417. Mama Essie

Things are not good in the world right now, and you don’t need us to tell you that. But despair is also not good. Having no hope is not good. And Nora believes that the antidote to despair is action – doing things for others in whatever capacity you can. So she and her son Ralph ...  Show more

You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve looked at the world. You know, like we do, that not everything is going to be OK. But to start 2026, we’re going to look at some of the things that make us feel like something will be OK. If you need a sign that there is still good in the world, ...  Show more

In the years before the election of the impossible president rent forever the very fabric of being, the band Radiohead was busy channeling something many of us were feeling but nobody was really talking about. A kind of ambient, multivalent state of anxiety that seemed to charact ...  Show more

Mamas, Aunties, Ladies, and even the Fellas....we're NOT back! BUT we know that you've been feenin worse than Jodeci for NEW Mama's Den episodes so we wanted to drop a special episode to help get you through the weekend. In this very special episode, the Mamas share how these ...

This week, we turn to Esther Perel, psychotherapist and host of the hit podcast Where Should We Begin?, to help put our fears and emotions around coronavirus in context. She also gives us useful strategies for living in lockdown. There are insights in this episode that we think w ...  Show more

This is probably one of those episodes that I should apologize for but alas, here we are. Things start out off the rails and end in a ditch somewhere. Honestly, I had a great time!! We chat TS12, NYC, Disney songs, parenting, Swig, more Taylor Swift, and even Pixar short films ...