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The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast — 296 episodes
Why Women Drink: The Hangover Whisperer, Pros and Cons of Alcohol + Cutting Back Without Quitting with Colleen Freeland
I Couldn't Do It Anymore. Rebranding My Business & Life at 40.
Using Human Design To Better Understand My Marriage, Business, Stepmom Stress With Erin Claire Jones
Unpopular Advice for Stepmoms (That Might Be Exactly What You Need to Hear)
Using AI To Make Stepmom Life Easier
How Your Stepkids Really Feel According To Research with Dr. Todd Jensen
How to Improve Your Stepfamily Life in 30 Days (Without Changing Anyone Else)
Creating A Pinterest Board Summer (And It's Not What You Think)
Why Your Husband Won't Set Boundaries With His Ex
Being The New Young Stepmom, 7 Years Older Than My Stepdaughter with Savana Chapin
Should Dads Get 50/50? Are Dads Outsourcing Parenting To The Stepmom?
Your Attachment Style Is Affecting Your Stepmom Experience with Thais Gibson
Should A Stepmom Be Celebrated On Mothers Day?
What F You Money Really Is & Why Every Woman Needs it, RHOBH Tea, Don't Date Broke Dudes with Pattie Ehsaei
Emotions Stepmoms Are Afraid To Admit, Feeling Like An Outsider & The Childless Stepmom Experience with The Sober Stepmom
Step-Parenting Teenagers, Blended Family Finances + Conversations You Need To Have With Emily Bouchard
Why Stepmoms Take Everything Personally and the Shift That Changes Your Relationship With Your Stepchildren with Laurie Oakes
Money Mindset, A Convo With A Prostitute, Child Support Mentality
My Biggest Stepmom Regrets and What Stepmoms Need to Stop Feeling Bad About
Rebuilding After Divorce, When Kids Don't Blend, Navigating Major Life Transitions with Joanna from Nesting Story
Stepmom Insecurity Made Me Shop, Finding Your Style, Shopping With Intention with Hannah Blass of The Style Audit
Solo: Lessons From A Nude Beach, Weight Loss, A Breakdown, A Business Plan, and a New Season of Stepmotherhood
Codependency, Resentment + Communicating That You're Taking A Step Back with Erika Wright
Loyalty Binds, Co-Parenting Mistakes and Reconnection With Your Stepkids/The Ex with Jody Carrington
Can The Ex Move The Stepkids, Dealing With Parental Alienation and Other Legal Stories With Family Law Attorney Diana Romanov
Healing Your Stepmom Anxiety Dr. Nicole Cain
How To Navigate Parental Alienation + When Should Stepkids Kids Get To Choose with Dr. Amy Baker
A Real Life Q+A Beyond Stepmom Stuff: Confidence, Style, Fear and Feeling Safe
Your New Stepmom Era. The Elevated Stepmom.
Stepmom Real Talk, The Truth About Adult Stepkids, Business Mentorship + Bad Stepmom Advice With Mindy Kyle
Stepmoms, Your Mother-In-Law & Your Marriage with Dr. Tracy Dagleish
Our Marriage Rules: It's Not 50/50. Even With Stepkids Stuff.
Stepfamily Stories We've Never Told. Meeting The Kids. Hiding From The Ex. What Happened When We Got Engaged.
Embracing Your Feminine, Creating Change In Your Relationship With Dr. Amanda Hanson
Responding to the Stepmom Haters
This is 40. What I've Learned + Where I'm Going
High Functioning Codependency, Letting Go + Boundaries In the Stepmom Space With Terri Cole
Are Your Boundaries With the Ex Ridiculous? Do You Have to Like Your Stepkids? How to Disengage Without Disconnecting.
How To Stop Spiralling As A Stepmom, The Ex is Lying + Our Thoughts On My House My Rules
Is Child Support Keeping You Broke? Money Mindset. Stepmom Resentment + Taking Control Of Your Life
Navigating Haters, The Ex, Burnout + Screenshots. Creating A Thriving Stepmom Coaching Business
Ours Baby Q+A. Does The Ex Go To The Hospital And More…
Solo Q+A: The Power of Delegating, Moving Into Their Home, Finding Your Style + Maintenance Sex
Are Your Boundaries Too Much?
