Shanell was episode 12 and it feels like yesterday. I interviewed her in February. Just before the world fell in on us. Shanell is a school Psych in Ithaca, N.Y. and she's also my best friend ever. She's the Pinkie Pie to my Big Red. The Peppa to my Salt. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)
Mary Hetrick is passion. In the flesh. If you didn't catch her original episode you can hear her talk about herself and how she got into, of all things, being the only local provider of badass vintage furniture reupholsering in Episode 6. The other thing I wanted to talk to Mary about this past January was an upcoming production of the The Vagina Monologues. The first her hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., had ever hosted. Mary's passion is infections. She's positively bursting at the seams with passi...
My dad made a fresh opening, just for this most holy of days. Check out "Spooky Uke," his newest creation. Mwahahahah.... I had to ask Gina to take the wheel for a bit while I dealt with having an alien consciousness implanted into my brain and being groomed as the ET queen before being reinserted into my Earthly life as a sleeper cell for the Alien Takeover. In this episode, Gina talks Trick-Or-Treating in labor, her cheeky Irish Grandpa ghost, and her favorite Halloween memories, movies, and c...
I interviewed Emily Wachter, a local Early Interventionist I've had the pleasure of working with for various stories and things over the years. This bonus content is a long one, but it's a good one. I sometimes go back and relisten to old content and this episode is one that I've loved for a long time. Also, keep your eyes open for another Halloween themed Gina & Stacey Sidecast later tonight. It's a bonus weekend. I'm feeling generous. Because Halloween and all. Love, Stacey Support the sho...
An extra hour of tape from my interview with Frank Williams, who talks about how deployment may have helped his marriage, and helped him to see what he had at home that he possibly hadn't appreciated before. You can hear the first part of Frank's interview in Episode 11. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)
So I've been going through old content as well as pre-2020 and early-2020 content, when everything was still relatively normal and I thought I might actually take a shot at monetizing this project. Part of that included bonus content from each episode, which was only available for Patrons at the time. Each interview typically lasted 2 hours or a little more. I always aired the first half of the episode and kept the second half for Patreon. But now we're all wizened October 2020-ers and I simply ...
Sunny Kirby grew up in the same part of northwestern Pennsylvania as I did, around the same time as I did. We probably knew a lot of the same people. Yet Sunny and I hadn't met in person a day in our lives before sitting down this past Monday to talk about homeschooling. Our conversation naturally branched and stretched, always coming back to that home base of a topic, but naturally and organically occurring as we discovered more and more we had in common with one another. Support the show (http...
Gina and I disucss our favie princesses ever in the Disney Canon, which happen to be the same princess actually, as well as our favie non-princess female leads. We also discuss Gina's first Hocus Pocus viewing and lay out some plans for upcoming Halloween Episodes Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)
Gina and I break down Toxic Masculinity through a brief deconstruction of Gaston, Frollo, and Hans from Frozen, while establishing that (a) Tarzan, who was raised by apes, is the most perfect man in history and (b) Gina's love storhy or "How Gina Met Mr. Gina" is the most romantic story of all time and I'm both intensely jealous and in breathless awe. Gina is a real Disney Princess with a real Disney love story. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)...
In part two of her episode, Michelle discusses how rising up - using her voice to speak openly and unabashedly about her past and her struggles - has helped her to sail on. To move forward from those struggles by picking up any useful pieces left behind in the wake of her past and going forward in a constant state of development and growth. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)
Michelle speaks with unvarnished honesty about her experience of growing up with an abusive father, within a context of chronic stress and fear. And about how that experience played out throughout her family, what that looks like today, and what she's learned from it. The most important thing, Michelle says, is to find your voice and to move past the past. This is part one of Michelle's episode. The second half will be out at the end of the week, and I feel like if you give Michelle five minutes...
I've talked to moms who stay at home exclusively and moms who work. Moms who work in the schools their kids attend, as professionals and providers. I've talked to dads who've chosen a stay-at-home lifestyle in order to prioritize their wives' careers. That was all before. Before a pandemic. Before 2020 took John Prine and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, cruelly, and without remorse. Before the world turned itself on its head. Now, I'm talking to Author Abby Knox, who finds herself, having just adjusted to ...
Holy Crow, Y'all. I've been looking for someone to talk about making a conscious choice not to have children since December of 2019 and, man, did Bridget deliver. This is a woman who grew up in a chaotic home with a mother who struggled with significant mental health issues, but who loved her very much, and told her so. Bridget displays an insane amount of insight and introspective wisdom, and I am so, so excited to share this episode with you. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsda...
Gina and I wound up discussing the differences between the classic Greek myth of Heracles and Disney's 1997 adaptation of the myth for its movie canon. It's different comparing Greek myth to modern life because in no way was it attempting to account for modern life. Plus we couldn't really find a lot to bitch about in terms of Disney's adaptation. So we just talked about it for an hour. Because that's what we do. Was gonna hold this for Friday, but I've decided to throw it on now, bring the newe...
Jenny has a number of autoimmune and hormone disorders that prevent her from safely getting pregnant. "There's no good way for this to end," Jenny said in regards to the notion of having kids. In this episode, Jenny talks about the process of deciding, for the sake of not only her own health, but for the health of any potential children she might conceive, not to try having children at all. And, said Jenny, while it's not the end of the world for her and her husband to hang that idea on a perman...
