Mom Wars: Freely Sober
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4.4 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the front lines of the mom wars, here's Bethany Mandel and Kara Kennedy. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. I am your American co-host, Bethany Mandel. |
| 0:15.5 | I am a homeschooling mom of six and a frequent contributor to the Washington Examiner and the New York Post. And I am |
| 0:23.2 | joined by my beautiful, very pregnant co-host. There's nothing beautiful about me. Carrey Kennedy, |
| 0:31.4 | who is increasingly depressed and sad and pregnant. Are you depressed and sad because you're pregnant? |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, I'm just so pregnant now. |
| 0:41.3 | It's just I just forgot how bad it was. |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | And what do you do besides be pregnant? |
| 0:49.6 | Not much right now. |
| 0:53.3 | Order a lot of Amazon deliveries, take on a lot of work that I probably shouldn't be taking |
| 0:58.1 | it on right now. |
| 0:59.5 | You can read me in the free press and increasingly in the telegraph, which is kind of fun. |
| 1:04.2 | That's exciting. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | And we are joined by a very old friend of mine from, golly, 15 years ago. I think possibly more. I don't |
| 1:14.0 | even know. So, so long. So Erica Anderson is a freelance writer and the author of the new book |
| 1:20.9 | freely sober, which is why we're here and why we're having this conversation. But you also wrote a book |
| 1:26.3 | that had the word clouds in it. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes, my first book was called Leaving Cloud Nine. |
| 1:32.4 | Yes, I knew there was nine in there too. |
| 1:34.3 | Yes, leaving Cloud Nine. |
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