Stepkids are 18. Is it Freedom?
I'm Back. (WTF Happened?)
The Ex Only Gets 15 Minutes + Wills That Don't Feel Morbid with Kerri Koen
The Aftermath Of Emotionally Abusive Parents with Dr. Sherri Campbell Pt. 2
Co-Parenting Plans + Joint Birthday Parties With A High-Conflict Ex with Samantha Boss
Stepmom Burnout & When It's All About The Kids With Darren
Debunking Assumptions About Our Marriage, Stepkids + The Ex with Darren
Rocked By Stepmotherhood + True Authenticity In Stepmom Life with Kat John
SOLO: Boob Job, If The Ex Won't Pay, Stop Feeling Frumpy + Stepmom Life Update
How To Negotiate (Or Co-Parent) With A Narcissist with Rebecca Zung
Rage Texts, High Conflict Co-Parenting, Special Needs Co-Parenting & Boundaries with Mindy Wender
Parental Alienation, Narcissism + High-Conflict Ex with Dr. Sherrie Campbell
LeAnn Rimes Talks About Stepmom Life [Re-release]
Q+A With My Stepdaughter [Re-release]
Addicted To Chaos, High Conflict Ex + When A Stepmom Should Call It Quits with Naja Hall [Re-release]
Stop Dwelling On The Ex with Mary T Kelly [re-release]
Setting Boundaries, High-Functioning Codependency + A Game-Changing Stepmom Perspective with Terri Cole [re-release]
Advice For New Stepmoms + What You Need To Know If You're Dating A Man With Kids with Brooke Leslie [re-release]
Adult Stepkids, Step-Grandbabies + The Secret To Stepmom Success with Mindy Kyle
Q+A with Darren: Finances, Adult "Kid" Child Support, Venting About The Ex
People Pleasing, Overcoming Resentment, Finding Yourself Post Divorce + Ending Unaligned Friendships with Drew Holst
Disengaging As A Stepmom (The Right Way) with Darren + Jamie
Domestic + Emotional Load Of The Mom/Stepmom: Negotiating Fairplay with Eve Rodsky
The Invisible Load, Why Marriages Fail + Overstepping Stepmoms with Kate Anthony
Build Strong Intimacy With Masculine + Feminine Polarity with Jake Woodard
Stepmoms Constantly In Fight Or Flight + Why You're Feeling Like An Outsider with Amber Trejo
Perfectionism, Anxiety, Jealousy + When Being a Stepmom Doesn't Feel How You Thought It Would with Jennifer Teplin
223: SOLO: Adult Stepkids, Finances + Stop Looking At The Exes Social Media
222: The Gaslight Effect + Minimizing The Stepmom Experience With Dr. Robin Stern
221: Divorce, Grief, Co-Parenting + Happiness As A Single Mom with Kaitlyn Nilles
220: Finding A Good Lawyer, A Stepmoms Role In Court + How Not To Suck At Divorce
219: Navigating Stepkids With Mini-Wife Syndrome with Mary T Kelly
218: Loyalty Binds, Co-Parenting Mistakes + Reconnection with Dr. Jody Carrington
217: When The Exes Are Friends, Growth As A Stepmom, Why She Made A Stepmom Movie with Kit Rich
216: Her Husband Died at 34. Grief, Healing + Holistic Wealth with Keisha Blair
215: Life Update + Answering Stepmom Questions With Darren
214: How I Finally Lost Weight + Balanced My Hormones with Jen Vasey
213: Parenting Teens, Divorce, Co-Parenting + Marrying A Younger Man with Caroline Stanbury
212: Why I'm Jealous Of My Stepdaughter, Women Judging Women + All Things Motherwound with Bethany Webster
211: Parental Alienation, Dysfunctional Families + Repairing Broken Relationships with Nedra Glover Tawwab
210: Recovering From Burnout + Permission To Rest Ashley Neese
209: Effects of Divorce on Children + Understanding Your Origin Wounds, Vienna Pharaon
208: Power in the Pause, Recovering from Burnout, Business Fails + What Now?
