
Double Trouble
Welcome to Double Trouble podcast, hosted by identical twins, Nell and Laine. Living 2,000 miles apart in distinctively different cities and cultures; San Juan, Puerto Rico and Chicago, Illinois. Nell and Laine have been continuously surprised at life’s shared themes, commonalities and challenges. Join us as we navigate and explore the balance between raising the next generation while continuing our own personal, emotional, and mental growth as women. Exploring topics from beauty standards, health on the inside and out, over scheduling our children , academic competition, navigating changing friendships and adult social lives….all while landing on 2 feet at the end of the day.
Double Trouble
Episode 9: April Daly – Prima Ballerina
This episode hits on so many potent topics for the modern day woman. Nell and Laine talk with April Daly, an ex-prima ballerina from the Jeoffrey Ballet. They delve into the struggles and choices that women face everyday, balancing a career and the pressures of family. To be or not to be. April shares her experience of being at the height of her career while simultaneously having to think about fertility and family planning. She also gives insight into how she indirectly prepped for her second life--a career after ballet! As icing on the cake, April tells us about her romantic and adventurous love story and eventual marriage to a fellow dancer that defected from Cuba. Good stuff mi gente!!!