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Hi, I’m Chloe

Writer, Researcher & Podcast Host
After decades of interviewing people around the globe, it became clear to me that adulthood was changing. The milestones we had all previously aimed for have begun to fade or give way to new patterns. I’m investigating what this new shape of adulthood means for relationships, families, work and society at large.

APPLE PODCASTS

Same pieces, different patterns.

The pieces are the same. Work, love, family, friendship, home, care, money, purpose. The pattern is different every time.

Episodes

Remi Baker

Midlife Reinvention: You Hit Every Milestone. Now What?

 Former CEO Remi Baker, founder of The Third Chapter, and Chloe discuss why so many women hit their late 40s and ask, “Is this it?” 

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Childfree by Choice: Building the Life You Want, Not the One You Inherited

Tasha is childfree by choice at 25. She talks to Chloe about putting friendship at the centre of adult life, building a community around living differently, and what commitment means without marriage.

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Paul Morland

Falling Birth Rates: What Happens When Millions of Lives Change at Once

Falling birth rates are reshaping the world, so why is population decline so hard to feel? Demographer Paul Morland and Chloe Alana discuss how falling birth rates have a ‘feeling’ problem and what happens to cities when the children run out.

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Anna Louie Sussman

Are We Choosing Child-Free, or Being Priced Out?

Are we choosing not to have children, or being priced out? Journalist Anna Louie Sussman, author of Who Gets to Have Kids, talks about the cost of living, student debt, “Project Me” and the real question: who actually gets to have a family?

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Claire McGowan

Childfree, Childless, Undecided: Who Gets to Write the Script?

We like neat labels. Childfree by choice. Childless, not by choice. But plenty of people live somewhere in between: undecided and ambivalent. Claire and Chloe discuss Claire’s novel, The Quickening, fertility treatment, egg freezing at 39, and the possibility that life makes the choice for you.

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Dr Lani Watson

What to Ask Instead of “Do You Have Kids?”

Philosopher Dr Lani Watson, the Questions Doctor, talks to Chloe about decision fatigue, living with ambivalence, and what to ask each other instead of “do you have kids?”

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What you’ve said so far

★★★★★

Chloe asks the questions I’ve been too embarrassed to ask my friends about why I feel so ambivalent towards children.

D.Dowles

★★★★★

I loved Tasha’s comments on friendship being the centre of her life ratHER THAN JUST A FALLback when romantic relationships go wrong. 

A.Taylor