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AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing

AND/BOTH Podcast - Real Conversations, Shared Experiences, and the Community You've Been Missing

著者： Dr. Ashley Blackington
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Hear from moms in all different scenarios doing their absolute best to honor themselves as individuals in a world that would prefer, as mothers, we not. ⁠ ⁠ Hear from moms who are trying to figure out what that "something" is after the life altering transition into motherhood.⁠ ⁠ Hear from moms that say "I know I need to do something for myself and this is what it is, but it feels impossible to do it"⁠ ⁠ What is the AND/BOTH that you are juggling with motherhood? Career, hobbies, entrepreneurship, new identity, new activities, new passions and interests?⁠© 2025 AND/BOTH Company, LLC 人間関係 子育て 心理学 心理学・心の健康 社会科学 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • 123. "So I Made One": Betsy Cornwell on Single Parenthood, Writing & the Old Knitting Factory

    123. "So I Made One": Betsy Cornwell on Single Parenthood, Writing & the Old Knitting Factory
    2026/05/29
    Betsy Cornwell saw a gap — artist residencies she qualified for but couldn’t access as a single parent — and instead of waiting for someone else to fill it, she built something herself. She crowdfunded the purchase of a historic 1906 knitting factory on the west coast of Ireland, turned it into a residency and retreat space for other single parent artists, and then wrote a memoir about how all of it happened.In this conversation, Ashley and Betsy talk about coming out of an abusive marriage, what it means to write honestly about hard things as a mother, the gap between the writing life you imagine and the one you actually have, and why the accomplishment Betsy is most proud of isn’t her New York Times bestseller or her university teaching post — it’s being a single mom.In This EpisodeHow Betsy became a single parent and why she found herself proud to be one almost immediatelyThe gap she identified — artist residencies she qualified for but couldn’t access because of caretaking logistics and financesThe castle that didn’t work out, the pivot to the knitting factory, and why this place ended up being a better fitWhat crowdfunding a house actually looked like — including the 2am moment when everything came down to the wireWhy she gives residency recipients a cash childcare stipend rather than on-site childcare — and what that trust meansThe Smith College Friday Tea tradition and the online community that supported her through the most isolated stretch of her lifeWriting about emotional abuse — “he never hit me” — and why that makes some readers deeply uncomfortableThe ethics of writing a memoir as a parent: how she handled writing about her son and his fatherWhy mother’s silence is not the solution to the complexity of women telling their storiesWriting Ring of Salt on the edge of a bathtub — and what that says about the art you can make in the life you haveRaising her son in an Irish-speaking region of Ireland — and what she’s observed about life in Ireland versus the USThe “keep it alive” approach to creative practice for caregiversWhat she hopes happens when someone comes to the Old Knitting Factory and gets to breathe for the first timeQuotes From This Episode“The accomplishment I’m most proud of is being a single mom. And I think that will always be true.”— Betsy Cornwell“I don’t think the brunt of all that complexity should be borne through the simple solution of mother’s silence. That is not right to me.”— Betsy Cornwell“The book that I could write is the book that I could write in the life that I have.”— Betsy Cornwell“Have you kept your art practice alive today? It’s just about keeping it alive.”— Betsy Cornwell“We’re kicking the bar down the road and wondering why our toe hurts.”— Ashley BlackingtonResources & LinksRing of Salt (memoir): available at any bookstore or via oldknittingfactory.comOld Knitting Factory: oldknittingfactory.comSupport the residency on PatreonAll books including YA novels: betsycornwell.comFriday Tea on Substack: find Betsy on SubstackConnect with Ashley:Website: https://www.ashleyblackington.comPodcast website: https://www.andbothpodcast.com/Dovetail® App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dovetail-app/id6744341822Instagram: @mydovetail.appLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyblackington/
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    59 分
  • 122. "Just Quit. We'll Figure It Out." Leaving corporate to build something of her own with Laura Navaquin

    122. "Just Quit. We'll Figure It Out." Leaving corporate to build something of her own with Laura Navaquin
    2026/05/15

    Laura Navaquin spent nearly 20 years in corporate America before one Wednesday meeting pushed her over the edge. Her husband said “just quit, we’ll figure it out.” She did, and then spent the next few weeks wondering if she’d made a catastrophic mistake before realizing she was exactly where she was supposed to be.

    Today Laura and her husband run four businesses rooted in real estate — a consulting practice, a wholesaling company, a framework for real estate agents called Beyond Commissions, and a contracting business — while raising four kids, three of whom are three and under. In this conversation, Ashley and Laura talk about the messy, non-linear reality of building something from scratch while staying present for the people who matter most.