BRB. Pressing Pause.
206: Stepparenting Teenagers + Young Adults
205: Gina Kirschenheiter on Co-Parenting, Stepmom Life + Forgiveness
204: Clutter = Cortisol. The Psychology Behind Your Decluttering with Megan Golightly
203: How You Show Up In The Bedroom is How You Show Up In Life with Vanessa and Xander Marin
202: Stepmom Burnout + Anxiety: How To Deal with Michaela Bucchianeri
201: How To Minimize Stepmom Stress This School Year
200: Why Boundaries are Key to Your Stepmom Life with Terri Cole
199: Life Update: Stepmom Stress, Burnout, Anxiety, Business + Self-Care
198: Should You Invite The Ex To Your Wedding? The Low Down On Our Wedding Day
197: Kari Boetcher on Being A Stepmom After A Separation, Parenting Teens
196: Managing The Reactions We Don't Feel Proud of with Maddy Ellberger
195: When The Ex Wife Doesn't Accept The Ours Baby with Christie Rocha
194: The High Conflict Ex. What You Need To Know with Megan Hunter
193: Advice for new stepmoms, early blended family days + what we've learned in 10 years with Darren and Jamie
192: Lose The Victim Mentality + Become Who You Are Meant To Be with Mimi Bouchard
191: The Real Stepmom Experience + The Zero F*cks Movement with Kat Johns
190: Manage Stress, Minimize Triggers + Get Better Sleep Better Jim Poole of NuCalm
189: PT. 2 | Ayahuasca, Estrangement, Healing Generational Trauma with Shelbs
188: PT. 1 | Alienation, Half SIblings, Trauma, Infidelity, Cutting Ties + Ayahuasca with Shelbs
187: Joslynn Flowers on Full-Time Stepmotherhood
186: Leaving A Toxic Relationship With Dr. Heidi Brocke
185: The Child Support System Is Flawed + Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Girlfriend To Kid's Soccer with Dennis Vetrano
184: Age Differences, Divorce, Self Confidence + Sunflower Oil. A Random Chat.
183: Conflict With The Ex + Your Stepkids? Here's What We Would Do
182. Managing Stress, Sleep Debt + Not Wanting Your Stepkid In Your Bed with Alanna McGinn
181. Your Assumptions About Me: My Parenting Style, Who Get's The Final Say + Prenup? with Jamie Scrimgeour
180. Boundaries With The Ex, Your Stepkids + Your Role As A Stepmom with Darren + Jamie
179. All Things Having An Ours Baby. A Q+A with Jamie + Darren
178: Releasing The Guilt And Shame Around Divorce + How A Stepmom Should Respond When The Ex Is Struggling with Leah Marie Mazur
177: The Penis Doesn't Always Work with Kelly Casperson
176: Being A Stepmom When The Bio Mom Has Passed with Michelle Wolfe
175: LeAnn Rimes Talks About Stepmom Life
174: PT. 2 How To Keep Monogamy Hot With Ashleigh Renard
173: PT. 1 Sex Clubs + A Failed Attempt At Swinging with Ashleigh Renard
172: Going Deep With Balkanina: Life As A Refugee, Living The American Dream, Mom Rage + Mental Health In Motherhood
171: Stepmom Self Care: Skin Care, Personal Style + Health and Fitness Routines
170: Teens + Porn, Sex When Stepkids Are Around + How To Stop Thinking About The Ex During Sex with Sex With Jess
169: Going Deep On Family Drama, Dealing With Trauma, Entrepreneurship + Healthy Habits with Michelle Pfile
168: Deleting Family Members, Clearing The Calendar + Selling My Tight Jeans. A Year In Review.
