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Best of Both Worlds Podcast

Summertime Chat with Author Mary Laura Philpott

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6761 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Laura open with an update on their summer reading lives. Then, Laura interviews listener-requested memoirist Mary Laura Philpott, author of Bomb Shelter and I Miss You When I Blink.

In the Q&A, a listener with a 4 month old and 4 year old writes in wondering when she will be able to effectively plan her days again.

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:05.8

Oh yeah.

0:06.6

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

0:15.3

autobiographies, true crime, and more.

0:19.3

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

0:22.6

flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,

0:38.3

and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.

0:44.3

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

0:47.3

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.

0:53.3

From figuring out child care

0:55.1

to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.

1:02.3

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 260, which is first

1:07.3

airing in late July of 2022. I am interviewing Mary Laura Philpott, who is the author

1:13.9

of Baumshelter, which is a new memoir that is out this summer. She is also the author of the

1:19.4

memoir, I Miss You When I Blink, which I know a lot of our listeners have read and enjoyed. Her book,

1:26.0

Bombsh shelter was selected for the modern Mrs. Darksey summer

1:28.7

book club, or summer reading guide, I guess. So I know that a lot of people have come to know

1:33.2

Mary Laura's work through that. So we are excited to talk with her and talk about what, you know,

1:38.6

bomb shelter is about, you know, what her writing process is like, lots of great things that we talked about. So speaking of

1:46.9

summer reading, Sarah, how is your summer reading going? My summer reading is going really, really well.

1:52.6

I hit a big reading slump this year around like March, April, and then I think I wrote like,

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