Podcast
A Day In Her Life
Hosted by Ellie Rineck · EN
Are you interested in how other women get it all done? Do you like a "What's in her bag?" or a "What's on her nightstand?" Are you overwhelmed by seeing highlight reels on Instagram and want to finally hear some authentic, real women talking about their real life?
Same.
Join Ellie as she sits down each week with women to discuss their daily lives - the struggles, the wins, their favorite parts. Let's normalize what our every day lives look like, and learn from each other's shared experience.
Let's have some fun!
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Episode 162: A Day In Her Life with Hannah Rosenberg - Poet and Mom of Two!
1w ago01:12:06Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!This week, we're sitting down with Hannah Rosenberg, a poet and writer whose first book, "Same," came out this past October. Hannah shares what it's like to write about your own life as it's happening, four months postpartum with a newborn and a three-year-old, catching poems in parked cars and the gaps between camp drop-off and coffee with friends.In this week’s conversation, Hannah opens up about spending years believing poetry could only be a hobby, the pandemic goal that changed everything (a new poem every week for a year), and the wild week—one month before she planned to quit her job—when two editors from different publishing houses reached out within days of each other. We talk about her winding path from medical anthropology to full-time writing, why movement is her number one reset, and why walks with her family are her favorite part of the day.What We Cover:Why she describes her days as chaotic, fun, and optimistic, and the four-thing morning goal (stretch, coffee, water, contacts) that makes or breaks the day.Her unexpected path from rejected MFA poetry applications to a master's in medical anthropology in London and five years at Boston Children's Hospital.The August 2020 goal to share a new poem every week for a year with no plan beyond that—and how it became both a lifeline and a whole community.The almost-too-good-to-be-true week two editors from major publishing houses reached out, a month before she was set to quit, and how "Same" ended up published on two continents at once.Working when your creative work is your life: catching ideas in parked cars, stealing two hours on a Saturday, and why bigger projects feel foggy postpartum.Why movement is her number one reset and the Fit4Mom class that checks the social, fitness, and baby-in-the-stroller boxes all in one hour.Treating adult friendship "like dating" (just exchange the numbers!) and why the phone is her best friend right now.What she's letting go of right now (the house, date nights) and why the "roommate phase" of marriage four months postpartum is completely okay.Connect with Hannah:Instagram: @hannahrowritesWebsite: hannahrowrites.comBook: Same (available anywhere books are sold)Listen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 161: A Day In Her Life with Sabina Hitchen - Founder of Press for Success and Mom in Portland ME
2w ago00:45:02Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!This week, we're sitting down with Sabina Hitchen, founder of Press for Success and mom to a seven-year-old in Portland, Maine. Sabina shares what it's like to wake by 5am for a solo walk that doubles as her idea generator, run a PR company with her husband (who she hired away from his own media career), and touch an actual tree before she can stop being "PR Sabina" for the day.In this honest conversation, Sabina opens up about pivoting from a planned law career to teaching high school history to accidentally landing in PR after Googling "What is PR?" the week she got the job, and setting down her podcast dreams because they weren't the priority right now. We talk about finally letting her VA team triage 100-plus daily emails, the ChatGPT-scripted "Abra Pajama" game that gets her daughter dressed in ten seconds, and why every "too much" trait people once told her to tone down is what makes Press for Success work.What We Cover:The 5am wake-up she never thought she’d want, the solo walk that doubles as her mental health check-in and idea machine, and the roll of 20-plus voice DMs she sends friends and clients before her family is up.How she Googled "What is PR?" the week she landed her first publicity job and stumbled into repping the original "mompreneurs" almost 20 years ago, eventually building Press for Success for small business owners.Why she hired her own husband away from his media consultancy, and the standing 10am and 3pm check-ins that keep the business from swallowing their marriage.Setting down the podcast she'd planned to launch this year, and the half-trained Beach to Beacon 10K alongside it, because something had to give.The parenting-advice ChatGPT bot she built herself, the "Abra Pajama" trick that gets her daughter dressed in ten seconds, and splitting chores into non-negotiables versus paid extras.Letting her VA team fully run her inbox for the first time this year (hundreds of emails a day) and what convinced her to loosen her grip.Working through her wedding week, and even a Zoom call on her honeymoon, before learning to actually unplug on vacation.Why sunflowers took over her backyard from spilled squirrel feed, and the new birdwatching and tennis obsessions replacing New York energy with Maine mornings.Connect with Sabina:Instagram: @SabinaKnowsWebsite: pressforsuccess.