Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth Natale

This week, I’m joined by Kay Dudley, one half of Kay & Tay, and I have a lot of questions about what motherhood actually feels like when millions of people are watching.

Did you know what you were signing up for? When did it start feeling strange? And how do you protect the messy, private parts of being a mom when sharing your life is also your job?

I’m asking as a mom who posts online, too, and as someone who still has plenty of days where I’m not sure I’m getting it right...

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This week, I’m joined by my friend, chef and fellow mom Sophia Roe, because feeding your baby somehow comes with more homework than feeding yourself ever did.

What do you actually make? Does everything need to be homemade? And what happens when you’re a professional chef and your baby has absolutely no interest in what you’re serving?

I’m asking as a new mom who wants to feed her baby well without turning every meal into a performance review.

We get into making food for a tiny person with opinions, the pres...

This week, I’m joined by Tiffani Thiessen for a conversation about mom intuition, raising teenagers, and a question I’ve been wanting to ask: are all moms actually witches?

With her new show, Coven Academy, as our starting point, we get into the things moms notice before anyone says a word. That change in your kid’s voice. The “I’m fine” that doesn’t sound fine. The feeling that something’s going on before you know what it is.

But trusting your instincts gets more complicated when your kids have opinions—and instincts—of their own. We tal...

This week, it’s just me—and we have a lot to catch up on. I just turned 40, Love Wellness is turning 10, and I’ve been a mom for almost a year. So I wanted to make a little time capsule of how I got here, what I’m proud of, and what I’m still figuring out.

We’re going back to Laguna Beach: getting cast at 15, filming with my actual friends, and, yes, the Jetta. Then I get into balancing UCLA with The Hills, why those two shows felt so different to be part of, and moving t...

Does having four kids make you feel like you finally know what you’re doing? According to Sarah Wright Olsen: absolutely not. Sarah is an actress, author, co-host of The Mother Daze podcast, and mom of four. I’m still in my first year of motherhood, so I had questions. We talk about the postpartum anxiety she didn’t recognize with her first baby, why the child who made her feel like an amazing parent turned out to be naturally chill, and what changes when baby number two arrives. I also tell her about sobbing on my first trip away f...

Who teaches us what to do when we know something is wrong with our baby, but we don’t know what? When Nelle was struggling, figuring out that she had cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA)—and then finding the formula that finally gave her relief—felt like jumping through hoop after hoop while questioning myself the entire time. In this episode, I sit down with pediatrician Dr. Michael Milobsky to talk about CMPA, how it can look like colic, the formula options available, and how parents can advocate for answers when their baby is uncomfortable. We also talk about ou...

In this rerun episode: I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that.

I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven.

Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on MTV aren't...

We’re told to validate every feeling, regulate our nervous systems, avoid trauma, limit screens, and somehow raise independent, resilient humans. So… have we made parenting way too complicated? This week, I’m sitting down with clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and conscious parenting expert Dr. Shefali to talk about why being a “good mom” has a lot less to do with perfect parenting than we think.

We get into conscious vs. gentle parenting, how our own childhood wounds show up in our kids, and why trying to get everything right might actually get in their way. Plus, we talk ab...

We talk a lot about what happens to women when they become mothers-but what happens to men when they become dads? This week, I’m sitting down with dad of four, attorney, entrepreneur, and Come Together podcast host Abe Lichy for a conversation about the side of parenthood we don’t hear nearly enough about: what dads are actually going through.

We talk about the pressure men feel to provide, protect, and quietly fix everything, why keeping that stress from your partner can actually create more distance in a marriage, and the surprisingly simple ways...

Seven months postpartum, and I’m finally starting to feel a little more like myself- but motherhood has a funny way of making every step back toward yourself feel complicated. In this solo episode, I’m sharing an honest update on where I am now: taking my first girls’ trip without my daughter, navigating the guilt of going back to work, rebuilding my strength after pregnancy and a C-section, and realizing just how long “postpartum” can actually last.

We talk about the pressure to be everything at once, why taking care of yourself can feel strangely selfish after beco...

Caissie Levy won a Tony Award this year after more than two decades on Broadway. The speech went viral — not because of who she thanked, but because of who she didn't forget. The babysitters. The young women who traveled with her, lived with her family, and loved her kids when she couldn't be there. It was the most honest thing said on that stage all night.

In this episode, Caissie gets real about what it takes to build a life on Broadway while raising two kids — the schedule that keeps you from bedtime six nights a week, the...

