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Welcome to The Life We're Living Now — a new chapter, ten years in the making.

In this first episode, longtime friends Jamie and Colleen return to podcasting to talk openly about the stage of life they find themselves in now. It's a conversation shaped by, shifting hormones, adult children preparing to leave home, single life, homeownership, careers, and the strange in-between space that appears after many of the goals you once worked toward have been achieved.

They reflect on caregiving, identity, emotional regulation (or lack thereof), changing relationships with time, responsibility, and ambition, and what it feels like to ask "what's next?" without a clean and neat answer. Along the way, they share stories about forgotten toiletries, old planners resurfacing, decade-old goals, clean kitchens, crumbs on counters, and the quiet realization that caring less about certain things may actually be part of growing wiser.

This episode isn't about having it all figured out — it's about talking it out. It's an invitation to listen in as two women navigate midlife with honesty, humor, curiosity, and a willingness to evolve.

Unplanned. Unbothered. (Mostly.)