Not Right Now

This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Chabeli Carrazana, economy and childcare reporter at The 19th and author of their Mom Guilt Economy newsletter. She's the only reporter in the country (that we know of) with "economy and childcare" in her title...

This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Melissa Walker, a YA novelist and Principal Strategist of Giving Circles at The States Project. The chat about having teen girls and the drama of borrowed clothes, the art of playing it cool with your suddenly ...

This week, Claire and Quinn discuss school dances: from homecoming (HoCo, if you're under 25) to promposals, pantsing, and cotillion boards. Tune in to learn about how school dances have changed over the years (they keep the lights on now?) and for Qui...

This week, Claire and Quinn sit down with writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton. She grew up on a commune, writes the column Brooding for The Cut, and just published a book called The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything. ...

This week, Claire and Quinn react to Michelle Obama's viral week on the internet that broke the mom discourse in half. Also discussed: biological warfare (on audiobook), cicadas in the house, a broken bed jet remote, laundry as a consequence, and wheth...

This week, Quinn and Claire discuss Lego sets for adults, Dolly Parton's canonization timeline, Tim Curry, Bill Gates and Epstein, AI in the classroom, who's actually a good person and how to explain that to kids who don't want the nuance, E. Jean Carr...

We survived summer break! Claire spent 10 days trekking through Sweden and Quinn is back from the Outer Banks for two weeks with seven children, not all his. They catch up on the summer and then get into surviving the back-to-school gauntlet. ---------...

It's the last week in our Summer Rewind! We'll have a brand new episode for you next week, but until then, please enjoy this episode about somehow maintaining a relationship with your co-parent despite all the chaos. ----------- This week, Claire and Q...

It's still August, which means we're still on summer break, which means we have another fan favorite episode for you to catch up on! ----------- This week, Quinn and Claire are diving into the ever-evolving world of childcare, from the brutal economics...

It's still summer, which means we're still on our summer rewind bullshit! Enjoy this episode about sleep, which remains forever relevant and eternal. ----------- Parenting and sleep deprivation. From military-precise sleep training schedules to the anx...

That's right, we're still on summer vacation (sorry, not sorry!). We're diving into the archives again to bring you another one of our favorites: our expectations about parenting before we became parents vs. the reality. Enjoy! -------------- This week...

We're still on summer vacation! Here's another favorite from the vault. Hope you enjoy! ----------- This week, Claire and Quinn dive into the messy reality of all the different ways we cope with parenting, while everything else is happening. From that ...

We're on summer break! For the next few weeks, we're dipping into the archive and replaying some fan favorites. Hope you enjoy. ---------- This week, Claire and Quinn dive into how the show got its name - the eternal parental struggle of "Not Right Now...

This week, Quinn and Claire have Kevin Maguire on the pod. Kevin is the dad behind The New Fatherhood newsletter, an executive coach for CEOs and CMOs at companies like Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube, and the author of a book that is very much about dads...

This week, Claire and Quinn have Amanda Hess (NYT writer and author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age) on the pod. They discuss the summer logistics of having a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, Amanda's emerging second-book obsession (cryog...

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Kaitlyn Teer. She's the senior editor at Cup of Jo's Big Salad, essayist, college writing teacher, and author of the essay collection Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, And Hope at the En...

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Meghan Murphy-Gill. She's an Episcopal priest, former hospital chaplain, mom, and author of The Sacred Life of Bread. They talk about religion, community, and what we actually want to pass down to our kids. Fro...

Something new from the team behind Not Right Now. It's Called Reality is a podcast about reality TV, and everything it's secretly about. Every episode, hosts Willow Beck and Briana Brown take a show you're already watching and pull the thread on what i...

It's Maycember, and we're not okay. This week, Claire and Quinn are back to commiserate about the absolute chaos of late spring parenting, from overloaded school calendars to the age-old debate between fifth and eighth grade graduation parties. Also di...

This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by AJ Daulerio, He's a dad of three, founder of the recovery community The Small Bow, host of The Small Bow Podcast, and parenting advice columnist for Slate. AJ has been sober for nearly 10 years, and he brings t...

It's a crossover episode! Quinn had the editor-in-chief of The Week Jr, Andrea Barbalich, on his other show The Most Important Question. It was such a great conversation, and so relevant for parents, we thought we should run it on the Not Right Now fee...

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Willa Koerner, a creative strategist, writer, gardener, flower farmer, newsletter author, artist residency co-founder, and mother of a very busy four-year-old. They get into unschooling, invasive species, garde...

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by journalist and author Fortesa Latifi. She's pregnant, has a toddler at home, and is somehow also promoting a book. Respect. Fortesa has spent years reporting on the world of mom influencers and family vloggers,...

This week, Quinn and Claire get into their March Madness brackets, before discussing how the gambling industrial complex is ruining sports, and what it's like to raise kids in the age of the manosphere. Also discussed: vasectomies, testing our knowledg...

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by L'Oreal Thompson Payton, a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, yoga teacher, mom to a four-year-old junior bookseller, and the founder of Zora's Place, a Black-owned independent bookstore in Evanston,...