Welcome back, everybody, big time adulting podcast here.

Very special guest today.

One of my most favorite online people, Nikki Marie.

So Nikki and I met in real life at the Mother Collective retreat this past weekend.

It was like we were online dating for like a year.

And then finally had our first date in person.

And it went great.

It did go great.

It was a home run.

We made sweet, sweet love to each other.

Look at us.

So we joined each other on a panel about the unique paradox of motherhood, which is love and rage.

That was the topic of this panel. And I just thought that a lot of people

were curious about what we discussed and that it might be fun to like relive it a little bit.

Love it. Nikki, it was your first time going to this thing. What did you think about it like in

general? I thought it was great. I think you always go into those things. Everyone thinks, you and I shared this story. You and I have this

personality that most people would think we just walk into a room and it's like we're so comfortable

and we're extroverted all the time. But you and I said the same thing, walking into a new group of

women, you still get those little like first day at school jitters.

Yeah.

So we had that.

And then once I, once I got to sit down with the group, I was like, wow, it's amazing

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