Date Night with Jake and Page

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Dr. Andrew & Shannon Houlihan Aug 12, 2020

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It's time to head "back" to "school" on Monday... but this year, when home was the classroom, then summer camp, and now the classroom again, did we ever really leave? And what are we heading "back" to, anyway? 2020 has been a challenge, you guys. And if you're a parent of young children, school has been one of the toughest parts. On this episode of "Date Night with Jake and Page" we talk with Shannon and Andrew ("Drew") Houlihan. Drew's the Superintendent of Union County Public Schools. That would be our county. That's right, we cornered our Superintendent and dragged him onto the podcast. Meanwhile, Shannon's a better person than all of us combined. We talked about all the things you'd expect us to talk about when your family includes a superintendent of a school system, two kids who are in said school system and a mom who does charity work for both her paid gig AND her volunteer life. Quarantine home life. Quarantine school life. Making the tough decisions on how to merge the two, and how NO ONE feels prepared for what's being asked of them this year. We also learned that Drew has MAD game (Shannon fell for him within a week after he kicked it to her at a friend's wedding) and that they're onto you kids who call him "Andy" on Twitter when asking for snow days (although secretly we think they kinda find it funny... as long as you're still turning in your homework and not stealing lunch money from the little kids). We hope you'll listen and enjoy. And as with all of our guests, we hope this episode allows you to see the human beings behind the titles. For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Good luck to everyone heading back to school!

Cris "The Batchmaker" & Pablo Agurcia Jul 24, 2020

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If you live in Charlotte, you just read the headline to this podcast and IMMEDIATELY got hungry. That's right, The Batchmaker is in the building! We were thrilled to welcome Cris and Pablo Agurcia to the podcast for this episode. We've been trying to get Cris - aka The Batchmaker - on for months, but she can barely come up for air with how popular her business has become. But first, a bit of the back story... Cris and Pablo are high school sweethearts from Honduras, which, upon her finding out, nearly sent Page into a lather. She - fun fact - spent two years there immediately following college for Peace Corps. They moved to the states, got married, Pablo found an amazing job, and Cris launched the uber-successful Batchmaker. Oh, if it was only that easy. We learned more about immigration than we did desserts in this episode! Cris and Pablo shared their amazing story, which included choosing to move to Charlotte, because...why not? Truly, they knew no one here. Knew nothing about the city, and yet here they are. Incredible. Cris' humility is off the charts. Her storefront has been open six months, and she literally sells out of her sweets every week. She still doesn't think it's real. Pablo's her biggest fan. They got two amazing kids. They're about as cute as it gets. Check out Cris at @thebatchmaker and Pablo, a local Creative Director, at @pagurcia. For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Stay safe, everyone, and thanks for listening!

Page and Jake's Takes: The Sweet Spot Jul 14, 2020

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Page and Jake's Takes are back! And we're comin' in HOT off a beach trip for the ages. This episode is about "The Sweet Spot." That glorious moment when your kids are old enough to fend for themselves. When you can go to the beach and realize seven days later that you have no idea what any of your children had for lunch last week. When your kids say, "Don't worry, Mom and Dad, we'll brush our teeth and put ourselves to bed." All right, maybe that's getting a bit greedy. We just went to the Outer Banks for a week and had pure, unadulterated, genuine FUN. We - GASP! - enjoyed spending time with our kids. We may actually be figuring this parenting thing out after all. Parents with multiple kids in diapers, drowning in baby wipes and exhaustion, hang in there. Your time is coming. You'll be able to pack a book for a beach trip again soon. It only took us *checks notes* 11 years to get there. Sigh. Welp. There's always margaritas. For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Give Page a follow at @pagefehling and Jake at @jakefehling. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Stay safe out there, everyone, and thanks for listening!

Ryan & Samie Roberts May 21, 2020

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First of all, Jake does know what a bustle is. He is very smart, after all (p.s. this is Jake). For this episode we step into the realm of quarantined Zoom calls, bringing on Ryan and Samie Roberts, co-founders of Bustld. Ryan and Samie's company is based in Charlotte, and they serve brides and grooms in the southeast by bridging the gap between them and wedding vendors. Their company is surviving this madness, but the same can't be said for many of their clients' planned weddings. We talk shop for a bit - Bustld is a fun husband-wife Queen City small business story - but we get in there about what they're seeing now with COVID-induced cancellations, postponements and reschedulings. Jake just wanted to talk Corona Bridezillas. Ryan and Samie offer advice for brides/grooms to-be during and after quarantine, and much more. Check out Ryan and Samie at @bustld. For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Stay safe, everyone, and thanks for listening!

