Balance, Support and the Many Benefits of Creating a Caring Economy

Today’s show is both an inspiration and a call-to-action. 
Beth Wilson, life coach and best-selling author of Meditations for New Mothers gives us some insight into how we can achieve that wonderful sense of balance that we moms all seek.  And it was both a pleasure and honor to speak with Dr. Riane Eisler, the President of The Center for Partnership Studies and the author of the Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.  She is a visionary who has done her research to show how we as a country would thrive by having our economic policies place highest value on our most valuable resources: our people and our environment.  Speaking with her I see why Gloria Steinem calls her and her book “revolutionary” and Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said Dr. Eisler’s premise is “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking.” Listen and be moved…

Bravely Starting Over and Happiness Tips for Blended Families

Many people know Jackie Mitchard, as the best-selling author extraordinaire that she is (Deep End of the Ocean and 7 other best-selling novels) but many may not know that she is also a woman of reinvention, a mother of 9 and a woman who knows what it really is to pull herself up by the boot straps and start over again. Jackie generously shares of herself today, talking about her most recent challenge of pulling it together after losing her life savings in a ponzi scheme while shedding insights as to how others can avoid the same fate. We’re rooting for you Jackie!  And Emma Cook, founder of Going My Way, will be talking today about the unique challenges faced by blended families and how to start off on a good track.

Letters to our Children and Doing our Part to Help Solve the World Water Crisis

Kelly Corrigan is one of those amazing writers who gives you the gift of both knowing her and of seeing life through a clearer lens.  I love her work and today we’ll be chatting it up about her most recent book Lift, a book written as a letter to her children that ultimately proves to also be a testament to love and motherhood.  We will also be speaking with Ruthanna Terreri and Maggie McDermott, co-founders of the Hope Water Foundation, about the world water crisis and the every day things we can do to make a difference.  We hope you can join us!

Cooking for Bikini Season and Packing it up for Camp

Is it possible to cook great food and still stay skinny?  According to Jennifer Iserloh, a.k.a. The Skinny Chef, the answer is a definite yes.  Jennifer will be giving us a few bikini-season, food-loving tips including packing snacks for the beach and hosting “bikini” friendly cook outs.  And now that school is almost over it’s time to start thinking of vacation and camp.  Amy Lipton, founder of Stuck on You, will be sharing some great tips on how you can easily pack up for camp or for any trip you’ll be taking this summer. We hope you can join us!!

Choosing the Hand to Rock the Cradle

Finding a caregiver to watch over and love your little ones is never easy so today we’re going to chat about the ins and outs of finding the right caregiver for you and your family.  Joining us today is
Candi Wingate, the founder of Nannies4hire.com, Babysitters4hire.com and Care4hire.com.  This is one really educated decision you’re going to want to make.  We hope you can join us!

The Unplugged Vacation AND Raising Children Who Love to Eat Everything!!

Suzanne Rowan Kelleher is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning family travel site WeJustGotBack.com and she will share her insights on planning an unplugged family getaway.
And if you have picky eaters at home, or want to avoid that challenge, Nancy Tringali Piho, author of My Two-Year-Old Eats Octopus: Raising Children Who Love to Eat Everything has some great ideas to share.  We hope you can join us!!

HEAVY BLEEDING AND HYSTERECTOMIES – ANSWERS TO THE WOMEN’S HEALTH QUESTIONS YOU MAY BE AFRAID TO ASK

If you’re hanging a low profile on some of your women’s health concerns then this episode will be sure to inform and inspire.  Barb Dehn, a.k.a. Nurse Barb, is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner who appears regularly on television dispensing women’s health advice and is the author of several award-winning personal health guides. 
Kathy Kelley is the founder of HysterSisters, an online community that provides peer to peer support for gynecological health issues including hysterectomy.  She is neither pro- or anti-hysterectomy, but rather pro-woman, pro-support, and pro-education. We hope you can join us!

Community on the Web and Daring to Dream BIG

Today’s guests, Emily McKhann and Cooper Munroe, the co-founders of The Motherhood, chat with us about the wonderful community that we moms are creating and benefitting from on the web. 
And Renata Bowers, author of Frieda B. Herself contagiously shares her passion of helping kids (and adults!) dream and dream BIG.  We hope you can join us!!

