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Thanks so much. This is our Politic. I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea.

This week, we're starting the show with our roundtable, sip in the political tea.

We want to make sure you get the real talk from us right away.

We've got a special collaboration on our roundtable this week with a podcast that I am a huge

fan of, The Double Shift.

It's a narrative show that challenges the status quo ideals of motherhood in America, and they've

just done a two-part series on mental health and motherhood.

My guests are the Double Shift shifts creator, Catherine Goldstein.

Hey, Catherine. Hey, Farai. And her co-host Angela, Angela. Hi, Farai. So Catherine,

tell us about this series and how it came to mind and what you're covering. So in 2020, Angela and I

were having a conversation about our show, and it sort of naturally came up that we both had started taking antidepressants during 2020, during the pandemic for the first time as adults.

And we realized we'd been having all sorts of conversations together and

trying to have you know uncover all sorts of angles on motherhood but had sort of never chosen

to share this detail with each other and we kind of wanted to unpack why and we realized that

there might be a lot more there and a lot of other people who were having new mental health experiences and

struggles. And we thought that there was definitely fodder to do some real reporting and hear

from listeners.

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