This week on The Momgienists podcast Jasmin talks with Molly McDonald, Founder of the Three Journeys Community. Molly has developed a community of like-minded parents/parents-to-be to deep dive together through the physical and emotional, science + spirit of this life transformation.
Quotes
“What I quickly realized that the person with the phD was doing was crunching numbers, securing grants and writing articles, they were not hands-on with the parents and babies.”
“You are going to be the only one that knows what is right for you and your family.”
“They communicate way before they are verbal.”
“We can’t fix everything for our kids, we can’t protect them from everything but we can let them know they are not alone and we are there for them through it.”
“What we know is that there is a ton of change on the horizon, what we crave is the ability to control it.”
“Dial down what is in your ability to change and what is not. If it’s not surrender.”
“In most cases your child will figure out how to eat and survive, there are very few cases where they don’t.”
“They are who they are, and you get a little piece of that.”
Links
molly@bodymindandmolly.com
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on The Momgienists podcast your hosts are talking about how they played vs. how their kids play.
Quotes
“The best double dutch ropes are clothes lines, doubled up.”
“Karen is talking about square dancing and you are talking about tootsie roll.”
“They are not responsible enough to navigate what is appropriate or not on social media.”
“When she is dancing, she is in her own little world.”
“He told his dad WAP means worship and praise.”
“There will be no WAP dancing here today.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on The Momgienists podcast your host Jasmin is joined by Ayelet Marinovich who is a speech-language pathologist, parent educator, & imperfect mother. She is the founder of Learn With Less®, which helps families feel confident they can support & connect with their babies and toddlers – without having to buy a single toy!
Quotes
“You are just a therapist coming into a child's home, and then you take that toy when you leave, what is the point?”
“Guess what else does the same thing… an empty toilet paper roll.”
“Less is more.”
“My goal is to release families from that sense that they need to buy more, be more, do more and just step back and recognize the value that they are enough and what they are doing is enough.”
“There is a reason millions of dollars are put into marketing campaigns to make us feel we are not enough as parents.”
“Raise a kind, loving, great human.”
“As grown ups we look at play very linearly.”
Links
ayelet@strengthinwords.com
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on The Momgienists podcast your hosts are talking about body image, highlighting their experiences and how they talk about body image with their children.
Quotes
“I have two daughters so I have to be very aware of how I talk about my body and present my body.”
“When you don’t look like that you wonder why.”
“Kim K. messed it up for us.”
“Curves and fullness of the lips were always a part of the black culture.”
“When you are 95 you will still look like you are 12 and that is a beautiful thing.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on MOMgienists your MOMgienists are talking with return guest, Sarah Watson, LPC about educating your children about sexual health in a healthy way.
Sarah is a licensed professional counselor, AASECT certified sex therapist, and sexuality educator. Sarah has a private practice located in Michigan, where she works with individuals and couples struggling with relationship and sexual health issues via telehealth. In addition to her private practice Sarah founded her education business, Simple Sex Education which provides online workshops for parents to prepare themselves for starting and continuing discussions about sex and relationships with their kids.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“You can be fully in your sexual self and it can be a really healthy and wonderful thing.”
“How can you truly educate your children if you don’t understand yourself?”
“Only 17-18/50 of our states require medically accurate and driven sex education.”
“They say ‘don’t do this because if you do you will get sick’ that's terrible.”
“We are terrified of women finding their pleasure.”
“Your 6 year old may be more emotionally ready to talk about some things than your 8 year old.”
“Everychild is different, their needs, their wants and their questions are different.”
“When they get the answer they move on, it isn’t traumatic.”
“Protection comes from knowledge.”
“The age for exposure to porn is 8 years old.”
“Approach with curiosity.”
Links
https://www.sarahwatsonlpc.com/
https://www.simplesexeducation.com/
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week your Momgienists podcast talking about getting spousal buy-in to achieve your goals.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week your Momgienists podcast we are joined by Cheryl Shafer who has been a Dental Hygienist since 1985, who specializes in oral function, tethered oral tissue and breathing. She is helping those with orofacial myofunctional disorders find the root cause and solutions by collaborating with an integrative team of medical and dental providers.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“The hygienists are the most underutilized healthcare professionals.”
