Finding Home Wherever You Are with Melody Warnick
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Laura discusses here own thoughts about place and choosing where to live, and then interviews Melody Warnick, an expert on place attachment. They explore the power of place and the newfound flexibility many remote workers have found in the current era.
In the Q&A, Laura answers a listener question about starting a podcast.
Melody's latest book: If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
| 0:05.8 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:06.6 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity, |
| 0:15.3 | autobiographies, true crime, and more. |
| 0:19.3 | Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their |
| 0:22.6 | flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start |
| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, |
| 0:37.9 | and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:43.9 | And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side. |
| 0:49.2 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:55.1 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 261, which is first |
| 1:08.6 | airing in early August of 2022. |
| 1:11.5 | I am going to be interviewing Melody Warnick, who is the author of This Is Where You Belong, and a new book, If You Could Live Anywhere, The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work from Anywhere world. |
| 1:24.0 | So that book deals with a common post-COVID topic. |
| 1:30.4 | Many people can work remotely now, and so if you can live anywhere, where should you live? Melody offers a framework for thinking this through, and it turns out |
| 1:36.9 | the answer isn't always Austin, Nashville, or Miami, even if it does seem like that's where everybody is |
| 1:42.7 | moving. You will notice that it is just me talking in this introduction. |
| 1:47.8 | Unfortunately, Sarah wound up with COVID during a recent trip |
| 1:51.0 | and has a really sore throat and a scratchy voice. |
| 1:54.1 | So she is resting and I am taking over for this week, |
| 1:57.0 | but I promise she will be back soon. |
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