More Happier: Parenting Roundtable with Dr. Becky and Samantha Bee

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Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Roundtable Series tackles the subject of parenthood. With parenting expert Dr. Becky Kennedy and comedian Samantha Bee, we discuss the most helpful lessons we’ve learned, big challenges we’ve faced, the anxieties that we sometimes feel as parents, and more.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	Hello, we are here for More Happier, a podcast where we get happier. Today, it's a very special
0:22.9	edition of More Happier. It's the next in our new Roundtable Conversation series. This one is about
0:29.3	parenting. And I am thrilled to be joined by two terrific guests today. First, Dr. Becky Kennedy.
0:36.8	Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and she is the
0:39.7	founder of Good Inside, a platform that offers online workshops, a podcast, and a subscription-based
0:45.5	community for parents. She is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller,
0:51.4	Good Inside, which is a manual for parents, and a new children's book called
0:56.1	That's My Truck. She is host of the terrific podcast, Good Inside with Dr. Becky. And I am also so
1:04.3	excited to be talking to Samantha B. Samantha B is host of the weekly podcast Choice Words with
1:10.7	Samantha B, as well as The Daily Beast podcast with Joanna Coles.
1:14.8	And I'm actually friends with Joanna Coles, so that's super fun.
1:18.0	Samantha B is also author of the essay collection, I know I am, but what are you?
1:22.4	And you might know her from her work on The Daily Show with John Stewart or her very own late night comedy series
1:28.5	Full Frontal with Samantha B. Hello, Becky, hello, Sam. Hello. Hello. It's so great to me.
1:37.1	You know what I realized? We all live in New York City. It's weird that we're not. We should be in this.
1:40.7	I feel that we should be in the same room. I know, but we've got to make it happen. And, of course, we are all three parents, and we are here today to talk about parenthood. And this is such a fascinating subject. Being a parent is a role that changes and evolves throughout our lives, maybe more than any other role. And we're having this conversation sandwich between Mother's Day and Father's Day.
2:01.0	So it's a good opportunity to think about our mothers, our fathers, the mother figures and father
2:05.0	figures in our lives. And also has our role as parents. And all three of us are parents. So let's
2:09.6	set the scene. Becky, we'll start with you. What kids do you have and how old are they?
2:13.1	So I have a seven-year-old boy, a 10-year-old girl, and a 13-year-old boy. Okay, so 3-33, very organized.
2:19.5	Mm-hmm.
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