<p class="p1">Working mom advocate and researcher, Leslie Forde, and I talk about moms' needs, the destabilizing effect of motherhood, the positive shifts she's seeing in workplaces, the three things moms reported wanting most in the pandemic, and the "grabbing the crappy potato" theory, which you've likely experienced too. </p>

Working mom advocate and researcher, Leslie Forde, and I talk about moms' needs, the destabilizing effect of motherhood, the positive shifts she's seeing in workplaces, the three things moms reported wanting most in the pandemic, and the "grabbing the crappy potato" theory, which you've likely experienced too.

<p>Working mom advocate and researcher, Leslie Forde, and I talk about moms' needs, the destabilizing effect of motherhood, the positive shifts she's seeing in workplaces, the three things moms reported wanting most in the pandemic, and the "grabbing the crappy potato" theory, which you've likely experienced too. </p>

Mom's Hierarchy of Needs with Leslie

Based off her popular and darkly humorous Facebook page, blog and forthcoming novel of the same name, author Brandy Ferner takes her love of adult conversation to the air as she spears the injustices of modern parenting and continues her tradition of saying things out loud that others won't. As a lover of truth and all things dark comedy, she and special guests partake in real talk about everything relating to motherhood – marriage post kids, birth, the never-ending micromanagement of screen time, sex, chronic-illness, Snoop Dogg, social issues, homeschooling, meditation, the revolt of the aging uterus, postpartum depletion, writing, the joke that is half-day kindergarten, and more. This is not a podcast with annoying parenting advice. Instead, Adult Conversation aims to break down the façade of "perfect" parenting with its balanced mix of wit, inappropriateness, compassion and validation, and can be considered a form of self-care, especially when listened to while locked in a bathroom alone. Or if your people will stage a full-on revolt at being separated from you, pop in some earbuds while folding laundry, wiping butts or waiting in the carpool line. Warning: this podcast  can be inappropriate, just like parenting.

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Based off her popular and darkly humorous Facebook page, blog and forthcoming novel of the same name, author Brandy Ferner takes her love of adult conversation to the air as she spears the injustices of modern parenting and continues her tradition of saying things out loud that others won't. As a lover of truth and all things dark comedy, she and special guests partake in real talk about everything relating to motherhood – marriage post kids, birth, the never-ending micromanagement of screen time, sex, chronic-illness, Snoop Dogg, social issues, homeschooling, meditation, the revolt of the aging uterus, postpartum depletion, writing, the joke that is half-day kindergarten, and more. This is not a podcast with annoying parenting advice. Instead, Adult Conversation aims to break down the façade of "perfect" parenting with its balanced mix of wit, inappropriateness, compassion and validation, and can be considered a form of self-care, especially when listened to while locked in a bathroom alone. Or if your people will stage a full-on revolt at being separated from you, pop in some earbuds while folding laundry, wiping butts or waiting in the carpool line. Warning: this podcast can be inappropriate, just like parenting.

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