We are SUPER-excited to bring you the What She Said podcast – where Rachel from A Mother Far From Home and I discuss the A to Z of lifestyle and parenting. In our very first episode we discuss our blogs, why we blog, who we are, where we live, and all things in between finding out the gender of babies before birth, what kinds of podcasts we love, why we decided to podcast, what we’ll be podcasting about, Extreme Couponing, Young Adult Fiction, pregnancy nightmares, my extensive knowledge of the whole world of Sweet Valley High, fussy eating children, and losing one’s accent.
Rachel and I met in the the ProBlogger.com forums at the beginning of 2014, and got chatting. We soon discovered we had been both wanting to make a podcast for a long time, so decided to join (polar opposite) forces and create one together. We hope you like it! If you have any questions or comments, or topics you’d like us to tackle, leave a comment at the bottom of this post. Or you can head here and email us.
For the next few episodes, you will only find them on the blog, and in the coming months, we hope to have them fully functional in iTunes. Huzzah!
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Links mentioned
SITES
Kat Lee interview with ProBlogger
PODCASTS
- Ricky Gervais podcasts
- StarTalk Podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Art of Simple Podcast
- How they Blog podcast
- BBC Stitcher
- NBC Nightly News
- World News Tonight with David Muir
- MSNBC Morning Joe Podcast
- The Dave Ramsay Show
- Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn
- 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
- Sunday Night Safran
- Jay and Silent Bob Get Old
- Osher Gunsberg
- iTunes U
BOOKS
- On Writing, by Stephen King
- Clutter-Free With Kids – Joshua Becker
- Say Goodbye to Survival Mode – Crystal Paine from Money Saving Mom
- The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Clare
- Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley University, The Wakefield Legacy (Sweet Valley Saga)
- Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (my struggle outlined here!)
- Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- The book I couldn’t remember the ending to, that I couldn’t remember in the podcast? Bedknob and Broomstick!
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
MISCELLANEOUS
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Love the juxtaposition of your voices 🙂 Great first podcast!
Aw thanks, girl! We had a blast.
That was fun! Good start ladies! Looking forward to future episodes, especially relating to feeding kids! I consider my boys (4 and 2) to be pretty picky – they could be worse, but I’m always looking for new ideas to get them to eat a wider variety of stuff!
I always love a good life hack, too. And I’d love to hear about how you (try to) occupy your kids when you need 10–15 minutes to yourself, or to get something done.
Also, if you find yourself with a few hours of child-free time, and you’re not going to use it for work, how would you spend it?!
And Stacey, love the sign-off – I watched Bill and Ted’s on Sunday night for the first time in many years. That movie is most triumphant.
HAHAHAHA indeed it is! As is this comment 🙂
Excellent! I have downloaded it for my next walk 🙂
aw for real? thank you! yay!
Great stuff! Really looking forward to this. So interesting to hear people’s voices. So much more personal I think. I’m going to download this so I can listen to it all later.
I hope you like it!
I am saving this one for next week when I start maternity leave and am a lady of (relative) leisure!
I will listen while lying on the couch eating bon bons.
I am jealous!
This is just what I need for folding laundry while the baby naps – yay! Thanks for the list of podcasts & books too, very useful
Haha that’s exactly what I do! Although I NEVER housework while kids are asleep. It’s VMHQ law. That’s tea and toast time haha
Okay, I’ll say it – you sound nothing like the voice I had in my head when I read your posts. I’m not sure I should be admitting to hearing voices in my head.
P.S. This is my first podcast. I’ve downloaded some for other people and bundled them together on USBs for presents, but never listened to one myself. Very different way of connecting.
haha you know, everyone has said that! We’ve narrowed it down to the fact I must be an overly-polite 12-year-old. Insane.
This was great it was cool to hear your voice 🙂
Thank you, lovely!