Parenting talk from the messy middle.
The Mom Room treats motherhood as funny, exhausting, practical, and emotionally complicated all at once. Solo episodes move through real-life overwhelm, sleep, workouts, medication, and school schedules, while interviews bring in voices on child influencers, burnout, nail care, and family health.
PRESS PLAY
The Mom Room is a parenting show shaped by the actual friction of family life: calendars, drop-offs, fatigue, guilt, workouts, errands, kids getting older, and the constant question of how much one person can carry. It does not treat motherhood as a neat identity project. It treats it as something funny, stressful, loving, repetitive, overstimulating, and sometimes weirdly energizing in the same week. The strongest solo episodes feel like a running log of a parent trying to keep the day from tipping over. A school transportation problem can become a larger reflection on working-mom guilt. March break exhaustion can open into sleep tracking, illness, CrossFit, and the relief of getting back to routine. A discussion of the toddler years can turn into a frank account of why some parents prefer later childhood. The show gives space to the idea that not loving every stage does not mean failing at the job. It also makes room for parents who are clear-eyed about being one-and-done. Interviews widen the frame without losing the everyday tone. Fortesa Latifi brings nuance to the business of child influencers and the costs of childhood online. Dr. Ashurina Ream helps separate ordinary stress from parental burnout. Sandra Tadros Guirguis brings a clinical pharmacist's view to cough and cold season, care plans, prevention, sleep, and medication choices. Sarah Gibson Tuttle turns nail care, beauty habits, and business-building into a conversation about maintenance and self-care. The show is practical, but not in a polished checklist way. It often circles through anxiety, ADHD medication, exercise, social media boundaries, and the tiny domestic decisions that quietly decide the mood of a household. There are many ad reads, and the tone can move quickly from sincere reflection to product talk. That is part of its texture. The Mom Room suits parents who want candor more than perfection, especially those who like parenting conversations that can be warm, blunt, scattered, and useful without pretending the week is under control.
Made for: The show is for parents, especially moms, who want candid company through school logistics, burnout, toddler memories, fitness goals, sleep problems, and working-parent guilt. It also suits listeners interested in parenting-adjacent interviews about online safety, family health, and self-care.
What sets it apart: The Mom Room stands apart by keeping the loose feel of a real-life check-in while still bringing in guests for concrete, topical conversations. It makes room for contradiction: loving motherhood while feeling overwhelmed, using social media while questioning kids online, and wanting routines without pretending life is calm.
Welcome to The Mom Room, the ultimate podcast that makes motherhood a lot more fun and a lot less chaotic! Join Renee Reina, the brilliant mind behind the buzzworthy Instagram account @themomroom, as she dives into everything moms crave: juicy interviews, the latest pop culture gossip, parenting advice and news, game-changing products, and so much more. The Mom Room is a digital space where moms can gather and be honest about the highs and lows of motherhood. Whether you're looking to stay on top of current events, get the scoop on TV shows, or find your next great read, The Mom Room is your go-to spot for all things #MOMLIFE. Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday and get ready to laugh, learn,…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Renee Reina pairs practical parenting conversations with candid accounts of the guilt, fatigue and mixed feelings threaded through everyday motherhood.
The Mom Room moves easily between Renee Reina's candid solo dispatches and interviews built around the practical complications of raising a child.
Toddler apologies and school-drop-off panic: Renee Reina lets you off the perfect-parent hook.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Monday childcare scramble turns into a candid look at guilt, gratitude, and family timing.
Renee spends the episode in a Monday childcare scramble, and the result is a clear look at how a small schedule change can ripple into panic, guilt, and a shaky family routine.
A grounded conversation about kids online, family boundaries, and the tradeoffs of being public on social media.
The episode keeps its focus on kids online, online safety, and the uneasy tradeoffs of being public on social media. It works best when it refuses to turn that into a simple yes or no.
A candid talk about young kids, ADHD, and deciding whether one child is enough.
The episode stays close to motherhood with young kids, then opens out into what changes as a child gets older and a parent starts wondering whether one child might be enough.
A practical look at at-home nails, prep, and steady maintenance.
This episode keeps its focus on at-home nail care, with practical notes on press-ons, prep, cuticle oil, and the small habits that help nails look polished between salon visits.
A March break check-in where sleep data and burpees track two different kinds of exhaustion.
March break turns The Mom Room into a study in stamina, as the host compares sleep data with the plain reality of being awake, reading at midnight, and waking again and again.
A candid working-mom spiral about travel, school-dropoff logistics, family visits, and a basement spider problem.
Renee's late-night check-in finds its tension in an overstuffed stretch of work, parenting, travel, and family logistics. She is glad to be moving around and hosting family, but the episode stays close to the strain of making every handoff land.
Toddler behavior is treated as something to understand first, not a label to slap on.
The Mom Room presents toddler behavior as something to understand before it gets labeled, and that framing gives the discussion its edge. Through examples like hitting, biting, bath refusals, and toy grabbing, it keeps returning to the same idea: adults should first ask what is…
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
A mom recounts her urge to deep clean her dark navy blue powder room with poor lighting while recovering from bronchitis.
Renee Reina interviews Devon Kuntzman, founder of Transforming Toddlerhood, about navigating the challenging toddler years.
Host Renee Reina opens up about feeling overwhelmed by work travel and mom guilt after a trip to rural Pennsylvania.
Renee opens with a disclaimer about explicit language and says she will use plain terms like "raped" rather than "allegedly sexually assaulted." She recounts the 2024 Cornell case as she understands it: ketamine, a 57-member fraternity group chat, seven men, and two expulsions with five "essays." She credits Instagram posts from Florence Pugh and the account WordClown for bringing the story to her.
Renee opens with Nine to Kind and the planner that excited her.
The host talks with a guest about kids online, safety, and the tradeoffs of visibility.
The host opens by circling back to the demands of parenting young kids and the toll that can take on a parent.
The episode talks nails, press-ons, and the little habits that make self-care easier to stick with.
The host discusses her excitement about playing pickleball for the first time and addresses a common question about Vyvanse, CrossFit, and working out.
The host compares Apple Watch sleep scores with her old Whoop band, saying the watch caught a night when she was awake reading "for probably an hour." She breaks down how Apple scores sleep using duration, bedtime consistency, interruptions, sleep stages, and respiratory rate, then notes that 98 came from two NyQuil nights.
Dr.
Clinical pharmacist Sandra Tadros Guirguis discusses surviving cough and cold season with kids, sharing her background and approach to family health.
Amanda Thebe shares her personal journey with perimenopause and menopause, discussing how her menstrual cycle changes and symptoms led her to recognize the transition.
Devon Kuntzman discusses her inspiration for creating Transforming Toddlerhood, focusing on miscommunications between parents and toddlers and her own experiences as a nanny.