The Girl Next Door Podcast

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Two (former) next door neighbors, one awesome podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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August 27, 2025 30 mins

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: Parenti...

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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 Done


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August 6, 2025 38 mins

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?


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Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoor

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July 30, 2025 40 mins

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.


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July 23, 2025 30 mins

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 Lists


Connect with us on Instagram: @higirlsnextdoor

We love to get your emails: higirlsnextdoor@gmail.com

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July 9, 2025 40 mins

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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...

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June 25, 2025 38 mins

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.


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June 11, 2025 37 mins

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 Mom

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May 28, 2025 43 mins

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 Upbringing


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May 14, 2025 34 mins

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 de...

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April 30, 2025 52 mins

Let's design our summers! We're chatting about how we plan a summer with kids and get into topics like snacks, chores, screen time, and–oh yeah!–summer fun!

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're both sharing how we design great summers for ourselves as well (not just our kids!).


See full show notes on our website: Designing Our Summers


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April 15, 2025 44 mins

**Whoops, we scheduled this episode to come out a day early so it's our little Tuesday gift to you!**


In honor of both of our wedding anniversaries this month, we're bringing back a favorite relationship topic: best spouse/worst spouse!

In the spirit of loving honesty, and with full acknowledgement that we actually think our husbands are the best, we share the traits that make our husbands, and ourselves, the best and worst spous...

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April 2, 2025 48 mins

We invite you to join us with an open heart as we discuss abortion. While we're not experts, we hope to model how we can have nuanced and meaningful conversations even on divisive topics.

Thank you so much for listening and being in conversation with us.


See full show notes on our website: Let's Talk About Abortion


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March 19, 2025 31 mins

It's time for another bookish episode! We check in on our reading lives, chat about what we're reading lately, and what we're looking forward to reading. Plus we share what our kids are reading lately. We mention what else we're listening to (besides audiobooks) and our recent memorable reading moment.


For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing our favorite reading and bookish accessories Plus, get bonus book club episode...

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March 5, 2025 28 mins

Today we're sharing the 10 best pieces of advice that we've heard. They touch on parenting, trusting yourself, personal finances, time management, navigating hard times, and more.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're sharing the worst advice we've ever heard – we'd love to know if you agree!


See full show notes on our website: Best Advice We've Heard


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February 19, 2025 27 mins

Sometimes a little change makes all the difference. Today we're sharing 10 little changes we've made that have made our lives better.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're each sharing a nagging annoyance in our lives and we're asking for your ideas for little changes that might make them better.


See full show notes on our website: Little Changes, Big Difference


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February 5, 2025 31 mins

Join us for an honest chat about what's going well, and not so well, with organization in our homes and lives. Plus we brave our kids' rooms to see what they look–and smell–like.

For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're each sharing a small organizing win that has a big impact.


See full show notes on our website: Organizing Wins & Fails


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January 22, 2025 35 mins

We're bringing the new year energy to our annual show about our intentions, goals, and plans for the year ahead. We each share our word for the year, what big things are coming up for us this year, and, as always, leave messages for our future selves.


See full show notes on our website: Our Intentions for 2025


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January 8, 2025 26 mins

Before we set intentions and goals for the year, we like to clear the air. This episode has become an annual tradition in which we share the annoying things in our lives that we just need to speak out loud.

For Friends of the Show, we're each sharing something not annoying at all and that is actually making our lives quite pleasant.

As we start the 12th season of the show (!!) please consider becoming a Friend of the Show if you aren...

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December 31, 2024 45 mins

That's a wrap for 2024! We look back at how our intentions for the year showed up for us, and share what made us laugh, cry, curse, and think. Plus we share favorites from the year and hear messages from our past selves.


And just a reminder that you can still join Kelsey's goal-setting workshop, Your Year to Shine.


See full show notes on our website: https://girlnextdoorpodcast.com/2024/12/look-back-at-2024/


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