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The Girl Next Door Podcast — 366 episodes

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1

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2

Raising Good Neighbors

3

Midlife Lady Potpourri

4

Clean With Us!

5

Everyday Routines

6

Designing Our Summers

7

Parenting Teens

8

Damn Dinner

9

Marriage Tending

10

Spring Bookshelf

11

How To Sports Mom

12

Spring Fling

13

Life Lately

14

Our Personal Discographies

15

Listening to Music

16

Valentines and Galentines

17

Organizing S.O.S.

18

2026 Intentions

19

Annual Airing of the Grievances

20

2025 Reflections

21

This Is Nuts!

22

10 Things We Leared From Our Parents

23

We're Thankful For Us

24

Gifting Better

25

Comfort Food

26

Minor Fears

27

Let's Talk About Death

28

Fall Bookshelf

29

Fall Extravaganza & Apple Abominations

30

Driving

31

Kelsey at Yale

32

Back to (Middle) School

33

Parenting in Public

34

How We Get Stuff Done

35

How Was Your Summer?

36

Family Money Management

37

Bucket Lists

38

Summer Five Senses Portrait

39

Let's Talk About Patriotism

40

How To Vacation Mom

41

Erica's Evangelical Upbringing

42

Fun With Perimenopause!

43

Designing Our Summers

44

Best Spouse/Worst Spouse Again

45

Let's Talk About Abortion

46

Spring Bookshelf

47

Best Advice We've Heard

48

Little Changes, Big Difference

49

Organizing Wins & Fails

50

Our Intentions for 2025

51

Annual Airing of the Grievances

52

2024 Year in Review

53

Listen While Hiding From Your Family

54

80s Kid Christmas

55

Empties

56

Join Kelsey for Your Year to Shine 2025

57

Day Derailers

58

Erica's Breast Cancer Diagnosis

59

Replay: Cookbooks & A Spooky Delivery

60

Fall Extravaganza & Our Spooky Boyfriends

61

What's Your Monday?

62

Fall Reading Round Up

63

How We're Using Social Media Lately

64

Real Life Dinners

65

School Mom 101

66

Keeping A Sustainable Home

67

Join Kelsey for Everyday Habits, Routines, and Rituals

68

Real Life Homes

69

Affordable Home Decor

70

Creating A Home You Love

71

Evening Routines

72

Bulldog Boundaries

73

Revisiting Kids and Screen Time

74

Unpacking Diet Culture

75

Let's Go Camping!

76

Living & Mothering Confidently

77

Plant Lady Talk

78

Surviving the 2024 Election

79

Spring Reading Round Up

80

Nailed It & Lava Rocks

81

Family Culture Around Hard Stuff

82

Family Culture Around Quality Time

83

Organizing Kid Stuff

84

Organizing Stuff Cycles

85

Organizing Wins & Fails

86

Our Intentions for 2024

87

10 More Annoying Things

88

2023 Wrap Up

89

Holiday Home: A Kindness Mindset

90

Holiday Home: Holiday Favorites

91

Holiday Home: Holiday Logistics

92

Our Style & A Jeans Deep Dive

93

Announcing Kelsey's Your Year to Shine: A Goals Workshop

94

Our Early Bird and Night Owl Habits

95

Traveling Tips & Misadventures

96

Fall Extravaganza & Our Ghost Lives

97

Fall Reading Round Up & Books That Changed Our Lives

98

Current School Routines

99

Our Faith and Non-Belief

100

Living Through Moving & Home Renovations

101

The Work of Great Marriages

102

Online Behavior for Grown Ups

103

Summer Reading Round Up

104

Games We Love, Hate, and Made Up

105

Thoughts on Middle Age & Aging

106

Parenting Tweens

107

What We Hope We Teach Our Kids

108

Preparing for May Madness

109

Looking Back: Friendship

110

Quick Update: no new episode this week!

111

Looking Back: Parenting So Far

112

Looking Back: 10 Seasons of the Podcast

113

COVID-19 Time Capsule

114

Winter Reading Round Up

115

6 Organizing Strategies We're Loving

116

Our Intentions for 2023

117

10 Things Annoying Us Lately

118

Wrapping Up 2022

119

Holiday Home: Part 3

120

Holiday Home: Part 2

121

Holiday Home: Part 1

122

Our Favorite Things in 2022

123

Fall Reading Round Up

124

Fall Extravaganza and An Autumnal Abomination

125

To-do Lists and Accountability Challenge

126

Become a Friend of the Show!

127

Everyday and Divine Feminism

128

How We Are and Aren't Turning Into Our Parents

129

School Volunteering at Your Speed

130

How We're Cheap and Splurgy

131

Kids and Screen Time

132

Summer Reading Round Up

133

Time Management Wins & Challenges

134

Solo Parenting Toolbox

135

Celebrities & Immersed in Lavender

136

A Conversation About White Privilege

137

How We Stress and Cope

138

Our Approach to Equity in Marriage

139

Spring Reading Round Up

140

Let's Talk About Our Periods!

