ABOUT
What would happen if Busy Phillips and Howard Stern had a parenting show? Meet Ashley and Keri! No one drops more f-bombs about parenting and mom-life than these two accidental best friends. Dishing, and sometimes revealing more than their partners would like in each episode, they’re all too honest about parenting fails, the struggle to be selfless mothers but still badass bitches, and post-partum sex. Recently voted #14 on Podcast Magazine's 2021 "Top Moms in Podcasting", they are the relatable mom group rejects you didn’t know you needed. Now in partnership with CafeMom, reaching 40M moms monthly.
Originally paired together for the Scary Mommy Speaks podcast in 2019, then Momtourage in February 2020, Ashley and Keri have given listeners a mom sanctuary to turn to when you’re more Lorelai Gilmore than June Cleaver. If you’ve thought it, they’ve probably said it, and then got kicked out “Mommy and Me” for it. While we can’t give away our kids, we can complain about them while loving the shit out of them simultaneously. Ashley and Keri are letting parents everywhere know that they're not alone, and we are all in this together.
ASHLEY HEARON-SMITH
Ashley is a New York based host, producer, actor & talent booker. In addition to Momtourage, she was recently the celebrity interviewer and booker for Scary Mommy and a face of Bobbi Brown's new Long-Wear Fluid to Powder Foundation campaign. She's recently been seen and heard as co-host of Scary Mommy's podcast Scary Mommy Speaks, Facebook's Livestream with "SuperNanny" Jo Frost for Lifetime, and was invited to be a part of Nickelodeon’s Think Tank Series. She has an extensive production background, having started her production career working with celebrity talent on The Wendy Williams Show, was a part of the Daytime Emmy-winning team on Martha: The Martha Stewart Show, and self-produced her Instagram docuseries HudsonCounty60. Ashley loves poodles, a nice stiff cocktail, celebrity gossip, and reality TV so much so, she's ready for her Housewives moment. She lives with her husband, pup and lunatic toddler in New Jersey, just 7 blocks from her best friends, her parents.
AshleyHearonSmith.com // @AshHearonSmith
KERI SETARO
Keri is a New York based actress, voice over artist, yoga and meditation teacher. She recently launched a new mom-centric podcast, Momtourage. As a producer and host she brings together all her myriad job skills: celebrity nanny, blabber mouth, brutally honest friend, voice over actress, on camera host, comedy writer, and real life mom. She recently can be heard as Co-Host of Scary Mommy‘s podcast Scary Mommy Speaks and her meditation podcast TMI: Truth, Meditation, Inspiration. In her 25 years as an actress, Keri has performed in many productions including All My Children, Law and Order: SVU, Orange is the New Black, Nurse Jackie, The Sopranos, Nip/ Tuck and the Saints Row series, as well as tons of national voice overs and commercials. As a yoga and meditation teacher she has learned to navigate the stressful life of hustling in New York City as a creative professional. One of Keri’s passions is bringing yoga and meditation to children. Keri currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her baby daddy, baby girl and elderly dog. She’s also the funniest person she knows.
KeriSetaro.com // @KeriSetaro
Love our theme song?
Us too. It’s “MILF” by Mamadrama, a mom-only band made up of five moms who rock by night, and roll (with 11 kids) by day. Once upon a time, a few moms met at a music school in Asbury Park, NJ where our kids took music lessons. We dreamed of something more than the endless mom grind: piles of laundry and miles of errands. Those flashbacks of freedom and concerts before stretch marks inspired us motivated mamas to form a mom band. The energy is fierce and the jokes are feisty but the beating heart of Mamadrama is living out a dream that is never too late!
Find out more about Mamadrama:
VOCALS: Beth Herbruck
BASS:
Renee Dorski
GUITAR: Carey Balogh
DRUMS: Maria Rystrom
KEYS: Kim Grigoli
Sound Mixing: Lee Mars
Lee Mars has been in the music production and performance world for over 30 years. He began his professional music career in 1990, joining the popular music group Nine Inch Nails as the keyboard player and performed on tours during the years 1990 - 1991. He later joined forces with composer Craig Wedren to form the band Baby and went on to produce, engineer and mix music for many recording artists and a variety of TV and Film projects including "School Of Rock", "Reno 911! Miami", "Old School”, “Wet Hot American Summer” and "Children's Hospital". His passion for the creative arts led to an extensive knowledge of technology as it relates to music/video/film production and a comprehensive knowledge of music production and post audio.