Dirty Nanay: A Nod to the Unfiltered Filipino American Mother

Being a part of the Sandwich Generation can feel really burned and sticky all at the same time. What is the Sandwich Generation, you ask? "We are the generation of people, typically in their 30s or 40s, responsible for bringing up their own children and for the care of their aging parents." Zee and Rissa discuss how this shows up for them, the sacrifices made to make sure the peanut butter of their parents and the jelly of their children are healthy and happy, the conflict that shows up with meeting these demands, and facing the concept of their aging parents' mortality--- because just don't ketchup to them in age. Feeling spread thin? Caught up in a jam? Feeling in the middle and stuck in a pickle? This episode is for you. And guess who has a bun in the oven... xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at dirtynanay@gmail.com And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

It's that time of the year when Zee and Rissa contemplate their decision to feature a scary Halloween episode! Zee and Rissa invite a friend in this scarefest of an episode to tell Filipinx scary stories, hypothesize how monsters smell, dialogue about unexpected sources of fear, explore a Filipinx mythological creature, and play a bastardized version of D&D just so they have a variety of flavors to inspire dread when the lights turn off.  xoxo,  Rissa & Zee  Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay  Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at dirtynanay@gmail.com And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

***NOTE: This episode was recorded in September 2022*** Transitions are hard! It's like living in constant limbo. Zee and Rissa get philosophical and process the concept of changes and transition and how that plays into our world as parents, as working moms, and as human beings with lots of different roles we cherish. It's like living in constant limbo without the certain of... well, certainty. xoxo,  Rissa & Zee  Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay  Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at dirtynanay@gmail.com And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Be a doctor at 23, get married by 26, have babies at 27 (make sure it's twins so you get your multiples done!), find an uninhabited new island and claim it your own by 30. Ever feel this low (maybe high?) hum pressure of needing to fulfill these things by 30 or else you're labeled as a failure? Zee and Rissa delve into these arbitrary timeline expectations and talk about how this showed up for them, how it continues to impact them, and what they intend to do to protect their kids from these insignificant expectations with significant impact on people's well-being and happiness. ⁠ xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at dirtynanay@gmail.com And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Ah the magic of friendship! In this episode, Zee and Rissa explore the natural changes in friendships while we parent toddlers--- the celebrations and also grief of trying to maintain these meaningful connections. We start the episode off with imagining our parallel universe selves coming up with a new TV show that involves matchmaking parents with other parents (because, finding parent friends is so much harder than finding a friend just for you--- especially after our 30's!), followed by a dialogue that has us talking about the waning and waxing of relationships as we navigate parenthood. xoxo,  Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at dirtynanay@gmail.com  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats