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The Mother Of It All

Sarah and Miranda

We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. The Mother Of It All is a podcast where we dive deep into the culture of modern motherhood. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. motherofitall.substack.com

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All Episodes

55:13

What Every Parent Needs To Understand About School...

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2024/10/14

No one wants to think about school shootings. But nearly every day in our country, a gun is fired on a campus. Often, when that happens, entire student bodies are then traumatized by spending hours in lockdown. David Riedman of the K-12 school shooting database — an unparalleled collection of data about school shootings that has been used as a resource by publications like The Economist and New York Times, as well as organizations like the FBI— joins Sarah and Miranda to talk about the thing none of

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68:53

What If We Cared About Care? with Elissa Strauss

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2024/09/30

What if we considered care to be a sacred practice? What if the everyday tasks of parenting were backtracked by the dramatic score of the British Baking Show? Elissa Strauss, author of When You Care: Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others joins Sarah and Miranda to mull over what it would mean to value care as a society and in our personal lives. We talk about trusting others with your children, why it’s so fraught to admit you like being a parent, alloparents, the Hero’s Journey, and kids singing

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68:47

The Joy Of Hobbies in Motherhood, with Kaitlyn Teer

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2024/09/16

Author and editor Kaitlyn Teer (you may know her as the editor of Joanna Goddard’s Big Salad newsletter ) joins Sarah and Miranda to chat about how weirdly hard and wonderful it is to have hobbies as a mom, and the unique joy of being new (even bad!) at something. We get into such pressing questions as: What is “contaminated leisure time,” and how can we carve out ‘uncontaminated’ time to explore who we are beyond work and caregiving? If modern motherhood is defined by a sense of pressure to

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Back To School, 'Nightbitch' & Necessary Losses with...

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2024/09/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit motherofitall.substack.comSarah and Miranda check in on Miranda’s daughter’s very first day of big kid school (even though she claims she’s “still little”), watch the just-dropped Nightbitch trailer in real time, discuss Sarah’s impending move after 15 years in the same apartment, and talk hetero-exceptionalism and Sarah Manguso’s “Liars,” family camp and “Get S**t Done Days.”Links:* Nightbitch Trailer* Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst*

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78:01

Children's Rights, 'Adultism' & Parenting With Author...

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2024/09/02

We are thrilled to kick off season 2(!) with a bang in the form of a meaty, rich conversation with Eloise Rickman, author of It’s Not Fair: Why It’s Time For A Grown-Up Conversation About How Adults Treat Children. We hadn’t thought about children’s rights much before reading Eloise’s book (have you?) and now it’s all we want to think about. What are children’s rights? How can we think about them in the context of parenting? What is adultism? Should kids vote? What even is a child and who gets to

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43:41

Summer Bonus Ep! Donna Berzatto & Moms Of 'The Bear,'...

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2024/08/19

Sarah & Miranda shoot the breeze, talk about some back-to-school feelings, drop some hints about what we'll cover in season 2, and nerd out about THAT EPISODE of The Bear. We had so much fun with Phil Maciak on our Screen Time episode (our most-listened to episode, BTW! thanks for that, friends) that we had to bring him back to talk about *crunch crunch crunch* : the 39 minutes of prestige TV that we call “Ice Chips.”This episode of the podcast will spoil Season 3 of The Bear for you, but it will

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64:44

Summer Bonus Episode: Claire Zulkey

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2024/07/22

It’s summer, which means Sarah’s rocking a 3-cone-per-day ice cream lifestyle, and Miranda is guzzling $1 slushies by the pool. And work is …. still kind of happening. The brilliant, hilarious of the Evil Witches newsletter (which you need to subscribe to, if you don’t already) joins us to talk about the various joys and perils of summertime parenting and yes, of course, the perpetually fraught, exhausting question of the whole camp thing. Links: Summer Camp and Parenting Panics at The New

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62:55

Episode 25: The Millennial Midlife Crisis with Amil...

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2024/06/24

Canadian writer and The Cut columnist Niazi joins us to discuss what happens when an entire generation follows their dreams, whether our economic instability is real or imagined, and having children (even a third!) while fighting against upgrade culture. Also, we stan Better Things, and, what if it is all going to be okay?Links: * MOFITA summer book club* Should We Expect More From Dads? (and praise for Lucas Mann’s Attachments) (Hua Hsu in The New Yorker)* Welcome To The Millennial Midlife Crisis

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61:00

Episode 24: Boys Are Not Like Dogs with Ruth Whippman

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2024/06/17

Sarah and Miranda are joined by , author of Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity to talk about how boys need more but get less, the boys who are dying to talk about their feelings, and the radical power of a board book about a boy and his bags. Plus, do we say “no” to toxic-masculinity media or just say “yes” to better things? And a special round of “Marry, F**k, Kill!” Links:* Sarah’s piece in the Cut on cross-gender friendships* Boymom the book* Sarah’s piece in Romper

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61:45

MOVIE CLUB: Mamma Mia (Or Is It DADDA Mia?) With...