THE PLUGGED IN PARENT and GAINING CONTROL of the CLUTTER IN YOUR LIFE

Sharon Cindrich, author of the Smart Girl’s Guide to the Internet and the syndicated column Plugged In Parent will help us get up to speed so that we can help our kids safely navigate the use of technology today. 
And Lorie Marrero will share great tips to tame the clutter and get our house into shape.  Lorie is the founder of the Clutter Diet, an innovative online member community that helps people “put their homes on a diet.”  We hope you can join us!!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!  TALES FROM A REAL HOUSE IN NYC AND THE POWERFUL VOICE OF MODERN DAY MOMS!

Many know Alex McCord from her role in The Real Housewives of NYC and now she’s onto another role, that of author – We’ll be chatting about her REAL life and her new book – Little Kids, Big City: Tales from a Real House in New York City.
Stacy DeBroff, Founder of Mom Central and parenting expert and social media guru extraordinaire will be chatting about the amazing power that we moms now have to be heard.  I am Mother, hear me roar!  Happy Mother’s Day, we hope you can join us!

HAULTING UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP: CHILDHOOD BULLIES & THE PERILS OF DISTRACTED DRIVING

Today’s guests, DR. MICHELE BORBA and WEIDA STOECKER are both educators who share a common passion: to make a difference and to keep people safe. Dr. Michele Borba is an internationally renowned educator, prolific author, speaker and media expert and her passion for ending bullying in schools led to the passage, in 2002 (in California) of her proposed law “Ending School Violence and Student Bullying.” Michele will be talking with us today about the causes of bullying and what we can do about it.
Wieda Stoecker is also an educator and after a personal tragedy she has become a passionate and effective advocate to end texting and distractions while driving.  We hope you can join us!

SUPER FIT MAMA LIVING HEALTHY AND GREEN

Today’s guests, Beth Aldrich and Tracey Mallett, are co-hosts of their own radio show, The Balanced Life, and they are both a tour de force in what it means to live a healthy lifestyle.  
Beth Aldrich, The Green Mom and founder of ForHerInformation.com is passionate about providing ideas and solutions to improve lives and that of the planet. What a perfect conversation for Earth Day! 
And fitness dynamo Tracey Mallett, author of Super Fit Mama and Sexy in 6, will give us a little nudge and helpful pointers on how we can slip a little exercise into our busy lives so that we too can be a super-fit, super-sexy mama.  We hope you can join us!

SLIM, SCRUMPTIOUS and HEALTHY from the INSIDE OUT

Today’s guests, TODAY Show’s diet and nutrition expert
JOY BAUER and health care professional
and author BETH IRVINE, are both gals that are passionate about helping American’s live a healthier life. 
Joy Bauer, as always, will be sharing some nutritious ideas but this time she’ll be focusing on must-have ingredients for a healthy kitchen, getting kids involved in the cooking action and healthy versions of family favorites from her new cookbook Slim & Scrumptious. 
Beth Irvine, author of Healthy Mother Healthy Child and A Moment’s Peace: A Mom’s Guide to Creating Calm Amidst Chaos, will be talking about conventional versus alternative medicine and the healing benefits of relaxation.  Do you even remember what that is?  We hope you can join us!

THE OVERSCHEDULED FAMILY and the PURSUIT OF BALANCE

Welcome to the “Amy Show.”  Today’s guests, Amy McCready and Amy Hilbrich Davis are parenting experts extraordinaire who will be helping us achieve some ever-elusive balance in our lives. 
Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, will be sharing with us some tips on how we can avoid over-scheduling our families and what we can do to manage the chaos if we’re not seeing much free-time on the calendar. 
Amy Hilbrich Davis, founder of inspiring Moms, will share how we can benefit from knowing our strengths and weaknesses so we can create our own personal roadmap to balance, success and happiness.  We hope you can join us!

