Breaking her three year silence over her discrimination and eventual termination from her starring role in Romy and Michele: The Musical, Cortney Wolfson joins us following her bravely transparent social media post that went viral. She shares, in her own words, what it felt like to be fired for being pregnant, opening up a conversation that is desperately needed in our industry. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#78 - Cortney Wolfson, Fired For Being Pregnant

The superhuman powers of this week’s guests are awe-inspiring. Tony award nominee De’Adre Aziza and Broadway regular Jennifer Sanchez join us to share their journeys as single mothers in show business. From hustling to get their first break with toddlers in tow, to experiencing empty nest after their sons have spread their wings, these mothers truly redefine the mom juggle... doing it all... on their own...from day one.  Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#49 - De'Adre Aziza & Jennifer Sanchez, From Cradle to College...as Single Moms in Showbusiness

Continuing our “Journey to Motherhood” series, star of Moulin Rouge and Tony Award winner, Karen Olivo shares with us how marrying into motherhood has been the greatest gift: how seeing herself through her children’s eyes has forced her to be kinder to herself, how listening to her gut has always guided her life in and out of the business, and how embodying the sparkling diamond every night shows the next generation that diversity can not be the exception but the rule. Find more info about the podcast via BroadwayPodcastNetwork.com/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#18 - Karen Olivo, Journey to Motherhood: Listen to the Voice Within

Star of Hamilton and breast cancer survivor, Mandy Gonzalez shares her journey through a diagnosis, the decision to go public with the news, and enduring chemotherapy during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown. Even when faced with the most difficult situation, she never lost sight of the light, pushing through with the help of her family, her “core four”, and the passion that drives her to continue to create even when bedridden from treatment. Mandy’s first book in her YA Series, Fearless comes out in April and our conversation with her leaves no doubt that she is not only the embodiment of the word, but a beacon of positivity to which we all should aspire. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#52 - Mandy Gonzalez, Fearless

One of the very first guests on Mamas Talkin' Loud, Pearl Sun, rejoined Cara and Jess a month ago to talk about her unexpected return to Broadway. From resuming 8 shows a week after spending more time than she ever has with her son Max, to her anxiety about moving through the city as an Asian American, her emotions ran the gamut. However, she looked toward the reopening of Come From Away with more hope than hesitation, and most importantly compassion for herself and others. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#77 - Pearl Sun, Be Gentle

About a month ago, Khori Petinaud joined us again as part of our 'Returning Reborn' series, sharing her ongoing journey of discovery as a new mom, and her overwhelming anticipation of returning to work in Moulin Rouge. When Broadway shuttered, she wasn’t even pregnant and when she walked back on stage at the Al Hirschfeld theater, she had a 9 month old. She prepped for the reopening with classes and working out, but most importantly with grace and compassion for herself, as she knows she is not the same person that took a bow in March 2020. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#76 - Khori Petinaud, I Am Enough

Seven years ago co-hosts Cara Cooper & Jessica Rush started a support group for mothers in the New York theater community, Broadway Baby Mamas, and about a month ago they invited them to join in a group “scream”. Like The NY Times did earlier this year, the Mamas wanted to provide a space where the women could just let go of everything they'd been holding onto. This episode is a raw and emotional glimpse into what working artist mothers have been grappling with these past 18 months and how they are moving forward one step, one breath at a time. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#75 - The Broadway Baby Mamas Primal Scream - Part 2

#74 - The Broadway Baby Mamas Primal Scream

When their next guest went into labor the day they were set to record, Cara and Jess decided instead to check in with each other and with you. Join them for a true “dressing room“ chat; from back to school and back to Broadway to the mom guilt that never seems to go away, the mamas are intent on giving themselves grace one step at a time. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#73 - Cara Cooper and Jessica Rush, Giving Ourselves Grace

Kicking off our third season, as well as our special four-part miniseries Returning Reborn: The Rebirth of the Broadway Mom, Tony Nominee (Jagged Little Pill) Elizabeth Stanley joined us just weeks before giving birth to her baby girl to share with us her journey to having a #pandemicbaby. While motherhood was not always a path she saw in her future, she is mindfully navigating this new territory with a sense of purpose and curiosity, advocating for herself and her new life as a mother in ways to which we can all relate and aspire. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Cara Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#72 - Elizabeth Stanley, Stay Open, Stay Curious

Just five weeks postpartum, Khori Michelle Petinaud joins us to share her amazing home birth story. She is amplifying her positive experience to affirm BIPOC women everywhere who dream of someday becoming a mother. Khori is using her voice, her experience and her platform to share and fight the devastating inequities in maternal care in this country for women of color, all while navigating becoming a mother herself.  Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#55 - Khori Michelle Petinaud, Every Mother's Right: A Birth Without Fear

Two months into quarantine, we talked to new mothers Kara Lindsay and Jennifer Rias about what it’s like to isolate with a young baby. From finding out you’re pregnant on your first day of rehearsal to wearing a thong onstage while carrying a baby, these Broadway Baby Mamas are now traveling the path of new motherhood during a pandemic. Without work to define or distract them, Kara and Jenn are meeting their new roles as mothers with joy and wonder even during the most trying of times. Find more info about the podcast via BroadwayPodcastNetwork.com/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#33 - Kara Lindsay and Jenn Rias, A Mother is Born

Kicking off Mental Health Awareness Month, we have Carey Anderson, an actress, known for MAMMA MIA & AVENUE Q, turned psychotherapist. Knowing firsthand the intense anxiety and self doubt that are inherent parts of our industry, she created the #MindfulArtistSeries, giving people tangible tools to move through these emotions and help them break out of the ‘Trance of Unworthiness’. As we are enter a new phase of the pandemic, Carey acknowledges the unique trauma the artist population has experienced, shares her wisdom and helps us process the PTSD of the last year, acknowledging the grief within the hope.  Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Jessica Rush Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#64 - Carey Anderson, The Mindful Artist

Wrapping up our celebration of Women’s History Month, advocate and change maker extraordinaire, Rachel Spencer Hewitt, joins us this week. Through her own experiences as a mother, she immediately recognized how little caregiver support exists in our industry and she did something about it. She is the founder of PAAL - the Parent Artist Advocacy League, a community, a resource and a salvation to those of us navigating parenting in the arts and the institutions that hire us. With the recent release of the PAAL Handbook for Best Practices, she is effectively working toward making caregiver support the norm, not the exception. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Jessica Rush Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#61 - Rachel Spencer Hewitt, Making Caregiver Support the Norm, Not the Exception

As the first BIPOC (and mother!) to play Jenna in Waitress, this weeks guest, Nicolette Robinson, made history. She joins us to share how the state of her career actually led her to motherhood, how her love of Waitress the Musical is the greatest proof of manifestation, and how the two seem undeniably intertwined. During lockdown she and husband, Leslie Odom Jr., shot and executive produced ‘Love in the Time of Corona’, making sure their story was one of authenticity and relevance as people took to the streets in the biggest Black Lives Matter movement our country has seen. They did this all while keeping their love alive by allowing for the chaos but looking for the joy every day. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produced by Dori Berinstein and Alan Seales. Edited by Derek Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#42 - Nicolette Robinson, Looking for the Joy

In year four of sharing a dressing room at Broadway’s Jersey Boys, Cara Cooper and Jessica Rush found themselves in uncharted territory, juggling motherhood and eight shows a week. Knowing they weren’t alone in the struggle, they founded a support group for mothers in the business of show, called Broadway Baby Mamas. Join Cara and Jessica as they discuss in depth the usually funny, always emotional and very frank comedy and tragedy of motherhood with today’s great mamas of Broadway and beyond.

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