Welcome to the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast. I'm Sissy Gough.

I'm David Thomas. And I'm Melissa Trevathan.

And we are so glad you've set us out a few minutes to spend with us today.

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Our goal is to help you care for the kids in your life with a little more understanding,

a little more practical help and a whole lot of hope. So pull up a chair and join us

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Hey David Thomas. Hey Sissy Gough. I was about to say it's fun to see you but we see each other

every day pretty much. So it's not fun to see me as are you saying? No it's still fun to see you.

I'm still glad to see you. Glad to see you. Thank you. And we are excited to be with you all talking

about balance which I really was thinking with life, mid and post pandemic that feels more

important than ever before. And so it feels really great that we're having this conversation around

being a balanced parent but as a person because we love to talk about that too. David what would

you say helps you be more balanced? And I'm not even going to make the talk a joke.

Thank you for passing on that for this episode. We know that's probably in the mix somewhere.

Eating tacos helped me do everything. I would say right now one of the things that's helping

me be balanced is listening to different voices whether that's reading books by different authors

or listening to podcasts. I talked to in an earlier episode about how my anyagram teacher was

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