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Call Us Mommy

Ariel Myers + Tianna Storm

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Call Us Mommy is a podcast for moms in the trenches of motherhood, new moms feeling a bit shellshocked, or seasoned moms looking for ways to support the younger mamas in their life. We’re here to create a community for all women, wherever they are in their motherhood journey. Aside from Mommy, you can also call us Ariel and Tianna. We’re two best friends who also happen to be business partners and using this podcast to shine a light on the joyful chaos of motherhood while reminding ourselves ...
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Join our mom group chat to hear from 4 different motherhood seasons and experiences. We invited two moms joining us to talk through limits in motherhood (and life in general) and how it can create mom guilt, how we overcome feeling like hitting limits is our fault (spoiler, it's not) and for a few of these moms, how being social media influencers i…
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Join us as we each share 5 things we learned from our 20’s and will carry into our 30’s. We talk about what it looked like to spend our 20’s in motherhood and what we wish we knew sooner. As Tianna enters her 30’s this week, it’s a perfect time to recall all the things life has taught us so far. Happy birthday Tianna and we’re looking forward to en…
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Join Ariel + Tianna as we sit down with Kristi to talk about what working from home looks like for her, how the Virtual Assistant world got her there and her journey along the way. Kristi came from a comfy corporate job and decided during her pregnancy that she needed a change. She stumbled on Laptop + Littles and the lightbulb went off. She knew t…
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Join Ariel and Zarod as we sit down to share OTHER people's marriage advice and our thoughts on how well it's worked for us and what we wish we actually knew when we got married at 21 after being highschool sweethearts. Our marriage isn't perfect, no one's is but you can definitely learn from everyone's marriage and we hope you can learn something …
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Join us for what we expected to be an episode sharing some of the hacks we use to make our life easier, which we do, but we also share about how we struggle with anxiety in our motherhood, rage cleaning, reactive parenting and managing a large family. Hopefully in this episode, you can find something to encourage you in your motherhood, something t…
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Ever wondered how a couple decides it's time for a vasectomy? Join Austin and Tianna as they openly discuss the decision-making process. From the early days of their relationship to now, discover how they've both evolved and grown since they first met and learned surprising details about each other along the way. 2023 brought its highs for sure, an…
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Welcome to 2024 and season 6 of Call Us Mommy, we're catching you up in this newest episode, sharing our current favorite things, what's new in our lives and filling you in on where we last left you. We're covering everything from how homeschooling is going, Tianna's 6 week postpartum check-up, getting labs done after having a baby, struggling with…
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Do you feel like working a traditional 9-5 supports your motherhood? Do you ever have to fit your motherhood around your work and not the other way around? If so, join us for todays conversation with one of our friends and very first students to talk about how we’ve experienced the lack of support from the way our traditional workforce is set up, n…
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Some of the things that are hard about motherhood, we simply can't change. The newborn no sleep season, the exhausted new mom season, the getting used to your body again season, surging hormones season, toddlerhood, fighting siblings, potty training, regulating emotions... there are so many things that we just have to go through as moms. But there …
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Join us for a candid conversation with guest Macy Troyer. In this episode, we have a captivating conversation with the founder and CEO of It's Goaldy, Macy Troyer, who has navigated the challenging waters of entrepreneurship while facing rejection, fear, and self-doubt! Stay tuned as she announces some exciting news! Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave u…
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This week in Call Us Mommy, we’re chatting with Alexis Novoa, a work from home mom with a goal to spread work from home opportunities to more mothers. Sit down with us as we discuss what it’s like working from home with our kids and the mental load our generation of mothers seem to carry. We talk about how to communicate that mental load to your pa…
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Join us as we explore invaluable insights and strategies for achieving harmony in challenging co-parenting dynamics. Katie guides us through the concept of "parallel co-parenting," shedding light on its significance in high-conflict situations. Learn how this unique approach allows parents to prioritize their children's well-being while minimizing …
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In this episode, we dive deep into the challenges, emotional regulation, and self-discovery that we're all facing during this unique season of life. Alyson Hempsey brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table as a skilled psychotherapist and life coach, she has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Social Work. Sh…
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Join us to talk about their birthing experiences as well as postpartum. We cover what we were not prepared for and what we suggest new moms to prepare themselves for. We want this episode to normalize the things that come with birthing and postpartum, not scare new moms! Woman are powerful, strong beings and we have what we need to get through thes…
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Ariel is taking on homeschooling her 4 kids (10, 7, 5 and 3) this year and she's sharing her journey toward getting started with you. While she's always wanted to homeschool, she shared the things that motivated her to finally dive into it. She also shares how she will juggle working from home and managing her kids schedules. The flexibility of wor…
