Meet A Mom

Meet-a-Mom Monday: Meet Robin Arźon!
Robin Arzón is the definition of a fit mom. As the Vice President of Fitness Programming and Head Instructor at Peloton, as well as a professional ultramarathon runner, she’s not afraid to work hard to be her fittest—and is inspiring other moms to get out there and do...

Meet-a-Mom: Meet Jillian Michaels!
Jillian Michaels became a household name when she starred on the uber-popular and intense weight loss reality show, The Biggest Loser, which ran from 2004 to 2016. This Emmy-nominated mom of two has since left reality TV behind, and continued her career as an...

Meet a Mom Monday: Karen Kupfer
Meet this great Ocean County Mom who is a speech pathologist, but also has many other talents up her sleeve! Read all about her, her works, and all the amazing things she is doing for her community and others.

Meet-a-Mom Monday: Jessica Severin
Meet Jessica- a local Ocean County Mom that is a NJ native rocking that working mom vibe while raising her two kiddos. Read all about her business as a realtor!

Meet-a-Mom Monday:Ashley DeAzevedo
Meet this awesome Ocean County mom- Ashley DeAzevedo. Read all about how Ashley didn’t let an amazing opportunity slip away and has not one, but two thriving businesses on opposite ends of the county.

Meet a Mom Monday: Jackie Anderson
Meet Jackie Anderson, who is a local Ocean County Mom that is the founder of Ascend Pediatric Therapies, LLC. Jackie is a passionate speech-language pathologist with many degrees and certifications in the field. Read all about Jackie and the amazing work she is doing.

Meet a Mom Monday: Alyssa Haake
Meet Alyssa Haake, a local Ocean County mom that took the plunge to leave her day job as a teacher and work her photography business as her full time career!

Meet a Mom: Concetta Alvarez
Concetta Alvarez, is the founder of ERS Better Homes, LLC. Read all about how this amazing mom worked hard to rise to the top of a predominantly male field letting nothing stand in her way.

Meet a Mom Monday
We’re so excited to introduce Nicole Hendelman-Dersovitz, a mompreneur and the founder of NicoleHD Jewelry. Nicole has been in the jewelry industry her entire life and over the past 3 decades, she’s become an icon, shaking-up the fine jewelry industry by creating a direct-to-consumer fine jewelry brand that is more accessible than other fine jewelry companies with unnecessarily large markups.

Meet-a-Mom: Jennifer Levi
This weeks meet-a- mom is Jennifer Levi. Jennifer is a local mom that runs Wheee Get Fit+Play, LLC . Jennifer’s passion is working with both pregnant and postpartum moms on their journey to be the very best version of themselves. Read more on Jennifer’s interview below.

Meet-a-Mom Monday: Lois Robbins
This week’s Meet a Mom interview is with New York City-based actress and mom of four Lois Robbins! Over her career, she has built a rich resume of credits on the big screen (most recently The Aspern Papers with Jonathan Rhys Meyers), small screen (One Life to Live, All My Children, Sex and the City, Law & Order) and off-Broadway (including her one-woman play L.O.V.E.R.). But recently, she decided to launch The LoDown, an Instagram Live show that is already reaching 100,000 viewers per episode, and featuring celebrities like Kristin Chenoweth, Brooke Shields, Kelly Rutherford and others.

Meet a Mom Monday
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was one of the most iconic sitcoms of the 90s, and launched Will Smith’s career, pre-Men in Black. On Super Bowl Sunday, with Smith as Executive Producer, the show returned as a modern drama, Bel-Air, on the Peacock Network. (Watch the trailer here.). This more nuanced show dives deeper into the familiar characters, young Will, Hilary, Ashley and Carlton, and of course, Geoffrey the Butler and Uncle Phil. Cassandra (Cassie) Freeman plays Aunt Viv.

Meet-a-Mom Monday with: The Push author Ashley Audrain!
This week’s Meet a Mom interview is with The Push author Ashley Audrain! This Toronto-based writer’s debut novel was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, as well as a Good Morning America book club pick. An addictive, dark read, it follows Blythe, a woman for whom motherhood is fraught with anxiety and self-doubt, as well as serious concerns about her daughter—and nothing like the experience she thought it would be. This buzzed about book is one all moms can relate to—even if the exact circumstances are unrecognizable. We spoke to Ashley, mom to a 4-year-old daughter and six-year-old son, about the inspiration for The Push, its success, and what advice she gives moms interested in writing.

Meet-a-Mom Monday
Meet Stacey Fink, an amazing mother, nurse, and lactation consultant. Read all about how she has taken her love for her job as a nurse and turned it into something beautiful by starting her own business helping moms on their special journey of breastfeeding.

Meet-a-Mom: Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields is one of those rare celebrities who has this innate ability to inspire women decade after decade, with her resilience, intelligence, and of course, natural beauty. Her career has endless highlights, from the 1980s hit Blue Lagoon to Suddenly Susan, which she received two Golden Globe nominations for during its 1996-2000 run. She’s conquered Broadway, in Grease, Cabaret, Wonderful Town, Chicago and, most recently, The Addams Family. But what has truly distinguished her was her courage to be one of the first celebrities to bring postpartum depression to light.

Meet-a-Mom Monday: Colleen Tola Dopkin
Meet Colleen Tola Dopkin Where are you from originally and how long have you lived in town? I grew up in Hamilton Square, NJ and lived there until college. I moved to Manahawkin in 2011. Child(ren) and Age(s)? I have two amazing sons: Jamison (8) and Lukas...

Meet-a-Mom Monday: Heather Walsh
Heather is a local mom from Bayville. Not only is she an amazing mom and pet owner, but also a “mompreneur”. Heather took her skills of being a nurse to the next level. Read all about how she started this amazing business!

Meet-a-mom Monday: Kelly Krzeczkowski
This week’s Meet a Mom is Kelly Krzeczkowski. Kelly is a mom of two and brings every bit of heart and soul in everything she does. Kelly is the definition of survivor, warrior and faith. This mom has a story worth reading and a business worth supporting. She’s been a nurturer her whole life, from working with the elderly to her new philanthropy work. Learn how Kelly turned an extremely hard time in her life, surviving domestic abuse and leaning on God to bring her joy back. Kelly took the most difficult time in her life and is now using it to help others through Boho Bites Food Truck. We are so honored to share Kelly’s story of strength, determination and hope!

Meet-a-Mom Monday:Cheryl Granito
This week’s Meet a Mom interview is with Cheryl Granito, the amazing mom behind the Denville Moms, part of The Local Moms Network. She is a former Special Education teacher, a girl mom of three (Harper,10, Kayla, 5, and Ellie, 2), and a metastatic breast cancer warrior. We spoke to her about being dismissed by doctors before her diagnosis, advocating for herself (and now other woman), what she wants newly diagnosed women to know, what is helping her feel strong today, and more.

Meet-A-Mom Monday
This week’s Meet a Mom is one of the newest additions to The Local Moms Network (TLMN), Lindsey Harrison, who is one of the New Canaan-Darien Moms. She and her husband and daughter Wesleigh (3.5) live in the beach community of Rowayton, in Norwalk, CT. In addition to joining our team last winter, Lindsey also runs the popular blog, Home With The Harrisons, and recently launched her own interior design firm, Dear Elizabeth Interiors! We caught up with this busy toddler mom to ask her about joining our network, her new business and balancing all these fantastic projects.