Your Mom Is A Podcast · A Comedy Parenting Podcast

Check In on Emotions, No Right Answers, and the Dr. Greer Episode

September 23, 2024·31 min·5 clips

Alana Weintraub and Sandeep Parikh open with a check-in about parenting, work, and the friendship they are trying to keep alive. They call themselves parents and fools trying to make this parenting thing work, and they explain that the podcast is one of the few ways they can still hang out while each of them has a kid and a full work life. The Greer episode sits underneath the conversation. From there, they talk about the illusion of work-life balance and the way family, then work, and then whatever is left can crowd out friendship, which is why the show keeps returning to how much time actually exists in a day. The conversation then shifts to anxiety. One host says that if you can get to the root of what is driving the feeling, you can start taking steps that actually fit the problem, and that sometimes making a list of what feels overwhelming is itself the useful move. That idea leads into attention. A knee injury becomes the clearest example: one host describes a buddy whose knee hurts even though the exercise routine has not changed, and frames it as the knee asking for attention after years of being pushed. The advice stays practical and restrained. Listen to it, rest it, use compression and elevation for a week or so, and spend enough time with the feeling that it knows you care. The closing stays in the show's familiar lane. They ask for constructive criticism, say to treat them gently if listeners want them to improve, and land on sending an episode to a friend as the most useful thing someone can do. The episode keeps looking for one small action that makes a larger tangle feel more manageable.

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A parent-to-parent check-in on work, friendship, and the body signals that ask for attention.

This episode centers on a familiar pressure point: work, family, and friendship all asking for the same limited reserve of time. It looks at the myth of work-life balance, the way a podcast can keep two workaholic friends connected, and how parenting well can start to feel like…

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When parenting, work, and friendship all want the same last hour.

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