Motherhood Uncut

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  Always Comparing Yourself to Other Moms? #1 Best Habit to Reverse It FAST 20.08.2026 6min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: https://www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call That mom who makes you feel like you're failing? The one who looks like she has it all together? She is white knuckling just as hard as you are. The reason you can't stop comparing yourself to her is not a confidence problem. It is your own sharp mind turning against you, using the exact skills that made you successful at work against you at pickup, at bedtime, and in every ung...
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  The Witching Hour: Why 5pm to Bedtime Feels Impossible 13.08.2026 6min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call The witching hour is that cruel stretch between dinner and bedtime, when your kids fall apart right as your own tank hits empty. It is not bad parenting. It is not a bad kid. It is two nervous systems running on empty at the exact same time, and once you understand why this hour is so different from the rest of your day, you can stop blaming yourself for how hard it feels. In this epi...
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  Does Daycare Damage Your Child? 06.08.2026 6min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your daughter reaches back for you crying. You hand her over and walk to the car. By the second red light, you are sobbing on your way to a meeting, wondering what kind of mother does this. That thought is a lie you have been carrying, and it is time to put it down. So many high achieving moms replay that moment on a loop all day, convinced the tears mean lasting damage. They do not. W...
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  When the Body Finally Says Stop — Lori Pine on Ambition, Motherhood, and Learning to Choose Love 04.08.2026 1h 1min

  What happens when the skills that helped you succeed professionally begin working against you in motherhood? In this honest conversation, Kate sits down with executive coach and former Fortune 500 executive Lori Pine to explore the hidden pressure so many high-achieving women carry into parenting. Lori shares her journey from ambitious small-town athlete to corporate leader at Anheuser-Busch and Coca-Cola, where proving herself became second nature. But after becoming a mother, experiencing b...
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  When You Feel Like You've Lost Yourself in Motherhood 30.07.2026 5min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Catch yourself in the mirror on a random Tuesday and for a second you do not recognize the woman looking back. You love your kids. That was never the question. But somewhere between the feedings, the drop offs, and the mental list that never ends, the woman you used to be got harder and harder to find. You are not broken and you are not ungrateful. You are just deep in a season that qu...
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  Motherhood, Creativity, and the Courage to Not Know with Jennifer Hinton 27.07.2026 56min

  What if creativity isn’t about painting, writing, or making beautiful things? What if creativity is our ability to remain open when we don’t know the answer? In this conversation, Kate sits down with Jennifer Hinton, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Carve Designs, to explore creativity as a human capacity rather than an artistic talent. Together they discuss why creativity requires vulnerability, how fear and perfectionism narrow our thinking, and why slowing down may be one of the mo...
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  The Hidden Reason Motherhood Feels So Hard for High Achievers 23.07.2026 6min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your toddler is on the floor screaming in the middle of the store. Everyone is watching. You try every trick you know and it only gets louder. There is one question that actually changes what happens next, and it has nothing to do with what you say to your kid. It has everything to do with what is happening inside your own body in that moment. In this episode, I'm going to show you th...
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  We Survived, and We Are Thriving With Jessica Buchanan 16.07.2026 1h 10min

  In October, 2011, Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working as a humanitarian aid worker in Somalia and held captive for 93 days. During that time, she discovered that even when her options were painfully limited, she could still make choices about how she cared for her body, where she placed her attention, and what she chose to believe. After being rescued by SEAL Team Six, Jessica returned home and became pregnant just days later. Still healing from captivity, illness, grief, and trauma,...
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  The Hidden Reason Motherhood Feels So Hard for High Achievers 16.07.2026 5min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You can run a meeting with 30 people watching. You can hit a deadline under pressure and hold everything together. Then your toddler refuses to put on his shoes, and you completely fall apart. If you have ever asked yourself what is wrong with me because you are capable everywhere else except with your own kid, this episode is for you. In this episode, I'm going to explain the two kin...
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  Three Truths That Make Motherhood Feel So Much Easier 09.07.2026 5min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Motherhood isn't hard because your child is hard. It's hard because of the beliefs you were never meant to carry. After 20 years and thousands of moms, I've found three truths that change everything, not by making motherhood easier on paper, but by changing how you experience the hard moments when they come. These truths don't ask you to do more. They ask you to see differently, and th...
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  Redefining Success Without Giving Up Your Ambition: A live coaching call with Alexis 07.07.2026 55min

