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Something can be really, really great and also have run its course. And sometimes the bravest thing you can do is give yourself permission to let the dream evolve. In this solo episode, I am sharing some big family news: we are leaving our 12-acre Maine farmhouse and moving to a new country, in the final weeks of my fourth pregnancy.  I trace how every one of my babies has brought a major change with it, from an LA move that didn't work out, to the dream New England farmhouse, to the birth of The Millionaire Mother. I also share the honest conversation with Toby that started it all three years ago, and the string of green lights that made the decision clear. And yes, I am revealing exactly where we are headed. You'll have to listen to find out! In this episode, you'll hear: Why each of my pregnancies has set off a major shift for the family, including three moves in the third trimester How the arrival of baby number three gave birth to The Millionaire Mother The hard conversation that started this move, and why it took me three years to be ready How a summer abroad, two chance conversations, and a wedding in France pointed the family to our next home Why not making a decision is still a decision, and how to choose your hard Connect with me: Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for Cait's exclusive insider newsletter on motherhood, money, and business: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillionairemother/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show and become fully resourced in motherhood, business, and life.

Taley Hunt built the kind of success most entrepreneurs spend years chasing. Then she realized she didn't want the life that came with it. In this episode, Cait is joined by real estate entrepreneur and coach Taley Hunt to talk about what happens when the business you worked so hard to build no longer fits the life you want. Taley shares how she went from starting over in a new state with no network, no childcare, and a baby on the way to selling hundreds of homes and building a seven-figure business, only to realize after her second baby that something had to change. They unpack the courage to walk away from success that no longer feels successful, redefine what winning looks like, and build a business around the season of life you're actually in. In this episode, you'll hear: • The moment Taley realized success was costing too much • Why hitting the goal still wasn't enough • What made her shut down a seven-figure business • The fear that kept her from leaving sooner • How motherhood changed her definition of winning About Taley Hunt Taley Hunt is a real estate entrepreneur and coach helping moms build profitable businesses without sacrificing the role that matters most to them: Mom. After entering real estate in 2020 while pregnant with her daughter, Taley went on to sell more than 600 homes without paying for online leads, build a team that could operate without her, and found a multiple seven-figure coaching company. Today, through Taley Hunt Coaching, MOMward, and The PINK Connection, she helps moms in real estate grow their income, attract clients organically, and build businesses that support the lives they actually want. Connect with Taley Website: taleyhunt.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realestatemomcoach/ Connect with Cait Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for Cait's exclusive insider newsletter on motherhood, money, and business: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillionairemother/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show and become fully resourced in motherhood, business, and life.

The way people buy has changed. If your sales strategy hasn't, you're already behind. In this episode, Cait is joined by multiple eight-figure entrepreneur Melissa Henault for a straight-up business shop talk on what's actually converting now. They unpack why strategies that generated millions in the old market are losing effectiveness, how the trust recession and AI-generated noise have changed buyer behavior, and what Melissa changed inside her own business when a proven model stopped working the way it used to. In this episode, you'll hear: • Why the old conversion playbook stopped working • The visibility problem hiding behind a big audience • Where entrepreneurs get premium buyers completely wrong • The revenue opportunity already inside your business • How motherhood shaped the company Melissa built About Melissa Henault Melissa Henault is the founder of Burnout to All Out®, where she helps entrepreneurs build category-of-one brands, strategic offer ecosystems, and businesses designed to compound over time. She scaled to her first million in just 19 months with fewer than 600 Instagram followers and has since built a multiple eight-figure business. Before entrepreneurship, Melissa built and scaled business units inside Fortune 500 companies and earned a Doctorate in Pharmacy and a Master's in Clinical Research. She ultimately walked away from her corporate and clinical career to build a business on her own terms while raising three children, proving that sustainable growth does not require constant visibility or a massive audience. Connect with Melissa Offer Flows That Create Millions Checklist: https://burnouttoallout.co/offer-flows-checklist-o/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissa_henault/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-henault Connect with Cait Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for Cait's exclusive insider newsletter on motherhood, money, and business: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillionairemother/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show and become fully resourced in motherhood, business, and life.

