It Takes a Village Podcast - Motherhood | Marriage | All The Things

Gratitude changed Robin's life when going through invitro. She was struggling and just feeling miserable after two failed invitros and an IUI. Today Robin shares how she started becoming grateful for everything because she started seeing God everywhere. (We mentioned Nikki, a past guest who's been on the show, you can find her episode and her journey with infertility on the podcast as well) theashcarroll.com

Embryo adoption was something Merritt feels really passionate about sharing and lucky for her I have been super curious about what exactly embryo adoption was and how it works. Merritt journeyed through a long period of singleness before meeting her husband and then found (like most of us) that marriage can be rough trying to bring two people together who have different "ways" of doing things and have been living on their own for so long.  theashcarroll.com

This obsession with self sabotage and perfectionism is exhausting. To be honest, I don’t even realize I am doing it half of the time.With so many successful women, social media, magazines and celebrities it’s hard to find the balance between reality and setting to high of standards for yourself. Everyone constantly looks like they have it all together and we play that card, so that no one knows we are struggling. But what good does that do for those that are really struggling? theashcarroll.com

Cara Brookins is the author of "Rise: How a House Built a Family", a memoir about escaping domestic violence with her four children and building a 3,500 square foot home from the ground up with their own hands. Rise is a 2017 Indy Next Pick and selected for Barnes & Noble’s What We’re Reading which includes front-of-store placement. She is also a keynote speaker, hosts a weekly podcast with Macmillan called Raise My Roof, and is a fiction writer with seven published novels. theashcarroll.com

In this episode I talk to a momma who struggled with postpartum depression. And what triggered it was the overwhelming feeling of helplessness from allergies & skin sensitivities her son was facing. But not until she took matters into her own hands in finding a solution for her son's skin sensitivities through creating her own product has she been able to let go completely.  theashcarroll.com

Andrea Miller is CEO of Your Tango, the leading online magazine dedicated to love and relationships. Andrea talks about how in her own relationship it was easy to run when the stuff got tough... or annoying, but that she has since learned that the things that she once saw as annoyances could be accepted and appreciated. theashcarroll.com

In this episode I hang out with Julie Solomon, who is a NY Times best selling publicist/strategist, Founder of The Influencer Podcast and Juliesolomon.net where she helps bloggers & influencers to grow their brand, business and income. Business aside it's hard to mom when you're also working. We're talking about all the mom struggles and including our own mom shaming.  

In this episode Lauren Casper and I talk about miscarriage, foster care, their adoption process with their two children from Ethiopia, how she once built walls around her heart but found herself surrendering to give herself the freedom to feel what she needed to feel. We talk about her son Mareto and his diagnosis with autism and how that led to her awesome book, "It's Okay About It: Lessons from a Five Year Old About Living Life Wide Open".  theashcarroll.com

Chrissy is a wife, mother, marriage & family therapist, photographer, blogger and Instagram-er. Her feed is always so real and down to earth but also super gorgeous. In this episode talk about woking from home, being on a united front during the times of colic, community over competition, the movie Bad Moms, and scary moment when her child went missing that onset her anxiety. 

I loved having Anna on the podcast and I wished it had been under better circumstances. But I felt like her story, although such a tragedy, could be a light in the dark for those who have lost a child and are dealing with grief. 

2 out of 1000 Women are silently suffering from a medical condition called Vaginismus. In this episode, Marni Scott, is super open and shares her personal journey and victory over vaginismus with the help of the Women's Therapy Centerin New York. But I hope that with this episode we can bring more awareness to this condition that many women don't realize they have or are silently suffering from because they don't know anyone else experiencing it or feel embarrassed about it.

In this episode we talk about Tony Robbins' 6 core human needs and how implementing these impacted marriage. Overcoming irritations, learned to communicate more productively, taking differences and finding a way to make them work together as a couple and not just exist as two separate people in one house. And how she creates the beautiful family atmosphere they have in their home of freedom, fun and realness without being fake.

"Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that her loved ones were not safe." theashcarroll.com

I first heard of Caroline Paul on a podcast hosted by Tim Ferriss. Then as I googled her, I became super interested in the book she recently released called The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure, a New York Times Best Seller. Caroline Paul uses her own adventures to encourage boys and girls who read this to step outside their comfort zone. 

Kristy is a pre- and postnatal wellness expert and advocate, is the owner and founder of Pure Nuture, a business devoted to educating and inspiring women to nurture and nourish themselves through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Self-care is incredibly important for all of us, but it far too often is the very last thing that we prioritize amid hectic schedules and busy lives.