Amy VanHaren
Co-Host of The pumpspot
amy vanharen is an entrepreneur, mother, writer, speaker two-time breastfeeder, and founder of pumpspotting.
amy has built communities and led creative digital storytelling and marketing for over 17 years. she experienced deep isolation while trying to navigate working and breastfeeding and saw a better way to unite and empower all the nursing and pumping women of the world so she went on to create pumpspotting.
she’s pitched on a moving escalator on Apple’s reality show Planet of the Apps, been featured in FastCompany, and been awarded as a high-impact startup by MassChallenge.
amy never imagined that her passion to nourish her own family would lead her to nourishing others and take her 17,000 miles cross country on a 40-foot RV called the Breast Express. but now, as passionate as ever, she’s out to help one million more women reach their breastfeeding goals.
say hello, amy loves to send handwritten notes and to hear from moms.
Amy VanHaren has hosted 26 Episodes.
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Episode 14: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 3 with Mackey Roberson
July 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 34 mins 13 secs
amy vanharen, black mothers, lactation, mackey roberson
This platform is a place where we value community conversations and elevating voices around real topics, issues and mothers. With that in mind, we wanted to bring you a very timely conversation with Mackey Roberson, a lactation consultant, a mother to 8 , and a true champion of the nourishment journey. Mackey is an inspiration to the mothers she guides, with over 24 years of breastfeeding under her belt.
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Episode 13: Breastfeeding at work: what working, feeding families really need
June 29th, 2020 | Season 1 | 28 mins 18 secs
amy vanharen, employee, employer, lisa boettcher, pumpspotting at work
As a community-inspired breastfeeding and pumping platform, we're focused on helping parents feed both their families and their careers. Nourishing a baby impacts every aspect of your life, and that includes your time in the workplace. Support for nursing and pumping parents has to come from many places, from employers. The companies we work for have such an important role to play in a successful feeding journey.
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Episode 12: How NASA is blazing a new path for working parent and breastfeeding support in the workplace
June 22nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 45 mins 37 secs
erin sholl, nasa, pumpspotting at work, rachael copeland, susan schuh
If we can get working mothers to space, we can certainly make space for them here on earth. Lisa and Amy sit down with Susan Schuh, Rachael Copeland, and Erin Sholl from NASA to explore how a company and its employees can unite to change workplace support for families.
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Episode 11: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 2 with Ericka Polanco-Webb
June 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 28 mins 37 secs
amy vanharen, breastfeeding, career, chestfeeding, ericka polanco-webb, feeding, latching, mom help, motherhood, mothering, new mom, nourishing, nourishment, parenthood, parenting, pumping, pumpspot, pumpspotting, work life, work life balance, working mother, working parenthood
On this platform, we value candid community conversations that elevate voices around real topics, issues, and motherhood experiences. For part two of our series of conversations with Black mothers and leaders, Lisa spoke with Ericka Polanco-Webb. Ericka is a motherhood journalist, mom to five, and a doctoral student focusing on innovation and strategy. In this honest conversation, she explores barriers, opportunities and risks ahead that must be reckoned with in order to create lasting change.
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Episode 10: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 1 with Jenny LeFlore
June 12th, 2020 | Season 1 | 37 mins 27 secs
amy vanharen, lisa boettcher, pumpspot, pumpspotting
This platform is a place where we value community conversations and elevating voices around real topics, issues and mothers. With that in mind, we wanted to bring you a very timely conversation between Lisa from our team, and Jenny LeFlore, a mother, a champion for mothers, and someone who is tightly woven into our community…really an extension of the pumpspotting family. Jenny is a community builder herself. She lives in Chicago, Bronzeville specifically, with her husband and 3-year old son. This episode is the start of a series of conversations with Black mothers and leaders.
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Episode 9: How do we care for the mental health of mothers? with Dr. Catherine Birndorf + Paige Bellenbaum of The Motherhood Center
May 21st, 2020 | Season 1 | 51 mins 25 secs
maternal health, motherhood, perinatal, postpartum, postpartum depression, pregnancy
How do we talk to ourselves, take care of ourselves, and come together in a time of postpartum (and pandemic) to support maternal mental health?
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Episode 8: Birth In the time of coronavirus: Paige Carroll, CPM and Blair Hicks, CNM
May 14th, 2020 | Season 1 | 33 mins 37 secs
birth, blair hicks terrell, cnm, coronavirus, covid-19, midwife, midwifery, paige carroll
In today's episode, we’re exploring birth in the age of COVID-19. Lisa Boettcher spoke with two midwives about the impact this pandemic has had on childbirth.
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Episode 7: To all the moms: A special Mother's Day episode from the pumpspotting community
May 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 20 mins 12 secs
amy, community, lisa, maren, mother's day, rebecca
In this episode, Maren and Rebecca (from the pumpspotting family) join Lisa and Amy to read Mother's Day messages sent in from the pumpspotting community.
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Episode 6: What you should know about breastfeeding during this pandemic with International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Kara Kaikini
May 4th, 2020 | Season 1 | 35 mins 21 secs
breastfeeding, kara, kara kaikini, lactation consultant, lactation specialist, professional
Easing worry with professional advice from a lactation consultant
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Episode 5: To be both a nurse and a mother in the trenches: Part 3 Interview with Jenna Mannini
April 30th, 2020 | Season 1 | 25 mins 51 secs
covid-19, jenna, jenna mannini, nurses, trenches
Navigating motherhood in a time of coronavirus is a challenge. Doing so while working in healthcare today is even harder. Amy talks with nurses who are in the trenches, currently treating COVID-19 patients in the U.S.
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Episode 4: To be both a nurse and a mother in the trenches: Part 2 Interview with Jessamyn Phillips
April 28th, 2020 | Season 1 | 31 mins 52 secs
covid-19, jessamyn, jessamyn phillips, nurses, trenches
Navigating motherhood in a time of coronavirus is a challenge. Doing so while working in healthcare today is even harder. Amy talks with nurses who are in the trenches, currently treating COVID-19 patients in the U.S.
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Episode 2: From Bathroom Floors to Breast Express RV: The pumpspotting Story With Founder Amy VanHaren
April 21st, 2020 | Season 1 | 23 mins 49 secs
amy vanharen, breast express, first, pumpspotting origin story
The founder of pumpspotting, Amy, takes us on her journey of what was once an idea quickly rejected on a reality TV show to where it is today—a powerful community of mothers in the pumpspotting app.