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Family Experience Podcast Pregnancy & Birth

Family of 4

It’s been a while since I last wrote on the blog. To be quite honest, it has been a little hard to keep up as a full-time, working-pregnant mom of a toddler and podcaster. Not only was my energy low, but writing, editing and producing my podcast is also very time consuming. Nonetheless, I let […]

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Family Experience Mental Health Pandemic Podcast Pregnancy & Birth

Daycare Diaries (S1, E10)

In Episode 10 I will share a brief on pregnancy updates and our first week of returning to daycare. Although we had more thorns than rose this week, I share how my doctor’s helped me feel more at ease with all these changes we are experiencing.  Lastly, I finish with talking about some methods I […]

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Family Experience Mental Health Pandemic Podcast

Bad Moms Club Co.

So today I have a special guest, a pretty bad and rad momma, Mayra! Mayra is the creator of the online shop & brand, Bad Moms Club Co. I am so excited to get to know Mayra, her mission, and how radical it is to accept being a bad mom. We talk community, motherhood mental […]

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Family Experience Mental Health Podcast Pregnancy & Birth

Mid Year Reflection

As I have taken some time away from adding to the website, I wanted to come back and share some new goals I have set for myself. This is all based on goals that have either already been accomplished, or based on reevaluating some the goals I am currently working on. At the beginning of […]

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Self Care and Productivity

Welcome back RadFamilia! After a small hiatus, I am back feeling muy chignona! In this episode I share my own parenting blunders, being back on Prozac, my experience with chiropractic care during pregnancy, and why “no days off” is not a flex. This episode is full of real life experiences and dismantling white supremacy culture.  […]

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A Rad Update and Prenatal Depression

Listen on Anchor here. Hey Rad Familia! This episode I update you on Rosemary’s interests and quirks, some family news, and more mental health updates. You may have guessed it, but yes, I AM PREGNANT! Yay and yikes! Listen to learn more about my prenatal depression, how I am coping and trying to advocate for […]

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Family Experience Gender Roles

A Rad Momma’s Feminist Philosophy

This episode, I discuss the her/history on the F-word “Feminism,” where it came from and how it has evolved to our contemporary experiences. This is an intersectional approach that touches on menstruation, educational and professional experiences, and the Madonna-Whore paradox. Of course we can’t unpack everything in 40 minutes, but it is a start. Subscribe […]

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Family Experience Gender Roles

Foundations of Parenting

Today I am taking you on my thought process journey around the foundations of parenting. Because let me tell you, I am learning, just like you. Okay, so in starting with the beginning of anything, we must start with the groundwork of it all.  So I started asking myself, what is the foundation of parenting? […]

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Family Experience Pregnancy & Birth

2021 VISION BOARD

Really pushing this blog and podcast further along – being open to this process. Working on Student Loans and clearing credit card debt. Creating quality family space and time – hiking, outdoor museums, and more cultural experiences. Family gatherings (we didn’t visit our families in 2020) Start planning for baby number 2 (that’s my goal, […]

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2020

Hey rad familia! As we round out the end of the year, I wanted to share a few reflections I have been having for a while now. A few months ago, possibly around September 2020, my niece S asked me, “Tia Chely, if you had to describe 2020 in one word, what would it be?” […]