Hello, hello, it's Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty

podcast. Today's episode is very special. I first invited Elaine Welteroth, who is an acclaimed

award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and now the founder of

The Birth Fund, which is an incredible nonprofit,

working to address the gap in maternal care

for families across the country.

I invited her on to talk about our experience as moms.

She is 35 weeks pregnant.

I am 32 weeks pregnant.

What that basically means is we're eight months into this nine month pregnancy.

It's both of our second pregnancies.

We're both about to give birth.

So I wanted to have her on to talk about our pregnancy experiences, but then as luck would have it, it just so happened that her mom was in town and my mom was in town.

So we said, let's bring our iconic mothers on to have a conversation about motherhood, advice on motherhood.

So we figured let's make this a really iconic episode.

Let's have our moms join us on the podcast and I am so excited to ask both my mom and her mom wisdom from their many

many years of experience both mothering and with career if you all have been

listening to Naked Beauty you've heard my mom Jerry Devard on the podcast before. This is going to be such a treat and I'm so looking forward to getting into it.

So without further ado, I will welcome my guests and we will jump into the episode.

Okay, we've got a lot of collective maternal wisdom on these couches so I'm really

excited about this conversation. Elaine you were my initial guest and you've had such an incredible career across journalism,

television, and now the work that you're doing with the birth fund.

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