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Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Released Wednesday, 9th March 2022
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Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson: What Fresh Hell - Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Wednesday, 9th March 2022
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Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson, are comedians, mothers, and hosts of the podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. What Fresh Hell regularly ranks at the top of the Parenting and Kids and Family charts on Apple Podcasts, and has over five million lifetime downloads. In each episode Margaret and Amy discuss a parenting topic from their usually-completely opposite perspectives.Amy Wilson is the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, The Worrier, The Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be (HarperCollins) and of Mother Load, a one-woman show which she toured to 16 cities after its hit off-Broadway run. She also appeared as a series regular in two sitcoms (Daddio on NBC and Norm on ABC). She and her husband live in New York City with their three kids.Margaret Ables is a comedian and writer whose work has appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and PBS. Margaret created television shows for Klasky Csupo (creators of Rugrats) and was the head of video production for Nickelodeon’s mom-centric channel NickMom. Margaret also teaches improv and public speaking in correctional facilities for the non-profit organization Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She and her husband live in Westchester, NY with their three kids.I met Amy and Margaret via our mutual podcast editing team (SHOUT OUT to Christy and Allison!) Christy had a sense we might hit it off and, of course, she was spot on. 

Listen in to hear Margaret and Amy share:

How they came together to create WFH and how each bring their unique strengths to create support for parents

how parenting changes and evolves us over the years

why we don’t need to fear or resist the constant growth that parenting provides

Why new ventures and unchartered territory feel so big and daunting as we approach them, but then so much smaller in hindsight

How parenting problems over the years. IE: little kids = lots of problems/easy to solve, big kids = fewer problems, harder to solve

The difference between “easy” parenting and satisfying parenting

What satisfying parenting looks like and how it can look sooo different than what you expected

Links mentioned:

Connect with Margaret and Amy: whatfresshhellpodcast.com

Podcast: What Fresh Hell

WFH on IG

WFH FB Group

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