
THE PARENTING COLLECTIVE PODCAST
Join Donna as she chats openly with incredible guest’s, who are expert’s in their fields, sharing authentic, raw stories, about parenting, sleep and much more making sleep and parenting a positive, empowering experience. Encouraging parents to use their natural parental instincts, Donna guides families to gather the knowledge they need for this awesome, challenging journey of being a parent.
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Dr Andrew Leech - Children Health
Season 2 | Episode 34
Chatting with Dr Andrew Leech the founder @The Garden Family Medical Centre here in Perth.
Chatting about the increase of children presenting with neurodiverse symptoms such as ADHD & Autism etc. And how challenging it is to be able to get the support our families need around their children's health.
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Child Abuse Prevention - Kristi Mcvee
Season 2 | Episode 33
On this weeks' episode I am thrilled to have @kristimcvee. Kristi spent over 14 years fighting child sexual abuse and now utilises her experienc as a police officer to teach all she knows about Child Abuse Prevention to students, parents and teachers.
Empowering teachers, parents, children with protective behaviours education and abuse awareness.
Kristi is also an author of "Operation KidSafe" Click here to purchase.
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Fertility Hope - Sonja Pototzki-Raymond
Season 2 | Episode 32
On this weeks episode I am super excited to share with you Sonja Pototzki-Raymond MSc she is the founder of , Google Search Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Fertility Advocate.
We have an open discussion around her Fertility and IVF journey with her gorgeous daughter Saige and currently pregnant with another little princess.
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Jaimee - Happy Faces
Season 2 | Episode 31
Chatting with Jaimee about all things about children's teeth and facial growth, I was particularly interested in discussing dummy use, thumb sucking, mouth breathing and much much more, Jaimee is a Orofacial Myologist.
Jaimee focuses exclusively on orofacial myology, helping people of all ages to use their oral and facial muscles correctly, so they can eat, sleep, breathe, speak, grow and feel well.
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Traumatic Brain Survivor
Season 2 | Episode 30
Amy is a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor, she almost had her life taken away from her when she had a Quadbike accident September 2013.
Amy ended up breaking 38 bones, ruptured numerous internal organs, and ended up with a Traumatic Brain Injury. Spending over two weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 2 months in the Surgical Wards and over a year in the rehabilitation ward.
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Exercise after birth Emma Bunting
Season 2 | Episode 29
I am thrilled to have Emma from @motivemums as a guest today to chat about all things exercise and exercise after having a baby, she is a wealth of knowledge on when and what to do.
Emma is a mother of 2 boys and is very passionate about helping pregnant and postpartum women to exercise safely and effectively. Emma is a certified MumSafe Trainer and partners with Women's Health Physiotherapist to help new mums.
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Lets talk about Sex with Sara Stone
Season 2 | Episode 28
Chatting with Sara all about how to heal our sexual relationship with our partners after giving birth.
Sara Stone is a renowned couples sex and relationship coach, educator, and somatic therapist. With a focus on healing relationship wounds and fostering deeper sexual fulfilment.
Sara runs transformative events and programs. She specialises in supporting couples and new parents to reignite intimacy and empowers mothers to reclaim their libido, feel sexy, and embrace their sensuality.
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Mental health & Wellness
Season 2 | Episode 27
Chatting with Lachlan O'Donoghue from @20_talk as my guest, a Perth mental health charity, @20_talk.
The charity was born in 2017 after his friendship group lost two close mates to suicide within 2 months. This topic today is close to my heart through our own personal journey with our daughter, through her own mental health battle's at times having suicidal intent. We are wanting to share our story, so if someone who listen's may know, a sister, brother, cousin, friend or family member who is struggling, that you are not alone.
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What is Conscious Connected Parenting
Season 2 | Episode 26
Chatting with Emily @consciousmothersgroup we have an awesome discussion about my other passion in life, conscious, connected parenting!
It is such an incredible method to understand our triggers as parents and how the way we were raised, directly effects the way we parent.
She is a qualified early childhood educator, but has stepped away from the system and moved towards a conscious, natural and un-schooling approach to education which led to the co- creation of We Are Nature Network.
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Need peace & calm in your Mumma life?
Season 2 | Episode 26
Kirsty is a Women’s Holistic Coach, specialising in Meditation, Spirituality and mindset. Making Meditation easy for you to look within and deeply connect to yourself so that you feel truly amazing to shine bright ✨
Through her own personal journey of loss, PND and self-discovery she now works with women navigating their own overwhelm of juggling many hats of life through simple practices that support calm and deep connection.
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Parent RIGHT from the start
Season 2 | Episode 25
On this weeks episode I am super duper excited about my first "international" guest, we dive deep into what it means to be a connected, conscious parent.
Talking about boundaries, discipline without damage and Parenting Right from the start.
Her passion is in walking alongside parents, teachers, care providers, and other big people to really see the world through the child’s eyes. She believes that if we can do this, we are beautifully positioned to grow up our children in the best possible way.
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Needing to regain your confidence?
Season 2 | Episode 24
On this weeks episode very excited to share with you Lacey @imyourgotogirl. Lacey is a Stylist and Image coach through her business "Your Go To Girl" Lacey is the all in one solution for helping Mumma's regain their confidence.