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 160: A Day In Her Life with Barbara Mighdoll - Wellness Club CEO, Entrepreneur, and Mom of Two in San Francisco
3w ago01:20:13Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!This week, we're sitting down with Barbara Mighdoll, owner and CEO of MNT Studio — the first wellness social club combining Pilates, co-working, sauna, and childcare — who also runs the marketing agency behind her brand New Modern Mom and just co-founded Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company. Barbara shares what it's like to grow one Pilates studio into seven locations in two years.In this week’s conversation, Barbara opens up about leaving a job after panic attacks over her boss's emails, acquiring a Pilates studio three months after quitting corporate, and the nine-week trip to Portugal that turned into a total business pivot. We talk about selling out a six-week family trip to Spain in 28 minutes, why she doesn't eat dinner with her kids, running her household on five shared Google calendars, and why she's finally comfortable letting "urgent" things fall behind the important ones.What We Cover:Why she describes her days as "structured yet chaotic, social yet isolated, fulfilled yet exhausted" — and the theory that two things can always be true at onceThe system behind her mornings - 6:30am wake-up, movement, and walking to school with her husband before the workday startsAcquiring a Pilates studio three months after quitting a toxic corporate job, the nine-week trip to Portugal that changed everything, and growing one studio into a wellness social club on track for seven locations by year's endHow a chance meeting in Nice turned into Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company that sold out its first program in San Sebastian in 28 minutes (and its August cohort in 18)Why she doesn't eat dinner with her kids, the Trader Joe's haul and five sauces that make bowl night easy, her nightly movement practice, and the ChatGPT prompt she built to pull recipes from her favorite food blogsThe math behind choosing an au pair over a nanny or daycare and the built-in Thursday date night that requires zero planningRunning her household on five shared Google calendars, a dry-erase wall calendar, and a house manager who handles the chores no one wants to fight aboutManaging an autoimmune disease with twice-monthly IV treatments, the "self-discovery zone" and twice-yearly off-sites with her husband that keep her from burning out, and why she hasn't taken a single day off in two yearsConnect with Barbara:Instagram: @newmodernmomSubstack: New Modern MomPodcast: The New Modern Mom Podcast (relaunching this summer)Listen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 159: A Day In Her Life with Lydia Fenet - World's Leading Charity Auctioneer, Founder, Author, and Mom of 3 in NYC
4w ago01:00:26Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!This week, we're sitting down with Lydia Fenet, the world's leading charity auctioneer who has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits, founder of a talent agency for auctioneers, two-time author (her first book optioned by Hulu), and mom of three living in Tribeca. Lydia shares what it's like to spend 90 nights a year on stage, run a household where her day "starts at 7pm," and red-eye home from California just to make the morning school drop-off.In this week’s conversation, Lydia opens up about leaving Christie's after 23 years to bet on herself, the partnership rules that keep her marriage and travel schedule from breaking, and learning to hold life together "with duct tape and Popsicle sticks." We talk about the hangover that changed her career, treating every work trip as a vacation, parenting three very different kids in the city, and why she's letting perfection drop on purpose.What We Cover:How a brand-new puppy turned her whole life into "a 24-hour clock" — including the English Springer Spaniel who rides the NYC subway to school drop-off every morningThe margarita-hangover night, eight years in, when she dropped the "strict British auctioneer" persona, just joked with the crowd, and realized "comedy is what makes people pay attention and bid"How she travels as a working mom — first flight out, red-eye home after