Welcome to the Mama Needs Podcast, where we chat about all the things that ‘mama needs’! On this podcast you’ll hear real stories from Moms that you can relate to and listen in while you do your everyday mom life. I’m your host, Jenn Collins, Mama of 3 kids, wife and founder of Mama Needs Box, a monthly self-care subscription box for Moms.

Can you even believe it’s time to start talking about Christmas and giving gifts?! It is not too early to start thinking about how and what you want to give this year. Can I encourage you to consider our December box as a gift to a special Mama in your life? Our December box is our very last subscription box until we launch our brand new gift box service for Moms in 2023!

It’s not goodbye, it’s “see you soon”. Inside this special 4 year anniversary + farewell box, you’ll find 6 beautiful self-care products from small, women-owned businesses, a custom-made sticker + an exclusive coupon code for our new Mama Needs Box Shop coming in 2023.

Help us celebrate 4 years by gifting the December box to a Mama you love now through November 30 while supplies last (and we are very limited this year)! Shipping the first week of December! Here’s the BEST news: just for listening to this podcast, you can use the code PODCAST at checkout for 15% off your order at mamaneedsbox.com.

Alright let’s get to today’s episode! This one is SUPER FUN and you will absolutely fall in love my guest today. Her name is JJ Campbell and she is the host of a new-to-me podcast that I adore called Along for the Ride Podcast! Her podcast is basically a game show for families to listen to while in the car - it will quickly become a new favorite.

JJ is seriously one of the most fun and joyful people I have ever interviewed and you will hear that right off the bat. You’ll hear why she created her podcast, how she compares herself to the one and only Bob Barker and the really deep and meaningful reasons why connecting with our kids in the car is so important. We laugh our way through this episode and so will you, I guarantee it! So, enjoy my conversation today with JJ.

Find JJ + Relevant Links:

FREE Resource: alongfortheride.info/conversations 

Website - http://www.alongfortheride.info 

Social media - @aftr_kidspodcast

Podcast - https://www.alongfortheride.info/podcast

Hey Mamas, I’m so glad you’re back with me today for our newest episode with my guest, Mary Carver. First off, I have a question for you: Do you ever start praying and realize you are so overwhelmed with the situation that you’re praying for, that you just don’t know what to say? I know I feel that way, especially when going to pray for my kids. Sometimes I just don’t know how to express how I feel, what I want or how to pray for them. 

Well, Mary wrote a book just for us Moms that we can conveniently keep in our car or purse and borrow some prayers to lift up for our kids. “Prayers from the Parking Lot” is a short devotional book written by Mary filled with 50 short reflections for moms on the go. It is the perfect tool in our toolbox to keep in the car while you wait in car line or at the doctor’s office and have a few minutes of quiet to reflect and pray for your kids.

In today’s episode, I know you’ll be encouraged to hear from Mary on why she wrote this book, what’s inside it, what prayer she is clinging to right now and some funny stories in between. Enjoy my episode with Mary.

Find Mary + Relevant Links:

Books she’s reading: “Aunties” book series by Jesse Q. Sutanto and “Anthropocene Reviewed” by John Green

Mary’s book - “Prayers from the Parking Lot: 50 Short Reflections for Moms on the Go”

Website - http://www.marycarver.com

Social media - @marycarver on IG and FB

Podcast - http://www.thecouchpodcast.com

Hey Mamas, welcome back to the mama needs podcast. My guest today is Kristen King Jaiven who is a wife, mother, lawyer and now children’s book author. We’re going to chat about her book today called “Mommy’s Time”, a beautiful story of a mom taking the time to take care of herself so she can take care of her little one. It is the sweetest book and it’s one of those children’s stories that really hits home for the person reading it, too.

You’ll hear why Kristen wrote it, what self-care means to her and her favorite part of the book, too. Plus you guys, we’re doing a giveaway! Go to our instagram post (@mamaneedsbox) to get all the details and enter to win the “Mommy’s Time” book + Mommy’s Time coffee mug. Now, enjoy my episode with Kristen.

