Milk Money | The Podcast for Moms Building Businesses
Serving short stacks and big dreams 🥞☕
Welcome to Milk Money, a podcast for moms who love their kids fiercely AND have dreams, ambitions, identities, and lives of their own. Because motherhood is already a full-time job, but for a lot of us, it isn't the only thing we want to be.
Milk Money is where we talk about the part of motherhood that doesn't always make it into the polished Instagram posts: building a business while raising kids, wanting an identity outside of motherhood, navigating mom guilt, protecting your time and energy, and figuring out how to build a life that actually works for the woman living it.
Whether you call yourself a mompreneur, mom entrepreneur, working mom, business owner, founder, or just a mom who has a little voice saying there has to be more, we saved you a seat.
Meet Your Hostess
I'm Stephanie Lemes — mom, wife, business owner, creative, and the woman behind the mic. I started Milk Money because I was searching for the podcast I needed in this season of my life and couldn't find it.
There were plenty of business podcasts for women. Plenty of motherhood podcasts. But I wanted the conversations that lived in the messy middle — what happens when you're building a business, raising tiny humans, figuring out who you are, and trying not to lose yourself somewhere along the way.
So I decided to create the booth I couldn't find.
Milk Money is for the mom who loves being a mom and still wants something that's hers, is building a business between school drop-off, nap time and bedtime, has big dreams but limited time and energy, or simply wants honest conversations about motherhood and entrepreneurship instead of another highlight reel.
You don't need a six-figure business. You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to know there's more to your story.
Every week, we're pulling up a chair for honest, unfiltered conversations about motherhood, ambition, business, identity, relationships, health, money, and all the messy bits in between. You'll hear from moms building businesses in all kinds of seasons and stages — and hopefully leave each episode feeling a little less alone.
Because sometimes the best thing another mom can give you isn't advice. It's proof that you're not the only one.
Welcome to the Diner.
Picture a retro roadside diner — checkered floors, coffee refills, chrome, cherry-red booths, jukeboxes, and a bell letting everyone know your order is up.
Why a diner? Because diners are open 24/7, just like motherhood.
There is no clocking out. No true off-shift. So at Milk Money, we're flipping the script: the women doing all the serving finally get to sit down.
Pull up a seat. Stay awhile. Pour it all out.
We'll talk about the wins, the doubts, the pivots, the guilt, the ambition, the chaos, and the dreams that didn't disappear when you became a mom. Expect guest conversations, solo episodes, listener questions, and eventually a phone line where you can call in, ask a question, vent, or just say the thing you haven't been able to say anywhere else.
Because this booth is yours, too.
Milk Money: Serving short stacks and big dreams.
Welcome in, we saved you a seat.
Milk Money | The Podcast for Moms Building Businesses
Latest Episodes
Guest Check 009: You’re a Stakeholder in Your Own Life with Steph Rubio
What if the problem isn't that you're bad at balance .. but that you've been building a life around everyone else's needs except your own?This week at the Milk Money booth, I'm sitting down with Steph Rubio, a strategist and busin...
Guest Check 008: When There’s No More Room on Your Plate with Giavonna Mayo
What happens when your calendar says you have time .. but your actual life says otherwise?This week at the Milk Money booth, I’m sitting down with Gia, founder of Gia Rose Digital and mom of three, to talk about something I think ...
Guest Check 007: You’re Allowed to Want a Life of Your Own with Nathalia Brasileiro
What if loving motherhood deeply doesn’t mean you have to want to spend every waking moment with your kids?This week at the Milk Money booth, I’m sitting down with Nat, founder of Vixen Creative, mom to a two-year-old, and someone who is...
Guest Check 006: Intentional Motherhood, Boundaries & Building a Business That Fits Your Life with Tiana Wiley
What if being a present mom and being an ambitious business owner didn't have to be an either/or?In this episode of Milk Money, Stephanie sits down with Tiana Wiley, creative director and founder of Ferox Event Designs and Plann...
Guest Check 005: Health Is Part of the Hustle with Relle Dixon
What if taking care of your health isn't something you squeeze into the leftover spaces of your life, but something you have to protect in order to build the life you're working so hard for?In this episode of Milk Money, Stephan...