This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc.

Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests,

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The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, and apologetics.

Expert guests, expansive topics, always extoling Christ, issues, etc. Yeah. It is difficult to consider a decision that affects your life so profoundly, especially when you're young and you think that decision is long ways off.

Culture has been teaching young women that marriage and family are one of

those decisions. That's a big decision but it's not as important as career and

it's a long way off. You can put it off as long as you want. The truth is you can't. Welcome back to

issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about young women careers

marriage and family. Suzanne Venker, she's a married mother of two children in St. Louis, host of the

Suzanne Venker show and author of the new book How to Build a Better Life, a new

roadmap for women who want to prioritize love and family.

Suzanne, welcome back.

Thanks for having me, Todd.

You say that one secret to a happy life is playing the long game.

What do you mean by that?

Yeah.

So I truly believe that's where so many women get into trouble is that they are not taught to think to play the long game, meaning to think way out into the future about what it is that

they want because they are exclusively focused because this is where they're

encouraged to focus on a career and building a professional

life, which is fine, except for the fact that there's much more to life than that and that if you plan to get married

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