Steel Roses Podcast
Steel Roses is a podcast created for women by women. Social pressures for women are constant. Professionals, stay at home moms, working moms, we are here to tell you that you are not alone! This podcasts primary focus is providing real honest content shedding light on the daily struggles of women while also elevating women's voices. All women are experiencing similar pressures and hurdles, and yet, no one is talking out in the open. If these topics continue to only exist as whispered conversations then we further permeate a culture of judgement and shame. Join Jenny weekly as she discusses to...
Working Mom Guilt: Missing School Moments and Carrying the Mental Load
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In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, I’m sharing the working mom guilt that hit after I missed two important school moments for my kids in the span of two weeks. From a student council speech that never got written in time to missing my son on stage at Battle of the Books, these moments made me rethink what it really means to be present.
We talk about the mental load of motherhood, ADHD, family schedules, work deadlines, school responsibilities, and the feeling that your brain has 100 browser tabs open at...
The Working Mom Shuffle: Career, Kids, Mom Guilt, and Boundarie
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In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, I hit record from my car and get a real-time reminder of working mom life when my daughter calls mid-recording. That moment leads into an honest conversation about mom guilt, career pressure, work-life balance, and the daily shuffle of trying to be present at home while still showing up professionally.
I share what it looks like to travel from the Jersey Shore to New York for client meetings while keeping the family running, the pressure working moms feel to “choose,” and the guilt that come...
Is Vaping Really 95% Safer Than Smoking? The Truth About Nicotine, Health Risks, and Harm Reduction
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Is vaping really 95% safer than smoking cigarettes? That claim is everywhere, but what does it actually mean — and what is it leaving out?
In this episode, we break down the viral “vaping is 95% safer than cigarettes” statistic, where it came from, and why it is often misunderstood as meaning vaping has only 5% of the risk. We talk about the difference between expert estimates, harm reduction messaging, and long-term health data — because when it comes to vaping, nicotine addiction, and your body, the fine print ma...
Perimenopause, ADHD, Anxiety, and the Battle With Late-Night Snacking
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Your brain can know the “right” choice and still want the cupcakes at 10 PM. In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, we get honest about emotional eating, late-night snacking, food cravings, anxiety, motivation, hormones, ADHD, perimenopause, and the habits that show up exactly when we feel the least prepared to fight them.
We talk about the gap between knowing what supports your health and actually choosing it when stress, exhaustion, hormones, or old coping patterns take over. From hormone cycles and the luteal phase to the way perimenopause and ADHD can impa...
When Your Past Shapes Your Future: Healing, Choice, and Responsibility
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Two brothers grow up with the same alcoholic father, yet their lives take completely different paths. When asked why, both give the same answer: “Because of my father.” That story opens the door to a powerful conversation about trauma, resilience, personal responsibility, and how our perception of the past can shape the choices we make in the present.
In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, we explore how childhood trauma, abuse, assault, and painful family patterns can influence the way we see ourselves, trust others, cope with stress, and build our live...
Why Nobody Has It All Together: Motherhood, Mental Load, and Real-Life Partnership
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When someone says, “You make it look so easy,” it can be tempting to smile, say thank you, and keep pretending everything is fine. But in this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, we are pulling back the curtain on the reality so many women, moms, wives, and working parents are carrying every day: the mental load, emotional pressure, invisible labor, and constant expectation to hold everything together.
We talk honestly about how curated social media perfection can distort our view of motherhood, marriage, parenting, and family life. From picture-perfect homes to high...
Motherhood, Ambition, and the Skills That Make Women Stronger Leaders
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Motherhood is often treated like a career detour, but what if becoming a mom actually strengthens the exact leadership skills today’s workplaces need most?
In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, we’re challenging the outdated idea that motherhood slows ambition or weakens professional growth. Instead, we’re digging into how motherhood can build powerful leadership skills like decision making under pressure, negotiation, communication, prioritization, conflict management, adaptability, resilience, and time management.
