Two best friends. Two pregnancies. One very honest podcast.

Shanna is a writer, director and storyteller living in Los Angeles. She has a master’s degree in writing from USC and is a graduate of the Upright Citizens Brigade and iO West improv programs. She has written and directed more than a dozen short films and comedy sketches, as well as the 10-episode web series Leaving Bliss, and her work has screened at the New York Television Festival, the Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, the Charleston International Film Festival and comedy festivals around the country.

She co-founded the Los Angeles film group Just F$*!ing Shoot, and she has told stories on stage at UCB, iO West, The Moth StorySLAM and more. When she isn’t writing, having adventures with her daughters or asking her moms’ groups for advice, Shanna loves decorating cakes, drawing, watching cooking shows and going to the beach.

Laura is a writer, podcaster and author from Los Angeles. She co-wrote Good to Go: A Fresh Take on Potty Training for Today’s Intentional Parent (Bloomsbury, 2025) with parenting expert Gia Gambaro Blount, pairing Gia’s time-tested method with Laura’s real-time stories of potty training her own toddler. An avid knitter, she also wrote Picture Perfect Knits (Chronicle Books).

Laura has a master’s in screenwriting from USC and a B.A. in literature and theatre from Reed College. Her short films have been selected for competition at 17 film festivals, including the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival and Dallas VideoFest, and won gold at the Eureka Springs Indie Film Festival. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, O Magazine, xoJane and Juxtapoz, and she has performed as a storyteller at The Moth, Radio Picture Show, Improv Olympic and the Upright Citizens Brigade. When she’s not writing, she works as a web developer.