Better With Friends

This probably isn’t the most random grouping of conversation topics, but it will come close! Andrea bemoans the state of coffee at the office, Lorilee shares her very interesting Easter family dinner conversation (spoiler: it involves puberty), and they have a general chat about lipsticks. 

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Lorilee and Andrea branch out into trying Starbucks Lavender drinks and baking sourdough bread, discuss extravagant vacations by our Prime Minister, and reality tv shows - new and old.

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Are you a multiple-book-at-a-time reader? Andrea and Lorilee chat about reading methods and their own habits, careers they’d like to have at this point in their lives, and the horrors of being tickled.

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The girls reconnect after the holidays, and we let you in on what we’ve been reading (including a stinker of a book). Lorilee has begun a kitchen renovation, and Andrea realizes she set herself up for failure.

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We test our memories from our childhood with varying degrees of accuracy.  Can you beat our score?

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In this episode, we do a little follow up from last week’s podcast, plus Andrea gives a furniture update. Lorilee describes a childhood outfit that sounds suspiciously familiar and they both chat about holiday traditions, new and old.

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We took a page out of Oprah’s magazine today and reviewed some of our favourite things to inspire your own Christmas Lists and help with gift-giving this year! Buckle up, because these show notes are extensive…

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Tis the season to decorate for Christmas…. Or is it? Andrea and Lorilee chat about when to pull out the seasonal decorations, how to help (or not help) your kids to do homework, and the feasibility of craft markets.

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Andrea & Lorilee discuss their upcoming graduating children, which naturally leads to reminiscing about their own grad dress sagas. Andrea updates on her missing cat status and recent hand surgery (spoiler: use SPF on your hands!!) Lorilee leans on her community to get her kids to school, and together they muse about challenges of maintaining long-distance friends with different schedules.  

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They are back! After a summer hiatus, Andrea and Lorilee get caught up on the important life changes, discuss the challenges of Lorilee’s work wardrobe and agree on the best self-care when being sick.

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Andrea sits down with her internet friend Ashley - their first time talking in real time! - and they chat about what brought them together as friends, Cleaning Clubs, Mormonism and polygamous family trees, and how the internet can broaden our worldview.

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Bugs, sunscreen and ice cream - oh my! We chat about our favourite and not so favorite things about summer.

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This week Andrea & Lorilee announce that the Better With Friends podcast will shift to being released every other week, and they re-release Episode 21, originally aired September 13, 2022.

This week Andrea sits down with her friend Chelsea and chats about being a working mom and entrepreneur, getting married young, losing a parent, thrift-shopping and a lot more!

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On this BWF summer series, Lorilee chats with Shallon - fellow grade 5 kid Mom, fellow creative, world traveller...it was supposed to be a 15 minute episode but once we got started, we couldn't stop! 

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We've invited Twihard, Aimee Redmann, to join us on this auspicious occasion to chat about everything Twilight. Andrea shocks and surprises by watching not one, but two Twilight movies!

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Our summer series kicks off with a conversation about keeping our kids’ teeth in jars and other weird things we hang on to, stretches to deal with the consequences of working at a desk, Indiana Jones and Asterix (the character, not the punctuation)

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Do you have favourite family recipes? Andrea and Lorilee talk about memories centered around recipes and ways of preserving them, giving gifts, and events that changed the direction of our lives.

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They really tried to be a bit spicier this episode since it was recorded after suppertime, but the girls settled into their typical banter, including the challenges of kid schedules and subsequent transportation conflicts, inappropriate Siri moments and online shopping hits and misses.  But we do learn Lorilee’s favourite spice!

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Do you prefer watermelon or cantaloupe? This is one of the few things that Andrea and Lorilee do not agree on. They also chat about Andrea’s big year end concert and the stage make up she had on, taking naps at parties and their TBD summer plans. 

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Do you know how bulls are sterilized? If you listen to this episode you will! Lorilee also shares interesting facts generated by Siri and possibly convinces Andrea to read a Twilight book. Also discussed are the finer details of pickleball and pickle pizza.

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It's no surprise that we aren’t campers, but in this episode Andrea tells her Worst Camping Story Ever. We also discuss spring planting, the perils of the smoky air from Alberta Forest Fires this week, and waterslides.

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The girls discuss Robert DeNiro’s new baby and their takes on being pregnant in midlife.  They also chat about being constantly distracted, the benefits of music lessons and living “rich”

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The "Bloody Episode"!

Andrea tries to solve a mystery for Lorilee and ends up creating a new one.  We chat about being prepared for a power outage, some of Lorilee’s kitchen experiences living in Kabul and ... vampires.

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What’s your favorite childhood candy? We discuss nougat, fancy chocolates, the challenges of springtime planting, Tupperware and Pampered Chef, and losing teeny tiny remotes.

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Andrea introduces Lorilee to a new product, Lorilee (finally) gets new glasses and they both tell their skiing stories (spoiler - neither one had a good experience).

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We’ve reached the BIG 5-0!! 

Andrea and Lorilee bemoan car maintenance surprises, teenager milestones and discuss time travel - which decade would you have liked to have been born in?

April Fools!

Lorilee doesn’t do herself any favours regarding tech savviness. Andrea, Lorilee (and Olivia) learn their “love languages”- spoiler alert: sleeping and coffee related acts of services are not officially on the list but we think they should be! 

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This week Andrea had some brushes with celebrities and got some new glass with unexpected results. Lorilee falls asleep during another movie.

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Here at BWF, we ask the tough questions like:

How DO you wipe your butt with freakishly long nails?

We really enjoyed the movie (and book) Where the Crawdads Sing, and we invited Lorilee's daughter to join our conversation discussing the themes and theories about this book.

This episode contains spoilers.  So read the book or watch the movie before listening if you don't want to ruin the surprise.

We really enjoyed the movie (and book) Where the Crawdads Sing, and we invited Lorilee's daughter to join our conversation discussing the themes and theories about this book.

This episode contains spoilers.  So read the book or watch the movie before listening if you don't want to ruin the surprise.

Andrea and Lorilee meander through topics like the existence of grainy profile pictures in this age of technology, budgets for kid birthday gifts, the art of making a mixtape, souvenirs from trips and various ways to display Lorilee’s mug collection.

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Lorilee updates us on the Junior High Band concert she attended, Andrea reveals her “50 by 50” intention for this year and they both discuss death of a loved one.

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This episode starts with sleep and ends with sleep! Andrea and Lorilee discuss irrational fears that become recurring nightmares, interior design color trends and why they are dumb, and end with things that help us fall asleep (and what doesn’t work).

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Lorilee is still learning (or remembers for the very first time) new things about Andrea!  After all this......year!