Gina and I asked the Twitter Lovelies which villainesses they wanted to hear discussed from both Disney movies and the Fairy Tale canon in general. Altogether we came up with: Mother Gothel, Evil Queen, Ursula, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, Prince Charming's mother from Shrek, and Lady Tremaine. Rather than discuss each character (or archetype, rather) individually we approached the subject more in terms of tropes or common themes that emerge when one examines the various villainess archetypes wit...
Gina Merritt discusses navigating the IEP process in both private and public Pennsylvania schools, teaching her son to advocate for himself, and how she wound up with adult kids who actually like her, and enjoy being around her - something I desperately hope to accomplish as well, as a mom. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)
I'm going to have to go to bed soon. I have to get up at 3 a.m. to drive 70 miles into the blood drive in the morning - gotta be there by 6. So it's bedtime soon and because I don't feel good about being a little later on Friday than I'd like to be, then I wanted you to have this little teaser to tide you over. Scout's honor, the full episode will be up by the end of the day on Friday. Gina kicks ass. Stay tuned. The episode was nearly two hours long, so I had to make cuts, but I didn't want to ...
A teaser of the episode featuring Gina Merritt, who talks about helping her son learn to self-advocate through the process of navigating his IEP in both public and private Pennsylvania schools. Also, a teaser for another potential sidecast in which Gina basically allows me to destroy all of her favorite Disney movies in the name of feminism. I'm going straight to hell. I'm sorry. Mostly to Gina. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)...
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I'm exhausted. Emily Eggleston Cody Elms That Paper I Cited Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)...
A little ramble on the intersection of parenting human children and chicken mommin'. Going to be testing out a new upload schedule of a new ramble episode every two weeks. Look for new content on August 7. For now it'll be rambles and if I'm able to make it work (and I believe I will), I'll get back to uploading the remaining interviews and possibly getting some new interviews in queue for you! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)...
Hey, y'all! Just wanted to take a minute and update you all on the state of the podcast, which isn't dead, but is in the process of becoming a memoir manuscript. I've got some information on how COVID-19 had affected and changed my ability to produce, and also let you know about my new job as a phlebotomist at a nonprofit blood bank in my region. Check out what TMDD is becoming, and learn how you can help me out with it as a beta reader for the manuscript. Get ahold of me at twomomsdaydrinking@p...
First, a bit of news: So, it's after careful consideration that I've decided to suspend pledges on Patreon. For the time being the content will be available free to everyone at all times. I'd still love it if people visited the Patreon page, and I'll take a donation any old time you feel like buying me a cup of coffee, but I'm struggling with the "new normal" as we all call it. I'm back to work part time, but the kids aren't in school, and it's impossible to find care for them when I'm already w...
So things have been hairy the last couple of weeks, eh? I'm currently back to work part time, but also have about 30 chicken eggs incubating, five hatched, and some duck eggs on the way (because my drake is either a fat hen or just not into the ladies, so we don't get fertile eggs from our ducks. Also, another friend is giving me some Brahma eggs to incubate. That's a really enormous chicken, if you're not into the poultry lingo. If you're not following me on Instagram ( instagram.com/twomomsday...
Laura Bauder is a school psych from Virginia (I believe...I don't think we discussed that but I think that's what she told me in her emails with me before coming on). She experienced postpartum depression, which inspired her to start her own podcast - Postpartum Perspectives, which you can hear here ! I love having professionals and providers on who are willing to talk about their own experiences and issues because I think that's one of the best ways to destigmatize mental health issues for ever...
Demetrius Thigpen grew up in Detroit, Michigan with a mother he describes as single. His father, said Demetrius, was an alcoholic. And while he was in and out of Demetrius and his sister's lives, Demitrius said the experience of on-again off-again fathering was like having a bandaid continually ripped off. At one point, Demetrius said, he remembers his mother stopping on the side of the road and calling his father - sitting outside a liquor store - to get into the car with them. His father was s...
Andrea Hope was born in the Bahamas, grew up in the Washington, D.C. area, went to college in Portland, served as a Baha'i missionary in Israel for six years, where she met her husband before moving to his hometown in Poland and having two kids. Andrea also has a cool, cool podcast herself, called To Mother which you need to listen to, and you can do that here ! In this episode she talks about writing, maintaining a sense of self, being a first-time mom in a place where she doesn't speak the lan...
Dustin Heflin is a United States Marine. He's also a husband, and the father to four children, two of which he raises with his second wife overseas. Dustin walks between two worlds I don't usually think of as going together: Being a Marine and being the parent who takes on more of what most would consider the traditional mother roles within his family. Dustin talks a lot about his mom, who he credits with 90 percent of the man he's become, thanks to a ton of work, effort, time, and money. He say...
A lot of people have asked me to have the girls interview me, so I did. Because peer pressure works on me. Works real good. Anyhow, like typical seven-year-old girls the conversation revolves mostly around horses and what it was like growing up on a farm. But it's funny and cute, it should make a nice little tidbit to get you through. This is just a cute little episode to tide you over until the next full episode, a remote interview with a US Marine station in Japan who talks about taking on a l...
Debbie Sumner's son, Josh, died at the age of 15. Debbie, she said, was very nearly tempted to join him. Somehow, though, Debbie managed to hang on to life. According to Debbie, she did that by reinventing herself, by making her life about serving others, and by writing an amazing book about Josh's life, and death, called Taming Josh's Dragon, and it's available now on Barnes and Noble and Amazon. This episode does require tissues, so just be aware of that. Taming Josh's Dragon on Facebook Tamin...
