co-parenting the podcast

Lilly and Upton scatter shoot through everything they've been texting about lately. They get into "looks maxing," the trend of guys (and increasingly young girls) asking strangers online how to look more attractive, and what it means that Upton has started using ChatGPT to help with his style and his parenting reflections. From there it turns into a real conversation about sibling es...

It's the end of the school year and Lilly, Big Mama, and Upton take stock of where they're at physically heading into summer. They cover workout routines and injury recovery, creatine, dry brushing, fascia care, saunas, cold plunge, sleep tracking, supplements, and whether your pre-workout is quietly hiding your exhaustion from you. Lilly closes with a summer PSA on body confidence and why...

Lilly sits down with her friend Katie, a producer and director based in Los Angeles, for one of the more honest conversations the show has had. They go back to the beginning: two women in their late 20s orbiting their husbands, shape-shifting their ambitions to fit the terms they had agreed to, and slowly cracking open into something neither of them understood, yet. Find Katie on IG: @katiemaysay...

A listener is planning the chic adult evening wedding she's always wanted and running into a wall: her fiance's family is threatening not to come over a child-free guest policy. Lilly, Upton, and Big Mama dig into whether she should hold her ground, what the family pushback might actually be telling her, and why the bigger red flag might have nothing to do with the kids at all.

Lilly sits down with her friend Paige Chenault, founder of the Birthday Party Project, for a conversation that goes well beyond the nonprofit. Paige traces her path from preacher's kid to events powerhouse to building one of Dallas's most beloved organizations, and talks openly about what it cost her along the way and how COVID became the unlikely catalyst for getting honest about what she...

Lilly has had a week and she needs to talk about it. Two grievances make it to the table: one about kids, boundaries, and what it means to be a guest in someone's home, and one about a dad at a party who said something that sent her. Things expand from there into food talk around children, men's fashion, and whether decorum is a lost cause. Upton and Big Mama weigh in.

Lilly, Big Mama, and therapist Sarah Reidy, LCSW, get into something a lot of women recognize but rarely talk about out loud: the friend group that slowly stops feeling like a friend group. They cover the high school clique years, what that kind of conditional belonging does to you long term, how it shows up again in mom groups and adult friendships, and what to actually watch for with your own ki...

A listener is dreading the annual family beach trip and needs help. Lilly, Upton, and a late-arriving Big Mama unpack the real dynamics behind group family vacations, why the best memories usually cost the least, and how to protect your PTO without starting a family war.

Lilly sits down with the two women who helped her get to the other side of a contentious custody battle: her friend and criminal defense attorney Stara, who first sounded the alarm when things got financial, and family law attorney Natalie Webb, who took her case and saw it through. Together they unpack what it actually looks like when a co-parenting agreement falls apart, why being the reasonable...

Lilly sits down for a full Ask Me Anything with Big Mama and Upton, and they actually come with questions. The crew covers how and why Lilly chose adoption as a first-time parent, what her relationship with Heidi's birth mom looks like now, and the real story behind the move to Germany. From there it gets lighter: Lilly's perfect Dallas day, her comfort TV rotation, a rapid fire hot seat round, an...

Lilly is back and she's sharing something she'd normally let settle first. After 75 days of solo parenting, a spring break trip with Steve and Heidi, and one very thin hotel room door, her sixth grader hit her with four words that divided her life into a before and an after. The crew unpacks what you say to a 12-year-old in that moment, what it looks like to model a healthy relationship wi...

Lilly Watson and Matt Upton sit down with Taylor Young, Jesuit class of 1999, to discuss his storied past with Neon Girlfriend and The O's to modern fame in The Taylor Young Band and everyone's favorite new act, The Party Crowd Band and the ways he made it as a working artist in Dallas.

Lilly Watson sits down with her old Ursuline classmate Sarah Crain, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas, for a conversation that starts with high school theater memories and lands squarely in the middle of one of Dallas's biggest civic fights right now; the proposed demolition of I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall to make way for a new Mavericks arena. Sarah breaks down the timeline, the bi...

Lilly runs to Matt and Big Mama after a "terrible fight."

Matt, Lilly and Big Mama revisit some pod topics that have taken on lives of their own, and walk back to the Creek in honor of James.

Valentine's peaks and pits and what to do about your friend's dumb husband are on the minds of Lilly, Matt and Big Mama this week.

An AMA for our biggest best boy Matt. You will love what you learn about our favorite co-parent!

A listener question sparks the debate on when and how to move on while dating post-divorce.

Do you have a group text gone toxic? The woman are not well, and Lilly takes her toxic texts to Matt for review.

All star best boy Nick Doskey joins Matt and Lilly to discuss what made him so great, the ups and downs of Holidays living around the globe., Matt and Nick relay the realities of life in the Deceased Parent Club.

Lilly, Matt and their lifetime BFF - Chris Shortall of The Rust Report - talk everything food for the Holidays, from local haunts to flavorful recipes.

Lilly sits down with Sarah Reidy, LCSW, to discuss how to make a plan for the highs and lows of the Holiday season.

Big Mama and Lilly prep you for the Holidays with sentimental pep talks and your succinct, get them all gift guide.

Matt, Lilly and Big Mama catch up with sports broadcaster, entertainer and St Monica Bearcat Michael Gruber on career, comedy and co-parenting.

Matt and Big Mama meet Lilly's man friend and get to the bottom of who is moving too fast, who is crazy and who we need to keep around.