Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth Natale

A few months postpartum with her daughter Claude, Hannah Bronfman folded a $40 million venture fund she'd spent two years raising. In this episode, she tells me exactly why, and the answer is not what I expected.
We talk about what it means to walk away from something you spent two years on. About the moment your body starts telling you a job is wrong, and what it takes to actually listen. About fundraising as a woman investing in women's health in a market that quietly killed the girl boss. About being a wellness founder and not always feeling well, and the weird specific trap of selling health while privately falling apart.
If you don't know Hannah, she's a wellness entrepreneur, investor, mom of two, and one of seven women starring in The CEO Club on Prime Video. She founded Beautified, has been creating on the internet for fifteen years, and is also one of my real life friends.
We're both two-time IVF moms, so this one wanders. We get into peptides and the article that found lead in injectables. Progesterone shots and the hives she got on her butt. Whether you should put your kids on the internet, and what happens when one of them goes missing at preschool (it was a braid, not a child, relax).
But the part I keep thinking about is the bigger question underneath all of it. Sometimes the version of success you've been chasing is the one quietly pulling you away from your kids. And walking away isn't failure. It's the mom move.
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If you read Crib Sheet during pregnancy or kept Expecting Better on your nightstand, you already know Emily Oster. She's the economist who reads the parenting studies the rest of us pretend to. The one who told a whole generation of women, with actual data, that we could relax about a lot of things we had been losing sleep over.

I've been a fan for years. So when I got to sit down with her, I asked her every question I've had since I gave birth.

We got into the breastfeeding thing. The part where she'll tell you formula is fine, and she'll also tell you she breastfed her own daughter and worked too hard at it because the pressure got to her too. We got into sleep training, and why a lot of the loudest voices yelling about it online happen to have a sleep course to sell. We got into the fact that one woman alone in a house with a newborn was never how this was supposed to work, and yet that's somehow the standard we're all being measured against.

She also has a new book out called The Unexpected, about pregnancy after complications, which I have a lot of feelings about because that was my pregnancy too.

If you've been quietly carrying guilt about how the early days went, or you're about to be in the early days, this one is for you.
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I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that.

I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven.

Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on MTV aren't here anymore. Kailyn is. She has millions of followers online, has built three podcasts, a podcast network, a book club, a publishing imprint, and a physical sports business in Delaware while raising seven kids with five different men. She also lives next door to one of her exes. They share a driveway. He can see into her kitchen window. Yes I asked her what that's like.

We get into the baby daddy speed round (one word per ex, you're welcome), how she found out about the cheating on TikTok and turned the whole thing into a three-part Patreon special because everybody else was profiting off her pain so why wouldn't she, the c-section shelf, the beads she bought at Hobby Lobby because of her ADHD, and why she has to apply a full year in advance to move out of Delaware.

Kailyn is one of the sharpest business minds I've sat across from. She also might be a little unhinged in the best possible way. Buckle up for a fantastic convo.

Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, subscribe on Spotify, and tell me your version in the YouTube comments. The longer read drops Sunday at lobosworth.substack.com.

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I cried in the back of an Uber after my first dinner out post-baby. I'd had one and a half martinis (a mistake), I'd left my husband at home with the baby (he was thrilled for me to go), and I felt so guilty I genuinely couldn't stop sobbing. Mom guilt, right? That's what we'd call it. Except according to Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist, founder of Good Inside, and probably the most followed parenting expert on the planet, what I was feeling probably wasn't actually guilt at all. It was something else, and almost nobody talks about it.

This week she sat down with me to talk about the weeks of motherhood nobody warns you about. Why your thoughts the first weeks postpartum are mostly about you, not your baby (and why that's normal, not a character flaw). Why intrusive thoughts about your baby are a sign of how much you love them, not a sign you're dangerous. Why the doer identity you bring into motherhood is going to crash, and what to do when it does. Plus the reframe she dropped at the end of our conversation that I haven't stopped thinking about since: the sentence that starts with "I'm a good mom who..." and how it changes everything.

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Welcome to the first community episode of Tell Me I'm A Good Mom.

I read hundreds of stories that came in through the Q+A form, and the theme I couldn't stop reading was the part of motherhood that happens years before the baby arrives. The IVF cycles. The miscarriages. The diagnoses that blindside you. The appointments where a doctor asks you a question you don't have the vocabulary for yet.

In this episode I share three community stories with permission. Sherri, on seven IVF cycles and signing surrogacy papers in Mexico City at thirty-nine. Meghan, on a gestational diabetes diagnosis, a uterine infection after birth, and an OB phone call a week postpartum telling her half of her placenta was scar tissue. And Krystal, who miscarried alone in Cancún at a meditation retreat and chose radical openness on the other side of it.

I answer three listener questions, including one on vaginal microbiome health and fertility that is the reason I started Love Wellness ten years ago.

If you are in the middle of any of this, I hope this one finds you. Follow the show, and if you want to submit for the next one, the form is in my Instagram highlights.

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