“One of the amazing things about what I do is that I don’t work in isolation, I work as a myofunctional therapist in collaboration with all healthcare professionals.”
“Dental and Medical should be married.”
“The rewards are breathtaking.”
“Warning for everyone, if you dive into this subject you will dive deep into the rabbit hole, there is always more and more and more to learn.”
“There is so much I wish I knew for when my child was young that I would do differently.”
“He wrote his college essay on the pain that he suffered because he had oral dysfunction.”
“Waiting until someone is 8 years old to see the orthodontist for the first time is too late.”
“Foundation first, teeth second.”
“I feel like I have found my value and purpose.”
“He said Cheryl, you are doing God's work.”
“If we rise, all of us rise.”
Links
cherylshafer@facialfunction.com
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on MOMgienists Jasmin talks to us about 5 strategies to maintain your identity while raising a family, developing a career, or both!
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“One of my greatest gifts is being a mother, but there is also a side of me that existed before I had children.”
“Your children won’t be young for long.”
“My children benefit when mommy is full and whole.”
“One of the most powerful things we have is our intuition, TRUST THAT.”
“Time is relative.”
“You will have mommy guilt, and it will never go away.”
“Of course they are okay, they have another loving parents that is there with them who is taking care of them.”
“Boundaries are not about them, they are about us.”
“Celebrate your small wins, they lead to bigger wins.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on MOMgienists your MOMgienists are talking with Sarah Watson, LPC about vaginal health and sex communication with your partner.
Sarah is a licensed professional counselor, AASECT certified sex therapist, and sexuality educator. Sarah has a private practice located in Michigan, where she works with individuals and couples struggling with relationship and sexual health issues via telehealth. In addition to her private practice Sarah founded her education business, Simple Sex Education which provides online workshops for parents to prepare themselves for starting and continuing discussions about sex and relationships with their kids.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“Yoni, this is cleaning out the vaginal canal, and it is trash.”
“Your vagina, it cleans itself… period.”
“You can’t smell pheromones.”
“You have probably been taught since you were a young woman, a lot of misinformation.”
“Most of this has been taught and influenced by men, and they don’t know a lot about vaginas and vulva’s.”
“Scented is not good, it will give you an infection.”
“What I was doing pre-children, is nothing compared to what I am doing now.”
“I have friends that have no stretch marks after having kids, I have tiger stripes y’all, and I am still scared to show that part of me.”
“There is so much shame around what happens to our bodies as women.”
“It takes your body 18 months to recover.”
“I am still supposed to wear a diaper and you want me to what?”
“Baby comes out and you are good to go… hell no.”
“Lubrication is your friend.”
“You can have the conversation in snippets.”
“Sex can be anything that brings you pleasure with your partner.”
Links
https://www.sarahwatsonlpc.com/
https://www.simplesexeducation.com/
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
This week on MOMgienists your MOMgienists are talking about creating, developing, and maintaining friendships while juggling the art that is raising a family.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“Motherhood can be a lonely place.”
“It is okay to have seasons.”
“I can relate to my teenage boy patient base pretty well.”
“My family will always come first.”
“Sometimes people don’t have boundaries themselves.”
“It is okay to say no to your friends, it is okay if you are not the end all for them, it is okay to set boundaries.”
“Some people, you love them, but they drive you nuts.”
“I’ve never gone to a meetup with friends and regretted it.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
The Safe Place for MOMgienists™️ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MOMgienists/
This week on MOMgienists your MOMgienists are with Kari Carter- Cherelus about toxic work environments and getting paid what you deserve!
Kari Carter-Cherelus RDH, DA is a consultant, coach, speaker, and author. Kari knows first hand how working in a hostile work environment can contribute to feelings of burnout, negatively affecting one's overall health and confidence. She authored the book The Ultimate Guide for Dental Hygienist Burnout. She uses her platform as CEO and Founder of KMC Strategic Solutions to help improve the work culture in teams and organizations. She coaches professionals experiencing burnout and professional dissatisfaction. Her coaching assists her clients in rediscovering their passion by realigning themselves empowering themselves to make positive changes in their lives.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“I have a captive audience, you are stuck in my chair and you have to listen to me.”
“I ended up having post traumatic stress and crying.”