This conversation was inspired by a LinkedIn post that stopped me in my tracks and th...
Women’s Health in 2026: Ending Medical Gaslighting and Advocating for Better Care
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Women’s health is finally getting the attention, research, and respect it has deserved for decades. In this episode, we’re talking about the long-overdue shift happening in women’s healthcare and why 2026 may be a turning point for how we talk about women’s pain, menopause, perimenopause, endometriosis, mental health, and medical gaslighting.
Inspired by a post connected to Melinda French Gates and the call to stop tolerating women’s suffering, this conversation explores what it means when women are no longer expected to silently push through pain, brain fog, mood chang...
Putting Myself on the List: Motherhood, Adult ADHD, and Feeling Seen
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Motherhood often teaches us to push through, stay organized, and keep everyone else on track — but what happens when your own brain starts asking for more support?
In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, I’m opening up about something deeply personal: my upcoming virtual appointment to explore a possible adult ADHD diagnosis. After years of relying on routines, checklists, strict schedules, reminders, and sheer determination to manage motherhood, I’m finally putting myself on the list and seeking answers.
We talk about what ADHD in women can lo...
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Kids: Communication, Conflict, and Confidence
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What happens when a simple basketball game turns into a parenting lesson about emotional intelligence, communication, and conflict resolution?
In this episode of Steel Roses Podcast, we unpack a real-life parenting moment: a basketball bounces the wrong way, a child gets hit in the face, and two very different parenting instincts show up right away — comfort first versus toughen up. But the most powerful part comes next, when a 10-year-old calmly finds the words to say, “I didn’t like that you did that.”
That moment opens the door to a big...
When It’s Not “Just Anxiety”: Women’s Symptoms That Get Overlooked
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Have you ever been told your symptoms are “just anxiety” when you knew something deeper was going on? In this episode, we’re talking about the women’s health issues that are commonly misdiagnosed, dismissed, or overlooked — and why so many women are left fighting to be believed.
We explore how conditions like endometriosis, PCOS, heart disease, autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, ADHD, and perimenopause can show up in ways that are confusing, subtle, or easy to mislabel. From intense pelvic pain and sudden rectal pain to irregular periods, unexplained weight changes, a...
Podcasting as a Working Mom: What’s Actually Sustainable
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Feeling burned out trying to grow your podcast or side hustle on social media? Wondering if you really need to post every day, chase the algorithm, and sacrifice your time to succeed?
In this episode, I share the honest truth about why I stopped promoting my podcast on social media—and what happened next. After juggling guest interviews, content creation, editing, and a full-time job, the pressure to “do it all” became unsustainable. Like so many working women, my weekends weren’t free—they were filled with the invisible mental load of managin...
Slynd for Hormonal Imbalance: Side Effects, Results, and Honest Review
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 The week before my period used to feel unbearable—like a swit...
Modern Parenting: How to Raise Emotionally Strong Boys and Independent Girls
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My twin daughters just turned nine, and it forced a realization: parenting isn’t just about love and routines—it’s about the subtle ways we shape our kids through language, habits, and everyday decisions.
In this episode, I share honest, real-life parenting lessons from raising two girls and a boy, and how I caught myself unintentionally reinforcing traditional gender roles at home.
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 How gender bias in parenting shows up in toys, expectations, and everyday choices  Why I natural...Gen Alpha and Screen Overstimulation: Why Your Child Is Melting Down
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Your child melts down after screen time—and it feels like it comes out of nowhere. One minute they’re calm, the next it’s a full-blown tantrum. If you’ve ever tried to reason with your kid in that moment and made it worse, you’re not alone. In this episode, we break down why screen time causes meltdowns in kids, especially for Gen Alpha, and what’s really happening with overstimulation and nervous system dysregulation.
We react to the growing conversation around Gen Alpha and screen a...
