We've spent years talking about taking the leap. Well, apparently it was time to put up or shut up. 😂

This week on From 9 to Mom, we're sharing the story behind our biggest career move yet: officially going all in on our own business, Digital Wave Media Solutions!

After years of working together, building careers, raising kids, and interviewing inspiring women entrepreneurs on the podcast, we finally decided to bet on ourselves (and each other).

But becoming full-time business owners while raising young kids comes with a whole new set of challenges. We're talking about redefining success after motherhood, navigating mom guilt, finding flexibility without feeling guilty about it, and figuring out what work-life balance actually looks like when you're the boss.

We're also getting into the realities of starting a business with your best friend, the pressure of being responsible for your own income, and why having a business partner might be the closest thing to a second marriage.

And because we can't stay on topic, we somehow end up discussing synchronized periods, spirituality, possible alien DNA, and the Jonas Brothers. Obviously.

Whether you're a working mom dreaming of starting your own business, a woman navigating a career transition, or just trying to balance motherhood, ambition, and your personal life, this one's for you.

Two working moms, one business, and absolutely no guarantees.

00:00 | Our Big Announcement: Digital Wave Media Solutions
03:24 | Work Wives, Business Partners & Basically Being Married
04:49 | How Working Moms Inspired Our Entrepreneurial Journey
07:04 | How From 9 to Mom Started It All
09:03 | Women-Owned Businesses & Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
10:28 | Redefining Success, Motherhood & Career Goals
12:12 | The Reality of Working for Yourself
14:18 | Mom Guilt, Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
16:11 | Taking Risks & Betting on Each Other
18:40 | Synchronized Periods & Business Partner Conversations
19:34 | Spirituality, Alien DNA & Unexpected Tangents
24:33 | What We're Building with Digital Wave Media Solutions
28:39 | The Emotional Roller Coaster of Entrepreneurship
31:35 | What's Next for From 9 to Mom?

From 9 to Mom is a podcast for working moms navigating careers, motherhood, entrepreneurship, parenting, and everything in between.

Hosted by Catie and Danielle, we share real conversations about working motherhood, career growth, mom guilt, work-life balance, women in business, and the beautiful chaos of raising kids while chasing big goals.

Follow along on Instagram @from9tomom for more working mom humor, podcast updates, and behind-the-scenes moments.

Six weeks, a whole lot of life updates, and absolutely no idea where to start.

We're back behind the microphones, and let's just say there's a LOT to catch up on! Between raising kids, navigating career changes, juggling work-life balance, and surviving the everyday chaos of being working moms, life has been moving FAST.

This week on From 9 to Mom, Catie and Danielle are catching up on everything that's happened lately. We're talking kindergarten transitions, parenting struggles, bedtime battles, sticker charts, mom guilt, and all those little moments that make motherhood both hilarious and exhausting.

Of course, we also find time to discuss our latest concert obsessions, Dancing with the Stars, chaotic work travel, and the reality of trying to maintain a social life while balancing careers, kids, and everything in between.

And somewhere in the middle of all that? We have a pretty BIG announcement. You'll have to tune in to hear what we've been keeping to ourselves!

Whether you're a full-time working mom, a mom navigating career changes, a business owner, or just trying to figure out how to balance motherhood and your own identity, this episode is for you.

No guests. No agenda. Just two working moms talking about real life, parenting, careers, and everything that happens between the 9 to 5 and bedtime.

🎧 EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 | We're Back! Life Updates & Working Mom Chaos
01:25 | Kindergarten, School Transitions & Parenting Milestones
06:00 | Jonas Brothers, K-Pop & Concert Obsessions
11:19 | Parenting Struggles, Eye Patches & Bribery
14:43 | Sticker Charts, Homework & Raising Kids
17:28 | Personality Tests, Motherhood & Identity
19:34 | Dancing with the Stars & Reality TV
24:26 | Bedtime Battles, Mom Guilt & Bunk Beds
27:14 | Our BIG Announcement & What's Next
31:16 | Work Travel, Career Life & Airport Chaos
35:08 | Adulting, Phone Bills & Business Write-Offs
38:08 | What's Next for From 9 to Mom?

Why does doing more feel like we're still not enough? This week we sit down with Jordyn, a licensed mental health counselor, registered art therapist, and founder of Mosaic Therapy in Miami — who works with ambitious, high-achieving teen girls and women who look like they have it all together (even when they don't feel like it inside). She's also 24 weeks pregnant, which makes this conversation even more real.

We dig into why our strengths can quietly become identities that trap us, the "estuaries" theory of confidence (and why you need more than one), why guilt shows up the moment we try to rest, and how to model self-care for our kids instead of just preaching it. If you've ever felt like your life looks amazing on paper but you're running on empty, this one's for you.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Jordyn
00:51 – Life at 24 weeks pregnant & planning overwhelm
04:21 – Jordyn's path to founding Mosaic Therapy
08:01 – Why "having it all together" hides what's underneath
09:40 – When your strengths become your identity
13:06 – The "estuaries" theory of confidence
16:48 – Modeling rest instead of just preaching it
21:47 – Where mom guilt actually comes from
27:44 – Where to start when you're at your limit
30:31 – Productivity vs. joy
32:02 – How becoming a mom is already changing her practice
38:01 – Where to find Jordyn & Mosaic Therapy

