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DEALING
The blog for the "How Do We Deal?!" podcast.
Musings about the show and whatnot. Requests for input from our "Dealers." And whatever Dara and Amber are coping with or laughing about.

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The podcast is back like Payton Pritchard (for threeeeeeeeee!)
Our new podcast logo thing for season 3. Guess what? OKC is for real, but our dear Celtics are once again contenders for a title. At the...
Amber
Mar 161 min read
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Learning from "The Great Autistic Mind of Bernard Grant, Ph.D."
Bernard Grant, Ph.D. It was such a privilege to spend time with Bernard Grant, Ph.D., an Autistic, multiply neurodivergent writer, editor...
Amber
Mar 30, 20242 min read
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A MUST-LISTEN: Monica's Journey with Metastatic Breast Cancer (2-Part Interview)
We've known Monica, or Moni as we call her, since early childhood. We went to school and played sports (soccer and softball) together....
Amber
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Season 2. We're back, bae-bae! With gusto and guestperts.
Just a heads up. We're back and wicked psyched about it. Our first episode of our second season looks forward, posing some of the...
How Do We Deal?!
Mar 9, 20242 min read
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Stereotypes and "Normal."
Judging pre-judgements and tackling nebulous normality. In episodes 8 (Stereotypes) and 9 ("Normal"), Dara and I examine assumptions. The...
Amber
May 13, 20233 min read
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Social media pros, cons and WTFs.
The Senate is currently considering a ban on social media for kids under 13. Makes sense, right? We know it harms mental health,...
Amber
Apr 29, 20233 min read
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Anxiety.
A quick google search on "anxiety" brought up news about tech use damaging mental health, environmental crisis weighing heavily on young...
Amber
Apr 24, 20231 min read
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Gen X parenting conundrums.
Podcast episode about Generation X parenting in a world very different from the one we grew up in.
Amber
Apr 14, 20232 min read
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Aging.
Dara was carded recently, and playfully but incredulously accused of using a fake ID. "No one pretends to be 44," she replied. My...
Amber
Apr 7, 20231 min read
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Neurodiversity.
As a proud ADHD-er and mom of an autistic child, I was excited to create and share this episode (available on Apple, Spotify,...
Amber
Mar 31, 20231 min read
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Brown girl in a white world.
Dara and I grew up in an overwhelmingly white town in Massachusetts on the outskirts of Boston. Like most if not all places in America,...
Amber
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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The podcast is live.
YO. We just dropped our introductory episode. Which is a huge milestone for us! We use Spreaker to record and publish the "How Do We...
Amber
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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Well, this is exciting.
We've been working on this podcast for so long, and it's about to launch. Will we be able to deal? And will you be able to deal with us?...
Amber
Mar 4, 20231 min read
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