THE COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE CAR MOM

The Carpool with Kelly and Lizz

The Car Mom LLC / tentwentytwo Projects

Kids & Family, Automotive, Leisure, Parenting

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lizz is out sick today, so it's all Kelly for this episode of The Carpool podcast! She's getting ready to be the hostess with the mostess for her beauty themed rob your neighbor party this week. Hostess mode is in full effect with the holidays! Speaking of the holidays, Kelly has new notes to add for December including mistakes on the Christmas cards, basics for the kids, keeping ready-made food in the fridge and candy cane fishing. Then, it's time for a history lesson. A Car Mom history lesson. You may be new to the Car Mom and thinking "How did this even start?" Kelly breaks down the whole story from starting the Instagram page to getting flown all over the country to talk to major car companies. She shares the high and the lows and offers great tips for anyone looking to become an influencer.

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Quince. When it comes to holiday gifting, I want to give
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0:15.6	quality at a price that actually makes sense. I actually got my mom a basic white tea from Quince to layer under
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1:30.0	Quins.com slash carpool.
1:35.3	Welcome to the Carpool podcast with Kelly.
1:39.2	And I got scammed. I got scammed. And I basically paid for sugar water. And I cried. I was so mad at myself.
1:49.3	I was so embarrassed. I mean, it was literally like I lit money on fire and a lot of money.
1:55.2	A lot of money. The money that Tyler gave me to start it. And Liz, your mom time off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with
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