Life Lately
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We thought it was time for a real-time life update and hope this episode feels like a coffee date with friends. We touch on parenting, work, homeschool, the state of the world, and how we're making time for what matters to us.
Just for Friends of the Show, we'll be telling you all about our recent three-night podcast retreat! From what we did and ate to a cheese emergency and our favorite Winter Olympic event. Plus, we'll share some of the planned episodes we're really excited for this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.7 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:13.2 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh |
| 0:17.8 | about yet. Today's episode will be like catching up with friends. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.5 | We record so many episodes ahead of time and about specific topic so we don't always get |
| 0:27.7 | a chance to share what's going on day to day. |
| 0:30.8 | So it feels like time for a catch up. |
| 0:33.3 | Just for Friends of the show, we'll be telling you all about our recent annual podcast retreat, |
| 0:38.8 | which included so much cozy, productive work time, all the delicious food, and watching a lot |
| 0:44.8 | of spandex on ice in the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:48.5 | And we will also be telling you about some episode topics this year that we're excited about |
| 0:52.8 | because we planned our entire next year of content |
| 0:57.1 | through February 2027, which was wild to write down as a date. |
| 1:02.2 | We have those all planned. |
| 1:03.6 | So join us there. |
| 1:05.4 | Okay, let's catch up to start. |
| 1:09.0 | Parenting is such a big part of our lives so what's going on and parenting for you |
| 1:13.8 | what feels hard what's going great give us an update okay the girls are 12 and 14 so probably enough |
| 1:22.7 | said in terms of what's hard there you go we are firmly in the middle school teen tween girl era. There are a lot of |
| 1:31.6 | emotions in our house. What feels hard is the not strapping into the emotional roller coaster with them |
| 1:36.8 | and just waiting for them at the bottom of the ride. Right. Easier said than done. It is really helping |
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