Makin' it with the Mackins

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had an amazing Christmas. We certainly did and it was a very Maria Christmas, at that. We enjoyed our time off and are excited to kick off another year of sharing our shit with you. In this episode, we’re joined by a special guest, none other than the newest member of the Mackin family, Kevin!!! Kevin doesn’t have much to say in this episode, but he fits right in w...

Kevin!!! Welcome to the shitshow, Mr. McAllister. You’re never gonna be alone again. Although, you may sometimes wish you were, now that you’re stuck with us. We’re just gluttons for punishment but hopefully it comes with a positive spin and change of pace for the family as a whole. Aside from growing our family even larger, the last few weeks have been a whirlwind. The fall plague hit our home an...

It’s Thanksgiving week and Balloon SZN has been extended into the Holiday season! The only downside of that outside of all our house smelling like latex, is that we were running low on energy for this episode. Lucky for you, we are committed and we took a sip and powered through it! Just like we are committed to recording these podcasts till the end of time, we are committed to each other. We had...

It’s been a solid couple of weeks for the Mackins! Balloon SZN coming to a close, Raiders game, emotional awareness growth, and a successful Halloween.  Danielle shares her internal work and her process when Mackin is dysregulated. We break down the concept of “trauma bonding” and where we may show signs of it affecting our sex life. We recap Halloween, and Dom’s 11th birthday party and show how t...

New hair, who dis?! This episode has everything (said in Stefon from SNL’s Weekend Update voice)! A baptism, bangs, permanent markers, hockey hugs, and boner tears. We also break down our latest arguments with an in-depth play-by analysis. We then wrap it up with the Child of the Week Rankings. Subscribe to listen to our most recent Real. Late. Relatable. episode with Sydelle and Ayelet. Also, you...

This episode was different but so much fun! We took anonymous questions and you guys did not disappoint. Everything from 'who are our hall passes' to our biggest insecurities. 'Our body count' to our 'least favorite part about doing the podcast'. What 'our ideal podcast would look like' and 'who would we like to get together with' on the podcast. And so many...

In this episode, we thought it would be fun to go live on Instagram while recording our podcast but unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as we thought. After a few technical hiccups, we eventually figured it out and have some room for improvement in the future. While the video might have been a little cold, the mics were definitely hot and we kept the episode rolling! We were excited to share stor...

We are entering our "kids’ birthday era" and decided to not go crazy this year…just three balloon arches to celebrate the twins’ birthday. But honestly, we did scale back this year and it appears to be for the better. Plenty of sex talk in this episode, too. Presenting the case of having a form of sex PTO to poorly comparing our sex drives to different types of vehicles.  Thank you to ev...

This episode of Real. Late. Relatable. is really unique! A while back, we approached our wonderful therapist, Jacquie, with the idea of recording one of our sessions together. Like a good therapist would, she wanted to know our intentions and the topics of our conversation. Our goal with this is to continue to normalize therapy and to destigmatize some of the misconceptions about therapy, in gener...

The kids are back in school and all is right in the world. We also didn't go into this episode fighting with each other, so that also is a plus. In this episode, we talk about everything from robot housekeepers to white people tacos and go in on parents who let their daughters out of the house wearing little to no clothes. This week's rankings are much more accurate and honestly better, co...

As if we didn't laugh enough during our first Real. Late. Relatable. we decided we needed to run it back one time for the people! There were too many laughs to not share them with everyone...so this Real. Late. Relatable. is free to all ears to kick off Season 5 of Makin' it with the Mackins! If you're new to Real. Late. Relatable. this is what you can expect from us this season with t...

Wow, 100 episodes! This podcast has been a labor of love the last 3 years and we could not be more grateful to those of you who have stuck around with us. This podcast has been such a blessing to us and while not always easy, we love “makin’ it with you.”  We walk down memory lane and reminisce on some of the funnier Makin’ it with the Mackins moments. We talk about the internal struggles of havin...