MOMPRENEURSHIP: GROWING A DREAM, A BUSINESS AND A FAMILY

Today’s guests, Line Rothman and Candi Carter are two successful mom entrepreneurs who are sure to both inspire, educate and give us the real scoop on what it’s like to both grow a business and grow a family. 
Line Rothman is the founder, and creative director of Glamourmom, an award-winning manufacturer of stylish and functional apparel for pregnant and nursing moms.
Candi Carter is a producer extraordinaire who has put her talent to work with her new award-winning DVD and CD series for young children, “It’s Hip Hop Baby!”  We hope you join us!

Own Your Money Life and Let Go (Just a bit!) for the Sake of Raising Confident Kids

Today’s guests, Jean Chatzky and Amy Tiemann spark some really smart conversation that will spur you to take control of both your financial and parenting lives. Our first guest, TODAY Show Financial Editor Jean Chatzky shares with us some of things you should consider when deciding to work versus stay home with the kids, the benefits and possible pitfalls to working from home, and getting out of your own way so you can make money, not excuses. 
Amy Tiemann, the Mojo Mom, chats with us about how we parents should rise to the challenge of courageously letting go so that we can successfully raise confident kids.  We hope you join us!

Stepping Out in Style

Today’s guests, Amy Tara Koch and Debbie Wright are two stylin’ mamas and after spending an hour with them you can be too.
Amy is a beauty and style expert extraordinaire and author of the soon-to-be released Bump It Up: Transforming Your Pregnancy Into the Ultimate Style Statement and today she will be sharing with us some great ways to go from frumpy to fabulous during pregnancy. 
And Debbie, the Confidence Building Stylist and founder of Project Closet, will share with us some tips on how we busy moms can quickly add some style into our everyday lives. 
We hope you can join us!!

Family Travel, Techno-Kids and the Power of Moms to Make a Difference

We’ll be chatting today with guests Kim Orlando and Deb Heinrich. 
Kim, the founder of TravelingMom, will share with us some great tips and ideas for spring break, road trips and the ins-and-outs of house swapping for a getaway of your dreams.  And
Deb, prominent local politician and family advocate, will be providing insights on how we parents can stay a savvy step (or two!) ahead of our techno-kids  and how we moms really do have the power to make a difference.  We hope you can join us!!

Cultivating Real Friendships and Embracing all that is Perfectly Imperfect

If you are craving meaningful relationships and share the notion that Superwoman should take a hike and leave her cape at the door then join Lee Woodruff and Kari Henley in this engaging gab-fest.  
Lee is known by many as the author of In an Instant and Perfectly Imperfect, and today we’ll be chatting about the many aspects of being a woman (wife, mother, daughter, and friend) and embracing life with all of its wonderful imperfections. 
And Kari, often quoted in the media from her weekly column on the Huffington Post, will discuss how we -- in this social-networking, global communication fast-paced world of ours – can cultivate and enjoy truly meaningful friendships. We hope you can join us!!

Creating and Running Your Own Groovin’ Business

If you have your own business or dream of starting one then you’ll want to join this conversation with Jillian Swartz. 
Jillian is a serial entrepreneur and her most recent endeavor is being the co-founder and Editor-in Chief of TheFamilyGroove.com, “The Hippest Parents' Place in Cyberspace.”  She also serves as a coach and consultant to women-led start-ups which is not at all surprising given her savvy knowledge and enthusiasm.  Grab a pad and pen and get ready to carve out a plan for your business!

Women and Family Advocates who are Changing our Lives!

Meet two women who are not afraid to fight for what is right and who are having a tremendous impact on our lives: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Stacey Kannenberg. 
As the co-founder of MomsRising, Kristin is pouring her decades of political experience into the mission of achieving economic security for all American families and to ending discrimination against mothers. MomsRising is tackling a huge number of issues and they make it easy for every mom to have a voice and be a part of the solution.  
Stacey, also known as the “Get Ready to Learn Mom,” is making a difference, both nationally and locally, with policy makers, education experts and moms like you and me who want to make sure our children are getting the best education possible.  
We hope you can join us!

The Possibility of Everything!

