Why mommy drinks?

Hey everyone, welcome to Why Mommy drinks. This is Betsy Stover.

And I'm Amanda Allen.

Hello. Hello.

We are doing another remote episode, although it's not because of a worldwide pandemic.

It's because our guest is in Orange County, which is far away from Los Angeles or at least just too far to be driving for one silly podcast.

Because traffic. for one silly podcast because traffic so our guest today she's a

professor she's a podcaster she's a mom of course Heather McGuire

hi thanks so much for having me you guys.

I'm excited to be here.

Oh, thank you for being here.

It's possible, Amanda, is Heather our first guest

who has a doctorate?

I'm not sure. I think maybe.

You have a doctorate?

No, I have my masters. I'm close. I want to get my doctor just so that I can say I'm a doctor. Yes. I mean I'll call you a doctor if you want. You don't have to have a. I just I like really I, I keep telling people at work, I'm like, I'm going to go get my

PhD and then I'm going to wear a stethoscope to work every day, even though I wouldn't be that kind of a doctor.

I think that my kids have actually said before, like, oh, my mom's a doctor, but not the kind that like helps people.

Nice. That leads us very nicely actually into,

I have three kids, they're all boys,

four, seven, and nine.

I have three kids, they are are I have a son who's nine and then twin

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