We won the cup! The last week has been spent celebrating the Vegas Golden Knights winning the Stanley Cup or at least trying to without ruining it for each other. It’s tough when you’re working on yourself all while doing a million other things, because when you screw up and it becomes even more exhausting. Ultimately, we need to give each other a break but that can be tough when our kids are givi...

This was a fun one! It's not the most technically sound podcast with bloopers throughout. We definitely needed to blow off some steam from the stress and sickness from the last couple of weeks and recording this episode was the perfect opportunity. We rehashed some fights, talked about the impact that balloons have on our lives, and finished with complaining/raving about our kids. Feel free to...

It’s good to be back! Sorry for the delay. Apparently, COVID is still a thing and it hit our house again but thankfully it wasn’t too bad. Hopefully, you were able to listen to the latest RLR episode with our good friends Katie and Montana or our episode on Josh Galindo’s “F*ck Average Be Legendary” podcast in the meantime. The good thing about having the extra week in between episodes is that the...

New hair, same us. Thankfully, we didn’t have to stop recording because of a fight this week, which allowed us to discuss our misuse of the the word “no,” how we handle sleepovers, Teacher Appreciation Week, and our infamous calendar. We recently had the honor to be guests on Josh Galindo’s F*CK Average, BE LEGENDARY! podcast, which was amazing. We’ll be sure to share everything, when the episode...

We’re not good at much but if there’s one thing we’re good at (or terrible at, depending on how you look at it), it’s being honest. We started talking about the mini-fight we got into in our previous episode and it spiraled even further. In the last episode, we decided to just leave it all in. In this episode, we thought it was too much and decide to edit it out. We even considered not filming thi...

This episode starts off with a bang! Mackin sure as hell wasn’t ready for it so, make sure you are when the NSFW content hits. The party doesn’t stop there as we highlight some key moments from some recent wedding celebrations and parties. We also decided not to edit some fairly transparent discussions/arguments/whatever you want to call them that transpired throughout the episode, that we thought...

This was one of our rougher episodes and Danielle has Kim Crawford to thank for that. We’re back from Spring Break in sunny, Buffalo, NY. Besides, who needs warm weather and sandy beaches when we can have chicken wings and get to spend our days doing whatever Maria wants to do. Needless to say, the kids did pretty okay traveling but I wouldn’t say it was enjoyable by any means. Listen to the Ranki...

Another crazy couple of weeks with the Mackins makes for another exciting episode. Planning a trip for the whole family to travel back to the homeland, Buffalo, NY - amongst the kids fighting off stomach bugs leaves us with plenty of stories to share. Hopefully, you’ll feel bad enough for us to subscribe to our Real. Late Relatable. series where we go even deeper into some of these topics, like Do...

So, this is what a real professional podcast studio is like! We're so grateful to the wonderful people at The Space for hosting us. Everything is state of the art and the team is elite! They are also way more than just a podcast studio, they're a fantastic venue, with weekly charity events, concerts, and much more. Click here for more information.   We hope they have us back because they made ever...

We've had a great couple of weeks and are excited to share it with you guys! Mackin is back to work, Danielle met with an Astrologer, we've continued polar plunging and even meditating. But even with all that positive energy flowing, it wasn't enough to keep us from having one of our biggest fights ever. There was plenty we didn't get to in this episode that we'll be going DEEP into on this week's...

Want more of the Mackins? Now that we're doing video, we haven't been able to fit all of the content, stories, and REAL intimate topics into our video episodes. Once we turn the camera off, we realize we forgot or didn't fit in half of what we intended to talk about. So, we're giving you more of the Mackins! Special audio-only episodes that we record LATE after we shoot our regular episodes and go...

We’re starting to get the hang of this video thing. It doesn’t mean we like doing it but we love you, so we’re gonna keep doing it anyway. This episode was recorded on Mackin’s birthday and we couldn’t think of a better way of celebrating it than with all of you. We didn’t touch on everything we wanted to due to the kids waking up in the middle of recording but we did “touch” on plenty to say the...