#231: A Conversation with Heather “Dooce” Armstrong
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Sarah and co-host Adrienne Martini are delighted to have a gab-session with Heather Armstrong, the genius behind the highly successful, long-running “mommy blog” Dooce as well as Manic Rambling Spiral, a pithy podcast about single parenting. Like in her NYT best-selling memoir It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita, Heather speaks candidly on her depression and how her most recent episode was precipitated by marathon training and a sub-basement-level of Vitamin D. Hear how Heather hopped into the Chicago Marathon so last minute, she didn’t even pack her running shoes when she headed to the Windy City last week! The conversation then shifts to single parenting with Heather admitting the hardest things about guiding her family solo—as well as the up side to the journey. Pre-Dooce, Sarah and Adrienne show their age by talking about full v. half-slips, plus they bond over the acronym YDY. *To find the Saucony layering pieces, shop the Saucony website, where you...
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| 0:18.0 | Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by Adrian Martini. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, hello. Hey, so Adrian, last time you were on, we got so carried away talking about Italy and Gilato and pasta that I forgot to ask you about what you're knitting |
| 0:47.2 | So I just finished the skirt that I was moving |
| 0:51.7 | The skirt I know I know, I know, and I suspect that it'll be cool enough to wear when I'm in New York City the first week in November. |
| 1:01.0 | So people can see it then. I also have a picture that I'll probably send to you after this. |
| 1:07.6 | Oh good. Yeah. Tweet it to me. Yeah. I will tweet it to you. I'm pretty excited about it. It turned out just as I'd hoped, which can be so weird. |
| 1:16.0 | Almost never happens. |
| 1:18.0 | Tell me this, does it have like a liner? I mean, how is it that, you know, like's a flush don't push through? |
| 1:24.3 | That was really the look I was going for I wanted it to look like a sausage casing |
| 1:29.4 | and bits of me kind of squeezing out. No, I have a black slip that I pulled it on over. |
| 1:37.6 | Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right. And so you can see parts of the black slip. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, slightly. |
| 1:45.0 | It better to be safe than sorry in my own. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, yeah, no, no, no. |
| 1:49.0 | I got to say, you know, so if I obviously stumbled over that word, I couldn't even, |
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