150. Motherhood Mondays with Jill Koziol & Liz Tenety, Co-Founders of Motherly
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
"I wish I knew that it was normal to feel this way." —Jill Koziol
When Jill Koziol and Liz Tenety were new moms, they felt alone, terrified, and overwhelmed by this new adventure. Five — soon to be six — kids later (two for Jill, three with a fourth on the way for Liz), and Liz and Jill are the co-founders of Motherly, a website, community, and brand for moms in all stages of parenthood. With Jill as CEO, Liz as Chief Digital Officer, and a work-from-home team of 40 spread across the United States, Motherly sees more than 20 million monthly views, and is home to an active, engaged community. On this episode, Jill and Liz reflect on what new motherhood looked like for them, what it means to be motherly, and what they found in their second annual "State of Motherhood" survey.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Getting to know Jill and Liz (3:00)
- Why Motherly needed to exist (11:30)
- What were Jill and Liz like as new moms? (21:30)
- A look at the State of Motherhood survey — what were the surprises and validations? (24:30)
- "New-parent relationship tension stuff" (30:00)
- Why 85 percent of millennial moms don't feel understood or supported by society — and what we can do with that information (45:00)
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Whitney Port on The Motherly Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show are brought to you by Sweaty Betty. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to episode number six in this Motherhood Mondays series. I know I say it every week, |
| 0:14.4 | I think I say it every week, but I am truly so blown away by the feedback from the first five |
| 0:19.5 | episodes. And it's not just for moms, I've heard from several, yes, more than one, I've heard from |
| 0:25.8 | several men who told me they've been listening and it's helped them better understand what |
| 0:30.3 | their wives go through and what they might be thinking. How amazing is that? I've also heard |
| 0:35.3 | from lots of women who aren't moms and many who say they have no desire to become moms, |
| 0:40.8 | but that they too are enjoying these episodes. So thank you for listening for the kind words |
| 0:46.3 | and for playing along. So I know that for me in the earliest days of Motherhood, there were a few |
| 0:53.0 | things I was really desperate to hear. This is normal, you're not alone, it's going to be okay |
| 1:01.4 | and you're doing great. I found those words in a few different places and one of them was on the |
| 1:07.2 | Motherly website. I don't know or remember how I first found Motherly, but once I dove in, I could not |
| 1:13.0 | stop scrolling. I loved every post. I was bookmarking everything from posts about how much spitt up |
| 1:19.6 | is normal with a seven week old to a story that made me sob in which a woman wrote openly and |
| 1:25.1 | honestly about needing to ask her husband for more help and to be seen. I read these posts and I |
| 1:31.3 | felt less alone. I felt like I was doing okay. I felt reassured in the form of hearing other women's |
| 1:36.8 | stories shared in such a raw and beautiful way. They weren't sugar-coating Motherhood, but they |
| 1:41.6 | weren't being martyrs in it either. The site was filled with smart, educated, hardworking women who |
| 1:47.3 | also have children and want to thrive in all areas of their life. So I'm reading this and I'm thinking |
| 1:53.3 | same. So when I launched this Motherhood series, I knew I needed to ask Motherly's co-founders, |
| 1:59.4 | Jill Cozial and Liz Tennedy to join me. And they said yes. In addition to being the brains behind |
| 2:05.9 | Motherly, Jill and Liz are also the co-hosts of Motherly's podcast, which is about to return for |
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