“It takes about a year and a half to two years to get over burnout.”
“You have to establish boundaries, you cannot keep allowing things to happen to you.”
“If they play chess you can’t play checkers, you need to play chess.”
“Those little things become big things.”
“You don’t want to show up at the bosses door and say ‘I need some money’.”
“It is in the data, it is in the numbers.”
“At the end of the day we are working in a small business in the private sector, and we need to talk about the numbers.”
“I liken interviews to first dates, anyone can say anything on the first date.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
The Safe Place for MOMgienists™️ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MOMgienists/
Kari:
Instagram: kmc.smiles
This week on MOMgienists your MOMgienists are talking about self care strategies for the moms out there! If you are battling virtual learning, change of routine, work and life we are going to talk about implementing self sustenance into your life!
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“Laughter is my self sustenance.”
“When I can sense when I am getting to the point of overwhelm, or she is, we speak in different accents, and laugh, and it helps us get through it.”
“The biggest part is recognizing when you need help, and asking for it, beyond your spouse.”
“I just had my first meet and greet session with my counselor.”
“I still have a little bit of a stigma saying it outloud that I need help.”
“It was my space, my time, by myself.”
“We have to find small pockets of time that belong to us.”
“Choosing me is actually not selfish.”
Links
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @ skaren52
Michelle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.barrios.37669
Email: Michelle2rdh@gmail.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
The Safe Place for MOMgienists™️ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MOMgienists/
This week on the MOMgienists Podcast our MOMgienists are joined by Dr. Ellie Phillips. Dr. Phillips shares with us the amazing story of her career and what brought her to where she is today!
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“In England in the 50’s women were not in dentistry”
“We studied 6 days a week, and lived in silence on Sundays to digest what we learned Monday through Saturday”
“I had nothing else I could think about other than physics, chemistry and biology”
“I was accepted into dental school and there were 7 women, 700 men, the whole thing was a fight because they didn’t want women in dental school”
“I was a little rebel, I made it a skirt and sewed it down the middle”
“The bigger the filling, the more the patient had to pay, I got the same amount, root canals were less expensive than extractions so patients really made an effort to keep their teeth and maintain health”
“No-one was flossing at yet they had the best oral health I had ever seen”
“If a family wanted to come all together, and have a consultation, why not? I am going to say the same thing to each of them”
“I didn’t clean teeth that didn’t need cleaning… why do we do this”
“I'm going to ask myself that next time someone is getting on my nerves… What would Dr. Ellie do?
“He has really white teeth before the whitening era and he was using comet cleaner”
“I did tell a guy he had to go on my program for 6 months before I would kiss him”
“Brushing not about scooping stuff out of your teeth, brushing is to create lymphatic drainage”
“It's like a garden, if you blowtorch your garden, it's clean, but it's not healthy”
Links
Mouth Care Comes Clean: https://amzn.to/2OgwPs6
Kiss your Dentist Goodbye:https://amzn.to/2BUAKsa
Dr. Phillips Website: https://drellie.com
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @skaren52
The Safe Place for MOMgienists Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MOMgienists/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:
http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/
This week on the MOMgienists Podcast our MOMgienists talk about anxiety and how they cope.
Episode Highlights
Quotes
“If you see a big dump…. don’t whack it!”
“When you get a patient in your chair you don’t know what your getting, and you deal with it, no matter how much calculus gets flicked in your face”
“Sometimes I’ve just got to let it go”
“Sometimes you have a better energy the next day, and you can deal with something you just couldn’t today”
“I understand why some mothers feel like, I just want to hit the road Jack… and disappear”
“I wish I had this book when I started working”
“Not everyone is cut from the same cloth”
“When I was pregnant my anxiety was through the roof”
“You have to count those risks and decide”
Links
A Sisters Siesta: https://app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/a-sisters-siesta/018aeed2-3e20-4e28-bf66-61fe78807a78
Christie
Instagram: @yoursmilinghygienist
Website: www.yoursmilinghygienist.com
Jasmin
Instagram: @itjasminhaley
Facebook: @itsjasminhaley
Website: www.jasminhaley.com
Karen
Instagram: @skaren52
The Safe Place for MOMgienists Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MOMgienists/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:
http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/