In this soulful and thought-provoking episode of The YAM Podcast, I sit down with registered dietitian Raz Grammer to explore the nuanced intersections of food, identity, emotional health, and motherhood.

While Raz’s formal training centers around nutrition science (her thesis explored the effects of apples and plums on bone density), her real-life relationship with food is anything but clinical. It’s intuitive, cultural, tender — and deeply human. In this conversation, she invites us into the heart of her kitchen, her motherhood, and her healing.

We talk about the emotional layers that live in our relationship with food — especially as mothers. How grief and control can show up on our plates. How children have a deep wisdom when it comes to food, and how we as parents can create a supportive environment that honours both body and soul.

Raz also opens up about her personal evolution — from being the kind of person who needed a plan, to becoming someone who could lean into flow, trust, and deep listening. It’s a shift many of us are craving… and she models it with such grace.

💬 This episode is less about food rules, and more about food wisdom. Less about doing it “right,” and more about doing it real.

In this tender and honest episode of The YAM Podcast, I sit down once again with Carly El Kassaby to explore the next chapter in her motherhood journey — one shaped by empowered birth, deep loss, and the quiet creation of a movement rooted in real, unfiltered connection.

Carly’s second birth took place in the U.S., in a hospital, supported by compassionate professionals — but the power didn’t come from the setting. It came from within. After a traumatic first experience (shared in Episode 22), Carly stepped into this birth with a quiet knowing: she was the one doing it. This time, she felt supported and sovereign. It was a birth story written in her own voice — and it became a powerful reclaiming of trust, strength, and self.

But life had more to unfold. What followed was a miscarriage — quiet, painful, and held mostly in silence. As she moved through grief while parenting two young children, Carly began to notice how few spaces truly existed for mothers to be raw, imperfect, and emotionally honest.

And so, she birthed something new: @supersolidmomfriend — a space where moms can show up as they are, be held in their mess, and find comfort in the company of others who get it.

This episode is not just about birth or loss — it’s about the in-between. The invisible transitions. The strength found in softness. And the reminder that motherhood doesn’t always ask for perfection — it asks for presence.