After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

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  Ads have taken over

  Used to love the content but seems to be overrun by ads now. The last episode I will listen to seemed to be an entire episode long ad for a mattress company with lots of fear mongering and misinformation. This kind of information is not helpful or relatable to the masses who are barely scraping by, getting hand me downs from friends/family etc to make it work. Seems like they sold out.

  C1234dhhfvdfgv · Aug 2026

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  Ads

  The show has progressively gotten more laden with ads, to the point where the actual useful content can be reduced to 5-10 minutes. The most recent episode about toxins is probably the last episode I will listen to. The entire episode is essentially a 30 minute ad for organic mattresses (complete with some misinformation and fear mongering). It’s completely acceptable to have your own values and views and live your life accordingly. It’s not acceptable to make moms fearful and guilty for our kids sleeping on a mattress that we can afford. Read the room.

  Cleo9192 · Aug 2026

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  Promising content but falls short

  Even when the content sounds great, they go down a rabbit hole discussing something completely off topic, and with that I realise that I’m no longer paying attention so it’s a waste of time tuning it at all.

  MandiStell · Aug 2026

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  Ad city

  Holy smokes, I listened to this podcast at the beginning and in general enjoyed it: I enjoy many of their fairly balanced approaches to parenting and non judgemental advice. However, I recently listened to a new episode and I’m certain it was 50% ads and then 20% random discussion. Perhaps this is the amount of ads required to actually make money doing a podcast? Too much for me, maybe the podcast needs a bit of a re org.

  A.Cruz99 · Aug 2026

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  BLF Fangirl

  If I ever met either of you in passing, I will drop dead with my fangirl excitement! You two have given me so much strength, hope and laughter since I became a Mom! Could NOT recommend your BLF buisness enough. Truly, from one mama to another, thank you for helping me find the joy in motherhood while navigating all the expectations and reality of the invisible mental load.

  Erica Sollid · Jul 2026

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  So good

  I just listened to the vacation fight episode and it is 👩🏻‍🍳💋💋

  SaraGInNH · Jul 2026

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  Too Much Fluff!!

  The two stars is for the amount of actual content related to the topic that is included in each episode. I have to skip through more than half of the episodes just to get to the actual subject at hand. And then when you FINALLY get to the important part, it isn’t fully explained or fleshed out. As a busy mom, I’d like this podcast a lot more if they got to the point and provided more content related to the actual topic of the episode. More scientific evidence presented to back the advice. More examples of how to apply the techniques. The last Q&A part of the episode I listened to asked “what’s your child’s name?” which had absolutely NOTHING to do with how to handle toddler tantrums. Most of the episode was just them talking about tantrums they’ve experienced, not even how to handle them - and that’s usually how most of the episodes are. It’s actually quite frustrating to listen to.

  morecontentlessfluff · Jul 2026

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  Lost me with amount of ads

  I truly cannot listen anymore as the ads are SO long. I’ll just get into an episode and then it abruptly stops for a five. I Ute ad break. There are other shows that do it much better than this. take notes

  Listener1712 · Jul 2026

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  Rewire Your Relationships: The Attachment Patterns, Blind Spots, and Protective Moves Shaping How You Love

  Sep 30, 2026 · 58 min

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  You can be wildly self-aware, deeply loving, in therapy, reading all the books, trying your absolute hardest - and still turn into a completely different person the second your relationship gets hard.Maybe you start explaining yourself, clarifying and clarifying. Or, maybe you shut down and can’t find a single word. Maybe you need to fix it RIGHT NOW while your partner needs hours, or days, to process and be ready to talk about it all. Maybe you say “I’m fine” while internally writing a dissertation called Actually, I Am Not Fine At All and I Want You to Notice. Or, maybe you keep having the same fight in different outfits and cannot figure out why you both keep ending up in the exact same place.That is what this episode is about. Welcome to the Attachment Styles episode. This is about looking at yourself closely enough to notice the moves you make automatically when connection gets hard, where those moves came from, and whether they are actually helping you build the relationship you want. Because sometimes, the thing that feels completely reasonable in the moment is also the exact thing keeping the cycle alive - until you notice and name it.Maybe you pursue harder because you wan

