Ep 52: Why Women Need Women with Women’s Empowerment Speaker (and my wife!) Tina VanSteenbergen

It’s Diner Talks with James’ first birthday! To celebrate Tina VanSteenbergen, my badass wife, slid back into the diner booth with me! Tina is a professional women’s empowerment speaker and runs her own women’s conference called Persist. We started the way we always do, talking late-night foods. The last time Tina was on the podcast she was pregnant, now we have a baby, and I asked her how that feels. We then threw out the best and worst advice we got when she was pregnant. Tina talked about the feeding struggles and other really hard topics that aren’t shared enough with new moms. But how do you know you’re a good parent? Our two very different perspectives were fascinating to hear. Also, we weren’t head over heels in love with our baby the day he was born and that is ok. A big thing we are still dealing with is the loneliness of becoming parents so we chatted about that struggle. Then we took a hard left and got to hear about Tina’s new passion project: Persist: A Badass Women’s Conference. She wonders, are women writing a story that their success is limited? Tina rounded out our time together discussing why, for women, confidence must be a team sport. What a special one, y’all! Thank you to all of you who helped this fun idea I had stick around for a full year, now on to year 2!