Very Real

Gina recaps her trip back to Missouri, managing her father's cancer diagnosis, navigating the difficulties of toddlerdom, and all the other struggles along the way.

In this special episode, Cheryl Medeiros fills in for Gina and Cheryl and Jenny recount their experience in growing up in a small town - what they liked, what they didn't, and how two people living 100 ft apart could have such wildly different lives.

Cheryl Medeiros is back to tell her story about her challenging diagnosis at 25 years old, the loss of her first pregnancy, and dealing with her chronic illness for the past 13 years.

Trigger warning: in this episode we talk about pregnancy loss and abortion.

This year, we have seen more illnesses going around than we have seen in many years. The internet likes to tell you what is best for your body to keep you healthy?  But what things are worth it and which ones aren't?

Jenny and Gina talk about their experiences with seasonal illness this year, what vitamins they have been thinking about taking, the best way to take vitamins and what has been helpful so far.

What is the price for self-sufficiency? When we live up to being responsible all of the time, how does that affect our day to day lives?

This week, Jenny and Gina chat with their friend Courtney, who is always there to help and take of things when the need arises. They discuss why it's hard to say no sometimes, why you can get trapped into being the reliable one all of the time, and how to set boundaries and when it's appropriate.

Women are often expected to do it all - have kids, not have kids, work, not work, manage everyone's expectations and just chill the F out. But how can we possibly manage all of this?

In this weeks episode, Jenny and Gina invite their friend Cheryl Medeiros on to recount their stories of what it's like to try to have it all even when they know it's impossible. 

This year on Love Day we come together to celebrate our friends and the people in our chosen families. Gina and Jenny recount how on a Valentines Day 8 years ago a group of girls that barely new each other went on a trip to a naked spa and have been close friends ever since. They also review their past friendships, what making friends has been like for them over the years, and what they look for in a friendship now.

How is 2023 going so far? Well... about as good as could be expected. In this episode Jenny and Gina recap their year so far: what has gone well, what has gone sideways and what they are going to carry on through the next month.

In this part 2 episode Gina, Jenny and Amandine dive into why they don't have regrets about their decisions to leave their home towns, where they feel the most at home, and how they  might anticipate their children leaving in the future.

At some point everyone leaves home. And everyone's experience leaving home is different. Some people choose to return and some people choose to stay. But why?

Gina and Jenny speak with their friend Amandine, a French native, living in America, about what is is like to leave home, be so far from home and why they've made the choices that they've made to get them where they are today.