Through the power of personal style and self-connection, Lacey has helped thousands of women all across the world regain their confidence for the past 11 years.
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Feeling in a health Rut?
Season 2 | Episode 23
This week I am very excited to share with you Nikki Chamberlain @nikkicoaching
Nikki is a health and mindset coach for women who have tried everything to maintain a weight they desire, but more importantly, Nikki helps change beliefs around self-worth, supports and educates to sustain amazing results.
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The Mumma Nest
Season 2 | Episode 22
On this weeks episode, I am super excited to share with you Sarah from @themummanest .
My 2 passions if life is amazing sleep, and anything parenting support.
In this episode we dive into conscious motherhood, trying to be kind to ourselves as mothers, finding our way back to our passion and purpose and how by being able to understand what triggers us in our day to day parenting, that there are tools that we can use to manage them a little easier, without so much overwhelm and guilt.
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Nourish Yourself Better Mumma
Season 2 | Episode 21
On this week's podcast I am super excited to chat with Jess Wilson @jess_wilson_nutrition.
Jess is a Functional Nutritionist, Gut Health and Hormone Practitioner and All-Round Wellness Coach. She also a busy mum, ocean lover and a runner... who loves to live a vibrant life.
She supports and guides women to live their best happy life, worth living, in the healthiest way and feel their optimum.
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Can all babies learn how to sleep well?
Season 2 | Episode 20
On this week's episode I talk about how our babies/infants/toddlers and children can master the miracle of sleep.
It doesn't have to be scary or negative, we don't even have to leave the room, we can nurture and support our babies to sleep well.
There is so much unregulated and flooded information out there in regards to parenting and particularly sleep, everyone is just so overwhelmed and confused and still not getting some sleep.
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What Life Is Like With A Baby
Season 2 | Episode 19
I am excited to share with you Lucy Newton , Lucy is a mum of 2 and a Registered Nurse. Lucy has created this incredible online course for expectant mumma's or mumma's with a newborn, as first time mumma's we are busy planning our pregnancy and birth but don't really plan for our post partum..
This course is a one stop course preparing you for the realities having a new baby brings, not to overwhelm you, but empower you and reduce any anxiety about bringing baby home.
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Natasha - Juggling Mama
Episode 18 | 15 December, 2022
So excited to have Natashia Telfer @juggling_mumma as a guest, Natashia is a Canberra based mum, wife, businesswoman and best selling author.
She has an incredible story of strength and adversity, being a cancer survivor at the age of 19, a kindness advocate, IVF mumma, perpetual ball dropper, chaos co-ordinator and silver lining seeker
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Sean - The Fathering Project
Episode 17 | 28 August, 2022
Sean is a father of three, grandfather to two and a husband of one.
His passion is seeing social change, and spreading the message about the importance of fathers and father figures in a child’s life, and their significant impact on development and wellbeing.
Sean now works as the Partnerships and Community Relations Manager and is responsible for the expansion of the programs throughout Australia to reach as many fathers and families through its delivery in Schools, Corporates and other Organisations.
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Women's Nurturing Coach
Episode 16 | 21 August, 2022
On this week's podcast I am super excited to share with you Dominique Fletcher, she is a Women's Nurturing Coach
I have been working 1:1 with her over the last few months, she has been able to support me through some stormy times.
Nurturing and guiding me, so I can understand why I do and say the things I do, why I feel the way I feel, giving me the tools to heal and grow.
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Connected Parenting - Gen
Episode 15 | 10 August, 2022
Chatting with Genevieve from @connectedparentingau.
We chat all about connected & attachment parenting.
What it means and how these technique's can support you during your parenting journey.
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Brook Vulinovich - Client Sucess
Episode 14 | 25 July, 2022
Brooke and her husband Dom were client's of mine when their 6m old little man Karlo, started not loving sleep.
He came out their angel baby, slept all the time and all was going well till all that changed over night.
Karlo started waking many times and night and wasn't loving his day naps.
Brooke was able to get back to her business she loved pretty quickly when she was getting sleep, when things changed, work was a little harder to do because being a mumma always comes first.
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Justine Zappa - Birth Book
Episode 13 | 3 May, 2022
On this week's podcast I am so excited to share with you Justine Zappa @justinezappa, she is a mumma of 3 and an author of her beautiful book, titled 'Birth Book - Bringing Belief back to birth.'
It is an interactive guide to birth with belief, trust and instinct.
Justine has created the book, through all of her life experience around pregnancy, birth, loss and beyond.
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Post Partum Midwives - Bundle & Me
Episode 12 | 16 March, 2022
Midwives and Lactation Consultants who run a Pregnancy & Postpartum.
Today we are chatting about all they do to support expectant families, during pregnancy, birth and 6 weeks post-partum.
We also chat about Breastfeeding, what to expect in the first month, the support they can give around mothers choice's, we are all for whatever a mum chooses to do, breastfeed or bottle feed.
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Motherbear Postpartum
Episode 11 | 3 March, 2022
On today's podcast I speak to the lovely Emilia who is the founder of @motherbear.postpartum, she is a postpartum doula and doula business coach.
