Are We Ready for Kids? (Ft. Max)

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Victoria and Max are getting real about one of the biggest questions in their marriage: are we ready for kids? From funny moments (like a surprise pregnancy test freak-out) to deep conversations about how parenting might change their lives, they’re diving into it all. They chat about their timelines for starting a family, hilarious baby name debates, and how they imagine their parenting styles. Vic gets vulnerable about balancing her career with motherhood and shares her thoughts on the fears sparked by TikTok’s “real talk” on parenting, while Max opens up about how his own childhood inspires the dad he hopes to be. It’s an honest, raw, and funny convo about what’s next for them—don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.3	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.1	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.6	Welcome back to RealPod. We're back, baby. We're back. Are you excited or like resentful about this episode?
0:51.3	I'm not resentful. I'm excited. I mean, how this came together was a while.
0:54.5	I literally got a calendar invite. No context from Vic. Vic didn't even bring it up. And it was
0:58.7	lit of the invite was, do we want to have kids? Wednesday at 1.30. And I was like,
1:05.0	alright, beat your mind right, Brown. I know. I'm sorry. I didn't give you a warning. We were just brainstorming some real pod topics for the new year.
1:11.4	It's a phenomenal topic. I feel like it is because we talk about this so much. It's kind of that point in our life and like our friends talk about it. It's so weird when you go from your whole life being terrified to get pregnant to then be like everyone in your life being like, what are you going to get pregnant? Yeah. The,
1:28.2	the switch has been flipped where now it's like, all right, if it happened and we had a little
1:32.7	human, it's like, all right, I can get on board. Versus like five years ago, it'd be like,
1:36.8	oh my gosh. I know. Your life's over. Not really. But that's the, yeah. Maybe. We'll talk about that. So by now, you've seen the title of this
1:45.2	episode and you are listening to it. And Max and I are going to be talking all about kids and babies.
1:51.4	And usually people wait to do this maybe until they're like pregnant and then they talk about
1:56.7	all this stuff. But I think it's a normal part of marriage or a partnership that you're
2:02.5	having these discussions, like hopefully years before you maybe do it or at least well in
2:08.7	advance where you can prepare. Obviously, sometimes people cannot prepare. And that's totally
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