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I’m very easy to influence. So when I started seeing the Adidas Originals Wide Leg Satin Animal Print Pants pop up in almost every one of my mom and fashion groups on Facebook, I knew that they were going to become a thing. Loading audio narration… I have been in…
This interview is based on an interview with Natalie Tucker, 54, director of communications and development at a church, who splits her time between New Jersey and Maryland. She also works as an actor and voiceover artist. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tayler Ktestakis, a 28-year-old stay-at-home mom based in Utah County, Utah. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I started posting about my side hustle journey on social media in 2025, I set a goal to pay…
My family structure changed forever on the night of the “Cheetah Girls 2” premiere. Loading audio narration… At the time, I remember being pretty annoyed — not because of my parents’ separation, but because the Cheetah Girls were just starting to sing their way through Barcelona, and now my mother…
Victoria Beckham said she started thinking differently about mom guilt after a conversation with fellow fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Loading audio narration… Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of the “Aspire with Emma Grede” podcast, Beckham said there are always tradeoffs she has to make as a working mom.”But I think…
“I don’t know how you do it.” As a working mom of five kids under age 11, this is something I might hear a few times per week. My answer is always simple, and has nothing to do with my parenting skills, “Grandma lives down the street,” I admit. Loading…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jessica Stanton. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… On Saturday morning at 2:28 a.m., I had an email from Spirit Airlines informing me that my flight back to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had been canceled.I had…
I was sitting in my cargo bike outside my son’s børnehave (kindergarten) on an especially bitter February morning in Copenhagen, crying over forgetting his Fastelavn costume at home. Loading audio narration… Fastelavn, for the uninitiated, is Denmark’s candy-filled, costume-wearing, barrel-smashing children’s tradition, somewhere between Halloween and Carnival. It’s something Danes…
This ‘as-told-to’ essay is based on a conversation with Juli Ford, a 57-year-old real estate agent and certified senior advisor based in Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my children were young, we saw my parents all the time.We lived very close to each other in South…
Maria Colacurcio is used to people asking how she does it all: leading a tech company, parenting seven children, and working out hard enough to compete in elite races. Loading audio narration… Colacurcio, 49, is the CEO of Syndio, a software company helping to leverage AI for pay equity. Since…
