The Power of Noticing
Small rituals carry us through hard seasons — from creating weekly Monday visits while in the postpartum days to a couch-and-snacks Dancing...
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The MomForce Podcast Hosted by Chatbooks
Welcome to The Mom Force Podcast! We know that parenting is the hardest job in the world, and we’ve got you covered! Vanessa Quigley, mother of 7 and co-founder of the Internet’s favorite ph...
Episodes
20 of 221 episodesMaybe, Maybe Not
Sarah is in the final stretch of wedding planning, and she's not too proud to admit it: there was a breakdown, a small bridezilla moment, an...
Maybe Escapism is Okay (If It's a 90s Dance Party)
Fresh off a 90s throwback dance party at East High School (yes, the High School Musical one), the ladies of the MomForce look back on a nigh...
Never Underestimate the Hot Girls with Annie Ricks
Episode description: In this episode, Annie, a Manhattan-based Chatbooks marketer of five and a half years, joins the conversation and tells...
Too Much Information? Or Not Trusting Intuition?
In this episode, the ladies of the MomForce Podcast share their thoughts on what this age of the information overload has done to their brai...
Can We Celebrate The Highlight Reel For A Minute?
In this episode, Vanessa is facing her first fall with zero kids in school after 7 children — and the relief is real (even if it came with s...
Shopping is the Modern Day Hunting and Gathering
In this week's episode, Julie shares about how she and her eldest daughter have a shared skill of shopping together and being quite procifie...
Sit in the Shake
In this episode, Sarah and Vanessa discuss a little about their Pilates class earlier that morning that leads them all into a discussion abo...
Type A, Type B, or Somewhere In Between?
This week, Vanessa, Julie, and Sarah dig into a discussion that's been brewing since a fan comment recently called Chatbooks "the perfect Ty...
The Work Lore that Built Us
In this episode, Vanessa shares what it was like changing a tire in Disneyland Pluto costume. Julie's asks Vanessa if she is more hirable be...
Buy the Tickets: A Case for Scheduling Inspiration
This week, Vanessa and Julie share abou the importance of the arts and prioritizing it in your life in order to find inspiration for all asp...
Our Five Things Worth the Money
Cozy is worth the money. Subscriptions are worth the money. And claw machines from Amazon are definitely worth the money. These are the offi...
How to Raise Confident Kids
This week, Sarah shares how she has observed certain families whose teenagers are simply magnetic and very confident in themselves around ad...
How to Keep Going When You Don't Want To
In this episode, we get into what to actually do when you don't want to keep going and why obligation and duty are wildly underrated motivat...
Be Petty in Private: Stop Oversharing on the Internet
In this episode, we chat about Julie's casual confession to being a proud, private "Petty Betty" (and why that's different from oversharing...
Be Unbothered This Week
This week, Vanessa shares about how she threw her own birthday party and how it taught her that if you build it, people will come. Celebrati...
What Swollen Ankles Taught Us About Our Purpose
Vanessa just spent two and a half weeks in the Dominican Republic building a school with her son Declan, taking cold showers out of a garden...
Proud to Be a Human
In this episode, we chat about what it actually feels like to come home after time abroad (hint: air conditioning has never felt so good), a...
Are We Health Maxxing Too Hard? with Rikki!
In this episode, Julie and Sarah are joined by podcaster OG and sister to Vanessa, Erika Anderson. They discuss why we should all have vices...
Girl Bossing Too Close to the Sun
In this episode, Julie and Sarah discuss the topic of women in the workplace. They share how attitudes have changed over time, what having f...