From Sore Triceps To Stronger Years Ahead
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Twenty minutes of light weights shouldn’t wreck you, right? I thought the same thing until I woke up at 3:30 in the morning convinced something was wrong with my arms. That moment pushed me to face a truth a lot of us avoid: strength doesn’t just fade, it slips away quietly when life gets busy, and it gets harder to rebuild the longer we wait.
I talk through what brought me back to weight training and I don’t pretend it’s only about health. Vanity is part of it, and I sa...
I Don't Love My Kids Equally....And That's The Point
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Loving your kids “equally” sounds like the gold standard, but I think it’s the wrong target. I’m sharing an unpopular opinion from my own house: when you have multiple kids, you don’t love them in identical ways, because they aren’t identical people. The real job is fairness making sure each child feels seen, valued, and secure, without sending the message that someone else matters more.
I start with family news and a fresh newborn that brought up a classic parenting question: what happens to your heart when you add anot...
You Are Not Meant To Be For Everyone And That Is Freedom
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Some advice sounds nice until you try to live it. “Be yourself” is one of those lines, right up until you feel the pressure to keep the peace, stay likable, and avoid disappointing anyone. Today we go straight into the tension between authenticity and people pleasing, and why trying to be “for everyone” quietly drains your energy, your confidence, and your joy.Â
We pull a powerful excerpt from Cathy Heller’s Abundant Ever After and sit with a simple command tha...
The Childcare Cliff
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Childcare has a way of turning joy into panic, not because we love our kids any less, but because the math stops making sense. I’m coming off a flu week and easing back into routine, and a conversation in my own circle brings me right back to a hard truth: so many families are one childcare bill away from drowning.
I share what it looked like in my house when we went from family help to daycare, why proximity mattered for sanity, and how quickly the monthly total climbed until it...
Flu Recovery Reset
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The flu knocked me down this week, and it forced a reset I didn’t know I needed. I talk honestly about what it feels like when your body won’t “bounce back” the way it used to and why real recovery sometimes means doing the thing we avoid most: stopping. No powering through, no cleaning while sick, no pretending rest is optional. Just listening, slowing down, and letting healing take the lead.
One of the biggest lightbulb moments came from something simple: food aversion. When I’m sick, I don’t want to ea...
Flu Week Reality
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I woke up knowing I was getting sick and did what so many working moms do anyway: I tried to outwork it. Two of my kids already had the flu, my body was starting to ache, and a major deadline still didn’t care. So I pushed through the day, got the priority project out, and then hit the wall hard. If you’ve ever felt that mix of pain, responsibility, and “I can’t let anyone down,” you’ll recognize every beat of this story.
I also talk about the kind of lead...
Sick Kids, Missed Festival, And Burnout Realizations
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Your weekend plans can be perfect on paper and still get wiped out by a single phone call from school. I went into the week excited for a local spring festival with my kids, friends, and a rare chance to slow down, then a low-grade fever turned into a house-wide crash. Missing the fun wasn’t the hardest part. The harder part was hearing the message underneath it all: it’s time to slow down, stop fighting reality, and just be for a minute.
That moment opened the door to a bigg...
Too Many Fart Jokes And One Hard No
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I hit that parenting wall where everything feels too loud, too fast, and too much. After a weekend of my son’s big outbursts, a stressful attempt to do “normal” family plans, and me running on low fuel, I realize I’m not just tired I’m dysregulated. And when I’m dysregulated, my kids don’t get the best of me. They get the snapped tone, the short fuse, and the version of me I don’t feel proud of.Â
So I do something I’m still learning how to do: I prioritize my...
I Am Learning To Parent My Son Without Losing Myself
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A five-minute wait for macaroni shouldn’t feel like a crisis, yet sometimes that’s exactly what ADHD parenting looks like. We’re sharing a raw, honest check-in from a weekend that tested our patience, our nerves, and our ability to stay regulated while our 10-year-old spiraled and then snapped back like nothing happened.
We walk through what it takes to advocate for real support, from requesting an IEP (Individualized Education Program) to staying on top of the school system so our child doesn’t drown in mainstream expectations and lose confiden...
