Today we're parenting in public, or at least talking about it. We discuss why it makes us a little sweaty, the worse public parenting situations we've been in, and our best advice.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing the parenting things we only do at home and never in public. Join us there for our answers plus all of our bonus content including full-length bonus episodes!See full show notes on our website: Parenting in PublicBecome a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get your checklist ready, let's get stuff done! We share our strategies for being productive, calendaring, and to-do lists. Plus, how we motivate ourselves when we really don't want to do anything. For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing what stuff we're not getting done.See full show notes on our website: How We Get Stuff DoneBecome a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're catching up on how our summers went—as friends do! We share highs and lows and discuss how our summer plans actually played out.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing what didn't go so well this summer.See full show notes on our website: How Was Your Summer?Become a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're sharing what money management looks like in our houses and in our marriages. We talk about the roles we and our husbands take when it comes to finances, the disagreements we've navigated with our spouses, and what we've learned along the way. Plus, how we're teaching our kids about money.With Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're each sharing a financial conversation that we had in our marriages that made a big impact.See full show notes on our website: Family Money ManagementBecome a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's on your bucket list? Join us as we share ours including what we want to accomplish, where we want to travel, and what's on our family bucket lists.Just for Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're both sharing some more personal bucket list items.See full show notes on our website: Bucket ListsConnect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Become a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.What does summer what does summer look, smell, feel, taste, and sound like to you? That's what we're chatting about on the show today. From grilled hot dogs to legs sticking to hot vinyl car seats, we describe unique portraits of summer in our childhoods and in parenthood.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're talking about the sense sensations we wish we could forget about summer.See full show notes on our website: Summer Five Senses PortraitConnect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate America's 247th birthday on July 4th, we're exploring what patriotism means to us and reflecting on how it's expressed today. We also share what makes us proud to be American, and where we see room for growth as a nation.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're each sharing how we feel about patriotic symbolism like flying the flag and singing the national anthem before sporting events.See full show notes on our website: Let's Talk About PatriotismBecome a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Moms, pack your swimsuit and emotional baggage, we're going on vacation!We explore the experience of being a mom on vacation and how to make the best of it, from planning, to family time, and doing what we love too.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we share what we think our kids will remember about us on vacation, the good and the bad!See full show notes on our website: How To Vacation MomConnect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, Erica shares her experience growing up in the Evangelical Christian church. She reflects on both the meaningful aspects that she still values today, and what she finds problematic. Erica opens up about how her faith has evolved and what she now seeks in a church community.Thanks so much for listening with an open heart.See full show notes on our website: Erica's Evangelical UpbringingBecome a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Your reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comAnd, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As ladies in our 40s, we've got perimenopause on our minds – let's chat about it! We share where we are personally in this journey, what our interaction with providers has been like , and how we'd like to see the conversation around perimenopause change.For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we have a companion bonus book club episode for you! We are discussing The New Menopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver. In the episode we dive even deeper into the changes that menopause brings and how we can navigate it as comfortably and gracefully as possible.See full show notes on our website: Fun With Perimenopause!Become a Friend of the Show! Join our Patreon community and get bonus content.Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoorWe love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.comYour reviews on Apple Podcasts or where ever you listen really help the show – thank you!And, read Kelsey's RISING*SHINING blog and Substack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.