Kate McKenna on Balancing the Broadcast Booth and Motherhood
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ep553. Renee sits down with Kate McKenna, award-winning TV producer, broadcaster, and reporter who leads TSN’s coverage of the Northern Super League—a top-division professional women’s soccer league in Canada. Kate and Renee about Kate’ motherhood journey, and the double standard mom’s face balancing career and raising kids.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.2 | Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? |
| 0:09.4 | Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? |
| 0:14.7 | I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. |
| 0:17.0 | I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp, and those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show. |
| 0:26.6 | There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible to know what's real and what's BS. |
| 0:35.8 | On Bite Back, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food, their body, and themselves, |
| 0:42.1 | which in my opinion is the fundamental secret to good health. |
| 0:46.6 | Listen to Bite Back wherever you get your podcasts. Kate, Kate, welcome to the mom room. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:04.1 | Yes, I'm excited. |
| 1:05.2 | We finally got our technology working. |
| 1:07.2 | Like, every time someone pops up on my screen, I'm like, okay, what problems are we |
| 1:10.6 | tackling today? And I joked with my screen, I'm like, okay, what problems are we tackling today? |
| 1:12.3 | And I joked with you earlier. I'm a television producer. You think I would know this. And yet, |
| 1:17.7 | nope. So we made it. No, you'd be surprised. I've interviewed some people and they come up and I'm like, |
| 1:22.5 | you're on your iPad with no, like headphones or nothing. Like what? They're on like a big press tour. I'm like, what or nothing? Like, what? They're on, like, a big press tour. I'm like, |
| 1:29.0 | what is happening? Anyways, we are going to talk about motherhood today. And a question that I |
| 1:34.7 | always ask guests when they come on is what their transition into motherhood was like. Because I |
| 1:40.0 | remember just being like, how does nobody talk about all these things that I'm experiencing, |
| 1:46.2 | like from day one? So what do you remember about that time, like your transition into motherhood? |
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