Turning Disappointment Into A New Direction
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Bad news hits harder when you were already running on empty, and sometimes it doesn’t just ruin your day, it rewrites your direction. We’re talking about what happens when you’re expecting a big win, you’ve been holding your breath for the confirmation, and then you learn it’s delayed or may not happen at all. That moment can crack you open, especially when you’re the kind of person who keeps emotions private until they spill out anyway.Â
We get honest about overwhelm, the need for real rest, and why...
Today’s Productivity Hack: Emotional Breakdown + Dishwasher
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Some weeks don’t feel busy, they feel like a full-blown alarm that never shuts off. I’m in the middle of a “mommest mom” stretch where work fires, family needs, and the constant mental load stack up so fast that I caught myself about to text for prayers again, until a simple thought stopped me: if there’s an emergency every week, then it’s not an emergency. It’s just work, and I can adapt.
I walk through a real working-mom day that includes logging on for meetings, pivoting to a long neur...
The Quiet Power Of Letting Go Of Who You Were
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What if the most powerful pivot in your life is the moment you stop trying to be impressive and start choosing to be rested, regulated, and unavailable to what drains you? That quiet turn can feel radical, especially when you’ve spent years measuring worth by hustle and external praise. We open up about the messy middle—owning toxic patterns from younger years, grieving the loss of a “pre-baby” identity, and realizing that a racing career ladder can steal the small, irreplaceable moments right outside your window.
The story moves from freewhee...
From Burnt Dinner To Better Marriage: Why Small Acts Matter
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A flash of sun, a daydream about roses, and a short video of a mom melting down over a smoking pot — that’s all it took to crack open a conversation about the tiny, everyday acts that keep a family steady. We unpack how a small moment of presence can turn panic into laughter and why the quiet gesture often matters more than any display of flowers or fireworks.
Across ten years of marriage and sixteen together, we’ve learned that love deepens when we tune into what our partner actually needs...
When Life Says Not Today, Choose To Pivot And Open Your Heart
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When your carefully laid plans fall apart—apps fail, weekends vanish, the clock runs you instead of the other way—what story do you tell yourself? We explore how a week of tech troubles and family overload turned into an invitation to pivot with grace, listen for redirection, and build a home where emotions are safe, not silenced.
We start with the messy real life: a recording blocked by a glitch, a calendar packed with birthdays, and the tug to power through anyway. Instead of musc...
Act As If: Align Your Daily Choices With The Life You Say You Want
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The first flake falls and every working parent feels it: the calendar tightens, the inbox grows teeth, and the plan goes sideways. We open with the reality of snow days and share a simple method that protects your sanity and your career—planning at risk—so you can lead yourself and your family without burning out. From there, we dive into alignment: acting as if the life you want already has a place in your day, and building tiny, durable habits that prove it.
I talk through the seasons when I over...
From High Achiever To Balanced Mom: Owning Ambition Without Losing Yourself
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What if the “choice” between an ambitious career and a devoted family was never the point? We open up about the quiet negotiations behind working motherhood—how identity, systems, and support shape a life where achievement and care can both thrive. From a sink-or-swim start in medical communications to leading with calm under pressure, I share the lessons that turned challenges into catalysts. The viral idea of a “mom career crisis” sparked this conversation, not to dramatize the tension but to name it clearly and build better answers.
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Rewriting Limiting Beliefs With Mindful Focus
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A frozen February thawed into a personal reset. After a bruising Q4 where stress ran the show and meditation fell off my calendar, I took a slower, kinder route back to alignment. I share what actually worked: noticing autopilot thoughts, stacking tiny proofs of capacity, and pulling standout ideas from Kathy Heller’s Abundant Ever After that helped me shift my focus from fear to possibility.
We walk through two powerful metaphors—tuning your life like a ra...
