A podcast that explores the culture of motherhood with curiosity and compassion
We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and writers on the parenting beat. The Mother Of It All is our place to go deep into the culture of modern motherhood and have the conversations that truly challenge, feed and excite us. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. We're diving into the grey areas beyond the tropes — the wine moms, the rage moms, the anything moms — to spend real time with the ideas that help us grow as mothers and people in this cultural moment. Join our conversation on Substack here, and tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
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Sarah Wheeler
Sarah Wheeler is a writer and educational psychologist whose work has been published in Romper, The Cut, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, Deadspin, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more. Sarah writes about parenting, motherhood, ADHD, disability and neurodiversity, basketball, and many other things. Her newsletter, Momspreading, is a Substack Bestseller. You can read her anti-parenting-advice parenting-advice column, Good Enough Parent, on Romper.
Sarah has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a dissertation fellowship from the Greater Good Science Center. She has worked with teachers, parents, and neurodivergent children for almost two decades, and frequently consults with parents and schools. She is the co-founder of the public school equity organization, Get Schooled Oakland, and a humble loyalist to integrated, public schools.
Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sarah lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and two kids, only cleans to ear-splittingly loud R&B, and always orders dessert. She is a proud “ADHDer,” and writes about her later-in-life ADHD diagnosis here and here.
For more of Sarah’s writing, go here. Connect with her on LinkedIn here.
Miranda Rake
Miranda is a writer and editor who gets her kicks thinking, writing and talking about parenthood, with a particular interest in maternal mental health. She writes in depth about the books, ideas and people that fascinate her, like motherhood & the psychedelic renaissance, bioethics & prenatal testing, the evolution of Emily Oster, and why so many moms take antidepressants for publications like Romper and The Cut. Before she was a parent, she wrote about food & drinks for publications like Imbibe, Food52, Food & Wine, The Wall St. Journal and The Modern Proper.
Subscribe to her Substack, or learn more about Miranda here.
Ali Baughman
Ali Baughman produces The Mother Of It All, and without her steady guidance, Sarah and Miranda would be kaput. She is the founder of Opus Nox Media, an active member in her local theater community, a childless-by-choice cat mom, and hoarder of hobbies and skills. When not editing audio in front of the computer, she’s going on trips with her partner, investigating haunted locations, exploring nature, and generally freaking out her neighbors with questionable yard decor and midnight full moon rituals. Ali is also the host of her own podcasts Deuces are Mild and The Vampire Talk Show.