Emily Breeze & Montell Watson May 05, 2020

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It's always fun when we bring on return guests. Especially when their family has doubled since you last saw them. And ESPECIALLY during a global pandemic. Emily Breeze and Montell Watson were our guests on Episode 3. THREE. This is episode 49. They've had three kids since then. Or is it 2? Wait, when was their first born again? Exactly. Who knows. When you have kids, your brain fries, and that was on display for the first couple minutes while we embarrassingly tried to figure out basic math. Interested in audio birth control? Well, we've got the episode for you! The beginning of Episode 3 is famously incredible. We won't spoil it for you, but it was in that moment we learned that Breeze don't play. Whether it be in the story she told that night, brushing off the haters on her massively-followed Instagram page or on this episode when she puts the HEAT on Montell for baby No. 4, you always know where she stands. Montell on the other hand is as cool as a cucumber. But absolutely not a push over. He's made it clear that while he's typically go-with-the-flow when it comes to life, he's definitively out on baby No. 4. (Editor's note: he's definitely going to lose that one.) Full disclosure: we're neighbors. The Watsons moved onto "the compound" late last year. We've grown closer with them and their kids since all of this madness started a couple of months ago. It's been amazing. But the last thing they probably wanted to do is record a podcast with us. "Oh, shall we hang with the Fehlings AGAIN, honey? We haven't seen them in, what, 7 minutes?" In all seriousness, though, it's all been an interesting experience to say the least. Doing life together on a compound is one thing, but quarantining together is another. Thank goodness they're not tired of us yet. "Breeze" and "'Tell" are as solid as it gets. They talk raising babies, trying to figure out TikTok, navigating a dual work-from-home life, and then, right as we're signing off, Page gets IN THERE with Breeze about the role she plays as not just a social media influencer, but as an influencer to our daughter as a strong woman, mom and all-around human being. It may have gotten a little dusty in the studio at that point. Check out Breeze (@emilybreeze) and 'Tell (@montell3) all over the socials. For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Stay safe, everyone, and thanks for listening!

The Coronacast Apr 13, 2020

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Welcome to the definitive Coronacast. For our last episode, we recorded a podcast with our friend Lindsay Shookus, who had taken a flight down to N.C. with her daughter. Lindsay sat on a couch next to Page while we recorded. She used a headset that had been used by a previous guest. Following the podcast, we took an Uber to a shopping center where we ate dinner in a crowded restaurant. How insane does that sequence of events sound today? Crazy times. For this one, Page and I talk quarantine, losing our minds, sharing a home office, having to surrender a brand new dog, anxiety, supporting local, trying to keep our kids' brains from turning into mush, and much more. Listen to this episode to feel better about your parenting...or just commiserate right along with us. Also - quick shout out to the editors of Charlotte Magazine who just voted Date Night with Jake and Page as the Best of the Best ("BOB") podcast in the Queen City. We're so thrilled to be among the amazing individuals and local businesses who were honored this year! For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Stay safe, everyone, and thanks for listening!

