The Transition To Motherhood ft. Vashtie Kola

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Vashtie is the original IT girl in NYC. She is also a DJ, designer, film maker, and a new mom. We discuss her transition to motherhood, her labor experiences, sex and love after babies, how she got her career into the place it is now, and so much more. This episode starts with a solo where I talk about my own motherhood challenges.

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0:46.9	Bashi. Bashi is just a really cool a girl who's been around in the city for a
0:52.4	while she does it all and now she is also a mom of two adorable babies and I'm really looking forward to you hearing her perspective and just what she has to say about everything from her career to her natural births to her relationship and how it's changed or hasn't changed post kids and before we get into Vashi I was going to do what I usually do and play like you know your recorded questions and answer them
1:27.6	But I thought I'd use this solo to talk a little bit about my transition to motherhood and some things that I've learned or
1:35.9	picked up along the way. I'm doing my best to do a balance of episodes that are about
1:41.1	dating and then episodes about where I'm at in my life
1:45.0	because I do feel like it would be crazy to pretend that you know I'm not
1:50.1	married with a kid now which I very very much am. And, you know, there's things that I am going
1:57.1	through that I feel like I should be sharing. And then also there's listeners who are in the same boat as me.
2:03.4	And it's very divided, you know, like half of our listeners
2:06.9	want the dating advice and the dating tips,
2:09.0	and then half, I think, want to be,
2:12.1	to want to feel seen and feel heard as new moms or in new marriages and growing and you know,
2:20.1	whatever it is. Not that like you're not growing if you're not married
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