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No matter who you are, a stay at home mom, work from home mom, working in an office mom, single mom, married mom, homeschooling mom, mom to be... one thing almost all of us have had in common is wanting to find ways to make extra money. On this episode, we go over all the ways we are familiar with on making some extra money from home. Of course you…
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Join our interview with high-school sweethearts, Ariel and Zarod to hear about how they met (in middle school), started dating (in high school), and how they've made it work through many moves, jobs, 4 kids and 10 years of marriage. Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave us a review so we can reach more women and grow this amazing community of supportive mo…
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No story is perfect but every story is worth telling. Listen in as Ariel and Zarod interview Tianna and Austin about how they met, the challenges they've faced and what dating, co-parenting and living together looks like for them right now. Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave us a review so we can reach more women and grow this amazing community of suppo…
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Welcome to Season 5 of Call Us Mommy! We're catching you up on our lives as of February 2023, talking about how we're going to sustain our relationship with the recent move and as always, everything in between :) What do you want to hear us talk on in Season 5? Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave us a review so we can reach more women and grow this amazi…
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Scroll through our highlights of 2022 and listen in to us discuss our goals for 2023. We want to hear from you! What are your goals for 2023? We want to help you get there so we'd love to hear from you so we can create episodes that will help you grow! Love Call Us Mommy? Leave us a review and share us with a friend! Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave u…
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Tune in to hear Ariel's testimony of God's faithfulness in her life. Ariel grew up a Pastor's Kid, in church and always working to earn her worth, be liked and accepted but always feeling like a side character. She talks about the main points in her life where she can now look back and clearly see God's favor directing her in ways she didn't see in…
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We don't consider ourselves parenting experts but altogether we do have 7 pretty independent kids. Sometimes frustratingly independent but in the long run, we know that's what's going to benefit them in the long run (even if we barely survive their independence during childhood). Teaching your kids independence is important for so many other reason…
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This episode is a quick check-in with Tianna, 3 years post leaving a domestic violence situation and entering single motherhood. We're talking about what her and her physical body are dealing with even a whole 3 years after leaving, the therapy she's currently doing, how her kids have been and what she has to say to anyone who is in the situation s…
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Join Ariel and Tianna for a candid conversation about what life would look like, had we not been blessed with motherhood. We talk about what we imagine we'd be doing if we never became mothers, how our Virtual Assistant career has shaped our lives up until now, our motherhood and we leave some gold along the way for those of you looking to grow you…
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We're diving right into part 2 of our Ask Us Anything from last week, and picking up with the questions: "How do you prepare to send your kids to school? How do you handle not having control over the day your kids have?" We're also sharing more about our recent decision to live a more sober life, and no, neither one of us are pregnant :) We wrap th…
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We're doing our first Ask Us Anything on Call Us Mommy! In this part one of our Ask Us Anything, we're diving into the question: What is the top advice we'd give as: A single mom of 3 and a married mom of 4? We also answer the question: How do you process your kids going back to school and getting older in general? These questions have us talking a…
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We're kicking of season 4 of Call Us Mommy with a quick check-in on what's going on in our lives, more specifically...how it's going living together at the moment. Earlier this summer, Tianna sold the home she spent the last 2 years flipping and moved in with Ariel while she waits on her new build to be finished. We're calling ourselves the party o…
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Come hang with us as we sit down with Trish Blackwell, a Confidence Coach to Olympic athletes, Ironman champions, CEOs, high-achieving entrepreneurs, and cultural influencers, she has been featured by TLC, Entrepreneur and Elite Daily as one of the top confidence coaches in the world. Trish is amazing, sitting down with her was like a shot of confi…
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Join us as we chat with founder of Prept, Nicole Boyd, about re-discovering our style after we become moms. Prept provides virtual style + beauty services that are designed to help women save time/stress and feel beautiful, confident, & “Prept” for anything. We chat with Nicole about why it's so important to take some time to get to know your style…
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Sit down with us as we explore our sex life as moms and the common issues we run into. We're tapping into the ENDLESS wisdom of a Sexologist, mother, wife and empowering woman, Porscha Newton. We talk everything from what takes away our sex drive, how to get it back and how to enjoy sex outside of just reaching the big O. You can learn more from Po…
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Tianna just got back from vacation after Ariel spent spring break at home working with all of her kids home sick. This was one of our first conversations after being reunited and we wanted you to sit in on it with us because sometimes, we just need to know that there are other moms going through it with us. So come take a car ride with us while we …
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Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave us a review so we can reach more women and grow this amazing community of supportive mothers! Have a topic you'd like us to cover in future episodes? Email us at laptopandlittles@gmail.com OR... Interested in the Work From Home Mom life? Join our community to learn more: https://www.instagram.com/laptop_littles/…
