Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from

little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages

of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share

tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're

not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.

Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Sarah

Powers here on a Sunday with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah, good to be here.

So this is the middle of summer friends and more than mom episodes are

already where we take a departure from the serious and usually dive into a

fun fluffy topic. And today we're talking about advice like getting advice,

giving advice, reading or listening to other people given advice. This is

gonna be fun. I'm really looking forward to this because as I was kind of

taking notes and preparing my thoughts, I was realizing that you can learn a lot

about yourself and your personality by the way you give or don't give and take

or don't take advice. And I think you just kind of showed me a lot about

myself. Yeah, I agree with that. And I also every time I was thinking about

these questions, too, I had to make a real clear delineation between different

types of things that I might take or give advice about. Like I was thinking

about we'll get into it. But I was thinking about how our culture today so relies

on crowdsourcing for things like which vacuum cleaner should I buy and like which

school is best in the neighborhood. And so I think actually advice asking and

advice giving is maybe more prevalent than we think. But when we think about

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