141

Organization Wins and Challenges

142

Our Cabin Retreat & Making Time For Creativity

143

Our Intentions for 2022

144

How We Set New Year Intentions

145

2021 Wrap Up

146

Christmas Gone Wrong

147

Our Favorite Things in 2021

148

Practical Tips for Holiday Logistics

149

How to Say and Accept "No"

150

Fall Reading Roundup & Distracted By Gourds

151

Fall Extravaganza In A Mustache With A Hot Garbage Drink

152

Clothing Kids

153

Getting Back To It

154

Introducing: Homeschoolhood

155

Practicing Gratitude

156

Back To School

157

All About Our Book Club

158

How To Make Dinner Not Suck

159

Spring & Summer Reading Roundup

160

Tiny Anchors

161

Happy Summer Quick Update

162

Summer Eats & Drinks

163

We Made It To Summer!

164

Calm Parenting & Vacuuming Hour

165

Week In the Life & Mom Uber

166

Personal Policies & How To Mail

167

Bonus: Introducing the RISING*SHINING audioblog

168

Best Spouse/Worst Spouse

169

Current Home Organization And Disorganization

170

2020 Wrap Up

171

All About Plant-Based Eating

172

Bathing Habits & Hair Fossils

173

Winter Reading Roundup & Ice Cream Truck Etiquette

174

2021 Intentions

175

Mini-Episode with Kelsey

176

Friendship During A Pandemic

177

Holiday Budgets & Christmas Cactus

178

Holiday Intentions & Dinosaur Feet

179

Cookbooks & A Spooky Delivery

180

Our Buying Habits & A Dangerous Muffin Pan

181

School Update & Little Rollerblading Guys

182

Fall Extravaganza 2020!

