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ManTalks Podcast

Vienna Pharaon - How We Navigate BIG Decisions

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The first few months of having a child turn your world upside down. Full stop. This week, I had my incredible wife Vienna on the show to cover all the angles of our recent entry into parenting—my experience, her experience, our experiences of each other. Our joys, concerns, projections, and all the other things we had to navigate surrounding (as Stephen Jenkinson puts it) becoming “parent-lings”. Full disclosure: This. Is. Real. Talk. Listen in and let us know what you thought! Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.  Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter    Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, wife and mother of our beautiful child, how are you doing?

0:18.0

Hello. I'm doing well. How are you? Great.

0:24.4

This is what it sounds like when you don't have a lot of sleep. That's pretty, it's pretty true.

0:31.0

All right. So we're going to talk about becoming parents. All right. I've been getting, I don't know about you,

0:37.1

but I've gotten a few

0:37.9

questions about becoming a dad, how this changed me, what it's been like for you, the pregnancy,

0:44.8

how it's impacted our relationship, all of that good jazz. So I thought, I thought we would

0:53.8

talk a little bit about having a child first and foremost

0:57.4

and what that was like for us. But then secondly, how we've navigated that within the context

1:02.4

of our relationship, specifically what was it like while you were pregnant and has anything

1:08.0

shifted while, you know, since having a child, even though we're, you know,

1:12.5

we're, as Stephen Jenkinson recently called it, we're parentlings.

1:18.3

We're like fledgling parents, you know, just fresh out of the nest.

1:22.9

But yeah, so why don't we just start broad and then we'll go a little bit deeper, but what was your

1:29.1

experience like being pregnant? And yeah, what was the highlight? What was surprising? What was

1:36.0

challenging for you? I enjoyed being pregnant. I was excited to be pregnant and go through that process. I think I recall you

1:49.1

feeling concerned, though, that I wasn't like attaching early on in the pregnancy. Just for clarity's

2:00.4

sake, I'm never concerned.

2:01.9

Never.

2:03.7

Well, you had a few things to say about it.

2:06.1

What do you mean by that?

2:07.3

That I was concerned that you weren't attaching.

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