    In This Episode

    1. Why Laura left corporate after 20 years — it wasn’t the job, it was losing control of her own schedule
    2. The Wednesday she quit on impulse and the fear that followed immediately after
    3. How she and her husband grew their real estate portfolio from four doors to twenty-one in under two years
    4. Why they scaled too fast, stepped back, and what that taught them about sustainable growth
    5. Creative financing — what it is and how it changed what was possible for them
    6. How four businesses became interconnected rather than overwhelming
    7. Beyond Commissions — the real estate agent framework they spent 2025 building and launched in January
    8. The entrepreneur catch-22: needing help, hiring help, and ending up doing it yourself anyway
    9. How they navigate four kids and four businesses — shared office, shared calendar, shared flexibility
    10. Getting kids involved in the business in age-appropriate ways
    11. Why the nine-year-old’s salsa company ambitions are being taken seriously
    12. The shift in how we talk about money, investing, and entrepreneurship with the next generation
    13. Where Laura sees things going — development, fundraising, and building on a larger scale

    Quotes From This Episode

    “Some weeks I take off entirely, or I work weekends and late nights — but I’m still able to work that schedule around my life.”

    — Laura Navaquin

    “Being able to have that flexibility and creativity with the way you do things allows you to pivot and still keep that business alive.”

    — Laura Navaquin

    “When you pressure test the system, then you start to pivot. Then you start to say, what is a reasonable ask for me?”

    — Ashley Blackington

    “I never saw myself in real estate in any capacity — but to see where we are nowadays and all the future plans that we’re making. It’s somewhat comical, but in all the best ways.”

    — Laura Navaquin

    “Non-traditional is becoming traditional.”

    — Ashley Blackington

    Find Laura

    1. LinkedIn & Instagram: @LauraNavaquin
    2. Website: lauranavaqquin.com
    3. Beyond Commissions: beyondcommissions.io




    Connect with Ashley:

    Website: https://www.ashleyblackington.com

    Podcast website: https://www.andbothpodcast.com/

    Dovetail® App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dovetail-app/id6744341822

    Instagram: @mydovetail.app

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyblackington/
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    52 分
  • 121. Death Doesn't Happen Like It Does in the Movies with Death Doula Jade Adgate

    121. Death Doesn't Happen Like It Does in the Movies with Death Doula Jade Adgate
    2026/05/01
    Everyone dies. And yet most of us have no idea what dying actually looks like — because we’ve been shielded from it, and because everything we’ve seen on screen is wrong.Jade Adgate is a death doula, educator, and founder of Farewell Fellowship in Middle Tennessee. She’s spent years walking alongside families at end of life — not as a tour guide, but as a fellow traveler — and she’s on a mission to normalize the experience of death so that fewer people have to face it completely unprepared.In this conversation, Ashley and Jade cover a lot of ground: the real dying process versus what we expect it to be, how we live is how we die, the role of control in caregiving, what those extended months of treatment are actually buying us, and what it looks like to bring sacredness back to the end of life — even when it’s messy and ordinary and nothing like the movies.In This EpisodeHow Jade got into death doula work- from Hurricane Katrina, to moving in with her great-aunt Sis, to hospice volunteeringThe parallel between parenting teenagers and supporting families at end of life, both require learning to hold while letting goHow death became less ordinary and why that’s a tragedyThe idea that modern medicine has learned to extend dying, not just lifeQuality versus quantity: what people think they’re buying with treatment versus what they’re actually gettingRoxanne: the client who tried to control every detail of her own death, and what Jade learned from herAdeline: a pediatric client who died just before her fifth birthday, and the home funeral that gave her family something differentWhy 90% of people end up in a hospital bed at end of life and why that matters to knowWhat actually happens in the hours after someone dies and why slowing down is the most important thing a death doula doesThe gap between the Forrest Gump death scene and realityHow Jade protects herself in this work as a self-described recovering codependent eldest daughterThe future of death doula work, bringing these tools into communities and families who can’t access a professionalQuotes From This Episode“How we live is how we die. Who we are is who we are when we’re dying.”— Jade Adgate“If we are going to buy more time, can we know at the beginning that this is the time we’re buying? It starts right now — instead of we’re going to do all these treatments and then start our time when you’re feeling better.”— Jade Adgate“Death is the teacher. As much as I think I might know, it is totally different for every single person.”— Jade Adgate“This is not wisdom that needs a gatekeeper. This is all of our collective wisdom.”— Jade Adgate“There are no monsters around corners if you know where all the corners are.”— Ashley BlackingtonResources & LinksFarewell Fellowship (in-person doula services, education & library): farewellfellowship.comInstagram: Farewell LibraryBook referenced: Gone From My Sight — Barbara CarnesShow referenced: Dying for Sex (Hulu)Connect with Ashley:Website: https://www.ashleyblackington.comPodcast website: https://www.andbothpodcast.com/Dovetail® App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dovetail-app/id6744341822Instagram: @mydovetail.appLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyblackington/
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    1 時間 3 分
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