[Bliss Series] The Process of Building a Startup, Female Coders & Leaders : Farid Bidardel EP 9

How Farid Bidardel ended up helping Syrian refugees

  • What Farid was working on before creating a start up

  • Why Farid started prioritising training female Syrian refugees

  • Why Farid hired a female CEO to run the company

  • What Farid learned from his mother

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[Expert + Bliss] Microgreens and Their Health Benefits For Moms: Joshua Patton EP 8

In this episode we covered:

  • What are micro greens

  • How much micro greens do you really need

  • How the colours of micro greens relate to yogic chakras

  • How long do microgreens take to grow

  • What are the benefits of microgreens

  • How Josh started to think about microgreens

  • How to grow microgreens

  • How to sneak microgreens in your recipes for your kids

  • Some thoughts on how to make microgreens as your business

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Mothering After Deep Yoga Practice & Postpartum Rage: Amber Sawyer EP 7

In this episode we covered:

  • Humble origins of Elikah’s music career

  • The first album Elikah released

  • The miraculous gifts Elikah developed with little sleep

  • All the things that Elikah does

  • Where organization and beauty came into the picture

  • Behind the scenes of what it’s like to create a album

  • Composing music for the departed

  • How music for the departed helps people grieve

  • Joining music and videos together

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[Bliss Series] Balancing Creative Work & Parenting: Elikah Mahony EP 6

In this episode we covered:

  • Humble origins of Elikah’s music career

  • The first album Elikah released

  • The miraculous gifts Elikah developed with little sleep

  • All the things that Elikah does

  • Where organization and beauty came into the picture

  • Behind the scenes of what it’s like to create a album

  • Composing music for the departed

  • How music for the departed helps people grieve

  • Joining music and videos together

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Educating Children with Special Rights (Autism): Linda Luxion EP 5

In this episode we covered:

  • How do you assess children with special needs

  • What is Autism

  • How to open the portal of communication with children with Autism

  • How can we go deep into the world with children with Autism

  • What can a parent do to get into their child’s world

  • How can parents become attentive of their children

  • Children are the expert of who they are

  • How do you deal with children who crumble after criticism

  • How to help children navigate the world

  • How to view the word discipline

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Mothering Whilst Grieving Post Traumatic Event: Nahid Eshraghi Mazloum EP 4

In this episode we covered:

  • My aunts background in Iran

  • What it’s like to age beyond years my aunt thought she would live

  • What it was like in Iran after the revolution

  • Who are Baha’is and what are their beliefs?

  • How my aunt was personally affected by being a Baha’i after the revolution in Iran

  • What it was like for my aunt to mother after grief and a traumatic event

  • What it was like for my aunt to live in a third world country

  • What it was like living and mothering in Malawi as an expat

  • What it was like to mother without a mother

  • Dreams that my aunt had of her parents during her mothering

  • My aunt sharing her experiences as a therapist

  • The one client that just couldn’t kick out of her office

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Hope After Hospitalized Perinatal Mood Disorder: A Mom EP 3

In this episode we covered:

  • Quote A Mom shared about motherhood

  • The unique relationship I have with A Mom

  • The challenges that ensued after birth

  • Statistics of perinatal mood disorders

  • What got A Mom hospitalized for perinatal mood disorder

  • The shocking number of hospital beds available for perinatal mood disorders

  • How do you know you have a perinatal mood disorder

  • The important lesson of learning to drop breastfeeding in favour of moms mental health

  • What it was like for A Mom to be in a 7-day perinatal mood disorder program

  • When A Mom realized she was back

  • The yoga class that changed A Mom life

  • How loving yourself during hard times is what brings you back to centre

  • How no body focuses on the mom after birth

  • What A Mom message is to other women who have perinatal mood disorders

  • How A Mom prepared for her second birth

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Interviewing My Sister-in-Law: Asiyih Modarai Haghbin EP 2

In this episode we covered:

  • What it was like for my sister-in-law to be a first-time mom

  • The best decision she made about breast feeding

  • How I learned to get on board with my sister-in-law’s decision

  • How my sister-in-law coped with lack of sleep

  • The trade-off people make during motherhood

  • What it was like for my sister-in-law to have a second-baby

  • The incredible birth story of the second birth

  • What breast feeding was like second time around

  • How my sister-in-law instills virtues in my nephews

  • Activities you can do with your kids to instill virtues

  • My sister-in-laws perspective on how to raise boys that will become gentlemen

  • What I learned about healing my own inner masculine

  • One of the most un-conventional decision’s my sister-in-law made after second baby came

  • Our relationship with the male counterpart

  • How do masculine and feminine energies come to the fore with toys

  • The advice my sister-in-law had for me

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Interviewing My Mother: Afagh Mazloum-Haghbin EP 1

In this episode we covered:

  • How I almost died when I was one years old

  • Importance of knowing your Human Design energy types

  • Why my parents decided to put their kids in a Chinese local school

  • Why my mom put me in kindergarden after starting Grade 1 in China

  • How my brothers adapted in Chinese school compared to me

  • That time when the principle called my mom to come to the school

  • How my siblings and I were when we were teenagers

  • The only time I lied to my mom

  • How I shaped my mom as a mother

  • The timeless yogic principle about parents

  • How we helped each other see the purpose of our lives

  • What my mom has found the most rewarding being a mother

  • What my parents decided before they had kids

  • My mothers advice to other moms about believing in their own intuition

  • Perspective on why some women are miserable in motherhood

  • Bonus of my mom reading my favourite children’s book for my audience :)

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Why We Started The YAM Podcast?

The YAM Podcast was born out of a request from 31 one interviews that we did with women from around the world for a product we wanted to create called The Mama’s Daily Comfort Toolkit. These women interviewed were from 12 countries and 25 different cities, nearly one woman per new city, where we ask them the question of “What brings them comfort?”

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