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co-parenting the podcast
by co-parenting media
Adulthood is not like you expected and parenting is harder than it looks, but good friends and good conversations help. Join Dallas media personality Lilly Watson along with her two best male, married, father friends as they traverse reality with curious minds, open hearts and foul mouths.
Episodes
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EP 40: The HOCO Hotline
Homecoming season has hit Texas, and the HOCO Hotline is open. Life is coming at Lilly fast, with curfews, halftime pickups, and some brand new phone rules made up on the spot. Then she and Big Mama get into the whole hoco scene: dresses that are way too much for a 16-year-old, mums you need a...
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EP 39: Single White Auntie
A listener who has spent years being the world's best auntie, school pickup hero, and vacation co-pilot writes in wondering if she's accidentally built a life with no room for romance. Lilly, Big Mama, and Upton dig into the question of how you carve out space for your own love life when family…
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EP 38: Music as Medicine with Audrey Schott
Lilly sits down with Audrey Schott, founder of Backyard Music Classes and a trained music therapist, to talk about what it looks like to build a business out of your garage and your backyard. And love for what music does for kids. Audrey traces her path from equotherapy volunteer to UT vocal...
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EP 37: The Summer I Got Avoidant Dumped
Lilly comes back from summer with a story. Steve dumped her. She unpacks what happened, what avoidant attachment actually looks like in practice, and what her anxious attachment looked like right back at him including the cake. (note from the editor: "I hope it was a dump cake") Upton does not…
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See you soon!
The co-parents are wrapping up summer like we know you are as well. In the meantime, catch up on a favorite episode or send us your questions and guests for season 2 at [email protected].
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EP 36: Mike Jungen: Jockstraps, Mortgages, and Finding Your Way Home
Lilly brings on an old grade school friend, Mike Jungen, for one of the more wide-ranging conversations the show has had. They start in fifth grade with a jockstrap on the classroom floor and work their way through vintage Broncos, cats, and a friendship with Blake that turned out to be its own...
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EP 35: Something For Yourself with Alana O'Connell of Dallas Dance Fitness
Lilly sits down with Alana O'Connell, founder of Dallas Dance Fitness, to talk about how a retired corporate controller with a dormant dancer inside her built one of the most tightknit fitness communities in Dallas from scratch. Alana walks through the origin story, why team teaching became the...
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EP 34: Sibling Talk
Lilly and Upton scatter shoot through everything they've been texting about lately. They get into "looks maxing," the trend of guys (and increasingly young girls) asking strangers online how to look more attractive, and what it means that Upton has started using ChatGPT to help with his style and...
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EP 33: Keepin' It Tight
It's the end of the school year and Lilly, Big Mama, and Upton take stock of where they're at physically heading into summer. They cover workout routines and injury recovery, creatine, dry brushing, fascia care, saunas, cold plunge, sleep tracking, supplements, and whether your pre-workout is...
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EP 32: Katie Cunningham on Producing Your Life
Lilly sits down with her friend Katie, a producer and director based in Los Angeles, for one of the more honest conversations the show has had. They go back to the beginning: two women in their late 20s orbiting their husbands, shape-shifting their ambitions to fit the terms they had agreed to…
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EP 31: Kids at Weddings
A listener is planning the chic adult evening wedding she's always wanted and running into a wall: her fiance's family is threatening not to come over a child-free guest policy. Lilly, Upton, and Big Mama dig into whether she should hold her ground, what the family pushback might actually be...
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EP 30: Saying Yes with Paige Lohoefer
Lilly sits down with her friend Paige Chenault, founder of the Birthday Party Project, for a conversation that goes well beyond the nonprofit. Paige traces her path from preacher's kid to events powerhouse to building one of Dallas's most beloved organizations, and talks openly about what it cost...
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EP 29: Grievances
Lilly has had a week and she needs to talk about it. Two grievances make it to the table: one about kids, boundaries, and what it means to be a guest in someone's home, and one about a dad at a party who said something that sent her. Things expand from there into food talk around children, men's...
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EP 28: Talk to a Therapist: Clique or Cult?
Lilly, Big Mama, and therapist Sarah Reidy, LCSW, get into something a lot of women recognize but rarely talk about out loud: the friend group that slowly stops feeling like a friend group. They cover the high school clique years, what that kind of conditional belonging does to you long term, how...
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EP 27: Your Summer Vacation Survival Guide
A listener is dreading the annual family beach trip and needs help. Lilly, Upton, and a late-arriving Big Mama unpack the real dynamics behind group family vacations, why the best memories usually cost the least, and how to protect your PTO without starting a family war.
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EP 26: What Your Divorce Attorney Wishes You Knew
Lilly sits down with the two women who helped her get to the other side of a contentious custody battle: her friend and criminal defense attorney Stara, who first sounded the alarm when things got financial, and family law attorney Natalie Webb, who took her case and saw it through. Together they...
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EP 25: Ask Lilly Anything
Lilly sits down for a full Ask Me Anything with Big Mama and Upton, and they actually come with questions. The crew covers how and why Lilly chose adoption as a first-time parent, what her relationship with Heidi's birth mom looks like now, and the real story behind the move to Germany. From…
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EP 24: Busted Doin' It
Lilly is back and she's sharing something she'd normally let settle first. After 75 days of solo parenting, a spring break trip with Steve and Heidi, and one very thin hotel room door, her sixth grader hit her with four words that divided her life into a before and an after.The crew unpacks what...
