Navigating Postpartum, Friendships, & Cooking As A New Mom with Carissa Stanton Dutina
Conversations with Cam
Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Friendship Series: In this episode, I sit down with my friend Carissa (@broccyourbody) for an honest conversation about friendship, new motherhood, and the realities of juggling it all while running your own business. Carissa shares her postpartum journey - from bonding and newborn giggles to unexpected challenges of motherhood and health anxiety. We talk about the power of low-maintenance friendships, making new “mom friends,” mental health during postpartum, and how our relationship with food and cooking has shifted after having kids. Carissa also shares tips for making cooking easier as a mom and how she’s prioritizing her self-care in this new season of life.
Key Takeaway / Points:
The beauty of low-maintenance friendships and how to make new friends as a mom
Her honest postpartum experience and navigating early motherhood
Transitioning from breastfeeding to combo feeding
The unexpected mental load of motherhood
Our relationship with food and cooking after becoming moms
The stigma around childcare as a self-employed parent
Time-saving cooking tips and making meal prepping more realistic
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Website: broccyourbody.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're like, I think, one of the most repeated guests. |
| 0:22.6 | Really? No, I actually was thinking about this. It's like every time I'm come to L.A., I'm like, let me just tap into Carissa real fast. You want to go on a podcast? I'm like, yes. You want to talk? Yes. Yes, I do. I really think you are compared to my mom and my sister. I think you're the most repeated. I love it. I feel like I always have something to talk about because I literally can't stop doing things. I mean, you can't stop doing things. You can't |
| 0:27.6 | stop yapping. Well, also, we've had the show for so long that like it's been so many different |
| 0:32.1 | iterations of you. Yeah. Because like the first one was I think kind of how we met. I don't remember Of you. Yeah. Because, like, the first one was, I think, kind of how we met. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't remember meeting you. I couldn't tell you. I have no memory of meeting you. Yes. Actually, you know what? I think we did. I think we got bagels and we went on a walk and we were like, wait, have we met before? No. We were like halfway through the walk and we're like, wait, have we never met? |
| 0:56.8 | Because we like followed each other for a while. |
| 0:57.7 | And I think we were like, wait, have we met before? We were like halfway through the walk and we're like, wait, have we never met? |
| 0:55.1 | Because we like followed each other for a while. And I think we were like, wait. But that wasn't the first date. Remember? Because we also went on a bagel walk the morning after your first date with your husband. Yes. But that was not it. That was not it. That was a different bagel walk. but we were like halfway through the rock |
| 1:10.1 | and we were like |
| 1:10.5 | nice to meet you |
| 1:12.9 | like we had never met |
| 1:14.1 | and we like didn't even realize, I think. Well, that's parisocial |
| 1:17.3 | relationships for you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, we can start there because I want to bring back, |
| 1:21.3 | we're bringing back the friendship series on the pod. Oh, amazing. Where I have on friends in my life, mostly, like most aren't creators, so welcome. |
| 1:31.4 | But most are just like people who I've grown up with or gone to college with or my close |
| 1:35.2 | friends, which I know you have many in your life as well. |
| 1:37.9 | It's something that we've- Normies. |
| 1:39.1 | Deeply align on. |
| 1:40.3 | Like Normies are so important. |
| 1:42.1 | So important. |
| 1:43.3 | But also non-normies are also really important because |
| 1:46.1 | like yes yes we don't have co-workers we need to vent yes I need to have someone that can text and be like |
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