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Taking Care with Lesley and Chelsea
Two childhood best friends are seemingly living different lives. Lesley, an entrepreneur in Iowa, is raising a blended family of outdoor adventure seekers, tending to her garden, and cooking up new ideas in the commercial kitchen on her property. Chelsea is a lawyer in NYC, renovating her dream house, studying reiki, and hosting dinner parties. While their lives look different from the outside, their 25 year friendship cuts through the superficial differences and reveals the deeper shared experiences of motherhood, marriage, and work in the context of our current political climate. Join Lesley and Chelsea for conversations on taking care of what's important.
Episodes
10 episodes
Taking Care of Immigrants
This week, we just got right into it. We've got our hands full (Arlo makes a guest appearance) but we had to check in about what is happening to immigrants and the people who support them. Want to help? Call your senators and tell t...
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Taking care of our postpartum selves, with Jamie Kreiter of Nurture Therapy
We're back chatting about postpartum life and whether the government could make it easier. Unfortunately, the mom industrial guilt complex is working overtime...and so is Lesley. Chelsea's internet connection is unstable, Lesley's breastmilk sp...
Pregnancy, maternal healthcare, and the birth story that made our jaws drop w/ Steph Strauss
Lesley so over being pregnant, but one addition to her household made it a little easier. Chelsea reveals the lengths she went to bring Lesley a turkey sandwich in the hospital after the first baby. Lesley's OB clears her for a family road trip...
Mom rage, child labor laws, & Leila Staton, candidate for Iowa House District 54
It's the end of summer and gentle parenting is out, emoting is in. Our kids learned to sail and why the patriarchy sucks at summer camp this year. We chat about losing our shit in front of our kids, and how Chelsea fell for liberal propaganda. ...
Camping, a new lake house, and why poor environmental policy will poison us all w/ Myles Markey
Lesley reminisces on a four week camping trip with her family while Chelsea admits she doesn't consider anything a vacation unless there are robes. They discuss whether Chelsea would be useful in an apocalypse and why Lesley can't drink the wat...
Being boy moms, converting your husband to a democrat, and the DNC's plan to win male voters
Lesley chats about her high hopes for her new business while Chelsea admits she got dressed down at a baby shower. Meanwhile, Lesley is about to join the double boy mom club, so we unpack the responsibility of raising sons in this cultural and ...
Fancy purses, schoolyard hustles, and financial policy with The Fiscal Femme
This week it's all about money, honey. We revisit our preteen quest for a Kate Spade purse, Lesley shares the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and we wonder whether tariffs will tank a schoolyard hustle. We also sound the alarm that Republica...
Tradwives, excluding moms from Congress, and Mimi's wish for us all
Can you be a bitchy tradwife? AI thinks so. We chat about overcoming our micro traumas, college dinner parties, Hobby Lobby, and how Republicans are deliberately excluding women from participating in the political process. We also have our firs...
Starting a podcast, Southern Comfort, and what's next
Our first episode is HERE! We chat about our 30 year friendship and some of our missteps in our wilder days (sorry, Moms). While we still aren't following the rules, nowadays there is less Southern Comfort and more conversations about redefinin...