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Welp, this turned into a longer story than I planned but I've had some weird health stuff lately and wanted to share.

As promised in the episode, here's a list of resources that I've found:

I chat with Dr. Shimi Kang all about:

• How technology is impacting your mental health, brain, body, and behavior.
• How to differentiate between healthy, stressful, & addictive tech experiences.
• How to reset children’s and your own tech habits towards success.

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This season of The Mom Break Podcast™ is brought to you by Bathorium. To get 15% off everything on the site, head to www.mombreak.ca/bath.

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Well, this is a long one, so feel free to break it up into chunks if you need to, but it's a good and fun conversation. I convinced my university friend, Kayli, to come onto the show and chat about her experience with COVID as somebody who lives in Hong Kong and Singapore, so she was in the middle of it all.

But, we got a little off track and it ended up just being a chat about life, including:

• Mental health
• Her experience going to school to become a therapist
• Her thoughts on consumption and sustainability
• Airports in Asia during the pandemic
• How Asia reacted differently than North America to the pandemic
• Worklife balance
• So many random things

If you're looking for an all-around random conversation with lots of hot topics, this is the episode for you.

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𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

Where the fack does your sex drive go after having kids???

You're tired, overworked and it's the last thing in the world you want to do...soo I brought @sexwithdrjess on the show to chat all about:

- Libido
- Orgasms
- Sexual frequency

Drive right into this in this episode with Toronto-based sexoligist, Jessica O'Reilly, PhD!

Links we discussed in the episode:

I don't know about your guys, but I needed to hear about a local business who was kicking ass!

So, I invited Jamie-Lynn from @batterupbakeryca to come chat with me about how her cake business went from:

- Custom cake order

- Full steam ahead with an employee

To COVID hitting and having to totally re-work the wheel.

But the inspirational part of the story, not only did she kick ass, but she also managed to:

- Pivot her business

- Open a storefront

- Massively scale her business

And yes, we both showed up to the podcast recording in our hoodies, so we decided that this was the best way to take the photo haha!

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

Comedy, meets compassion, meets a mission to normalize being Sikh...

This is how I'd describe @thatpunjabimom!

She's the perfect mix of sarcastic, kind, and gracious. In this episode of The Mom Break Podcast™ we talked all about:

- How her Reels are going viral

- How she balances sharing comedy, with family, with her mission to normalize a Sikh family

- All about her religion and what the core principles are

She's lovely and so kind! A must-listen episode of the podcast! 

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Where exactly are you in the world?

I’m incredibly excited for this weeks episode of the podcast, because as we dive into social media, we realize how different parenting is all across the world, because we now have access to chat with and see their lives.

So, this week I chat with @prettymummasays in India, all about what her parenting journey has been like. We chat about everything from:

- Breastfeeding and formula
- Hollywood’s perception of India
- How she accomplished household tasks like laundry, cooking...
- If arranged marriages are still common
- Schooling
- Independence of children in India vs North America

It was a fun conversation with a friend on the other side of the world and I’m so excited for you guys to listen!

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My family had always played a very active role in my life and showed up occasionally on social media.

So, I thought I'd do an official episode with my mom, dad, and brother! We chat about all sorts of random things, spilling the beans on family secrets and taking turns throwing each other under the bus.

A little bit about all of them and where you can find them online:

Does balance in motherhood exist?

I'm not totally sold BUT @lisacanning (mom of 8) sat down with me and we talked all about it. Her answers were NOT what I expected and I left this interview feeling fired up and excited. I asked her everything from:

- What are her tips for finding balance?
- How can you avoid the comparison trap?
- All about her routine with her 8 kids
- Her breastfeeding journey with 8 kids
- How moms can switch from one task to another (ie. kids to work), and quickly jump in. 

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

How the heck can you talk to your kids about COVID?

Honestly, I had NO idea, so I reached out to @lifeofdrmom, Stephanie Liu, to get tips on how we can help support our young kids during this time. In this new episode of The Mom Break Podcast, Stephanie and I talk about:

- Tips to help young children deal with COVID
- How she manages life as a family doctor, two young kids, a surgeon husband, and also simultaneously running a side-hustle
- Common side effects of the flu shot
- How to keep toddler gloves on
- Her experience potty training
- How she feels as a Dr during a pandemic

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

OK, I promise this title is a bit misleading....

But it's just shorter than, "Hey, after years I finally figured out how to properly prioritize my life and now I feel more balanced and happier than ever before...and because of that, I feel like I'm finally getting everything done".

Here's the catch:

I'm not ACTUALLY doing it all (y'know how I feel about that, it's not possible all at the same time), I've just spent the last year re-prioritizing my life and fine-tuning my schedules so that I can:

- Get all of the important things (to me) done
- Scale back and simplify my life
- Be happier and feel better

So, because I've made some MAJOR changes in the last year (and life has thrown us all some ridiculous curveballs), I chat in this episode about the THREE MAIN THINGS I changed this year.

I originally had this episode scheduled for May, but given the recent Ontario lockdown, I know a lot of people are struggling with scheduling, and this is what I've been doing that works for me...so this episode got bumped up.

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Picture this: Pregnant with your wife, at the same time, with a toddler at home, and then delivering 3 weeks apart during COVID.

Yup, that's what this freaking amazing couple did @twiblingmoms I was so thrilled to have Cara and Natasha join me as my first guests on the new season of The Mom Break Podcast. They shared with me:

- Their experience with infertility
- Their rounds of IVF
- Their journey to get to where they are
- What it's like being pregnant at the same time
- Their labour and delivery story
- How they're doing now

Don't miss this episode, because they're an adorable and hilarious couple that doesn't shy away from the tough conversations, but rather, candidly shares their journey in a hilarious and loving way.

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄:

I chat with veteran blogger, Rebecca Stanisic from Little Bit of Momsense onto the podcast to chat all about how she:

• Started her blog
• Has evolved it over the years as her children have grown
• Set goals for herself
• Learned to stop comparing with others
• Focused on what was important to her family
• Created a business that worked for her