Hi, I'm Laura Vandercom.

I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

We are two working parents

who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. 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.

Welcome to Best of Both worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing at the very end of March of 26. Sarah and I for this episode as well are sitting here together in Vero Beach, Florida,

enjoying our annual podcasting retreat where we have been recording

a lot of episodes, plus also coming up with ideas for the rest of the year.

Lots of topics that we are excited to share with you guys.

So in this episode today, we're going to be doing a little bit of a review of Q1 and looking

forward to Q2, different people plan in different ways.

Sarah often has her quintiles, but lots of people think in terms of quarters.

So we're going to just take a look at that.

We're also going to be doing a now versus then subject.

Sarah will talk about a little artifact of her childhood that she recently found.

And we're going to kind of think about life in

1995, 96 versus now 30 years later and sort of what our lives were like then. And now,

various parallels that are there and differences as well. So Sarah, looking back on Q1,

you had some big wins. Well, here's the fun thing.

My quintiles don't always mesh with traditional quarters, but this time they pretty much do because our spring break is ending right in the beginning of April. Well, there you go. So this could be

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