We could all be doing better with our money, right? Of course we could. In today’s episode we dive into our money conversation. Anne is really into personal finance and thought we as 30-something women definitely needed to discuss this topic. She has great perspective and lots to share.

One of her favorite money resources is the podcast, Her Money. She has referenced it before and says listening to is has made her more confident in dealing with money.

Taten speaks about going through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and how she loves using his app called EveryDollar.

In my household, my husbands handles most of our finances, which I’m fine with. Dealing with money makes me nervous and anxious and I prefer that he handle it. However, Anne makes a great point at the end of the episode that I should grow knowledge and confidence in my own finances. Thank goodness for these smart friends of mine, right?

Thanks for listening to today’s episode where we discuss saving, investing, financial advisers, and budgets. And thanks for listening to us anytime! We love you guys!

Welcome back, friends! The girls and I talked so much during out recording of the get-to-know-us episode that we had to break it down into two parts. Here in part two you’ll hear our favorite quotes; we’ll completely butcher the liturgical calendar (oh geez), and discuss our celebrity crushes. **Be advised that there is a little bit of colorful language in this episode so listen accordingly.

Favorite QuotesAnne- “Softly, softly catchy monkey.”- her grandmotherElizabeth- “The things that make you strange are the things that make your powerful.”- Ben Platt

PlannerTaten and I love and use The Simplified Planner. I’ve talked about it before in this post if you’d like to read more about it and why we love it so much.

Celebrity CrushesTaten- Colin Firth, Clark Gable

Anne- Local weather men

Josh Johnson-WSFA Weather

Elizabeth- Leonardo DiCaprio

There’s plenty more to learn about us in this episode, so have a listen and come back and tell us your celebrity crushes and favorite quotes!

Hello all! We are back with another episode of the podcast today. It occurred to me that we on the panel know each other pretty well but maybe you listeners don’t. I decided we needed to remedy that by recording an episode that lets you in a little bit on who each of us as a person.

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In this episode we continue our discussion about the truth of marriage.

We discuss the topic in Sex and the City 2 of making your own marriage rules and do we do that.We discuss the reality of dividing the household chores and responsibilities especially when there are children involved.We even discussed swinging and I don’t mean the kind you do in the backyard. I wish I would have taken screen shots of Anne’s face during this discussion. Taten and I got our giggle boxes turned over quite a few times because of it.

Here are a few more photos of us with our husbands that are slightly more recent.

If you’re married or have been, what’s one of the truths you’ve come to learn about marriage? We’d love to know! Thanks for listening and come back next time!

I recently attended the bachelorette party of my brother’s now wife. We had a great time at the spa and having dinner downtown, but some of the conversations we had really got me thinking about marriage and some of the flat out lies that people believe and tell people who are joining the marriage club. Like the lie that the first year of marriage is like one big giant honeymoon. It’s hard, y’all, real hard. We also discussed couple’s therapy and thoughts of getting a divorce. *Heads up: There’s some light cursing if you want to listen without little ears around. We hope you enjoy our real, raw, and comical thoughts on marriage in part one. Leave us a comment and tell us what kind of lies you were told about marriage. Tell us what works fro you and what doesn’t.

Take a look at the bachelorette party and then at some pictures of us girls with our husbands from a few years ago.

Bachelorettes at the spa!

Franklin and Anne

Paul and Elizabeth

Allen and Taten

Also, sweet Ava Glenn made her way into the world. We’re so proud of you, Trawick and can’t wait to love on you and your sweet girl.

Thanks for listening and come back next time!

How do you deal with difficult times? In today’s episode we discuss times when we’ve dealt with those less than stellar seasons of life. We talk about the little things that help get us through and how sometimes talking it out with your girlfriends or spending time with your family is just what you need.

Trawick shares the struggles she’s currently dealing with to get our episode started. Being eight months pregnant is taking it’s toll on her, her aunt has been diagnosed with cancer, and her grandmother has had a stroke. In these tough seasons of life, she brings to the table the topic of Surviving not Thriving. Just getting by day to day.

We discuss the little things that help make things simpler for us or help us to escape from the stress and frustrations of difficult times in life. Here’s a few of ours: gardening, painting your nails and listening to good music, good conversations with your girlfriends to get your mind off of the stress, family time, or even going to the bathroom by yourself if you’ve got little kids running around your house.

Are you in this season? It can be so lonely. We are happy to hash it out with you. Leave us a comment and tell us what you do to get you through. Thanks for listening! Come back next time!

Welcome back, friends! We’re excited to bring you another episode of the podcast today. Have a listen to two instances from Taten and Trawick when they were Mommy Judged. *Trawick was having a few technical issues with her Skype call, so the sound is a little off on this episode.

Taten’s story is of an incident that happened in Chick-fil-A. An on-looking mother that Taten did not know had negative and nasty comments about Taten’s children in the play area.Trawick’s had a bit of a Dance Moms situation on her hands. A passive aggressive mother took issue with Trawick’s daughter while observing a gymnastics class that both of their children were in.

We also discuss the glamorization of the failures of motherhood. Do we have to share that with the world on social media? Or do we just need the attention from people to give us a pat on the back telling us that we’re doing a good job? Elizabeth shares about how the pressure parents feel to give their children constant attention carries over into the classroom. When children are given constant attention at home, it’s hard for them to adjust to the classroom environment of one adult to twenty students. Constant and direct attention to one child all day long is not possible. So stressing over giving children so much attention at home shouldn’t be so stressful. Ease up on yourselves, mamas. They will be okay!We discuss issues and ways of parenting that we adhere to and those that we aren’t participating in.

Has mommy shaming ever happened to you? And why is this a thing? We should all be in this together. Tell us what you think about this issue and about the podcast. We’d love to chat about it with you!

We’re actually doing it! Listen to the first discussion we had once we all decided we were on board for recording this podcast together. No real theme today, just a fun conversation as we talk about what sorts of things we’ll be discussing on the podcast.

Listen to see what our husbands tell us about starting a podcast. Mostly positive reactions! We decide if we’ll allow cussing on the podcast (spoiler alert: we do but just a little.)We name our podcast Adults (By 40). We vetoed titles like Gal Pals, Long Distance Download, and Anne’s contribution, T.E.A.T. -an acronym of our first names. We learn that iPhones are water-resistant, so you can listen to our podcast in the shower like I do. We discussed the State of the Union which led to us discussing how we get our news and what we typically watch, such as national vs. local.When discussing local news, we got around to the topic of the weather, especially the meteorologist. Anne has a thing for them. Below is the photo she got with Josh Johnson from WSFA, and I’m pretty sure it was a highlight of her life.

Thanks for visiting our page and thanks for listening. Anytime you want to weigh in on our topics, please leave us a comment. We can’t wait to talk with you. Come back next time!

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