Shane and Alex chat about a tough week back to work, a wild date night, home renovations, and Alex comes clean too late about a coffe spill. 

 

Lynn, of @themixedmamalife, is an Anishinaabe-French mother of an Afro-Indigenous daughter. She discusses the importance of amplifying mixed race families, her experience with identity growing up, and how she plans on integrating culture into parenthood. 

 

Erin Pepler is the author of the upcoming Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood, and discusses the importance of validation as a parent, expectations placed on moms, and the pitfalls of online mommy culture.

 

Listener questions are answered in the mailbag segment, hitting topics like burn out, noticing red flags in a friend's relationship, gadgets to help protect your drink from being spiked, and overcoming insecurities.

 

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