Episode 79: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week, the girls talk to their friend and novelist, Aidan Donnelley Rowley. Aidan is an NYC-based mama of three, who quit her job as a lawyer in her 20's and decided to pursue writing. In 2011, Aidan started bravely questioning her relationship with alcohol on her blog, Ivy League Insecurities, where she documented "A Year Without Wine." She talks to the girls about this, and the winding path that ultimately led her to choose sobriety last year, as well as family, grief, writing, anxiety and the importance of following your heart, even when you're unsure where the path will lead.

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:07.6	I am Laura McCowin and I am Holly Whitaker.
0:13.0	This is Home Podcast.
0:17.0	And so it would begin.
0:20.0	Hey, good morning. Happy Monday. I know what day it is. Oh, wow, you just
0:27.4	confused me. I totally thought it was Sunday. Oh really? No, it's Monday.
0:32.0	It's Monday. That's's Monday. It's Monday. That's totally Monday. There you go. Yeah, definitely Monday.
0:39.5	And you are, it's Alma's birthday and you're in Maine.
0:44.1	Somebody asked me.
0:45.9	They were like, I didn't know Laura lived in Maine.
0:48.1	And I was like Laura Winter's in Maine.
0:51.6	Oh my God. That makes sense. Now much more. I very quickly
0:56.5	clarified that that meant you were staying in your ex-husband's rennets ski
1:01.6	house every other weekend.
1:05.0	Yeah, hey, I pay to be here too, but yes.
1:09.0	Oh, okay. I thought it was for free.
1:11.0	No, no, we went on it together.
1:14.4	But yes, I suppose I do winter here.
1:17.1	You do winter in Maine.
1:19.1	Yeah, it's so weird.
1:20.3	Birthday, it's her eighth birthday today.
1:23.4	If the sound on my end isn't great, it's because I'm using
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