Milk Money | The Podcast for Moms Building Businesses

About Milk Money | The Podcast for Moms Building Businesses

Serving short stacks and big dreams 🥞☕ Welcome to Milk Money, a podcast for moms who love their kids fiercely AND have dreams, ambitions, identities, and lives of their own. Because motherhood is already a full-time job, but for a lot of us, it isn't the only thing we want to be. Milk Money is where we talk about the part of motherhood that doesn't always make it into the polished Instagram posts: building a business while raising kids, wanting an identity outside of motherhood, navigating mom guilt, protecting your time and energy, and figuring out how to build a life that actually works for the woman living it. Whether you call yourself a mompreneur, mom entrepreneur, working mom, business owner, founder, or just a mom who has a little voice saying there has to be more, we saved you a seat. Meet Your Hostess I'm Stephanie Lemes — mom, wife, business owner, creative, and the woman behind the mic. I started Milk Money because I was searching for the podcast I needed in this season of my life and couldn't find it. There were plenty of business podcasts for women. Plenty of motherhood podcasts. But I wanted the conversations that lived in the messy middle — what happens when you're building a business, raising tiny humans, figuring out who you are, and trying not to lose yourself somewhere along the way. So I decided to create the booth I couldn't find. Milk Money is for the mom who loves being a mom and still wants something that's hers, is building a business between school drop-off, nap time and bedtime, has big dreams but limited time and energy, or simply wants honest conversations about motherhood and entrepreneurship instead of another highlight reel. You don't need a six-figure business. You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to know there's more to your story. Every week, we're pulling up a chair for honest, unfiltered conversations about motherhood, ambition, business, identity, relationships, health, money, and all the messy bits in between. You'll hear from moms building businesses in all kinds of seasons and stages — and hopefully leave each episode feeling a little less alone. Because sometimes the best thing another mom can give you isn't advice. It's proof that you're not the only one. Welcome to the Diner. Picture a retro roadside diner — checkered floors, coffee refills, chrome, cherry-red booths, jukeboxes, and a bell letting everyone know your order is up. Why a diner? Because diners are open 24/7, just like motherhood. There is no clocking out. No true off-shift. So at Milk Money, we're flipping the script: the women doing all the serving finally get to sit down. Pull up a seat. Stay awhile. Pour it all out. We'll talk about the wins, the doubts, the pivots, the guilt, the ambition, the chaos, and the dreams that didn't disappear when you became a mom. Expect guest conversations, solo episodes, listener questions, and eventually a phone line where you can call in, ask a question, vent, or just say the thing you haven't been able to say anywhere else. Because this booth is yours, too. Milk Money: Serving short stacks and big dreams. Welcome in, we saved you a seat.

Publisher

Stephanie Lemes

Category

business · business · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Guest Check 009: You’re a Stakeholder in Your Own Life with Steph Rubio

   What if the problem isn't that you're bad at balance .. but that you've been building a life around everyone else's needs except your own? This week at the Milk Money booth, I'm sitting down with Steph Rubio, a strategist and business mentor who helps women turn their skills into profitable, sustainable businesses - without buying into all the BS we see online about how entrepreneurship is supposed to look. We get into the pressure women feel to be everything to everyone, why the “two-hour wo...

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Guest Check 008: When There’s No More Room on Your Plate with Giovanna Mayo

   What happens when your calendar says you have time .. but your actual life says otherwise? This week at the Milk Money booth, I’m sitting down with Gia, founder of Gia Rose Digital and mom of three, to talk about something I think so many working moms are constantly running into: capacity. Because yes, we all technically have the same 24 hours. But when you're parenting, running a business, managing a household, homeschooling, answering approximately 47 questions before breakfast .. those hou...

3. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Guest Check 007: You’re Allowed to Want a Life of Your Own with Nathalia Brasileiro

   What if loving motherhood deeply doesn’t mean you have to want to spend every waking moment with your kids? This week at the Milk Money booth, I’m sitting down with Nat, founder of Vixen Creative, mom to a two-year-old, and someone who is getting really honest about a conversation so many moms feel ashamed to have: wanting a life outside of motherhood. Nat opens up about the guilt she felt when she put her son in daycare, the cultural expectations she grew up with, building a village when you...

4. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Guest Check 006: Intentional Motherhood, Boundaries & Building a Business That Fits Your Life with Tiana Wiley

   What if being a present mom and being an ambitious business owner didn't have to be an either/or? In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Tiana Wiley, creative director and founder of Ferox Event Designs and Planning, for an honest conversation about building a business while being intentional about the time she has with her son. Tiana shares what it looks like to navigate entrepreneurship, a corporate career, motherhood, and the never-ending mental load that comes with having...

5. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Guest Check 005: Health Is Part of the Hustle with Relle Dixon

   What if taking care of your health isn't something you squeeze into the leftover spaces of your life, but something you have to protect in order to build the life you're working so hard for? In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Relle, a keynote speaker and performance coach, to talk about one of the things ambitious moms are often the quickest to put on the back burner: their own health. Relle shares how she learned the hard way that you can't separate your body from your b...

6. 

   4 Sept 2026

   Guest Check 004: Grieving Who You Were, Becoming Who You Are with Caroline Kapke

   Motherhood changes you. But what happens when part of becoming a mother means grieving the woman you were before? In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Caroline Kapke for an honest conversation about identity, motherhood, ambition, postpartum anxiety, infertility, and the complicated space between who you were and who you're becoming. Caroline opens up about the experience of becoming a mother after years of praying and hoping for it, only to find herself struggling emotiona...

7. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Guest Check 003: Motherhood, Creativity & Just Starting with Bec Thexton

   What happens when becoming a mom doesn't quiet your ambition - it makes you want to create even more? In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Bec Thexton, a new mom, creative builder, product designer, and founder of Fleurac Fragrance, a fragrance brand she launched while on maternity leave. Bec shares the unexpected journey behind Fleurac, which began during her experience with infertility and IVF and her desire to create a fragrance she could feel confident wearing during th...

8. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Guest Check 002: Building Your Support System - Without a Village with Sabre Black

   What if your support system doesn't have to be made up of people? In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Sabre Black - mom of three, former military HR professional, and systems wizard - for a conversation about one of the biggest challenges facing moms who are also building businesses: the mental load. Sabre shares how becoming a mom while living far away from family forced her to rethink what “building a support system” actually meant. Instead of waiting for a traditional v...

9. 

   21 Aug 2026

   Guest Check 001: Motherhood Meets Ambition - Redefining Success with Dana Foster

   What happens when the version of success you worked so hard for no longer fits the life you actually want? In the first-ever Guest Check, Stephanie sits down with Dana Foster, a pharmacist-turned-coach and mom of two kids less than a year apart, to talk about building a sustainable business alongside motherhood. Dana shares her journey from working in ICU pharmacy during COVID, experiencing burnout and postpartum anxiety, and moving into an administrative role for more flexibility, to startin...

10. 

    21 Aug 2026

    The Conversation I Couldn't Find: Why I Created Milk Money

    What happens when you love being a mom but still want a life, identity, and ambition of your own? In the very first episode of Milk Money, Stephanie Lemes pulls up a chair and shares the story behind the podcast she never expected to create. After becoming a mom and launching her own business, Stephanie found herself searching for conversations about the messy middle of motherhood and entrepreneurship - the mom guilt, identity shifts, loneliness, ambition, and constant question of “Am I doing...

11. 

    20 Aug 2026

    Milk Money Trailer

    Welcome to Milk Money, a podcast for moms who love their kids fiercely AND have dreams, ambitions, identities, and lives of their own. Pull up a seat for honest conversations about motherhood, business, ambition, identity, mom guilt, and all the messy bits in between. We're serving up the conversations moms don't always get to have - with women building businesses, chasing big dreams, and figuring it out along the way. The coffee is hot, the booth is open 24/7, and yes .. we'll probably...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

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5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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