Hey everybody! We are back with another one of our favorite episodes! This is our final week of our three week break and we chose an episode from waaaay back to repeat! We thought that with the January approaching, money is a great thing to have a conversation about heading into the new year! We loved, loved, loved Smart Money, Smart Kids by Dave R…

Hey everybody! It’s great to be back with you again with another awesome episode! As you may know, we are taking a few weeks off in December and repeating some of our favorite episodes for you. This week, we chose to repeat episode 54, where we chatted with the amazing women of Bravery Magazine. We selected this episode because we love what Elyse a…

Hey everybody! And Happy December! It is the beginning of busy time of year, and we are excited to bring you today’s episode! Last year, we took a bit of a break in podcasts during December, and this year we are doing that again! So for the next three weeks, we will be repeating some of our favorite episodes. Today’s episode is a Christmas repeat f…

Hey everybody! Happy Thanksgiving!! It is Thanksgiving week - how is that possible??! As moms, we are all too familiar with how quickly time continues to pass. Hopefully, this week, we will all be able to sloooow down and give deliberate attention to those things for which we are incredibly thankful. We would love to know the things that make you f…

Hey mamas! We can’t believe we are more than halfway into November! That means TWO things: One, the holidays are right around the corner, and two, the New Year is right behind them! We love January around here, and the hope and excitement that comes with a new year - new vision, new goals, organizing, all the fun things! One thing that has been at …

Hey everybody! Oh, we hope you are getting beautiful weather where you are! Leaves changing, temps dropping… all the fun fall things. We are excited about this week’s episode! We were invited by MUM Life, the sweet moms group at Thompson Station Church, to come speak to their amazing group of moms about a little over a week ago. We decided to bring…

Hey everybody! What a great two weeks we have had learning all about our appliances! If you have had a chance to listen to episodes 110 and 111, definitely go back and check them out. We’ve had a great response from you - you have learned so much with us! This week is our Book Club week! We are so excited about today’s book and hope you have had a …

Hello everybody! We’re baaaack! We hope you listened to last week’s episode, because today is part 2! We had such a great response and we know you’re going to love today’s episode, too! Have you ever heard a two-part podcast about appliances?! Nope - we haven’t, either. So, let us reintroduce you to Phil from New Life Appliance Repair. Definitely l…

Hello everybody! We are thrilled to be back with you again this week! We are really excited about this week’s episode… which actually ended up turning into next week’s episode, too! We got to taping with our guest today and it was SO PACKED with such great, practical tips, that we went reeeeeally loooong, and decided to split it into a “part one” a…

Hey there, everybody! So great to meet you back here again this week! We hope you have had a great fall break (if you were on one like us) and are enjoying this cooler weather somewhere in the country! Yay for fall! Earlier this year, we started having a quarterly “Life Lately” episode, where we both catch up on what each other is reading, listenin…

Hey everybody! Happy October to you! It is fiiiiinally getting a tad bit cool around here and we are loving every bit of it! It rained all night and we woke up to FALL FEELS this morning! Yippee! And the holidays around the corner could mean lots of things to you, but we are kicking off our cool weather with a super fun subject - DISNEYLAND! That’s…

Helloooo mamas!!! We are excited to meet you back here! Can you believe tomorrow begins October?! Today is our next installment in our “podcast club”! Kind of like a book club, we point you to a podcast episode we loved and then talk about it! This week, we are talking about episode 56 of the "Parenting Great Kids by Dr. Meg Meeker, featuring Sarah…

Hey everybody! We are officially into our third year here! We hope you had a chance to listen to our birthday episode last week! It was fun to celebrate and record with our Nathans. This week, we have a sweet guest on the show. Lena Hall is a friend of Courtney’s from high school color guard and she’s sharing her story with us. We hope you are enco…

Hello mamas! Guess what today is?!?! It’s our second BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday to us! We are thrilled to be turning two years old and can’t believe we are heading into year three! Mind blown. We are so grateful for you, our sweet listeners. This has been such a fun project for us, and we truly love every minute that we pour into this podcast. THANK …

Hey everybody! We hope you are doing well this Monday morning! It’s still a bit hot here in Nashville - who’s ready for fall?! Do you remember Courtney’s brother Andy from Ep. 82 - Grown Siblings & Sibling Rivalry? Happy birthday (yesterday) to him! 🎉 Anyway, we cannot tell you how much we lovvvvved the book we are discussing today! This was FOR SU…

Happy Labor Day weekend, friends! We are so glad to have you back with us this beautiful Monday because today is a suuuuper special episode! WE. ARE. SO. EXCITED to have Sissy Goff back in the house!! If you haven’t listened to the first time we had her on the show with David Thomas, go check out episode 22! We love our Daystar friends so much! Sis…

Hey mamas! We hope you are doing well this beautiful Monday! Last week was so fun, wasn’t it! We had an amazing episode with Emily Pardy from Ready Nest Counseling AND had an awesome giveaway! We love giveaways and we know you do, too! This week, we are chatting about mom friendships. How have you found your “mom friends?” A quick Google search on …

