Brittany Balyn On Motherhood, Dating After Divorce, and Co-Parenting Strategies - Touchy Subject 6 - Video

This week on Touchy Subject, Lena welcomes fellow "Mom-Influencer" and YouTuber, Brittany Balyn! Diving deeper into who Brittany is, we learn about her previous marriage and how unique their co-parenting style is now. She took her husband's new girlfriend out for lunch?! The girls further discuss all things motherhood; pregnancy, birth stories, milestones, and more. Brittany talks about her TikTok Swindler scandal and so much more! Listen in for this week's episode and have a good day on purpose! xoxo

00:00 Intro
01:00 How Lena found Brittany on social media
01:25 Brittany says she knew Lena was pregnant before she announced it
02:50 How Brittany comes up with content ideas
04:50 Brittany says she started her YouTube because she felt really lonely
09:00 Brittany feels like her new job is purely researching motherhood
10:00 Lena wanting to be a blonde
12:50 The girls talk about uploading consistently to YouTube and how difficult it is to create new and better content
14:20 Motherhood "doesn't get easier, it just gets different"
15:45 Brittany says every year her daughter gets older, there's a big change that happens
16:50 Lena asks Brittany if always knew she wanted to be a mom and Brittany said no
19:00 Being pregnant during the pandemic
21:19 Brittany said she felt extremely motivated during her pregnancy
22:00 Brittany's scary birth story
22:50 Brittany says she has beef with her OBGYN
23:40 Lena was looked at as an alien at the hospital
25:20 Brittany says she got three different epidurals and none of them worked
27:40 Brittany couldn't sit for months after giving birth
31:00 Postpartum struggles
36:10 Brittany on processing her divorce while having a newborn
39:00 Co-Parenting struggles
39:40 Brittany talks about "gentle parenting"
42:30 Brittany says she would take her ex's new girlfriend out to eat and meet her before the kid was involved at all
47:15 Lena says she resents her mother about how her parents divorced
49:40 The TIKTOK SWINDLER Story
57:50 Brittany says she has friends with benefits right now but is taking dating very slowly
59:20 Brittany is avoiding men with mommy f3ti$hes at all costs
59:25 Lena asks Brittany if she knew she did porn from when they first met
59:40 Lena says she has a phobia that other children parents' won't allow their kids to hang out with Parker
1:00:15 Lena says if she had to pick a stage name it would be "Lena Lovegood"
1:01:10 Will their children be effected later by their parent's career choice?
1:03:10 Brittany says her mom was a weed blogger in 1997
1:10:00 Mom guilt

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