Warm perinatal talk for messy motherhood.
the kozēkozē podcast sits at the crossroads of pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, motherhood, and entrepreneurship. It pairs personal monologues with interview conversations on body repair, lactation products, postnatal care, healing, home birth curiosity, and the messier parts of early parenting.
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the kozēkozē podcast is a perinatal conversation show with a very personal center. It treats fertility, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as emotional terrain as much as physical terrain. The mood is warm and busy. Episodes can begin with travel updates, newborn logistics, sponsor reads, reflections on podcasting, or a candid check-in from the middle of postpartum life before the main conversation fully arrives. That loose structure is part of the appeal. The show feels close to the real texture of early motherhood: interrupted, intense, affectionate, tired, and still trying to make meaning. Recent episodes move through diastasis repair, postpartum pain, lactation cookies, postnatal retreat care, home birth curiosity, and a detailed birth story. The conversations often connect bodily experience to larger questions of support and identity. A discussion about abdominal repair becomes a conversation about shame, community, and letting mothers arrive without having everything together. A founder story about lactation cookies turns into a practical look at scaling a postpartum product from a market table toward a larger business. Another interview links entrepreneurship, parenting, healing, and nervous-system change. The show also makes space for spiritual language and embodied self-inquiry, especially when guests describe recovery, recalibration, and trust in the body. It is not detached wellness content. It is much more conversational, emotionally immediate, and openly invested in mothers finding support. The maternal frame is strong, but the business thread is real too. Founders, products, retreats, and creative work appear as part of the same ecosystem as feeding babies, managing pain, and surviving the first weeks after birth. The show is strongest when it lets practical detail and confession sit side by side. Bassinet placement, hip squeezes during contractions, postpartum anxiety, and profit margins can all belong in one world. That blend makes it useful for listeners who want perinatal stories with both softness and momentum. It also makes the show feel less like a lecture and more like a running archive of one woman's changing relationship to motherhood, body, work, and care.
Made for: Best for people navigating pregnancy, postpartum, birth choices, lactation, and early motherhood who prefer candid personal context alongside expert and founder conversations. It also fits listeners interested in businesses serving parents.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by mixing maternal confession with entrepreneurial storytelling and practical postpartum detail. It is less clinical than many birth shows and more personally entangled with the realities it covers.
We’re here to create comfort along the entrepreneurial journey, and really the life journey. Join us for inspiring, dynamic conversations that make the arduous process of venturing into the unknown feel more doable, because we believe in making the impossible, possible. We hope you’ll join us, as we play in the infinite; pull up a seat, grab a blanket let’s get cozy! Author, spiritual business mentor & entrepreneur Garrett Kusmierz meets you here every Sunday for either an interview or solocasts. This podcast was formerly called Dare To Move. Season 5 we're exploring comfort & discomfort.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid conversations connect pregnancy and postpartum health with recovery, mental strain, maternal products, and the untidy realities of building a life around care.
the kozekoze podcast moves through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life by pairing candid guest conversations with Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers's own experiences of pregnancy, motherhood, and work.
Garrett Kusmierz makes room for the sandwich break between contractions; you'll want every unpolished detail.
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A candid postpartum conversation about physical pain, daily strain, and the relief of dropping the performance of having it together.
Postpartum recovery is framed here as something both bodily and social: a set of aches, logistics, and quiet expectations around seeming capable.
A founder's grounded account of motherhood, nervous-system recalibration, and learning to trust a new direction.
A founder's return to work after a personal recalibration gives this conversation its pull. The episode moves through the CEO seat, motherhood, Hero, and a period of retreat marked by canceled or postponed meetings, two weeks in an altar room, shaking, crying with her partner,…
A $50 farmers market cookie booth opens into a grounded look at postpartum support becoming a business.
Whitney Rowell's Miracle Mama story starts small: a $50 farmers market booth, a photo with her oldest daughter while she was pregnant, and a grandmother who brings a pregnant passerby into the moment.
A one-month postpartum check-in weighs pain, sleep loss, emotional vigilance, and the relief of a relocated bassinet.
Postpartum recovery is framed as a quiet comparison between two early postpartum seasons in this solo check-in from Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers, recorded one month and four days after Summer's arrival.
A close, sensory birth story about coping, support, and the strange rhythm of labor.
Recorded six days after Garrett Wood Kusmeyers gave birth, this single-episode review stays close to the body and the room, with Jeff helping piece together labor while it still feels immediate.
A candid conversation about postpartum pain, being heard, and reclaiming agency in care.
Postpartum care is framed as a matter of agency: what happens when a mother knows something is wrong, says so clearly, and still is not heard?
A focused conversation on baby blues, hormonal shifts, and the hard-to-name shape of postpartum anxiety.
Postpartum anxiety is framed here as something that can hide in plain sight, even for someone who has prepared carefully for birth. The host recalls meeting nurse practitioners, interviewing doulas, and taking an online doula course, yet still not recognizing how anxious…
Pregnancy science with a steady hand.
Home birth, one long story at a time.
Research-forward birth education with a human center.
Pregnancy guidance with warmth, evidence, and agency.
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers interviews Karen Chipman about labor management and shares updates on the Prego Expo and the launch of the nipple diaper.
Host Garrett Kusmierz, 28 weeks pregnant, interviews Brittany Starobin, founder of Haven Postnatal Retreat.
Garrett and Jeff share the detailed story of their child Summer's birth, recorded six days postpartum.
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers introduces a podcast episode about home birth and co-care with Lauren Papanos, sharing her own traumatic birth experience and curiosity about home birth for her current pregnancy.
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers interviews Lisa Myers, founder of Ceres Chill, about her breast milk storage solution and their shared love of cold plunging.
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers introduces a long-awaited interview with birth expert Lori Bregman, discussing homebirth and hospital birth considerations.
Host Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers interviews therapist Anne Miller about perinatal mental health on the Kozēkozē Podcast.
Chelsea Clark, who founded MomFluence in Costa Rica around 2019 after selling her raw vegan restaurants, says influencer rates are unsustainable.
["Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers interviews Lisa Schoenholt of Brooklyn Embodied about diastasis recti repair, Pilates, and postpartum recovery.", "Lisa says she has taught Pilates for about 25 years, started from a Brooklyn living room after an emergency C-section in 2011, and later became a doula.", "She draws a line between rehab-oriented Pilates and trendier formats like Solidcore and SLT, which she places closer to fitness classes.", "Her main point is that pressure management, breathing, and tailored prenatal and postpartum programming matter more than pushing harder."]
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers opens the Cozy Cozy Podcast on February 9 by saying she leaves for New Zealand in five days, has been in negative four-degree weather in New Hampshire, and is looking forward to sun and walking.
Whitney Rowell says 300,000 blog hits and 40,000 Pinterest repins turned a postpartum cookie recipe into a business question.
Garrett Wood Kuzmeyers celebrates the seven-year anniversary of the Cozy Cozy Podcast, reflecting on the early days of podcasting and the journey of creating a community for perinatal support.
An interview with Robyn Jedkins about the RUBY postnatal program, discussing postpartum recovery and support for new mothers.
The bassinet on Jeff’s side cut night anxiety and made postpartum sleep feel manageable.
Garrett Wood Kusmeyers and Jeff turn Summer Jane Kuzmeyers' birth story into a timestamped hospital timeline on the Cozy Cozy Podcast, recorded six days postpartum and revisited at 12 days postpartum.