Selfish Mama Matters Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:26:18 -0400 https://www.selfishmama.com en-us © 2026 Selfish Mama Matters yes 9c348888-fe8d-5af5-81a8-fa4750e310e1 Tina Unrue episodic true Every mom desperately wants to get this motherhood gig right, which demands lots of service and selflessness, right?

WRONG.

Join life coach, mom, and coffee addict, Tina Unrue, as she discusses how selfishness can be what moms need to live their purpose, transform their lives and motherhood, and be exactly what their kids need to "human" in the world.

We dare you to be selfish and to prioritize yourself and what matters most to you!

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) personal development, self help, self growth, motherhood, spirituality, parenting, selfish, selfish mama, life coaching, mom, wellbeing, mental health Tina Unrue https://storage.buzzsprout.com/g093sjgcdod0y1p5otwsvlahu1pt?.jpg Selfish Mama Matters https://www.selfishmama.com Tina Unrue 1.14 - Season 1 Reflections: The Selfish with Tina Unrue 1.14 - Season 1 Reflections: The Selfish with Tina Unrue "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on three "selfish" aspects from the season, all of which had an impact on her own self-growth and evolution to her best self.

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on three "selfish" aspects from the season, all of which had an impact on her own self-growth and evolution to her best self.

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on five bad aspects from the season, to include underestimating the level of effort required to release a podcast, an embarrassing error on Episode 1.09, and more.

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on five bad aspects from the season, to include underestimating the level of effort required to release a podcast, an embarrassing error on Episode 1.09, and more.

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on the good aspects from the season, to include her guests, overcoming fears, and her commitment to be a student.

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue shares her reflections of Season 1 of the podcast, focusing on the good aspects from the season, to include her guests, overcoming fears, and her commitment to be a student.

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Tina Unrue Buzzsprout-12623050 Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 937 1 12 full false 1.11 - When Running on Empty is No Longer an Option with Amy Young 1.11 - When Running on Empty is No Longer an Option with Amy Young "Text us to share your feedback!"

Amy Young knows "hard" all too well. She experienced significant loss over a period of time where she was on autopilot and running on empty. She ignored her own needs and grief so as to be strong and support her loved ones, but ended up navigating her own health struggles. Listen in as Tina and Amy chat about seasons of struggle and what Amy learned through it all.

Guest: Amy Young
Instagram: Instagram.com/foreveryoung_amy

Host: Tina Unrue

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Amy Young knows "hard" all too well. She experienced significant loss over a period of time where she was on autopilot and running on empty. She ignored her own needs and grief so as to be strong and support her loved ones, but ended up navigating her own health struggles. Listen in as Tina and Amy chat about seasons of struggle and what Amy learned through it all.

Guest: Amy Young
Instagram: Instagram.com/foreveryoung_amy

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Amy Young Buzzsprout-12372786 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400 2238 1 11 full false 1.10 - When Being "Too Much" is Just Right with Erin Meadows 1.10 - When Being "Too Much" is Just Right with Erin Meadows "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Tina Unrue chats with Erin Meadows about the disempowering messages most women are raised with that end up looping in our heads as adults and sabotaging our potential. Erin shares that those messages, whether obtained subtly or overtly, can be inspected and lovingly rejected so that we can intentionally choose the messages upon which to build our lives.

Erin Meadows is on a mission to help ambitious women get more of what they want, in life and their career. 

Guest: Erin Meadows

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue chats with Erin Meadows about the disempowering messages most women are raised with that end up looping in our heads as adults and sabotaging our potential. Erin shares that those messages, whether obtained subtly or overtly, can be inspected and lovingly rejected so that we can intentionally choose the messages upon which to build our lives.

Erin Meadows is on a mission to help ambitious women get more of what they want, in life and their career. 

Guest: Erin Meadows

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Erin Meadows Buzzsprout-12372756 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 3061 1 10 full true 1.09 - Being in Alignment Demands Courage with Lauren Pietsch 1.09 - Being in Alignment Demands Courage with Lauren Pietsch "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Tina Unrue chats with Lauren Pietsch about her journey toward a successful life, one she by all accounts attained, to include a good relationship and a financially secure job as a lawyer. But she realized along the journey that her future didn't include her present. So she broke free from both the partner and the job and set out to live a life of alignment, joy, and purpose and now helps others do the same.

Show References

  • The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer*
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
  • The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom by Rod Stryker

*Tina made an error and shared her summary of Michael Singer's The Surrender Experiment during the episode. More about both of Michael Singer's books can be found here: https://untetheredsoul.com/.

