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Dear Media and Big Little Feelings

Real talk? Modern parenting is a doozy. There’s never been more pressure to be perfect with social media readily at our fingertips - mixed with total isolation and no help. Where the f*ck is that village everyone talks about? Consider After Bedtime your village. Led by Kristin and Deena - founders of the largest online parenting community, Big Little Feelings - After Bedtime is the place you can go at the end of a long hard day to find your “enough”-ness. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll maybe pee our pants a little as we unpack things we’re ALL experiencing but too ashamed to talk about: imperfect marriages, miscarriages, managing toddler mania, apologizing to our kids and everything in between. You’ll leave with actionable, realistic tips to make this whole parenting thing smoother - small changes, big impact. In an age where parents need more *real* connection than ever, let’s talk honestly about the hard - and remind ourselves we are not alone, we are not failing. In fact, we’re f*cking crushing it.

After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Modern parenting is a doozy. There’s never been more pressure to be perfect with social media readily at our fingertips - mixed with total isolation and no help. Where the f*ck is that village everyone talks about? Consider After Bedtime your village. Led by Kristin and Deena - founders of the largest online parenting community, Big Little Feelings - After Bedtime is the place you can go at the end of a long hard day to find your “enough”-ness. We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll maybe pee our pants a little as we unpack things we’re ALL experiencing but too ashamed to talk about: imperfect marriages, miscarriages, managing toddler mania, apologizing to our kids and everything in between. You’ll leave with actionable, realistic tips to make this whole parenting thing smoother - small changes, big impact. In an age where parents need more *real* connection than ever, let’s talk honestly about the hard - and remind ourselves we are not alone, we are not failing. In fact, we’re f*cking crushing.

Back for Season 2 next Wednesday, 5/28!

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After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings - Coming Soon!

For 35 years, she was labeled sensitive, dramatic, weird, too much. But she wasn’t any of those things—she was autistic. And no one saw it.

In this raw and powerful episode, we pull back the curtain on how autism is profoundly underdiagnosed in women—and why. We explore how masking, misdiagnosis, and outdated diagnostic tools have led to generations of girls being missed, misunderstood, and misnamed. You’ll hear Deena’s story—what everyone got wrong, what finally clicked, and what it’s like to be diagnosed late in life.

This episode isn’t just for people who know they’re autistic. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt like an alien in the world. For the girls who were called difficult. For the women who never felt like they fit. For the parents wondering about their child. For the friend who’s finally starting to see the patterns.

This one will shift how you see autism—and how you see yourself. 

Produced by Dear Media

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Unmasked: Deena’s Autism Diagnosis at 35

You’ve been told tantrums are bad behavior. That your kid is “too much.” That if they’re melting down in the grocery store, you’re doing something wrong. Let’s burn that narrative to the ground.

In this raw, science-backed, and radically honest episode, Kristin and Deena unpack the real reason tantrums happen (spoiler: it’s not defiance), why old-school discipline tactics are failing our kids—and ourselves—and what to do instead.

We’re breaking generational cycles, regulating in the cereal aisle, and raising kids who don’t have to unlearn their feelings.

This isn’t just parenting. It’s a revolution.

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The Truth About Toddler Tantrums

What happens when you go from loving partners… to basically roommates with two screaming babies, no sleep, and zero support?

This week, Deena sits down with her husband for the first time ever on the pod for an honest, raw conversation. Together, they open up about the silent resentments, postpartum breakdowns, missed expectations, therapy breakthroughs, and the rock-bottom moment when Deena said out loud: “I don’t want to do this anymore.”

But this isn’t just a story about almost falling apart—it’s a story about doing the deep, messy, sacred work of coming back together.

You’ll walk away feeling seen and less alone on the invisible labor load and why it breaks so many moms, plus a practical look at how they rebalanced their roles, restructured communication, and rebuilt trust. Oh, and an answer to what everyone has been asking: "How did you get your husband to go to therapy?!" (and how it changed everything).

It's ok if you're in the messy middle of your relationship. If you’re navigating the impossible mix of marriage, identity shifts, and parenting young kids—you’ll feel less alone. You’ll feel seen. You’ll feel hopeful.

And you’ll have the tools to start rewriting your own story.

This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.

