Welcome to the very first episode of TMIT Teammates—our new segment where we talk with real families we love and admire about how they’re building culture at home.

Our first guest is our brilliant and adventurous friend Jennifer Zelman. Jen is raising a blended family across two continents—splitting time between New York and Rome—and in this episode, she shares what that experience has taught her about parenting, presence, and letting go of perfection.

We talk about everything from raising culturally open kids to releasing the pressure to optimize, and what it means to stay connected as a family when your environment is constantly shifting.

• How Jen and her husband decided to move their family to Rome
• What it’s like raising four kids in a blended household
• Letting travel shape your family values (without over-planning it)
• Teaching kids inclusion, resilience, and perspective through experience
• How Jen’s childhood shaped the kind of mother she wants to be today
• The beauty of doing hard things together—and the gift of slowing down

TMIT Teammates is about making the invisible visible—talking honestly about how families actually work, grow, and support one another in real life.

Thanks for listening—and thank you Jen for kicking this off with us. 🧡