Thriving with Unconventional Work Week Rhythms: Lauren Kuratko, Episcopal Priest EP440
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
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4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Laura and Sarah open up with some discussion of ringing in the 2026 New Year, and then Lauren Kurakto, an Episcopal Priest, joins Laura for a fascinating discussion about how she leads a meaningful and fun life while thriving in a career that is (by definition!) variable, unconventional, and often demanding.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:24.6 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:30.6 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:34.6 | From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, |
| 0:38.6 | we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in early January of |
| 0:51.3 | 26. I am going to be interviewing Reverend Lauren Carrotco, who is an |
| 0:56.4 | Episcopal priest in suburban New York, so very excited to hear from her about how she manages |
| 1:03.0 | her life and all the things she has going on. This is our first episode in the new year, |
| 1:09.7 | a couple days into the new year. But I have a question, |
| 1:12.5 | Sarah. We all know that you're a bit of a morning person. Do you think you will have stayed up |
| 1:17.4 | until midnight? We're recording this in December, but do you think you will have been up |
| 1:20.8 | till midnight on the new year? Okay. To be fair, if I were doing something really fun that evening |
| 1:26.4 | or if I was at a party, or even if I were with my husband and he wasn't on call, I think I would stay up till midnight. |
| 1:33.3 | But as the reality has it, we cannot both take both Christmas and New Year's off. |
| 1:38.7 | And so since we are traveling for Christmas, we are not work free on the New Year's week. So my husband will be on call |
| 1:45.9 | and therefore I doubt we're going to be doing anything spectacular and I will probably go to bed |
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