Camille: It’s going to happen. You're going to get older. You're going to look different. You might feel a little different. Staying connected to your purpose, for me at least, that's been really meaningful, to understand why I'm here and what I'm trying to do. That keeps you away from the mirror and the obsession that's so easy. You start seeing wrinkles. Everything's not holding up the same way. It’s a rabbit hole if you're not careful.
Daniel: What's interesting is that there are differences in men and women in their chronotypes. Men are more likely to be owls more than women. Even over the course of a lifetime, little kids are very strong larks, as most of your parents know. They get up early in the morning and start running around like insane nutjobs. Then around the mid-teens there's a massive move toward lateness. Again, it’s biological.
Rowan: Poetry and tennis mix in all types of unexpected ways. I was minding my own business once. My dad called me. He was like, “Turn on the TV. Turn on Wimbledon.” I was like, “Matches aren’t going on.” He was like, “Turn it on.” Jon Wertheim was reciting a tennis poem that he'd written about Wimbledon on the air.
Jo: I don't think that book clubs are going anywhere. Hopefully books aren’t going anywhere because I have no other skills. I am seeing an uptick in the podcast club. I kind of love it. An episode of a podcast, they make you think the same way that books do. They're a little bit more assessible, especially for busy moms, than sitting down and reading an entire book. I'm all for it, especially if people wanted to listen to “Committed” and then go talk about it.
Madeline: Some husband/wife duos are power team partners. I've always been a little bit competitive with my husband. When we’re being husband and wife, we’re super pals and support each other and that sort of thing. He's very smart. I'm very snarky. We do have a little bit of manning up. It makes for a lot of fun adventures that him and I have together. When you're trying to run a business together, it was a nightmare.
Andrea: New parenthood, not only is the sleep deprivation a reality but in some ways society is telling you to be anxious. We’re awash in parenting advice. The parenting advice can change all the time. When I talk about having my daughter and when she was a new baby, it finally felt like my circumstances caught up with my brain. I always had this anxious brain. Finally, it was socially acceptable. It’s not socially mandated that I be anxious all the time.
Allison: I appreciated in the middle of the crisis when I was being flooded, people putting in their emails, “Don't respond to this right now, but I wanted you to know I'm thinking about you.” Here's their email. They send you their words of love and support, but they remove the burden of you needing to do anything in return. I appreciated that.
