Building a Big Career and Family of 8 with Andrea Canning EP 447
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
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4.5 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Canning has a lot going on! In addition to her role as a Dateline NBC correspondent, she's a mother of 6, Marine Corps wife, and host of the Dateline True Crime weekly podcast. She shares her career and family building journey with Laura in this episode.
Sarah and Laura open chatting about short family visits and answer a Q&A about bday celebration ideas for teens and tweens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vandercom. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:15.2 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:20.6 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:26.6 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:31.0 | From figuring out childcare to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most |
| 0:35.9 | out of life. Welcome to best of both worlds. This is |
| 0:43.0 | Laura. This episode is airing in late February of 26. I am going to be interviewing Andrea Canning, |
| 0:50.1 | who is with Dateline, a journalist there, lots of fun stories talking with her. But if I sound a |
| 0:56.6 | little bit different, that's because Sarah and I are sitting out in my office instead of in my |
| 1:00.7 | recording closet. We are here on my sofa together in Philadelphia. Sarah, how are you doing? |
| 1:06.2 | I am good. I am very happy to be back. Yeah. Well, for those who are paying attention, Sarah just |
| 1:11.9 | actually took a very quick trip to this part of the world about, what, two weeks ago? |
| 1:15.9 | Yes. So I had already planned this trip and then realized that I really wanted to make it |
| 1:20.9 | here for my niece's sixth birthday party as I've missed a lot of her birthdays. And so at first, |
| 1:27.3 | I went through sort of a thought process like, |
| 1:29.0 | well, I can't go twice. And then I realized that the tickets were actually quite inexpensive. |
| 1:33.4 | And that it is, in fact, possible to go to Philadelphia for one night and still kind of |
| 1:37.8 | spend pretty much the whole weekend there. So I actually went twice. The first time, |
| 1:42.0 | I did not get to hand with Laura. But this time, I have lots more time. So we are having a podcast recording party. And yeah, lots of fun. It'll be lots of fun. So, yeah, I mean, with travel, I mean, you can do like duration, like stay somewhere for a long time. You can also do frequency, you know, and just have shorter durations. I guess you can be on either team, |
| 2:01.4 | your team frequency now. I think for family visits, I'm very team frequency because I don't know, |
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