Hey everybody! We are thrilled to be back this week with another fantastic episode! We want to introduce you to Emily Pardy, founder of Ready Nest Counseling. Emily is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and one of the first in the country to be Certified in Perinatal Mental Health. Her own journey into motherhood led her to helping couples a…

Helloooooooooo mamas!!! GUESS WHAT?!?!?! Today, yes TODAY, marks our ONE HUNDREDTH episode!! Yes, alllll the capitalizing, bold, and italics, WE ARE SO EXCITED!!! You guys have hung with us through 100 conversations, somewhere around 100 hours, countless guests, books, and other podcasts and WE. ARE. SO. GRATEFUL for you!! If you don’t follow us on…

Happy August everybody! We can’t believe we are already into another new month! And a big month, at that, as school is back in session! Nashville kids are back in school TODAY! Whaaaat?! And we wanted to bring you a back to school episode! Today, we are talking with Marianne and Tara, two teachers from our area, about parent-teacher relationships. …

Hey mamas! We are back again finishing up July with a new episode for ya! First of all, like HOW is it just about August??? Mind. Blown. Againnnn….. And we are freaking out a bit, too, because we are about to hit 100 episodes!!! We’re telling you, you wanna be following us on instagram, so head over there and follow us if you don’t yet! As far as t…

Hey mamas! Happy Monday and welcome back for another new episode! Today, we are excited to introduce you to Andrea from “Nashville Made.” You can find her on her Saving Every Day blog and her Nashville Made instagram. And you’ll remember her sweet daughter, Brittany from episode 44 and episode 75! It was on episode 75 that Jennifer realized who Bri…

Hey mamas! We are back at you this beautiful summer Monday with another great episode! And it’s Book Club Monday! Every 8(ish) weeks or so, we discuss the book we have (previously) announced, and today, we are discussing Make Something Good Today by Erin & Ben Napier! This was a sweet and fun summer read and we hope you had a chance to read along w…

Hey everybody! We hope you had a fantastic 4th of July! We are back at you this week, with another fantastic episode! This one is going down as one of our favorites - we LOVE our guest’s story and what she is doing! In this episode, we get to chat with Kyleen Baptiste. Kyleen shares her story with us of becoming a stepmom when she married her husba…

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Heyyyyyy everybody! Happy Monday! It’s a GREAT Monday, because Dr. Mandy is back in the houuuuuse!!! We loved having her for episode 87 to discuss women’s reproductive health (and got such great feedback), that we had to have her back to talk about puberty! All the things… what to expect, what is actually happening, and most importantly, how to exp…

Hey everybody! HOW is it the middle of June already?! We hope your summer is in full fun swing, with popsicles, lemonade, swimming, bike riding, and reading! All the fun things! And we want to say Happy Father’s Day again to our husbands - we are so grateful for them and how well they love us and our kiddos. And Happy Father’s Day to the dads readi…

Hey everybody!! We are (we think) recovered from a great (and exhausting) week of VBS! Ha! Any of you gearing up for VBS at your church? Ain’t no tired like VBS tired, amiright? But always so fun and so rewarding!! We hope you loved hearing from Ms. Margaret last week! This week we are getting practical and talking meal planning! Who needs some mea…

Hey everybody! And HAPPY JUNE! It’s not technically summer, but pretty much, and we love it! We are back with you this week with another new episode! One thing we love about our church so much is all the generations represented. We love the wisdom and experience of the generation before us, which is why we asked our sweet friend, Mrs. Margaret, to …

Hey everybody! It’s Memorial Day today, and we hope you are joining us by taking today to remember those in the Armed Forces who have lost their lives serving our country. They have made the ultimate sacrifice and we are grateful today and every day for all the men and women who serve our country. We are back today with another new episode! If you’…

Jennifer and Courtney discuss Dr. Richard Swenson’s book ‘Margin’ and the transformation it inspires. Get all the fun show notes here: www.momminainteasypodcast.comMommin' Ain't Easy the Podcast

Hello, mamas!! We hope you all had a lovely Mother’s Day weekend! Ours was lovely and relaxing, even though we are right in the middle of May-cember. Anyone else feeling the craaaazzzy of the end of the school year? Well, we are back this week with another new episode and this. one. is. amazing, y’all. It is super educational, massively funny, and …

Hey everybody! Happy Mother’s Day week! We are thrilled to have you back here with us, as we have a special Mother’s Day episode today! Yes, Mother’s Day is in less than a week (!) and we want you to know just how valued and appreciated you are. There’s a sweet chapter in Rachel Hollis’ book, Girl Wash your Face, entitled “I’m Not a Good Mom.” In i…

Hey everybody! We are so glad to have you back here this week! We started off our show letting you know that April is National Donate Life Awareness Month! If you haven’t listened to our episode with Paige, please go take a listen! She shares “Corrie’s story,” a beautiful story of organ donation and how it saved the life of her baby girl. In this w…