Guest: Lauren Pietsch 

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue chats with Lauren Pietsch about her journey toward a successful life, one she by all accounts attained, to include a good relationship and a financially secure job as a lawyer. But she realized along the journey that her future didn't include her present. So she broke free from both the partner and the job and set out to live a life of alignment, joy, and purpose and now helps others do the same.

Show References

  • The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer*
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
  • The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom by Rod Stryker

*Tina made an error and shared her summary of Michael Singer's The Surrender Experiment during the episode. More about both of Michael Singer's books can be found here: https://untetheredsoul.com/.

Guest: Lauren Pietsch 

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Lauren Pietsch Buzzsprout-12372741 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 2574 1 9 full false 1.08 - Using Logic and Intuition to Cultivate Wellness with Lori Wilson-Hudson 1.08 - Using Logic and Intuition to Cultivate Wellness with Lori Wilson-Hudson "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Tina Unrue talks with Lori Wilson-Hudson about building a bridge between logic and intuition. In a world where we've been taught to prioritize logic over feelings, tuning into our intuition is a novel concept. Lori encourages moms to start cultivating a sense of presence so as to build your intuitive muscle so that it can be used in all aspects of your daily life. Both Tina and Lori leveraged their intuition to self-advocate for their health and wellness needs and continue to do so to manage their respective chronic illnesses.

Lori Wilson-Hudson is a passionate and highly intuitive coach, helping leaders optimize their confidence and break through personal and professional barriers. She is committed to supporting a client's ability to see and question the opportunities available to them in order to live a life of holistic wellness.

Guest: Lori Wilson-Hudson

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Tina Unrue talks with Lori Wilson-Hudson about building a bridge between logic and intuition. In a world where we've been taught to prioritize logic over feelings, tuning into our intuition is a novel concept. Lori encourages moms to start cultivating a sense of presence so as to build your intuitive muscle so that it can be used in all aspects of your daily life. Both Tina and Lori leveraged their intuition to self-advocate for their health and wellness needs and continue to do so to manage their respective chronic illnesses.

Lori Wilson-Hudson is a passionate and highly intuitive coach, helping leaders optimize their confidence and break through personal and professional barriers. She is committed to supporting a client's ability to see and question the opportunities available to them in order to live a life of holistic wellness.

Guest: Lori Wilson-Hudson

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Lori Wilson-Hudson Buzzsprout-12372738 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400 2488 1 8 full false 1.07 - Putting Yourself Back After Divorce with Renee Lawless 1.07 - Putting Yourself Back After Divorce with Renee Lawless "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Renee Lawless shares her story of life and parenting after divorce. We discuss the challenge of differing parenting philosophies in the home, how to handle parenting feedback, and what it truly means to get parenting "right." She also shares a visualization technique fundamental in her home for engaging big emotions. It's a must listen!

Renee coaches individuals who are struggling with a feeling of powerlessness to manage their life and its many transitions so they feel FEARLESS to live life by their rules and to live lawless.

Guest: Renee Lawless


Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Renee Lawless shares her story of life and parenting after divorce. We discuss the challenge of differing parenting philosophies in the home, how to handle parenting feedback, and what it truly means to get parenting "right." She also shares a visualization technique fundamental in her home for engaging big emotions. It's a must listen!

Renee coaches individuals who are struggling with a feeling of powerlessness to manage their life and its many transitions so they feel FEARLESS to live life by their rules and to live lawless.

Guest: Renee Lawless


Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Renee Lawless Buzzsprout-12371370 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500 2885 1 7 full false 1.06 - Overcoming People Pleasing to Please Yourself with Julie Kristin 1.06 - Overcoming People Pleasing to Please Yourself with Julie Kristin "Text us to share your feedback!"

Julie Kristin has long been committed to living life on her terms. In this episode, she shares her journey of working a few different jobs before taking the leap into entrepreneurship. But that leap didn't come without struggle. Listen in as Julie shares how she overcame her people pleasing tendencies to please herself, and in doing so, has created a workplace that's welcoming for moms.

Guest: Julie Kristin

Host: Tina Unrue

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Julie Kristin has long been committed to living life on her terms. In this episode, she shares her journey of working a few different jobs before taking the leap into entrepreneurship. But that leap didn't come without struggle. Listen in as Julie shares how she overcame her people pleasing tendencies to please herself, and in doing so, has created a workplace that's welcoming for moms.

