Mother the Mother

In today's solo episode, McLean talks about going through the process of her own rebirth and mid-life awakening. Feeling at peace and untethered as she steps into the unknown. She talks about letting go of any attachments that need to fall away without demonizing them and just being aligned with what aligns with who you are today. Plus, McLean shares her thoughts about the podcast pause, expanding, rebranding, and coming back with a new version of herself. Finally, McLean is sending love to everyone going through their own journey of up-leveling and awakening.

In today’s episode, McLean is joined by Kenzie Burke as they dive into Kenzie's journey of awakening and rebirth. Based in Malibu, California, Kenzie Burke is the founder of BRÛLÉ; a clothing line whose namesake stems from its definitional association with fire. For founder and designer Kenzie Burke, fire is the impetus from which artistry springs forth. After gaining acclaim in the health and wellness space, Kenzie burnt it down to launch her lifelong passion: a clothing line focused on bringing lasting taste into fashion. BRÛLÉ is where life emerges from ashes. Kenzie previously managed a wellness social media account and created a podcast with more than 600,000 downloads. She also produced three health and wellness books and a superfood line of biodynamic coffee and cacao. However, in 2021, she disengaged from wellness and focused solely on fashion. McLean was inspired by Kenzie’s pivot and wanted to have her on the show to be an authentic example of how to support yourself through massive change. Kenzie shares how and why she had to drop everything and what it felt like to deeply surrender in order to get back up and rebuild herself again.

Today on Mother The Mother, McLean talks about the struggles and victories of going through fertility treatment with her good friend, Kelli Moore. Kelli is the co-founder and CEO of Soulfire Productions, the premier podcast network for thought leaders, free thinkers, and visionaries. In this episode, Kelli shares with McLean all the ups and downs of her IVF journey with her husband. Plus, Kelli talks about how she’s dealing with her mother's death and how she's healing from it.

Today on the show, McLean is joined by Jen Szpigiel as they talk about what it's like to be in harmony with the lifepath of motherhood, work, and being your unique self. Jen has created a multi-million dollar global iconic brand for life, business, and leadership. As the owner and founder of Becoming Iconic®️, Jen is infusing years of wisdom, pure-clean energy, and proven strategies for the visionaries, legends, and entrepreneurs who want to break expired paradigms and shift the narrative within their businesses, relationships and lives. As an industry leader, top mentor, and podcast host, be ready for Jen to expand you into your full potential as the most epic, vision-centric leader for yourself and your legacy.

In today's episode of Mother The Mother, McLean talks about grief as she reflects on how she felt in the 7th year of her father's passing and the death of a friend — a shade tree. Hear her contemplate how we should honor our life's journey and not skip ahead of ourselves. Plus, McLean talks about depression and the increasing rate of suicide due to sickness and the effects of the pandemic.

Today on the show, McLean dives into the world of polyamory with coach and podcaster Jessica Esfandiary! Jessica, host of the Open Late podcast, tells her story of opening up her marriage and finding a better version of herself in the process. She shares what led her and her husband to wanting to date outside of their marriage, all the struggles and challenges they faced along the way, and clears up some common misconceptions about non-monogamy. And now, she’s on the path to becoming a mother via surrogacy, and she and McLean discuss what that means for her relationship now.

Today on the show, McLean is joined by her good friend Emily Stanwyck. A mom of two, wife, trainer & BIRTHFIT Coach, and a birth doula, Emily has a vast amount of experience in the wellness and birthing world. She works advocating for freedom, informed consent, and birthing out of the medical system. She teaches birth education and leads a year long doula training and mentorship program in the hopes that more women will stand up for their rights in the face of childbirth so that they can feel empowered, whole, and complete when she brings a child into the world and becomes a mother! Today, she and McLean dive deep into the world of birthing. Listen as they chat about the birthing wisdom we’ve allowed ourselves to forget, why women need to learn how to trust their bodies again, and rethinking the role men should play in labor and delivery.

McLean is back with another solo episode! And today, she’s talking about intuition and birth. We as women are so often taught not to trust our bodies, but there’s an innate wisdom we hold, despite what any experts may say. McLean breaks down why birth has become a big business in recent years, touches on what it’s like to work towards empowering women within a broken medical system, and shares a powerful story about freebirthing that changed her. Listen to feel empowered, refreshed, and to learn how to start finding your way back to that innate wisdom and intuition you have inside of you.

Today McLean is joined by holistic beauty coach and advocate for BII (Breast Implant Illness) awareness, Amanda Porta. She’s here to share her story, from getting breast plants in her 20s, selling implants as her career, to the dozens of symptoms she then suffered from for years, and eventually finding healing with getting an explant surgery. She’s now a patient advocate for women going through Breast Implant Illness, having gone through the illness herself, she has explanted, detoxed, healed, and can guide women through their own explant journeys. She has advised thousands of women around the world from celebrities to athletes to prominent businesswomen that have trusted her expertise to support them through this health crisis. She and McLean discuss the history and types of implants, the lack of informed consent with implants, and how they can even affect breastfeeding. Her story is amazing; she went from unknowingly selling the very thing that was making her sick, to now helping other women find healing.

The seasons are changing, and we have a choice to either fight the change, or move and flow with it. And on today’s solo episode, McLean brings clarity and encouragement to those fighting the movement of the seasons, and shares how she’s been learning to honor the seasons in her own life and what benefits she’s reaped from it. Plus, hear her contemplate on the lack of community and help in our patriarchal culture, why mothering is the most important work, and how to begin honoring the season you’re in by surrendering your days to the flow of life.

