Woman of Valor Podcast
with Bari Mitzmann

Sara Schwartz is wife to Avi and mom to Noam and Kiki, a 1.5 year old with a rare chromosomal abnormality called 3q duplication. Kiki is trach, vent, and gtube dependent, has a complex medical history, and is developmentally delayed. In addition to her new role, Sara works for NJ NCSY and is a part time OU JLIC educator at Rutgers. In this weeks episode, Sara shared her and Kiki’s journey and her pursuit of balance being a medical mom and being everything else.

Every person is a work of art and your palette is the guide to sharing yourself, a masterpiece, to the world. Chanchi Milecki, also known as The Soul Styler, joins Bari in a conversation about self expression through color.

In this week’s episode, Deena Becks discusses her journey of infertility, pregnancy, and stillbirth. Deena shares with us the highs and lows and how she grew through the experience, finding positivity or as she calls them, gumdrops along the way.

What is disordered eating? What should I be eating? How do I know I have an eating disorder? How do I deal with comments about my body or what I’m eating? These questions and more have been answered by a panel of professionals in the eating disorder treatment realm.

Ahuva Gottdiener of Homegrown Kosher discusses life with a congenital heart defect, her journey to heart surgery and life after her recovery.