Guest: Julie Kristin

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Julie Kristin Buzzsprout-12321196 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 2659 1 6 full false 1.05 - Fighting for Happiness and Identity Amidst Competing Cultures with Anna Chen 1.05 - Fighting for Happiness and Identity Amidst Competing Cultures with Anna Chen "Text us to share your feedback!"

As a Chinese woman, growing up in France, Anna Chen navigated a journey of becoming that was full of challenge and struggle. Listen in as Anna shares her story of competing cultures and her fight to live her truth.

Anna Chen empowers women to listen to their true voice and express the fire that burns within to help them be fearlessly authentic and live a passionate life. She leverages her journey to help other Asian women make sense of similar struggles so that they feel less alone and feel empowered to become who they want to be, on their terms.

Guest: Anna Chen

Host: Tina Unrue

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As a Chinese woman, growing up in France, Anna Chen navigated a journey of becoming that was full of challenge and struggle. Listen in as Anna shares her story of competing cultures and her fight to live her truth.

Anna Chen empowers women to listen to their true voice and express the fire that burns within to help them be fearlessly authentic and live a passionate life. She leverages her journey to help other Asian women make sense of similar struggles so that they feel less alone and feel empowered to become who they want to be, on their terms.

Guest: Anna Chen

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Anna Chen Buzzsprout-12278901 Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 3101 1 5 full false 1.04 - 4 Steps to Reconnect with Yourself with Natalie Fayman 1.04 - 4 Steps to Reconnect with Yourself with Natalie Fayman "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this discussion, Natalie Fayman shared her 4-step process to help women reconnect with themselves. Whether it be from all the roles we fill and people we serve, or after experiencing struggle or trauma, her process can help get to the core of who we are.

Natalie is a woman who’s constantly reinventing herself. After more than 3 decades as a veterinarian, exhaustion and burnout forced her to reconsider her future. She was overweight from a lifetime of managing her emotional distress with food. So she found a Life Coach to learn how to get control of her emotional eating. What she actually learned was how to become a calmer, happier, less stressed-out person... and the weight loss happened all by itself.

Natalie realized that Coaching changes lives. When the pandemic arrived, she saw her
opportunity and entered a coach training program. After completing her certification she found the next level of her coaching education: Positive Intelligence. This program transformed her understanding of the uniquely human behavior of self-sabotage, and gave her the tools to change it.

Now, with years of training and decades of experience in a high-stress career, Natalie is on a mission to teach others how to live calmer, happier, and more stress-free lives. She wants all women to learn how to quiet the voice of their self-judgment and rediscover the amazing person they were truly meant to be. As a certified Positive Intelligence coach, Natalie’s mission and inspiration is teaching women to meet life’s challenges with resilience and positivity.

Guest: Natalie Fayman

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this discussion, Natalie Fayman shared her 4-step process to help women reconnect with themselves. Whether it be from all the roles we fill and people we serve, or after experiencing struggle or trauma, her process can help get to the core of who we are.

Natalie is a woman who’s constantly reinventing herself. After more than 3 decades as a veterinarian, exhaustion and burnout forced her to reconsider her future. She was overweight from a lifetime of managing her emotional distress with food. So she found a Life Coach to learn how to get control of her emotional eating. What she actually learned was how to become a calmer, happier, less stressed-out person... and the weight loss happened all by itself.

Natalie realized that Coaching changes lives. When the pandemic arrived, she saw her
opportunity and entered a coach training program. After completing her certification she found the next level of her coaching education: Positive Intelligence. This program transformed her understanding of the uniquely human behavior of self-sabotage, and gave her the tools to change it.

Now, with years of training and decades of experience in a high-stress career, Natalie is on a mission to teach others how to live calmer, happier, and more stress-free lives. She wants all women to learn how to quiet the voice of their self-judgment and rediscover the amazing person they were truly meant to be. As a certified Positive Intelligence coach, Natalie’s mission and inspiration is teaching women to meet life’s challenges with resilience and positivity.

Guest: Natalie Fayman

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Natalie Fayman Buzzsprout-12193735 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 2115 1 4 full false 1.03 - Determining Your Own Definition of Success with Jenn Jouhseik 1.03 - Determining Your Own Definition of Success with Jenn Jouhseik "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Jenn Jouhseik shares how her childhood beliefs set her up for always striving for the next thing and the next thing. That silent driver, coupled with the stressors of working in HR during the pandemic was the perfect storm for burnout. Despite her courage to leave to go out on her own, the childhood beliefs she thought she'd left behind in corporate surfaced again. In short, it's a story of burnout to entrepreneurship, back to burnout, and then finally to becoming...becoming more and more herself and having the courage this time to define what it means to truly be successful.

