Ep 138: 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids

Ep 138: 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids

Fall schedules are SO full around here, and this time of year our family can easily go weeks without a meaningful conversation.

I've created 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids that you can pick and choose, modify for your family dynamics, or toss up one at a time over a week or so in order to spark great conversations between kids and adults.

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Ep 127: "You read my journals?!" (A conversation with my Mom)

Ep 127: "You read my journals?!" (A conversation with my Mom)

My mom returns to the podcast with some new thoughts about how she feels having a daughter who shares herself on the internet, the advice she would give mid-life women, and a long ago conversation between us in the car when she realized there was something...strange...about me.

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Ep 125: 10 Questions for Couples

Ep 125: 10 Questions for Couples

The main point of these particular prompts is to build CONNECTION. The questions don't go too deep (in case you have a partner resistant to this type of conversation), but you should definitely come away from any discussion using these prompts feeling just a little bit closer.

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BONUS: Secret Tapes Snippet (A conversation with my parents)

BONUS: Secret Tapes Snippet (A conversation with my parents)

One of the most personal and meaningful projects I’ve ever made was my podcast series called The Secret Tapes. It's a series of interviews I did with the people I write about in my book Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First.

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BONUS: Tremaines Wave Hello from ONE YEAR of the Pandemic

BONUS: Tremaines Wave Hello from ONE YEAR of the Pandemic

In March of 2020, just three weeks into the global pandemic bringing Los Angeles to a standstill, we recorded a family episode called Ep 59: Marry the Person You Want to Quarantine With (the Tremaines Wave Hello).

And now we're back....only it's been ONE YEAR of the pandemic and we still haven't returned to school or work full time. Our family (me, my husband Jeff, our 11 year old daughter Lucy, and our 9 year old son Finch) returned to the couch and the microphone to talk about the last year has looked like for us.

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Ep 84: Where did we begin? (A relationship origin story with Jeff Tremaine)

Ep 84: Where did we begin? (A relationship origin story with Jeff Tremaine)

This episode is for anyone curious to hear the other angle of an origin story.

It’s our wedding anniversary! This week, Jeff and I celebrate 13 years of marriage, and so I thought it would be fun to have him on the show to share HIS side of our relationship’s origins. This is something I’ve talked and written about for years, but (surprise!) he has a different take.

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Ep 69: BONUS! 22+ Things our family watched in quarantine

Ep 69: BONUS! 22+ Things our family watched in quarantine

On roughly week 11 of the Los Angeles lockdown due to the coronavirus, I sat down with my husband Jeff and our two kids - ages 8 & 10 - for a lighthearted chat about all the movies, documentaries, and tv series we watched during quarantine since this season meant a LOT more screen time for our family than usual.

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Ep 48: Should we post our kids on social media? (A conversation with Nish Weiseth)

Ep 48: Should we post our kids on social media? (A conversation with Nish Weiseth)

This episode is for you if you’ve ever second-guessed posting photos of your kids online.

Nish Weiseth - a friend I met through mommy blogging years ago - recently posted on Instagram that she was going to take a step back from posting her family online, because her kids are getting older and she started questioning her own motivations. I thought her take was really interesting, so I reached out and asked her to have a friend-to-friend conversation on this topic…publicly.

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Ep 28: Motherhood through Adoption with Lindsay Lawler

Ep 28: Motherhood through Adoption with Lindsay Lawler

This episode is for you if you or a loved one has ever struggled through the fertility process, or if you’re interested in the topic of adoption.

I am so happy to share this conversation with one of my dearest friends, Lindsay Lawler. Lindsay and I have been like sisters for nearly two decades, from our freshman college dorm to living together throughout our 20’s in Los Angeles. Still, the topic of fertility and motherhood remained such a sensitive one that we didn’t talk about it much until Lindsay was already walking down the road towards adoption.

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Ep 10: What are your family rules?

Ep 10: What are your family rules?

Family rules. We all have 'em. Curfews, screen time, don't wear shoes in the house, finish the food on your plate. In this episode we're talking about our most basic family rules and also the unspoken rules of a family that shapes our behavior. 

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Ep 8: Movie Director Jeff Tremaine has things to tell you

Ep 8: Movie Director Jeff Tremaine has things to tell you

This episode is a little different because instead of asking YOU to answer a question I pose, I’m asking my guest the questions. There are so many fascinating people out there with things to tell, every few months or so I’m hoping to have a guest. And who else to start with than my talented husband Jeff Tremaine.

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