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Best of Both Worlds Podcast

Cultivating Friendships: 6 Insights and a (Friend) Cameo! EP 448

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.5802 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Laura and Sarah share their insights on cultivating and maintaining friendships -- even during the busy parenting years! Tactics include multitasking friend dates, accepting the "Friendriarch" role, finding activities to do together WITH kids, and more.

Then, towards the end of the episode, Kathleen Paley, a friend of both Laura and Sarah joins in to share her thoughts! You can find more from Kathleen at her podcast called The Reframe (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-reframe/id1755909152)!

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Transcript

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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.

0:24.5

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.

0:26.5

Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.

0:30.8

From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals,

0:34.3

we want you to get the most out of life.

0:43.3

Welcome to best of both worlds. This is Laura.

0:50.3

This episode is airing in early March of 26. Sarah and I are sitting here together on the sofa in my office. Welcome, Sarah. Well, thank you. I'm very excited. This is a friendship episode

0:55.3

being recorded live as friends, so it's perfectly appropriate. Yeah, absolutely. Sarah's up in

1:00.7

Pennsylvania, as we mentioned in the last episode, for a combo family and skiing trip. I mean,

1:05.5

the skiing is less exciting here than in big sky, but we do have little tiny mountains and you can

1:10.2

ski down them, so you'll do a little bit of that.

1:12.9

Yeah, I'm super excited. I skied here growing up, so I feel like they'll be a nostalgic fact.

1:18.9

You have memories of our little tiny mountains here. But we also just took a little field trip to a stationary store together.

1:26.7

That was an experience. We drove to Doyle's town,

1:29.1

Pennsylvania, to Department of Newt. Yes, because someone had written to me, Maria, a listener of my

1:34.3

podcast about her sister's store. And I think I texted Laura, like, I kind of want to make a

1:39.4

pilgrimage there the next time we come and we made it happen. So it was a lot of fun.

1:43.3

Got to meet the proprietor and

1:44.6

talk about all things, notebooks and pens and little tiny stickers and other such things that you

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