From Irresponsible Ejaculations to Shiplap with Gabrielle
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Release Date: 03/08/2021
Phases of Motherhood with Britta
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
I’m sharing BIG news, and my guest, Britta Bushnell, helps me process it all as she talks about the Apollo and Artemis myth and the mind-blowing way it applies to my news, and also to motherhood and life.
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Feeling Other in Motherhood with Emily
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
My guest and I talk about parenting a special needs child - the real deal of it, not just the saintly “special needs mother” archetype that can only be endlessly patient. She shares about her early motherhood journey, the endless searching for answers, her lifelong theme of feeling “other,” and the elevated expectations, stress, and beauty that parents of special needs kids live with.
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Pandemic Divorce with Tara
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
There are lots of stats about pandemic divorce, but few personal stories because of the sensitivity of this topic. Lucky for us, fellow writer, Tara, opens up about her story and how it went down, the agreements she had about romance and soulmates, her insecurities about being a single mom, what’s getting her through it, other people’s opinions about her choice to write through her wounds, and more.
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I See Dead People with Tim
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
My favorite medium of over 20 years, Tim Braun, shares how his gift felt like a curse as a child, what happens when he watches Forensic Files, and a dream that changed his path. He also divulges his most memorable sittings of the past 23 years and details what happens after we die!
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Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs with Leslie
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Working mom advocate and researcher, Leslie Forde, and I talk about moms’ needs, the destabilizing effect of motherhood, the positive shifts she’s seeing in workplaces, the three things moms reported wanting most in the pandemic, and the “grabbing the crappy potato” theory, which you’ve likely experienced too.
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The Great Reckoning with Graeme
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Mom coach, Graeme Seabrook, and I discuss what I call “The Great Reckoning” that’s coming for us parents after the pandemic. We talk about what moms have lost most during the pandemic, unexpected side effects of returning to some normalcy, the summer ahead, and what Graeme sees coming up for moms after this wild year of emotional and logistical scrambling. And I also share a maddeningly relatable story about my teen and the violence that is wearing a belt.
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Taking No Prisoners with Zawn
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Writer and feminist, Zawn Villines, discusses the thing she heard in a mom’s group that shocked her, the kind of man who cannot be “fixed,” an equitable solution that isn’t just leaving your marriage, and innovative ideas about what we do about these inequalities.
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Feminist Dad with Jordan
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Author, Jordan Shapiro, fights the patriarchy from the inside and stops by to chat about locker room talk that stayed with him into manhood, the problematic narrative of men thinking they’re the hero of everyone’s story, subtle anti-feminist sentiments dads don’t realize they have, and more.
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Why I Take My Pill with Meredith
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Meredith of “Perfection Pending” and I de-stigmatize mental illness, anxiety, depression, and taking medication for relief. We both share our very personal stories and also discuss the surprising ways anxiety shows up for each of us, and how it affects our parenting.
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The Realest Housewife with Braunwyn
Adult Conversation Parenting Podcast
Braunwyn openly shares her misgivings and joys about being on the Real Housewives, the hardest part of getting sober on TV, why coming out as a lesbian happened when it did, how she’s co-creating an out-of-the-box partnership with her husband, and how kissing a costar cost her tens of thousands of dollars.
info_outlineGabrielle Blair (aka “Design Mom,” and the person behind the viral Twitter thread about the actual root cause of abortions) talks with me about how we prioritize male pleasure even at an extreme risk to women, men’s aversions to vasectomies, easy ways to make our houses more functional and enjoyable during a pandemic, and more in this whiplashy episode.