  Alexis has spent twenty years building an impressive career. She’s a senior executive at a global technology company, leading teams, influencing strategy, and working 60-70 hour weeks. From the outside, she’s incredibly successful. But beneath that success is a question she can no longer ignore: Is this sustainable? She joins Kate for a live coaching conversation expecting to explore whether she should stay in corporate leadership or finally pursue entrepreneurship. Instead, the conversation ...
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  3 Signs Your Effort to Be a "Good Mom" Is Sabotaging The Connection With Your Child 02.07.2026 6min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Trying hard to be a good mom and actually connecting with your child use two completely different parts of your brain. The harder you push to get it right, the more disconnected your child can feel. You are not failing. You might just be stuck in the wrong brain. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through the 3 signs your effort to be a good mom is sabotaging the connection with y...
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  Money, Confidence & Leadership: What Motherhood Teaches Us About Wealth 01.07.2026 56min

  Guests: Melissa Hampton, Founder, Hampton Wealth Management | Kaitlyn Carlson, Founder & CEO, Theory Planning Partners Can women build ambitious careers without sacrificing their children? Kate sits down with financial advisors and entrepreneurs Melissa Hampton and Kaitlyn Carlson for an honest conversation about motherhood, leadership, and creating success on your own terms. Together they explore what it’s like to build businesses in a traditionally male-dominated industry while ra...
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  Why Trying Harder to Feel Calm Makes Anxiety Worse (And What Your Nervous System Actually Needs) 25.06.2026 13min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have done the therapy. The apps. The breathwork. The journaling. You have been consistent. And the anxiety is still there. You are not doing it wrong. But the effort itself might be exactly what is keeping it in place. When something goes wrong, high achievers work harder. That strategy has gotten you through everything. But your nervous system does not respond to effort the way a...
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  Motherhood as an Initiation: Satya Doyle Byock on Anxiety, Meaning, and Becoming Whole 23.06.2026 1h 23min

  In this episode of Motherhood Uncut, Kate sits down with psychotherapist, author, and Jungian teacher Satya Doyle Byock for a wide-ranging conversation about motherhood, identity, anxiety, and the deeper psychological and spiritual dimensions of becoming a parent. Together they explore: • Why motherhood often feels like a crisis for high-achieving women • The limitations of an achievement-based approach to parenting • Motherhood as an archetypal initiation and transformation • The difference ...
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  Everything You Have Been Taught About Good Parenting Is Focused on the Wrong Thing 18.06.2026 10min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Everything you have been taught about good parenting is probably focused on the wrong thing. You have read the books. You know the scripts. You know what you are supposed to say when your toddler melts down. You are still anxious. Your child is still struggling. The problem is not your knowledge. It is the state your body is in when you show up. In this episode, I am going to show yo...
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  A Live Coaching Session: When Everything Changes at Once 15.06.2026 57min

  Welcome to Motherhood Uncut. I’m your host, Kate Kripke. Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Melissa, a mother of two young boys who is moving through a deeply tender season: caring for her kids, showing up in a demanding career, and facing the possible loss of her own mother. Together, we talk about grief, old family patterns, the fear of repeating what we lived through as children, and what it means to keep mothering while life feels uncertain and heavy. This conversation is a beau...
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  Your Postpartum Anxiety Is Not a Hormone Problem. Here Is What Is Actually Running It. 11.06.2026 12min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been treating this like a hormone problem. So have your doctors. That is exactly why it is still here. The supplements, the breathing exercises, the 2 a.m. articles telling you to wait it out. None of it is touching the actual source. Your anxiety is not running on hormones. It is running on a pattern your nervous system learned long before you ever had a baby. In this epis...
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  How to Show Up Fully With Christine Hassler 09.06.2026 53min

  This week, world renowned coach Christine Hassler gets real about what it actually looks like to be a career-driven mother, what wasn't working, what shifted, and where she is today. She shares practical ways to get grounded and clear: having a "grown-up day," loving without worry, and how the stories from our childhood show up in our parenting — and how to work with them. Raw, honest, and genuinely inspiring. 📱 RESOURCES Free Assessment Call: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Free Webinar:...
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  Your Child Is Not Counting Your Hours. Here's What They're Actually Measuring. 04.06.2026 21min

  📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been running the math for years. Calculating whether your child is getting enough of you. Comparing yourself to the mom who stayed home. And no matter how you run the numbers, you always come up short. What if the math was never the problem? In this episode, I'm going to show you what your child's nervous system is actually measuring when you walk through the door, why more ...