Today on Mother The Mother, McLean is joined by good friend and professional Psychic Medium, Emily Greene, also known as Emily The Medium. Emily helps connect people with their loved ones on the other side, provide psychic guidance on people's life path, and connect people to the Souls of the children they are meant to have. She and McLean share some powerful moments from a card pull, and then dive into how they’ve been honoring the changing seasons in their own lives, even if it means taking a step back. Plus, they discuss Emily’s work and how she’s been experiencing the energetic shift in pregnancy and births.

In today’s episode, McLean reflects on her family's recent experience with COVID, and the spiritual lessons she’s learned from it. There’s something powerful and healing that happens when confronted with illness, and she shares her thoughts on what it meant to her not just physically, but emotionally. She also touches on why we as women struggle with receiving love, how to accept and give it out freely, and shares a different way to think about self-care.

Calling all Mama Bears - it is time to wake up! McLean is kicking off the return of her podcast this year with Governor 2022 Candidate Reinette Senum. Reinette is a 4th generation Californian born in San Francisco and adopted and raised by her parents in the Sierra foothills. Reinette believes in the real California spirit of can-do individualism, bold entrepreneurship, and fully transparent accountability. She is a proven truth-teller; even when the truths are hard and right now, there are some real hard truths that we have to deal with as a state, country, and humanity. She will always fight for a robust civic engagement that ensures a healthy and prosperous legacy for generations to come. This conversation is guaranteed to ignite within you a remembrance of sacred responsibility in this lifetime. A remembrance that what we choose today will impact the next seven generations and beyond. It will inspire you to speak out, take a seat at the table and get more involved in your community. By the end of this episode, you will question your legacy, impact, purpose and above all have rediscovered the power that is your voice and the lasting change that will come as a direct result of your proactivity. It is time for us to embody the new and fully healed Earth we deserve - for our children and all the children to come.

In today’s episode, McLean is joined by a certified birth doula, nutrition consultant, and birth photographer, Carson Meyer. Carson is located in Malibu, California but attended New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she pursued studies in child development, art therapy, and complementary medicine. In 2016, Carson returned to Los Angeles and began her journey as a doula supporting parents through a healthy and peaceful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period, in the environment that best suits their needs. With a strong passion for environmental health, Carson also launched an all-natural and environmentally conscious skincare line, C & The Moon. She is an old soul, a powerful space holder, and fellow Scorpio with clear direction, passion, and purpose for what she came to this Earth to accomplish. Come here the inspiration that is, Carson Meyer.

In today’s episode, McLean is joined by author, birth doula, and hypnotherapist, Bailey Gaddis. Bailey authored Asking for a Pregnant Friend and Feng Shui Mommy and is a regular contributor to media outlets including Working Mother, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy and Newborn, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Disney’s Babble, and more. She also volunteers for a program where she offers in-home support to parents of newborn babies, specifically single mothers and those with babies with special needs. In this episode, they discuss the healing process of writing her book Asking for a Pregnant Friend, the heartbreaking prevalence of shame, guilt, and embarrassment for many women during their pregnancy and postpartum experience, navigating triggers, and heavy emotions following pregnancy loss and so much more. These are the conversations that are needed and at the core of what Mother the Mother is all about. Lastly, you will hear in this recording that Bailey is in the final weeks of pregnancy and preparing for the birth of her little girl! We are happy to report that since the time of this recording, she did have her healthy home birth with her baby girl 1 week before her estimated due date so, congratulations to you, Bailey!

In today’s Real Talk with McLean, she shines a light on the area society tends to shy away from the most - death. Like birth, it is a portal that all of humanity experiences and yet as a culture, we struggle with finding the right words to discuss this deep and mysterious part of our existence. As always, McLean has found the words to both comfort, explain the unexplainable and leave all who have had death touch their lives feel seen, heard, and supported. Whether you have carried the haunting questions that arise from someone you love committing suicide, experienced the drawn-out loss from chronic illness, or are in the impossible place of needing to explain death to your child, McLean has your back.

Today, McLean is joined by friend and fellow birth doula, Georgiana Johnson. Georgiana has been cooking for families and working as a full-spectrum doula in LA for the past 8 years. She is originally from London, England but has been on an adventure in the United States for almost 15 years now. Her passion is to protect, celebrate and nourish the family unit. This conversation is soul medicine. It is woven with notes of comfort, support, and dripping with the oils of sacred magic that is Motherhood.

In today’s Real Talk with McLean she invites you into the sacred portal of pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Her journey will forever begin and end with recognizing where the world falls short and quickly stepping in to provide the support needed. Hit play to soak your being with her words, cleanse your soul with her offerings, and above all, receive the reminder that you are worthy of creating the life you want.

In today’s Real Talk with McLean she shares deep reflection. Reflections about the collective energy over the past several months, her personal energy levels, and the beautiful journey that has become this podcast. Today is Mother the Mother’s 100th episode and in pure McLean fashion, she is sharing where it all started, where it has been and visions for the future of this show.

In today’s Real Talk with McLean she shows up to her life dharma in a big, bold, and stunningly authentic way. This portal of time has been rough for so many and the fires of fear, doubt, and isolation seem to rage on with no end in sight. This conversation is a life raft when you are at your lowest point, a glimmer of hope for a brighter tomorrow, and a sacred invitation to once and for all step into your sovereignty. McLean believes it is time for us all to come together and it starts with hitting play on this episode.