This program is going to be a treat for anyone who wants to open their mind and their lives to the possibility of everything.  Guests Hope Edelman and Barb Scala approach this topic from two different and meaningful angles. 
Hope is the author of five nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers and her most recent book, The Possibility of Everything, is an inspirational journey of healing, hope and the surprising gift of opening up to a new state of mind.
Barb, “The Bloom Coach”, is the co-author of Sanity Savers: Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life and the host of Bloom Talk Radio.  She is a certified lifestyle coach and her passion is to help women in transition “bloom”, or create a happy healthy life rooted with personal meaning. 

Eat well and feel great!

Join the conversation with guests Keri Glassman and Kim Bensen if you want to look and feel great. 
Whether you want to have more energy and a more focused mind, or if you want to lose 100 pounds or just 5, these two ladies are in a league of their own when it comes to both information and inspiration. 
Keri is a nationally recognized nutrition expert, known by millions as the nutrition contributor for The CBS Early Show, and the author of two books, most recently The O2 Diet: The Cutting Edge, Antioxidant-Based Program That Will Make You Healthy, Thin and Beautiful.
Kim has struggled with her weight most of her life and after tipping the scale at 347 pounds she got determined, lost 212 pounds, and has kept it off for seven years!  Kim is now the founder of Kim’s Light Bagels and the author of Finally Thin: How I Lost Over 200 Pounds and Kept Them Off—and How You Can Too.  We hope you can join us!

Are you eager to pursue your passion but don’t know how to go about it now that you have kids? 

Today’s guests can help. 
In this episode we’ll be chatting with Genevieve Thiers and Beth Feldman, two entrepreneurs who have enjoyed great success creating their own thriving mom-focused business on the internet. 

Genevieve took the nugget of an idea she developed while in college and turned it into SitterCity.com, a successful, multi-million dollar business and the leading online resource for helping families and individuals across the nation find care providers. 

Beth is the author of two books (most recently See Mom Run) and is the founder of RoleMommy.com, an online community and events company dedicated to inspiring, entertaining, and empowering today’s busy moms to pursue their passion while raising a family. These two gals are sure to get you off your seat and pursing something that you truly love!

This episode of the LifestyleMom Radio Cafe is for any woman that strives for perfection and at times knocks her head against the wall trying to be understood! 

Guests Rene Syler and Lisa Earle McLeod will chat with us about finding joy and satisfaction in the life you’ve already got, forgetting the notion of perfection to be a great parent, and the surprisingly simple secret to resolving conflicts large and small. Rene, the former co-anchor of CBS’ The Early Show is the author of Good Enough Mother, a book that comes out of her realization that good enough was perfect for her. Lisa is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, business consultant and inspirational thought-leader.  She is the author of Forget Perfect, Finding Grace When You Can’t Even Find Clean Underwear and the recently released The Triangle of Truth: The Surprisingly Simple Secret to Resolving Conflicts Large and Small.

If you want to live a healthier lifestyle than this is the show for you! 

Listen and join the conversation with guests Robyn O’Brien and Rebecca Garland as we talk about how chemicals in our food supply are affecting our health and the many benefits of getting out and enjoying the great outdoors.
Robyn has been called “food’s Erin Brokovich” and was named by SHAPE Magazine as one of 2009’s Women to Shape the World.  She is the founder of Allergy Kids and the author of The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.  
Becky is the Executive Director of Connecting People with Nature for the National Wildlife Federation.  She is spearheading the Be Out There campaign, a national effort to get children and families outside, connecting with nature for their health and well-being.

Premiere show!

I cannot think of a better way to kick off the LifestyleMom Radio Cafe than with the two great guests who are joining us today. 
We will be chatting with guests Carolyn Kepcher and Laura Berman Fortgang about creating your best life ever and doing it your way!
Laura is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the personal coaching field and is the best-selling author of Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction, Living Your Best Life, Take Yourself to the Top, and her latest, The Little Book of Meaning.
Carolyn is a high-profile businesswoman known by millions for her role on NBC's hit series, "The Apprentice” and is the founder of WorkHerWay.com, the resource for enhancing the lives and careers of working women.