Find Kristen + Links:

Mommy’s Time Book: https://www.kristenkingjaiven.com/book

Mommy’s Time Mug + Book Combo: https://www.kristenkingjaiven.com/product-page/mommy-s-time-combo

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067900805202

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mommystime.thebook/

Book she’s reading: https://amzn.to/3CIUZpg

Hey Mamas! Well we are back with episode 101 today! Did you hear episode 100 with my special co-host? I hope you did but if not please go back and listen as me and my husband Joel co-host that episode - he asks me questions about the podcast and then we picked several episodes to recap and shared clips from some of them. We were silly and it was so much fun! I hope you’ll celebrate with us and listen in!

So today we have a return guest with us as we kick off our next season of the podcast! Her name is Ashley Brown! She was on the show back in 2020 episode #47 and then we re-aired her episode because it was that good on episode #81! She is back today because she has a very special project she’s been working on hard for a while now and it’s a gorgeous planner.

You will hear all about what she’s been up to since we had her on the show last time, the products she offers and all about this amazing planner. We all know there are sooooo many planners out there but you’ll hear how this one is different than any other one on the market! Enjoy my conversation with Ashley!

Find Ashley:

Web: http://www.routineandthings.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/routineandthings

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/routineandthings/

Hey Mamas! I know you’ve been waiting on our 100th episode and it is scheduled to release on September 22 - the FIRST day of FALL! If you know me at all, you know I am a sucker for all things Fall and I can’t think of a better day to celebrate our 100th episode with you! More info is coming soon!

We are back for this very special BONUS episode which is just my gift to you in honor of our October theme for our subscription which is “Mama Needs to Pause”. What you are about to hear is a recording of a Breathing Session with Breathe Mama Coach Carol Webb. This was a part of our January box earlier this year and I wanted to offer it here as a BONUS so you can see what kinds of things we offer from time to time that are digital products. So we mostly include physical products in our boxes, usually 6 or 7 things. This was one of the things included in that box as a virtual class and our subscribers loved it, as did I.

Let’s take a moment to slow down and breathe together. Allowing ourselves to relax with a 30 minute simple yet nurturing breathwork experience. We will use our breath to reset our nervous system and allow our body and mind to rest.

Carol Webb is a coach for moms, a Reiki and EFT practitioner as well as a lover of breathwork. She guides moms in navigating the overwhelm to create more joyful and manageable lives. Carol lives in Ontario with her husband and two amazing children. Enjoy this beautiful time, let it be a gift you give to yourself as you slow down, press the pause button on life for just a bit and breathe.

Find Carol:

Web: https://justbreathemamacoach.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justbreathemamacoach

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justbreathemamacoach/

Welcome to the Mama Needs Podcast, where we chat about all the things that ‘mama needs’! On this podcast you’ll hear real stories from Moms that you can relate to and listen in while you do your everyday mom life. I’m your host, Jenn Collins, Mama of 3 kids, wife and founder of Mama Needs Box, a monthly self-care subscription box for Moms.

Do you have a tween or teen daughter? We’re back but just for this shorter bonus episode to feature my friend Deana Hicks. She is a wife, mama of a teen girl and owner of One Girl Inspired, a monthly subscription box filled with fun tools to inspire, empower and motivate teen and tween girls to believe in themselves, aspire to dream big and make their own mark on the world. We collaborated recently and put cards in each other’s boxes to advertise to a new audience and hopefully reach both some Mamas who need some self-care and their tween & teen daughters who need some encouragement! Also, in case you didn’t know, September is self-care awareness month and September 25th is National Daughter’s Day - perfect timing - it’s like we planned it or something!

We talk about Deana’s background, what’s inside these beautiful boxes, and Deana shares some staggering statistics of tween & teen girls and then some encouragement for those of us raising girls in this generation right now. She also gives us the secret of the “Botox Brow” - you will want to know what this is, I promise!

You will love hearing from Deana’s heart and the worthy mission behind these boxes! At the end, she shares a 15% off coupon code that you can use at onegirlinspired.com. And if you received our August box, you saw the card we put inside from One Girl Inspired with the code right there. Enjoy my conversation with Deana!

Relevant Links:

One Girl Inspired box (use coupon code DAUGHTERSROCK for 15% off)

Mama Needs Box (use coupon code SELFCARE for 15% off)

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