Mailbag: Keeping goals in mind, childcare while traveling, job transitions, kid dates, and more!

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this Q&A mailbag episode, Laura and Sarah answer questions submitted via Patreon. Topics include keeping yearly goals in mind, ways to handle childcare while traveling for work, ideas for non-overlapping spring breaks, tips for transitioning to a new job, and finally an in-depth discussion of "kid dates".

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	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.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. I am recording from the closet in my office.
1:08.8	Many reasons for that. It's somewhat quiet in here, but not a whole lot of,
1:14.6	you know, soft stuff in here. So it may be a bit acuity. I apologize for that. We're still working
1:19.0	out with this move. It's complicated. Moving turns out to be really challenging, especially with
1:24.3	seven people and lots of stuff and new systems. Anyway, it's, you're going to get to
1:32.3	soon, Sarah. You're getting me so excited for it too. We'll put it off as long as possible.
1:40.0	Although all of a sudden I was like, oh, right, we have to pay mortgage and rent. That's a shame. it, even if everything's not perfect, because you sort of figure out more stuff that isn't, you know, that needs to be fixed by living here. And, you know, it's going to happen to happen
2:05.2	eventually. So pull the Band-Aid off and figure it out. Totally. Yeah, it'll fall into place. You'll
2:11.3	like figure out what, yeah, that is kind of an interesting challenge, like what to do in which room kind of a thing,
2:17.9	but holistically it will kind of, it'll happen.
2:20.0	It'll happen.
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