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every 13 days
Average audio length:
66 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
16 episodes
since April 14, 2025
episodic

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Send a text In this week’s catch-up, Lina opens up about how hard it can be to feel grateful during a difficult season of parenthood. Meanwhile, Valentina talks about her first two months of homeschooling her daughter: what she’s learned, what’s surprised her, and why it’s been such a fulfilling ch…

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Send a text In this episode, we sit down with Valentina's husband, musician and creative Ben Weinman to unpack how social media has evolved from the early days of MySpace and message boards to today’s hyper-curated feeds and algorithm-driven culture.We reflect on what it means to “have a follo…
Send a text This week, we sat down with Ally Norton, owner of The Corner in Flemington, to talk about her powerful journey of reinvention. Ally opened up about taking a leap of faith and walking away from her corporate career when the stress began to take a serious toll on her mental and physical h…
Send a text Summer was… a lot. 🌞 In this episode, Lina and Valentina get real about why they’re both over it. Lina shares how her “fun” summer plan of mixing different camps for her son turned into a schedule nightmare and a budget shocker when she saw the true cost of summer camp. Valentina opens …
Send a text Has gentle parenting gone too far?  In this episode, we sit down with parenting coach and early childhood expert Danielle Lindner to unpack the growing backlash against gentle parenting. Danielle shares why the approach is often misunderstood, how it can easily tip into permissive terri…
Send a text What happens when the life you thought you wanted turns out to be the very thing burning you out? In this episode, we sit down with the radiant and rebellious Michelle Keinan, somatic therapist, mom, wife, and former 6-figure online coach who walked away from the hustle, the clients, an…
Send a text On this episode of Can I Be Honest, Valentina sits down with Christina from the Radical Stepmoms podcast for a raw and revealing conversation about what it really means to be a stepmom.  Navigating discipline and household rules, dealing with tricky dynamics with the bio-mom, they cover…
Send a text In this episode, our friend Lena talks about how the pandemic changed everything for her in terms of her son's education and how she pursued a homeschool route for him. She also wanted to pursue an education style that allowed her to spend more time with her son. Now at 13, she des…
Send a text In this deeply emotional episode, we sit down with Michelle Thornton—a former teacher whose world was turned upside down by the devastating loss of her daughter. What followed wasn’t just grief, it was a complete spiritual awakening. Michelle shares how that unimaginable pain cracked he…
Send a text This week we’re diving headfirst into the viral Emma Grede interview on Diary of a CEO. You know—the one where she came for remote work culture and had opinions about modern-day leadership? Valentina (popular coffee shop owner) and Lina (corporate mama at a global tech giant) share thei…
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