I'm Marjorie Pudit.

This is Best to the Nest, the podcast that's all about creating happy, healthy, beautiful homes that prepare us to fly.

Oh gosh, Marjorie, this is a good topic today. This is very

intense. It is very intense. So hold on, people. It's pre-mom, post-mom, okay? Who you were

pre-motherhood, who you were post-motherhood. And you are now. Shockingly, they're two different

people. And sometimes they try to collide against each other.

And the interesting thing about this is this topic was inspired by a post by a friend of our Stephanie

March. On Instagram, there was a picture of her mother, and then she wrote a little something about

her mother. And it just got me thinking, which is why we're talking to her this morning.

Oh, I love it. Let's bring in Stephanie March, shall we? So Stephanie is the food and dining editor

at Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine. So she eats and drinks for a living and writes about it. It sounds

very glamorous, right? Steph? Everyone always says you have the best job ever.

It can be. Yeah, it is kind of the best job ever. It can be, but, you know, there are days where, like, sometimes I'd rather have a salad,

but instead I'm going to go eat two burgers.

Oh, you suffer.

You suffer for your art.

Let's just be clear that, like, I'm never going to be that, like, you know, girl in a

size two pants, but I will be very well fed and happy.

Isn't that the truth? I like that idea. I know. I try to do that nice balance of like,

how can I still be what I want with just being in like one to two sizes above where I would

ideally be? That's what. Yeah. Like, where is that balance? Where is it? Okay.

So Stephanie is, what's great about having Stephanie here is that, you know, Stephanie is a frequent contributor on Twin Cities Live.

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