🌐 mosaictherapymiami.com
📱 Follow along: @mosaic.therapy on Instagram

Meet Jamie Kolnick — mom of three, founder of Jam with Jamie (a nationwide kids' music company with 100+ performers in 10 cities), and creator of Little Jam Fest, Miami's family music festival. We talk chaos with three kids, building a business from the ground up, navigating grief and loss as a teenager, autoimmune burnout, and finding your mom community through an app called Peanut. And yes — we get the full story behind her "shit you can't make up" moment, which might be our best one yet.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Jamie Kolnick
00:55 – Life with three kids & sleepaway camp season
04:44 – Jamie's path from actress to children's entertainment CEO
06:00 – Losing her brother, and later both parents
12:03 – Why she still makes time to play
13:12 – Building Jam with Jamie from solo performer to 100+ team
18:23 – Doing parties nine months pregnant (the froyo shop story)
27:23 – Managing the business side vs. the creative side
28:01 – Burnout, delegation & becoming a real CEO
29:01 – Autoimmune disorders & the postpartum hormone connection
31:18 – Finding her mom community through the Peanut app
37:59 – The "shit you can't make up" story (a bath bomb snail)

🌐 Learn more: https://jamwithjamie.com/
📱 Follow along: @jamwithjamie on Instagram

Common" doesn't mean "normal." This week we sit down with Dr. Beth Guarin, board-certified physical therapist and founder of VivaCore Physical Therapy in Miami, to answer the pelvic floor questions we get asked constantly leaking when you laugh, pain during sex, that "cleared" six-week checkup that doesn't actually mean you're healed, and so much more.

Dr. Beth breaks down what the pelvic floor actually does, why Kegels aren't the whole story, how C-section vs. vaginal delivery affects recovery differently, and why she believes every pregnant woman should see a pelvic floor therapist not just the ones already struggling. We also get into perimenopause, prolapse, and even pelvic floor issues in men.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Dr. Beth Guarin
03:57 – Her path into pelvic floor therapy
06:25 – What the pelvic floor actually does
10:13 – Is your postpartum pain normal or not?
16:00 – When to start pelvic floor therapy
21:46 – Inside a first appointment
27:07 – C-section vs. vaginal recovery
34:20 – Dr. Beth's #1 piece of advice for moms

🌐 vivacorept.com
📱 Follow along: @vivacore.pt on Instagram

Is your kid anxious or are you? This week we sit down with Dr. Anne Josephson, psychologist, mom of two, and founder of Uptown Psychology (NY & Florida), who specializes in high-achieving anxious kids and the parents raising them.

We get real about the fine line between supporting our kids and accommodating their anxiety into a bigger problem, how to tell anxiety apart from ADHD or OCD, why "overprotective parenting" might be creating kids who can't handle discomfort, and why burnout hits so much harder now that we're never truly "off the clock." Dr. Anne also gets vulnerable about losing her patience, tapping out, and practicing what she preaches (or not).

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back & meet Dr. Ann Josephson
01:16 – Life with a 4.5 and 2.5 year old (potty training included)
02:54 – Dr. Ann's path from special ed teacher to child psychologist
05:08 – Early anxiety red flags parents miss
07:58 – ADHD vs. anxiety vs. OCD — why it's so hard to tell apart
13:11 – When should a parent seek extra support?
16:08 – Inside PCIT & SPACE therapy protocols
20:15 – Overprotective parenting: are we raising incapable kids?
24:06 – Natural consequences vs. preventing every injury
25:15 – Anxious kids often mean anxious parents
27:07 – "Tapping out" and staying a united parenting front
31:59 – Why doing more feels like doing less
39:44 – Simple ways to reduce daily overwhelm
42:32 – Dr. Ann on ignoring her own advice sometimes
47:15 – When it's time to get professional help
48:55 – Where to find Dr. Ann & Uptown Psychology

📱 Follow along: Uptown Psychology on Instagram
🌐 uptownpsychologyny.com

What if you could meet your "mom friends" before the baby even arrives? This week we sit down with Georgia Kastaris and Monica Oslander, the founders behind Expecting Together a prenatal education and social club bringing the European model of built-in pregnancy community to the US.

Georgia discovered this concept while living in the UK, where matching expecting couples by due date and zip code is basically a rite of passage. Now she and Monica (a registered dietitian) are bringing it to Chicago and Miami pairing 8-12 couples going through pregnancy at the same time with real nurses and nurse practitioners, so families build their village before the chaos of a newborn hits.

We talk clinician-led education vs. Dr. TikTok, why partner inclusion matters, the loneliness epidemic among new parents, and what it's really like building a venture-backed startup while raising toddlers.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back to From 9 to Mom
01:42 – Georgia's UK story & discovering the prenatal social club model
05:23 – Bringing the concept to the US & meeting Monica
09:00 – How Monica got pulled in (and never let go)
12:58 – What families were missing the research behind the curriculum
15:19 – Why clinician-led matters more than doulas or influencers
20:09 – How matching & the program actually works
23:44 – Why partner inclusion is core to the model
25:34 – Scaling a business while raising toddlers
31:57 – The hardest parts of entrepreneurial motherhood
38:22 – What's next: Miami launch, virtual cohorts & new cities
41:26 – Final thoughts + where to find them

💛 Learn more or find a group near you: https://expectingtogether.com/
📱 Follow Expecting Together on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/expecting.together/

Christine and Kristen never planned on starting a hat company — it just kind of happened after one couldn't find a decent toddler hat for her son. Now Local Social Club is the snapback brand your kids (and honestly, your husbands) won't stop wearing. We get into the whole journey: sample after sample gone wrong, running a business with your best friend, and juggling it all alongside full-time corporate jobs.

Shop the hats at localssocialclub.com and use code F9TM for 20% off. Follow along @localssocialclub.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro & Welcome
01:50 – Mom Life Chaos: Kids & Craziness
06:07 – The Origin Story: From a Text to a Business
13:45 – Splitting Roles as Business Partners
15:20 – Finding a Manufacturer & Sampling Mishaps
25:37 – Balancing Corporate Jobs with LSC
32:12 – Designing Hats with Their Graphic Designer
34:41 – What's Next: Custom Hats & New Markets