You can be completely overjoyed to welcome another baby and still grieve the version of your family that's about to change. In this solo episode, Cait opens up about the transition that stretched her most as a mother and what she wishes more women knew about growing their families. She shares the unexpected grief she experienced, the small rituals that helped prepare her daughter for a new sibling, and why hitting her perceived capacity forced her family to rethink their rhythms and infrastructure from the ground up. In this episode, you'll hear: • The grief no one warns you about before another baby • Why going from one to two changed everything for Cait • Small ways Cait helped prepare her daughter for a sibling • What overwhelm revealed about their home rhythms • What Cait knows now about love, capacity, and growing again Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries Get Cait's weekly notes from the trenches on motherhood, business, wealth, identity, and building a life that holds all of you: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

You can have the strategy, the ambition, and the vision and still be missing something that can dramatically change what feels possible in your business. Cait explores why ambitious mothers can feel caught between mom spaces that don't reflect their ambition and business spaces that don't reflect the realities of motherhood. She shares how changing who she surrounded herself with expanded what she believed was possible, why proximity became a catalyst in her own growth, and what happens when you finally stop compartmentalizing the different parts of who you are. In this episode, you'll hear: • How your environment can shape your ceiling • Why ambitious moms can feel fragmented in community • How proximity changed Cait's business trajectory • The cost of separating motherhood from ambition • What becomes possible when you stop building alone MOTHERHUB is officially open! The #1 community for mothers growing businesses and building wealth while raising little humans. Join now as a founding member: https://themillionairemother.com/motherhub/?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Motherhub Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

AI can help you move faster, create more, and streamline almost every part of your business. But as everything becomes easier to automate, one advantage may be getting more valuable, not less. In this solo episode, Cait breaks down what AI can accelerate, what it can't build for you, and the overlooked asset she credits with driving the growth of her multimillion-dollar company. She also unpacks the cost of trying to do everything alone and the relationship mistake that can make connection feel transactional instead of expansive. In this episode, you'll hear: • What AI still can't build for you • The hidden cost of hyper-competence • The networking mistake that kills connection • What matters more than speed and optimization • The asset behind Cait's biggest business growth Join Relational Wealth Sign up for Cait's free two-hour workshop designed to help you build a richer, more sustainable ecosystem of relationships around your business, without sacrificing family. You'll learn how to move beyond transactional networking and cultivate the connections that can open doors, deepen your business, and support where you're going next. Register here: https://themillionairemother.com/relational-wealth/

What happens to connection when life changes the shape of a relationship? In this conversation, Cait sits down with author, actress, podcast host, and mother of four Sarah Wright Olsen to explore the support that makes ambition possible, the painful experience that gave deeper meaning to Sarah's newest creation, and the simple family ritual that became something much bigger. They talk about separation, grief, unexpected loss, motherhood-fueled creativity, and why staying connected doesn't always require being physically together. In this episode, you'll hear: • Who Sarah leans on to keep creating while raising four kids • How a hard preschool goodbye planted a story she wouldn't return to for years • How grief during pregnancy changed the story Sarah wanted to tell • How motherhood redirected Sarah's ambition into something bigger than herself • Sarah's take on chasing creativity without waiting for the "perfect balance" About Sarah Wright Olsen Sarah Wright Olsen is an author, actress, podcast host, and mother of four: Wyatt, Esme, Winter, and Ocean. She cohosts The Mother Daze podcast with fellow actress and mother Teresa Palmer. Sarah and Teresa also coauthored The Zen Mama Guide to Finding Your Rhythm in Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond, a holistic and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood. Sarah has starred in TV shows and films including Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, The House Bunny, American Made, and Matlock. She is also the co-owner of plant-based organic mommy and baby skincare line Baeo. Order Sarah's book: When I Am Not With You: How We're Together Even When We're Apart Sarah Wright Olsen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swrightolsen The Mother Daze on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themotherdazepodcast/ Want to go deeper with The Millionaire Mother? Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for weekly insights on business, motherhood, wealth, leadership, and living a deeply resourced life: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Pre-order Cait's upcoming book, Born for Both:https://bornforboth.com/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

