Kid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel catch up with comic, actress and radio host about therapy, ghostings, pandemic dating, cohabitating and building a future in an unstable present. (music: mindyraf.com)
info_outline Episode 61: Abbi Crutchfield (Episode 31)Kid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel catch up with Abbi Crutchfield to talk about folding t-shirts, positive touch points, adult ADHD, Mary Poppins, and forging new paths. (music: mindyraf.com)
info_outline Episode 60: Mindy Raf (Episode 42)Kid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel catch up with guest Mindy Raf about the societal bullseye, acceptance in community, non-monogamy, holding in farts, and our evolving longitudinal study. (music: mindyraf.com!)
info_outline Episode 59: Jen Dziura (Episode 2)Kid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel catch up with their second-ever Kid/Life Crisis guest, , about memes, work schedules, boulders in the gas tank, looking at a bird, online preschool, "mom," swear words and feminism. Check out ! (music: mindyraf.com)
info_outline Episode 58: Ophira Eisenberg (Episode 19)Kid/Life Crisis
On this episode, Raquel and Katie get up to date with comedian, author, and radio/podcast host about switching identities, acceptable risk, her birth story, the obsolescence of toys, and figuring it all out. (music: mindyraf.com)
info_outline Episode 57: Heather Fink (Episode 43)Kid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel catch up with comedian and filmmaker , who last spoke with us five years ago (Ep. 43), about moving to (and dating in) Los Angeles, unions, eggs, partnerships, travel and more. (music: mindyraf.com)
info_outline NEW update for listenersKid/Life Crisis
Per a listener request, we'll do a handful of new episodes coming up (we won't even attempt to promise a schedule or number, as we both still have ADHD and there is an Adderall shortage!) following up with past guests. Plus new theme song by Mindy Raf! http://www.mindyraf.com
info_outline Update for listenersKid/Life Crisis
Raquel recently joined the writing team at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, so we're unexpectedly back on hiatus! We'll keep you updated on when we'll record new episodes! Sign up for email updates at
info_outline Episode 56: Laura NorkinKid/Life Crisis
Katie and Raquel sit down with Laura Norkin, writer and editor with a focus on parenting, to discuss being raised under a red pen, Thomas the Tank Engine (and Percy), lying to our children, nipple confusion, and inner voices. (music: )
info_outline Episode 55: Marcella ArguelloKid/Life Crisis
Standup comic Marcella Arguello once wanted to be a schoolteacher with six children. While helping raise her nieces and nephews and focusing on comedy, she swore off the idea of kids, but decided recently that it could be great. We talk about experience with kids, falling in and out of love, strict parents, being Latina and child-free (so far), Uma Thurman, #MeToo, and opinionated women. (music: bensound.com)
info_outlineKatie and Raquel chat with comedian, author, middle child and Michigander Mindy Raf about hormones, being engaged to a Croatian, handling ambivalence about kids, and nightmares about Mike Pence conversion camp. (music: www.bensound.com)