Listening To Your Inner Thermometer
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Your body knows when your life drifts off course—tight chest, restless mind, that ache in your throat you can’t name. We treat those feelings like data and show how to turn them into a compass for alignment, purpose, and practical next steps. I share the night I asked “Is this it?” at twenty-six and how that question sparked a ruthless life audit: rethinking friendships, habits, and what “success” should feel like from the inside. This isn’t about perfect morning routines or instant reinvention; it’s about small, honest moves that add up.
Your Guest Bathroom Isn’t A Sephora, And That’s Okay
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Ever feel that calm rush when a restock video clicks into place, then realize your cart just doubled your grocery bill? We open up about the subtle shift from organizing for peace to buying for the camera—and how that shift is shaping our homes, budgets, and our kids’ expectations. What starts as tidy bins and color-coordinated snacks can morph into vanity hauls, boutique guest bathrooms, and a vibe that says love equals more.
We trace the roots of this trend back to the pandemic, when screens became our window and crea...
What If Success Starts With Silence Instead Of Striving
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The grind doesn’t always look like burnout; sometimes it looks like loving your job so much you forget yourself. After a week of being sick and “pushing through” from home, we unpack how easy it is to normalize always-on work, even when you lead a team and value healthy boundaries. That wake-up call led to a deeper reset: returning to meditation, reframing success around gratitude, and carving out a weekly pause inspired by Shabbat to protect presence, faith, and family.
We open up about the shift from a misaligned role to a w...
Start Small, Live Long: Movement As A Lifelong Mindset
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A single habit can protect your future mind. We dig into why daily walking—especially for women—delivers outsized benefits for memory, mood, and long-term cognitive health, and how to make it fit when your calendar is already bursting. Drawing on research around gray matter, hippocampal blood flow, and executive function, we connect the science to a simple routine you can actually stick to: walking during internal calls, short outdoor loops, and small strength add-ons when life allows.
I share how an hour on a treadmill during morning meetings became my anch...
From Anxiety To Awareness: A Real Budget Reset
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Money fear can feel like static you can’t turn off—especially when bills, groceries, and surprise expenses pile up at once. We decided to stop flinching and start looking, and that choice changed everything: a short year-end audit, a clear monthly snapshot, and small habit swaps that cut anxiety without cutting all the joy.
We walk through a practical breakdown of last year’s spending to spot the real leaks—housing and utilities as the big fixed block, groceries as the silent budget hog, and “convenience creep” from delivery apps and quick cl...
When Knowledge Became Power For Women’s Health
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The story of women’s health is not a straight line—it’s a tug-of-war between power withheld and power reclaimed. We trace the path from being spoken about in exam rooms to being heard as full decision-makers, and we do it with clear language, lived experience, and a practical playbook you can use right now.
We start with the roots: coverture laws that subsumed a married woman’s identity, a medical culture that labeled complex symptoms as “hysteria,” and practices like Twilight Sleep that erased consent during childbirth. From there, we follow th...
A Practical Guide To Eating For Brain Health And Hormone Balance
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Brain fog doesn’t have to rule your day. We dig into a practical, feel-good approach to women’s health in our 40s, showing how everyday foods can protect memory, smooth mood swings, and keep energy steady without complicated rules or bland meals. The focus is simple: add more of what your brain and hormones love, and let the rest fall into place.
We walk through a brain-friendly pantry you can build this week—blueberries for memory, walnuts and omega-3s for focus, pumpkin seeds for clarity, spinach for folate, and green...
How I Fought Brain Fog, Fatigue, And Fear Of Decline
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The calendar flipped to 2026 and the internet shouted “new year, new you,” but quick fixes don’t quiet the fear that hits when your thoughts disappear at the doorway. I talk candidly about the moment brain fog felt less like a joke and more like a warning, and how I refused to accept a slow drift into mediocre health. Instead of vague advice, I walk through what actually changed my day-to-day: getting real labs, addressing iron deficiency, stabilizing mood with SLIND, and building a supplement stack that keeps me clear, steady, and present.
