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Hey guys, we're back on the show with normalish takes for when the news gets weird.

And during the holidays, we were doing some Ask Us Anything.

And you guys have been kind enough to contribute questions to us. So let's kick it off with

whatever we got under the hood here. We have a lot of good ones, Mary Catherine. We're going to start

with what advice do you have for young women who want to get married, have kids, be a pretty

involved mom without completely throwing their career prospects away.

I really feel like we get this a lot.

And I do think it's so important to address because people are worried about this.

They want both and they're told they can't have both by a lot of people.

And they're looking to us to tell them that they can have both.

And I'm here to say you can.

You absolutely can. Getting married,

having kids, being an involved mom should not mean you don't get to have a career. And anybody who

tells you otherwise is lying to you. Does it mean that you will, you know, 100% be at every single

thing that you always want to be at for both your career and your kids.

No, you may have to miss a thing or two. But getting most of it in both places is enough. And I'm

here to tell you, you will make choices and you will find the right balance and it's completely

doable. What do you think? Yeah, I think the good news is that particularly post-COVID. I always say that I had a COVID-era

flexibility pre-COVID that I created for myself. And but part of that for both of us was being

intentional about making choices and taking gigs that allowed for the

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