Leslie Shaffer and Monica Bowser

A Widow and A Wife-Where 'for better or worse' Gets Real

Society EN ↓ 3 episodes

A podcast where we pull back the curtain on the things that connect us all: love, loss and the laughter that gets us through it all. No matter what you're navigating, there's a seat at our table for you. No topic is off limits, and no emotion is too much.

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Leslie Shaffer and Monica Bowser

Episodes

Not Your Daughters Hot Girl Summer 10.07.2026 32:39

Episode #3 is here... "Not Your Daughters Hot Girl Summer" While the young ones are chugging iced matcha, wearing crop tops and checking when the UV is the highest. The 50 somethin' version looks a little or a lot different. Hopefully not a questionable haircut, but most likely an estrogen patch, some supplements and a very necessary shift in how we mother ourselves during stress and grief. We are...

Pit People: In the Dark (Mind if I Sit?) 03.07.2026 30:18

When you are at the bottom and you can't see the light, company is usually nonexistent...every now and then someone doesn't just stand at the top and offer well meaning advise and throw you a rope...they climb down in, sit with you, help you stand and eventually maybe see some light, show you the way up. These are your pit people!

Two Girls Doing...Yet Again, Hard Things! 26.06.2026 21:26

Just 2 girls figuring it out one episode at a time, for real. From fighting with cords, to recording and "crap, I talked too fast"...we are doing it all. Bringing the raw truth about loss, the messy reality of love and the essential laughter for survivial. It may get heavy, sometimes hilarious and we might be a tad uncesored. Join us weekly for the journey of "when for better or worse doesn't alwa...