Inviting Dogs Into Your Home, Lowering Gift-Giving Anxiety, Crashing Birthday Parties, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about inviting dogs into your home, lowering gift-giving anxiety, crashing birthday parties, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- The holiday office party is at my boss' home...should I bring a gift?
- How should I react to someone wanting to bring their dog to my home?
- What sort of holiday greeting should I send former coworkers who were let go this year?
- How can I let my relatives know that all this gift-giving is causing me anxiety?
- For online invitations, is it OK to hide the guest list?
- Bonkers: A dad dropping off his son at a birthday party
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, Leah, do you know about |
| 0:04.3 | Wolves Plus? I do, but let's pretend I don't for this for our audience. So Wolves Plus, |
| 0:11.5 | and we say it the French way, because it sounds fancier, is this new thing that we offer on Apple |
| 0:16.1 | podcasts. So you can get an ad-free version of our show that also helps support us. |
| 0:21.3 | And you can do that right now in the app. |
| 0:23.4 | So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it. |
| 0:28.3 | And check it out. |
| 0:29.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:30.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:31.5 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:37.3 | It's Nick Layton. |
| 0:38.3 | And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 0:39.3 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:42.3 | Owoo! |
| 0:45.3 | That we've a bonus episode, so here we go. |
| 0:48.3 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 0:50.3 | I've been invited to a holiday office party. |
| 0:52.3 | For the first time in my career, I'm working for a very small firm where the owner runs |
| 0:57.7 | the company from her home office. |
| 0:59.7 | All of our work is done off-site with clients, but we do hold occasional staff meetings |
| 1:04.0 | around the owner's dining room table. |
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