Motherhood changes your capacity, priorities, identity, and even the way your brain operates. And some of those changes may strengthen the very qualities entrepreneurship requires: intuition, pattern recognition, creativity, and the ability to sense an opportunity before it becomes obvious. In this solo episode, Cait explores how matrescence rewires the maternal brain and why some of those adaptations overlap with the qualities of powerful founders. She challenges the belief that pregnancy and postpartum should automatically put ambition on hold, shares examples of major businesses born directly from motherhood, and breaks down how to discern between your body genuinely asking you to slow down and fear convincing you not to act. Plus, she explores why surrounding yourself with people who normalize your ambition matters when motherhood sparks something new you're ready to build. Key Takeaways • Why pregnancy and postpartum can intensify creativity and ambition, and why mothers shouldn't feel guilty when they do • How matrescence changes the maternal brain and why some of those adaptations overlap with the qualities of successful founders • Why the usual "mom brain" narrative misses the bigger story about intuition, pattern recognition, open perception, and sensing opportunity • How motherhood itself sparked category-defining business ideas for founders including Jessica Alba, Miki Agrawal, and Sheila Marcelo • How to discern between your body genuinely asking you to rest and fear telling you that now isn't the time to act on what you want to create Resources Mentioned Pre-order Born for Both: https://bornforboth.com/ Miki Agrawal on The Millionaire Mother: On Spotify or Apple Let's Connect Deeper The Millionaire Mother Experience Mastermind: https://themillionairemother.com/mme/ DM "waitlist" on IG for our new upcoming membership community: https://www.instagram.com/themillionairemother  Love the show? Share this episode with a friend, and leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

The right room can change the trajectory of your business in ways you could never plan for. Stephanie Cartin can trace some of the biggest opportunities in her career back to one decision she made before she felt ready, and what followed continued compounding for more than a decade. Cait and Stephanie unpack what most entrepreneurs misunderstand about networking, how to build relationships that open bigger doors, and why visibility matters long before you feel "ready" to be seen. Stephanie also shares the deeply personal motherhood journey that tested everything she thought she knew about control, and how opening up to community became far more powerful than she ever expected. Key Takeaways • The early investment Stephanie made before she felt ready, and how it shaped the next 15 years of her business (4:40) • What most entrepreneurs get wrong about networking and the relationship-building habits that actually create opportunities (9:52) • How to become someone people naturally refer, recommend, and speak about in rooms you are not in (10:55) • The motherhood experience that forced Stephanie to release control and lean on community in an entirely new way (21:33) • Why being the "best-kept secret" can limit your growth, no matter how good your work is (34:25) About Stephanie Cartin Stephanie Cartin is a serial entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcast host who has built multiple seven-figure businesses, including Socialfly and Entreprenista Media. She co-founded Pearl Influential Capital, which was acquired by Cherub, and champions women founders through the Entreprenista League. Stephanie also openly shares her personal journey with MS, infertility, and a complicated pregnancy to support and inspire other women navigating life and business. Join the Entreprenista League: https://www.entreprenista.com/tel-start Entreprenista Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entreprenistas Stephanie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephjillcartin Resources Mentioned Entreprenista 100 Awards: https://www.entreprenista.com/100 Entreprenista: https://www.entreprenista.com/ Want to go deeper with The Millionaire Mother? Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for weekly insights on business, motherhood, wealth, leadership, and living a deeply resourced life: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Pre-order Cait's upcoming book, Born for Both: https://bornforboth.com/ Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

