In this week’s episode of Best of Both Worlds, Sarah and I play a round! We each chose a handful of questions and posed them to each other. See if you can guess what our answers would be, and we’d love to hear your answers too.

(Would you rather be more attractive or more intelligent? Would you rather swim with sharks or sleep in a house you knew to be haunted?…that opened up a whole can of worms, as it were…)

In the Q&A section, a listener looks for advice on justifying outsourcing cleaning even if she’s not currently earning much. We give her some new ways to think about this issue.

Please give the episode a listen! And please consider joining our Patreon community. We have several lively discussion threads going each week about topics related to work and life. This week we’ve been discussing what low energy could represent, along with college admissions questions and memories. Next week we’ll have a zoom meet-up to discuss Jodi Wellman’s book You Only Die Once. Membership is $9/month. If you’d like to try it out you could join for a month and then quit any time — but we think you’ll enjoy it!

We cover lots of topics in this week’s episode — how the podcast itself gets made, how we get ideas for various things (podcasts, blog posts, newsletters, etc.), how we see childcare evolving long term, our dream travel destinations, advice on returning to work and how to answer loaded questions after maternity leave.

Please give the episode a listen! We also recorded an “ask me anything” video for our Patreon community members; you can learn more about joining here. We do mailbag episodes every few months so feel free to send more questions! laura@lauravanderkam.com is a good way to reach me.