Who teaches us how to become parents? For Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, the answer starts with her own mom. We talk about the family values she hopes to pass down, the traditions she wants to recreate, what motherhood has revealed about herself, and the kind of mom she hopes her daughters remember decades from now. It's a thoughtful conversation about raising good humans, letting go of perfection, and focusing on what really matters.

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In this episode:

-The parenting lessons Katherine learned from her own mom

-The values she hopes define her family

Millions of moms know Yuri Lamasbella for the videos that make you laugh and immediately send them to the group chat. But behind those relatable moments is a new mom navigating postpartum in real time. We talk honestly about the surprises of early motherhood, the moments every parent thinks they're alone in, the baby products she's actually loving, and why sharing these experiences helps all of us feel a little less alone.

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In this episode:

-The postpartum moments nobody warned Yuri about

-The universal new-mom experiences we all think are "just us...

What's one piece of advice that could save you five years of heartache? Holly Madison joins me for an honest conversation about the lessons she learned the hard way—from dating and relationships to confidence, motherhood, and the beliefs she's completely changed her mind about. Instead of looking back at her story, we focus on what she knows now—and what every woman deserves to hear sooner.

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In this episode:

-The dating red flags Holly would never ignore today

-The relationship advice she thinks women should stop believing

-How becomi...

Finding time to exercise after having a baby feels impossible—but what if you only needed 15 minutes? Stakt founders Taylor and Millie built one of the fastest-growing fitness brands by designing products for the way women actually move today, and then they became moms themselves. We talk about postpartum fitness, body image, c-section recovery, pelvic floor PT, and why "getting your body back" might be the wrong goal altogether.

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In this episode:

- How to actually fit movement into life with a newborn

- The truth about the "c-section shelf" and scar...

Am I burnt out, or am I actually depressed? Tay Lautner — mental health advocate, former COVID nurse, and co-host of The Squeeze — knows how blurry that line gets, and she's built a whole life out of saying the quiet part out loud. Now 27 weeks pregnant with her first baby girl, Tay gets real about anxiety, PTSD, and why your brain sometimes protects you by blocking out the hardest moments — the kind she watched play out on the worst nights of a hospital shift. We dig into your group-chat questions: how to show up for a friend who's a brand-new mom, ho...

We talk endlessly about pregnancy and babies—but almost never about intimacy. In this episode, the Spread the Jelly founders join me for a candid conversation about motherhood, relationships, sex after kids, and the experiences that leave so many women wondering, “Is this just me?” It’s funny, vulnerable, and the kind of conversation more parents are craving.

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In this episode:

- Why intimacy changes after kids (and why no one talks about it)  

- The invisible mental load of modern motherhood  

- Different paths to becoming a mother  

- What par...

Four kids under five, including twins. Nia Sanchez of The Valley and former Miss USA joins Lo to get brutally honest about what raising a big family in 2026 actually costs, financially, maritally, and personally. While every headline says people are having fewer kids, Nia is living the opposite choice, and she's not pretending it looks like the highlight reel. She and Lo dig into the parenting expense that shocked her most, what really causes fights in a house with four kids, and why women are so afraid to admit they have help.

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In this episode:

This week I'm answering your Group Chat questions on the medical care gap for women. It's real, we all experience it, it's not your doctor's fault (but maybe sometimes it is - I have personally experienced that before), and IT SUCKS. The system should do better and today I'm getting into all of it from how to get your doctor to take you seriously, to gaps in postpartum care, to how we need to be paying more attention to Dad's mental state. I got hundreds of inbound questions and stories on this topic and this episode is a must...

This week, I'm joined by Cameron Oakes Rogers (aka Freckled Foodie) for a conversation that felt less like a podcast and more like the group chat every new mom wishes she had.

We talk about the parts of motherhood nobody really prepares you for: postpartum depression, intrusive thoughts, identity shifts, medical trauma, the shock of pregnancy, and the reality of bringing a baby home when everyone seems focused on the baby—but not on you.

Cam shares her experience with postpartum depression after her first child, why her second po...

Huda Mustafa is one of the most fun hangs I've had on the show. This week we get into all of it: becoming a mom young at 19 and single motherhood, the wild ride to fame, and what it's actually like to figure yourself out with the entire internet watching. It's honest and real — but mostly, it's just a blast.

Then I open up The Group Chat to answer your questions about doing it alone in every sense. The literal kind, like how a new mom is even supposed to start dating again. And the sneaky kind — the mom...

A few months postpartum with her daughter Claude, Hannah Bronfman folded a $40 million venture fund she'd spent two years raising. In this episode, she tells me exactly why, and the answer is not what I expected.