Hey friends! Happy Easter yesterday! Here is Nashville we had the MOST beautiful spring weather possible for Easter, and after a dreary couple of days, and it was glorious! We hope you are in a part of the world enjoying beautiful weather as well! Today’s episode is going to be special, because we are talking with Sarah, a friend of ours. Since Apr…

Hey everybody! This week is our podcast week! Well, every week is a podcast week - ha! - but this week, we pointed you to a really great podcast episode we enjoyed and then we chatted about it! The episode is the Don’t Mom Alone Podcast, episode 190, entitled “Set Free From Shame”. If you have listened to it yet, go do that now, and then come back …

Hey everybody! First off - read allllll the way to the bottom for a BIG announcement! And second, we are back at you this week with a super fun episode - with Courtney and her siblings! Growing up with NO siblings, Jennifer gets to be the interviewer in this one. So many questions for Courtney, Amanda, and Andy - what kind of sibling rivalry is ok?…

Hello everybody!! Happy April! No April Fool’s Day jokes around here - we are talking about sleep training our babies! Haha. That is definitely no joke. Or maybe it seems the joke is on us? Whichever, we wanted to talk about it today, especially since we’ve been checking in with “New Mom Kristen” on her baby adventures! We even invited her to the t…

Hey everybody! It’s book club week! Hopefully you have gotten a chance to read Planet Middle School by Dr. Kevin Leman for today’s episode, but if you haven’t, it’s ok! We are talking about middle school - book or no book! The middle school years require a lot of conversation (and probably lots of books!), don’t they?! 😂 We had mixed reviews on thi…

Hey everybody! Happy (day after) St. Patrick’s Day! This week also has a special, recognized day, and that is National Single Parent Day on March 21! Which is why we are super excited to introduce you to Jennifer’s friend, Ann! Ann is a single mom to two girls, biological sisters she adopted from the foster care system. Her story is beautiful and w…

Hey everybody! We are back at you with another great episode this week! Since we wanted to get last week’s episode out with The Nashville Mom soon for any of you planning spring break trips to Music City, this week we are celebrating Jennifer’s birthday! If you’ve been listening recently, then you know her 40th birthday was coming the beginning of …

Y’ALL. This episode is awesome!! And that greeting seems super appropriate because today we are talking about NASHVILLE!!!! Our home! We have people ask us constantly for ideas of what to do in Nashville, and a few listeners recently as well, so we made this episode happen! And we had the help of “The Nashville Mom,” Dawn Burns. You can find Dawn o…

Hey everybody! We are so excited to bring you another episode this week! Last week, we chatted about Disney with some friends. If you haven’t listened yet, go check it out! This week, we are talking about traveling with kids! Who has given that a try? Ha! If you have, you know that things can go completely awry, and not at all like you expected. We…

Hey everybody! So, this is just a guess, but most of you probably didn’t get to make the Disney marathon a month ago… Am I right? Well, we live in exciting times, and today we are bringing the Disney marathon to you (in the form of a podcast episode)!!! Haha…. Yes, today is our longest episode to date, and it’s ALLLLLL about the mouse! There are en…

Hey everybody! So great to be back at ya again this week with a new episode!! This week we are chatting about “life lately.” We are going to do this every so often, with updates on what we re reading, listening to, watching, etc! Today we chatted about Disney, the flu (boo!), and things we are listening to. Jennifer mentioned her husband has made h…

Hey everybody!! Today’s episode is a fun one for us, because we had fellow podcasters and friends on with us! We got to have three more awesome mamas around our table. The three hosts of the “Midlife Matters” podcast joined us and we got to hear from them about how mommin’ changes as the kids get older. It was a really great conversation, and one w…

Hey everybody! We are back today for another awesome book club book episode! We are chatting about There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk and we lovvved it! We both got so much out of this book, and it really challenged us in a lot of amazing ways. It’s a super easy read, but really inspiring, so if you haven’t read it yet, go …

Hey everybody! Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! We hope you are having a sweet “day off” with your kiddos and having good conversations with them about all that Dr. King stood for and fought for. Here, here, and here are three simple and great articles to give you ideas of how to talk to your kids about Dr. King and MLK day. For today’s episod…

Hey there, friends! We hope this wonderful Monday finds you all ready for a great week ahead! It’s cold in these parts, and we are still waiting on our first snow, but our friends up in the DC area are definitely getting it for us! Happy playing! We are super excited for today’s episode! Jennifer’s longtime friend from high school, Paige Eavenson, …

HAPPY NEW YEAR, mamas!!!! Wow! And it’s already a week in - how does this keep happening?!?! Has your year been off to a good start? Anyone else ready for school to begin?? (Our hands are raised.) Today’s episode we are chatting about 2018, and looking ahead to 2019. Who has made resolutions or goals for the upcoming year? We talk about what ours w…