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  Your Brain Is Begging for These 5 Things (And it could help you prevent Alzheimer’s disease)

  Sep 23, 2026 · 52 min

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  You walk into a room and have absolutely no idea why you’re there. You can’t find the word you were JUST about to say. You’re exhausted, foggy, forgetful - and everyone tells you: welcome to motherhood.But… what if we stopped brushing all of it off??Today, Deena sits down with Emma Heming Willis and clinical psychologist Dr. Nicole Beurkens from Make Time Wellness for a fascinating (and refreshingly non-doom-and-gloom) conversation about women’s brain health and why we should be thinking about our brains LONG before there’s a problem - especially in the context of potential Alzheimer’s disease prevention. We’re getting into brain fog, hormones, perimenopause, sleep, movement, stress, dementia risk, and the simple things we can start doing now to support our brains for the long haul. And thankfully, this is NOT another episode telling you to wake up at 5 a.m., meditate for 45 minutes, eat superfoods, hit 10,000 steps and become a completely different person by Tuesday.You’ll learn:When brain fog and forgetfulness are part of a season (and when it’s worth talking to your doctor)The five basic pillars that support brain health over timeWhat’s actually happening inside your brain while

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  Would You Let Your Kid Do This? Our Most Unfiltered Parenting Takes

  Sep 16, 2026 · 53 min

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  Would you let your kid wear pajamas to school? Forget their homework and face the consequences? Tell Grandma they don’t want a hug? Quit a sport halfway through the season? Eat candy for breakfast? You probably have an immediate answer to at least a few of those. But here’s where it gets interesting: What if the parenting “rule” you’re following is actually making things harder for your kid… and for you?SO much of parenting is spent wondering: Am I holding a healthy boundary…or am I fighting a battle that literally does not matter? Am I helping my kid…or rescuing them? Am I teaching resilience…or ignoring what my specific kid actually needs? If you’ve ever spiraled over whether you’re being too strict, too permissive, too involved, or somehow doing the exact thing that’s going to screw up your kid forever, this is the episode you need.We're playing an unfiltered round of “Would You Let Your Kid...?” and get into the parenting decisions that sound black-and-white online but get a whole lot messier IRL.We get into:* Pajamas at school and how to know when a battle is actually worth fighting* Forgotten homework and when helping is NOT the same thing as “rescuing”* Why your kid should a

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  Amanda Kloots Thought She’d “Conquer” Grief. Six Years Later, She Knows Better.

  Sep 9, 2026 · 72 min

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  If you watched Amanda Kloots during the early days of COVID, you probably remember her story. Her husband, Nick Cordero, spent 95 days in the hospital before dying from complications of COVID-19. Their son, Elvis, had just turned one. And Amanda was suddenly living a life she never, ever imagined for herself.But this conversation isn't just about what Amanda lost. It's about everything that comes after.Six years later, Amanda sits down with Kristin for an incredibly honest conversation about grief, motherhood, resilience, love, and what it means to keep building a life when the one you planned disappears.Amanda opens up about something we don't talk about enough: you don't actually "get over" the people you lose. You don't have to stop loving them in order to love someone new. And finding moments of happiness doesn't mean you're grieving them any less.In this episode, you’ll learn:- The tiny rule Amanda swore by to get her through her darkest days- Why the best thing her friends did after Nick died involved almost no words at all- The advice she'd immediately retire when talking to someone who's grieving,- Why she refuses to pretend her marriage was perfect just because Nick is gon

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  Your Hardest Parenting Questions, Answered: Part 2