night auctions, and treating every trip as a vacation so the beautiful hotel rooms never feel lonelyThe "big red X" calendar system that protects family dates years out, the trade offs that sometimes need to happenWhy her day "starts at 7pm," and the rule that saved her marriage to her husband (also her company's CFO): "when I'm gone, I slide out" — no quarterbacking from afarBeing Type A about work but refusing to be at home, holding things together "with duct tape and Popsicle sticks," and the one ball she's dropping on purpose: perfectionThe Greenlight allowance system (a dollar per year of age), why praise notes work on her youngest where punishment backfires, and why the kids pack their own bags — one sock and allWhy she won't let her 13-year-old have social media even though she lives on Instagram, and how they’ve approached screens and devices for the familyConnect with Lydia:Instagram: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia FenetEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 158: A Day In Her Life with Rachel Hochhauser - Hectic, At Home, Multitasking - NYT Bestselling Novelist & Design Company Founder
Jun 2300:53:24Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Rachel Hochhauser was killing time on her phone in a hospital waiting room — her husband recovering from emergency brain surgery, her 18-month-old at home — when a meme of Cinderella's evil stepmother stopped her cold. "This isn't a villain. She's just trying to take care of her two daughters." That spark became "Lady Tremaine," her debut novel, a Reese's Book Club pick and instant New York Times bestseller. And that's only one of her jobs.In this week's conversation, Rachel walks us through a day split between two full careers — novelist and founder of the design company Piecework (which just acquired Areaware) — all run inside the hours her childcare allows. She's refreshingly candid about the half-premade dinners, the outsourcing that's keeping the train on the tracks, and why she's stopped apologizing for any of it.What We Cover:How a meme spotted during her husband's recovery became a New York Times bestselling novelHow she runs two careers — author and design-company founder — entirely within childcare hours, and calls the system "designed so no one will thrive"Her honest take on dinner: Trader Joe's goat cheese ravioli, roast vegetables, and zero guiltWhy lunch is non-negotiable, and what it means on the rare day she skips itReframing outsourcing from "luxury" to "mental health" — the nanny who comes early, the cleaner, the handymanThe analog notebook sorted by role, her inbox-zero system, and the $5 recipe app that holds it togetherWhy "forced" creativity inside tight constraints is just as valuable as the lightning-strike kindHer most middle-aged joys: fancy grocery runs, pickled beans, and collecting 19th-century Blue Flow potteryConnect with Rachel:Instagram: @hochhauserPieceworkSubstack: Great FanfareRead her debut novel: Lady TremaineEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 157: A Day In Her Life with Emilie Dayan Hill - High Net Worth Investment Advisor & Creator of Finance That Feels
Jun 1601:13:55Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Emilie Dayan Hill got her start in finance by pure luck — a phone call that came as she was literally climbing into a moving truck, leaving Mississippi for Atlanta with no job and no connections. A decade later, she's a partner and high net worth investment advisor at a major investment firm, and the writer behind Finance That Feels, where she's reshaping the way women relate to money.In this week’s conversation, Emilie traces a wildly non-linear path — a violin scholarship, a theater-kid past, a dream grad program in Paris she walked away from — and the identity crisis that came with not having it all figured out. She's refreshingly open about the anxiety and postpartum depression she's lived with, the introversion most people never guess, and why she describes her days, only half-jokingly, as a "snowball."What We Cover:The 5:00 AM "nook" — a converted-attic nest with a lamp and a rocking chair — where she writes before her daughter arrives "fully dressed in sequins and sparkly boots" to announce the day has startedHow a single phone call, mid-move from Oxford to Atlanta, turned a 24-year-old executive assistant into a CFA charterholder and firm partnerThe dream Paris grad program she dropped out of — "one of the lowest points in my life" — and why she trusted her gut anywayWhy she started Finance That Feels: women weren't showing up to their own money meetings, and the statistics on who outlives whomHer case that money is "just a tool" — and why the finance industry is completely unprepared for how personal and psychological the work really isThe standing Monday-night babysitter, BeltLine bike rides, and bar-hopping that brought "so much lightness" back to her marriageHer anti-snowball toolkit: hot yoga twice a week, a 45-minute infrared sauna, tennis, and 15 rose bushes that drop her cortisol on contactHer take-every-day PTO philosophy — she refuses to roll over vacation — and how it mirrors the way she thinks about moneyConnect with Emilie:Substack: Finance That FeelsInstagram: @emiliedayanhillWebsite: https://www.emiliedayanhill.com/Listen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 156: Melissa Hines - Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist & Founder of Wellest Integrative Health
