Meet Our Wonderful 2026 Cast!

Judi is a Mother, (daughter Shira and son Leo),  a Daughter (Dad from England, Mom a Jewish Cowgirl from Wyoming) Sister (the youngest of four, 2 boy 1 girl) and friend (she is a friend to all unless they are mean).

Originally from L.A., she got into the “biz” young, and has felt blessed to parlay her creativity and talents into film, television, radio and digital media locally and nationally. 

Upbeat, free-Spirited open & optimistic, Judi looks to the positive with an attitude for gratitude in her heart. Judi loves to connect by sharing her life stories, especially all her imperfections and flaws, to inspire others and empower them to embrace their own inner beauty, just as they are. 

  Meramec Valley Girl is a wife and mother of 4 grown children and 2 grandchildren. As the kids grew up, she found herself filling her free time by writing melodies and lyrics, a soundtrack to her life. Now with the stage name of Meramec Valley Girl, she can be found around St. Louis singing her original songs to anyone who will listen. Susan is very honored to sing and play a song the new 2026 theme song she wrote just for the Mama Said Show about not being the perfect mom, but hopefully being “Good Enough”.   

Daemon is an outlier. He's particularly adept at navigating two distinct worlds; the glamorous and the gritty, the soulful and the hardcore.   A rapper, songwriter, performer, and producer from St. Louis, MO, this same nimbleness informs his music. Cleverly incorporating bars that demand a rewind over production that gets stuck in your head, Daemon has plenty to offer Hip Hop purists and partiers alike.  The world has taken notice. Daemon's tracks have been featured everywhere, from Bernie Sanders walkouts ("Feel Good") to Xbox Exclusives ("Turn the World Around" in Forza Horizon 5 or "Confidence Man" in The Crew 2) to Netflix shows (Inventing Anna, Daybreak, Work It, Locke & Key, Easy) to ads (Mini Cooper, Sephora, the ACLU) to TBS shows (the Jordan Peele-produced The Last O.G.). Daemon has also collaborated with Killer Mike and Trackstar the DJ from Run the Jewels, DJ Shadow, and more.

 Maureen Ragsdale

(also responds to: Mo, Quigs, Mom, Mimi… and, on rare occasions, MOTHER!)

Maureen is a daughter, sister, aunt, and friend, but her most cherished titles—by far—are Mom and Mimi. Widowed for 14 years, she has spent that time juggling a full‑time career in Finance with an impressive (and slightly suspicious) collection of extracurriculars. These include working Wednesday night bingo, Lenten fish fries, and hosting any gathering that even hints it might need a volunteer with a clipboard.

When she’s not keeping half the community organized, she’s writing and telling stories to her grandchildren—who are her favorite audience, mostly because they don’t interrupt with “That’s not how it happened.”

Maureen has been lucky enough to join Mama Said a few times, and she promises that one of these days she will finally finish telling all the stories about her mother… and maybe even move on to the adventures (and misadventures) of being a mother herself.

Linda Metzler will do just about anything for attention. Usually she satisfies that itch with writing, speaking, and occasional standup comedy, but sometimes she has to resort to dramatic outbursts or stunts like falling off a stepladder and breaking multiple bones. Linda has 5 daughter and 7 grandchildren with another on the way. She grew up in South City. Her family has been in The Lou for several generations. 

 Sara Springer has spent the last two decades supervising the chaos she has created. She is a married midwest mom of five and Adult Nurse Practitioner who has battled depression and anxiety for the better part of 30 years. She is now a mental health advocate and author. She writes about maintaining mental wellness in parenting, marriage, and online spaces. She is co-founder of the Lincoln County based mental health focused non-profit: Love Will Foundation. She tries to maintain her sanity through yoga and is a staunch practitioner of sarcasm. Her work has been featured on multiple sites including Her View From Home, Scary Mommy, and The Mighty. Her first book, ‘Was I Not Supposed to Say That?’ is now available at online retailers and select stores. She is beyond ecstatic to be able to add “Mama Said Mama Said 2026 Cast Member” to her probably-supposed-to-be shorter-than-this-but-she-couldn’t-help-herself bio! 

 Terry Baker is the mother of 5 adult children, "Mimi" to 6 precious grands, and wife to Jim, her husband of 53 years. (Yes, she was almost a child bride!)  A retired Early Childhood Special Ed Speech Language Pathologist, she's an avid reader and story teller. Terry fell in love with Mama Said, Mama Said in 2014 and is delighted to be a co-producer/director for the show that both she and her husband have been cast members. 

Laura is the very proud Mom of  two daughters - one a Special Education teacher at Hazelwood Central Sr High, and the other working and living in Nicaragua (why, oh why couldn't she have fallen in love with someone in Ballwin?), and one  great stepson in Charleston.  She's the co-owner of Vintage Vinyl in the Delmar Loop, the Executive Producer (with her husband Tom) of 'Papa Ray's Vintage Vinyl Roadshow', author of the  'Brain Dead in the Burbs & Cooking Your Way Back to Sanity" series.  She also wrote her first screenplay, "Walking on Lily Pads - Unfortunately a True Story", & Vintage Vinyl - The Magazine.  For 10 years, she has been very proud to be a Co-Producer/Director of this wonderful show. Her dear friends, Terry Baker and Sioux Roslawski became her partners in 2020.   For four years, she was Co-Producer/Director of "The Story Bee Show - STL" with Wyntra Storms.  Laura also co-stars in the YouTube cooking show with her two BFF's, Regi Drake & Fritzie Reeves, called "Brain Dead & Cooking with Friends"...and yes, she knows this photo makes her look like she has gas. 

 Sioux Roslawski is a middle school teacher who retired and immediately begged to be put back into the classroom. Now, she's found such a heavenly job, she figures at some point she'll be so falling apart, she'll need to be wheeled in, strapped onto a dolly Hannibal Lecter-style, because she'll still want to teach. Sioux is a mother of two and grammy to four. In her spare time she rescues golden retrievers and freelance writes. Her proudest writing accomplishment? The publication of her historical novel about the Tulsa Race Massacre, Greenwood Gone: Henry's Story. Sioux has been on the Mama Said, Mama Said stage twice, and she's now thrilled to be one of Laura's lackeys. .

 Kelley is an experienced film and television Location Manager who has worked on popular TV shows such as Station 19, This Is Us, and Chicago Fire. She produced an award-winning documentary “Breaking and Entering”, which follows everyday people as they try to break world records. Kelley is currently the St. Louis Film Office Manager at Explore St. Louis. She is an advocate for the St. Louis production community and is dedicated to attracting productions to the St. Louis region. 

Judi is a Mother, (daughter Shira and son Leo),  a Daughter (Dad from England, Mom a Jewish Cowgirl from Wyoming) Sister (the youngest of four, 2 boy 1 girl) and friend (she is a friend to all unless they are mean).

Originally from L.A., she got into the “biz” young, and has felt blessed to parlay her creativity and talents into film, television, radio and digital media locally and nationally. 

Upbeat, free-Spirited open & optimistic, Judi looks to the positive with an attitude for gratitude in her heart. Judi loves to connect by sharing her life stories, especially all her imperfections and flaws, to inspire others and empower them to embrace their own inner beauty, just as they are.