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Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp.

I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.

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. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode

is airing in early to mid-December of 2025. We are going to be talking the holidays. We've run a great many holiday episodes

over the years, but it is a fun and festive time of year. We want people to enjoy it. We're not

big on the whole simplify the holidays thing. That's not really our jam around here. However,

we do want people to maximize the fun and minimize the fuss. So the

topics we're going to talk about today are aimed along that. However, before the holidays are

upon us, we have another fun festive celebration coming up. Sarah has a book coming out next week called Best Laid Plans, and it is a

great system for planning the life you want, but Sarah, maybe you can tell us a little bit more about it and

your pre-order bonuses. Yeah, so it comes out in just seven days. I'm so excited. The full title is

Best Laid Plans, a simple planning system for living a life

that you love. So, you know, it's pretty self-explanatory, but it is a whole system packed into a book,

which I don't see all that often. And I'm really excited to hear how people implement various

parts of that. And so I actually thought a really fun pre-order bonus would be and is a PDF checklist that really incorporates

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