183

Pandemic Self-Care

184

2020 Midyear Check In & Backyard Junk

185

Quick Update

186

Favorite School Supplies & Hide Your Tape

187

Life Updates & Text Your Spouse

188

Household Division Of Labor

189

Minor Expertise & Smoothie Butt

190

Dealing With The Gimmies And Whining

191

Hard Conversations With Kids & Awkward Mail Encounter

192

7 Things We're Not Doing This Summer

193

Book Club: Ask Again, Yes

194

Keeping A Kitchen & A Kong For Kids

195

We're Not Fun Moms

196

Gilbert Love & Glowing Gopher

197

Nesting & When Not To Be Neighborly

198

Book Club: Once Upon A River

199

Kid Birthdays & Rogue Sidewalk Maintenance

200

Motherhood Transitions & It Is Fall

201

Self-Help Books & Eye Candy TV

202

Set In Our Ways & Lighting Judgment

203

2020 Intentions & Aspirational Neighbors

204

2019 Wrap Up & Pathetic Christmas Lights

205

Ten Things We're NOT Doing This Christmas

206

Siblings & Inside Jokes

207

Favorite Things Gift Guide & Makin' Bacon

208

Book Club: The Dutch House

209

Day In The Life & Napping On The Job

210

Feeding Our Families & Hidden Hot Dogs

211

Fall Extravaganza & Flaming Nuts

212

Mental Health & More Firm Bottoms

213

Kid Chores & Burning Mailboxes

214

Working Out & Yucca Slaps Back

215

Book Club: A Hundred Summers

216

Goals Check-In & Swampy Shorts

217

Listener Questions & A Crop Top Encounter

218

Favorite Beauty Products & Nap In A Bottle

219

Raising Girls, Raising Boys & An Unsightly Ladder

220

Summer Management & Almost Sunburned

221

Perfect Things & Wristless Watches

222

Book Club: Educated

223

Wisdom In Your 30s & Strong Nut Opinions

224

Communication In Marriage & Husbands Next Door

225

Errands & Your Grandfather's Windbreaker

226

Book Club: How To Stop Time

227

Kid Behavior & Chuck It Out The Window

228

Cleaning Your Bathroom & Sparrow Bathing

229

Love Languages & Children Of The Corn

230

Nuts And Bolts Of Writing & Nakedly Dashing

231

Organization That Works & Closet I Spy

232

2019 Intentions & A Snow Conundrum

233

2018 Wrap Up & Australian Us

234

Holiday Self-Care & Vegas Christmas Lights

235

Hygge & Hygge Beasts

236

Book Club: This Is How It Aways Is

237

Family Dynamics & Hero Neighbors

238

Fall Extravaganza & Guardian Angels in Plaid

239

Our Phones & Melon Talk

240

Kindergarten & Moms Shaking Booties

241

Side Hustles & Hot Obsessions

242

Book Club: An American Marriage

243

Home Efficiency & Minimizing Chaos

244

Week of Dinners & Best Trash Day

245

Our Outdoorsy Selves & Unstoppable Bikers

246

Cars & Weird Driving Habits

247

Summer Wardrobes & Firm Bottoms

248

Book Club: The Heart's Invisible Furies

249

Tough Life Seasons & A Movie Starring Me

250

Big Job Changes & Feral Cats

251

Podcasts & Love Nachos

252

Our Hair & Unleashing the Mane

253

Taking the Temperature of Your Life & Inbox Honesty

254

Book Club: The Keeper of Lost Things

255

6 Things Happy Couples Do & Reckless Golf Carts

256

Surviving the Cold Season & Bag Situations

257

Rerun: Behind the Scenes & Under Construction

258

2018 & Baby Dinosaur Sighting

259

2017 Wrap Up & Skin Care Like A Boss

260

Etiquette & Napkin in Your Lap

261

Gift giving action plans & wrapping situations

262

Book Club 11: The Night Circus

263

Scary Stuff & Biscuit Cans

264

Fall Extravaganza & Fall Pajama

265

Building Community & Aggressive Makeovers

266

Making a House a Home & New Old Neighbors

267

Back to School & Neighbor Spying

268

Book Club 10: The Other Einstein

269

2017 Update & A Thwack in the Night

270

Trader Joe's Faves & Judgy Swans

271

Social Media & Real Relationships

272

Listener Questions & Short Shorts

273

Feeding a Family & Baby Shoes

274

Book Club 9: A Piece of the World

275

Know Thyself & Haunting Mail

276

Quality Time With Kids & Local Water Deputy

277

Dating Your Husband & Tiny Neighbors Shouting

278

Movies & Rogue Drones

279

Laundry & Sudsy Sunday

280

Snacks & Hats on a Monkey

281

Big Changes & Return of Rollerblading Guy

282

Reading Habits & Neighborly Grapefruit

283

Sleep & Pillow Talk

284

Happy 2017 & Festively Aggressive

285

2016 Review & Christmas Swamp

286

Gift Guide & Anti-Pajamas

287

Bonus Mini: Tortoise Napper

288

Fall Test Kitchen & Crunch Top

289

Cooking With Kids & Vampire Children

290

Book Club 8: Better Than Before

291

Fall Extravaganza & Fall Ladies

292

Creating Happiness & Beast Slash

293

Parenting Preschoolers & Aggressively Fall Friendly

294

Mom Hobbies & Speed Traps

295

Book Club 7: The Husband's Secret

296

2016 Goals Check In & Frosé

297

Family Memory Keeping & Missing Torti

298

Friendship Landscapes & Pick Up Lines

299

Travel Goals & Pouch Cocktails

300

Summer Cozy & Hearty Bottoms

301

Book Club 6: Big Magic

302

Behind the Scenes & Under Construction

303

Happening Lately & Cruise Ships

304

Marriage as Parents & Mothballs

305

Parenting Toddlers & Nothing Is Easy

306

Tidying Rage & Smelly Jeans

307

Habits & Dragonification

308

Leap Day Bonus!

309

Book Club 6: Modern Romance

310

Paper Planners & Pencil Pouches

311

Out With Kids & Your Gas Door

312

Happy 2016 & Letters To Our Future Selves

313

Birthdays & Name Amnesia

314

Stress-free Holidays & Aggressive Sugared Rims

315

Mom Guilt & Story Time Gone Wrong

316

Book Club 5: The Girl on the Train

317

Fall Extravaganza & Brawny Woodsman

318

Personalities & More Campari

319

Creatively Productive & Productively Creative

320

Home Ownership & Census Love

321

Depths of Summer & More Naked Neighbors

322

Goals Update & Naked Batman

323

Beauty Uniforms & How Not To Shower

324

DIY & Crappy Drills

325

Book Club 4: We Were Liars

326

Summer Eats & Suburbans

327

Marriage & Putzy Husbands

328

Rerun: Social Media & Swimsuit Season

329

Mom 2.0 & Dry Shampoo

330

Creativity & Mom Backpacks

331

Simplifying & Lawnmower Shrapnel

332

How's It Going? Please Send Coffee

333

Day in the Life & Unwelcome RVs

334

Cleaning & Sneaky Succulents

335

Little Episode & Little Ladies

336

Book Club 3: Yes Please

337

Busyness & Babka

338

Money & Chocolate Cake

339

Mini Episode & Mini Wharton

340

New Years & Creeper Toddler

341

Our Birthday, Christmas & Dancing Fondue Guy

342

Gift Giving & Holiday Mules

343

Thanksgiving & Smoldering Dish Towels

344

Burnout & The Ginger People

345

Halloween & Zombie Babies

346

Book Club 2: Midnight and Sherlock

347

Fall Extravaganza & Naked Muffins

348

Still Summer & Gas Station Growlers

349

Back to School & Psychedelic Dalmations

350

Summer Vacations & Bakery Karma

351

Book Release & Political Signs

352

Expecting & Horse T-Shirts

353

Book Club 1: Delancey and Wild

354

Fitness & Hula Hoop Superpowers

355

Quitting & Scorpion Slaying

356

Social Media & Swimsuit Season

357

Creative Energy & Tiny Baby

358

In Defense of the Crisp

359

Criticism & Cadbury Eggs

360

Blogs & Bourbon

361

Snacks on a Plane

362

House Guests & Socklets

363

Dr. Fitness & Marriage Maintenance

364

Yoghurt & Apology Cupcakes

365

Hell's Angels & Creativity

366

Later 2013, Hello 2014