Hi, I'm Laura Vandercom.

I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.

Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.

From figuring out childcare to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life. Welcome to Best of Both worlds. This is Laura.

This is our annual goals episode, Goals 2025. We have been doing annual goals episode for low these many

years, setting a lot of goals in the course of running best of both worlds.

We enjoy it. We enjoy listening to other people's goals episodes. So, Sarah, are you doing a 25 for

2025 or a word of the year variation along those lines? I'm just going to do a word of the year this

year.

No fancy long list unless I come up with something after this airs.

But I am kind of excited about my word of the year, which is finite.

So listeners may have seen that coming.

I was really into like the mortality theme last year with Jody Wellman's You Only Die Once,

being like my favorite nonfiction book of the year, just because Laura didn't release any,

by the way. Of course. And with Oliver Berkman's meditation for mortals, just kind of adding on

to that, I just, I don't know, I'm like thinking about, and maybe probably just like hitting

the middle of my life statistically. So yeah, that's my word know. I'm like thinking about and maybe probably just like hitting the middle of

my life statistically. So yeah, that's my word. And I feel like it has multiple applications,

like finite number of activities you can fit into each day as a reminder not to overload

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