My friend, Rocio, shares that she never pictured her wedding day and often resisted conventional timeline milestones. Now, at almost 40 years old, she talks with her husband about the possibility of adoption. She shares how her perspectives on life have changed over time, especially caring less about what other people think. Rocio shares many insightful, wise life lessons she’s learned along the way.

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I talk with my friend, Frankie. He shares how growing up with loving and emotionally intelligent parents gave him the freedom to figure out his own pathways in life. We talk about the pressure, or lack of it, to follow traditional, heteronormative timelines, aka the American Dream. We get into the hope we both have for generational shifts that make more room for openness and, honestly, more privacy. Frankie also shares how he finds purpose in volunteer and union work and how he navigates friendships as people around him start having and raising kids. He creates his own timeline with conviction and aligns it to his own values.

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In this episode, I talk to my friend, Jenna, whom I met in our freshman year of college. We instantly hit it off. To start, we walk through Jenna’s timeline towards motherhood. We get into the many factors that affected her timeline to grow her family, including FOMO, and her career. We’re both millennials, so you just know we’re talking about the 2008 Great Recession. Then, we get into how our friendship has shifted now that she has kids. I reveal some guilt I’ve been holding onto. We both share tips on how to maintain a friendship through this phase of life. She surprises me with a review of how I’m doing as a friend and aunt. Overall, Jenna thinks life is weird and may have figured out one of the keys to life!

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My first guest, here we go! I have a conversation with one of my sisters, Rachel, the second youngest in our family. We dive deep into how she feels about where she is in life, how our childhood shaped our thoughts around having kids, and a term she’s created herself: “mom hugs.” Rachel shares how she navigates dating in her 30s, especially through the lens of seeing more men in her age range who already have kids.

Rachel turns the tables and asks me some questions about how I feel about my decision not to have kids. This leads to an unexpected and honest conversation about grief. We say the quiet parts out loud. Overall, Rachel may not have it all figured out, but she feels like a unicorn and thinks that’s pretty cool.

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Hi I’m Margarete, thanks for being here. I’m someone who’s deeply curious about the choices we make in life — especially around having kids — and how we navigate all the pressures tied to those decisions. I want to figure out better language on how to have conversations with friends and family when we start to grow our families ... or don’t. I’ll be bringing in many different perspectives and life experiences to discuss these topics.

This is my intro episode. I talk about some of the reasons I started this podcast, how my own story shaped it, and what questions I’ll be exploring with guests. I reveal whether I chose to have kids or not. I share who I dedicate this podcast to. Without them, I wouldn’t have had the privilege to make the choice to have kids or not.

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