Ever wonder what it looks like when parenting is actually a team sport?
Mike Brown and Jocelyn Thompson don’t just co-parent—they co-everything. From Shakespeare to shipping breast milk across the country, this episode is full of heart, humor, and real talk about raising kids, loving loud, and managing chaos with grace.
✨ What’s inside:
🎭 Not your typical meet-cute: Arizona Tea, Shakespeare, a stage manager who broke the stereotype.
💍 “Either you marry me or give me a baby”—Jocelyn’s cruise ultimatum
❄️The wild system they built to keep a baby fed across time zones - a breast milk operation that involved cross-country coolers and a freezer of frozen gold.
🍼 The two words they use that shift the entire parenting dynamic
🧒 A tiny queen, a carpet picnic, “You can’t join my picnic”—the toddler boundary that stopped everyone in their tracks
🍵 Their simple (and surprisingly effective) ritual for handling big emotions
🎒 What happens when your 9-year-old starts asking why—and you're actually ready to answer
🧠 The magical mayhem of two kids, one castle, and an entire kingdom made from couch cushions and the question that changes everything
🛠️ The parenting superpower that makes gender roles completely irrelevant —how they parent without pink-and-blue job descriptions
😴 A midday mystery, two sleepy kids, and a bear in a nightcap
Whether you're deep in the parenting trenches, figuring out how to balance love and logistics, or just need a reminder that partnership can be powerful (and playful), this convo with Mike and Jocelyn will leave you feeling seen, supported, and maybe even inspired to rethink the way you “divide” the work.
🎧 Tap play to hear what it really sounds like when parenting is shared, stage-managed, and full of radical joy.
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