Lindsay Shookus Feb 22, 2020

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Welcome back to Date Night! This episode marks our first threesome. OK, relax. It's not like that. It's just that we brought on our first single lady - Head of the Saturday Night Live Talent Department and the person who introduced us, Lindsay Shookus! Lindsay and Page met as freshmen at UNC (Go Heels!), and their friendship took off from there. They were roommates in Chapel Hill, and then later again a couple of years post-graduation in New York City. Both worked for NBC - Lindsay at Saturday Night Live and Page as a, yes, NBC Page - and they shared in dating successes and failures. That is until early 2005, when another mutual UNC friend connected Lindsay and Jake, who had just moved to New Jersey. Lindsay introduced Jake to Page, and the rest was history. Fast-forward 15 (WOW!) years, and Lindsay now runs the talent department for SNL, while Page and Jake got married and started a podcast. ;-) We skipped over a ton there, obviously. Lindsay got married, had a child, got divorced, had an extremely public dating experience, was followed by the paparazzi, and is now extremely happy as a single mom, dating in the city, with a very "it's normal for us" relationship with her ex, raising an awesome seven-year-old daughter. SNL is rocking along, but Lindsay's also excited about a new project (that she founded with ANOTHER fellow UNC/NYC friend Kristen Merrick!), Women Work F#cking Hard. Lindsay and Kristin's goal with the group is to bring together female leaders, entrepreneurs and overall badasses for an intimate and exclusive night of conversation. Three meet-ups in, and they've already been featured in InStyle Magazine. Decent start. Having "Shookbaby" - as our kids call her - on the pod was both a walk down memory lane and a very real look into someone who has gone through some personal ups and downs, but continues to raise the bar for herself personally and professionally. We can't wait to see what 2020 brings her. Be sure to check out Women Work F#cking Hard on Instagram at @womenworkfinghard. They have a website coming soon as well! For past episodes of Date Night with Jake and Page please visit jakeandpage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Please comment, like and share your favorite episodes as well. Thanks for listening! *Please note that this episode contains adult language*

Miranda in CLT & Joshua Miller Jan 16, 2020

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Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we chat with Charlotte blogger and influencer, Miranda Miller, and her husband Joshua. Miranda and Page met on Page's literal first day of launching Good Day Charlotte on Fox 46. Miranda made the celebration cake. It was delicious. And beautiful. These were her pre-purple hair days. A few years later fate brought them together again on the mean streets of...Pineville. Which...was only mean because this time all of both of their children were in tow, and that will make anyone mean. Fast-forward a couple more years and a couple thousand more insta-followers (she is a "swipe up" person now!!,) and Miranda and Page are back. Husbands in tow. Kids relegated to the downstairs only. Miranda and Joshua were our first #PlayroomPodcast experiment (ahem... GUESTS). They came over on a Saturday morning and GOT IN THERE with us. We discussed how they met and Joshua's penchant for double-thongs, Miranda's thoughts on how we're teaching our children about sex (WE ARE DOING IT WRONG), and how they might be the only family who crosses more work/life lines than we do. We also got into the "rules" about what's fair game to share on Miranda's blog and how Joshua supports their family with his prowess as a sign maker. Or something like that. Page still isn't sure. At some point while we were upstairs our youngest daughter June had locked their oldest daughter Bella in the coat closet, turned off the light and simply left, like some warped game of hide-and-seek... without the seek. When we came down Bella exited, gently relayed what had happened, and then offered to take a picture of all the grown-ups "for the post." Because her mama is a blogger and SHE GETS IT. If only her dad enjoyed having his picture taken... Be sure to check out Miranda's blog at www.mirandaincharlotte.com! We’d love to hear from you as well! Please subscribe, share, comment and also suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com. Thanks for listening!

New Year's Resolutions...or Not Jan 01, 2020

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Happy New Year! In our last episode we teased that 2020 was (hopefully...maybe...yeah, definitely) going to be a big year for the podcast and otherwise. We get into those goals on this episode. The headline - More. Getting. Ish. Done. We hope you have a safe and happy start to your new year, and we look forward to having you along for the ride in 2020. Past episodes and more can be found at jakeandpage.com.

Merry Christmas from the Bunker Dec 28, 2019

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Happy Holidays from the Fehlings! The cover image for this end-of-year episode is fitting. We've clearly got a plan - we're wearing matching, albeit it purposefully hideous outfits, but we're also clearly not quite nailing it. That's what the holiday season has represented for us with the podcast each of the last three years. Life gets in the way of podcasting. Go figure. In 2019 we brought on some amazing guests. We introduced Page and Jake's Takes. We had a TON of fun. But our goals for 2020 are bigger (we get into that next episode!). They're also simpler. We invested in podcasting equipment in our home. We're going to bring guests onto our turf. But more importantly, we're going to just flat out podcast more. About parenting. About our kids. About what makes relationships tick. We'd love to hear from you on what we should discuss and who we should bring on! If you're new to the pod, past episodes can be found at jakeandpage.com and wherever you get your podcasts. We hope you're having a wonderful holiday season, and we can't wait to see what the new year has in store!

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