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This week, we sat down with our partner, friend and Tianna’s former client Denai Wolfe, a virtual CFO, business strategist and owner of Profit Perfect. Denai helps successful entrepreneurs increase their profits by designing and implementing financial structure and systems. On this week’s episode, Denai is sharing her story of how she left her 9-5 …
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If you haven’t heard Ariel + Tianna say it already… contrary to popular belief, you do not need Virtual Assistant skills or experience to BE a Virtual Assistant. So what do you need?There are some key characteristics every great Virtual Assistant has. We’re breaking them down in this week’s podcast episode but here is a quick rundown of the charact…
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Tianna became a single mom about a year and a half ago, after being married 7 years and having 3 beautiful babies. The last several years have been a major time of growth for her as she’s made decisions to keep her and her family safe. On this week’s podcast episode, we talk about everything from what changed when she became a single mom, work sche…
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This week, we sat down with Meredyth McCauley from BELAY, our new partner in the Virtual Assistant world!We love BELAY for their work-life balance that they empower their contractors to have. BELAY celebrates moms and and has empowered so many moms to work from home as a Virtual Assistant.BELAY is an incredible Virtual Assistant agency that empower…
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Our inner voices are mean girls. Can you relate? In this week’s Mother Together episode, we’re breaking down how we tackle the the bully-side of our inner voice and ways we are working on re-training our inner voice. We’re sharing the things we’ve come to believe from our inner voice and how we’re working on breaking that belief. Join our conversat…
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So we’ve shared that Ariel has been a 6-Figure Virtual Assistant and on today’s podcast episode, we dive deeper into the story. Ariel shares exactly how she got started, the transition into making 6-figures and what type of tasks she found herself doin then and now.The beauty of Ariel’s story is that it’s HERS and every VA’s story is different. The…
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Welcome back to season 2 of our Mother Together podcast! We had so much fun kicking our season off chatting to our friend and influencer, Macy Blackwell. Macy is a fellow Indiana girl, stay at home mama and lover of the social media community. She’s been growing her community since 2018 and has lots of fun mom tips to share with you.We sat down to …
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Okay, mamas, we know we aren’t alone so we’re putting ourselves out there to normalize imperfect motherhood. 😂We are sharing some confessions of things we’ve lied to our kids about or done in order to get something else done…This could be a whole series. Listen and let us know YOUR confessions. We’ll be sharing more over on our stories @tianna.inma…
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When Tianna and I got started in our Virtual Assistant career, the mindset shift to a business owner was never made. We made the shift to working for ourselves, making our own hourly rate, choosing what clients we work with and making our own hours. But we never completely made the transition to being a business owner. So when we had women coming t…
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We know how hard it is to find the right friends in motherhood. We’ve both been through all sorts of seasons of friendships and have been so blessed to benefit from our life wife situation. Join us in this week’s Mother Together episode to hear us talk about what you should look for in your friends, how to find them and then endure us gushing over …
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“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true…
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We sat down with a beautiful mama this past week and we can’t wait to share her incredible story with you. Bex McLennan, a mama of 6 (SIX!), shares her struggle with infertility, having an anchor during the struggle and why self-care is SO important for a mama. The amazing part of her story is that her struggle with infertility isn’t over. All of h…
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This week we sat down with our friend Jaci Watson, a beautiful soon to be mama to share her story. We laughed, cried and laughed some more as she opened up and shared for the first time. We know Jaci’s story is going to speak to so many women going through their infertility journey. Feel free to share some love with our beautiful friend on IG: @_ja…
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Dallas is a sweet mama from North Carolina that we’ve been blessed to connect with through our Laptop + Littles program. She’s doing amazing things in her Virtual Executive Assistant journey and has gone from her in-office job to growing her own business from home…where she gets more time with her daughter. On this podcast episode, we get to hear f…
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National Infertility Awareness Week is April 18-24 this year and for the entire month of April, our podcast will be focused on a handful of mamas who have experienced infertility. In this week’s Infertility Journey, we are talking with a fellow business owner mama, Vickie Bell, owner of Faithfully Rooted and hear about her and her husband's story o…
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Hopefully, you are about to tune into this episode with a cup of coffee, tea, wine or whatever at your side.Maybe you’re even getting to listen to it with NO background noise, alone in your car, in the tub, on your run…whatever it is, we hope it’s being worked into some self-care for the day.Why is this so important?Same reason it’s important for y…
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We talk with a lot of women who have partners who just can’t get on board with them pursuing a career that is unfamiliar to them. We get it.New is scary but here is the thing…If your partner is unhappy in their current position and has a desire to pursue something new that would bring them joy and potentially a whole new and improved income… Then t…
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