We talk about what it means to walk away from something you spent two years on. About the moment your body starts telling you a job is wrong, and what it takes to actually listen. About fundraising as a woman investing in women's health in a market that quietly killed the girl boss. About being a wellness founder and not always...

If you read Crib Sheet during pregnancy or kept Expecting Better on your nightstand, you already know Emily Oster. She's the economist who reads the parenting studies the rest of us pretend to. The one who told a whole generation of women, with actual data, that we could relax about a lot of things we had been losing sleep over.

I've been a fan for years. So when I got to sit down with her, I asked her every question I've had since I gave birth.

We got into...

I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that.

I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven.

Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on...

I cried in the back of an Uber after my first dinner out post-baby. I'd had one and a half martinis (a mistake), I'd left my husband at home with the baby (he was thrilled for me to go), and I felt so guilty I genuinely couldn't stop sobbing. Mom guilt, right? That's what we'd call it. Except according to Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist, founder of Good Inside, and probably the most followed parenting expert on the planet, what I was feeling probably wasn't actually guilt at all. It was something else, and almost nobody talks about it.<...

Welcome to the first community episode of Tell Me I'm A Good Mom.

I read hundreds of stories that came in through the Q+A form, and the theme I couldn't stop reading was the part of motherhood that happens years before the baby arrives. The IVF cycles. The miscarriages. The diagnoses that blindside you. The appointments where a doctor asks you a question you don't have the vocabulary for yet.

In this episode I share three community stories with permission. Sherri, on seven IVF cycles and signing surrogacy...

The day after I had the baby, I fainted in my hospital room. Blood pressure skyrocketing, doctors running in, a brain aneurysm fear I couldn't shake, a day-old baby at the foot of the bed. I was convinced that was how my story ended.

It wasn't. And it turns out most new moms have some version of this story. Nobody warns us.

This week I sit down with writer Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, the book that started telling...

The number that broke my brain wasn't the birth cost. It was the daycare quote.Vivian Tu, finance expert, Your Rich BFF, and New York Times bestselling author, came on to talk about the actual financial reality of becoming a parent — not the "start a 529" version you've heard a hundred times.

The version where even financially stable people feel underwater in year one, and why that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.We got into the STRIP method (her framework for getting your money actually organized), why retirement has to come before your kid's co...

I went through three egg retrievals, an endo surgery, and one transfer to get my daughter. Here's everything I wish I'd known before I started.

I sat down with Dr. Sheeva Talebian, reproductive endocrinologist at CCRM Fertility New York, to talk about what IVF actually looks like from the inside. The math nobody warns you about. The lifestyle changes that actually move the needle on egg quality. What NAD+ therapy does for fertility and why more western doctors are finally paying attention. And why the number of eggs you retrieve is almost never the...

I'm 8 weeks postpartum and I'm not okay. Not in a crisis — but not in the version of this that gets posted online either. I'm in the messy, unglamorous, nobody-talks-about-this middle of it. And I wanted to put it on record, in real time, because I genuinely could not find content that showed me what this actually looks like when you're living it.

I have a retained placenta. A large ovarian cyst. Bleeding that won't stop. Hormones so destabilizing they feel, I'm not exaggerating, like a psychedelic experience. And on top of all of that, a...

I've been sharing my life publicly since I was 17 — first on Laguna Beach, then The Hills, then a decade of building Love Wellness by being honest about my body and my health. So when I got pregnant, keeping it private was never really the question. And I get into my TV origin story on today's episode.. But being pregnant online is different. This episode is part manifesto, part cultural riff on why the instinct to share a moment this big has always existed — long before the internet gave it a new address. I get into my own fertility journey, the...

I had a plan. Birth had other ideas.

I'm starting this podcast the only way that felt right — with the story that started everything. In this episode, I'm sharing the birth plan I made, the vaginal birth I hoped for, and the emergency C-section I didn't see coming. This is my birth trauma, my recovery, and the moment I realized motherhood was never going to go the way I expected.

If your birth story didn't go according to plan, this one's for you.

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Pregnancy and motherhood come with pressure, opinions, and plenty of advice, but very few honest conversations about how it actually feels to be a mom. “Tell Me I’m a Good Mom” speaks to the pressure to get it right and the fear of being judged when we don’t. Through her own transition into motherhood, Lo Bosworth Natale explores the identity shift, expectations, emotional plot twists, and educational hacks that make the journey lighter, all while navigating a culture that performs, posts, and rates motherhood online. This is not about perfect parenting. It is about becoming a mother, for real...