Jun 900:51:58Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Melissa Hines never planned to own a business. She just refused to compromise on care — and that single non-negotiable turned a one-woman practice into Wellest Integrative Health, a Back Bay pelvic floor PT clinic with seven practitioners and an expansion already underway. In this episode, Melissa pulls back the curtain on building what she calls her "third baby" while raising two actual ones just outside Boston.In this week’s conversation, Melissa shares the hard transition into motherhood — her daughter was born in June 2020, at the height of the pandemic, when she had to close her clinic and struggled to bond — and how it took two years to feel balanced. She talks about the bout of pneumonia that finally forced her to put her own body first, the clarity of deciding two kids is enough, and what it actually looks like to build a business around the life you want.What We Cover:What pelvic floor PT actually treats — and the 18-year-old patient who'd seen 15 specialists before everything changed for MelissaThe non-negotiable that "forced" her to start her own practice, and the five years she spent just treating patients before letting herself become a CEOWhy she calls her growing business her "third baby"The honest truth about not bonding with her newborn during a pandemic — and why she now normalizes it for her own patientsHow she decided two kids was her number, including a refreshingly candid take on the financesThe winter pneumonia that made her stop "running ragged" — and the healer-trade economy of acupuncture and myofascial release she's builtHer family-as-nanny setup: parents two days, in-laws two days, a babysitter two doors downThe unicorns that pop up in Asana, the shared Google calendar her husband "has no idea" about, and the quarterly women's retreats to Portugal, Vegas, and SavannahWhat her shy, rule-following younger self would never believe about the risk-taking CEO she becameConnect with Melissa:Website: wellesthealth.comInstagram: @wellesthealthLinkedIn: Melissa HinesListen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 155: A Day In Her Life with Francesca Cervero - Yoga Teacher, Teacher Trainer, and Mom in VA
Jun 201:12:15Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Francesca Cervero has been a full-time yoga teacher for 21 years — and she will tell you, this is her passion. Francesca has evolved her teaching from 40-50hr weeks in person in New York, to now teaching exactly when her son is in school virtually.In this week’s conversation, Francesca shares how a serious hip injury at 23 (she was walking with a cane while teaching full-time in New York City) redirected her from dance to yoga permanently, why she deliberately compressed her career after becoming a mom, and what she means when she says movement should be "nutrient-dense" — tailored to each person's specific asymmetries, not performed for an audience.What We Cover:How a hip injury at 23 — that happened in a yoga class — ended her dance career and launched a 21-year teaching career (and why she'd never describe yoga as having simply "healed" her)The morning routine she protects fiercely before 7:00am: bone broth before coffee, reading, and a 10-to-15-minute meditation practiceWhat she means when she calls movement "nutrient-dense" — and why she believes yoga cannot be both a healing practice and a performative one at the same timeTeaching yoga virtually since March 13, 2020, and why the transition worked so well she never looked back (even when the world reopened)Why she keeps dinner so simple you "could hardly call it cooking" (Whole Foods grilled chicken, Trader Joe's orange chicken, sous vide Costco steak) — and the intentional decision behind itFinding her people after moving to the suburbs eight months pregnant: the PACE new mom group, a neighborhood WhatsApp with 25 families under four, and what it actually takes to make new friends in your 30sThe activism chapter she didn't see coming — going to Capitol Hill with Chamber of Mothers, co-founding a local Singing Resistance chapter, and having to buy pants that weren't leggings for the first time in yearsWhat her 22-year-old NYC self — who was climbing walls at 3:00am on a Tuesday — would think of dinner at 5:30 every single night and lights out before 10Connect with Francesca:Instagram: @francescaserveroWebsite: francescaservero.comVirtual Studio: stillnessandmovement.comListen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 154: A Day In Her Life with Jennifer Cook - Fashion Buyer, Yoga Teacher, and Substack Writer