  Sep 2, 2026 · 55 min

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  Our last Q&A became our MOST-LISTENED-TO episode, so Besties: WE’RE BACK. You sent us your hardest parenting questions, and once again, we’re answering them all. Your kid was doing GREAT, and then school started and suddenly they’re melting down, fighting everything, and acting like a completely different person. Your three-year-old has turned absolutely feral since the new baby arrived. And what do you do when you KNOW you need therapy, but adding one more thing to your schedule feels literally impossible?We cover:Back-to-school meltdowns and why your kid suddenly seems like a completely different personWhat’s actually happening when kids hold it together all day at school and completely fall apart at homeHow to make the back-to-school transition easier (and why now might be the time to LOWER demands)Why three-year-olds can feel absolutely feral, and the small shifts that can prevent some of the biggest daily power strugglesNew sibling jealousy, meltdowns, and helping your older child adjust to a new babyWhat to do when YOU are completely at capacityHow to make time for therapy when you literally do not have one more hour to giveThe mindset shift that can completely change how you

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  Your Kid Lied to Your Face. Now What?

  Aug 26, 2026 · 48 min

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  If your kid has ever looked you directly in the eyes and lied, even when you KNOW they know that you know the truth…you probably know the immediate panic spiral:Why are they lying to me? Is this normal? Can I trust them? If they're doing this at five, what happens when they're FIFTEEN?!And suddenly, this isn't about who ate the cookie or knocked over the toy, you're imagining your teenager lying about where they are, who they're with, what happened at the party, or something much, much bigger.But here's what most of us get wrong: If we want to raise kids who tell us the truth when it really matters, we have to be careful that our reaction to lying doesn't accidentally teach them that telling us the truth is dangerous.In this episode, Deena puts on her child therapist hat and breaks down what's actually happening when kids lie and why lying doesn't automatically mean you're raising a dishonest kid. In fact, there are several completely different reasons kids lie, and each one needs a different response.You'll leave this episode knowing why your kid is lying, what their lie is actually trying to accomplish, and exactly how to respond in the moment plus:- What to say when you know the

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  Billy Eichner: How His Parents Gave Him the Audacity to Be Himself

  Aug 19, 2026 · 81 min

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  If you've ever worried that loving your kid too much, supporting them too much, or NOT giving them enough "tough love" is going to leave them completely unprepared for the real world, you need to hear this episode.Because Billy Eichner’s story might be the best evidence I've ever seen that the opposite of "tough love" is what actually makes a kid strong.Billy's parents loved the absolute hell out of him. They celebrated exactly who he was, and when he grew up and faced more than a decade of rejection, that endless love from his parents didn't make him soft, it gave him the audacity to keep believing in himself. He went from not being able to get an agent to creating Billy on the Street, earning four Emmy nominations, and making history with the film Bros.And THAT is where this conversation completely changed something for me. What if the way we prepare our kids for a hard world isn't by toughening them up, but by loving them so deeply that the world can't convince them to abandon themselves?We talk about rejection, resilience, success, why even wildly successful people still fixate on the people who don't like them, and what Billy believes his parents gave him that made everything

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  Is Everything Toxic Now?! Here’s What Parents Actually Need to Know

  Aug 14, 2026 · 33 min

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  File this under: things we genuinely did not realize we needed to know as parents. 🙃Our kids spend SO MUCH of their lives sleeping, but… have you ever actually thought about what their mattress is made of? Yeah. Neither had we.Today we’re joined by Arin Schultz, Chief Growth Officer at Naturepedic and dad of four, to pull back the curtain on mattresses: what can actually be inside them, why certain materials are worth knowing about, what all those certifications and “organic” labels actually mean, and what parents should look for when they’re shopping. Most importantly: this is information, not another parenting assignment. Deena gets very real about how easily learning this stuff can tip from “good to know” into “OH GOD NOW I’M WORRIED ABOUT EVERYTHING,” and why none of us need to live our lives trying to eliminate every potentially questionable thing our kids will ever encounter.And because this is After Bedtime, we obviously do not stay on mattresses. 😂 We somehow end up debating whether sharing a drink with your own child is absolutely disgusting, hearing what it’s REALLY like to raise four boys, and, perhaps most importantly, adding Arin to the growing list of podcast guests

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  If We Could Only Teach Our Kids 5 Things, It Would Be This

