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   S2 · E23 · 31 Jul 2026 · 21 min

   AI Systems in Real Life with CEO Katie Blouin

   Katie Blouin built an inventory system to keep small businesses from drowning in spreadsheets. Then she pointed that same systems thinking at her own kitchen table and built a chief of staff agent that reads school newsletters, tracks groceries, and makes sure her kids never miss crazy hat day. Sarah sits down with Katie Blouin, CEO and co-founder of Larken and founder of KLB Advisory, to talk about what happens when a founder's business systems meet a household of three kids. Katie walks through how she built her household AI agent using Claude and MCP connectors, why she still keeps…

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   S2 · E22 · 24 Jul 2026 · 18 min

   De-Stress Your Nest with AI and Project Manager Hannah Morgan

   Most families have a project manager, they just never got the job title or the paycheck. This week, Hannah Morgan, founder and CEO of Heron House Management, joins the show to talk about the mental load, where AI genuinely helps carry it, and where the real relief still has to come from people, not tools. Hannah shares how she built the first virtual house management service designed to sit between a family assistant and a full time house manager, why she is known as the pit bull of project management, and what it actually looks like when a family outsources the anticipating and planning,…

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   S2 · E21 · 17 Jul 2026 · 18 min

   What AI Can't Do For Your Family with Danielle Matarasso, MBA

   What happens when the thing you built to save you time still needs you to catch its mistakes? Danielle Matarasso found out the hard way, over a school lunch order. Host Sarah Dooley sits down with Danielle Matarasso , founder of Numeriq Advisors and writer of the newsletter AI After Carpool, to talk about the day AI ordered her son a cookie instead of lunch. It starts as a funny mix-up and turns into a real conversation about where AI can lighten the load for parents and caregivers, and where it still needs a parent's judgment. Danielle and Sarah talk about the pull that led Danielle to…

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   S2 · E20 · 26 Jun 2026 · 18 min

   It's Not You (Your Priorities Are Just Misaligned) with Exec Courtney Cecil

   There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything and still feeling like it is never enough. In this episode, host Sarah Dooley sits down with Courtney Cecil, founder of Working Moms Movement and host of The Life Management System podcast, to talk about why so much of the friction in family life traces back to one quiet question: what do you actually value? Courtney brings an industrial and systems engineering background to the parts of life that feel heaviest. She walks through her Three W's framework, what you value, what you prioritize, and what you spend, and…

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   S2 · E19 · 12 Jun 2026 · 19 min

   Your Sunday Night Scaries, Solved, with Executive Coach Melissa Regan

   Sunday evening used to mean a couple of hours of planning for Melissa Regan : cookbooks spread across the counter, kids' schedules stacked up, a running list of things to figure out before Monday arrived. Now that same setup takes a fraction of the time, and the hours she reclaims go straight back to her family. Melissa is an executive coach and consultant who works with leaders and sales teams on operations, communication, and business growth. She is also raising three boys at home, managing a household largely on her own during the weeks her husband travels for work. She did not come to AI…

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   S2 · E17 · 29 May 2026 · 27 min

   The Mom Guilt Equation (And How to Solve It) with Podcast Host JoAnn Crohn

   Have you ever thought about where "mom guilt" actually comes from? JoAnn Crohn, founder of No Guilt Mom, references Dr. Jennifer Reid's "guilt equation" to help decode it: your expectations of what a good mom looks like, minus what you are actually able to do on any given day, and that gap is where your guilt lives. The fix is not to do more. It is to look carefully at where those expectations came from in the first place. JoAnn is the host of the No Guilt Mom podcast, author of The Best Mom is a Happy Mom, a former fifth grade teacher, a recovered entertainment industry assistant, and a…

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   S2 · E16 · 15 May 2026 · 25 min

   Can AI Write Your Resume? with 3X Certified Resume Writer Emily Kapit

   If you've ever stared at your resume and thought "wasn't AI supposed to be able to help me with this?" -- this episode is for you. Career strategist, career resilience expert, and triple certified master resume writer Emily Kapit of Refresh Your Step joins host Sarah Dooley to talk through the real dos and don'ts of using AI for your career documents. Emily and her team work with clients through The Kapitalize Process , a methodology covering everything from written career assets to interview strategies and negotiation tactics (and she has strong opinions about where AI belongs in that…

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   S2 · E15 · 8 May 2026 · 19 min

   My 5 Best AI Hacks for Moms Carrying the Mental Load

   Mother's Day is one of those days that arrives with a lot of assumptions. Before we get into anything else: however today is landing for you, you belong here. This episode is a gift from host Sarah Dooley to all the parents and caregivers out there carrying a mental load. Five AI habits. Real use. No tech background required. Just the things Sarah has been doing for a long time that have genuinely made a difference, shared in plain language with the hope that at least one of them makes your life a little lighter too. In this episode: A real Mother's Day acknowledgment before anything else…

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   S2 · E14 · 1 May 2026 · 28 min

   How to Write a Book in 90 Days with Author Wanjiku Kamau

   What happens when a Google Cloud layoff becomes the push you needed to finally write your book? Wanjiku Kamau did exactly that, and she did it in 90 days, with AI helping her find her voice every step of the way. Wanjiku is a tech veteran, fractional COO, AI consultant, and now a published author. Her book, "Out of the Loop, Into the Algorithm: How I Finally Made Friends with AI," came out of one of the hardest years of her life and one of the most clarifying ones, too. In this conversation, Wanjiku and Sarah break down what it actually takes to self-publish, why shame is one of the biggest…

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    S2 · E13 · 24 Apr 2026 · 13 min

    AI vs. the Kids Activity Chaos with JustLiv Founder Nicole Hamlin

    Every summer, the spreadsheets come out. Color-coded, multi-tab, shared-by-text-message calendars that somehow still miss a school closure or a registration deadline. This week on , host Sarah Dooley sits down with Nicole Hamlin , the Austin-based founder of JustLiv, a platform built to take kids' activity scheduling off the list of things parents have to manage manually. Nicole spent 17 years in IT services before founding JustLiv after hitting a wall planning her daughter Olivia's first summer outside of full-time daycare. She discovered that while plenty of directories existed, nothing…