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It's the Simple show show you've got episode 79

hi i'm tish oxen writer and on the simple show we talk about books travel and life at home

in this episode i'm joined by my co-host stephanie langford hey Hello, Tish. Hey, tell us who you are and what you do.

Well, I'm an entrepreneur and a writer and a mom of five and I live in Ottawa, Canada, and I'm online at

EntraFamily.com. And I'm a writer and mom living in central Texas, and I'm at the art of simple.net.

This is a travel episode. So we are going to talk about some of

our best places, best places with kids, as a couple, and be alone. And Stephanie, you just got back

from Central America as in like days ago. So I want to catch up with you first. How was that trip?

It was amazing and epic and exhausting and hard and it was so many

things all rolled into, you know, three months. It looked very up and down. It was really up and down.

And we've had a lot of conversations about the up and downness of it. But overall, I think it was more up than down.

You know, we did that whole landing the plane thing that you like to talk about.

I really love that phrase for how you prepare for reentering your home culture.

And at the end of our trip, we did a lot of that, those conversations.

And we had a couple of nights where we'd go out for dinner with our kids in our last week

and talk about our highlights of the trip and talk about what we learned about other people

and about the world and about cultures and about ourselves.

And when we did that, we felt like, wow, it was a better trip than we thought. Like, we really did learn and grow and

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