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We are putting the spotlight on modern Mom probs. Tara Clark is the founder. I love that name. Where did that come from? Uh, thank you. I appreciate that. Uh, it actually is modern Mom problems, but when I was doing my Instagram, I thought it's too many letters, it's too long, so I cut it down for modern Mom probs, but I like to say that whether it's on my Instagram account or in my book or on my podcast, I like to talk about anything that falls underneath the umbrella of a modern mom problem. It's something I'm gonna talk about. We will tackle those problems. I love that. Yeah, speaking of your Instagram page, how many followers do you have? I have nearly 800,000 followers. I've been doing this since 2016, years ago before I actually started my account. I worked at Nickelodeon and I worked in social media at Nickelodeon and for a time I was Dora the Explorer on Facebook. Really? I love it. Yeah. And so I left Nickelodeon when my son was born to stay home with him full time, but when he was about 3 years old. I was looking for a connection and I, we were living in New York City at the time and it's a big city and sometimes it could be a lonely city so I started my account to connect with other moms and we were making jokes about things we were talking about what it was like to raise toddlers and then when I moved back to New Jersey, I changed the name to modern mom problems at the time because I had it was NYC mom problems which New York City mom problems are different. Problems, but I changed the name to Modern Mom Problems and the account just took off from there and people all over the country all over the world say yes, I have modern mom problems and uh we're happy to talk about them. Now when you say New York City problems are different, um, gosh, it could be anything from getting your stroller down the subway stairs. Good point. Or uh trying to get into certain schools or I mean, having all the toys in the apartment or the stroller and the bicycles and everything all in the apartment, there are so many different things. So how did this take off once you launched it? I really think the name had so much to do with it because when I said modern mom probs people said oh I have modern mom problems and whether they lived in California or Des Moines or in Wayne they say yeah I I relate to that I understand let's talk about it let's talk about the silly things whether it's a run to target or really serious things like postpartum depression and maternal mental health like I said, as long as it falls underneath that umbrella, it's something I'm gonna talk about.

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Tara Clark is the founder of Modern Mom Probs. You travel all over the place on speaking engagements. Just recently you were in Orlando, Florida. Tell me all about this. I was, yes, so I am a frequent speaker at women's conferences whether it's Alt Summit or Mom 2.0. I just got back from. 2.0 where I was speaking about navigating content creation as our children age and I often speak at women's conferences about various different topics because I think it's so important to one connect with each other in person and not just digitally and to share the knowledge and information that I have. You also were on Tamin Hall. I was. What was that experience like? You're right. I was on Tammarin Hall just about a year ago right now. Um, my girlfriend Dina was supposed to fly from Florida to New Jersey for a girls weekend that I was hosting, and unfortunately her flight got canceled and all the other girls flew into New Jersey, but Dina made a video. About how sad she was and about how she never had the opportunity to take time for herself until now and this was her moment this was her big moment and the video sort of went viral and it caught the attention of Taron Hall's producers so they called Dina and said we want to fly you to New York and Dina said, Sure, that'd be amazing. And then also could I bring my friend Tara who organized the event and they said sure and so Dina. And I that was the first time we met in person because she is my internet friend and we met uh in the green room at Tamern's show and so Dina and I were on the show and I am pleased to say that this past weekend my girlfriends and I, including Dina, got together for a girls weekend. That's so exciting. It is. It really was. What does a girls weekend do? We've seen the movie, but what does it do for you all? Oh. It's almost hard to put into words. If I could say if I could sum it up in one word, it would be magical. It is magical to have somebody that is there to listen to you and to nod and to understand and to look in your eyes and know that even if their journey and experience might be a little different, that's OK because she's there to listen to you and listen to yours and to validate you. We also ate a lot of. Soup, which normally you don't think like, oh girls are getting together, eat soup. We had soup for like 3 meals. It's been kind of cold here in New Jersey, so I don't know that was your comfort food that was our comfort food. We've been eating a lot of soup, but we're there to listen to each other, to hype each other up, to be each other's biggest cheerleaders.

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Founder Tara Clark joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss the upcoming Reset Retreat event scheduled to take place in Ringwood on April 26.

Spotlight New Jersey: Modern Mom Probs

Founder Tara Clark joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss the upcoming Reset Retreat event scheduled to take place in Ringwood on April 26.

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