167: Should Your Relationship REALLY Come Before The Kids with Michelle Dempsey
166: Eliminate Fear + The Need For Control With Monica Berg
165: Stepfamily Life: Child Support, The Will, Doing The Work + Age Gap Kids with Darren + Jamie
164: Christmas Q+A: Co-Parenting, Keeping It Fair + Supporting Your Partner with Darren + Jamie
163: Heartbreak, Co-Parenting, Focusing On What You Can Control + Having Faith With Frank Ortega
162: Boundaries Are Not Rules + Get Out Of The Drama Triangle with Tracy Crossley
161: He Thought I Was A B*tch. A Candid Convo With My Stepson
160: Closing The Door On Fertility Treatment, Stepmom Mistakes + Finding Your Role with Cameron Normand
159: Change Starts With You. Personal Growth As A Stepmom.
158: Parenting Is Not Disciplining. A Chat With The Professional Stepdad
157: The Marriage-Loving Divorce Attorney with Nicole Sodoma
156. Finding Yourself Post Divorce + Sending A Letter To The New Woman with Alicia Robertson
155: Q+A With My Stepdaughter
154: I'm back: Social Media Detox, Adult Stepkids, How I'm Really Doing?
153: Taking Sides On Your Stepfamily Stressors with Darren + Jamie
152: Let's Normalize The Real Stepmom Experience with Mary T. Kelly
151: Addicted To Chaos, High Conflict Ex + When A Stepmom Should Call It Quits with Naja Hall
150: Ending Generational Trauma and Setting Boundaries With Narcissistic Parents with Libby Ward
149: Privileged Parenting, Boundaries With Your Newborn + Doing What Works For You with The Mom Room
148: Raising Kids Who Want To Be Your Friends + Stepmom Revelations with The Laughing Couple
147: How Core Wounds + Attachment Styles Show Up In Stepmom Life Jessica Baum
146: Nacho Kid, Nacho Problem? with Lori Sims
145: Mother's Day As A Stepmom with Moms Moving On
144: Guilt, Shame + Healing Around The Mother-Daughter Relationship with Bethany Webster
143: Hey (Step)mom, Stop Feeling Guilty About Self Care with Jamie Scrimgeour
142: How The Family Court System Fails Us With Candace Sampson
141: Re-Write YOUR Mother Code with Dr Gertrude Lyons
140: Re-Marrying Your Ex + Secondary Infertility with Caitlyn Neier
139: Cat + Nat: Self Care, Raising Kids Who Want to Come Back + Going To Bed Early (Guilt Free)
138: The Pandemic Changed Everything. Anxiety, Weight Gain + Marriage with Amanda Muse
137: Are Your Ever Free From Stepmom Resentment With Kim Rose
136: Gabby Bernstein: Freedom From Your Triggers, Judgement + Anxiety
135: When The Stepkids Grow Up + How Stepmoms Unknowingly Create Pain For Themselves with Mindy Kyle
134: How We Improved Our Stepfamily Life with Darren + Jamie
133: Debunking or Confirming Your Assumptions About Our Marriage With Darren
132: Redefining Divorce with Cindy Stibbard
131: Advice For New Stepmoms + What You Need To Know If You're Dating A Man With Kids with Brooke Leslie
130: Solo Parenting, Dating Post Divorce + What Stepmoms Need To Understand with Joanna Fowler
129: Declutter, Delegate + Take Back Motherhood with Allie Casazza
128: Reflecting on 2021 and Setting Intentions for 2022 with Darren
127: Divorce Isn't Everything But The Sex With Summer Felix-Mulder
126: A Family Meeting Isn't About Laying The Smackdown with Alyson Schafer
125: Your Personal Evolution With Krista Williams of Almost 30
124: Christmas Q+A - Schedules, Broken Relationships, Keeping it Fair For Ours Baby
123: Divorce, Co-Parenting + Personal Evolution with Dave Hollis
122: Improve Your Relationships With Boundaries And Hard Conversations with Nedra Glover Tawwab
121: I Didn't Meet Any Goals. A Birthday Reflection + What's Next with Jamie Scrimgeour
120: My Skincare Routine + Favourite Products with Jamie Scrimgeour
119: Overcoming Codependency + Perfectionism with Alana Carvahlo
118: There Should Be No Need To"Come Out" + Inclusivity In The Stepmom Space with Beth McDonough