I asked Emilia to run through what it is that a postpartum doula can do to support families with a Newborn and beyond.
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The Women's Collective
Episode 10 | 14 February, 2022
On this week's podcast I am so excited to have the lovely Georgie from the @the_womens_collective . She is a business woman, content creator and Instagram guru.
After splitting from her wife in 2020 before they had children, she decided to commence the journey of becoming a mum all by herself.
Today we talk about her wonderful experience, from the conception journey through to birth and all the ups and downs in between.
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Part 2 - Cancer Survivor/IVF - Vicky Pellowe
Episode 9 | 21 December, 2021
This week's podcast is Part 2 with Vicki Pellow, a young adult cancer survivor, an advocacy Coach and a mumma.
She talks about her experience with IVF and what it felt like for her once she became a mother, the huge identity shift's that we have after we have given birth, her struggle with Post Natal Depression and much much more.
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Part 1 - Cancer Survivor /IVF - Vicky Pellowe
Episode 8 | 8 December, 2021
I am so excited to share with you the lovely Vicky Pellowe, this is Part 1 of a 2 part series, where she shares her story of being a young adult cancer survivor, the choices she had to make around her future after Chemo and what she needed to do if she had a chance of becoming a mumma later on in life if she survived.
Vicky is an advocacy coach, supporting anyone who has been through adversity and looking for how to live life after a life changing event has occurred.
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Paediatric First Aid - Rescue Blue
Episode 7 | 18 November, 2021
On this week's episode I am talking to Jess from @rescueblue_littleaid about the importance of learning first aid for you and your family.
Rescue Blue is a Paediatric First Aid Provider and everything is taught by Paramedic's. They are extremely passionate about educating and empowering parents to have the skills to be able to deal with life threatening experience or medical emergency.
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Raising Toddlers
Episode 6 | 29 July, 2021
Talking to Mandy from @raisetodders about all things toddler’s, she is a Toddler Development Specialist!
She is an expert in her field, we could have chatted all day, she is a wealth of knowledge on how to tackle everything from toddler tantrum’s, to easing mumma's stress around all the boundary pushing and toddlers yearning for their independence.
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Fitness & Nutrition - Pre, During & Post Pregnancy
Episode 5 | 19 July, 2021Ca
Brooke is a Pre & Post Natal Specialist in fitness and nutrition.
Brooke is a mum of three and her newest addition to the family is a newborn. We chat about all things women nutrition and exercise, what to do exercise wise during pregnancy and when and how to start exercising again after birth. Also chatting about how important good nutrition is and how to be kind to yourself through all these times.
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Sleep Experts Unite
Episode 4 | 9 July, 2021
We are all very like-minded women/mothers and sleep specialists and we are very passionate about trying to spread the truth and positivity around baby sleep.
There is just too much negative and false information being spread around via social media platforms and the internet, that we now are going to be so driven to have a voice for all those tired mumma’s out there that are exhausted and feel like they have nowhere to turn.
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How to Have a Calm Birth
Episode 3 | 2 July, 2021
So excited for me to be able to share Tina from @the.birth.collective with you all. Tina is a Hypnobirthing practitioner, she is based in Sydney and is able to support families world wide. On this episode we talk about pregnancy, birth, and the usual feelings of fear and negativity around how you will bring your baby into the world.
Tina shares her 2 completely different birth experiences. She explains how hypnobirthing is not just for alternative famlies, it can be used for any type of birthing experience, caesarian included.
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Delete Parenting Apps & Regressions
Episode 2 | 17 June, 2021
Today I talk about all things regressions and the anxiety around parenting apps. I commonly see posts & messages about certain Apps telling parents that in the future their baby is expected to experience regressions and challenging times.
I don't want mum's sitting around anxiously waiting for the next regression or tough time to hit.
Let's embrace the NOW and enjoy the times when things are going well.
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Journey to Motherhood
Episode 1 | 28 March, 2021
On the first episode, host Donna Moala talks about her journey to motherhood and what drove her to become a certified sleep consultant.
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Welcome Episode | 17 March, 2021
Myth busting, all the hot topics like catnapping, early morning waking, regression, night waking and lots lots more, I will also give you tools and tips for all ages and Sharing with you my ups and down around parenting life and sleep. I will bring you conversation’s with experts in their fields to further support and guide you through your parenting journey. I really want to make this a one stop shop for you all. There is just so much confusing and conflicting information out there , which is actually sending parents crazy with worry and anxiety.
Guest Podcast Episodes
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First Time Parents with Heidi Anderson
All your questions answered around toddler sleep...
when to transition your toddler into a big bed, when to drop the midday nap, how to cope with daycare and naps, morning poo's and nappies at night time!
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The ADHD Mama with Susy Parker
Could sleep issues be the cause of your challenging child?
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The Kids Health Network
Getting your ‘Bub 2 Sleep’!
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First Time Parents Podcast
Our Success with the Sleep Expert Donna Moala
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First Time Parents Podcast
All Your Sleep Questions Answered by a Sleep Expert Part 2