All right, Monica, welcome to the Man Talk Show. How you doing today? I am doing so well. Thank you,

Connor, for having me. Yeah, long time coming, long time coming. How's motherhood treating you?

Honestly, it is the best. We were saying this before we clicked record, but being a parent and like, you know, being a mother is just the most expansive experience that I think a woman can ever go through. And somehow I just keep finding more patience, more love, more nervous system regulation. And I have been saying to some friends and clients that I know that the

cultural landscape of motherhood these days on social media can be quite negative. But I have had

the opposite experience. I think a lot of it is mindset as well. But just like you get these

superpowers becoming a mom that you would never get, no matter how many seminars you went to or anything

like that, like the mom productivity superpower is the most epic thing. And so I'm loving it.

That's awesome. Yeah, I've noticed more and more online this narrative of life's better without

kids. Having kids as a woman, you know, makes you less happy.

And there's all this type of rhetoric that I'm seeing.

And I'm sure we're going to get to that.

I don't want to dive into that quite yet.

But it's, it's been fascinating for me to watch this almost like a pushing of a narrative

to not have children.

And that as a woman, are somehow you know you're somehow like diminishing yourself by having children and yeah we'll get into that so let's

let's maybe just start like you said uh that modern women are living against their nature so what do you

mean by that modern women are living against their nature. So what do you mean by that? Modern women are living

against their nature and how might that be impairing their mental health or their sense of

happiness? Well, just from a biological standpoint, you know, we as women are extremely different from

men. Even if you just looked at our hormones, right? We are predominantly

estrogen and progesterone. You guys are predominantly testosterone. And women these days are, a lot of us

are living in a very hyper-masculine energy, which actually, if you go and get your bloods done as a woman,

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