Ep 256: Here Be Dragons: Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma (with Melanie Shankle)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you read a friend's book and you're jealous they wrote something this good. This is how I felt when I read writer and podcast Melanie Shankle's latest Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma. This book is about Melanie's very complicated relationship with her mom, woven together with her own Big Feelings about the mean girls that took over her daughter's high school experience. As someone who regularly preaches that all of us should be sharing our stuff, my jaw dropped at some of the stories that Melanie is able to share so well. In this conversation, Melanie and I talk about all of those things. It's a tender topic, but Melanie is, as always, full of humor and wisdom in the face of it all. Follow Melanie Shankle on IG Buy Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma Listen to The Big Boo Cast FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE MENTIONED in this episode: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs Ep 243: Best Books Lately with Sophie Hudson SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN Laura Tremaine’s SECRET SUBSTACK BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a small business owner, my favourite thing about posting a job on LinkedIn is that when I hit send, I clock out and LinkedIn clocks in.
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0:12.9	Plus, LinkedIn extends the reach of your job posts by allowing you to share it with your network.
0:17.7	And hiring managers that add a hiring frame to their LinkedIn profiles receive
0:22.0	two times more qualified applicants. Go to LinkedIn.com slash agree to post your job for free. Terms and
0:28.4	conditions apply. Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast.
0:43.7	I'm Laura Tremaine.
0:45.1	I always have at least 10 things to tell you, and you have 10 things to tell.
0:52.2	This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you
0:56.3	less lonely. Melanie Shankle, welcome to 10 Things to Tell You. Laura, I'm so excited to be here.
1:03.5	I can't believe I've never been here before. I cannot believe you've never been here before
1:07.7	because I feel like we've recorded together multiple times. I got to come on
1:13.7	the Big Boo podcast, your show, but I cannot believe after all these years, I haven't had you on 10
1:19.8	Things to Tell You, I am thrilled that you're here. I'm so excited to be here. I've been so excited to
1:25.9	talk to you because I always love talking to you,
1:27.6	but it's usually just behind the scenes. Now listen, I purposefully, listeners can't see this,
1:34.2	so I'm just going to describe it, I purposefully have on a shirt that you have DM'd me about
1:42.3	multiple times that you love of mine. I do. I can tell you all about it.
1:46.6	You know why? Because I look for it on Poshmark. I keep waiting because by the time you wore it,
1:50.9	it was completely sold out. And so I continue to covet it. And I noticed the minute that we started recording,
1:56.9	I was like, sure, she's got on the shirt. She's got on my shirt that I love. No, I did it on purpose. I don't wear this shirt very often because it is my shirt with a heartprint that is in my profile pick. Yeah. And it's so distinctive that I feel like if I wear it in real life or especially on a recording, people are going to be like, well, she doesn't have any other shirt. It's all she wears, just that shirt. No, I noticed it immediately.
2:18.7	I think about it. I mean, I need you to know. I'm not even kidding. I look for that shirt on Poshmark
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