Episode 102: Vacation Decisions We'd Do Over If We Could

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Episode 102: Vacation Decisions We'd Do Over If We Could

FromA Thing or Two with Claire and Erica

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Sep 25, 2017

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Released:

Sep 25, 2017

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Hosts Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo, who you might know as the co-founders of the website Of a Kind (RIP!) or the co-authors of the book Work Wife, are all about discovery and enthusiasm. We've heard this weekly podcast described as a 'unique mix of urgent discussions of non-urgent things and thoughtful discussions of important, and often otherwise ignored, things,' and we're very much on board with that take.

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