The View From A Broad
Hi welcome to The View From A Broad. I'm Teresa Norton and this podcast dives into my past, revisiting columns I wrote for the South China Morning Post between 1993 and 2000 during my 40 years living in Hong Kong.
These often funny, sometimes tender, occasionally provocative musings cover everything from marriage and working motherhood, to national identity and global events. As a weekly columnist I aimed to capture the quirks of human interactions, carve up a few sacred cows and tell it like it is... but did I? In the 30 years since those columns were written much has changed and... so have I.
In each episode I read a column and talk to a guest about how the piece stands up today - what still rings true and what feels out of sync with today’s world. They then share a true story from their past that's been unearthed by something in the column.
The result is an engaging and honest conversation about the evolution of social norms, culture and humor, re-examining the past through the lens of today’s values.
By looking back with compassion and curiosity, my hope is that The View From A Broad encourages reflection on how our perspectives have changed... or not... and why.
The View From A Broad
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Holds All The Cards | Teresa talks to Grace Edwards
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What a hilarious romp this episode is through the division of "labor" - from the rampage of pregnancy hormone sweeps to the actual labor in the delivery room of a hospital (one in Hong Kong in 1987 and the other in Myanmar in 2021) along with 24-hour new parent exhaustion, cracked nipples and some tips for new fathers on what NOT to ask a nursing mother.
Join me and my guest, speechwriter, communications consultant, content strategist and mother of two, Grace Edwards, who shares a YMT's (young mother today) perspective on a 3 decade old column I wrote about the invisible scoreboard that goes up over the bassinet and how new fathers can gain and lose points.
What's changed in 30 years? Join us to find out, for lots of laughs, important work being done by Grace's charity of choice, and an hysterical and hair raising story of her first delivery in a hospital in Myanmar.
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Grace's charity: https://doctorsfornepal.org/
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