Feeling exhausted, anxious, depleted, or simply not like yourself isn't something you have to accept as the price of motherhood or getting older. Dr. Corina Dunlap has spent more than a decade helping women understand what's actually happening inside their bodies and why "this is just my new normal" deserves to be questioned. Cait and Dr. Dunlap unpack the hormones every woman should understand and how they shift through the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond. They explore why support is a physiological need, not a luxury, the simple foundations that can make a meaningful difference in how women feel, and the three hormone personality types Dr. Dunlap sees repeatedly in her work: the Caretaker, Achiever, and Survivor. Key Takeaways • Why feeling worse after motherhood or as you age doesn't automatically have to become your "new normal" (10:57) • The five key hormones every woman should understand and how they influence energy, mood, sleep, strength, and more (19:35) • What actually happens to estrogen and progesterone throughout your cycle, pregnancy, and postpartum (28:20) • Why postpartum support, nourishment, sleep, and replenishment are physiological needs and not indulgences (32:36) • The Caretaker, Achiever, and Survivor hormone types and how each pattern can either support or deplete your health (42:48) About Dr. Corina Dunlap Dr. Corina Dunlap is a licensed naturopathic doctor, medical researcher, and leading expert in women's hormonal health. She is the founder of Naturopathic by Design®, a women's health clinic serving thousands of patients nationwide, and Aligned by Design®, her supplement line supporting women's hormonal health. Her work bridges evidence-based research with root-cause, whole-body care. Website: https://drcorinadunlap.com/ Naturopathic by Design®: https://www.naturopathicbydesign.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcorinadunlap/ Resources Mentioned Hormone Powered: https://drcorinadunlap.com/hormonepowered/ Hormone Type Assessment: https://drcorinadunlap.com/assessment/ Top Lab Guide: https://www.naturopathicbydesign.com/newsletter-signup Aligned by Design® Supplements: https://shopalignedbydesign.com/ The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson: https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/the-fourth-trimester/ Want to go deeper with The Millionaire Mother? Join The Millionaire Mother Diaries for weekly insights on business, motherhood, wealth, leadership, and living a deeply resourced life: https://themillionairemother.com/diaries/ Pre-order Cait's upcoming book, Born for Both: bornforboth.com Love the show? Share this episode to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Every share and review helps more ambitious mothers find the show.

What if your most powerful business growth strategy isn't another funnel, ad campaign, or complicated social media plan but the relationships you're building along the way? In this episode of The Millionaire Mother Podcast, Cait sits down with Kristina Bartold-Sartoga, co-founder and CEO of The Social Snippet and High Vibe Women, for an honest conversation about building a seven-figure business through community, organic marketing, in-person events, and genuine connection. Cait and Kristina also explore the reality of playing the long game in business. Kristina opens up about navigating slower seasons, celebrating every win, continuing to show up when it would be easier to withdraw, and planting relational seeds without gripping tightly to an immediate return. Tune in to hear: How Kristina built a seven-figure business without paid ads Why community building is a powerful organic marketing strategy How to choose networking events based on potential ROI and personal strengths Why smaller, more intimate rooms often create deeper business connections How to network with generosity instead of immediately trying to sell Why consistent follow-up matters more than collecting contacts How to stay visible during difficult or uncertain business seasons Why celebrating small wins can change what you notice and pursue How motherhood helped Kristina become more discerning with her capacity The questions she now asks before saying yes to an opportunity Why wanting to work after having a baby does not make a woman less devoted to motherhood How Kristina is building a business and family life that allow her to want both What makes an in-person event feel thoughtful, valuable, and worth returning to Connect with Kristina: Grab Your Ticket to the October 2026 High Vide Women Conference: https://www.highvibewomen.ca/october-2026-event  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristina.bartold/ The Social Snippet: https://www.instagram.com/thesocialsnippet/ High Vibe Women: https://www.instagram.com/highvibe.women/    If this episode resonates with you, don't forget to share it to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts-it helps more mamas find this show.

What if you stopped waiting to have the energy you need and learned how to create it on demand? In this episode, Cait explores the practices, rituals, and inputs that influence the energy you bring into your life and business. Just as different foods fuel different bodies differently, the practices that make one person feel energized, clear, and powerful might do absolutely nothing for someone else. Cait shares why your "energy diet" is deeply personal, how to experiment with practices that shift your energetic state, and why consistently returning to what works for you can ultimately change your behaviors and your outcomes. In this episode, you'll hear: Why your physical energy and energetic inputs are more connected than you might realize What it means to create energy on demand Why there is no one-size-fits-all morning routine or energy practice How to identify the practices that genuinely light you up and create momentum Why copying someone else's routine can actually disconnect you from what works for you The power of creating your own "pre-game ritual" for life and business How turning an energy-generating practice into a habit can begin to shift your behavior and results   If this episode resonates with you, don't forget to share it to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts-it helps more mamas find this show.

