The Old Umma Club
By: The Old Umma Club
Language: en-us
Categories: Kids, Family, Parenting
Bare-it-all conversations between two "old" Korean-American women who became mothers in their 30s and left their full-time careers to become stay-at-home moms in their “geriatric years." Join their talks about faith, motherhood, marriage, community, and everything in between.
Episodes
Ep 7: Culture Clash in Marriage
Dec 15, 2025Part 2 on Marriage, because apparently we have a lot to say on this subject, and it's an important one.
Joyce and Sophia talk about the subtle cultural clashes in their marriage and how that influences marriage conflicts, and how they're learning to manage those conflicts better. This is a rather transparent episode.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Ep 6: Still Married
Dec 08, 2025Joyce and Sophia talk about marriage...and husbands. They discuss what they expected in marriage, and what the reality was...especially with babies and kids in the picture. Oy.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Ep 5: Raised Christian, Raising Christians
Dec 01, 2025Joyce and Sophia recall their faith background being raised in the Christian church. One was raised in a Korean-American community center-like church, the other as a missionary/pastor's kid in Chinese-speaking churches. They discuss what they appreciated about their faith background, and what they would do differently in raising little believers.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Ep 4: Being Korean Ummas
Nov 24, 2025Being in a bi-racial marriage can get tricky when it comes to parenting bi-racial kids, especially if your partner comes from a really different cultural background. Joyce & Sophia talk about their childhood being raised by Korean moms and how that impacted their current mothering.
What are absolutes we want to continue? What do we want to break and not bring with us?
Listen along as we unfold what it means to be an Umma in our own unique ways!
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@g...
Duration: 00:44:51Ep 3: Becoming "Old"
Nov 17, 2025We can't be The Old Umma Club and not talk about what's aging us and making us feel old. Even though starting families in our 30s is super common, we also know we get slapped with "geriatric pregnancy" the moment we turn 35 years old. Join us on this cheeky episode as we talk about rickety bones to the never ending sleepless nights that magically ages us overnight!
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech...
Ep 2: Becoming Stay-At-Home Ummas
Nov 10, 2025In this episode, we have an honest conversation about how we went from working mom to full-time stay-at-home parent, from two different perspectives: One never envisioned she would ever be a mother, let alone a stay-at-home parent. The other always dreamed about having a family and staying at home to raise children. We discuss what the transition was like, what our expectations were, and what the reality is-- and how that's impacted our marriage and parenting.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
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Duration: 01:01:51Ep 1: What is an Umma?
Nov 03, 2025Our first episode begins with a very fundamental question: What is an umma? What is a mother? When you hear the words "Mother" or "Mom," what image, what descriptions come to mind?
Here we talk about how we formed our first image of an "ideal" mother, the conscious and subconscious expectations we developed for ourselves, and how we bring God into it.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed un...
Trailer: Hello!
Nov 01, 2025Welcome to The Old Umma Club! Sophia and Joyce introduce themselves and share what the podcast will be about, and what to expect for this season 1.
Reach out to Sophia and Joyce:
Instagram: @theoldummaclub
Email: theoldummaclub@gmail.com
Music credits:
"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/