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We Almost Got Divorced: What's Saved Deena's Marriage After Kids

Real talk? Modern parenting is a doozy. There’s never been more pressure to be perfect with social media readily at our fingertips. Led by Kristin and Deena - founders of the largest online parenting community Big Little Feelings, and fellow real ass moms - After Bedtime is the place you can go at the end of a long hard day and find your “enough”-ness. Each week, we’ll unpack the broad spectrum of things we’re ALL experiencing as parents, but too ashamed to talk about: imperfect marriages, miscarriages, managing toddler mania, apologizing to your kids, infertility, potty training, our bodies, and everything in between. Raw, real, refreshing, and really helpful, After Bedtime is the “mommy/parent group” you actually look forward to each week. Big Little Feelings premieres Wednesday, Sept 13th, 2023! Please listen to and follow After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings, an Audacy production, on the Audacy app or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

 

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Introducing: After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

In this powerful debut episode, Deena and Kristin unpack why anxiety is at an all time high in mothers/primary caregivers, plus:

 • How to release the pressure that comes with perfect parenting

 • 3 EASY, doable, strategies you can use TODAY to improve your mental health

 • Cures for anxiety so simple, so doable, anyone can fit them into their busy lives

 • Effective toddler/preschooler discipline (Spoiler alert: stop taking away dessert as punishment)

Theme Song Composer: Liz Fohl

 

 

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Moms Are in Crisis: The Mental Health Epidemic

Today, Kristin shares the jaw dropping birth story of baby #3 for the very first time! Join Kristin, Deena and special guest, Kristin’s baby daddy, as they unpack the insanity that is a 45 minute long birth (plot twist: it's not as nice as it sounds). 

Highlights include: 

 • Why her husband has a strict "above the shoulder policy” 

 • How Deena failed as Kristin's doula

 • The inappropriate/traumatizing jokes the medical staff made as a baby barreled out of her vagina

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The Epidural Didn't F*cking Work: Kristin's Birth Story with Baby #3

On this powerful episode, Child Therapist Deena Margolin and Parent Coach Kristin Gallant offer a profound healing moment to parents everywhere: if you messed up, if you yelled: it’s not too late, you didn’t f*ck this whole thing up, you aren’t a horrible monster: you’re HUMAN, just like the rest of us. This episode will be the warm hug of “I’ve been there, you’re not alone” that you’ve been waiting for, PLUS: 

 • An exact framework of what makes a good repair moment

 • Common phrases to STOP saying when you apologize after messing up

 • Why repairing doesn’t come naturally to us (spoiler alert: it’s not YOU, it’s your childhood)

 • The powerful love chemical in the brain that gets released (for both parties) when you apologize 

 • The most IMPORTANT part of repair most people miss: ways to take care of YOU after you’ve messed up and why it’s the crucial piece of the repair puzzle

 • Why easy going kids do not equal better kids

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The Power of Repair - How the Simple Act of Apologizing to Your Kids Can Transform Your Family’s Home and Generations to Come

Deena gets vulnerable and shares how having babies rocked her marriage, plus:

 • The raging resentment that's left them feeling like roommates

 • Why 90% of parents feel unhappier in their marriage after having kids (!!!) 

 • What's stopping her from working on the relationship right now (is it too far gone?) 

 • Busting the myth that "staying together for the kids" is always the best option

 • Hot tips for date night (when you have no childcare) 

 • How to avoid the dreaded screen time battles with your toddler 

 

 

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My Marriage Sucks After Having Kids - Deena’s On the Brink of Divorce

On today’s episode, Kristin shares her heartbreaking story of pregnancy loss in honor of national pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. For a long time, miscarriage and pregnancy loss were seen as taboo, best kept hidden behind closed doors. Women have suffered physically and emotionally, alone, for far too long. We are honored and grateful to be a part of a new generation that shares their experiences. 

We now know these undeniable truths: there is power in women’s stories, there is healing in sharing hard topics, there is collective trauma that becomes uplifted as we band together and lift each other up with our vulnerability and support of one another.

This is one story, of many, of the heartbreaking experience of pregnancy loss.

 

 

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I am One in Four: The Pregnancy Loss Club No One Asks to Be a Part of

Hi Big Little Besties! We were recently guests on the podcast Pop Culture Moms, and wanted to share it with you! Our friends Andie and Sabrina have been best friends for 20 years — and pop culture aficionados for even longer. On “Pop Culture Moms,” they’re taking their obsession with TV and movies to the next level by talking to folks like us, fellow “scholars” of pop culture, about what they can learn from the fictional moms we love most. Together, Andie and Sabrina explore the comedy – and tragedy – of what parenthood is like in real life. In this episode, Kirstin and Deena talk about why some of the best moms on TV right now are cartoons, and what the mothers in Bluey and Daniel Tiger are doing right. You can listen to more Pop Culture Moms at link.chtbl.com/popculturemomss1/afterbedtime

 

 

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Parenting with Empathy, from Pop Culture Moms

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