May 2600:52:19Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Jennifer Cook wakes up at five every morning — not because she has to, but because she's wired that way. A fashion buyer for a multi-brand store in Soho, a hot yoga teacher, and the writer behind the Mom Friend Substack, she's built a life in Brooklyn that holds a two-and-a-half-year-old, three jobs, a musician husband, and a self-imposed 8:45pm bedtime. The key, she'll tell you, is knowing which balls you're allowed to let drop.In this week’s conversation, Jennifer talks about the two hours of quiet she guards every morning before her daughter wakes up, how yoga teacher training was the reset she didn't know she needed, and why she started Mom Friend when she couldn't find anything on the internet that actually resonated.What We Cover:The 5–7am window Jennifer protects every single morning — what she's actually doing in those two hours before her daughter wakes up, and why having time before the rest of the house stirs is non-negotiableWhat prompted her to sign up for yoga teacher training in 2016, and how a twelve-weekend commitment rewired her relationship with herself, her body, and her social lifeWhat 14 years in fashion wholesale actually taught her, and why a new baby, a move back to the city, and a career pivot to buying all happened at the same timeThe Monday rituals she never skips: reviewing every dollar she spent the week before, cleaning the bathroom after yoga, and why front-loading everything she can makes the rest of her week workHow she started Mom Friend when she couldn't find content that resonated with her as a working mom — and the unexpected way the Substack has become her primary vehicle for making real adult friends in New YorkWhat it actually costs to have a night out in Brooklyn (the concert math, the $30-an-hour babysitter, the Uber home) and how that shapes when they choose to leave the houseThe balls she's consciously letting drop right now — and why she's made peace with the laundry pile on the couch, the unanswered texts, and the creative play she'll never quite be good at (same, Jennifer)Connect with Jennifer:Instagram: @jennifersandraSubstack: Mom FriendWebsite: jennifersandra.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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Episode 153: A Day In Her Life with Alison Hall - Inside Edition Correspondent and Breast Cancer Survivor
May 1900:57:20Tap to summarizeTell us what you think!!!Alison Hall doesn't know where her day will take her — and that's the point. As a correspondent for Inside Edition, she might get a call at 7am sending her to Long Island for a court hearing, spend the afternoon at the FaceTime set doing virtual interviews with sources in California, or hop on a flight to London. Her workday ends with show tape between 3 and 5pm, then she bikes home in the same blazer she wore on camera.In this week’s conversation, Alison shares how her mom's breast cancer diagnosis when she was 14 planted the seed for journalism, how an on-camera interview about Olivia Munn led to her own early-stage breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy, and how she protects the rhythms that keep her grounded — 5:30am oat milk lattes, Citi Bike commutes, and the exact same Monday-through-Friday dinner she's eaten for six years.What We Cover:The path from story coordinator to on-camera correspondent at Inside Edition over 12 yearsHer 5:30am mornings, oat milk latte on the couch, and "the brick" — the device that finally got her off Instagram at nightHow interviewing a doctor about Olivia Munn's diagnosis led her to her own early-stage breast cancer (and the double mastectomy that followed)Why she bikes to work in a dress and blazer and feels like the 10-year-old version of herself every timeThe exact Monday-through-Friday dinner rotation she and her husband James have eaten unchanged for six yearsPizza Friday from Gelso & Grand in Little Italy, the wine-shop ritual, and how she completely eliminated FOMO from her lifeThe practice of noticing "glimmers" — tiny moments of joy that's reshaped how she moves through New YorkWhy Saturday mornings alone in Central Park with her Bernese Mountain Dog are non-negotiableConnect with Alison:Instagram: @alisonhallreportingTikTok: @alisonhallreportingSubstack: Between Headlines with Alison HallWatch: Inside Edition weeknights and weekendsListen and ReviewPodcasts - Spotify - YouTubeMore A Day In Her Life@adayinherlifepodadayinherlife.comadayinherlife.substack.comEpisode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock
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