That's Total Mom Sense

This episode shares the inception story of the iconic label making brand - Name Bubbles. Founder Michelle Brandriss was focused on enhancing label aesthetics and reliability while focusing on top-quality, personalized, waterproof labels for daycare, camp, and school use made in the USA. Michelle values employee morale, a robust business model, and cost-consciousness. She shares the life lessons she’s passing on to her teenage son and how she leans into all things creative, even if there’s risk involved. Use promo code MOMSENSE to receive 25% off atwww.namebubbles.com Meet My Guest: WEBSITE: NameBubbles.com INSTAGRAM: @namebubbles TIKTOK: @name_bubbles Special Offer from Our Sponsor: Press: NY TIMES: The Best Labels for Kids School Gear and Clothing PEOPLE: All the Back to School Gear Kids Need to Start the Year Off in Style

Having worked with Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Priyanka Chopra, Anita Chatterjee is a force in the world of public relations. Chosen by Forbes for its Next 1000 list as one of the entrepreneurs redefining the American Dream, she serves as the CEO of A-Game PR, helping to scale brands and build personas with features in top publications like Entrepreneur, Inc, Vogue and more. As a mom in the workforce, she aims to teach her daughter what it means to be resourceful and resilient, and utilizing her leadership skills every step of the way.

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• WEBSITE: A-GamePR.com
• INSTAGRAM: @anitachatterbox

As October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness month, host Kanika Chadda Gupta meets withMarchofDimesDirector of Maternal & Infant Health Shadie Tofigh to discuss how to reduce risks and complications, learn more about the groundbreaking technology led by the Innovation Fund, and how we can alleviate the health inequities around black maternal health. She also sits down with Erika Nolting Young, an advocate who suffered infant loss and honored her child’s legacy.

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• WEBSITE: MarchofDimes.org

Farnoosh Torabi is an Iranian-American journalist and one of America’s leading personal finance experts. She is the host of the award-winning podcastSo Moneythat has earned over 30 million downloads. In her book,A Healthy State of Panic, she teaches us how to turn our fears (e.g. #fomo, rejection, failure) into our superpower and use them to catalyze the life we want.

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• WEBSITE: AHealthyStateofPanic.com
• INSTAGRAM: @farnooshtorabi
• AMAZON: A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life

Cara Natterson, MD is a pediatrician and New York Times bestselling author; Vanessa Kroll Bennett is a puberty educator and writer. On the show, we talk about having the sex talk with kids of all ages, how to prepare for adolescence which begins much earlier now, and how we keep open lines of communication as parents.

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• WEBSITE: MyOomla.com
• WEBSITE: OrderOfMagnitude.com
• INSTAGRAM: @spillingthepubertea
• TWITTER: @
• FACEBOOK: /
• TIKTOK: @spillingthepubertea

Mom Haul:

• AMAZON: This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

Fran Hauser is passionate about leveling the playing field for women and creating content and products that help us live our best lives. She does this through her investing, writing, and speaking. Fran has invested in over 30 female-founded companies across consumer tech, CPG, media & publishing, and wellness.

She is the best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate, which has been translated into six languages and was named “Best Business Book of the Year, 2018” by Audible. Fran’s second book, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career, is quickly becoming the go-to for women seeking more joy and fulfillment in their careers. Named one of the “6 Most Powerful Women in NYC’s Tech Scene” by Refinery29, Fran regularly speaks at conferences and organizations to help women build careers they love while staying true to themselves. Much of her current work is informed by 15 years spent in media, where she rose through the ranks at Time Inc. to President of Digital.

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• WEBSITE: FranHauser.com
• INSTAGRAM: @fran_hauser
• FACEBOOK: /franhauserofficial

In this episode, speaker, facial plastic surgeon, and New York Times Magazine “Super Doctor” award winner Dr. Eunice Park talks about the importance of self-care and how we can be truly healthy from the inside out. Activist and entrepreneur Deepti Sharma shares how she launched Food to Eat during the pandemic, connecting immigrant-owned restaurants with catering opportunities with corporates and assisting frontline workers in the process. Jenny Wu of Understood.org helps support parents who have children with learning differences. Journalist and Forbes contributor Amy Shoenthal shares how storytelling can solve society’s problems. Gwendolyn Smith of Aura talks about how we can use cybersecurity and parental controls to keep children safe from the dangers online.

During this on stage keynote, moderator Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs, a Trinidadian-American mom, artist, writer, and thought leader, interviews Austin Channing Brown, NY Times bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and founder/CEO of Herself Media. Together, they unpack the everyday challenges black mothers face, how we can navigate conversations with our children on race and explain the complexities in our society today. Brown highlights the messy and risky nature of racial justice work, where there are no guaranteed approaches without facing trouble or dislike from others.

Kanika opens this episode by sharing her personal story living in the “sandwich generation” as a mom of three (including twins) and caregiving for her mother who has dementia. She is later joined by Danielle Cabral, star of Real Housewives of New Jersey, for an on stage keynote interview to talk about motherhood, fame, and the challenges of being on reality TV. They discuss the importance of support from their tribe and dealing with criticism from fans on social media. Their conversation is real, poignant, funny and heartwarming.

Racha Narwekar is an accomplished children's educator and a remedial therapist based in Bombay, Kanika’s birth city. Together they share their childhood roots and Rachna walks her through practical ways to engage your child, alternatives to authoritative discipline, and visual reminders that help with emotional regulation.

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• INSTAGRAM: @rachnanarwekar
• LINKEDIN: Rachna Narwekar