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EP 23: Taylor Young of The Party Crowd Band
Lilly Watson and Matt Upton sit down with Taylor Young, Jesuit class of 1999, to discuss his storied past with Neon Girlfriend and The O's to modern fame in The Taylor Young Band and everyone's favorite new act, The Party Crowd Band and the ways he made it as a working artist in Dallas.
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EP 22: Save City Hall: What Every Dallasite Needs to Know with Sarah Crain
Lilly Watson sits down with her old Ursuline classmate Sarah Crain, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas, for a conversation that starts with high school theater memories and lands squarely in the middle of one of Dallas's biggest civic fights right now; the proposed demolition of I.M. Pei's...
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EP 21: Lover's Quarrels
Lilly runs to Matt and Big Mama after a "terrible fight."
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EP 20: Circling Back to the Creek
Matt, Lilly and Big Mama revisit some pod topics that have taken on lives of their own, and walk back to the Creek in honor of James.
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EP 19: Your Friend's Dumb Husband
Valentine's peaks and pits and what to do about your friend's dumb husband are on the minds of Lilly, Matt and Big Mama this week.
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EP 18: Upton is Your Co-Parent
An AMA for our biggest best boy Matt. You will love what you learn about our favorite co-parent!
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EP 17: Dating after Divorce
A listener question sparks the debate on when and how to move on while dating post-divorce.
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EP 16: Matt and the Mean Girls
Do you have a group text gone toxic? The woman are not well, and Lilly takes her toxic texts to Matt for review.
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EP 15: Dearest Nick Doskey
All star best boy Nick Doskey joins Matt and Lilly to discuss what made him so great, the ups and downs of Holidays living around the globe., Matt and Nick relay the realities of life in the Deceased Parent Club.
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EP 14: Holiday Eats
Lilly, Matt and their lifetime BFF - Chris Shortall of The Rust Report - talk everything food for the Holidays, from local haunts to flavorful recipes.
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EP 13: Holiday Chat with a Therapist
Lilly sits down with Sarah Reidy, LCSW, to discuss how to make a plan for the highs and lows of the Holiday season.
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EP 12: Gifts for the Co-Parent
Big Mama and Lilly prep you for the Holidays with sentimental pep talks and your succinct, get them all gift guide.
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EP 11: GRUBES IS MY CO-PARENT
Matt, Lilly and Big Mama catch up with sports broadcaster, entertainer and St Monica Bearcat Michael Gruber on career, comedy and co-parenting.
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EP 10: MEET STEVE
Matt and Big Mama meet Lilly's man friend and get to the bottom of who is moving too fast, who is crazy and who we need to keep around.
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EP 9: The Holiday Help Line
Matt and Lilly dive in on advice and learnings on the holiday custody shuffle, how they handle the end of a project and more.
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EP 8: Interview with Parent Facilitator Kirsty Briscoe
What is a parent facilitator and what can they teach us about conflict communication? LPC Kirsty Briscoe talks to Lilly about her role in divorce and what she's learned.
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EP 7: Matt and Lilly's Fall Edit
We're live! The co-parents respond to the new podcast and go through their favorite movies, meals and routines for a happy Fall season.
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EP 6: Little Child the Dog
Lilly tells Jeff about the life of love with her first child of 17 years, Little Child (the dog).
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EP 5: Co-Parent Crosstalk - "Don't Date Him" Page
The co-parents cross talk on the new "Don't Date This Man" Facebook board phenomenon.
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EP 4: What is a Weekend, Anyways?
Co-parents run through their crazy weekend schedules, picky eater kids and more.
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EP 3: Hanging at the House
Lilly's bachelorette cottage quickly becomes the co-parenting clubhouse thanks to stoppers by and Jeff's vinyl collection.
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EP 2: Listener Write In - Engaged After the Affair
Your ex is engaged to their long time love, but who is doing the math? Co-parents weigh in on what to do for this listener write in.
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EP 1: The Summer I Tried Dating
Lilly levels with Jeff on the perils and pitfalls of modern dating, running through her suitors until she met The One.
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Preview: Let's Talk Music
There's nothing better than yapping with your friends about music. The co-parents offer their first opinions.
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Preview: Summer Check In
How ok are you on family vacation, by the way?! And more on co-parenting and why we're here.
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Preview: Interview with Murry Hammond of the Old 97's
Lilly and Jeff interview their personal music hero, Murry Hammond of the Old 97's, talking about real life and co-parenitng in creative work.
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Pilot: Interview with Mary Stewart of Cultivate Nutrition
The co-parents meet for the very first time to try this idea of a podcast and speak with Mary Stewart of Cultivate Nutrition.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Adulthood is not like you expected and parenting is harder than it looks, but good friends and good conversations help. Join Dallas media personality Lilly Watson along with her two best male, married, father friends as they traverse reality with curious minds, open hearts and foul mouths.
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co-parenting media
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Adulthood is not like you expected and parenting is harder than it looks, but good friends and good conversations help. Join Dallas media personality Lilly Watson along with her two best male, married, father friends as they traverse reality with curious minds, open hearts and foul mouths.
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