What happens when your relationship looks connected from the outside… but doesn't actually feel connected anymore? In this episode, Cait sits down with elite relationship specialist Jessica Waclawski for a powerful conversation about intimacy, emotional connection, resentment, motherhood, and what really causes high-performing couples to drift apart. Jessica challenges the idea that struggling relationships simply need better communication. In her experience, many high-achieving couples are actually incredibly good at communicating, but they've learned how to perform connection rather than truly experience it. If your relationship has quietly slipped to the bottom of the priority list while you build the business, raise the kids, manage the calendar, and hold everything together, this conversation will give you a completely different way to think about connection. In this episode, you'll hear: Why communication may not actually be the problem in your relationship What it means to "perform connection" versus genuinely experiencing intimacy Why high-performing women can struggle to identify what they actually feel and need How achievement and productivity can become forms of emotional protection Why both partners can be trying to connect while unintentionally pushing each other further apart Why curiosity can be one of the simplest doorways back into connection How small moments of presence, touch, and genuine attention can create more intimacy Why emotional presence can be incredibly powerful for attraction and sex The hidden emotional longing Jessica sees in many men How childhood experiences influence the way we give and receive connection as adults What resentment, anger, and defensiveness may actually be pointing toward The question Jessica recommends asking more often to create deeper connection with your partner and yourself   Connect with Jessica: Website: https://www.jessicawaclawski.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessica.waclawski  Substack: https://jessicawaclawski.substack.com/    If this episode resonates with you, don't forget to share it to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts-it helps more mamas find this show.

What if the fastest way to change what you're creating isn't to obsess over the goal, but to change the decisions you're making right now? We spend so much time thinking about the revenue number, the clients, the visibility, the recognition, or the external result we want to call in. But in this Golden Nugget, Cait invites you to look underneath the goal and ask a more powerful question: Are the decisions you're making today congruent with the woman you say you're becoming? In this episode, you'll hear: Why your goals and external metrics aren't actually the starting point The difference between claiming what you want and embodying it now How your everyday decisions reveal what you truly believe is possible Why thought leadership is rooted in becoming the living expression of what you teach Where indecision may be showing up in the clients, opportunities, or growth you're attracting What changes when you stop waiting for perfect conditions and decide to go first Why bold decisions impact not only your business, but your clients, community, children, and lineage How self-trust can become the internal rubric you use to make your next move If this episode resonates with you, don't forget to share it to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts-it helps more mamas find this show.

What if the thing you want more of requires you to become more generous with it first? In this episode, Cait dives into the mechanics of overflow and a principle that applies just as powerfully to money and business as it does to connection, support, love, and time: give it away. But this isn't an invitation to overextend yourself, give endlessly from depletion, or make your time and expertise available for free. Cait shares the important difference between overgiving and becoming so deeply anchored in the value of what you know that you're no longer afraid to share it generously. If you've ever worried about giving away too much, wondered how much value your free content should contain, or struggled to balance generosity with boundaries, this episode will invite you into an entirely different way of thinking about overflow. In this episode, you'll hear: Why creating more overflow doesn't always require doing more The difference between generous leadership and depleting overgiving Why Cait believes in giving away genuinely valuable content for free How scarcity can show up in the way you market your business Why sharing your expertise freely doesn't make your paid offers less valuable The distinction between giving away ideas and giving away your time What people are actually paying for inside your programs and containers How free content can create trust, demand, and a natural ladder into deeper work The question to ask yourself if you want to create more financial overflow in your business If this episode resonates with you, don't forget to share it to your stories and tag @themillionairemother, or leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts-it helps more mamas find this show.