005: When Mommy Puts Herself First | Saba Homayoon Hopkins
This week's guest is Saba Homayoon Hopkins, who lives in Los Angeles, California with her family, which includes her husband and their two kids, Lily (9) and Alex (5). In this episode, Saba talks about how pregnancy helped dramatically change her view of her body and tells the story of her hospital birth. She then discusses the loneliness of pumping breastmilk and shares how she prepared her daughter for a sibling. Saba also talks about the experience of learning that her son has a Sensory Processing Disorder, explains how she copes with the messiness of having kids, and expresses how much she loves the multi-tasking of motherhood. Because Saba is an actress, we talk about her upcoming show and how she is preparing herself and her family for her extended absence while filming out of town. Finally, Saba shares how she is learning to put herself first and reveals a candid and relatable mom confession about overwhelm.
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Saba Homayoon Hopkins is a wife, mom to two spit-fire kids (Lily-9 and Alex-5), and mom to one fur baby, Reece. When not in the role of “mommy,” she can be seen tutoring, teaching acting classes, or on TV! She is an actress seen in the tv show, Chad on TBS, playing, what else, but a mom of two! But her greatest role in life will always be being a mom to her own two kids. Saba is most passionate about creating a home where her children feel safe to be themselves, take risks, be messy, and grow. She believes in raising children who will be constructive members of their communities, who will be aware of injustice and fight it when necessary, and who will always give back to those in need. She would describe her family as four divas always competing for the spotlight! It makes for a lot of craziness, sass, imagination, creativity, passion, personality, laughter, and love. So much love.
You can watch a trailer for Chad featuring Saba right here.
The documentary discussed in this episode is The Business of Being Born.
Thank you for listening!