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.
How to store (or not store) kid art and baby clothes, why clutter is visual anxiety and why women feel this weight, we break down Marie Kondo's merits and neuroses, and more.
Learn practical strategies to reclaim your sanity and space from the kid (and adult) clutter that is slowly killing you. No “does it spark joy?” BS here.
A fed-up mom takes her family to India to get away from to-do lists, chauffeuring, and kid-centered activities. Her marriage implodes, but it’s #worthit.
A mom in local politics tells all about how she’s treated differently than men, still falls into common female traps, and resists by bringing her kids with her.
Peek into the life of a mother of a transgender child. When and how did she know? How did she come to acceptance? What shocking statistic changed everything? She tells us all with humor and candor, including the one simple sentence you can use to explain transgender to your kids. There’s a lot for all of us to learn here.
Do-able mom hacks that leverage your inherent laziness, carve out time in the AM, outsmart your picky eaters, ditch multi-tasking, make exercise achievable, and more.
Motherhood then and now, unhealthy shifts in family hierarchy, extreme lengths for happy memories, school choice pitfalls, and the importance of failing.
Wisdom from a seasoned mother of seven, how we mess our kids up, mealtime struggles that span the ages, most memorable moments of birth, and deep mother wounds.
Sex after having kids, threesomes we’ve all been in, being diagnosed with “Cockblockers,” why early motherhood is like triage, and what one dad learned about how foreplay changes.
