Academic Summer with Professor Sarah Jedd EP 464
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode opens with Sarah and Laura discussing frozen treats (yum!) and then Sarah interviews Sarah Jedd about all things academic summer. Sarah Jedd is a rhetoric professor with 5 kids (ages 5-college!) who also has an old-school blog called harrytimes.com.
In the Q&A, a listener wonders how to get the family to agree on a movie. (Or not!)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:24.6 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:30.6 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:34.6 | From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the |
| 0:40.0 | most out of life. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to Best of Both worlds. |
| 0:47.1 | This is Laura. |
| 0:48.0 | This episode is airing in late June of 26. |
| 0:51.6 | Sarah is going to be interviewing Sarah Jed, another Sarah. |
| 0:55.6 | So Sarah, why don't you tell us a little bit about Sarah Jed? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, well, Sarah Jed and you, as you are going to learn, have a lot of parallels in their |
| 1:02.1 | number of children and the age spacing. |
| 1:05.3 | So that's fun because we don't have a lot of guests that have five children, but Sarah does. |
| 1:09.4 | She's also a professor. |
| 1:10.3 | So she's going to talk |
| 1:11.3 | about like the academic lifestyle during the summer, which I'm always fascinated about. What did |
| 1:16.9 | teachers do all summer? What do professors do all summer? We're going to find out. Plus, |
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