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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

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 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 Mental Health Pandemic

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?” […]

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Family Experience

House Mead

Before I continue to write my experience around the ideas/ideals I have as a parent and partner, I believe I owe it to them to honor their beings. As I have mentioned, my name is Araceli Espinoza Mead; 32 years old, living in Oakland, California, doing community work. My husband works for an art nonprofit […]