Jenn's loves using her writing talents and passion to elevate the brands of 7-9+ figure CEOs by crafting magnetic messaging & story-driven emails to help build connection and wealth. 

Guest: Jenn Jouhseik

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Jenn Jouhseik shares how her childhood beliefs set her up for always striving for the next thing and the next thing. That silent driver, coupled with the stressors of working in HR during the pandemic was the perfect storm for burnout. Despite her courage to leave to go out on her own, the childhood beliefs she thought she'd left behind in corporate surfaced again. In short, it's a story of burnout to entrepreneurship, back to burnout, and then finally to becoming...becoming more and more herself and having the courage this time to define what it means to truly be successful.

Jenn's loves using her writing talents and passion to elevate the brands of 7-9+ figure CEOs by crafting magnetic messaging & story-driven emails to help build connection and wealth. 

Guest: Jenn Jouhseik

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Jenn Jouhseik Buzzsprout-12169846 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500 2797 1 3 full true 1.02 - Spare Yourself from Burnout with Caroline Hughes 1.02 - Spare Yourself from Burnout with Caroline Hughes "Text us to share your feedback!"

In this episode, Caroline Hughes shares how her climb up the corporate ladder took a devastating turn and what she's learned on her journey back to health and, ultimately, to herself. She is passionate about helping leaders prevent and recover from burnout and encourages everyone to get granular about how they're feeling, rather than label everything as "stress."

Caroline is a highly accomplished global talent and leadership executive, and advocate of leaders everywhere who live and work from a place of authenticity. She frequently finds herself as a minority female voice in senior leadership "a woman in a man's world," is a strong advocate of women in business, and has learned to use her status as a means of standing out and engaging others on constructive dialogue around change. 

Guest: Caroline Hughes

Host: Tina Unrue

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In this episode, Caroline Hughes shares how her climb up the corporate ladder took a devastating turn and what she's learned on her journey back to health and, ultimately, to herself. She is passionate about helping leaders prevent and recover from burnout and encourages everyone to get granular about how they're feeling, rather than label everything as "stress."

Caroline is a highly accomplished global talent and leadership executive, and advocate of leaders everywhere who live and work from a place of authenticity. She frequently finds herself as a minority female voice in senior leadership "a woman in a man's world," is a strong advocate of women in business, and has learned to use her status as a means of standing out and engaging others on constructive dialogue around change. 

Guest: Caroline Hughes

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Caroline Hughes Buzzsprout-12110211 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 2367 1 2 full false 1.01 - When Presence and Connection Matter Most with Lauren Pla 1.01 - When Presence and Connection Matter Most with Lauren Pla "Text us to share your feedback!"

Tina chats with guest, Lauren Pla, about the challenges of parenting when also trying to heal and grow from your past. Topics include perfectionism, honoring the souls of our children while not projecting onto them our own past/hurts, and how vulnerability plays an essential role in parenting.

Lauren is a certified life and empowerment coach who has a passion for supporting both kids and parents on their journey toward deeper connections with themselves and each other. 

Guest: Lauren Pla

Host: Tina Unrue

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Tina chats with guest, Lauren Pla, about the challenges of parenting when also trying to heal and grow from your past. Topics include perfectionism, honoring the souls of our children while not projecting onto them our own past/hurts, and how vulnerability plays an essential role in parenting.

Lauren is a certified life and empowerment coach who has a passion for supporting both kids and parents on their journey toward deeper connections with themselves and each other. 

Guest: Lauren Pla

Host: Tina Unrue

]]> Lauren Pla Buzzsprout-12096278 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0500 3797 1 1 full true 1.00 Intro 1.00 Intro "Text us to share your feedback!"

Tina introduces herself and shares why she's starting the Selfish Mama Matters podcast, why she's doing it now, and why you should listen. She covers the need to redefine what it means to be selfish and that it's not mutually exclusive of selfishness, but rather a gateway to it. Listen in to learn what she believes it means to be selfish and why it can be so beneficial to you and your kids.

Host: Tina Unrue

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Tina introduces herself and shares why she's starting the Selfish Mama Matters podcast, why she's doing it now, and why you should listen. She covers the need to redefine what it means to be selfish and that it's not mutually exclusive of selfishness, but rather a gateway to it. Listen in to learn what she believes it means to be selfish and why it can be so beneficial to you and your kids.

Host: Tina Unrue

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