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2024/06/10

A juicy, earnestly silly over-think of Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again (Sarah’s preferred Mamma Mia) in which Sarah’s friend joins us with a spicy-hot take on the three (three!) dads of Mamma Mia. When Bucks is not thinking about the rich, layered texts that are Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again, he keeps busy doing Dad Stuff, as well as working as an anti-racist organizer and educator, and authoring the Substack Newsletter . If you like his take on Mamma Mia, you may also

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30:17

Episode 23: We Can't Have Nice Things

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2024/06/03

Sarah flew to Iceland, only to be immediately taken down by a stomach flu. Meanwhile, back at home a Covid-like virus knocked Miranda’s family out for 14 days. So we called an emergency recording session of Mother Of It All just to vent about it all together. Why can’t parents have nice things, like occasional vacations or a week or two without absolutely disgusting viruses? Is every virus we get now actually worse since Covid lockdown, or does it just feel that way? What ever happened to the normal

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82:59

EPISODE 22: Screen Time with Phil Maciak

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2024/05/20

Sarah and Miranda host their first dad, cultural critic Phillip Maciak, and dig into screen time, shame, nostalgia, hugs, and multi-level marketing for second-graders. Links:Phil’s book, Avidly Reads Screen TimePhil on InstagramPhil’s review of Season 2 of the Bear in The New RepublicThe NOLA Pelicans’ King Cake Baby mascotThe Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtStephanie Murray’s thoughts in the Dispatch’ thoughts in RomperMelinda Wenner Moyer’s thoughts in ’s The Art of Screen Time: How Your

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70:02

EPISODE 21: The Mothers of the Mother of it All

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2024/05/12

Sarah and Miranda are joined by their moms, Bev and Linda, to talk about modern motherhood, what has and hasn’t changed in a generation, “Folly Fridays,” and whether mothers ever truly get their flowers.Links:* Terry Brazelton* Lydia Kiesling’s Golden State Get full access to The Mother Of It All at motherofitall.substack.com/subscribe

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EPISODE 20: 'Matrescence' Is Not A Dirty Word with...

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2024/05/06

Sarah and Miranda talk to Lucy Jones, author of the book Matrescence, out May 7th, about how becoming a mother is truly a biopsychosocial evolution, how motherhood in nature is more often about chaos and violence than dyads and instincts, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and our favorite Bluey episodes.Links:Order Lucy’s book, MatrescenceAlexandra Sacks’ The Birth of a Mother in the NY TImesThe Quickening by Elizabeth RushNatality by Jennifer BanksPartum Gardens PortlandAndrea O’ReillySarah’s favorite Bluey

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54:24

Episode 19: Who's The Beef?! Sarah & Miranda Talk...

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2024/04/22

A little one-on-one time with Sarah and Miranda! A fun chit-chatty check-in about vasectomies, the third kid question, the weird pressure of turning 40, why Sarah "doesn't get" Hawaii, mole moms, hopping on the 'crone train, and calendar reminders gone wild. Plus, a big announcement! How To Catch A Mole by Marc HamerPoser by Claire DedererKrtek The Mole, Clementine, Psychic Sister--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mother-culture-pod/message Get

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00:45:36

Episode 18: Dr Becky and The Parenting-Optimization...

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2024/04/08

Columnist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton returns to give the inside scoop on her recent profile of Dr. Becky. Sarah, Miranda and KJM dive deep into what’s great (and maybe no so great) about the advice Dr. Becky doles out, and Kathryn explains what ultimately surprised her most about spending time with Dr. Becky and the “Good Inside” parent community. Links: KJM’s NY Magazine Profile of Dr. Becky. More thoughts about the profile in her Cut column, Brooding. Dr. Becky on

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01:07:45

Episode 17 : Rebecca Kronman on Parenting and...

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2024/04/01

Sarah and Miranda are joined by Rebecca Kronman, a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of Plant Parenthood, a community that explores the intersection of psychedelics and the family. She talks about the importance of set and setting, the false dichotomy between healing and joy, and about how psychedelics help some parents heal intergenerational trauma and connect more easily with their children by tapping them into a more child-like perspective.Links: Rebecca Kronman of Plant

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00:51:12

MARCH MOVIE CLUB: Janet Manley on Tully & The Power...

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2024/03/29

LitHub contributing editor Janet Manley joins us to talk about the postpartum comedy with a horror twist that started it all, 2018’s Tully. We discuss how the conversation around the postpartum period has changed in six years, what the New York Times got wrong about this film, and what we would go back and offer our postpartum selves.Links: Janet’s newsletter, Kafka’s Baby Janet’s coverage of the movie here and here Stupid NYT review Better Vulture review Book Recs: Samantha Hunt’s

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Episode 16: Lydia Kiesling On Gaza, American...

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2024/03/25

With author and essayist Lydia Kiesling, we talk about the conflict in Gaza, which has taken the lives of tens of thousands of our fellow mothers and their children. We explore the ways that motherhood has the potential to awaken activism, about feeling frozen, helpless or overwhelmed, as well as how we can take our tender hearts and protective instincts and direct them towards activism and real change. LINKS: - United Nations report on Gaza Casualties March 12, 2024 - UNRWA report more children

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Episode 15: Emily Gould On Marriage & the Divorce...

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2024/03/18

Author and New York Magazine writer Emily Gould joins Sarah and Miranda to discuss her controversial personal essay, The Lure of Divorce, published in The Cut last month. We tackle the current divorce discourse, the work it takes to support our own mental health, what it’s like to write so intimately and so publicly at the same time, and whether it’s “basic” to be married right now.LINKS: Emily’s piece The Lure of Divorce in the Cut Excerpt from Leslie Jamison’s Splinters in the New Yorker

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