Lots to Unpack There

About Lots to Unpack There

We’re Jess and Lisa, two best friends in our 40s living in Maryland. This podcast is about life, motherhood, leadership, and everything in between. We’re navigating the “messy middle” of personal and professional life and have learned that having someone who just gets it makes the journey less hard. Each week, we’ll share something real from our own lives and unpack it together in real time. Our hope is that as we process and reflect, it’ll inspire and help you do the same—wherever you are.

Publisher

Jess and Lisa

Category

business · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Apr 2025

Latest episode

5 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Sept 2026

   Wrong Turns Can Still Get You There

   Send us Fan Mail Mistakes get a bad reputation, but what if they’re doing the job we secretly need them to do? We follow a winding path from ramen firsts and dressing-room nostalgia to the oddly grounding experience of sitting on real furniture while planning a cozy book nook. Those everyday choices tee up a deeper theme: when we step out of autopilot, we collect better information and we tell ourselves better stories about what we’re doing and why. Jess shares a pop-up think tank expe...

2. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Power Dynamics Shape Every Conversation We Have

   Send us Fan Mail A single stubborn hair turns into a surprisingly deep conversation about change, aging, and what it means to move through the messy middle with your eyes open. We talk about gray hair, the awkward “transition process” of perimenopause and menopause, and the stories many of us inherited about what it means to be a woman north of 40. Then we push past the metaphor and get honest about what’s really happening in midlife: multiple doors closing and opening at once, and the consta...

3. 

   3 Jul 2026

   "Be Your Own": Just Enough To Be Dangerous

   Send us Fan Mail If you could wake up tomorrow with four new skill sets that instantly made your day-to-day life easier, what would you choose and why? We start there and end up somewhere surprisingly personal: how competence, comfort, and confidence shape the decisions we make as busy women balancing work, family, and everything in between. Along the way we debate the dream lineup, from mechanic and seamstress to financial advisor and aesthetician, and we dig into what “enough to be dangerou...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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