allocating a family’s resources when it comes to sports Links: Please follow us: https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/@barenakedmoms [https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/] Follow Predators Lacrosse: @predatorslacrosse [https://www.instagram.com/predatorslacrosse/] and https://predatorslacrosse.com/ [https://predatorslacrosse.com/]

If you’ve been listening, you may have heard Milano talk a little about her complicated childhood. But in this episode, she takes the mic to tell much more of her story. Born to a mentally ill woman who was living in her car, Milano was raised throughout Manhattan by a motley crew of amazing parent figures and family units—including her biological mom, a family from Ghana from the neighborhood, her third grade teacher, her aunt and uncle, and her former school principal. Somehow she patched together enough love, support and guidance to land at an elite boarding school and university. Cut to: Milano’s now 45 years old and living in a leafy suburb with her husband and three kids. But just when you think the credits of this would-be Hollywood tale might start rolling is when the real nail-biter begins: a whole new survival story of navigating marriage and motherhood without any maps and loads of childhood trauma.  In This Episode: * The unique charms of Milano’s bipolar mother that inspired everyday people to step in and save Milano.   * How marriage and parenthood activated Milano’s childhood trauma responses.  * How Milano’s search for answers in the parenting world led her back to her childhood, her mom, and to Bare Naked Moms.  Please follow us: @barenakedmoms [https://www.instagram.com/barenakedmoms/] Milano wrote about her story on Oprah Daily [https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/relationships-love/a60257362/parenting-lesson-from-mom-milano-buckley/]  Milano also told her story on the Big Time Adulting podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-homeless-to-princeton-rising-above-childhood-trauma/id1593880783?i=1000639193582]