Interview Me: Default Parenting, Mom Guilt, and More!

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s solo episode, I am being interviewed by Ariana Joy! We recorded this episode for Your Cup Of Joy and it was so good that I want you all to hear it! We talk about what it means to be the “default parent”, the silent weight of being constantly “on,” the overstimulation that comes with never being alone, and the subtle dynamics that fall into place when no one is looking. I share my own evolution, from early postpartum to now raising a school-aged child, and how my marriage shifted along the way. Ariana also shares the raw realities of parenting twins, trying to “do it all,” and realizing she had taken on roles she never meant to keep! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	trusted by parents nationwide. Welcome to this very unique episode of the mom room and I say
1:20.0	it's unique because I am the one being interviewed in this episode. If I sound echoey,
1:27.1	it's because I'm in our hotel room in Antigua.
1:30.2	I was going to record a solo episode about traveling with kids, but then I was like, no, I should
1:34.2	put this out on the mom room because I loved this conversation so much. Also, I think I need to
1:41.7	bring people on the mom room to interview me more often because then I get to
1:46.3	talk and I love talking, especially when it's about topics that I used to talk about so much.
1:53.3	So in this episode, Ariana is asking me about being the default parent and what that was like
1:58.9	and navigating parenting, marriage, also mom
2:03.7	guilt, all of these topics that I haven't talked about in a little while. So I'm excited for you to
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