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Hakeem & Monica Part 2: Getting Real About Parenting and Answering Your Questions | Golden Hour

Bachelor Happy Hour

iHeartPodcasts and Warner Bros

After Shows, Relationships, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

3.915.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today on “Golden Hour,” Joan and Kathy are back for part two with Hakeem and Monica! First, Hakeem asks for some very beautiful advice: What did they need from their partners when they were pregnant? Then, we dive into your questions. From public scrutiny over single parenthood to husbands who are disappointed by their child’s gender reveal, we’re helping you get through it all. Plus, we get a closer look at what Hakeem and Monica will be like as parents. Tune in now and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! 

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Golden Hour, everyone.

0:10.1

We are back with part two with Hakeem and Monica.

0:13.7

So let's just get right into it.

0:16.4

Now we have to get down to business because, you know, this is not just about hearing about your

0:22.1

fabulous love life and baby, although it really is.

0:25.9

We have some fan questions.

0:28.2

Please.

0:29.0

You know, listeners write in and we like to answer them and give our expert golden advice.

0:34.9

And so we want to couple that with your fabulous young in love advice. Okay, are you in? Yeah. Can I ask you a quick question before you guys? You certainly may. Yeah. If you guys could go ahead. I am not pregnant. No. No. Oh my God. No. I mean, if you could go back in time and you would say it was crucial for my partner to help me out while I was pregnant, what was that?

0:58.4

Oh, I think I'm going to cry.

1:00.9

You're already so perfect.

1:02.6

I can't even tell you.

1:03.8

The fact that you're asking that is like this sweetest thing in the world.

1:07.6

Kathy, what do you think?

1:08.7

I feel like foot rubs are a definite.

1:11.2

I think you're already doing it, Hakeem. Honestly, listening to your partner, showing her that

1:18.0

you love her, she's going to feel big and fat and all that stuff as time goes on. You know what?

1:23.4

Just telling her how much you love her and how excited you are to be together. It's all she needs is that love and affirmation that all the rest, all the rest footrubs. Those are great. She'll love that too. But you're just, just building and keeping the love between you two. That's the best advice I can give you. Yep. Well, appreciate that. Don't, would you say second that to too? I second that. You know, I feel like pregnancy for me was like super joyous. I just loved every bit of it. I loved having this little baby growing inside of me. I felt like the hardest time was like the first month after the baby is born. You have all this joy. You also have all these crazy hormones. You're not feeling great.

2:01.5

You have a lot of pressure. You don't know how to be a mom. You don't know how to be a dad. I think that's when maybe the most tension occurred. So like to be knowledgeable, like to know that and to be really patient with each other and respect like all these crazy things that are going to your head and how inadequate you feel. I remember they handed me this baby and they're like, take him home.

2:17.9

And I was like, he could die.

2:19.4

I don't know how to take him to me.

2:20.7

Like, I don't and how inadequate you feel. I remember they handed me this baby and they're like, take him home. And I was like, he could die. I don't know how to take care of him. And I was like, look at my husband. I'm like, I can't believe they're linear. Take him. Yeah. It's like we won it in the lottery. Monica, my advice that you're not asking for is once the baby is born, once Marley Marie arrives,

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