Carla Ondrasik on Music, Motherhood & Letting Go of Perfection
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ep 537. This week, Renee chats with Carla Ondrasik, former music publishing executive turned mentor and author, about success, identity, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is stop trying. Carla shares stories from her career developing chart-topping artists like Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, and Christina Aguilera — and what walking away from the industry taught her about worth, balance, and family.
They dive into the pressure so many women feel to prove themselves, the danger of tying identity to achievement, and the freedom that comes from redefining success on your own terms. Carla’s upcoming book Stop Trying! is both her story and a guide for anyone ready to let go of constant striving and finally start living.
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| 0:44.8 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Carla, welcome to the mom room. |
| 1:01.8 | Thank you. So happy and excited to be here. I am excited to talk to you because I was sent an early |
| 1:08.7 | copy of your new book called Stop Trying. |
| 1:11.6 | And I didn't know what to expect. |
| 1:14.2 | Like I read the description of the book and I was like, oh, I love this idea for a book. |
| 1:19.3 | And then I gobbled it up in one weekend. |
| 1:22.8 | And it, like you said, you saw my Instagram. |
| 1:26.0 | It clearly struck a chord with me because now I'm putting |
| 1:29.7 | what you put in the book into action. I'm curious because people listening are going to, when they |
| 1:36.7 | see the title of the book, people must be like, what? Like, because it sounds like counterintuitive, |
| 1:42.0 | like stop trying. But what do you mean by stop trying? |
| 1:48.1 | Okay. And by the way, the way that I wrote the book was that doing it exactly the way you did it, |
| 1:54.7 | you can open it up on a flight from L.A. to New York and close the book, changed. You know, |
| 2:00.7 | like you can gobble it up in a weekend. |
| 2:04.0 | And so because that's how quickly not trying works. So what that means, you know, what is, |
| 2:09.9 | what do you mean stop trying? We, we have always thought that it was a positive thing, that it's, |
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