We have a very special guest on today’s chat! We welcomed our baby boy and are over the moon to be starting this next chapter of our adventure together. We’re taking a little break from the podcast to enjoy this time as we navigate our new roles as parents (and try to catch some zzz’s… although that's probably wishful thinking!). We’ll be back with lots of questions and reflections. Until then, we’ll just be right here, soaking it all in (literally)… Thank you for all the love and support!

We’ve received a lot of great advice from friends and family as we prep to welcome our first baby! One of our friends told us about cord blood storage - something we knew nothing about. After looking into it, we decided to hop on a chat with Dr. Jaime Shamonki, Chief Medical Officer at Cord Blood Registry, to talk all about the science and the why behind collecting and storing our baby’s cord blood and tissue.

Dr. Vora is a holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University, and she is board-certified in psychiatry and integrative holistic medicine.

For some real, non-sugarcoated advice on the messiness of motherhood, we chat with Aleen Dreksler, co-founder and CEO of Betches Media!

Our friend, Jeff Ullrich, joins us to answer our questions about autism. April is Autism Awareness Month and we’re excited to understand more from Jeff, who learned that he was autistic in January 2020, at the age of 45.

Orion Jean is an 11-year old who, in July 2020, was selected as the National Kindness Speech Contest Winner. Upon winning, he created his own "Race to Kindness" events to help spread kindness around the world, including collecting 100,000 meals for food-insecure families, and collecting 500,000 books for kids in book deserts!

Last week, Linda got to sit down with mama Scott, Hanna and April to ask them anything that came to mind about motherhood. Now it’s Drew’s turn! We get to chat with Papa Scott, Wes and Conor (Drew’s brother-in-laws) to pick their brains about what it takes to dad, how becoming a parent transformed their outlook on life and letting kids make mistakes.

With less than two months to go until baby arrives, it’s time to soak up some real, raw advice about being a mom, parenting with our partners and… how much birthing is going to hurt! I gather mama Scott and two of my sisters, Hanna and April — who are all at very different stages of mumming — and chat about whatever comes to mind when it comes to having a baby.

There’s a lot that we need to care about and sometimes it can seem a bit daunting… and even shameful, if we don’t know enough about the things we should know about! One area we have set out to learn more about is how the heck government works and how can we not feel so helpless? That’s where Ben Sheehan comes in. His goal is to make regular civic participation — even beyond voting — a regular part of all of our daily lives, like flossing our teeth -- we do it a little bit, every day, and it's good for our overall long-term health (both individually and as a country)

We’re so happy to be experiencing a birth class as deep as this one. When researching various classes, we weren’t sure what to look for beyond laboring positions and pain management (which she gets into as well and are super important!). So when we signed up for Dr. Britta Bushnell’s Childbirth Class, which covers topics far beyond the technical aspects of birth, we immediately felt this was just what we needed. It has helped us recognize and embrace all the transformations we’re going through individually and as a couple.

Conversations on this podcast have taught us sooo many things. Yes, even how to breathe properly!!! Patrick McKeown is an international breathing expert and author based in Galway, Ireland. Since 2002, he has worked with thousands of clients, including elite military special forces (SWAT), and Olympic coaches and athletes. We chat with Patrick about the ways we’ve been breathing incorrectly and what techniques we can use to improve concentration, focus and quality sleep!

If you’ve been following along our journey and conversations on this podcast, you may have caught on by now just how different the two of us are from one another. Our work styles, our pace, the way we like to socialize… we don’t want to say the typical “opposites attract” thing, but for us, sometimes it really feels that way!

Love is always in the air. Today’s guest is no exception. We have a fun heart to heart with the entertaining, kind and cool, Hannah Hart! She is a two-time New York Times bestselling author (Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded, My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut), host of YouTube series My Drunk Kitchen and two television series on the Food Network.

We chat with the wonderful Blair Imani, educator and author of Read This To Get Smarter, Making Our Way Home and Modern HERstory. We’re always looking for ways to get smarter, kinder, healthier and sitting down with Blair delivers. Her work centers on women, global Black communities and the LGBTQ+ community. Her Instagram Reels series “Smarter in Seconds” — has amassed over 50 million views and was praised by The New York Times for her unique ability to create “progressive lessons with vibrant visuals and a perky, quirky delivery.” Get ready to be inspired by Blair and her dedication to making the world a better place.

Lunar New Year is the most important celebration of the year in East Asian countries and communities. It celebrates the start of a new year, family, prosperity and renewal. Linda shares the holiday’s traditions that her family participated in growing up, and taboos and must-do’s around the house this time of year. There’s always lots of delicious food — each with their own symbols, of course! Drew and Linda chat about their zodiac signs and what it means that their baby will be born in the Year of the Tiger!

Here’s a feel good conversation for you! Meet Ben Collier, a recent graduate and co-founder of The Farmlink Project. At the start of the pandemic, Ben and his brother learned that ONE THIRD of ALL food goes to waste… while MILLIONS of people go hungry. They saw a need and opportunity to change that by rescuing fresh produce that would otherwise go to landfills, and delivering this food to food banks all around the country.

Betty-Ann Heggie teaches us how to do just that through her concept of Gender Physics - the practice of optimizing the best of these energies so we can express ourselves freely as individuals and be the best version of ourselves. Masculine and Feminine Energy are present in each one of us, regardless of biology. Tapping into and using both energies starts with accepting that gender is a social construct, which holds us back through antiquated stereotypes that most of us don’t even realize we are following.

Meet our acupuncturist and now, doula, Molly Sue Welch, who has been a major part of our wellness practice. Molly has worked in the healing arts since 2008. She is a massage therapist, acupuncturist and birth doula in Los Angeles. Her focus is on women’s health, fertility, the childbearing cycle, supporting women throughout the birthing process and into postpartum.

Well, we guess this year is going to look very different from all the others! We sometimes still pinch ourselves that we’ll soon have a baby taking over the craft room… and a big chunk of our hearts! We’re excited to learn all that we can about what it'll take for us to do this thing called parenting. Wish us luck!

Hello! As mentioned last week, we’re taking a teeny tiny break and will be back next week, Janary 4th, 2022 (!!!!!) for a brand new episode. We hope you’re all taking the time to take care of yourselves and one another. It has been another heck of a year — yay, to making it here