Meet Michelle Mathis | Austin Moms 2024 Contributor

Hi everyone – it’s nice to meet y’all. My name is Michelle Mathis! I’m so excited to be here and share all things motherhood.

For starters, I’m a mama to the 2 coolest girlies – Stevie, 3 (my wild child born on Britney Spears’ bday), and Rocky, 3 months (born on T Swift’s bday). I’m also a proud wife to my hubby Steven (aka @Steve_Feral on IG – follow him if you like electronic music!). I’m a full-time working mom who works as an Associate Director of Sales Development for a software company called Sprinklr, while living in the burbs in Leander.

A little bit about me and my back story – I was born in Houston, grew up in Dallas, and spent much of my adult life in the Central Texas area – so a Texas girl through and through. I was adopted as a baby and blessed with my “god given family” and eventually reconnected with my birth family (double the LOVE!). Growing up adopted, I always felt a little bit disconnected from my Mexican heritage. Because of this (and a few other reasons), our family decided to send our daughters to a Spanish Immersion preschool to reconnect them with their Mexican roots.

I met my husband and best friend my senior year of college at a bar in San Marcos, TX. After a few years of friendship, and being roommates, we started dating and the rest was history! I studied Family and Child Development at Texas State, where I fell in love with early education, and the importance of nature and play based learning. Once I completed my master’s degree in Child Life, Steven and I moved to Dallas to start our careers and bought our very first home. I then transitioned from years of working in the nonprofit sector serving families in need to working in corporate America and eventually transitioning into tech sales where I am today. During the first few years of our careers without kids, I had the opportunity to see the world and the beauty (and fun!) it offers – getting engaged in Bali, honeymooning in Southern Italy + Ibiza (and many more adventures).

Fast forward to March of 2020, we were in Hawaii and found out I was pregnant as the world was shutting down from Covid. After having our daughter Stevie at the end of 2020, we knew our family needed to get back to Austin to be closer to nature. We sold our house in the midst of the housing crisis and eventually we were able to build our dream house out in the burbs. Last year, I gave birth to our second daughter, Rocky, through the VBAC of my dreams. Because of this experience, I was inspired to complete Inner Engineering and get my Yoga Teacher Certification (currently in progress). I’ve always loved movement and mindfulness, and excited to continue my journey to get more aligned with my purpose and attune to my emotions as a mom, friend, and wife.

Although we have 2 daughters now, Steven and I try to integrate them into our day to day lives and adventures as much as possible – which I truly believe has created a food, music and travel loving little 3 year old. I’m excited to share some of my tips and tricks on how we are able to do this and thrilled to step out of my comfort zone and share all that I love about this city and being a mom!