117: Permission Before Feedback + Boundaries Don't Make You A B*tch with Ally Pintucci
116: Healing The Mother Wound with Bethany Webster
115. I'm Back. Ask Me Anything About Life Right Now
114: Long Distance, Child Focused Co-Parenting. Lose the Ego For The Kids with Ashley Machele
113: Setting Boundaries, High-Functioning Codependency & a Game-Changing Stepmom Perspective with Terri Cole
112: Would I Leave My Husband? My Thoughts On Marriage + Divorce
111: Ask Me Anything: Co-dependency, Self-Care + Stepkids
110: Use The 5 Love Languages To Improve Your Stepfamily Life with Ron Deal
109: Instagram Life + How To Take Better Photos On Your iPhone with Britt Havens
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108: Uncoupling, Blended Family Lessons + The Power of Perspective with Ange Simson
107: Dying To Be A Good Mother (and step-mother too) with Heather Chauvin
106: It's Not Just About The Rompers with Ashley Freeborn, Founder of Smash & Tess
105: Dating A Man With Kids? Start Here with Coach Sonia
104: Acceptance, forgiveness and letting sh*t go with Nina Purewal
103: Take The Ego Out Of Divorce + Co-Parenting with Heidi Powell
102: Speaking The Truth About Blended Family Life with Jamie Murray
101: Take The Stress Out Of Meal Planning With Tori Wesszer of Fraiche Living
100: Ask Darren - Stepfamily Life, Being The Middle Man + What Stepmoms Can Do To Support
099: When I Didn't Tell Them I Was A Stepmom With Chloe Caldwell
098: No More Self Sacrifice. What Self Care Looks Like For Me with Jamie Scrimgeour
097: Improve (Stepfamily) Relationships With The Enneagram with Sara Jane Case
096: Addiction, Abuse, Stepmom, Single Mom + Divorce with Steph Wray
095: Overcoming Stepmom Insecurity with Vulnerability with Kit Rich
094: Healing My Childhood Trauma with Jamie Scrimgeour
093: Marie Kondo Your Relationships + Get In The Right Rooms With Lori Harder
092: How Her Debilitating Anxiety Became Her Superpower With Wendy Tamis Robbins
091: The Dangerous Truth About Wine Mom Culture with Jenna Dillulio
090: How We Run Our Blended Family with Darren + Jamie
089: Stop Dwelling On The Ex with Mary T Kelly
088: Shoot the Shhh With Britt. Covid, Parenting, Marriage and more with Britt Darling
087: "Nesting": Co-Parenting Under The Same Roof with Julie Cole
086: Find Your Flow With Cycle Syncing with Megan Rempel
085: BADASS Habits, Boundaries + Mindset with Jen Sincero
084: Ask Me Anything Not Stepmom Related
083: From The Cop Shop To Stepmom/Mom Best Friends
082: Fix Your Marriage or Get A Divorce?
081: Hey Stepmom, You Don't Know What You Don't Know
080: How We Do Christmas In Our Blended Family with Darren + Jamie
079: Simplify, Delegate + Own Your Sh*t
078: When "Our House, Our Rules" Backfires with Chloe Caldwell
077: Single Parenting, Divorce and Moms Moving On With Michelle Dempsey
076: Confirming or Debunking Your Assumptions About Me
075: Moving Into The House My Husband Lived In With His EX
074: Knowing When To Pivot
073: Thriving As A Single Mom
072: Dating + Moving In With Your Ex with Caitlyn Neier
071: A Conversation with my Life Coach
070: Fall Resolutions: Where My Head Is At
069: Stepmom Real Talk: It Wasn't Always This Good
068: Ask Me Anything About My Business
067: 7 Years Married. What We Would Have Done Differently
066: Ask My Mom Anything
065: Divorce, Parenting + Life: Interview With My Mom
064: Personal Reflections From COVID-19
063: The Truth About Having It All Together with Natasha Bell
062: Charcoal Deodorant + Hustle
061: Managing Your Anxiety
060: What COVID-19 is Bringing Out with Leisse Wilcox
059: Parenting, Divorce, Infertility and More with Britt Darling
058: 6 Habits That Will Make You A Good Stepmom
057: Dealing With A High Conflict Ex with Naja Hall
056: Infertility As A Stepmom with Heather Stewart of Wicked Stepmom
055: COVID-19 - Does The Custody Schedule Still Apply?