  Aug 12, 2026 · 63 min

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  What if the most important thing you ever teach your child isn't a parenting strategy... it's a belief they'll carry for the rest of their life?Someday our children are going to get their heart broken, they'll fail, They'll wonder if they're enough, they'll navigate in tricky relationships, they'll be choosing career paths. And in those moments, they won't remember your lecture about cleaning their room, but they will remember what they believe about themselves.In this episode, fan favorite VP Hype Squad (my husband) is back, and we share the five beliefs we're intentionally trying to pass on to our kids, the things that will shape every friendship, relationship, career, and decision our kids make for the rest of their lives.You'll leave this episode knowing:The belief that protects kids from becoming lifelong people-pleasers.How to raise a child who doesn't spend their life trying to earn love or approval.The one mindset shift that completely changes what you focus on as a parent.Five core beliefs that will outlast every parenting hack, consequence, and script.This ended up becoming one of my favorite conversations we've ever had. It's about parenting, yes. But it's also about us.

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  Stassi Schroeder Tells All: House of Stassi, Her Marriage to Beau & the Vanderpump Rules Years

  Aug 5, 2026 · 49 min

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  BESTIES. STASSI SCHROEDER IS HERE.The woman. The icon. The mother of reality television. The person many of us have watched, quoted, defended, occasionally screamed at through our televisions, and essentially grown up alongside is sitting down with us for one of our biggest episodes ever.And she tells us EVERYTHING.In this exclusive conversation, Stassi takes us behind the scenes of her highly anticipated new show, House of Stassi, including what really happens between her and Beau, why filming became the most effective form of therapy she has ever had, and the finale she says is absolutely insane.She opens up about rebuilding her entire life after leaving Vanderpump Rules, the unexpected way her reality television comeback came together, filming with her mom despite their deeply complicated history, and why Beau took her request for “complete honesty” on camera much further than she anticipated.We also talk about the side of motherhood people rarely admit out loud: dreading the weekends, feeling bored during the baby stage, going back to work two weeks postpartum because she was terrified of feeling isolated again, and the guilt she carried when Beau became the primary parent.Plus

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  Amanda Frances on RHOBH: What You Didn't See on TV

  Jul 29, 2026 · 77 min

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  If you've been watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, this is the conversation you've been waiting for. Amanda Frances joins us fresh off her first season on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to pull back the curtain on what it was really like stepping into one of the biggest reality shows on TV with no strategy, no Bravo game plan, and honestly... no idea what she was getting herself into.We talk about what filming is actually like, what surprised her most, the moments that never made sense until she was living them, and how she learned to find her voice in a room where everyone else seemed to know the rules except her. But this episode goes way beyond Housewives. Amanda opens up about motherhood, building a wildly successful business, hiring help without guilt, navigating internet hate, and the neurodivergence journey that completely changed how she understands herself.It's one of those conversations that starts with Bravo and somehow ends up being about motherhood, identity, success, and staying true to yourself. In this episode, we cover:- What it's really like filming The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills- The behind-the-scenes moments Bravo fans never get to see- Th

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  Solo Parenting? Here's How to Make It Feel Less Impossible

  Jul 22, 2026 · 42 min

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  Some seasons of parenting just ask more of you. Maybe your partner travels or works nights. Maybe you’re simply carrying more than your fair share right now and navigating a period where you're parenting solo. Whatever your reality is, this episode is for you!Deena, who is in this season of life right now, gets real about what it's actually like parenting three kids while her husband is away nearly half the month. There’s guilt, overwhelm, panic, and even resentment creeping in…but there’s also routines that have made it feel more manageable. She walks through EVERYTHING that has helped her surivive parenting while her husband is away and Kristin helps to unpack that guilt that so she (and so many parents) carries.We cover:- Why lowering your standards during hard seasons isn't "giving up”, it's actually helping you show up as a calmer and more present parent.- Simple ways to eliminate decision fatigue (including the meal routines that Kristin and Deena swear by).- How to make bedtime, housework, and everyday life feel a little less overwhelming when you’re solo parenting.- Why movie nights and “”no pressure” parenting deserve way less guilt than we've been taught.- The small minds

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