054: Parenting Teenagers with Alyson Schafer
053: Friendship, Entrepreneurship + Real Talk with Abby Campbell
052: LGBQ Stepfamilies: When Your Stepkid Already Has Two Moms
051: A Gay Husband and a High Conflict Ex with Jessica Frew
050: Stepmomming Interviews Jamie Scrimgeour
049: Ask Us Anything with Darren + Jamie
048: How to have a KICK-ASS Marriage with Jamie + Darren
047: A New Perspective on Goal Setting
046: The New Strategy for 2020
045: How To Live a KICK-ASS Life Even When Life Is Hard
044: Co-Parenting With "The Other Woman" With Lauren McKinley
043: How To Influence With Intention With Lauren McPhillips
042: How Being A Stepkid Influences How I Stepmom with Millennial Stepmom
041: Hey Stepmom, Stay in Your Lane with Kristen Skiles of Stepmomming
040: How To Level Up Your Sex Life with Dr. Jess
039: The Stepmoms Club with Kendall Rose
038: Stop Raising Entitled Children with Lisa Collum
037: Sleep, Anxiety, Teenagers & Screen Time with Alanna McGinn of Goodnight Sleep Site
036: Recovering From Infidelity with Jaclyn Shaw
035: What We're Doing Differently This School Year with Jamie + Darren
034: It's Time to Cut the Fat (and I'm not talking about food)
033: Stop Trying To Make Other People Happy
032: How to Be A Good Mom & Pursue Your Dreams
031: Blissfully Blended Bullshit: The Uncomfortable Truth About Blended Families
030: Botox, Stepmom Life + Zero Tolerance for BS with Kaitlin Hargreaves
029: Parental Alienation with Leanne Townsend
028: How to be Happy When Things Are Sh*tty
027: How to Live a Go F*ck Yourself Life with Cat & Nat
026: Why Being The 2nd Wife is Actually A Good Thing with Jamie + Darren
025: Real Talk About Self Love with Erin Treloar of Raw Beauty Co
024: How to Prevent his Ex from Impacting your Marriage with Darren + Jamie
023: The Ex Next Door With Brandie Weikle
022: How I Grew My Blog and Created my Dream Job
021: Co-Parenting with a Narcissist with Naja Hall
020: Age Gap Relationships with Natalie Workman of He's 25 Years Older
019: Step-motherhood in same sex relationship with Beth from The Babbling Blonde
018: What the Single Mom Wants the Stepmom to know with Melissa
017: Child Support, Spousal Support and Co-Parenting Plans with Lawyer and Divorce Coach Leanne Townsend
016: Finding Yourself in Motherhood with Joanna Venditti of Nesting Story
015: Declutter Your Friendships with Amanda Muse
014: How to deal with a high-conflict ex-wife with Naja Hall
013: Our Marriage + How We Fight with Jamie + Darren
012: How to get your shit together when you feel like a hot mess express
011: Blended Family Life + How We Manage Our Blended Family with Jamie + Darren
010: Ask Me Anything
009: My 2019 New Years Resolutions
008: What People REALLY thought about our age difference
007: The Morning Routine That Changed My Life
006: Why This Mom Gave Up Primary Residency of Her Child
005: S-E-X: How To Get Your Groove Back with Kelly McDonnell Arnold
004: Having an "Ours Baby" with Jamie + Darren
003: Blended Families + Finances: To Merge or NOT to Merge with Kate Chapman
002: Growing Through Massive Life Change, Dating as a Single Mom & Whether Stepdads Have It Easier Than Stepmoms
001: The Truth About Our First Year Of Marriage: There was NO Honeymoon Stage with Jamie + Darren